So some of you may know that I've been back to SA for a 2 week holiday, I returned to England yesterday with the weirdest sense of home-coming ever. I apologise if this blog is a bit of a ramble, but I'm just trying to make sense of feelings the trip back has caused. This is not meant to be pro- or anti-SA nor do I believe that the grass is always greener elsewhere.

Background

I was born in the UK to two white english parents who moved to SA in the mid 1980s, I did...

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Well, the title says it all this week has been a rollercoaster ride of titanic proportions - just one week I'd like an "average" raiding week but so far it is not to be.

The view from the top:

Black Temple - Part One

On Tuesday we went back into BT to go and introduce ourselves to Supremus. I must say the trash went really well, the mass elemental group had despawned and the only trash that gave us any degree of trouble were the large guys with...

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So, after some confusion last night with an inexperienced tank team, I've put together some thoughts on 25man pulling for my guild forums, and I though I'd post them here as well.

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After a couple of queries, some confusion and concerns from non-tank officers about maintaining a decent speed in 25mans but not pulling too quickly, I thought I'd try and consolidate my thoughts and offer some practical tips which I have learnt since starting...

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First things first - to Chris, I'll miss you loads - but take a break and I hope you'll be back for WotLK.

Black Temple

On friday night we headed into BT, I was asked to MT Naj'entus. The trash went well, we even got through the pull before Naj without wiping, although we did lose some tanks and some randoms along the way. We had the traditional 7% wipe, when he enraged due to us losing too much dps early on, and several tries later we had him down. I haven't been that...

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So, I started writing this yesterday and it was going to be entitled "The power of communication" due to:

So those of you who have followed the ups and down's of my gnomish trio will know that last week I was pretty down. Towards the end of the week another officer called an officers meeting for Monday night and despite dreading the drama I anticipated would result I logged on and we spent an hour and half talking.

We sorted out next months raiding schedule,...

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