Tuesday (26 Oct) - Getting Ready to Raid

Tuesday (26 Oct) - Getting Ready to Raid

Tuesday maintenance completed on time, and they even managed to sneak in enough "fixes" that it required agreeing to the Terms of Agreement (TOC) (for the millionth time) and checking the "Load out of date Addons" box. But the patch number stayed at 4.0.1, and the patch date stayed at 10/20/2010. Go figure. No patch notes were released so it's a big secret what they did to us. I do know that Philly's Inscription profession, and JB's Alchemy professions, were all messed up, out of order, and missing (unless you used the search feature to get at it). Guildies were also complaining about problems with other professions. Good job, Blizz.

As promised, here is Philly's results from her first heavy investment in selling glyphs.

Sold: 15 glyphs for a total of 631 gold
Unsold (expired): 20 glyphs
Reposted: 6
New Posts: 1 (a high value glyph that Philly learned today, Tuesday)

Philly's profit so far is a bit over 200g, so the effort has already been worth it.

On Wednesday morning the rest of the remaining glyphs posted on the AH expired. Every price had dropped below 50g as well, so Philly did not repost them. Philly will wait to see if prices start to go up for the weekend, or if Philly really did catch just the tail end of glyph boom and prices will continue to drop.

Happy had a miserable Tuesday, getting beaten in total sales by Lost by a wide margin. Happy points to Lost's near monopoly on greater eternal essences, which she is selling at five times the purchase price, as the killer. Lost points to Happy's poor sales over the weekend. As always, though, this is all subject to change as the week progresses.

There is only one raid planned this week, on Wednesday. ICC 10 raid groups G1 and G2 are combining this week in the hopes of running the table on ICC25. We have 19 signed up so far. This is a big deal for the guild. If we can't field a very solid team that cracks open ICC25, we are going to have real problems with Cata. We should be able to get 10 of 12 bosses down with pretty high confidence. Wild would love to see Sindragosa fall as well (the 11th boss) and get a shot at the Lich King. Yes, Wild is still hoping for that chance. As far as Wild's interface goes for the raid, my raidframes addon, Xperl, is still all gooned up and I will again be using the standard Blizzard raid frames. I've added the addon ClassTimer to help with Lifebloom stacks and watch for Clearcasting and Replenishment, which has worked well in limited testing. I'm still leaving out other addons like DoTimer and Power Auras until I'm sure everything else is working in a raid environment.

You know, Wild hasn't raided since the 14th of Oct, which means 13 days between that last raid and the upcoming Wednesday raid. The last raid before the 14th was the 7th, so Wild has raided on only two nights in the last 20 days. Prior to the patch Wild was raiding four nights a week. No wonder Wild is antsy and looking to shake the dust off from all this inactivity.