Ensidia Banned for 3 Days

This supposedly elite guild is banned for exploiting the 25-man version of the Lich King fight. They used Saronite bombs to bypass mechanics of the fight. Apparently during the Lich King fight the party fights him upon a platform. The edges of the platform crumble and break away during the fight. At the same time the Val'kyr come along and randomly select party members to pick up and drag to the crumbling edges. If the Valk'kyr aren't killed in time then the party members are dropped to their death. Meawhile the Lich King randomly casts a spell upon a member that causes a black pool to appear at their feet. This spell causes shadow damage and whomever touches it also grows in size with increased damage. Now this means the party memebrs have to run out of the pool as well as continue dpsing the Val'kyr that are carrying off their members. Apparently the exploit was using Saronite bombs to reconstruct the crumbling edges thus rebuilding the platform they were fighting upon.

Ensidia of course blames this exploit soley on one person(can you feel the love there for that person?) a rogue that used the bombs to increase their dps.


At any rate the fact of the matter is that Ensidia knew it was a bug and that such a thing shouldn't happen. And yet they continued on with the fight knowing that it would bug out and make the encounter with the Lich King easier. Which in my view is enough justifaction for their temporary ban.

And in a class act by Muqq(Ensidia player who posted about the ban) decided to write this in a typical nerd rage fashion:

"Do me a favor so I don't waste my guild's time on this kind of jackass fuck-fest again, send me an email at mupp@gavle.to when you decide to A) Implement an encounter that wasn't designed by a retarded chimp chained to a cubicle B) Get a Quality Assuarance Department C) Actually beta test the !**#ing thing and D) Patch it live. And please for god's sake -- do it in the order I laid out for you. Don't worry, I won't charge you a consulting fee on that one. And for good luck you might as well E) Pull your heads out of your asses. While you're at it rename the game to World of Betacraft.


Rethink your fucking bullshit. Fix all the buggy motherfucking ICC encounters (I suggest you let whoever made the Blood Queen one do this since that dude apparently laid off the crack the rest of you were smoking). Fix fucking arenas, or better yet, remove that shit. Fix heroic modes (just guessing it's fucked up considering your track record). Don't have the resources to fix this stuff? Move the ENTIRE Cataclysm team over to fixing Icecrown Citadel AND DO IT NOW. If you don't fix this shit, you jackassess together with the 2 month-subscribers will be the only ones playing Cataclysm.


You got 1 week."

Furthermore at WoW Insider in the comments section
DragonFireKai posted:

For those of you who claim that Ensidia couldn't have known that it was the siege damage that was glitching the floor constructs, I direct you to this blog post by Mek.

http://www.ensidia.com/mek/blog/567/

In it, he describes a raid on the 3.2 PTR, which included the most recent use of terrain constructs in a raiding environment. In this case, it was the floor, post Twin Valks, when the Lich King comes out an smashes it.

They figured out that a saronite grenade would tweak out the floor before the cut scene ran it's course. And to test it, they repeated the process 7 times to be sure it was the grenade.

Aren't they pleasant? According to several posters on MMOchamption and WoW Insider the guild Ensidia is known for world-firsts always being won via exploits. This is the first time they have recieved punishment for it by Blizzard.

Custom WoW Feed

It's amazing what Blizzard comes up. This time the character feed addition to the new armory features is rather useful. Although alot of people claim that some of the additions are intrusions into privacy I tend to think of it as a way to see how others play. So long as they don't list the exact amount of money our characters have then I'll be happy. The last thing I need is for random peeps to start begging all of my bank alts for loans!

For me,  personally I like the ability to combine different characters into a single feed. This custom WoW feed is now built into this blog. Hopefully it will give others a quick glimpse into what I'm doing ingame. Feel free to laugh at the achievements and/or cheer if I actually accomplish anything. o.O

Right now it seems finding a good guild is an Hard-mode achivement in of itself. >.<

Preferred type of Tank?

This question can apply to all really, but as a Healer; do you have a preferred type of Tank?

It came to my attention that I actually prefer to heal Warriors and Death Knights with either a Resto shaman or a Disc priest. For some reason when in comparison to a Protection Paladin these two tanks seem rather squishy!

On the other side of the fence I was told by a DK tank that he actually preferred being healed by a shaman. While a warrior confessed that he adored being 'Hotted' up by a druid. So really it comes down to personal preference so what is yours?

Edit: I posted this for discussion at a Facebook World of Warcraft board. I've gotten a few interesting replies to share. For the sake of privacy I of course blurred out their names. Click on the picture to enlarge it

Drama: The PuGs that sucked

I'm literally in a world of nerd rage. Yesterday was a just a horrid day for pugging. As if there's a good day right? Beware there is quite strong language at the last part.

Whelps the first random PuG that my tank and I(as the Healer) were brought into was Heroic ToC. The first half is sitting on a horse and poking things and the second half is just bonking things on the head with your pointy weapon. Our first clue that we were with less than stellar players was when one of the DPS decided to start up the event before everyone zoned in and got onto their horses. Second bad clue was that all of the DPS was focusing on everything but the raid icons that the tank had set up for kill order. Third bad clue was when the first boss had arrived with his three groups of lackies. The shaman decided it would be fun to pull all three groups(yes, that nine NPCs of which three had MCing abilities on our asses) before we had finished buffing. That was our last signal to take a clue and get the hell out of dodge. We dropped group immediately.

Second bad group was in a normal FoS. There is a one-handed mace that is a slight upgrade for the tank that drops from the first boss. We mention that is why we are here. Bad clues are everywhere with this DPS. First, they are in greens. Second, a paladin was in the protribution spec(yes the PVP spec) and was welding a one-hander with shield. Third, and really, for cripes sake they were just utterely bad. Well despite their 500 to 700 DPS on trash the tank and healer are willing to continue carrying the sad DPS in greens through the instance for a chance for that mace to drop. Guess what? It drops from the boss. Tank rolls need on it  And of course you realize what happens next?

Yep, one of the DPS rolls need on it.

Ninja DPS says.. "Hey the tank rolled need. Mind if I roll need on it?"

Other DPS: Go for it.

Other DPS: IDC

Healer: For fucks sake it's a tanking weapon that the tank needs. I MIND!!!

Tank: If you roll need for it then you're tanking.

Ninja DPS: lol (and he rolls need and wins FFS!)

The DPS make their way to the mobs on the other side and pull. Healer is silent. The tank of course makes good on his promise. He drops group. Healer then types as the DPS is dying by the mobs because they receive no heals from her.  "The tank needed that weapon. It's the only reason why we were here carrying your lame asses so I hope you get a huge repair bill you mother fucking losers!"  And she drops group noting with smug satisfaction that all of the DPS had already bit the digital bucket.


Honestly I wish I could reach through the screen and smack them on the heads for being so stupid.