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Weekly Happenings March 22

March 23rd, 2010 -- Posted in Weekly Happenings | 3 Comments »

Welcome back, family and friends.  Its Monday Tuesday, which means I’m a day late but worth the wait to review the happenings of last week , shake off the weekend hangover and get back to the grind.

After a vigilant effort of noting guild announcements for last weeks happenings, I totally missed the boat this week.  I’m guessing that had a lot to do with a self imposed restriction on my number of log-ins this week as I am starting to feel a little burn-out from grinding my way to my now complete ICC healing gear set… well almost complete.  Sindragosa needs to give my shield like a good little dragon, but thats not something I can control by amassing gold or frost badges obsessively. 

Enough about me.  On with the show!

Achievements:

Xeleres has a kinky pursuit that I never suspected, but its out now.  Hopefully it doesn’t ruin his political career.  Apparently there is a long line of assorted woodland creatures lining up to tell their sordid tales now that his secret is out in the open.  He popped To all the Squirrels Who’ve Shared My Life, and there’s no hiding it anymore.

Eielesaria let me know that she has for the first time ever brought an alt up to the level cap.  Thorine, her soon to be guilted into tanking pally dinged Level 80.

Finally, I ommitted mention of it last week because I was trying to focus more on non-raiding achievments but huge congratulations are in order for Achievment Heads Kalessina, Kanoe, Manski, Griz, Shadesta, Bryn and Kode who managed an Obsidian Sanctum victory with three drakes up to enter The Twilight Zone.

New Members:
Its been a quiet week on the new member front.  We may finally have gotten past the influx of new blood on Farstriders from the free server transfer that had been up.  In light of that, I’d like to take a moment to give Jaileth a fond faretheewell.  She announced this week that she had to step away from WoW, and she’ll be dearly missed while she’s gone.  Maybe we can still get her to come on vent every once in a while and speak to us in German.

Raiding: 
Third Time’s a Charm had another breakthrough week, opening Saturday with a convincing domination of Blood Queen Lanathel.  They also managed second kills on both Valithria Dreamwalker and Professor Putricide meaning they have all but three bosses in ICC on Farm Status, and have only Sindragosa and Arthas himself left to conquer.  Many members are taking a much needed half week and will spend Tuesday getting some learning attempts in on Sindragosa, and light willing get their first glimpse of mr chilly pants himself if they are once more succesful.

The Cherry Poptarts have a raid scheduled for Friday and Saturday this week, but still have a couple of open spots in the Roster.  This is your golden opportunity to get started raiding with ECC for the first time  (Justclick right here!) or lend some expertise to the Pops if you’re one of the Third Timers that Isn’t indisposed this weekend.   

Cornerstone is pushing on in the last couple weeks of Handimus’ leadership, and hoping to see a bit of ICC in their run this week in addition to ToC, Onyxia and company. Be sure to thank Handi for all the hard work, dedication and love he’s put into Cornerstone.  He’s been a saint, and its only fitting he should know how much he’s appreciated before he heads off for a WoW break.
 
Guildie of the week:
My guildie of the week this week is Griz.  He probably doesn’t want to be guildie of the week.  Most of the time, he wants you to think he’s a cantankerous curmudgeon who doesn’t suffer fools lightly.  The truth is that Griz is fairly grizzly, but he’s been a long long longtime members of ECC for a reason, and that’s because he really does like kind hearted and high character people, values the friendships he has here, and occasionally even shows it.
Thats been abundantly apparent this week as Griz has been our go-to source for updates on the health of a longtime former guildmate whose saw some unexpected medical complications this week.  On a related note, we all wish KKB a speedy and full recovery.  Please keep her in your thoughts.

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 have to go with Sinfall’s post announcing he was patching and updating his game and getting back into WoW this week.  He’s been on such an extended WoW break that I had an embarassing moment where I forgot his DK was him, and totally gave him the cold shoulder when he whispered me for a reinvite to the guild for the alt.

Sorry Sinfall!  We’re psyched to have you back, and I promise to memorize the names of all your alts by this time next year.

Coming up:
The blog has been a bit behind the schedule I’d hoped to keep, and I’m going away over the weekend, so things may take a while to catch up.  I’ll definitely have an interview up for you this week, but I may need to beg borrow or steal a guest blog post for next week.

Be well and love fiercely,

Ecco