Icecrown Citadel - Laid Back Style

A few weeks ago I finally got the chance to attend one of Amateur Azerothian's world-famous Laid Back Raids.  I was pretty excited to meet some of the other blogging folks, in the pixels anyhow.

First up was a quick Black Temple Run.  I believe Mrs. Amateur is trying to get her second Warglave.  Neither dropped, but she did end up with the Cursed Vision of Sargeras, so that was pretty neat.

Drayney, the always fashionable Michelle, and Khizzara

Next up was the scheduled horde-side ICC run.  The night was littered with lag and horrible disconnects, but besides the technical difficulties, it was a lot of fun.  I had no idea who was going to be there, so I was totally shocked and starstruck when I zoned it to find Navimie and Cymre standing there!

Lid and Navi

JD - the Amateur himself, and Cymre

Navi made me feel like such a superstar.  She is so sweet, and was so excited to meet Draynee, even though it wasn't the real Draynee.  I hope one day she stops by for a Navispam!

As we were waiting to start the Lootship, I realized Cym and Lid had the same hairdo!  Cym mentioned how she wished you could change your characters face like you can hairstyles.  It wasn't until then that I noticed how angry-face Lid is.  I guess it's fitting for a death-knight?

Unfortunately we had to call the raid after finally making it to Arthas due to disconnects.  My server and JD's server that several other people in the raid are on were completely unstable.  We found out later it was some script hack that some angry child was passing around that spammed the servers and disconnected everyone.  How terrible is that?  The person that posted it on the unscrupulus forum stated 'Blizzard made them mad' so they were getting back at them.  Well, I'm sure the last laugh will be on Blizzard, but we may never know.  At the least, they banned everyone who was pushing the scripts through and causing havoc.

Pre-fight party

There is always an upside, however!  JD extended the lock-out on the raid and we were able to regroup the next weekend for the Arthas kill.  It turned into quite a party before we started the fight.  We ended up with a full raid group, and even Dey took a break from Guild Wars 2 to join us!  The fight went off without a hitch, and soon we were all staring at a dead Arthas!  For several people, it was there first time killing him, so it was really cool being there with super excited people.

Hopefully my scheduling lines up and I can attend another Laid Back Raid soon, I had an awesome time!