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13-May-2010 12:19:01 Rokdar: Late Happy Birthday Paps!
12-May-2010 21:28:11 pappa: another year older for me 
07-May-2010 08:30:49 pappa: went well, tnx. Bak home now
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11-Feb-2010 18:52:04 pappa: Off to Dallas Texas for 1 week on Monday. Back soon.
05-Feb-2010 17:25:37 Oxylf: Hello again all  how are you? 
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Might be silly to talk about this but i wanna talk about something and i know many think alot what thers char should be etc, what ppl wanna call them and some other dont mind so much about it. So i thought i gonna talk a little how i came up with all my chars names and yes thats many so it toke some time for few of them.
Lets start with Demonina: It was my first char ever i create on vashj and so wanted something cool i thought. So it toke some time then i came to Demo then to Demon, i mean that would sounds cool a demon! Bit evul hehe. But it didt work that so needed to add something more to it. So there was i thinking hmmm Demon what can suit for it, then i thought Nina, since i know someone named like that but removed n so demon-ina. That was the idea of it. But then it sounded better as Demo-Nina. And demo became my nickname. So at pre-tbc i got lots of w they tought i was lock, sorry lol ye demon sounded kinda a lock name back then. And some of the w was on italian, i was like wtf and they said it means something devil child. If its true, that i dont know. But devil child sounds cool eh? Lw/skinning char.
My second char iwas Lifeordeath(priest): May be hard to belive but she was almost my main pre tbc, since i dont play on her so much lately. But anyway why i wanted a priest was bec i wanted a healer so the name became Life Or Death. The thought behind that was i can choice if i wanna keep a person alive or not! Do u choice life or death? Do i like u or not? Yes i was stubborn but there was so many annoying ppl around so i didt heal them and let them die and came with excuses ops lagspikes, lagg, didt pay attention. But hey i let them die on purpose mwoahahaha! Exception for tanks ofc so it was usually dpser. It was mostly in zg when i was not in av back then. But later on i had to heal everyone. I would not say i was too bad healer back then but then again i went back to demo. Tailoring/alch char.
Third Char: Fateful; I rly wanted to know how it was feeling to tank, now i had 1 healer and 1 dps so i thought a tank would do it. This was when i had joined av. It was harder to get a name for my druid, but then again i thought about fate. Druid can do so much like combat ress, heal, tank etc I have the fate/destiny, what will happen. Fate i ninja from the guild name fate so i didt wanna take it like that so i added fate-ful. What will happend? Who knows? up to me! But i liked the name rly alot and my druid so its my second favourite char after Demo. Ench/Herb char.
4th char: Tootsy; when TBC came and we got that new race Drae. Vute i thought so wanted one and it became a mage one, now then i needed a name. A cute one, i thought tootsy sounded bit cute when u say it? Im right? Oh well it had to be that. But not so big history of that name. Mining/engi char.
5th char: Aninomed: Yes, totally lack of imagination! But it something i thought about long time how would it sounds like with demonina backwards and it became aninomed. That i thought sounded rly good! wanted a drae again, but this time a warrior. And is my inscription/bs char. Not so much to talk about that, u get bit tired after 3 char when it comes to names.
6th char: Duskangel: I so wanted a dk, it was hard decision but it became a knoem, i know! but dk knoem seems bit cool, dont it? And Sean came up with dusk and i about angel and it became duskangel. Thought that sounded cool and was needed for a dk, lol. She got jc only atm.
-Demo/Cam
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Hi, this is my story, enjoy. And sorry for my english, i know its not good but hopefully u understand it anyway.
I start when i made an apply and got accepted to the guild Fate and i remember my first raid with them was in Ony it was like Wow big dragon, u know that feeling!! Think we went to mc after that, and i had no clue about the tact etc but the other hunters where rly nice and explained for me. Evrything went well but when we where going for Majordomo this priest went crazy and tried to wipe the raid and started to run against the mobs but ended up dead alone. I was like”eh.. is he supposed to do that, erm... dont think so, then why..” then wow morkain started to yell! It was scary, rly. But anyway i got the taste for raiding and wanted to do more but my time in fate didt last long, 2-3 days then Morkain left and it got disbanded.
So there was i, guildless and the suddenly Rocket w me and told me that this new guild had been made Aeternum Vale, u have to join. So i joined first day it came alive this guild. Later on i started to know pplWe had great time on ts and great progress pre-tbc. But it was the ppl in the guild i liked most than raiding and getting loot was just a bonus.
Eagleblade and bazz joined the guild as well, and i thought that was nice, since i did know them a bit in my lasy guild. But it ended up ealgeblade got gkick guild and i was not so happy about it bec i didt want him to leave and he tried to make me leave 2 but i wanted to stay and had to accept it. It was then, dunno if it was me or uri that started the conversation but we where talking about eagleblade, and if i was gonna leave bec of eagle, and explained i will not etc. But anyway to the point i did enjoy it alot over our first conversation that i had with uri Thought he was rly good gm and person so i wanted to stay in the guild even more. Later on when i learned to know the people even more i sneak into this finnish corner group! But sometimes it was boring when everything was on finnish but i didt mind, just wanted to be there. But they where nice to speak in english when i was there sometimes and got closer to know taavi, mies, uri, and nuusk.
And my failure in raids, lets say i did some mistakes back then with pulling like in mc and my first pull ever there i had to pull this doggy that was near the boss. Was so nervous, god so nervous and it didt help with mortalheart on ts “pull demo, pull demo, come on pull now!” Argh, so i thought it cant be so hard and went to pull and heard on ts “whats happening!” etc. I was wondering why all this noise on ts i did pull as they wanted but then i turned around and there came 3 dogs i think and the boss! And ye... i wiped the raid. Like sorry , sorry all over, god i was feeling stupid back then. and got marked for long time. But it didt end there. We had more pulls like that when comp crashed and ended up wiping the raid when i had to pull the boss with my pet. Was like shit, uri gonna get so mad at me and kick me, i so suck with timing and pulling, how could i let uri and the guild down like this i thought back then! But no it didt end up like that, just a laugh when i expected a slap in the face instead.
Under the time i became core raider and later on officer then suddenly cl, but i was not alone, kiro was cl too but later on ended up as the only classleader for hunters that suited me perfectly, since i prefer to work alone. Then TBC came and i started to learn to know Tanid much better and was talking alot with each other, and it ended up to be my bf and best friend.
Classleader: I have been cl for long time so there is bad times and good times. I would lie if i said it been perfect being cl all the time bec it has not, some hunters toke the energy out of me back then and it needed alot of patience. I had my doubt if i was suited to be cl, if i could handle it or the right person for it. And sometimes i thought if uri ever did regret to have me as a classleader. But the same time i did enjoy it alot, and liked our officer chats and the members in the guild. It was worth it to help out with the hunters in this guild. But there been times i wanna help out more than just being just a cl, do more for this guild, even now. Oh well, its ok as it is.
But then again do i regret playing this game? No i dont, bec of it i meet great people like Ufo, Mies, Yogs etc and most of all my love Tanid! And many more that still are in this guild. It been up long time this guild and im happy for that. We had great times and been lucky to be able to know these people.
Thats my story. Sorry for my english, its not good i know.
-Demo/Cam
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It's been a good month now that the new expansion has been available, so I'll try to make some sort of a summary about it so far.
1. Leveling process
We were given 2 starting zones now instead of one like in BC which was great and gave people choices. Somewhere was mentioned that it was also done to lessen the crowdedness(is this a real word?) At starting zones, which happened at Hellfire in BC, allthough I atleast had no problems on BC launch, not with crowd or server performance.
It was really great to notice that leveling was made more easier then on previous versions, even though I personally like questing alot and use lot of time actually reading the quest texts etc. As being a really long time pen and paper roleplayer, this questing and continuing lore or/and quest chains are really important for me and WOTLK has succeeded great on this front. The new phasing technology enables us to feel more involved with the lore and interacting with the NPC's. Like the Fordragon quest continuing all the way to attack on Undercity. Not to speak the amazing storylines in Icecrown, helping Argent Crusade to set up a base there and assisting Knights of the Ebon Blade to take over Shadow Vault as for teir safe haven.
Most enjoyable quests I have done in Storm Peaks, with all the viking and norse theme including lots of nice titan lore and stuff and in the upcoming Ulduar content patch I really hope they keep those great storylines alive. Questing haven't been this much fun since vanilla, TBC was bit too messy questwise for me atleast and it lacked good storylines. Some had good starts but dried up alltogether at somepoint. Well Akama chain was really nice and all those other SMV quest chains involving Teron Gorefiend and what's the fella with whose sons you had to find/rescue and shit. Vanilla still is the most favourable questing time, though as being a such a sentimental person, time tends to golden the memories even more.
I have 2 characters leveled to 80, my priest being allmost full epic geared and my paladin is not that far behind. Guess I have too much time on hands atm. Also my to be wife has gotten her warlock to 80 couple of weeks ago only by playing about hour or two per day, even not that on many days and during weekends. So I really find it hard to understand why some people can't make it to 80 within the time limit set: the end of a year 2008.
There isn't many though and the most likely possibility is that the interest and drive for em towards the game has been gone. Time will tell and conversations has to be taken.
2. Instances
We were given great deal of instances straight from the start, like on BC. The entry level instances were nice on design, Nexus took you straight to venturing towards Malygos lore and Utgarde Keep introduced us to Vrykula and the Viking/Norse theme that gladly has carried throughout the whole level range.
For Heroic mode 5man dungeons the difficulty level varies alot, ofc there needs to be something bit easier to start with and more challenging stuff also. Overall the current Heroics are great both in lenght and challenge. Probs to Violet Hold which is fast and neat place to run even if you have very little time on your hands. Badges and rep never hurt anyone.
As a really great improvement for reputation farming is the innovation of faction tabards which you can use for gaining reputation with certain factions at the level 80 instances.
For raid instances, Aeternum Vale basically started to focus straight on 25man content and we have 2 wings cleared on Naxx now and both Sartharion and Archivon downed on heroic. So 10man Naxx has been kinda in the dark for us and we finally cleared the whole place last night. Sapphiron needed 3 tries aswell did Kel Thuzad. Have to say even I love the place, loved it ever since it was released in vanilla though we didn't have many chances to venture there because then to be expansion TBC. 25man gives decent challenge, but I was kinda disappointed with the 10man version and how stupidly easy it was. Karazhan more of a challenge at TBC launch and not to speak UBRS back in the day when it was considered to be the end game raiding. Eagerly waiting for Malygos now that we have the key, the fight seem nicely complex enough and I have really high hopes for the upcoming raid content.
Back again. Now, as seen the Malygos fight, I have to admit that it was bit of a anticlimax. Haven't been in the 25man version yet, but the 10man gives good direction what it is. After holiday break we basically one shotted the remaining bosses on 25man Naxx, part from Thaddius, which became a bit of a problem for the fact that I think some people have hard time with the understanding of a words like move, left, right and finding the movement keys on their keyboard. But nonetheless, clearing 25man Naxx with so good performance from the raid group gave me hope for the future.
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Hello fellow guildies and any other people that may read this.
Now, I have been acting as a GM of this guild for a two and a half years now. Lots of good stuff and lots shitty stuff has been going during these years, none of them which I personally wouldn't change for anything. Do I regret anything? To come to think some decisions that I have made in past, now as a post wise I could say that some things could have been handled better, but regretting, no. I do make my decisions on any given moment with basis what is the best for the guild at that time and for the future. With player recruitment I and we have done terrible decisions at times, but on the other hand, we have found many rough jewels that have been proven to be great persons and developed as a great players.
The starting lines of this entry is bit messy, but hard to express myself at my best other then my native language, so sorry about that.
Ok, let's do a little trip back in time, as it comes close to end of year 2008, you can't build a future without looking at and knowing the past.
When we started at the beginning of July 2006 after a break up of my and couple of others former guild. I really didn't want to join any of the current existing guilds, due to the fact that there was so many players whose attitude, call it arrogance or elitism, I didn't like and I would have not lasted very long in those guilds. So there we were, two dorfs(the other was my dear little brother Miesmurha) in Ironforge's AH bridge sitting and pondering.
And I threw in the air a idea that what if we make our own guild. To create a society with likeminded people and friends that we have met along the way. And so was Aeternum Vale created. We started heavy recruiting of all shapes and sizes, emphasis on maturity and sociality as vast majority of us founders were and still are adults with jobs, families, kids and whatnot. And to maintain a "casual hardcore" raiding aspect. We have slipped from that on many occasions to one end or the other, but the concept is very hard to maintain and I can tell you that my seat ain't the easiest one.
So there we had a guild, with couple of people with epics and previous raiding experience, rest in their greens and blues and we stormed from the beginning of MC to Nefarian in bit over a month, which I can tell no one in this server didn't do. I was proud, the Aeternum Vale tag was a proud to carry and it still is.
Come TBC, the first expansion, everything went wrong from the start. People not levelnig fast enough, lot's of old members left. We hit the rock bottom. Bit by bit we rose again, but too late so to speak allthough in the very end of TBC our progress in BT was excellent, but we just didn't have the time and enough dedication from some people. But that aside, TBC taught me lots of things, about managing a guild and how to make things work better.
Now we are on a new expansion, and the game has changed totally from TBC on every front like it changed from vanilla to TBC. This blog that I now write and continue to do so hopefully on weekly basis is one step from my side to better communication towards our community.
There are now few challenges that we face as a guild and I as a guildmaster.
First, finding those players that have the will to pursue 25man content, which have proven to be quite easy, maybe too easy? How to keep motivation up? Hopefully the dual spec system will be implemented as soon as possible, that would most likely be the cure for guilds that struggle with lack of healers/tanks. Come on now, we all know that finding a DPS ain't that hard.
Second thing that worries me is the lack of involvment of our members in forum activity. That is the key to build up the social base and structure of this guild where we as officers want it to be. Be it guild related stuff or utter bullshit. Get Involved dammit!!!!
What too has lately been lot in my mind, is how to reward those loyal and good members. Cause lat's face the fact, not everyone can be officers and atm we will not have openings until someone decides to leave that spot. Core members will be promoted in future as we see it fit on someones case. Need to work on the possible priorities and little boons that will separate then from the normal members, but nothing huge. I have allways tried to treat people the same regardless them being my friends and/or their rank.
I have seen the favouring of certain people/friends in action and that only causes really bad blood amongst the ranks. The equal treatment though get's me in shitty situations with my friends, officers, members, well I consider you all my friends but you get my drift on this one. I can't please everyone, I may piss of someone, but as I have stated hundreds of times by now that the GUILD is my number one priority and it's wellfare, not any single individual or their personal agendas.
And now I would like to tell a little bit more about me. I know I am not the most favoured guy on this realm, amongst the "leet" players atleast, just purely because I don't like that kind of attitude or behaviour that tries to promote one above others with knowalliamthebest attitude. Those people haven't been long lasting in this guild. I have propably kicked more people out of guild then any other person on this realm. And I am not sorry about it, they all had it coming be it inactivity or just shitty and annoying behaviour.
I don't kick people with whim of a moment, I really have to look at the consequenses of all actions, otherwise it would make a bad leader.
Take a look at the recent whine post on Vashj forums, where this sad druid started generalizing the whole guild, assaulted me on no grounds at all, and by the looks of the replies in that thread, it was all his own doing. The guilds reputation is everything to me, anyone who knows me, knows that and I have allways acted like it. I have never tolerated any bad behaviour from my members in public. And never will.
As I mentioned, this was my first blog ever and it is really messy, but hey gotta start from somewhere, in future, it will get better and more variable topic wise. There were just the things I had to let out this time.
Uriah
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