The New AS Site

Roshkar let me know that the run of AS has come to an end and that I could take the forums down if I liked.

I have thought about this and I was wondering if there was any interest in transforming this board into a more general gaming board, perhaps focusing on the new Diablo, Starcraft and WOW, as well as any other game that members would like invite others to play with them.

Personally I enjoyed the company of everyone in my WOW days, and perhaps if will return one day if the time investment matches my lifestyle. Until then I thought that we might still have some fun together as we move on to other gaming pursuits and whatever life throws at us.

I am tremendously excited about Diablo as well as some console games and I wonder if anyone else would enjoy an online water cooler to chat around.

PS. Please feel free to take the AS name and make guilds in other games. I encourage everyone to game with eye towards having fun in a competitive way but with respect for everyone. In that vain if you would like a special directory set up for your own game feel free to ask.

To the greatest guild that ever was. . .

I salute you my fellow former warriors of Anime Samurai. It was a great guild filled with fun-loving, comraderie and founded in specific principles of honor and victory.

For as long as I can I’ll update this post with what I know of former guildies. Drop me an email (click on Memberlist, find Nan and click on “email me”) or PM (here on the forums) with any updates you’d like posted or that you may know about former guildies.

Nandina - Quit playing WoW back in Nov 2007. I just reinstituted my subscription a few days ago for 1 month. Not sure how long I’ll be playing. Won’t be serious and I won’t be playing Nan. Most likely it’ll be Lilithh my lock or Nandena my pally. I’m still a stay-at-home mom. My son (Umezawa if you remember him) graduated HS in May 2008. He quit playing for about 9 months and in the last month started playing his mage, Atomicwaffle and warrior, Judeclia. Johannah (my daughter) still plays WoW although she’s changed her name to Discarded (hmmmmmz…) and plays on other servers with her friends IRL. My little Leah has a young druid (go Leah!) that she plays on Toastey’s acct from time to time and Toastey leveled a feral druid named Tragick that he pvps on regularly at lvl 69.

Mishine - Stopped playing WoW around Dec 2007 he tells me and has settled into his new life in Portland, OR now. I believe he’s still doing graphic web design stuff out of his home, but not 100% sure on that. Talked to Mish in April 2008 last.

Slridah/Pampagno - still playing the game (don’t think he took a break from it but I could be wrong on that). He’s guilded with Damage Control these days and regularly plays Adobo, his shaman, and Pampango. Does he ever dust off Ridah? I gets the “hellos” from Pamps regularly via my daughter.

Hellsfury - Hells is still playing WoW doing what he always loved best. . . pvp. IRL he’s in the Miami area working and doing ultimate fighting. Boy doesn’t that seem appropriate! Talked with Hells earlier this week.

Roshkar - still playing the game on his sham and on his lvl 70 warrior Rakhsor. He’s working like crazy as always, but he’s recently been working scaled back hours. Finally! All those years and poor Rosh could barely get away from work to play WoW and now he finally has time. Talked with Rosh this week.
Sachmo - Sach left New Zealand bound for the UK where his brother lives. He got there by a roundabout way. . . via Thailand. If you get to talk to him ask him to share his pics from that trip! Haven’t talked to him in about 6 months.

Danho - transferred back to Suramar and is playing a 70 shaman he lovingly called Manho. LOL I talked to him earlier this week.

Shimigawa - like Danho he transferred back and is now going by Jin on his toon.

Kramdinh - still playing WoW and tagged under Strychnine Solution (Hells’ guild).  He took a bit of a break and has a new job doing inside sales work.  Talked with Kram the other nite.

Guild Required/Suggested Addons

Just a reminder (and to make it easily accessible), Here are the addons we use:

Guild Calendar - MUST HAVE to attend our weekly raids.

KLH Threat Meter (KTM) - Any DPS class should use this for agro-sensative fights like Prince.. also helps on single-mob bosses (maiden, huntsman(p3), curator)

BigWigs - Shows timer bars for many effects (Moroes vanish, prince enfeeble, maiden repentance) — very configurable..

Please install Guild Calendar, and if you are a DPS’er, KTM. Bigwigs is optional — but it’s very helpful… who has time to read the text at the bottom from the raid alerts?

-Pseudo

Edited 10/18/2007 to update raid scheduling add-on. (Nandina)

A Nice, Fast, Kara run

Been a while since we told anyone about our PvE Progress… Quick run down of what happened wednesday Night.

Group:
Healers: Pseudo, Misenus, Forgrumm
DPS: Centorian, Shanx, Shadz, Kramdinh, Dalvin(Guest)
Tanks: Drakkan, Pampango

The drops:
Huntsman
Stalker’s War Bands and Gauntlets of Renewed Hope both DE’ed for 2 Void Crystals Each
Moroes

Belt of Gale Force - DE’ed into 2 Voids.. and
Royal Cloak of Arathi Kings - Grats to Pampango!
Opera — Big bad wolf
– Grats to Shadz on the Big Bad Wolf Paw, and to
– Pseudo on Earthsoul Leggings!
Curator
– Grats to Dalvin(Guest) on the Tier 4 Gloves, and to
– Centorian on Garona’s Signet Ring!
Shade of Aran
Shermanar Great-Ring went to Misenus (How bad is it when half the guild has this ring or better?).. and to
– Forgrumm for his new Boots of the Infernal Coven :-)
To finish off the night we went and took out the Chess Event..
– Grats to Misenus on his new Headdress of the High Potentate, and to
– Centorian on his new shoulders –
Bladed Shoulderpads of the Merciless.

A very good run everyone, started at 5:30pm server, done at ~9:30pm server, 4 hours for lots of bosses and lots of easy epics :-) great work everyone!

-Pseudo

Quarterly Guild Update

The officers have sat down and worked on a state of the guild message for the guild. We hope to provide more frequent feedback and look forward to hearing everyones thoughts.

Happy Adventuring!