Patch days are fun. They’re a time to bond with your guild and find new and creative ways to keep entertained.

Of course, after we got the patch later than the whole US (yes, even later than the whiners), the login servers were overloaded, and then my battlegroup’s instance server died a fiery death. In real life terms, that meant we found the chat feature of our guild site and used it. Someone remembered the scourge chat logs, so our new unofficial greeting is “spider pride!!! >8<".

The server was supposed to come back at 6 ST and we mananged to log in around 8... still hoping there might be a raid. With the instance server down, everyone spent their time flying around Wyrmrest temple. And I mean everybody. I’ve never seen so many flying mounts in the same spot. It was oddly fascinating, I watched it for an hour while playing with the new features.

Mounts in Wyrmrest Temple
(Click for big image)

(By the way, RealID is pretty cool, but I still haven’t added more than 10 people, 9 of which I know IRL.)

Yesterday the instance servers did work, and we kicked dragon ass.

Halion

(After wiping for almost 4 hours. Yeah, life without the ICC buff is hard.)

Also, kids, remember: jumping off Dalaran in a bike is fun and non-lethal if you pop in flight form before you hit the ground.

Weeee! ...splat

Jumping off Dalaran in a bike is lethal if you hit an unexpected ledge while taking screenshots.