• 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

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

131 Posts

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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.