World of Warcraft Community Magazine Issue 8 | Page 82

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82 // World of Warcraft Community Magazine

SO OVER HIGHMAUL

By Ashleigh Ayn Sult

I

think I can honestly

However, after months

felt like we were being Earthen

say, we here at WoW

of plundering it for loot and

Pillared so hard that that even

Community Magazine are

writing articles about it, we

Tectus felt sorry for us. It was

honestly SO over Highmaul.

actually banished the raid from

an overload. Worse of all, most

our articles completely last

of us were hitting LFR, PuG’s,

month. Everyone on the staff

our scheduled raids outside

wrong with the raid. Some of

was so excited for Blackrock

of writing about it, and talking

the fights are clever, some

Foundry that they all agreed

about it in our weekly meetings.

complicated, some annoying

that the last thing they wanted

It was information overload.

(please don’t ever ask me to

to do was write articles about

operate the flame-throwers, ever

Highmaul. Again. Yet, here I am,

again) and some amusing. The

mourning how much I don’t love

raid tells a story, from fighting

Highmaul. It had to be said.

It’s not that there is anything

Rise Mountain indeed.
Even worse was the feeling
at the end of the month once

Kargath who is famed for his

our articles were in, and

skills as a gladiator, to taking

It wasn’t that we hated it. We

down Imperator Mar’gok and

just didn’t want to read another

ready to go out to you dear

seeing just how Cho’gall got the

article about it. Or edit another

readers, and the visual side

title of “First of the Ogre-Magi”

one. Or try to take another spin on

of the magazine mournfully

(if of course, you managed to

why it was so important. Let’s face

asked “Do you have anymore

down him on Mythic). All in all,

it. Highmaul is important. There’s

screenshots of Highmaul?” (In

it’s a solid raid that will hold

great loot and it’s an excellent

my head this question sounds

up over the expansion with

entry level raid, but at the rate

a lot like a cat yowling at 3 am

multiple difficulties to tackle.

of three articles a month, we

for food: “Highmaaaaaauuulll

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