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Weekly Happenings: March 8th

March 8th, 2010 -- Posted in Blog Updates, Weekly Happenings | 3 Comments »

Welcome back, family and friends.  Its Monday, which means its a good day to review the happenings of last week , shake off the weekend hangover and get back to the grind.

It was an exciting week in ECC.  Yes, yes they were some raids, and some great achievements earned, but it was also the week that Arch and Lauro got totally smashed Friday night, and entertained us all on vent.  Easily the highlight of 2010!

The rest of this week’s blog is skewed largely toward raid content as those are the easiest events for me to track without direct input, but there are many many other awesome things going on in the guild.  I just need YOU to tell ME about them.  the next time you do something in game that excites you, or you are excited by another player or something in the forums, please do take a moment to shoot me a PM on the forums, an in game email, or leave a comment here or in the Public ECC forums.  I’d love to share your achievements and news with the guild in the Weekly Happenings on March 15th.

Achievements:
Kalessina followed in Ronzily’s footsteps from last week and finished off his Glory of the Hero meta-achievement by Picking up Share the Love on Wednesday. 

While I find the Red Proto-Drake to be quite sexy, I know Kal, Myself and many many others have long coveted the Rusted Proto-Drake awarded from Glory of the Ulduar Raider for quite some time.  Well Kal and many others are got within striking distance after picking up Knock, Knock, Knock on Wood last night, so big congratulations are in order!

Please PM me or leave a comment here if you have an achievement or other significant character accomplishment to include in next weeks column.

New Members:
Welcome to the family!

Ambassador Cassandrad - 80 Night Elf Priest
Daedzi - 15 human Priest
Carthery - 56 Human Mage

Please keep an eye out for them and send a warm greeting the next time you see them on.

Raiding: 
Third Time’s a Charm had a major breakthrough in ICC this week.  After a couple weeks of learning, the team set its sights on downing Valithria, and down her they did.  They took her out on their second attempt Saturday night, and invograted by their success, took out the blood council in a one-shot!  As if that wasn’t exciting enough, they went on to defeat Professor Putcide for the first time, and finished off the night by introducing themselves to Blood Queen Lanathel to put her on notice.  The team has now seen every encounter in ICC except for Arthas himself and only has two more kills to go before unlocking him.
 
The Cherry Poptarts are still on a reduced schedule until sign-ups pick up again.  If you’re looking for an opportunity to raid, they’ve been a rock solid proving ground for folks new to raiding or just new to the guild, and its a mark of how good a leader Luenyar is, that a lot of his roster members developed into progression raiders for other teams.   If you’re interested in joining official ECC raiding, the place to sign up is right here!
 
Round out the official raid teams, Cornerstone has continued to make significant progress together.  With their first kill of Freya under their belt, After a rocking night downing Northrend Beasts, Freya and Thorim, they are drawing close to full clears of Ulduar and ToC in their mission to see all the content and develop the teamwork they’ll need to start slapping down that Lich King guy.
 
In unofficial Raiding news: The Achievment Heads, as previously mentioned, knocked out one of their biggest goals in defeating Freya with all three elders up, Sunday night, and pushing ECC to the top spot on the Farstriders server in strict 10 man raiding progression.  I’ll be talking more about this later this week, but its great to see ECC doing things their own way and thriving for it!

Guildie of the week:
The guildie of the week (chosen entirely by me) is Honeym (AKA Zookeeper).  Many know Honey as a mentor coordinator, and long time member of the guild.  I chose to single Honey her out this week for a couple of reasons.  Chief among them is her unending kindness and warmth.   Unlike many of us who push the bounds of bawdy teasing at every opportunity, Honey always seems to offer hugs, friendly ears, and heals for anyone who needs them.  Of course, she doesn’t shy away from the occasional innuendo or outright tawdry tale, either.

She’s a great example of what ECC is all about: Good hearted, community minded people that like to relax, have fun and share laughs.

If you’d like to nominate someone as member of the week, please PM me your reason for supporting your nominee.

Forum Post of the week:
I’m going to go with a quick little post by Thoranbrook from this past Monday about Wowpopular.com.  Its nothing earth shattering or significant in the history of ECC, but its the kind of helpful resource sharing that thoughtful WoW veterans can always do more of to help out newer or more casual players.

Coming up:
Later this week I’m planning my first editorial column, on 10 man raiding.  In the longer view I am looking for an interview victim subject brave enough to follow Beansey’s act in the “Getting to Know ECC” segment. 

As always, this column is littered with requests for your information.  Please.  I am begging here.  Take a moment to follow through with sending me any achievements, suggestions or even just general thoughts you’d like to share.

Be well and love fiercely,

Ecco

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