Back in December Blizzard reduced the price of the Battle chest and upgraded it to include Cataclysm as part of the deal. This was a perfect opportunity for me to achieve a massive step towards a goal I've been casually and slowly working towards for a few years, getting one of each class to max level hordeside. I took this as an opportunity to abuse the recruit-a-friend system to boost an army of Horde alts to 85.

This mission has been accomplished now I have added to my Horde collection the following:

• Anggus, a level 86 tauren druid on Draenor EU;
• Axholme, a level 86 undead warrior on MagtheridonEU;
• Butterwick, a level 86 blood elf rogue on MagtheridonEU; 
• Epworth, a  level 85 undead warlock on MagtheridonEU;
• Evangelyst, a level 70 blood elf priest on MagtheridonEU;
• Evangelyze, a level 60 undead priest on MagtheridonEU;
• Magoops, a  level 85 troll mage on DraenorEU;
• Wournos, a level 86 blood elf death knight on MagtheridonEU;
• Zhurk, a  level 85 orc shaman on MagtheridonEU;

So this with my previous horde alts Koshvel (90 hunter), Sanctibos (83 paladin), Wilkini (85 priest), Evangelyse (81 priest) and Evagelysm (80 priest) that just leaves a monk as my missing high level Horde character, so I guess I'll be using that as my Warlords free boost!

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While I may have been slack lately here on the blog the same hasn't been true in real life or in game. My guild, have been trying all expansion to set up an RBG team and I had been resisting the urge to join in. Partly because I got my hands full with raiding but mostly because I've never been a big PVPer (or particularly good at it). I have however now joined in the and the team is now coming together under the leadership of Dribblebutt and Siyara. 

The raiding has been going well too as we have now added 3 kills in the past 2 weeks after having a few issues with the "farm" bosses slowing us down which meant we were getting very little time to progress and as we still needed gear it was a little early to start extending raid ids.

Annoyingly, my shifts at work have meant I missed the last 3 weeks of raiding Throne of Thunder and that included the first kill on Megaera, missing 1st kills sucks but having had almost no time even wiping on a boss makes that suck a load more as I feel I have missed out on a whole chunk of content. As a raid leader though it pleases me that the guys can perform without me there and is a testament to the work my no. 2, Artherion puts in.

Thankfully, I did get back into raiding this week and Wednesday night we were on fire and managed to clear the first 5 bosses in under 90 minutes 1 shotting everything upto Megaera. This meant that we had a full raid and a half to work on progression and in the 90 minutes after the mid-raid break we managed to kill Ji'Kun.

Thursday was therefore a night for Durumu. Now I have had real issues with Durumu in raid finder, not because I'm a dumbass who dies to the beam but because I simply cannot see a way through the Eye Sores. This was a major worry but after this week it seems that it is a little easier to follow people when using a birds eye view and I did sometimes see the path but only when it was a good route. Just proof that a good idea spoiled by bad implementation, I wonder if colour blind mode makes it easier? hmm.

On top of those two things, I'm still running challenge modes as me and the guys keep pushing to get golds in the remaining ones. Sadly, the ones we have left are the real tough ones and the margin for error is really tiny and one mistake is meaning that we're failing by a few seconds. 

Lastly, my time in game has been absorbed by leveling my warrior to 90, taking my count to seven. I bet the local old folks home haven't got that many! Now all I need to do is gear her up in both tank and dps gear and I'm good to go to the next one. 

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Just a quick note to let you all know I haven't fallen of the edge of the world. Between work, home, the holidays and WoW commitments the past month have been carnage (especially work as I've had little free time on the night shifts when I do a lot of my blogging) and I have not had time to blog properly since mid-December and I've now consumed all of my backup posts!

Hopefully things will return to normal now so I'll be able to pay the blog a lot more attention over the next few weeks, especially as Evangelysm has its 3rd birthday this month.

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Well what a chaotic time it has been. Been busy at work these past few weeks and been enjoying my WoW time a bit too much and have neglected a couple of updates and certainly forgotten to keep the ol' blog upated with my most recent exploits.

Since hitting the That's A Lot Of Bait guild achievement and eating many Seafood Magnifique Feasts me and the guys and gals of SKF have been having a blast. We've added 2 more boss kills to the list first was Maloriak and that was soon followed by Valiona and Theralion.

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