Is it breezy?

Reynne and Bkuz made it to Outlands!! Woot! Our nice quest givers gave us all new gear, it was awesome. Sadly it seems there's some sort of cloth shortage in OL so they didn't finish some of it. :) Big thanks to everyone whose help us with instances so far...now on to the big ones. :) Shal and Hawwga helped us do Hellfire Ramparts last night, it was awesome! Everyone did a great job and some much needed rep was earned. We are looking to run it again just for rep if anyone is interested or we do have Blood Furnace on the docket too! Let me knew if your interested in doing these. Great job on the leveling all.

p.s. Bkuz is now cutting green gems, if you would like some cut mail them to me with the stats you prefer and I'll get them done for ya. :)

Another Video Funny

I thought the "Blue Dress" video for WoW was really cute. So for those who enjoyed it I thought you might enjoy this one too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcWXL8jpFGs&mode=related&search=

Tea...with a side of dwarf

Taking a break from the slaughter of thousands of dwarfs- Hawwga, Aysen, Rey and Bkuzudi stopped for Tea (Shal was afk with diaper duty...lol) Black Rock Depths was a fun run for everyone...yes it's a bit long , we managed to clear out the first round of quests. Afterall...the only good dwarf, is a dead dwarf! :)

Thought this pic might give you all a laugh, after some pot in tanaris (hugs not drugs, kids!) I was shrunk to mini-me! I ran around for 10 mins. having some fun..even my mount was itty bitty.
I keep forgetting to share this video, I'm sure you'll love it. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi4jpafu5z0

Some random things...

So many things happening to the guild over the last month and I've been lacking on the posting....here's a few of the highlights!

Congratulations to Aysen for winning the June drawing and Ratchit for winning the July drawing!! For all those wondering what this is...every month we draw for 50g, all main toons (who have logged on that month) get 10 numbers entered automatically, if you donate money to the guild bank you get an extra 10 numbers for each gold donated. At the end of the month we assign numbers to each toon and do a roll for the winning number!

Also, we are very excited to welcome Hawwga (rage), Daag and Vimoonbeam to the guild! These are awesome players that Shal, Chan and I have played with on CoH for years and we are glad they have joined MoD. If you see any of them on say hello and introduce yourself!

In the last month MoD has knocked out tons of instances, including some of the higher level ones...Slave pens, Auchenai Crypts and Mana tombs. Some of our lowbies have done RFK, SM, Uldaman, SKF, WC and even RFD which was a new one for me. Coming up in the next few weeks...Uldaman (again) and Caverns of Time, which none of us have attempted yet! Also, due to the hard work of the guild we have lots of new toons headed toward 70! I forsee lots of heroic instances and raids in our future. :) We've also been knocking some Elites around...Chan, Shal, Main and I took out a world dragon, some 70 elites in SMV and Hawwga joined us for some Elite bashing!

Last but not least...if you have a quest that's to hard, an item you need for a quest, just wanna do something fun...please ask, working together we can do anything! Okay...maybe not kill that world dragon in Darkshire...but still. lol

Congratulations Chanina!!

A congratulations out to Chanina who dinged in real life today. Happy Birthday to our favorite Warrior Princess!! Hope your day is terrific and filled with happy memories. Eat a piece of cake for us.

Uncovered!

Yes, it's finally out in the open...the big MoD secret!! There I was just walking through the slave pens when all of a sudden I came upon this....I was in shock. It seems our very own Chanina and Stetal have been having a secret relationship! Caught in the act they tried to pretend like they were just hanging out killing Bog Lords, but I think we all know better!

Shal, Chanina, Main, Stetal and Ky all ran the SP this weekend (Yes! I got to wear the cuffs)...a fun time was had by all...well probably not the bosses we tromped, but you can't make everyone happy. Was nice to do a high level instance and live :) Next on the list Auchindon and Mana tombs...beware MoD is coming for you!

End of the Shwickening

Heya guys

This is my official announcement of retirement from Warcraft and this version of Method of Destruction. In the future, as in the past, there may be other reincarnations of MoD, of which I may decide to lead or not. After 7 years of vigorous online gaming and borderline gaming addiction (seriously) I am just done with it for now. At one point during these last 7 years I was averaging -- AVERAGING 16 hours per day of online gaming. I can honestly remember a few days in the EQ days where Vegiwhoppa and myself didnt sleep at all (such as camping for his cleric Epic 1.0). Was offered a fairly good offer for my account so if anyone sees Shwick in action on Moonrunner it IS NOT me. Shalaman will be removing the rest of my alts shortly as I did not have time to get them all. Azlinn as far as I know is not leaving WoW. Have to admit ive been trying to quit WoW for over a year now, and every time I had gotten close to actually doing it something else would keep coming up, but I finally cant put it off any longer. I have grown over last few months to just dread logging in at all and it has nothing to do with you all, in fact the guildies are the only reason I did log in at all last few months. I greatly enjoyed the time I had with all of you, and enjoyed watching you all grow into fierce and strong guildies. I have no doubts MoD will continue to evoke fear in the minds of others less fortunate enough to get in your way. I am always available on email as always (happydude111@hotmail.com) and I do already have most of your email addresses anyway. Special note to Selira > You were right 3 weeks ago LOL, as usual.

I know some of you probably wont understand all my reasons and I am sorry if anyone feels "abandoned" by me. However, I left my own blood in my stead as I would never let anything terrible happen to the guild or the guildies. I feel there is very strong leadership remaining in MoD and the ability to grow quite far if desired.

Happy questing !!

ps I am looking into a few other mmorpgs but as of now have no plans to start another life drain just yet - will post here or call Shal and keep tabs on y'all.

On the quest for the Epic Mount

Stetal had begun the Netherdrake epic mount quests and that got me fired up to get started as well. I want to thank Stetal again for helping me out last night. We are both up the group quest against Zuluhed the Whacked. I've read a lot of interesting tactics to beat him. Some have done it with 2-man groups and others with 4-man groups. What I get from it all is that it can be done with some planning. Below are the list of quests to get started which were posted on www.wowhead.com. I added some comments from what I experienced and the tips Stetal had given me for the quests.

If anyone is interested in doing these quests or just want to get a good pounding in on Zuluhed, please let me or Stetal know. We can pick a day to do it. After that it's a lot of saving for the the epic riding lessons. If people were interested, we could help each other get to neutral. It seems two weeks is the time frame for completing the entire quest line if you keep at it. Once I have the gold for the epic riding lessons, I will put this to the test and post my results.

How to get Neutral with Netherdrake (Netherdrake Epic Mount Quest Starter)
A list by Greengoo

1. Kindness-Pick this quest up from Mordenai. He wanders the Netherwing fields near the Sanctum of the Stars but not hard to find. He's usually fighting the Rocknails.
- Kill 8 Rocknail Flayers, Use Carcasses to Feed 8 Dragons (don't move!). Try to target the Rocknail Flayers. They drop full carcasses as the smaller rocknails drop giblets. You need 5 giblets to make one carcass.
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10804

2. Seek Out Neltharaku
- Fly on your mount and find Neltharaku, he patrols slowly around Dragonmaw about a few hundred feet up. You'll have to be a few yards UNDER him to talk to him. I rotated my camera up in order to select him.
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10811

3. Neltharaku's Tale
- Listen to story.
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10814

4. Infiltrating Dragonmaw Fortress
- Kill 15 of any type of orcs in the fortress.
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10836

5.To Netherwing Ledge!
- Find 12 Crystals from the floating island SE of the mainland. Miners will get indicators marking the crystals. Watch for the lvl70+ elites walking around and the flying mobs above the island.
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10837

6. The Force of Neltharaku
- Free 5 Dragons by using the crystal item from Neltharaku on them, then killing the orcs they aggro.
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10854

7. Karynaku
- Find Karynaku, she's the second story of the fortress.
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10858

8. Zuluhed the Whacked
- Kill Zuluhed and recover the key. (note from Greengoo: I recommend pulling him inside so as to avoid the archers, and kill him BEFORE he summons his adds. Use the key he drops to free Karynaku.)
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10872

9. Ally of the Netherwing
- Return to Mordenai, you will immediately gain 42,000 rep and become neutral.
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10870

Shwick and Azlinn missing in action

Heya guys - Azlinn and myself, Shwicky, are going to take a few more days off Warcraft for some fierce LAN gaming showdowns we havent been able to get to all year. We have, however, finished with the boys room and the girls room, and have done the demo for the bathroom renovation. I still need finish the GINORMOUS planters out front but it is over 105 degrees almost all day now outside so putting that off. Will see everyone again in a few days or so. Kick some alli butt for us !!

Woot!!

Well it took a lot of pvp but Kyllen is finally riding in style! :) I have to say while I enjoy a little bit of pvp I was getting a bit tired of it by the end. Plus, one match we had 13 (yes 13!!) people afk...it's very frustrating to be out there working your butt off while so many people earn free honor. Bizz needs to come up with a way that they auto DC if they haven't done anything after a few mins, it's insane! BTW, donations are now being taken for the Kyllen is broke fund...lol

The Underbog

Well we made it through. Myself, Kyllen, Chanina, Maingano, and Stetal all ventured into the coilfang resevior to go after some nasty bosses. The first boss we encountered had us by our throats for a couple of group deaths, but we eventually got our wits together and defeated him. After this we didn't run into a problem until "Claw". This druid was mind controlled to be a big bad bear and he did some serious damage. We eventually freed him from his mind control and life was great. Last boss of the evening had some of our party up in the air with a levitate spell which made it impossible to do melee damage, fortunately some of us could still hit with ranged attacks. Cheers to all our party members who sucessfully navigated this instance. Later we'll attempt the "Slave Pens".

Scarlet Monastery -- 8PM est

Sorry for the short notice. I will try (LOL) to do SM this evening at 8pm est. Yekcoh & I have one quest there so far & I'll pick up more before that time. If anyone needs to do this instance, please feel free to join us. The list of quests are here.

This is from our Instance Day fun in Zul Farrak. Myki had a little bit too much Noggenfogger to drink. With a "small" contribution from myself we were able to get everything done. TY Chanina / Azlinn for taking us through.

A flying mount...at 20??

How'd she do that? Well with the new patch bugging all kinds of things..bouncing raptors, latency at an all time high...etc, this is one bug that had me laughing. Reynne and I were in TB and as I looked up there she was on the FP mount still. She couldn't see it, but she followed me all over TB on the mount. Here's a few highlights.

Reynne inside the spirit rise tent

Crossing the bridges

Instances

I have these instances on Chanina. If everyone would like to post what they need done, we can plan to do them as needed.

• Scholomance
• Blackrock Depths
• Sunken Temple

I probably need to pick up more quests for these instances. I will try to do that so I can share with those who want to do them.

Tired of Gold Spam?

As this is such a pain to all of us, here are a couple of mods I've found. I've downloaded them to see if they really work.

WhisperBlocker--(Go to Downloads, then Chat Mods under Stand-Alone Add-ons)
Blocks whispers using a word filter that can be edited as the spammers try to change the ad message. The command /whisperblocker opens a simple menu.

ShutUp--(Listed Alphabetically)
Blocks all whispers except for guild members and people on your friends list. This one uses command lines. I've found two commands so far: /ShutUp disables the program. This same command with text following will be your reply to the sender. For example: /ShutUp I am not receiving whispers. This is what I have for my reply message.

I've put the links where you can find them in case some of you may want to try them out. I'm leaning more towards WhisperBlocker. The other should not allow any whispers from the general public and I'm not sure if that includes GMs as well. I'm thinking one or the other should help. Both may be overkill. LOL So there you have it. I hope they work out.

Congratz Stetal & Shwick!!

Congratulations Stetal & Shwick for completing the quests to recieve their LVL 60 Dreadsteed mounts. We were in Dire Maul in Feralas to start. Then headed to Dire Maul West battling some nasty critters to make our way to clearing the 5 pylons to fight Immol'thar. But it didn't end there. We had a wave of imps coming down on us along with other demons that I frankly couldn't keep track of as I was on imp slaughtering detail. We held all the baddies at bay while Shwick & Stetal perform a summoning. After the dust settled, the Xorothian Dreadsteed appears and we defeat him. I had so much fun and really happy that we were able to finish it. Thanks again to Kyllen and Azlinn for all their help and great job Shwick & Stetal for this awesome accomplishment.

Chanina has Armorsmith Speciality!

After long tedious hours of mining for obsence abouts of iron and mithril & crafting specific Blacksmith items, Chanina is finally an Armorsmith. I'm going to put together a post about what to expect doing this speciality and try to even list some best places to mine. I'm so happy I finished with this path and willing to help anyone who might want to become an Armorsmith. I will stress this is not an easy one to do. It does take time to gather all the ore and materials. I want to leave this bit of advice: mine all the ore you see and save it if you can. Even if its grey, you may need it at some time. Iron and Mithril along with the Solid stones and Heavy stones should be saved especially. Keep rare gems you find. I tried to save a few stacks of ore and gems to share with the guild to help out those who are trying to level up their skills.

As always let me know if anybody needs anything. I'm happy to help in anyway I can.

VOTE for new Guild Tabard design

The time has come to vote for our new Guild Tabard design. The original was made a very long time ago and more design options have become available since then. The choices below are basically different icons with different colors. They are not necessarily the only choices. We can put different icons with different colors. These icons, however, are the icons that show up the best on our smallest frame characters (blood elf) and so would be the best option as larger frames will show them even better. I threw one design in just for kicks and hopefully that particular one wont win the most votes LOL. The backgrounds were kept dark to best go with the higher level armor sets, Light border was chosen for same reason but not all of the designs have that. Icon color was chosen to best go with the darker background and border. To vote just add a reply to this post with your favorite color / icon.

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Conratulations to Hundak!

Well our 1st official monthly drawing has occured. Shwick anb I met in Zabra'Jin to find a winner. Shalaman rolled an 82, after several attempts and landing on a number assigned to characters who elected not to participate. Hundak - one of our blacksmiths is a level 23 warrior with dreams of becoming a great weaponsmith.

So remember, next monthly drawing will be at the end of May. Keep your fingers crossed. You might be next.