The Purge Goes To Utgarde Keep

Felt good ta lead me old guild inta a dungeon again, after a hiato- haitus- haiaiai- bugger it. a long break. We only had four of us available - me, Throttle the Tinker, Mr Hoof on Healz, and shiny new Death Kinght Ix - so this ended up being more of a recon mission than a full-out killing spree. I just gots one question on our tactilizations, though: How comes when we ran into the instance, everybody but me nakedified?

Seriously. How comes?

They's Still Out There

One Google search what often brings buggers to this here blog is "gnome porn." I ain't sure what them buggers is looking for, but what they get is this. Remember that day? That were a fine day. And some of them little hard-running easy-dieing racers? They's still out there, killing mobs and clawing they's way up the leveling ladder.So, last night's raid done got canceled, and so I go off to farm me some motes of shadow fer me Shadow Resist gear. But pretty soon I's thinking if I gotta kill one more of them voidwalkers I's gonna go stark befreakin' loony. 'Bout then I get a whisper from Gnomnclature the racer from Team Game Dame, informing me that yay! she has a demon pony now. So I sez Hey! Think that pony could get you all the way to the Scarlet Monastery? And she sez Ya, I think! so off we wents.

Now, I's run through the old SM so many times I can do it in me sleep. I can do it while catching up on me blog readings. I can do it starkers. But I ain't never done it as a priest before. Took a bit of practice figgering out how ta kill them Scarlet buggers withouts going oom every other fight. No AoE attack, or even a multi-target attack like cleave, fer shadow priests. But I eventually settled on a Naughty Touch and Face Smelting routine, interspersed with some wanding and Floppy Shadow tanking.

And when the dust settled, we were victorious. Bosses were dead, experience was gained, and little Gnomnclature got teh hat. Way, way more fun than killing 500 more voidwalkers.

Guest Blogger: Axe-Loving Dwarf Chick

Helloo there!

Meh name is Phoenicia, and I are the newest member of Team Ratshag. I are also a member of the Eternal Covenant, which is the Alliance affiliate of Mister Rat's first guild, The Purge. We have a number o' new member od in the guild, and it is a verry exciting time, I tell ya.

Since many o' these new guildies are Night Elves and Draenei (or headbangers, as I call them, since they bang their heads on proper ceilings) I decided to begin my adventures by running to Azuremyst. That was an exciting journey, I can tell ya! But I made it, with only a few scars, and Mister Rat always says that scars just increase a warrior's sex appeal.

Once I got there, I met up with my new guildmates. We have not one, not two, but three druids - Susurra, Rhanne, and Emetib. There's also a trigger-happy hunter named Xanyanca, Ortelianu the shammy, and wee little Baggit the Mage. But as a tank, I are most excited with our healer, a priest named Huoculon. And while I cannae pronounce that, I will say that he are a sexy devil, with horns and tail and necktacles. And one of these days I are going to find out what he are a-wearing under that dress of his!

We started off killing the badies on the Isles of Azuremyst and Bloodmyst. But we soon felt ready for a more serious challenge, and set our eyes upon that clan of druids gone bad in Wailing Caverns. So we've been working our way through it, building our skills, knocking the rust off of the old guild, and having ourselves a jolly good time.
I've been enjoying tanking these mobs. Mister Rat taught me well, and I are doing him proud. There have been some three-pulls, and even when we don't have Baggit with us for crowd control, I are holding aggro like a rock. Well, except for when some of the headbangers get too excited and start attacking while I are still trying to pull them back ta where I want them. But we've been working on that one.
We have been obtaining some very useful items in the Caverns. So far I have picked up the Stinging Viper mace, Kresh's Back for a shield, and the Sporid Cape. I think we are close to having it fully cleared, which will be a nice accomplishment.

Well, that is my tale, so far. Thank ye for stopping by, and keep yuir feet on the ground!

(Mister Rat just asked me to add that we have established that I can drink all of meh guildies under the table. Even Ortelianu. He was verry proud of that.)

Is a Buncha Pictures and Stories

First offs, this here be Sabiba, me new arena teammate. Ain't she a tasty piece of elfflesh. Say hello, you buggers.
From the cold, uncaring viewpoint of dry unadorned win-loss record, we didn't do so great on our first week together. Especially since two of our wins were against this woman here. But so whats? It were spontaneous, we had some fun, nobody got hurt too bad, and I learned some stuff what'll help me do better next time around.


Sabiba also done hooked me up with a new guild. Is small, but bigger'n me old one was back when it were in business, and the folks has been real nice to me. This morning we was planning to stick our toes in the waters what be Kara fer the first time. Unfortunately there were some last-minute schedule issues what came up, and the raid weren't able to come off. But sooner or later we's gonna have us a date with Kara. And she'll order the lobster, and the waiter's gonna probably get the order wrong, and someone'll drop a tray of dishes real loud-like in the back they way they do sometimes, and I don't know where the fuhg I's going with this metaphor...
Anywho. Raid on Karazhan. Didn't happen this week, but I's hopeful it will soon, and I's gonna have me some fun when it do.



Has anyone notices what Skyguard Khatie done got herself a flying mount? Now ya don't haveta worries about steppin' on her when ya bring in her five aether rays. But of course most of you buggers is too busy off Sunwelling nowadays to pay poor Khatie a visit ain't ya. "I miss you" she says. Well, old Ratter ain't too busy to gets her some rays, and ta show her appreciations, not only did she pay me the usual 11.99 gold and fifteen shards, she done took me fer a spin on her new mount and initiated me inta what she called the "fifty-meter high club."



For a while, I helped out a young, randomly coherent druid trying to find raptors and pirates ta kill in the Barrens, which were funs. Is relaxing to hit funkertuppers so hards they leaves nuthin' but a smear reaching halfway to the next zone, ya know?



Well, Kara didn't work out but there's still work to be done fer a band of adventurers willing to lay it on the line. Fer examples, them evil time-manipulating dragons, what be different colored from the good time-manipulating dragons, is still trying to mess up the timeline to prevent Thrall from forming the new and improved Horde and losing his virginity in Tarren Mill. So me and some of me new guildies got together and went and saved history and whatnot. And Bell? Yer right, he's a total n00b. Face pulls, totally ignoring the kill sequence, crappy gear. But we managed to pull it off in spite of hisself.
'Course to do all this we had to disguisify usselves as pasty-skinned humans. Since I weren't tanking but was just supplying extra dps fer this run, I wore me "kill things fast" gear, which worked fine. But great googly moogly. Normally I looks like a deadly killing machine. But as a human, I just look like a uptight, psychotic scarecrow. Fuhggit.



After that we was all full of piss and vinegar and figured we give heroic ramps a shot. Pffft. Five minutes in, we had six adventurer skeletons and three dead fel orcs lying just inside the entrance. Okay, maybe we need to gear up some more before we try this.

Well, where's a good place to gear up young adventurers? How about MrT? We swapped out our tankadin fer a blasty shammy, and I switched into me tanking gear, fer the first time since .... bugger. Fer the first time since last November. Do you like me goggles? Made'em meself. Engineering pride, baby!

So anyway, we cleared to the first boss. I hasta admit, I were a little rusty and mistakish, and really buggered it up at one point. But these was cool lads I were running with, and we all just laughed a bit and dusted ourselves off and moved on. Were about enjoying the experience, and then that's how I likes to roll, ya know? Well, like I said, we got to Mister Selin "I has pretty crystals" Fireheart when the shammy says "excuse me, I be right back." Except she didn't. Huh. We's puzzled, and hopefuls what nothing serious done happened. But after a while things was clearly not going forward, so we hadda bail and went and did a buncha dailies togehter. Some of them goes a lot faster with four buggers all hitting'em at once, I tells ya.

Anywho, that's what I's been up to lately. What's up with you?