My name is Evan Sims, and I'm a game designer and web jockey from the cornfields of Illinois. Excelsior!

Fresh Baked

I’ve Gone and Made a Mess

The gaming highlight of my week? My Warcraft guild finally brought down Deathbringer Saurfang. We’d been stuck on him for a few weeks now, unable to get our raid’s configuration just right to finish him off before the enrage timer wiped us. There was no magic bullet for it, really; it came down to a little luck and a lot of practice. Given that we’re far from a hardcore raiding guild, I couldn’t be more proud of us for this accomplishment. We even got the Gone and Made a Mess achievement for beating him before a 3rd mark.

I just hope Blizzard let’s us skip his soap opera speech with the next reset. /facepalm

I also finished the Glory of the Hero achievement and grabbed a snazzy Red Proto-Drake. Go me. :)

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