Team Venture

Team Venture Kills Professor!

So, it’s been a while since we had an update to post on our weekend guild activities. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, but between Vet Schools, jobs, and the cold, dark of the Alaskan wilderness, we’ve all been pretty much just doing our own thing and hanging out whenever we can. But, no more! Tuesday and Friday night raiding is back. It must be something to do with the sun; apparently all the rest of you like going outside or something while the dayball shines or something. But now, with darkness falling early, do the gamers log on to play….

And play we did! For weeks, I inflated my ego with thoughts of top ranking DPS meters and the linchpin status of my toon in the guild, but now my delusions of grandeur have been solidly defeated just like a certain Professor Putricide.   Appearing in the fight were Danewort and some guy from a different guild named RedStout as tanks and our own Jane and Darthaniel on heals.  The DPS were rounded out by Mithantrum, Dorthur, Lou, Kralkurth, Dannygnome, and “Big Papa” Papadapolis.

Congrats to you all and congrats to all of us for finally getting this guy down.

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So our guild seems to like Tuesday night raiding.  Funny considering we started raiding as a one night per week on the weekend sometime guild.  Oh well, you won’t see this tree complaining!  On Tuesday we seemed to be spilling over with level 80s so we went straight to ICC and skipped the weekly raid for the moment.  We were on a roll and planned to go 6/6 again (timing was AWESOME PEOPLE!) but the weekly in ICC turned out to be the green debuff + orange debuff= prizes! So we opted to go for the quest and put Rotface on hold for the moment.  Great job to all, you guys make my job pretty easy!   Normally there would now be a roll call inserted here with the shout outs to all the cool people who ran with us that night.  I’m sorry, but I wasn’t feeling my best so truthfully I can’t remember who all was there!  Thanks to everyone though!

So the week went by with a couple of daily heroics and chilling in Dal, and on Friday it seemed everyone was out of town or working.  So we pugged a few in for the weekly (Plaguebringer) and called it an early night.  Well, I didn’t exactly, I had the 12-6 shift so I guess you could say I had to work too! Friday was made a little more extra special because IT WAS SELVAIN’S 80TH BIRTHDAY! HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOU BIG BEAR BUTT!

Saturday seemed even more scarce then Friday, but ubber props to Akuasama for finishing the quests for the 5-man Icecrown/ Linch King dungeons.  Now we can run them on heroic difficulty and snag you some swag!  Not that you aren’t grabbing some good badge and rep gear with all that you’ve been up to!  (Already exalted with Wyrmcrest and close to it on Hodir!  Seriously, you’ve got mad skills).   Thanks Selvain for tanking, you so totally rock!

And so that brings us to Sunday (Happy father’s day to those in the guild).  Did I mention earlier in my post that we started only raiding once a week?  Well, determined to get to putricide again and have time to take him down, we met again to take Rotface down.  Surprise celebrity guest—- Kralkurth!  We’ve missed you buddy and glad to hear that you’ve missed us.  More props to: Billythequizboy and Butkus!  Good having you brothers in the game!  McLovin, Selvain, Heiliger, Dashifen, Danewort, and Dmitrious were there too, as we threw ourselves against the cement wall that was Rotface for the evening.  Three cheers to us for having fun with it still.  There was a few times where it was down to one or two people and just one good crit would have done it.  Seriously, if Heiliger Mage tanks any more, we’ll have to consider adding him to the tanking line up!

Great job all, I’ll get you next time Gadget!  I mean Rotface.

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So we had all the time in the world this weekend to knock down Prof. Putricide. We did our amazing clear on Tuesday and a few willing souls logged on for the raid on Friday hoping to be battered to a pulp a few times by the evil scientist. Well, the world was against us and we ended up not having enough for the 10 man. I didn’t even set foot in Icecrown this weekend. Special shout outs to McLovin, Heiliger, Dash, Danewort, Kliz, and Darth (shoot I’m missing one! Rekk, was that you with the dangely things?) for hanging in there. We ended up finishing out the ToC 10 that we started. It was our second time all the way to the end, and a few of the people hadn’t been with us the first time we ganked the Big Beetle Boss. So that was fun, I really do like that raid. Did you know what too? If you’re on the sandbox tiger when the floor breaks you fall while still playing quietly and land safely on the ground, still on the sandbox tiger. There was also quite a bit of rock throwing and Zeplin running.

So on Saturday, we didn’t raid either. A few of us ran a random, there was bag clearing, auction house buying things, profession doing, but no raiding. Well, that was until the boys transfered to Starcraft II and Jane went back to Dalaran to logg off and I saw in Trade:

[/5: Trade] LFG VoA, dps or heals
[/5: Trade] LFM, need tank and heals VoA 25
[/5: Trade] DPS shamman GS 5.4k LF group VoA 10/25

Yeah that’s right, the alliance finally got a hold of WG and there were people looking for a group, a raid, more, a chance to get some gear! I couldn’t believe it. So I look at Danewort, and think, ok. I’ve got time, sure. I adverstised my healing talents (Heals LFG VoA 10/25) and boom I’m in a group. About 2 minutes later the group leader says that there is another group closer to going and that he’d give them our names. No invite. No biggie, I’m at the dungeon by now, there are plenty of people around and I throw it out in general. Now, I don’t think I’m fantablous at heals but I can hold my own and I do have ICC and tier 10 gear, I’m not too shabby. Well, let me just say that I felt like the booger 4-eyes that sits on the dirt edge of the field waiting and being the last one picked for kickball. No wonder rading and pugging gets such bad rep. The group I was with were generally nice, some more so then others, and we did get the big boss down but most people left when the leader suggested we go do another boss. The ones that were complaining about the tanking were the dps that just sat in the fire, and the healing help was a little sparce (though they did try). Gosh I’m spoiled.

Moral of that Storytime with Jane: THANK YOU TEAM VENTURE FOR BEING SO AWESOME! I LOVE PLAYING WITH YOU ALL.

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Ok, so on a dark and stormy (in some timezones) evening, the members of Team Venture gathered for a Tuesday night raid.

Behold my followers. I have set forth a goal for this eve.  We shall forge ahead in the Citadel of Icecrown and parry with those bosses that dwell within up to the monster which they call Rotface.- Our fearless tank, Danewort said.

I have to say Kliz actually snickered at that.  Two hours, 6 bosses?  I was a LITTLE skeptical too, considering we’re pretty casual, like to take our time through instances etc.  We did go straight to ICC and skipped the weekly for now, which helped, but still. Which is why it was SO TOTALLY AWESOME when we ONE SHOT the first 6 bosses in ICC.  That’s right, what are you going to do about it?  Cry on the floor like a kid with skinned knees and a dirty lollipop?  What? That’s right, go run crying to the Linch King, he can’t help you now!

Seriously, we are good.  Special shout outs to the two tanks- Danewort and Rekkoning.  They kept us on task.  Kliz your getting up there on dps, McLovin beware!  Props to Nathaniel- I can no longer laugh as you stand in death and decay because you’re LEET.  Finally, GWENDE made an appearance and Beat Saurfang, Festergut and Rotface for the first time yesterday.  It was adorable having our two gnomes (Gwen and Heiliger) running around with pink hair. Kashim too made it to the raid, now that real life’s not in the way, and Dash, as always, nice to have you and your shadow around.

We get loads of tries at the Prof. this weekend and can maybe even try the blood princes?  Malygos (sp?) is also on the list for Darthaniel, no matter what Danewort has told you.

Don’t forget!  Add name suggestions to the post about Heiliger!  Come on people!  There are so many possibilities, I just don’t have enough character slots for them all.

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Hey all, I know what you have been wondering lately, where was the weekend guild update?  Hmm….good question.  Well, I’ll give it here, and then give a little more about the site and things to come.

The weekend was really just Saturday.  We scraped a group together and headed back into ICC where Ferstergut and Rotface (Rotgutface) were waiting for us.  Well, we killed festergut.  Unfortunately we had to revert back to the three heals raid make up.  We had been trying to do it only with two but things just seem to fall apart if we do it that way.  I’ll have to do a little more research for the team.  And Rotface?  Well, we tried, but it was pretty hard getting people coordinated this time for some reason.  Oozes just didn’t seem to want to get together and make big ooze children.  And that’s all we did, it was a short night, but fun.  Good to talk to everyone.

Akumasama has hit 70!  We’re really proud of him.  Just keep trucking there and we’ll be happy to start pulling out alts to run dungeons.  I noticed he was in Shadow Labs earlier….ahh, one of Team Venture’s favorites

And to note, it might be hard to get McLovin, Heiliger, and Danewort on WoW for a little as they are all playing the Starcraft II beta.

There will be (if not already) raids set up for Friday and Saturday nights.  Please sign up. (Speaking of signing up, Telsatori or Dmitrious where are you guys?)

Finally, Keep your eyes open for a upcoming Poll, per request of an awesome mage with adorable pink hair.

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Our guild is amazing, just saying.  We nailed the weekly raid and had time for the first 4 bosses of ICC.  We still haven’t re-attempted Sarth with drakes up, and I for one would like to attempt it.  Maybe when it’s not the weekly we can convince Danewort to let us do it!

The ICC first floor went down smoothly.  Rekkoning even got a chance to do some damage and Selvain was our very own big bear butt tank.  Darth healed with me and using a different computer was finally able to see the death and decay on the ground during the Lady Deathwhisper fight.  Honestly, not trying to poke too much fun, but I don’t remember a run before last night where he didn’t die from death and decay.

There is a raid scheduled for tonight but I’m doing some real life hanging out with peeps.  Hopefully you all will have a good go at Rotgutface and maybe if I’m lucky I can jump in vent towards the end.

Upcoming poll to be announced soon!  All I have to say, is are you ready to be creative?

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