Guess what, my server likes to run the achievement game. Shocking right? Well not really seen as it would appear pretty much every server runs this way now. We’re lucky in that gearscore is a phrase well know on the server but it would appear not so widely used.
As you can probably guess this whole link your achievement thing bugs me quite a bit. When I changed my account from a trial to a full one I was quickly snapped up into a big guild, a big but very dead guild. I think this was just standard practice but then I quickly found out through resources like WoW.com and the livejournal community WoW_Ladies that this wasn’t always the case and sometimes people had very active guild chats and even Vent servers!
This lead to myself and my boyfriend Zorendiil setting up our own guild which we love and adore, recruiting was hard work but it paid off in bringing in a few core members who still now 5 months on we can count on to be there for us even if we just want to sit on an alt and rant.
As with all guild though the initial period guild chat was incredibly busy but unfortunately at that time we weren’t level 80 so we couldn’t really get any raids going from the beginning.
Now however we do try to at least get a ten man run on a Saturday afternoon, we know people have to PuG things because that’s the way it works in a non committed raiding guild but we rotate the “compulsory” raid in order to try and prevent banging our heads against a brick wall.
And here is where my problem occurs, because of this I don’t have any raid achievements, other than Sarth and that’s just with all drakes killed. So I try and jump into PuGs where people know me and know that I can do fairly decent DPS. This week our guild run was ToC10 man and there was just no way we could manage it, I didn’t mention we had no healers online, and so later in the week when a trade message was posted and they weren’t requesting an ach link I jumped on it.
Now as Co-GM and most times raid leader I’ve researched tactics a lot, I’ve seen all the tank spot videos I run grid (even though my main is a mage) so I can keep an eye on everyone, I am a compulsive decursive user, so I know how to keep an eye on my surroundings. This was my first time in there really, the guild run had wiped on those damn worms over and over so anything past that was going to be new for me even though I knew what to expect.
I didn’t know what to expect when we had to 5 man Icehowl and I’m pleased to report that I didn’t get hit even though I' got targeted more than anyone else, so not fair picking on a clothie, but the adrenaline run afterwards was amazing. The rest of the run went really smoothly for a PuG and I’m pleased to report I now have the achievement to show for it. Should make further PuGs a little bit easier.
Now I just wish I had an ICC 10 man one because I know those tactics oh so well but no one will take me. Sigh.
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