Karazhan Books

LFM Karazhan PST!

So in the World of Warcraft there's a raid instance called Karazhan that I really enjoy. Karazhan was the entry level-raid for level 70 characters, so I found myself in 'Kara' pugs quite a bit back in the days of the Burning Crusade. Its a pretty sweet place to be, cause its basically a huge castle with a bunch of ghosts in it that drop loot.  

Oh yeah you read that book!

This one time in Kara, we were progressing through pretty well, and even got to the second half of the instance. I noticed that one of the other players we were running with had this new buff (buffs are spells that make your character stronger) that I had never seen before, so I proceeded to ask him what it was. Unbeknownst to me it turns out that throughout the instance there are books that you can actually pick up and read. Upon reading them your character gets a buff, and there are different books for different class roles like tanks, healers, and dps.

Scriptures!

The books in Karazhan remind me of the effect the scriptures have in our lives. The scriptures are holy books that God has given to us through a prophet. Let me ask you a question... If God were here on earth, would you care to hear what he has to say to you?

Epic Guild (Part 1) -- Apostasy

Imagine for a second that you're in an epic raiding guild. You have the best guild leader, and class officers. No one stands in fire, or goes AFK randomly. Healing and tanking are spot on, and the dps literally nuke bosses. You've cleared all content, and of course have downed heroic Ragnaros. Besides all that your guild also gets along. There's no loot drama, and players take advice without emo-raging.

Precarious Situation is Precarious

Then slowly the epic guild loses its leetness. For starters your guild master decides to leave WoW for a bit, due to drama on the server and massive amounts of hate on the forums. He of course leaves the guild in the hands of the competent officers that he's carefully selected. Thats fair enough. He also still pops in from time to time to see how everything is going, but slowly things start to go downhill.

With peple hating on the GM do you think that the officers would be free from hate too?

Loot and Prayer: The Waiting Game

Good ol' Naxx

Anyone that is familiar with raiding in WoW knows that what you want doesn't always drop. I remember raiding Naxxaramas with my guild as a fury warrior and hoping for two handed weapons to drop. When the weapons did drop, I always lost the rolls and the weapons went to other players. I would seem to always get armor, and did well on the dps charts, but weapons would have made me so much better. As time went on I continued to raid, and as we farmed Nax I eventually got my weapons-- but it took time. It would have been very easy to just give up and quit, but that would not have given me the chance to get those weapons now would it?

As missionaries, we tend to ask people to pray quite a bit. That is something that I really enjoy about the message that we share...

Raiding Part Two: He Can Heal Us

Holy Paladin Healer

Another key addition to any group is a healer.  Healers are players that use spells to keep players alive when they are taking damage. Quite literally without a healer everyone dies! Before Cataclysm, healing was comparative to playing whack-a-mole. Healers would stare at the raid or group bars, and keep everyone healed to full, literally whacking them with heals in the same way that you whack those pesky moles with that padded hammer in whack-a-mole. Although I haven't had the opportunity to experience Cataclysm play I have heard it said that healing has changed quite a bit. Instead of the whack-a-mole play style, healing has become a bit more personal. Healers are now asked to chose their heals carefully, and use the right heal at the right time. Full health bars are a thing of the past, but with a good healer we will all stay alive!

Throughout life, we all make mistakes, which cause us to be in need of a good healer...

Raiding With Jesus Part One: Meet the Tank

WoW Paladin Tank

If you expect to make it through a dungeon in World of Warcraft without constantly dieing, it is vital for your group to have a good tank. For those that are less familiar with the game, a tank  is very similar to a tank outside of the game. It is one of the first things that gets shot at (because its a very big threat), and it has a bunch of armor to go through for it to be hurt. Tanks take the hits for the rest of the group, so that others don't have to worry about getting roflstomped. The tanking classes in WoW are warriors, paladins, druids, and death knights. Within a usual 5-man group there will also be a healer, and three dps (these will be addressed in later parts of the series). 


Tanks literally take upon themselves the physical ailments of those they serve and group with...