Monday (13 Sep) - The Coming Week

Monday (13 Sep) - The Coming Week

The MM guild likes to send out a weekly reminder of all the guild functions scheduled for the week. It's a pretty full plate.

Two raids that Wild won't have time for is a scheduled run to get the weekly frost raid done and a pvp raid. The weekly frost raid is a good idea, but it starts at 4:30pm, which is a very bad time for real life reasons. The PVP night is also new to the schedule, but that, too, is at an inconvenient time.

The G2 ICC10 raids on Wed/Thur are still on and Wild is signed up for them, for whatever good that will do. The most interesting raid, scheduled for the first time this week, is a co-op ICC25 raid on Fri/Sat. The Guild Leader is running that one. BH is the guild we are partnering with. I'm not sure of the full name of the guild or the spelling and haven't been able to find them on the Armory. So I don't really know anything about them, although I would have to assume that the Guild Leader knows people in that guild that he trusts. There is no MM sign for this raid up on the calendar. Wild had to contact the GL to let him know I was interested. The GL told Wild I would get an invite. I am under the possibly incorrect assumption that this is a BH raid that MM is providing fill-ins for, so it will be interesting to see how this goes.

Aha! It took awhile but I finally figured out the guild name. It has one of those special characters in it's name (I hate those things!) and the WoW Armory search feature is so lame it only searches for the exact name. There are 188 characters in the guild, 123 of which are level 80. That includes alts, of course. Wild pays attention to the druid healers he runs across, so the first thing he did after figuring out the guild is to see if he knew any of the druid healers in the guild. There are twelve level 80 druids in BH, and Wild did know one of them. Wild has run with her before and she's pretty good. She was in moonkin gear when she logged out so I don't know what her healing gear is like, but she's killed the princes six times in ICC25, and has numerous Heroic kills in ICC10. Impressive, although there are no Putricide or Dreamwalker kills listed for ICC25. Only one other druid in BH can match Wild's healing gear, and that player has a Kingslayer title. Looking at the entire list of level 80s in the guild, only two other names were even vaguely familiar. If this works out Wild is going to be making a lot of new friends.

Sorry that EZ and friends had to miss the Monday PvP night. I had a double whammy of a Padres game against the Rockies and the opening night Chargers football game against our arch rival KC Chiefs. The Padres are battling to hold on to first place in the NL West and pulled off a 6-4 victory, breaking the Rockies string of ten straight wins and pushing them 2 1/2 games back. The win also gave the Pads another 1/2 game cushion against the second place Giants, who were idle. The Chargers game went south early, with the Chief's special teams twice blowing away the Chargers with touchdowns off of kick-offs. Down 21-7, the Chargers came back but fell six yards short of the tying touchdown as time ran out, losing 21-14. It rained, and rained hard, throughout the game, affecting footing and seemingly even bothering quarterback Rivers, who usually doesn't even notice the weather. The local sportswriters will be merciless, and it was definitely a shaky start to the season, but the kinks I saw seemed mostly in the special teams and a rare disconnect between Rivers and his very good center, Hartwick. That can be fixed, but the special teams? They were bad on both the kicking and receiving side. Had they been on the ball the Chargers would have won it even with all the other issues.