Good Deed for the Day + Auchenai Crypts

I logged on Viljo last night to deal with some Auction House and bag stuff. DraNgNon logged on her druid banker alt. As she was running around Thousand Needles she happened to buff a priest as she ran by. This priest then whispered her about Scarlet Monastery. After repeated pestering she finally gave in and convinced me to bring Viljo along as well.

So Viljo, Aurochh, and this priest went through the library and the cathedral. Whoever was playing this priest was either a really really good actor or a newb. While killing everything in the cathedral we explained about talents, stats that priests want, and types of gear that is good to get. We also pointed this guy towards some of the websites out there for helping to figure out what you're doing, as well as gave him the names of good priests we know to look up on Armory. It was really cute to see such a newbie first finding his way through the game. And he wasn't doing a bad job of healing.

As we were finishing up the cathedral Rahlenti logged on. Viljo whispered him to say hi, and there was a bit of chatting back and forth as Viljo exploded in the Cathedral. Then Rahlenti asks if Viljo and Kuan are interested in heroic Auchenai Crypts. A hunter that he, and now we, have been running with wants to do run it. So we rush to finish helping the newbie priest, and get ourselves to Shattrath.

It was the same group as for Heroic Hellfire Ramparts the other night. And I have to say that I'm very happy with that group. It turns out that the resto shaman and hunter are dating and live pretty close to us. We definitely drive by them on the way to work.

So anyway, four trolls and a bear walk into Auchenai Crypts. The ghosts in there are pretty brutal on Heroic. Especially since I'd only run it at most twice on non-Heroic, and never before on Heroic. But once we got things down it went reasonably smoothly, aside from random ghost adds.

The first boss was a pain in the butt. That casting speed debuff is just brutal. I really believe that most of Viljo's damage in that fight came from his lovely wand, the Black Stalk. It certainly wasn't from the 8 second scorch. >.<

The skellies that needed to be aoe'd just before the last boss reminded Viljo of the lesson he learned in Stratholme. As Viljo died almost every other pull, I reminded myself that aoe plus skeletons means that Viljo is most likely gonna die. he just needs to accept that fact and deal as much damage as possible before it happens.

The last boss was not all that different from what I remember of regular Auchenai Crypts. He went down pretty fast and dropped spiffy things. Specifially he dropped a nice gem that Viljo won the roll on and put into his gloves, and a staff that Rahlenti took for cat form. However, he also dropped the Wave-Song Girdle, which Kuan is now wearing! Yay purples!

Before we all logged off the hunter mentioned heroic Mana-Tombs for tonight. So maybe if we're lucky we'll get to run that tonight.