March 8th, 2010 -- Posted in Weekly Happenings |
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.Â
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:Â
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.
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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!
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Round out the official raid teams,
Cornerstone has continued to make significant progress together.Â
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.
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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.Â
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
March 1st, 2010 -- Posted in Blog Updates |
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.
This is the first installment of what I plan to use as a weekly Monday column. Please see below for ways you can contribute.
Achievements:
Ronzily after months of being stuck on one-achievement-to-go for Glory of the Hero, finally managed to secure Split Personality last week, and has a fiery new red proto-drake to show off.
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!
Arrielle - 80 Draenei Hunter
Goewyn (the patient) - 80 Human Warrior
Korok - 65 Human Warlock
Jehezzel- 62 Draenei Deathknight
Please keep an eye out for them and send a warm greeting the next time you see them on.
Raiding:Â
Thoranbrook took advantage of a short roster for the week and brought some folks along with
Third Time’s a Charm to hit ICC. I understand Shaftwalker and Naiadmuerte got their first
Ashen Verdict Reputation rings out of the effort, so big congratulations to them!
Luenyar announced that the Cherry Poptarts have seen some slowdown in their sign-ups and as such will be switching to a less frequent schedule. If you want to get in on some official raiding with ECC, I’m sure they’d be excited to have some fresh blood. Last I checked they were clearing ToC, and hoping to make some attempts at Marrowgar at some point in the near future. If you’re interested in joining an official ECC raid team, the place to sign up is right here.
Guildie of the week:
The guildie of the week (chosen entirely by me) is Avvala. Avvala has been with the guild about 10 months now, and amidst working his way up to Third Time’s roster he has run with all three official raiding teams in one capacity or another, and has made numerous unofficial raiding teams a success at every level, and has recently opened up his own unofficial raiding team Kickin’ it old School to lead folks through old school content. Many thanks to Avvala for being dependable, humble and above all helpful.
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:
Manski is going above and beyond in responding in a positive way to the hunger folks have to get involved and laugh together and has announced a truly exciting event (with great rewards) on the general forums. Check it out, RSVP and help spread the word.
Coming up:
Later this week I’m planning the first in a series of interviews with your very own guild mates, so keep an eye out for that. In the meantime, I want to share with you a little bit about my vision for this blog. My hope is to make this a place to celebrate the awesome community we have here in ECC by highlighting the cool things going on, and the inspiring people that make this community what it is. In order to do that, I need you to help. The column is littered with requests for your information. Please 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
July 21st, 2008 -- Posted in Kibibi's Korner, Raiding! |
Here we are! It’s the last post in this series and it’s more or less a wrap-up of everything else we talked about, as well as a few other things I thought I’d throw in…
(NOTE: these posts typically have links in them that go to other websites that delve into deeper detail than I will, in case you’re curious to learn about the nitty-gritty.) continue reading »
July 18th, 2008 -- Posted in Kibibi's Korner, Raiding! |
We’re winding down now! You’ve got the gear, the enhancements and the consumables now. You’re just going to go in and just pwn everything in there, right? RIGHT?! Well, not necessarily. Raiding is very different from even heroic 5-man groups. In this post, I want to talk specifically what goes on in a raid, and what to generally expect.
(NOTE: these posts typically have links in them that go to other websites that delve into deeper detail than I will, in case you’re curious to learn about the nitty-gritty.) continue reading »
July 17th, 2008 -- Posted in Uncategorized |
So far, we’ve covered the basics, and went over the topic of gear pretty heavily. What happens though if you get the best gear you can, but still need/want more? For this post, we’ll talk about improving your existing gear through enhancements.
(NOTE: these posts typically have links in them that go to other websites that delve into deeper detail than I will, in case you’re curious to learn about the nitty-gritty.) continue reading »
July 16th, 2008 -- Posted in Kibibi's Korner, Raiding! |
Welcome back to RAIDING!, where I’m going to talk about how to get started, improve, and master heroics and raiding in general. Prior, I talked about the very basics of what heroics/raids are. Today, we’re to talk about one of the most important factors of doing this end-game content: gear!
(NOTE: these posts typically have links in them that go to other websites that delve into deeper detail than I will, in case you’re curious to learn about the nitty-gritty.) continue reading »
