01/17/05 — HOUR TWO
It’s really hard to beat the fake GM announcement pranks at these worldwide historical events:
And until I spotted the cracks in the impersonation, it gave me pause. A 3-day Warcraft vacation? That’s quite a chunk of DKP I’d give up, ALTHOUGH, a forced break from raiding might be nice.
The GM Posers are still perfecting their technique; so far, no genuine GMs are in evidence.
Shame. That’s usually when things start to get good.
You must know that I couldn’t resist. After reading about the hubbubbub and the bruhaha on the Warcraft Medivh server over the giant influx of level one spectators, tourists and jagoff wannabes, I just have to see for myself.
Now here’s the thing, I’m just here to observe. I understand the mathematics of queues and lag, but I didn’t design this community event and I’m not in charge of allocating Warcraft hardware resources, so all I’ll say is “Congrats Medivh” and “This is the price of fame”, I’d also say “cry more” and “too bad, so sad”, but I’m trying not to be a douche.
AFK Gamer has a small team of reporters covering the Medivh globe; screenshotting our way from graveyard to graveyard on our epic journey to Silithus.
01/17/06 — HOUR ONE
The first thing to greet us, other than Welcome to World of Warcraft, was the spammed guild invites to the tourist guild. What a friendly server!
We left soon after joining the tourist guild because damn, unless they have a warlock to summon us straight to Cenarion Hold in Silithus, what’s the point?
We were soon to realize, however, that the natives were not as friendly as our tour guides.
More later as we edit raw screenshot feeds and witness the mayhem history …
CNN (Cow Network News)
Silithus
Sometimes raids just don’t go your way. Be it stealth afk’s, the stars misaligned, stupidity, or Blizzard (probably the biggest reason), you wind up wiping. I have noticed that regardless of how bad things are some people just refuse to die. They will do anything in their power to make sure they kill whoever just got divine intervention and to delay your attempted CR. Thankfully, I have the ability in certain encounters to ensure said wipe happens in a timely manner.