{"id":483,"date":"2015-06-15T05:50:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T00:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realmsofdespair.info\/blogs\/tharius\/?p=483"},"modified":"2015-06-15T05:50:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T00:50:22","slug":"who-watches-the-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.realmsofdespair.info\/tharius\/blog\/2015\/06\/15\/who-watches-the-watchdog\/","title":{"rendered":"Who watches the Watchdog?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woof! \u00a0Woof woof woof! *pant pant pant pant* You hear someone&#8217;s death cry!<\/p>\n<p>These words can only mean Gorog&#8217;s Watchdog is out &#8230; or in this case a Watchpuppy! \u00a0What&#8217;s the difference you ask? \u00a0The number of avatars required to kill the critter is the main thing and correspondingly the rewards are not as large. \u00a0For those who aren&#8217;t familiar with the rewards there is a reason the word &#8220;goroggles&#8221; enters into every conversation about top of the line characters. \u00a0The &#8220;doggy ear&#8221; is a nice devout piece and an ok all around piece with aff fly being maybe the most interesting thing about it. \u00a0Somewhere along the lines the &#8220;dewclaw&#8221; got added, a nicely statted ankle piece and finally making a debut not too long ago was the muzzle, a statted face piece which is decent but gives thieves an interesting dilemma.<\/p>\n<p>Now, no one is saying you can&#8217;t get goggles off the puppy but no one has seen a pair off a puppy yet. \u00a0There have only been a handful of puppy kills so there&#8217;s no way to even really speculate about possibilities &#8230; oh and since they could be changed at any time without warning, it&#8217;s pointless to bother.<\/p>\n<p>Aleq did a great job of being the cheerleader, with others like Mephie contributing to help get mass established. \u00a0For my part Arca and Ravith came and got a hold of me and I almost didn&#8217;t bother. \u00a0These things can drag on for hours and hours before we get mass and even when we have mass it can be a mess 20 different ways to Sunday. \u00a0Still, I figure if you don&#8217;t log in and help out you have no reason to bitch when you want other people&#8217;s help getting mass.<\/p>\n<p>We made a few kicks at it and wiped a few times. \u00a0Mass came and went. \u00a0Someone commented that if we didn&#8217;t get a few more people that it would take a little imm pity (downing the doggie) to get a kill in. \u00a0Around midnight we said &#8220;one more try&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Whether the stars aligned or whether we got some pity or a bit of both we managed to get a dead puppy. \u00a0I had joked earlier in the night that it was a nice birthday gift and when I saw that I had a kill blow it sure felt like a gift wrapped present. \u00a0Prior to this the closest I&#8217;ve been was 2 spirals from the kb.<\/p>\n<p>I almost didn&#8217;t log in. \u00a0Instead I logged out with a dewclaw.<\/p>\n<p>Goes to show that you have to keep in touch and just keep trying even if you think you have no chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woof! \u00a0Woof woof woof! *pant pant pant pant* You hear someone&#8217;s death cry! 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