Legendary.
I am the single most indecisive person I know. I blame it on my Libra stars: a balance-seeker through and through, I will weigh not only every available option, but every conceivable variation of every available option before commiting myself to one.
... And yet when we learned that the next legendary would be a healing mace, there was never any doubt in my mind as to who should receive it. There were no alternatives to consider; no cosmic scales to tinker with until they tipped perfectly even.
For once, my inner October was perfectly and confidently decisive.
Although Surreality has a strong healing core and six excellent healers — each worthy of the honor for vastly different reasons — only one of them has been with the guild from the very beginning: from that first tentative foray into Karazhan, when he agreed to heal our weeknight raid in spite of a living a full hour ahead of server time and and four hours ahead of the rest of his team. (He cat-napped after work and set his alarm for 2 AM in order to honor that commitment, but honor it he did!)
For over two years, he has been a constant presence in and invaluable asset to the guild: as an officer, as our healing lead, and as a friend.
This is, after all, the man who operates on the "Happiness Principle" and will pass upgrades or vanity items to anyone he thinks will derive more happiness from them than he will.
This is also the man who volunteers to heal instances and raids for the guild's entire host of alts, long after they've ceased to be of any personal value to him — and then sits out those he does need simply so others can experience them. (And unlike me, he doesn't mope about it for a week afterwards. >.>)
He herds cats.
He accompanies our raid leader into cleared instance ID's to fine-tune strategy and positioning.
He donates hours of his time herbing and fishing to keep the guild bank stocked with flasks and potions for those long progression nights.
He has spent many a night consoling me through guild drama, boy drama, family drama and every other kind of drama: offering support and a fresh perspective — and occasionally playing Devil's Advocate — when they are most needed.
I know they're only pixels, Annah, but they carry the respect and gratitude of the guild with them. Congratulations on Val'anyr. No one deserves it more.
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October 1st, 2009 - 08:50
Seems you have a wonderful friend and guildmember there. A gem amongst gems, clearly. If I was you I’d make sure to keep him.
October 1st, 2009 - 09:04
Oh, believe me, I am!
And I’d totally make him a bridesmaid if I thought he’d look half as good in a dress as his priestly avatar does.
October 1st, 2009 - 11:18
*cough “Val’anyr” should be orange text
- You fellow grammar nazi
October 1st, 2009 - 11:57
I believe you meant “Your fellow grammar nazi.”
Also, do remember your caps and punctuations, righto?
October 1st, 2009 - 14:34
I fixed the spelling and the link. ^^
Thanks, Lup.
October 1st, 2009 - 15:58
Also, I feel compelled to point out that you are a blood elf. Not a troll. Trolls are made of more 57.6% awesome, but blood elves have better hair … so take that as you will.
October 1st, 2009 - 15:31
Please congratulate Annah for me, he really does deserve it. Also congratulations to yourself and the rest of surreality for Yogg +3 and Stealbreaker, I always knew we had both of those fights in the bag, but it is good to finally see the achievements.
-Bob2
October 1st, 2009 - 15:52
I’m sure he’ll see it himself.
He knows about the blog, but he doesn’t comment. Heart too, I think. *waves*
And OMG, Bob! I couldn’t believe it! We one-shot Yogg +3 and went on to two-shot Steelbreaker in the last half hour of the raid — which left just enough time to skip over to Dustwallow Marsh and slay some dragons.
We would have one-shot Council, too, but I let my hunters ‘asplode. /tear I kept a much closer eye on them next attempt and BAM. Dead Dorf.
October 1st, 2009 - 16:37
This is all very true. The one shot of Yogg+3 was crazy, too- we went to a fourth brain phase because a few of our melee initiates didn’t realize they were supposed to go in portal. All of them were pretty excellent at IC, though- I don’t think I saw a single person die prior to P3 on both attempts. It was really excellent- you would have been pretty proud if you were there with us, Bob.
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October 1st, 2009 - 16:58
That /was/ impressive. No one went insane doing Yogg Saron and no one died to Overload during Iron Council.
There was one minor /facepalm moment when an initiate who had never seen Yoggie before asked me to confirm that the green clouds replenished sanity, lol. I set him straight and he rocked the rest of the fight. You’d have never known he was new to Ulduar.
So proud of us, and SO VERY HAPPY FOR MY BANANA.
October 1st, 2009 - 16:59
P.S. Dear Elam,
Update your blog.
October 1st, 2009 - 18:31
Dear Sari,
UPDATE YOUR ATTITUDE OK.
<3Elam.
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October 1st, 2009 - 19:11
*Sigh* I really wish I could have been there, I really loved both those fights, and I really miss my old group 3. I am very glad to hear that you finally have some promising initiates. Any fury warriors???
-Bob2
October 1st, 2009 - 20:50
@Bob2,
We actually have a pretty good fury warrior raider now. He’s just bad at battle shouting me.
Other than that, I’m a fan.
And, and, I came late to the raid today so I had to spend the entire time in Group 5 babysitting the hunters, rather than Group 3. It was tragic on a Shakesperean level. ;~;
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