Why does the Murloc mock me?

So my wife and I were talking about what we wanted to do for a big vacation this year. Last year we went to the Rose Bowl to cheer on Illinois and spent a few days in Vegas as well. When my wife mentioned the possiblility of heading back to the west coast for a trip, I immediatly thought of Blizzcon. After stepping up like a man and putting my foot down (crying like a girl), I finally talked her into letting our vacation give me my Blizzcon fix! Yes, I will draw the jealous stares of my guildies as I ride my polar bear! At least....that is the plan.

However, a Murloc stands in my way, like a cold, fishy, roadblock. When I went to buy my tickets this morning I was greeted with an error page showing the murloc in all of his glory. He gave me the very detailed and helpful, "An error has occured." I surfed on over to the Blizzcon forums and witnessed a full-on fanboy meltdown in progress. As it turns out, noone can buy their tickets yet, as Blizzard's servers are apaprently AFK for the time being. I truely hope this situation gets sorted out and I manage to get my hands on some tickets, or I will not be a happy camper.

Punishing your raiders?

On the verge of getting down Archimonde now. We had one magical attempt where everything seemed to come together until the very end. We had a warlock get seperated at around 18% or so and get feared into a fire to die. While it was a frustrating way to wipe, I am hoping it got us over the mental hump.

So what was different last night? For the first time, we started to hold people accountable for their actions. We put in a -10 DKP penalty for failing to use their tear and cratering. We also put in a policy where if you were the first to die twice, you got benched. We only had a couple people crater, and they never did it twice. It definatly seemed to get everyone focused and in the mindset of survival rather than owning the DPS meters. I am never a fan of punishing people, but sometimes you need to do something to shake them up and make them really pay attention.