Hero Squad

So begins our first game of the 2010 Hero Squad Sealed Chest Extravaganza. This game will have our raiders traveling around Azeroth completing odd tasks, doing some sightseeing, and more than likely getting themselves into a bit of trouble. At stake is a chance to take home an item of their choosing from the Sealed Chest.

Rules and the full list of items raiders will be hunting for after the jump. (continue reading…)

In the next few weeks our resident DPS DK, and all around nice guy of the year, Sog the Destroyer will complete Hero Squad’s first Shadowmourne. As you probably have heard by now, when Shadowmourne is created Sog will be given a quest that awards 5 rare and unique vanity items:

• Reins of the Crimson Deathcharger – Pretty kick-ass mount. Red colored and looks like the Death Knight’s class mount.
• Tabard of the Lightbringer – A tabard with a bright glowing on-use effect
• Muradin’s Favor – Transforms you into a Frost Dwarf for 10 minutes.
• Jaina’s Locket – Opens a “mage portal” to Dalaran
• Sylvanas’ Music Box – A music box that plays Lament of the Highborne and spawns two lady ghosties.

As a sort of “Thank You” to our raiding core, many who have been slogging it out with us in Icecrown Citadel since December, we’ve decided to make these items available to our our raiders.

Rather than just choosing from our favorite people in the guild, or using some boring random /roll method, we’ve decided it would be fun play some games, with the winner and runners-up of these games being awarded this loot.

The games will have our members roaming all over the World of Warcraft. Possibly humiliating themselves. Perhaps begging for help from anyone who will listen. Probably getting themselves killed in ways that will have the passer-by scratching their heads.

Read on for more details on the games… (continue reading…)

Lich King, Chicken Wing! What the hell does that even mean? Who knows? Whatever it means, it sounds awesome and we’ve all been saying over the past few weeks. Tonight we got our Lich King kill, and I’m still waiting on my reward of chicken wings. This kill was a ton of fun, and our boys and girls put in a decent amount of time on it (mostly watching the beginning RP over and over then jumping off the platform just so we could see it again… ITS THAT GOOD!!). We had some pretty hilarious wipes along the way. My personal favorite was the one where Kevin showed us what ‘fat fingering’ disengage looks like, and I immediately followed that up with trying to find out what frost orbs smell like (they smell amazing btw, if you get a chance, get up close and sniff one). Aski also was kind enough to show us what happens when you get DI’d juuust over the edge of the platform. So, great jobs HSers, and hard-modes… we’ll see you next week.

We knocked out our first set of 10-man Bone Dragoons tonight. Majority of the run was pretty uneventful. Kevin ate Papa Johns, and Shavyah made a sandwich. Sindragoosa was right, we really were fools to have come but Henq and Veroth showed us how real men take tail swipes and made everything alright. So that’s about it. Guess we’ll see you above Northrend (or at least until Potsu figures out the way to walk his dragon around Dal)!

Hero Squad’s favorite boom-chicken with a name not ending in ‘baka, and chairwoman of the ‘Toon Name Is My Real Name’ club, has been hard at work coming up a sweet new video intro. She managed to put it to good use right away, capturing the guild first kill of the bone dragon known to Shavyah as Sindra-grossa. Amazingly, Henq managed to land most of his taunts, Kevin did not disengage out of harm’s way-into harm’s way, and Potsu did not DC while already DC’d… it was actually a fairly clean kill for us!

Video from the 10-man Professor Good Newz Ery’one hardmode is after the jump.
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Went in the other night and knocked off the Lich King. Thanks to Fordring for all the help. Don’t bother bubbling out of that ice block bud, we got this.  Apologies to everyone leveling in Northrend for creating Defiles so huge that they blotted out the sun.

Guild first Putricide kill!