Gears, Guild, Raid and More!

Hi guys, I know it's been a week since I came back to gaming and blogging. Just thought to share that my first week raiding with my guild Vagrants in Staghelm server was okay. At first I thought since it's Tuesday I might not able to get a spot to raid with them but I did. We cleared the bosses up until Ragnaros, of course as I learned the mechanics of the fight while watching all the Tankspot videos, still I have to ask our raid leader to give me an overview on how my guild does it because different guild has different strategies and especially in 10 mans because we have to adjust the position and assignments.

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WoW Achievements Feeds for Blogger using Yahoo Pipes

ATTENTION: To all my readers who happen to stumble upon this post, unfortunately the yahoo pipes is having technical problems in their system. as much as I try fixing the widget and its yahoo pipe source code. It doesn't work at the moment. Right now, I apologized for the inconvenience for those who try to use this pipe. I will try my best to update it as soon yahoo fix this problem. Thank you and Have a nice Day!

Hi guys, I know I had been searching of trying to get a WoW Achievements widget for Blogger users. But I couldn't find one, there was some discussions from Blog Azeroth about it, So I tried to see if it will work for me but unfortunately it did not, the yahoo pipe module edited by Zigi was out dated, Almost Evil also discussed this widget long time ago. So I thought I can update this so I can use this widget to post in my sidebar so I found a few yahoo pipe modules similar to the source code of the other WoW Achievements feeds, thought I should give it a try to see if it works if I update them.

One of the source code I got is from Hauntshade but his source code was Europe feeds, so I checked his source code and I tried to update and edited the source link to fetch the WoW achievements for US players. and I tried it a couple of times to see if it's working, I'm glad it worked! you can easily get the RSS code if you only want the list of the recent achievements for your sidebar. Please Click here to go to my Yahoo Pipe to try the WoW Achievements feeds

Note: I'm not claiming that I created the whole source code for this pipe. I only updated and edited some to work for US players and Bloggers who wants to post the WoW Achievements feeds in there sidebar of there blogs as Widgets. You are free to use it for your convenience.

I also like to acknowledge Jinxed Thoughts for helping me get the link of my Wow Achievements rss feeds yesterday when I was trying to put one for my blog. But I changed it a little bit using the Yahoo Pipes I edited tonight, When you mouse over, the wowhead tooltip is now shown which is what I liked if you only use the list of the recent wow achievements. below are also images if how you want to your the yahoo pipe either Image view or List.

How to add the WoW Achievements Yahoo Pipe Widget in Blogger Sidebar?

• Go to >My Yahoo Pipe and Enter your Character Name, Realm, & Run Pipe.
• Get the Code to embed the script.
• Go to your Dashboard-Design-Add Widget-Scroll to get HTML/JAVASCRIPT and SAVE. 
For RSS Feeds Achievement list like what I have in my sidebar. with wowhead mouse over tooltip its awesome! Click Get as RSS Dashboard-Design-Add Widget-Scroll down and find Feeds-Put the code and SAVE. 

CLICK THE IMAGE TO ENLARGE! THANKS!

Anyway, Share it to anyone, RT it in Twitter if you like to use this, I believe it will also work for Wordpress users but i think it only works for those who are self hosted services only, because they can edit the html widget. Anyway, Hope for all Bloggers out there this is a great tool to use for your WoW Achievements Feeds for your sidebar. Thanks for reading!

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Frustrations on Progression

Hi guys, another week for my wednesday dailies and achievements! Just thought to let you know what's up with my current guild and our progression. Since I joined Vagrants guild, it has been really great, we tease, laugh, socialize, raid together every week, run daily dungeons when we can and for me that is the kind of environment I chose to be with. No pressure at all, but like any other guild they are some ups and downs. Lately, we have been short of raiders to even form a 10 man group, it's kind of  frustrating and our current progression is really behind. As much as we want to push ourselves and do heroic it will not happen unless everyone will start logging in game and be online during raid nights.

We only raid twice a week Tue and Wed because that's the only available time people can play besides having to go to work, have children to take care of, and even going to school. That is one reason why the guild was created because they just want to raid casually. Totally understand that, but 4.2 is just around the corner with another raid dungeons coming up I don't know when we are able to explore it. Other members of the guild are starting to get really anxious to do heroics and getting really frustrated with other players not logging in to finish the normal content. The only bosses we need to progress are Nefarian and Al'akir.

My priest already downed Nefarian in 25 man when I was with Vanquish guild, the only Boss I needed to kill is Al'akir to get my Defender of Shattered World title. I hope before Patch 4.2 is released we can get these 2 bosses down. But despite the frustrations of other members knowing that we are behind on progression, we managed to level and got a guild achievement level 21, I am not giving up with this guild yet, I know there still many things we can do, and as being an officer I will try my best to help out.

Guild Level 21 Achievement

I also just purchased a domain to create an official website for the guild, because the old site was not used and officers of the guild can't access it because the site admin is not active in game to check the sites. So I decided to help out. We are currently recruiting for those who wants to join us. We raid 7pm-10pm (Central/Server Time) in Staghelm server. Classes we definitely need are Druid (Tank/Boomkin), Warlock, Death Knight (Tank), and any other class are welcome to apply. We need at least 1 of each classes at the moment to help our 10 man progression. and build a solid group to try out on heroics. 

Anyway, that is all I want to share this week's dailies and achievements. I just hope for the best of the guild that soon we can kill Nefarian and Al'akir before 4.2 at least in normal mode. I know we can do it! and Hopefully we can get some new recruits that will really help on our raid attendance. Thanks for reading and Have a good one!

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Revisited Ulduar and It was Fun!

Hi guys, Today's Dailies and Achievements... as usual I finished all the daily reputation today, including cooking, fishing except I still have to run a few dungeons, but can't really dedicate all my time today in WoW because tomorrow I have my finals at school... been studying alright! Anyway, since it is obvious with my title what achievements I gotten this week it is from Ulduar 10 man. I raided with Vagrants guild this week to help them with their guild rep. and since they are running 10 man Ulduar might as well join since I needed a few achievements to complete the Glory of the Ulduar Raider (10 player) achievement. So we managed to clear the bosses up until Yogg-Saron did a few times but it was getting late and we start to keep wiping and One Light Achievement is not a joke unless people know what they are doing. Anyway, here are some screenshot of achievements I got last night.

Still it was fun, revisiting the place bring back old memories when I used to run it in 25 mans with Eternal Sacrifice guild in Khaz Modan. We will finish the achievement on Monday hopefully I will finally get my Rusted Proto-Drake! Have a good one guys!

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Day 4: My Best World of Warcraft Memory

Hi guys, Today I will also post my Day 4 of 20 days WoW Blogging challenge over at Spellbound, and it is all about My best World of Warcraft Memories. I can't tell you that I only have one memory to share because I've been playing World of Warcraft for 5yrs now and that gives you an idea that there was a lot of memories all together from expansion to another. I also had a lot of fun memories when I managed my own guild. But since there's a lot of memories to share I will make sure it will be the best ones.

• First memory, was during Burning Crusade when I managed my own guild "Death Threat" well, besides being the guild that was fun and casual why not do something memorable right? so every time me and the officers talk over vent and after guild meetings we always have to put our tabard on, I mean just tabard and no other garments, we take screenshots, and videos it was hilarious! we also walk around Ironforge with our mounts and some players starting to join us and we made a long line walking with our mounts that was really unforgettable. I actually have a video that I uploaded in wegame during one of our timestoo, and I have few more raiding fun times with pug with my guild that I post over at Christine's blog go check them out too. 

• Second Memory, that I will never forget was with my guild in Eternal Sacrifice despite being in a hard core raiding guild in Khaz Modan during those times in Wrath of Lich King content, killing Ulduar bosses was fun! so while on break guild mates decided to mount up with just mammoths and take screenshots and run around Freya's room it was great! that is the first night we actually killed Freya and why not celebrate?! so we did. below is the screenshot I took with ES guild.

• Third Memory, It was during the time when I was helping my guild in Vanquish-Staghelm with the event for guild fishing derby to get the achievement "That's a lot of Bait" the prizes was 1st prize: 10,000 gold with 3 blue gems and pet destroyer. 2nd prize was 5k and 2 blue gems, and consolation prizes was a destroyer pets. I know I hate fishing but while at it I wanted to join so I can level my fishing skills, and I am also glad to be of help for the guild since we do need the Recipe for the feasts. So, every night I make sure I can fish lots of stack for me to mail to the officer and get tallied, even though you put a lot of effort and take time to fish, I was having fun and just didn't really expect much of it important is I was helping the guild. So the derby ended and the fishes caught was tallied and I won 1st Prize! I was so happy! that was a good memory and I was able to leveled up my fishing to 525, and I was happy that some guild mates took effort to help out too. great guild effort and team work!

Anyway, that is all for now, I can't narrow all of the fun memories I had playing with Wow but the one listed above are my best ones so far. I know there will be more of it later but I will cherished them all. This is why I take screenshots to remember my World of Warcraft adventures. If you miss my other 20 days of WoW Blogging challenges please click here or check my navigation bar on top for easier access. and If your still starting to Join or curious about it check here for more details at Spellbound Blog by Saga. Have a good one guys! <3

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Patch 4.1 Zul'Gurub Achievement Run and Dailies!

Hello guys! another day, another post and its Wednesday that means its Dailies and Achievements today! as my usual routine I do my dailies for cooking, fishing, and Cataclysm reputation (I know I am exalted to all of them but good money is still profit!) though I also did the new Zul'Gurub daily and dungeon quests. Since it was Tuesday I ask guild if they want to run the heroic daily with the new dungeons, 2 of my guild mates wants to go, since Patch 4.1 released Live yesterday everyone are excited of the new dungeon LFG features for the new instances  Zul'Aman and Zul'Gurub.

You can also get 140 valor tokens and 353 item level gears for both reborn dungeons. but before we get excited on gears and tokens, My experience in Zul'Gurub yesterday was unbelievable!. I know I run this instance back in Burning Crusade and Wrath of Lich king and yes it was easy alright! like our pug tank yesterday said "I used to solo this place" well, its different now and its heroic! so the que for waiting other players to run the dungeon is not bad, I loved it don't have to wait freaking 30minutes just to do 1 heroic dungeon it was ridiculous then.

So far so good, we cleared the trash till first boss to make the long story short, we wiped 3times! the freaking tank can't hold aggro, and won't listen to our healer while she was explaining the fight. so we gave him a chance, and again we wiped! omg! really?! and he keeps saying "I used to solo this place" well, I think its time to change that phrase to "I can't tank this place"!? I was so pissed, so we voted him off... finally a decent tank while our healer explained the fight despite she never run the instance we one shot the boss. As we go on, we killed 2-3 bosses then. but our healer disconnected from the game and so am I, of course its Patch day! I thought at first it was just me but other did too and other players were waiting at the entrance to zone in.

Anyway, our healer still didn't log back in, we waited about 15minutes but no sign so we decided to get another healer, its a paladin! and he was kinda in a hurry things and telling us the strats so yea okay, good we have someone that knows the fight too. off to another boss, killing the mini boss for the quests too after that Bam! he left, other dpsers in the group including me saying "WTF" at the same time it was so funny! but seriously though I though he would heal better but guess not. So we qued for a healer again! Hooray its a druid! this is good.

Finally a better group, off to another boss we went to where all those little Tiki mask mob (THEY ARE ANNOYING) and guess what happen?! of course we wiped! many times too... that alone took 30minutes and we end up avoiding the area because it was buggy and the tiki guys was still following. finally we killed another boss loots drop but for most of the gears are DE'ed and Greed, I was happy I won a wand though.


The easiest boss ever was Kirilan, the cat lady. after her we went for the last boss. we wiped twice but everyone so far got the fight working especially breaking the chains, the reason we wiped because the druid keep aggroed by the shadows and of course no heals. Anyway, overall the run was sooooo lonnnnnnnggg it actually took us close to 4hours imagine 4hours! thats like full time raiding night schedule! ahaha! it was crazy but my day has ended at least I got the Heroic: Zul'Gurub Achievement! but yea even though it was very chaotic it was fun! =D

For some of you might be wondering how the boss in Zul'Gurub does, a great strategy from WoW Insider has it all! Check it out for more information. Until Tommorow guys, see you Thursday for Guild Updates! I am hoping to get a solid group for Zul'Aman tmr. too. Anyway, Have a good one!

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