How do you do Instances?

I had a great experience this weekend and I wanted to share it with all of you. It was actually mentioned in the Bind on Equip Episode 24 by the lovely Tempeste. "If a spot comes open in a group and someone asks if you can join, instead of ignoring the request and if you want to go... offer. Let the leader know you may be undergeared and let them make the call."

I am honestly working hard to be a better tank as well as trying out the duel-spec option with a Ret talent spec. I leveled Xan as a Prot pally from level one I had that goal in mind. I worked hard on him but didn't understand the basics of what was needed as a tank. But in time and through a lot of questions asked I slowly began to learn the ropes. But stubbornly I refused to study the websites and such. So it was still an uphill battle.

Now with the help of podcasts and my own research I am slowly working towards being the tank that I want to be.

Now to the point of my story:

On EARLY Saturday morning May 9th I was doing my dailies and I picked up the daily dungeon quests. The heroic and the regular daily dungeon quests were both in Halls of Lightning. I KNEW that I didn't have the defense to live through a heroic run, so I put my name down on the LFG for a regular run.

I was contacted by members of the Trollbane guild known as All the Way to Uranus (Formerly of Apocalypse) They were looking for a tank on Heroic. I informed the person asking that I may be a little undergeared with a defense of about 520. They encouraged me to join them and said that their healer and their DPS was epic and that if I could hold them with the defense potions they gave me we would be fine.

I COULDN'T BELEIVE IT! A HEROIC INSTANCE RUN! I was all game!

We actually did very well. I accidentally pulled a couple times and ended up wiping. I apologized to the group and they just cheered me on, let me know some of the pulls were not my fault etc...

After an hour or so we cleared Heroic Halls of Lightning and not only that I was given the opportunity to get all the Achievements in HHoL as well.


Now THAT is the way a PUG is supposed to go. Thanks again to the members of All the Way to Uranus : Kratos, Mooniez, Pascha, & Ferris.

New Experiment ... Care to Join Me?

After listening to our friends over at Bind on Equip I have thought about doing a similar experiment for fun on our own as well.

We found a RP PvP server (The Venture Co.) and randomly roll up some of our own toons. The Venture Co was chosen because it is on the Pacific Time Zone for server and since this is going to become a late Friday night endeavor we want to make it on a server that is late enough to fit our needs. Besides 2 out of the 3 members so far live in the Pacific Time Zone.

Because Xan has played only Alliance except for an 'Alt-Main' on Perenolde Server it has been decided that we are going to do Horde as well.

The roster is filling up fast but anyone that would care to join us is welcome to do so. We are starting off with a main 5 man group, but are willing to build it up to a raid sized group.

Xan
MO
Kilzar
~OPEN~
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Basically we are going to follow the same rolling ideas that Bind on Equip used in their podcast.

After we have our basic starting five we will roll the group mechanics of:

1 TANK
1 HEALER
1 MELEE DPS
2 RANGED DPS

After roles have been established we will roll (/roll5) races:

1 - Orc
2 - Tauren
3 - Troll
4 - Forsaken
5 - Blood Elf

In addition we will try to also have as diverse options on professions but they must include one gathering and one manufacturing skill. (i.e. Mining/Blacksmithing)

Also, will have to talk to the group once it is formed and we will have to look into not buying equipment on the AH but rely on the party to make gear upgrades or world drops... Just a thought.

We are going to run this group a couple hours on Friday nights. Hopefully we will be able to record using Skype and post the results here.

If you would like to join our experiment please reply to this post. We would like to get this started in a couple weeks but we need to try and get two other members as soon as possible.

Gnomes with Pink Mohawks shout out to T.E.N.!

One more email and PIMP spot under our belt here at "The Experienced Noob." I had an email read by the gnomes at "Bind on Equip" this last Wednesday. You can review the show notes HERE under "Show Notes" Episode #22.



The email was about 23 minutes until the end, so 1 hour and 3 minutes through the podcast. The gnomes were gracious enough to pimp our guild as well as the blog. So check it out!

The podcast is already available on iTunes or you can listen to it directly from the Bind on Equip podcast site, and listen to Episode 22.

Or looking to join a new guild? Check out ours Devil's Dirty Work.


Al-BEAN-Oh! FTW!!!