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Bastion of Twilight will be one of the first raid instance of the expansion. The screenshots and such were taken from MMO-Champ, but I figured I'd toss it up here to give us a look into what to expect in the coming expansion.(And if the first raid only has 4-5 bosses, maybe I'm just worrying about scheduling too much right now)

Encounters
There are 4 encounters in Bastion of Twilight, plus an additional Heroic-Only encounter.

• Valiona and Theralion
• Halfus Wyrmbreaker
• Twilight Ascendant Council (Ignacious, Feludius, Arion, and Terrastra)
• Cho'gall
• Lady Sinestra (Heroic Only)

Zone Screenshots
The screenshots of the zones are without NPCs or doodads, this isn't representative of the final instance, just a preview of the architecture. Obviously a subzone like the Throne of Apocalypse is more impressive when Cho'gall is here sitting on his huge throne.




Blue Posts

We Are Legendary - Retroactive!
We are making a exception for this guild achievement. Any legendary items you have already earned will count.

New content for the next Beta Patch
We do not plan to patch today, though we plan to have a great deal of new content in the upcoming patch. You'll get access to new zones and dungeons, and potentially an increase in level cap to 85.

UI Addon Functionality Returning
With the release of the next beta patch, we plan to re-enable the ability for players to use third-party addons. Many of the core user interface features are now implemented in the beta test and functional, so we feel it’s a good time to open up the field for developing and testing UI modifications.

Be sure to continue leaving us feedback about all of the new user interface features here: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...66722&sid=2000

Feedback about the new guild interface can be provided to us here: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...66721&sid=2000

Let's get somethin' a little more, ah... cheerful here on the frontpage. Don't expect a schedule for these. I'll make them when I get ideas from the shit going on in the guild. Enjoy!

EDIT: changed the camera angles a bit.

In an announcement yesterday from Blizzard, their official forums are going to "support" the Real ID function. What does this mean? Basically, every time you post on the official WoW forums, your name is put on display for the entire interwebs. At first, I didn't really care about this -- I mean, my name's already out there thanks to the webcomic I ran. But I don't need every snot-nosed troll in the official forums to know who I am if I need to post.

The biggest argument in defense of the RID forums seems to be "Well, if you don't like it, don't use the forums!" This is a rather weak arguement, truth be told. There are many times where GMs will refer you to the forums when you have bugs to report, or generally need help on a community level(ie: game-related things that GMs actually cannot help you with).

There are many anti-RID points in the massive post on the official forums, ranging from the simple "I don't want people to know my name" to the more serious "I've had issues with stalkers in the past and this will just enable them to find me" to other issues related to gender(ranging from women who wish to remain anonymous to prevent stalkers to transgendered people who don't wish to be outed by the change).

From my understanding, this is the LARGEST outcry from the WoW community at large to date. The thread, at the time of this writing, is over 1330 pages long, with almost 25,000 replies and 220,000+ views in roughly 25 hours.

Personally, I think the way they are handling this is terrible. I'm already queasy about putting my real name "on display" even to my friends in WoW(mostly because I despise my real name). I can't change my name in my account settings, nor can I set up a handle to display for those I want on my RID list. I'd rather not be "Robert M_____" and instead I would rather be displayed as "Aya" or "Ayasu," as those are the names I use online for everything I do.

Now, that said, I dislike this change and do not support it. However, I'm not taking it to some of the tin-foil-hat-wearing extremes some people are. I do feel this is a HUGE invasion of privacy, and from my understanding(I could be wrong), this is actually against privacy laws set up in Canada and Australia.

What thoughts do you guys have about this? Don't care either way, or bad move for the direction of things?

Hello everyone who actually took the time to read the goddamn forums. As you all know(or will find out, or have found out, etc) today is Elune's turn to get hit by the 24 hour server maintenance, so I decided to do a little research on some of the released Cataclysm information. I'll try to pick up on some mostly unheard info that I've gleaned from reading some forums, as well as some info on things that are going on in the live game you may not be aware of, and address some of the changes in the guild starting this week.





G4TV got an interesting interview with some of the Blizz devs. Apparently there will be no more than 6 bosses per raid, and Cata will be launching with THREE new raids, as opposed to the two I remember hearing about. Personally, on hearing this, the first thing I thought was "Well, hell, how're we gonna schedule this?"

But, since nothing's yet known about these instances, other than one of them having 6 bosses, I can't start planning a future schedule just yet. For all we know, it could be like Wrath, but instead of a 12 boss raid with 2 seperate "one boss per raid" raids, it could be 3 raids with 6 bosses, or two raids with with 6 bosses and one raid with 1 boss, or any other combination therein.

Another thing they mentioned was "in the field" quest completion, which is explained in the video. It sounds pretty cool, and I look forward to seeing it in action.

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An article on WoW.com got me thinking about some of the ways the game world will be changing come Cataclysm. If there are any special quests, items, pets, hunter pets, etc that you're looking forward to keeping as the game moves forward into the expansion, I highly recommend going to get them now.

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There was a patch deployed today, but don't panic -- it's just a 3.3.5 bugfix. One of the bugs stated Halion's attach point for Hunter's Mark was wrong. I wonder where it was pointing to? >.>

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Yes, I know this post is more boring than previous post. I've been up all night and, frankly, I can't be arsed to post pictures. =P Last night, I posted about the changes to our 25-man raiding schedule. That change being that it's outright canceled.

Like I said in the previous news post, there are alot of reasons for this, but the main was the overall stress it was causing us as a guild. Instead, we will leave 25-mans open to be PUG'd when you want to do them, and change the schedule to have a second ICC10 team. This team, as it stands, will be open to those in the guild who want to raid ICC10, but can't due to the roster in our first team. In order to fill gaps and holes in the second team's roster, we may also have a few alts in there as well.

And that's it for this week's post. It's short and kinda bland, but I might come back and edit it later. Or not. We'll see how long I sleep today. =P