I’ve had a few people ask me what happened to Kiiva, so I thought I would give a little bit of an update of what I’ve been doing in the world of the World of Warcraft.


Inexorable reformed

First, I reformed my guild.

Sentimentalism or masochism, or maybe a blend of the two.. I announced to the few core people who remained that I was going to open the guild back up as a 10 man group, retaining the same attitudes and standards, just relaxing the schedule a little. We now raid 3 x 3hr nights instead of 4 x 4hr nights, and leave Mondays open for whatever happens (later, this will probably be Algalon night, maybe Onyxia night too).

The announcement was very well received – I was overwhelmed by the number of whispers from well-wishers and people glad to see us back again.


I revamped our website and gave it a new banner (above). The first thing someone in the guild said was, “the picture makes no sense – but it looks good I guess.” The background picture is the Phoenix Nebula, so it does make sense, actually – although hardly anyone would know. But that’s fine. The text is a Japanese saying – fall seven times, stand up eight. I think it fits out guild very well.

We’re focusing on 10 mans, although we will likely join up with other guilds to run 25s here and there, but never with any pressure on members to do them. We want to stay small and tight-knit, with no leeches and dead-beat members this time. We’ve had to turn a lot of people away because the interest has been huge but we don’t want to have a really big guild with a large bench.

Raids so far have been smooth, “pro”, and fun. We cleared 9 bosses in Ulduar in one of our 3 hour nights, and TOC in another.


What would an update post be without one of my patented artsy screenies?


Next week, hopefully we will begin on hard modes in Ulduar, and jump into Trial of the Grand Crusader.

I can’t say how happy I am to be back with at least part of the guild that I loved so much. The people we have retained are excellent players and great people to be around. I’m having a blast with them in 10s and I really hope we go far.


Keeva

As far as my characters go, I have returned to Keeva (well, obviously, if Inex reformed..). Truth is, when 3.2 hit, it just made me realise how much I missed her, and the Horde, and I wanted to come back, even if it meant not having a guild to belong to, and not having much to do. I suppose I just feel more at home on this side. I would log into Dalaran on Alliance side and feel lonely (despite having a nice guild). When I logged over to the Horde, even though I was often the only one left in the yet-to-reform Inexorable, I felt like I was on a different planet, and that Dalaran was actually alive and I was home. Very hard to explain without sounding like a nutcase.

So, with Inex back together and starting into raiding again, I had to overhaul Keeva. I hadn’t raided in nearly 4 months, hadn’t a clue about the new gear out there, and for some reason my haste was an abysmal 287 (I don’t even know how that happened).

I had a look for the haste items I could pick up, including badge gear, and wrote down my wish list. I grabbed the Evoker’s Charm from badges, picked up Leggings of the Snowy Bramble from heroic TOC5 (which were a slight downgrade in spellpower, but good haste) and last night I got into a TOC25 and although I was actually lusting over the trinket, I scored Robes of the Shattered Kinship. My haste is now sitting at 403 unbuffed, and I’m happy with that. There are still items with haste that I’ll be picking up along the way, but now I don’t have to hunt for them – and obviously it means I have a little more wiggle room to take non-haste items.

I lost my 2pc 8.5 bonus (+10% to Swiftmend), but the robes are just so shiny that I don’t think I mind. It was an upgrade on every stat (except crit), including a decent amount of stam (which I’ll need for hard modes), good regen, a chunk of spellpower, and nearly 3% haste. I would have liked to keep it, but it’s certainly not the end of the world. I’ll be putting it back on for Herald of the Titans though! :)

Some other changes I made:


And that’s about it for the time being – now I have to rush off, Ulduar is starting! :)



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