Magister’s Mantle: Raashnu

Congrats DEers

1. Goto the CWAL Forums and register for a forum account.
2. Contact Skier, in-game, on your main and tell me what your account name is.
3. I will then goto the forum and put you in the STNY group.
4. At that point, you can goto the CWAL Raid Web App and register for the raid (create a character in the raid profile section)

If you had questions, goto the Raid Scheduler Support Forum.

Magister’s Bracers: Duckylove
Eye of Rend: Remn
Warmaster’s Leggards: Sevek
Draconian Deflector: Simpkin
Breastplate of Valor: Sevek

Major Mana Pot recipe: Kieph
+9 Spirit to 2h: Ismona

Rest of the drops were meh

Lightforge Spaulders: Ragnarr
Wildheart Chest: Runiska
Blood: Duckylove
Blackhand Doomsaw: Kieph

My first thoughts? Frickin’ sweet. Well actually my first thoughts were “I wish I wasn’t lagging so bad that I could play”. However, I tried again yesterday and it was more sane (considering that PVPers from every server are crammed into two parts of the world). All in all, I had an amazing time. I think battlegrounds will be a signifcant improvement for the game.

If you haven’t already, check out Blizzard’s info on the battlegrounds:
Warsong-Gulch
Alterac Valley Pt. 1
Alterac Valley Pt. 2

Short Summaries

Warsong Gulch

This is a very small map for 10 v 10 CTF. It uses the rules that you have to have your flag in the base to capture the oppents flag. You can’t use your mount when to run the flag back, but druids can use travel form. There are also little speed boots power-ups that spawn that make you run as fast as an epic mount for 20 seconds (maybe 10…seemed pretty long though). Three caps win the round. There’s also little houses you can stand in that will rejuice all your health and mana (quickly).

Alterac Valley

This was more Battlefield 1942-ish. You have towers, mines, graveyards, and bases to capture and defend. You capture by defating the enemy NPCs and touching a flag. The battles are much more large scale in this one.

Screenies

The Alliance summoned their elemental last night. Ivus was the real deal. He was like having our own private Lord Kazzak to completely own the Horde. He was 1 and 2 shotting people left and right and pretty much wreaking havok on the towns as he progressed slowly down the path towards their base.

Stats for stat whores like me.

We took over a tower by killing a bunch of these guys and then touching the flag (notice it is blue).

Someone summoned a bunch of mounted guys who were patrolling our foward outpost. These are one of the spawns that lowbies can create. Unfortunately I didn’t get to see any Horde stumble into the middle of all those elites.

Our forward outpost boss. Meh.

Last night we got the following attuned / jailbreak. I’m planning on running some more people through this evening at some point. We will probably also do upper to get some people the blood.

Remn: MC / Jailbreak
Axavier: MC / Jailbreak
Ithwail: MC / Jailbreak
Ismona: MC
Wishiwasevil: MC
Nistin: MC
Simpkin: MC

We have laid the groundwork for an alliance between a few of the guilds on the server who are in a similar position as we are. These are the guild we will be working with, so please make an effort to get to know some of their members.

Forbidden Donut
GM: Finalmjolnir (AIM: fmjolnir)
Alternate Contact: Puff (AIM: bothreela)

Operation CWAL
GM: Verius
Alternate Contact: Katerina

Brotherhood of Nine
GM:
Alternate Contact:

I haven’t spoken with the Brotherhood of Nine guys yet personally. I’ll update everything here with more information once I get it.

Our current numbers between all four guilds are as follows:

Druids: 7
Hunters: 11
Mages: 19
Paladins: 11
Priests: 10
Rogues: 14
Warlocks: 5
Warriors: 10

Our first run through Molten Core is currently scheduled for Saturday, May 28th, 2005 at 6 PM EST.

We are still nailing down the details, but we have a lot to get ready for and two weeks will be here before we know it. Most importantly is that we need to make sure everyone has done the discovery quest. The quest is called Attunement to the Core and you pick it up at the bottom of the chain on your way to BRD. The quest requires you to go through BRD and get a Core Fragment. Please contact Skier if you need to do this (I’ll be making a list on the webpage of who has the quest completed).