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Banana Boyz wannabes of Wildhammer

BBz News — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:27:00 +0800

While we have left World of Warcraft as a guild for a few months now, it has recently been brought to our attention that some wannabes felt the need to copycat us and rename their guild to Banana Boyz on the Wildhammer server.

Apparently some ex members of our old Laughingskull guild decided to migrate to the Wildhammer server. They joined some guild there called Hording School and after some time this Hording School guild renamed itself to Banana Boyz. One of the Hording School guys (Epik) even decided to register a domain name with our guild name apparently with the approval of his "guildmaster".

Note that neither the guild leader (UndeadHead) nor the "webmaster" (Epik) have anything to do with Banana Boyz to start with and their wannabe guild doesn't even have a single Banana Boyz founder either (just several ex members from our Laughing Skull guild).

The first defense of these Hording School/wannabe BBz guys was "we didn't choose to rename ourselves Banana Boyz we were asked to by our new members". Then when we get some ex LS BBz within their own ranks to ask for a guild name change, it is denied and they come up with a new defense line : "Your guild name is not copyrighted we can use it if we want to".

At least their new defense line makes more sense. Yes Hording School, you have the "legal right" of being Banana Boyz wannabes, be assured that noone will sue you IRL for that.

It is not like it happends for the first time. There have been many wannabes copycating our guild names for many years and I guess its natural for successful 10+ years old guilds... However those guilds usually had no website or used some free hosted subdomain. I guess that this time, by registering a new website with our name in it, people got even more confused and contacted us much faster to know if it was the real Banana Boyz or just some fake copy.

So this post clears those doubts out: no these guys aren't the real Banana Boyz which have been using that guild name in online games for the past 10 years and will continue to do so in upcoming games. But I guess the post will also provide those wannabes with the moment of fame they've been trying so hard to obtain... So enjoy it while it lasts :)

Temple of Ahn'Qiraj

BBz News — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 22:47:00 +0800

Our first night of AQ40 was quite alright, The Prophet Skeram went down relatively easy when we figured out what it required us to do. Some purple shit dropped and some people who don't need any more purple shit got it. We couldn't stop there so went deeper in and met the "Royal Family".

After brutally murdering both parents the kid went down relatively easily. Pretty trivial encounter really. Some purple shit dropped and some people who don't need any more purple shit got it. Battleguard Sartura was the first real challenge and it took 5 attempts to kill her, which still wasn't that bad I suppose. I really enjoyed this fight and think it's much more dynamic than most other encounters, even though our tanks didn't really seem to have a problem tanking her, contrary to rumors we had heard. Some purple shit dropped and some people who don't need any more purple shit got it.

So far I'm impressed with AQ40 and it really seems like it's the size of the instance that creates the possibility for cool fights. Hopefully we'll get a little further in tomorrow and take a shot at the twins. We later went and killed Fankriss the Unyielding and it's safe to say it's again one of the easier fights, once you figure out what to do. Some purple druid shit dropped and some druids who don't need any more purple shit got it. Princess Huhuran seems to be somewhat of a more interesting fight (for Horde). With the lack of Dwarf tanks we have had some trouble with it. But eventually, the princess still got owned :

Vaelastrasz the Corrupted

BBz News — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 04:45:00 +0800

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Banana Boyz have made a disturbing discovery regarding the goings on inside Blackwing Lair. Once thought to be just another raid instance, we have found out that it has been the safe haven for a self proclaimed "Champion of Communism". Being the red, white, and blue blooded Americans we are, we were determined to cause the collapse of yet another communist superpower. Vaelastrasz the Red would join the ranks of nations such as China, Russia, Cuba, Holland, and North Vietnam. By join the ranks, I mean complete and utter anal violation, unseen by the likes of any back in the Motherland.

Goddamn right... Communism indeed, this guy certainly spread the wealth around. As persuasive as he was, managing to even convince our fellow guildmates to turn against us in the form of suicide bombers, it was in vain. It was also the only time a druid will ever top the damage charts, yes, I'm looking at you FAUX. (idiot) Rune of Metamorpahsis Belt of Ten Storms Stormrage Belt Next up:

Oops indeed Yogfather. Update: It seems we have some fans behind the Iron Curtain who sympathize with our plight to rid the world of the red plauge.

Philanthropists that we are, a weeks supply of canned food is being donated to this man and his family. Congratulations Clouser! Continuing our crusades, righting wrongs, un eviling evil, our travels took us to what seemed like the Chinatown of Blackwing Lair. Broodlord Lashlayer has been running a sweatshop right under our noses, using whelp labor to create sneakers and sports apparel out of no less than the skin from whelps worked to death. While discussing the strategy for our takedown, one of our members informed us that if you cram an ecstasy pill up your ass, you get twice as high, known as "Pushing". Applied to our situation we ran our own Manhattan Project to create the world's first "Pwnage Pill" and let broodlord take this explosive suppository for a test run. Needless to say, it was an uncomfortable demise. Uhh... he dropped these: Maladath, Runed Blade of the Black Flight Greaves of Ten Storms x2

Razorgore the Untamed

BBz News — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 04:45:00 +0800

Fresh off our reversed suspensions, we decided to swing by Blackwing Lair to cook up some fucking OMLETTES with our buddies Razorgore and Grethok. Lord Victor Nefarius would have none of that and sent his best legionnaires to zerg our breakfast. With the encouragement of our friendly neighborhood GMs:

We set out to stomp some face. In a horrific culinary accident, Grethok and Razorgore found themselves caught up in the whirling maelstrom of egg beaters, cutlery, and flying dishes. Their deaths were not in vain though, as they left a legacy in the form of epic oven mitts and wristbands. Gloves of Rapid Evolution Bindings of Transcendence Bracers of Ten Storms Standing next to our fallen friend, we paid tribute.

Secret strategizing was the key to victory. After the party favors were handed out, I managed to hide behind a friendly tree long enough to catch Lord Victor Nefarius in the act of telepathically pleasuring Vaelastrasz the Corrupt. Not pictured, me doing the five knuckle shuffle and depositing it in what I assume was a squirrel hole in the tree.

In other news, I have the most bad assed frog out there.

Oh, and this...

Blackwing Lair BWL

BBz News — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 04:45:00 +0800

Blackwing Lair release was a great accomplishment for Blizzard, after only 8 months they were able to finally complete another raid instance!!! Apart from the fact that the first encounter was about as laggy as it gets due to 800 mobs spawning for 5 guilds at the same time (grrrreat idea blizzard!), the shit was actually not that hard. Kill some eggs, kill some stupid carbon copy of the UBRS general, loot some bracers.

The second boss was when the long expected "ever so hard to kill raid boss crap" finally started. He got downed on the second try without any information up front...probably because he was bugged.

So wait, 8 months of scripting:

-Razrgore: Pretty ok encounter, but gay because of lag caused by crappy servers. -Vaelastrasz: Obviously a bugged encounter, cause it was easy as shit. No brain needed whatsoever. -Gate: Won't open because it's bugged to shit.

To sum up our BWL experience for Blizzard: Congrats on a job well done, failures.