• Spent 6 months+ living in the US for a major project for work
• Lost some family who I’m very close too
• Taken a 3 week holiday to travel around, Vietnam, Cambodia and Malaysia
• Gotten engaged to my lovely fiance Leng
• Enjoyed the last weeks of my 20′s and turned 30 on the 1st of October
• Started a Diploma of Project Management
• And of course dealing with Guild drama and trying to maintain a 25man raiding guild in an environment where 10man’s are a lot more appealing and easy to run/manage

All of this has really meant that I have leaned heavily on my officers to run the raiding side of the guild, I have been letting others work on strats and running the raids so my ability to push up strats here is somewhat limited. I have taken the changes to Druids in my stride as a lot of the recent changes haven’t really had a massive impact on my play style.

Life is always about finding a balance, sometimes this balance shifts depending on the things going on. For me my focus has really been on my personal/work life.

For those interested you can see my holiday photos here: https://picasaweb.google.com/103482474774833681463/VietnamCambodiaMalaysia?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCOmUj7vTtPCDgQE&feat=directlink

In terms of Bizarro we have had our ups and downs. We were progressing very well, getting to 2/7HM in Firelands before the Nerf but had a split off of 3-4 raiders, who wanted things to be run differently. While I was more than happy to see them go if it meant less drama (the leader caused a lot of frustration for the leadership group) in guild and raids, it was a crappy way for it to go down (sneaky and generally not nice) and we did lose 2 of our higher DPS. These things happen though and we have managed to push ourselves to get back on track and killed Heroic Aly last night, which was great

We have now had 2 of our old core raiding team return and are in the process of gearing them up. We’ve kind of come out of it about where we were but our numbers are tight. If a couple of people are unavailable or someone has an emergency we risk having an early night. This obviously adds pressure to the leadership group but recruitment is tough right now. Khaz’Goroth has recently lost one of it’s older guilds (ClanDropBears), who have been around about the same time as Bizarro, which is sad to see, but it shows that actually we haven’t done too bad.

I appreciate the changes Bliz have made to make raid content available to more people, but it has really had a massive impact for 25man raiding guilds on smaller servers. The 4.3 changes to implement 3 tiers of content (pug, 10 & 25) looks interesting and I’m hoping will lead to them eventually breaking up the 10 and 25 man content again (but I doubt it).

Sooooo Firelands content, it’s been a little hit and miss for me. Some of the encounters are great and really test a raiders ability to adapt to unexpected situations or pick up multiple mechanics in a single encounter which is great. However, I find some of the content to almost have so much going on that you kind of cant appreciate the entire finer detail of them. Maybe it’s more a reflection on my role in raids, rather than the content itself though.

I think that’s all I have in me for now but I will try to get some meaningful posts up in the near future

Upy

Introducing Katjia this is what he has to say about himself;

I’ve played a Feral Bear from Maraudon through Stratholme, Kara to the Black Temple and onward into Northrend.

I certainly enjoy playing Balance, Restoration and Feral DPS, but Tanking (10% Meticulous attention to gearing, 20% Gleefully ripping the Face/Kneecaps/Toe-Hairs off the big ugly standing in front of you, 65% Finding bloody good healers you trust and 5% not standing in the fire) has been my primary focus since TBC.

I may not be an expert at all things Druid – napkin math is about the limit of my theorycrafting – but if I don’t know something, I’ll probably know where to go to find out more about it.

If you have any questions or topics you would like Katija to cover please post your comment here and we’ll see what he can do for you

I thought I would share with you what I think are some cool stats

131 Posts

161 Comments

25, 476 Visits

Avg of about 75 Visits/Day

Its been an interesting ride for me personally, it’s my first blog and the first time that I thought I had something worth sharing in regards to wow.

Thanks to those regulars who check my posts and thanks to the other sites who felt my topics were worth linking.

So what does the future hold for upyursh.com you ask?

You may not have asked but I’m going to share anyways. I would like to look at bringing on another druid or two as regularly authors to offer alternative points of view and add new styles and direction for posts. I would also like to have the 3 specs covered as well.

On the back of this I would like to see the average visit increase and also increase the ping backs to upyursh.com

I would like to try increase the number of comments on my posts as well.

Other than that it’s business as usual, I’ll continue to share my self defined wisdom and thoughts with the community and hope they continue to be worthy of your views.

General Wow Resources

wow.com

www.wow.com

Well this is a given really, regular updates from people who are in the know (is that even the right term?)

World of Matticus

http://www.worldofmatticus.com/

A lot of interesting blog entries from a wide range of writers.

Addon and Mods

Wow Interface

http://www.wowinterface.com

I wide range of addons (including my own oUF layout haha), my only gripe is it is not the best looking site and can sometimes be difficult to find what you want. Navigation and browsing is not very user friendly

Curse

http://www.curse.com

Easy to use addon side but really pushing their own paid services (which turns me off) but they do have the benefit of owning wowace now and so Ace Projects will generally be published through curse website (sometimes exclusively).

Vranx

http://www.vranx.com/

I found this the other day and is a great strating point for those looking to start modifying their UI, has a lot of information about different options you have for various aspects of ui mods.

NoStockUi

http://www.nostockui.com

Great site with lots of people providing comments and feedbacks, sometimes I get frustrated by the delay between posts but Matt is a busy person

Character Planning

Wowhead

http://www.wowhead.com

Has a lot of really cool tools to give you a list of possible upgrades e.g. http://www.wowhead.com/?items&filter=ub=11;gm=4;gb=1;wt=61:123:24:23:96:103;wtv=100:53:48:28:14:12

Wowhead Profiler

http://www.wowhead.com/?profile

Great profiler for checking gear and stats etc.

Wowheroes

http://www.wow-heroes.com

Great profiling and gear checks, also includes achievements and raid history.

He has some amazing wow art which I encourage everybody to take a look at

Thanks mate!!

First real post from my new site Are their any budding bloggers that would like to be linked through my blogroll?

Post your url in your comments and i’ll get around to checking your blog and if their is nothing dodgy going on there ill add you

Chris

A couple of reasons for this;

• Additional Features and Plugins that I couldnt get on Blogger
• Self Host = WIN, I like hosting my stuff and I like having control over it.

So I will be transferring details over and setting up an auto redirect from here.

Head on over

• 8000 overall visits
• 5000 absolute unique visits
• Hits from 84 countries including big numbers of hits from; USA, Canada and Australia; as well as lots of small numbers of hits from; Guam, El Salvador, Vietnam, Martinique, Nicaragua & Georgia

I never dreamed that my blog would be viewed by such a large and wide spread audience thanks for everyone’s support