Nov

While growing up and even now, many of us enjoy bored games (spelled by some as board games). Monopoly, Risk, Stratego, Go, to name a few. Never did we think the skills we developed from our childhood games would help us later in life. By later, I mean now. By in life, I mean in Blizzard’s World of Warcraft.

As many of you probably know, the name Loatheb is likely an intentional anagram of the word “healbot.” What you may not know, however, that TS or vent is an absolute necessity for doing the fight (that’s what wowwiki says), as Loatheb is not only armed with an anagrammic name, but also a scrabbletastic ability. Renaissance, however, had spent many childhood hours playing Scrabble and descrambling jumbled messes into wordy perfections and needed no TS.

Here is an excerpt from my chat from the fight:
[raid leader] [pikapan] let’s pull
[raid warning] [danny] pulling *Healbot*!!! pseale eb raedy!
[rdai rnignwa] [nnyad] pores 1 ahs spnwaden!!
[diar darele] [nappaki] wath si oigng no ithw hcat?!?!
[aird laered] [iaapkpn] ghilt spd!
[riad] [adnyn] psaele hael em
[dair] [nynda] txh fro haelz
[riad] [nnyda] plasee hael em emos moer
[riad] [nydan] txh fro haelz
[5. tnkars] [ybabnooshga] pleeeeeesa atke em fof BS!!!
[5. rsaknt] [abybnooshga] ugys?
[diar] [nallaa] od yuo ugys leki ym hola?
[idar] [kabaoropu] od yuo uygs keli ym natlers?
[dair] [adnny] ofcus! ofcus! ofcus!
–censored to protect super leet stratz–
[raid] [danny] ** Healbot has been defeated!! **
[raid] [bakapooru] woot!
[raid leader] [pikapan] chat is fixed!
[raid] [danny] grats everyone
[5. rstank] [babyganoosh] can i sub in yet?
[guild] [leelu] hi guys!
[guild] [leelu] theres a naxx raid right now??

It was a good thing many of us were well versed in the techniques of Scrabble. Others of us are secretly hoping that Gothik will be the Pictionary boss of Naxxramas, cuz some of us are really good at Pictionary.

In the end, Renaissance spent a boatload of gold and consumables to get a couple pairs of pants. And yes, Danny and Miss Danna are still going strong. And no, Loatheb is not one of Miss Danna’s ex-boyfriends.