Andy Belford posted on the Mythic site linking to various bloggers. He mentioned Fight on the Flag! Yay!

Fight on the Flag – Dey is talking about fightin, dat’s gud!

No insight today. Time to get back to my 50 hour-a-week job with one-hour commute each way.

Destro healers seemed few and far between. I felt bad for them, especially when a marauder healed for more than three of their healers:

Click to healinate.

Big props to Apollonas for trying! If I recall correctly his DPS was tops out of Destro as well. When you heal more than Norronis and Nij, even as a healer, it’s usually a good sign of a talented player. This shows, to me, that a few people weren’t trying their best and were probably just there to farm/AFK insignias. (Yet another example of bad player behavior in pursuit of the carrot.)

But on to the /wave report!

Hi Fletch!

And for good measure, an innocent comment from someone who doesn’t know us yet. Don’t hold it against him fellas!

I should note our activity is dwindling somewhat. Some people are bored with the game and are playing Guild Wars instead (which admittedly is a breath of fresh air for now). Anyone have a Guild Wars group? Feel free to post and maybe we can team up.

Every time I see this guy I think of the song “Earth Angel”

Orkangel,
Orkangel
Will you be mine?
My darling dear
Love you all the time
I’m just a fool,
A fool in love, with you

I can’t wait until you’re 40, Orkangel.

In other news:

We did a ton of scenarios this weekend. The times we were out there were very fun. We are out there making friends and influencing people :p

I have to say I miss ORVR a lot (even attacking keeps) and I look forward to the day when we are closer to getting royal weapons so we can go back to ORVR on a more consistent basis.

We also had some really fun fights in BOs this weekend!

Here, the manor in Eataine (click to embiggen).

We were flipping zones like pros and almost made it to stage 2 on Sunday’s IC push for those of us unable to make the first king run. Unfortunately my WB was in the losing city instance. I think either a lot of Order left or a lot of Destro joined (or both) and we lost the last stage 2 event. D’oh! Maybe next time.

Destro was definitely out in force.

I was proud of how our realm did in almost defeating them during prime time. Destro must have been taking a break after beating our king Sunday morning or more would’ve shown up for that effort.

On another note, we had an honorary member of our guild return to the game.

Woot! Welcome to the guild Rugbyrat!

N’Kari Keeper of Secrets defeated!

Congratulations to FOTF, we finally finished Lost Vale! Not that it was that hard, really, as long as we had at least four wards. This was our third or fourth foray into the zone. Our first attempts were made before our tanks had 5/5 wards. Unfortunately during the previous two runs, we had two Slayer pieces drop, one before the class was even in the game. To everyone’s disappointment, I managed to get 5/6 of my Darkpromise set. I was personally hoping for a Bright Wizard chest because ours doesn’t have his Sentinel piece yet.

The encounter took us about two hours to learn, and if you include the 10-minute run back to the encounter (until we figured out how to reset it) that’s not too bad.

Anyway, enough of that PVE crap. We also took the Inevitable City again. This will make it three for Order, zero for Destruction.

After sacking the statue area.

 We had a good group, but unfortunately we did not have the tanks to complete the second stage. We did confirm that we can tank the hero with a 5/5 Sentinal-warded tank. Unfortunately the only tank there with the wards was Andora. At least we learned something.

On the leader boards, as of Monday morning Grilar got #1 renown for the week in Engineers, bringing him to #9 of all time.

Finally a /wave report, which we haven’t had in a really long time.

Rugbyrat was a formidable opponent. He was also very entertaining. He would charge out even if there was no hope of winning, and he always had a friendly /wave at the ready. It all started back in November, when we discovered Rugby in a scenario. Riamin was playing his Bright Wizard, Pylith. I can’t remember who waved at who first, but an epic, cross-realm friendship was born.

Sadly since Rugby is quitting the game, it leaves a void in our fuzzy Order hearts. So it is to this end that I open up applications for Riamin’s BFF.

Qualifications:

• You must play for Destruction. No Order allowed!
• Must be a tank class.
• You should probably play during the same times Riamin does. Roughly, he plays most weekends and evenings. He has a job like a normal person.
• Must have a good sense of humor and enjoy being fetched/punted.

Benefits:

• We will always wave at you if we see you in a scenario.
• We will take screenshots of you and post about you occasionally on our blog and on the forums. (See examples here.)
• Sometimes we’ll kill everyone else first in oRVR and scenarios.
• You have a chance to be punted instead of killed.
• A fabulous subscription to the Cake of the Month Club *

Drawbacks:

• You will probably die in unusual ways.
• Destro will make fun of you because you’re making friends with froofy Order.

Applications can be accepted on our guild forums. Make a post to introduce yourself and tell us why you’d like to be Riamin’s BFF. We’re looking forward to filling that void in our lives.

* You must purchase the Cake of the Month Club subscription yourself.

It was so easy I was able to mock someone else’s guild name while we were pulling.

Fortunately we cleared both by Friday so we can PVP all weekend! Enough about that boring PVE. Order has been reliably pushing to Caledor recently. Yes, we do lock zones. That means we can go to Caledor Woods, by far and away our favorite scenario.

There was a whole lot more waving going on than this. I was almost embarrassed.

Basically for those familiar with T3 scenarios, it’s just like Temple of Isha, except you can’t pick up the ball that gives you bonus to DPS. It’s just one node to take over, and this is super easy with a coordinated group and someone yelling at nubs to kill healers and witch elves.

We also defended a few keeps. I think this one is in Reikland but they all run together for me a few days after the screenshot was taken.

See you on the battlefield!

Here is the Destro attacking Pelgorath’s BO in Dragonwake.

They tried one push and disappeared. After the Fortress siege ended, the Destro near immediately capped all of the keeps and Battle Objectives in Dragonwake. It was smart and coordinated.

Leaderboards and /wave report below.

Guildies on the weekly Leaderboards this week:

• Khaevil with #7 Bright Wizard for renown earned
• Dworf with #9 Rune Priest for renown earned and #8 in number of guild leaders killed

For those who wanted to know where we stand in the “of all time” catagories:

• Perle with #3 Archmage in most renown earned,#10 in class for most players killed, #9 in class for guild leaders killed and #2 in class for most scenarios won.
• Saaz with #3 Swordmaster in most renown earned, #9 in class for most players killed, #1 in class for guild leaders killed and #3 in class for most scenarios won.
• Andora with #10 Swordmaster in most renown earned, #8 in class for most players killed,#7 in class for guild leaders killed and #6 in class for most scenarios won.
• Organdonar with #10 Rune Priest in most renown earned and #7 in class for most scenarios won.
• Pylith with #8 Bright Wizard in most renown earned and #7 in class for most scenarios won.
• Dworf with #6 Rune Priest in most players killed, #8 in class for guild leaders killed and #8 in class for most scenarios won.

Saaz, Organdonar and Pylith all rerolled about three weeks ago, though. So their new characters have not yet shown up in the overall rankings (though Saaz’s BW, Khaevil, is on the weekly rankings).
Finally, the /wave report.

Rugbyrat fraternizing with the enemy.

In other news, I’ve been playing an alt occasionally, a Bright Wizard named Xorena. I had to take a screenshot of the group makeup last night in Tor Anroc:

Yes, that many BWs. I have no idea how to recruit more healers to the realm. Everyone wants to do LOLdps it seems. (I already have a healer so I can roll whatever alt I feel like.) If you have a good idea on recruiting healers, short of paying for their subscriptions and a personal maid, drop a line in the comments section.