Team RubiPam report:
Team RP continues to work on Durumu, the nasty eyeball maze guy, fighting problems of absenteeism as much as the boss. We are grateful to Tvath and Ash for coming in on Monday night to help, and we are getting there, but don't quite have it down yet. Thursday (tonight) Gromn has agreed to come in and tank in Thanael's place, as Thanael will be out of town, so if Heinkel can be there, I have high hopes for our progress, assuming we can find a dps to fill in for Joravic who I think is out tonight as well.
We are in desperate need of a reliable DPS to join us on Mondays through July and the first part of August perhaps; Heinkel is lighting up the stage in Montreal on Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays, and the folks who had said they wanted to raid and serve as our backup DPS have not shown up when we needed them. There are also going to be other times especially this summer, and in the fall when football will draw away Elu and Mage from time to time, that we will need a DPS and probably a backup tank occasionally as well. It's been kind of depressing trying to find someone who can commit, and we may have hit the limit of guildies who want to raid at this point. I was hoping one or two DPS members of Team Z might want to join us on Mondays until they start on TOT themselves, to get experience and gear, but possibly our schedule isn't compatible with most of theirs, as they don't seem to be on line when we raid. So we will see, we may end up taking a hiatus from raiding at some point this summer.
Saturday Night Massacre:
Wreck List continued our assault on heroic Firelands Saturday night, and we found that, hey, it's a little bit tougher than BOT was! Rhyolith CONTINUES to be a major pain in the ass, but for a different reason than two years ago - our dps was too strong, and we had to wipe and recalibrate our efforts a few times before we finally got down to just Joravic steering and Thanael attacking until we got him to the molten stage, at which point we just blasted him into oblivion. Similarly, Alysrazor took a bit of tweaking, and a few deaths, but we ultimately got her down. By comparison, Baleroc and Staghelm were cake, and thus we have cleared the whole place on heroic up to Rags. Because several people who have been stalwarts in these achievement runs, especially Thanael and Tvath, can't be here this Saturday, I've postponed our attempt on heroic Ragnaros until next week or the week after (July 6 or 13), so this Saturday, we can revert to normal SNM activities, world bosses and LFR, or just not do anything if people are busy with other things.
Celebration of Love and Human Rights
In celebration of the great Supreme Court decisions striking down a pivotal section of DOMA and refusing to hear the appeal of the lower court decision in California striking down Prop 8, Wreck List had a dance party celebration in Org on Wednesday night, and it was great fun! I was pleasantly surprised to see no right wing backlash against our celebration and yelling "DOMA IS DEAD HURRAY!" over and over, and much merriment was had. In fact, we got supportive whispers, although there was one very confused level 4 tauren in the middle of it trying to distract us, and another one trying to share bread with us who had decided that he should spell "who wants bread?" without the "w" in who. I have to say, the sight of Carune's orc stripped to his undies standing in a clamshell was pretty striking, I wish I had gotten a screenshot of it, but I hope other people thought faster than I did! Anyway, so fun! And thanks to everyone who came and shook their booties in celebration!
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