Feeling: Accomplished
Music: .38 Special - Trooper With an Attitude

Last night, my World of Warcraft guild, Vulgar Display of Power, finally popped its head into Black Temple. We'd investigated it once earlier a month ago, but last night was the first time we went in there seriously. After getting 3 of the 5 bosses in the Hyjal Summit raid down, we were pretty confident we could do well.

We went in, and did pretty well! We had a horrible time on a pull before Naj'entus, the first boss, (2 Coilskar Generals, 2 Soothsayers, a Sea-Caller, and an elemental) but we finally got that sorted out. Once we did that, we did Naj'entus and got him on our third attempt! It was a phenomenal win, and I'm really proud of my guild, as well as being glad to finally be in Black Temple. We kept going afterwards, and got Supremus to about 38% if I remember right before calling it; our tanks kept dying, and it looked like he bugged on the last pull.

This weekend also marks the first time I was specced Protection as a Paladin, since we have a lack of tanks and Paladins are superb in Hyjal. It was really fun, but the above BT night was pretty much a downer; I was only useful on a couple of pulls, and on both bosses all I did was throw heals, which didn't accomplish too much. That being said, I am glad I'm playing a class flexible enough to fill a role that has a hole in the raids, all I need is a respec. Success is always preferable to sitting around not raiding that weekend!

In art news, I'm brushing up on my Flash again, as well as poking my nose into ActionScript 3. I've never touched programming languages of any sort; the closest I've gotten has been HTML and CSS, but so far it's pretty fun, if hard to wrap my head around. I posted a UI design in Flash that utilizes a little AS3 in my gallery, mostly to show graphic design and layout decisions.