Off to the Races

Kuanchichi went into heroic Mana Tombs, but they didn't have room for Viljo, so Viljo wandered around and did some daily quests.

He was just about to start bombing the demon cannon balls when a guildie needed one last dps for regular Steam Vaults. Our tank was a level 69 warrior who, fortunately, really knew his stuff. So we cruised through there killing everything in sight: xp for the warrior and rep for the healer.

Just at the end of that the tank and one dps in Kuan's Mana Tombs run dropped out, because, well, they were getting frustrated with the sucking. Fortunately they were the ones causing the sucking so Viljo and a really great tank friend was pulled in and the rest of the instance, including the daily heroic quest, was tromped.

Then they wanted to do the daily quest in regular Steam Vaults. Viljo bowed out because there was a 6th and he had already done it.

Instead he went to Netherwing plateau. I'd been looking at the Skybreaker race quests. Viljo is a pretty good flyer. He only very rarely gets knocked off his wyvern by the monstrous kaliri. The fel cannons have only hit him a couple of times.

So Viljo challenged Murg "Oldie" Muckjaw. Murg took a short and slow path. His pumpkins were relatively easy to dodge once I realized they would knock you off your mount. Trope was just as easy to beat. Viljo was quite happy to dodge whatever noxious substance Trope was producing. (He didn't stop to find out what it was.)

Corlok the Vet was a little harder for Viljo. Mostly it was annoying because Viljo had a hard time not outpacing him while still dodging the *explosive* skulls he was flinging around.

After that Viljo was up against Wing Commander Ichman. Viljo would have been all to happy to run him into the ground. However, it was not to be. Ichman knocked Viljo out of the sky until Viljo died. :( And then it was time for Viljo to go into heroic Botanica. Heroic Botanica went quite well, with a net of 5 badges.

draNgNon progress 11/26

OK, it's a day late, but here is my progress on last week's list.

Kuanchichi
• Heroic SV • Heroic Slave Pens • farm for Major Prot recipes • 340+ on 2H Axes and Maces • Revered with Consortium • battlegrounds • 250g to guild bank • clear last new quest in Mudsprocket • Honored with Steemwheedle	• can't get a group • turned it in • lost the roll for Frost • got it • Revered! • did the dailies • 135g so far • nope • no time
Eeyan
• Onyxia key. • Honored with Scryer • Underbog • Slave Pens • help Teltanara Friendly with Aldor • Strat run • 345 blacksmithing	• nope • over 4000 now • ran it, need Sporregar quests • ran that, too • she got it • nope • got it more: level 68!
Trismestigus
• quests in Silithus • Honor Hold for profession training • herbing for dollars, er, gold	meh, no progress on any of this stuff
Vhaas
• quests and farming in Silithus • clear Fallen Hero of the Horde questline • clear outdoor Eastern Plaguelands quests • 300 cooking • Friendly with Timbermaw Hold • Friendly with Thorium Brotherhood	no progress on any of this stuff, either
Aurochh
• Clear Gnomeregan • 24 slot enchanting bag	• everything is grey • got it

Here is next week's list... I wonder if I should drop the Alliance toons entirely. Well, hm. Anyhow, the list is getting big. I need to cut it back. The boots are on Kuan's list sort of by guild requirement, they don't want him to be in blues anymore...

Kuanchichi Alchemy, weapon skillup, engineer rep, attunements
• Heroic SV
• [Treads of Booming Thunder]
• farm for Major Prot recipes
• 345+ on 2H Axes and Maces
• battlegrounds
• 100g to guild bank
• clear last new quest in Mudsprocket
• Honored with Steemwheedle
• 5 Ethereum Prison Keys for Consortium

Eeyan Ony key, 0.5 quests, blacksmithing, questing with Teltanara
• Onyxia key.
• Honored with Scryer
• Underbog redux
• Clear Terrokar outdoor quests
• help Teltanara Friendly with Aldor
• Strat run (he needs Tier 0 shoulders and Pants)
• 350 blacksmithing
• Start on Garadar quests

Trismestigus epic ground mount
• quests in Silithus
• Honor Hold for profession training
• herbing for dollars, er, gold

Vhaas mount money, and Dranei rep for Elekk
• quests and farming in Silithus
• clear Fallen Hero of the Horde questline
• clear outdoor Eastern Plaguelands quests
• 300 cooking
• Friendly with Timbermaw Hold
• Friendly with Thorium Brotherhood

Aurochh leveling, enchanting skillups
• Clear Stromgarde
• RFD
• Start on Badlands

yum, chocolate cake!

Kuanchichi did the new daily cooking quest for the first time, and inside the quest reward he got [Recipe: Delicious Chocolate Cake].

Then it was time for a Personal Quest and Kuan and Viljo ran around gathering enough mats to make 5 of them! Kuan gathered the mageroyal as a ghost wolfie. OMG! The ghost wolfie animation has changed, and when he gathers herbs, he digs them out of the ground! So awesome.

Then it was time to bake the cake and Kuan and Viljo were very happy for an hour.

Well, not quite an hour for Kuan, who managed to get pwned in Arathi Basin by a Lightbringer premade before the hour was up. But still.

won with a 3

Kuanchichi helped down Prince last night and I guess nobody else wanted [Ruby Drape of the Mysticant] becuase he got it with a 3.

Now that means I get to farm some, I spose. I see if I can tap Darkfall's guild bank; the +hit on the cloak means I can replace the +hit enchant on his T4 gloves with spellpower.

But it's even more. Prince yielded 3 badges (!) and now he only needs 2 more to get [Earthquake Bracers] which I will also want spellpower on. Or perhaps +allstats? Hm.

Edit 17:14 PST: the mats list
Gloves - Spellpower
• 6 Primal Mana
• 6 Large Prismatic Shards
• 6 Planar Essence
Cloak - Subtlety
• 4 Small Prismatic Shards
• 2 greater Planar Essence
• 8 Primal Shadow
Bracers - Stats
• 6 Arcane Dust
• 6 Lesser Planar Essence
Bracers - Spellpower
• 6 Large Prismatic Shards
• 6 Primal Fire
• 6 Primal Water

Hm, Kuan needs to go fishing, and farm up some Manas. I think I have the rest on a banker, although I might be light on the Shards.

draNgNon progress 11/19

Well, it has been quite a roller-coaster week in the lands of Azeroth and Draenor, for me. Here is my progress thus far, based on goals I put in a couple posts over the last week.

Kuanchichi
• Clear the new quests in Dustwallow Marsh. • Dailies - 10 a day • Pay Rahlenti back asap!!! • 250g to guild bank!!! • 340+ on 2H Axes and Maces. • Get an acceptable 2H Axe • Respec.	• one left, seemed bugged • did it • paid! • the money went to Rahlenti • 330+ • [Windcaller Hatchet of the Champion] • 5 points in Lightning Overload
Eeyan
• Onyxia key. • Honored with Scryer • Underbog • help Teltanara Friendly with Aldor • Strat run • 340 blacksmithing	meh, no progress on any of this stuff
Trismestigus
• quests in Silithus • Honor Hold for profession training • herbing for dollars, er, gold	• no progress • got it • no progress
Vhaas
• quests and farming in Silithus • clear Fallen Hero of the Horde questline • clear outdoor Eastern Plaguelands quests • 300 cooking • Friendly with Timbermaw Hold • Friendly with Thorium Brotherhood	no progress on any of this stuff, either

Here is next week's list. Aurochh reappears! I want him lvl 50 before the next expansion, so it's time to start; I'm shooting for 1 level a week. Meanwhile since Gruul was downed, Kuan has a quest turn in, in Slave Pens... let's pretend we still need attunements.

Kuanchichi Alchemy, weapon skillup, engineer rep, attunements
• Heroic SV
• Heroic Slave Pens
• farm for Major Prot recipes
• 340+ on 2H Axes and Maces
• Revered with Consortium
• battlegrounds
• 250g to guild bank
• clear last new quest in Mudsprocket
• Honored with Steemwheedle

Eeyan Ony key, 0.5 quests, blacksmithing, questing with Teltanara
• Onyxia key.
• Honored with Scryer
• Underbog
• Slave Pens
• help Teltanara Friendly with Aldor
• Strat run (he needs Tier 0 shoulders and Pants)
• 345 blacksmithing

Trismestigus epic ground mount
• quests in Silithus
• Honor Hold for profession training
• herbing for dollars, er, gold

Vhaas mount money, and Dranei rep for Elekk
• quests and farming in Silithus
• clear Fallen Hero of the Horde questline
• clear outdoor Eastern Plaguelands quests
• 300 cooking
• Friendly with Timbermaw Hold
• Friendly with Thorium Brotherhood

Aurochh leveling, enchanting bag
• Clear Gnomeregan
• 24 slot enchanting bag

Gruul down

Gruul is dead! As of around 11 last night Darkfall killed Gruul.

We had about 5 or 6 pugged in people, but it was mostly guild. Our last attempt both tanks were dead by about 5%. But the dps and healers who were still up kept pounding on him. I swear that was the longest ever 5% of a boss. We ended the fight with only a priest and Kuanchichi still up. (Yay for shamans who can pop and know when to do so!)

Hopefully we can get him down again next week. It was such a slap-dash kill. We are getting better at the trash on the way to him, which meant this time that we were able to get in a couple of extra tries before respawn and we cleared it twice so we had more attempts. Also we one-shotted Maulgar for the second week in a row.

Some macros

I often refer to my 'glad I have that' macro when things go badly in an instance run. Here is that macro. Basically it swaps the DPS caster gear for healy gear, in the slots one can swap in combat. Blizzard needs to shorten names, by the way; I can't even display a tooltip, it's so long.

/equip [nobutton:2] Stormshield of Renewal; [button:2] Mazthoril Honor Shield
/equip [nobutton:2] Totem of Healing Rains; [button:2] Totem of the Void
/equip [nobutton:2] Gavel of Pure Light; [button:2] Gavel of Unearthed Secrets

Also, Earth Shock is sort of useless, if one is spamming lightning bolts. Possibly 2.3 makes this not as useful, but:

#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cast Earth Shock

Lastly, Chain Lightning has a 6 second cooldown. In situation where you just want the highest damage lightning regardless of mana or threat (e.g., PVP, or AOE pulls in an instance):

#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=6 Chain Lightning, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt

The New Daily Quests and Thrallmar Rep

So yesterday Kuan and Viljo were bopping around doing daily quests. Their usual route is bombing at Skettis, demons and aether rays at Orgi'la, and then Netherwing Plateau for pollen, quests in the mine, and the Booterang. Hehe, I am so amused by giving all those peons the boot. Lately this has been added to by stopping in Nagrand to kill agents of the Legion.

So while we were doing this we stopped by Lower City and picked up the Dungeon, Heroic, and battle ground daily quests. About this time Ellusionist, a palladin that joined the guild just last week after the Gruul run, asks if anyone is interested in running anything. By this time both Kuan and Viljo have enough gold that they have paid Rahlenti off, or will be able to do so very soon. So I pop us in the queue for Heroic Bot, because that is where Warp Splinter is and there is an ethereal who will give us 2 badges of justice and 24g each for a cutting from him. Some crazy Darnassian druids want to regrow him.

We pick up Lybarger, a kick ass rogue, and are looking for a tank while all of us do the rest of our daily quests. I get a nibble from someone in quest greens and blues and we as a group decide that 1) we will pass on the wipe fest that would likely result from having him tank. And 2) it's sad that they made it so that you only had to be honored to get the heroic keys. Getting to revered was a pain in the ass, but running all those instances virtually guaranteed that you would get some better gear and thus have a slightly higher chance of surviving in a heroic. Anyway our waiting pays off, Lybarger pulls in a tank from the Fabled.

We proceed to kick ass and take names all the way to the first boss. Unfortunately at that point the tank has to go. He stays for the boss but we're on our own after that. Just about this time Isd, who recently joined Darkfall (Yay!), logs on. We pull him into the group and, in a lovely reversal of the first heroic Kuan and Vijo ever tried, just wiped out the instance. We did skip Thorngrin the Tender after one wipe on him, because that guy is a pain in the ass even on normal, let alone heroic.

I always feel bad killing Warp Splinter. He seems like a confused old man, in the wrong place and not really sure of what is going on. However due to his homicidal tendencies I don't feel too bad. That and the phat lewts make it all ok.

Anyway after that Lybarger has to go and we pick up Arnazz, another rogue from Darkfall. We head into regular Shattered Halls to kill Centurions for the Dungeon daily quest there. But they time we finally make it to them Viljo is 1500+ rep away from exalted. So as a group we swap to heroic Ramparts. We were a little sloppy because it was a relatively new group. But we made it through and both Kuan and Viljo are now exalted with Thrallmar!

Viljo bought the sword right after the run. It glows! A lot. Like eye hurty a lot. As in so much so that it looks like Vijo just has a large glowing white thing in his hand. Then Vijo got the +40 spell damage enchant for the sword from a guildie. And Viljo needed a new off-hand. He had the one from Netherspite, but that has spellhit, not crit. I looked at the badge of justice rewards. There was the Flametongue Seal and the Fetish of the Primal Gods. I'm not entirely sure what spell haste does for a mage, but the fetish looked really cool. And even though I've respecced Vijo to be all about fire, I don't really like having gear that only benefits one school of magic. So Viljo now carries the Fetish of the Primal Gods and the Stormcaller as his main dps gear. The Staff of Infinite Mysteries will be kept around for stamina gear, and cause it looks pretty cool.

And because he's finally got the Thrallmar rep Viljo wears their tabard. :-D

Debt-free

Kuanchichi has finally paid Rahlenti back for the epic mount money. *whew*

When the mail expired out of his mailbox, I just got embarrassed.

Now, he has 5g, and Aurochh has 3g. Will need to fix that in the next 24 hours; Kuan will do some dailies, and Aurochh - Gnomeregan.

Teltanara and Fear Ward

A week-ish ago Teltanara hit level 65, This was just after Eeyan had reached level 67. Sadly she only reached 65 after the group had finished the Ring of Blood quests. So she still has to do them. :( I remain convinced that the only reason we were able to do Ring of Blood was because we got one of the main tanks from The Fabled (who are most of the way through TK:Eye and SSC) to help us. Even so there were a couple of really close calls there.

Anyway she is now 65 and could wear the spiffy Collar of Command that dropped the first time through Auchenai Crypts. Which is good because her +heal is abominable right now and needs all the help it can get.

So last night I logged her in intending to make some more primal mooncloth. My goal is to get all three Primal Mooncloth set pieces ready for her to put on when she reaches 70. She's already got the belt in the bank, but needs Primal Life for the shoulders, and (now that I look at it) Primal Mana and primal mooncloth for the robe.

While I was puttering around assembling motes of water and life I realized that I need to take Telt to the trainer. She has a new spell courtesy of the patch. Fear Ward!! Of course they nerfed the crap out of it before giving it to everyone. It now only lasts for 3 minutes and has a cooldown of 3 minutes, so it can only be case one one person at a time. But I could see this being quite useful, Especially when paired with her usual accomplice, Eeyan, who already has will of the Forsaken to get out of fears.

Respec sooner than I thought

I got around to logging in Kuanchichi last night and ran around Dustwallow beating on level 39 and 40 mobs with 2H axe and mace. It took abotu 10 mins before I noticed the blank buttons, and then that Blizzard had succumbed to the massive shaman outcry and zero'd out the shaman specs.

Here's what I've done so far. I started working out the numbers and mana benefit from Unrelenting Storm and comparing them to what the 2.3 changes yielded... because in a raid situation Kuan's problem is he runs out of mana quite rapidly in long fights.

• 5 points in Unrelenting Storm assuming 400 Intellect yields 40mp5 which is 480 mana per minute.

• The mana spring totem went from 12 mp2 to 20 mp2, which yields 240 mana per minute. So right there I free up 2 points.

• The change to Water Shield worked out to 204 mana per globe, which was renewed every minute, so a minimum of 612 mana per minute.

• And of course, the damage nerf to Lightning Bolt was also a mana nerf, so it uses less mana.

Now, the question is, what is more important. The expensive Totem of Wrath, that grants party members +3% spell hit and crit? or the insta-cast Nature spell every 3 mins? I am inclined to the latter, since I've used it a lot in oshit situations in Heroics and Kara, tank health is dropping and healer is silenced o shit! I am sure the guild casters would rather see the totem. If the totem was a clear win (in terms of group damage output) over using a Searing to cast fireballs, that'd be an easier call. But Searing wins against any mob without fire resist.


Gee, a lot of WoWwiki on this stuff is stubs. I should fill it in

wow 2.3

So, the patch dropped, and many good things came from it. Unfortunately, Kuanchichi didn't get any love from it. Frustrated with the nerf, I have parked him in Mudsprocket, the new goblin quest hub in Dustwallow Marsh.

As a result, his focus and to-do list has changed. For the moment, I need to explore his capabilities as he doesn't have a lot of gold for a lot of respecs. And respec he must, the patch has easily shaved roughly 100 eDPS off his current spec.

Meanwhile I was so focussed on the patch and what it was doing to Kuan, it didn't click that suddenly we have a very... expensive... guild bank. And here, Kuan owes Rahlenti 400 gold still, 30 days later. So, he just needs to farm and do dailies.

Lastly, that new quest hub in Dustwallow? The quests are easy, sort of fun, and 250 rep each with Gadgetzan. Time to work on getting Honored with Steemwheedle.

So, my plan for Kuan for the rest of this week, and really probably next:
• Clear the new quests in Dustwallow Marsh.
• Dailies - 10 a day - outdoor ones, not the heroic/instance ones. I need that 100g/day...
• Pay Rahlenti back asap!!!
• 250g to guild bank!!!
• 340+ on 2H Axes and Maces.
• Get an acceptable 2H Axe (he has a grey one now)
• Respec. Either deeper Elemental or Restoration. GL doesn't want Enhance and I'm inclined to agree, after all, I have Eeyan if I want to melee.

Really, though, as far as I'm concerned the patch sucks. Of course that's only after one evening of play; work sucks harder and I've not played since Tuesday night. Even though Kuan's DPS is down, I am not clear on how his DPM has changed. If Shaman mana efficiency has skyrocketed like some people report, I have points in regen I can repurpose to damage, and then it will be all good.

draNgNon progress 11/12

Wow, we sure haven't updated the blog in a while! This last week there have been some Mana-Tombs runs. Eeyan and Teltanara both have been through there a few times. Last night, Kuan and Viljo ran heroic Mana-Tombs, all the way through, for the first time! Not only that, last night was the first time Clara learned about the /moon emote.

Viljo drops his pants and moons Drognin.
Viljo drops his pants and moons Kuanchichi.
Viljo drops his pants and moons Nexus Terror.
Viljo drops his pants and moons Doondoons.

I laughed until my sides hurt.

Anyhow, boring as it may sound, here is my progress based on last week's list. Unfortunately Shaffar was not polite enough to drop the Major Frost Prot recipe. Perhaps he did not like getting mooned.

Kuanchichi
• Heroic SV • honored with Netherwing • battlegrounds • clear Dukes in Silithus, damn it • farm for Major Prot recipes • clear grey DM quests	• no progress • got it • no time really... • no progress • Major Arcane Prot • need tribute run
Eeyan
• Onyxia key. • Honored with Scryer • Underbog • help Teltanara Friendly with Aldor • Strat run • 340 blacksmithing	• still no. /cry • need 100 signets • er, Mana Tombs? • picked up at least 1000 rep • nope... • got it more: level 67! and: Friendly with Sha'tar, LC
Trismestigus
• quests in Silithus • Honor Hold for profession training • herbing for dollars, er, gold	meh, no progress on any of this stuff
Vhaas
• quests and farming in Silithus • clear Fallen Hero of the Horde questline • clear outdoor Eastern Plaguelands quests • 300 cooking • neutral with Timbermaw Hold, OMG! • friendly with Thorium Brotherhood	• nope • nope • turned in a couple • no progress • almost to Friendly! • no progress

Here is next week's list. Kuan's list is subject to change... looks like 2.3 might drop tonight, in which case Zul'Aman might appear as a priority...

Kuanchichi repay Rahlenti, Alchemy, grey quests, and offspec gear
• Heroic SV
• Revered with Consortium
• battlegrounds
• clear Dukes in Silithus, damn it
• farm for Major Prot recipes
• clear grey DM quests

Eeyan Ony key, 0.5 quests, blacksmithing, questing with Teltanara
• Onyxia key.
• Honored with Scryer
• Underbog
• help Teltanara Friendly with Aldor
• Strat run (he needs Tier 0 shoulders and Pants)
• 345 blacksmithing

Trismestigus epic ground mount
• quests in Silithus
• Honor Hold for profession training
• herbing for dollars, er, gold

Vhaas mount money, and Dranei rep for Elekk:
• quests and farming in Silithus
• clear Fallen Hero of the Horde questline
• clear outdoor Eastern Plaguelands quests
• 300 cooking
• Friendly with Timbermaw Hold
• Friendly with Thorium Brotherhood

Alliance...

We got home from work too late last night to do anything that required full mental engagement with the game. So, we logged in Vhaas and Khyrie, and got them almost all the way to Friendly with Timbermaw Hold; there's a mindless comfort to slaughtering furblogs. We then turned in a quest at LHC and parked them there.

Alchemy Discovery

Last night, while making mana potions just before the Curator in Karazhan, Viljo discovered the Flask of Mighty Restoration. Hopefully there are some healer types in the guild who want it.

Blizz wants Kuan enhance

[Malchazeen]




...becuase not just the rogue, but also the resto shaman already HAD ONE...

draNgNon progress 11/5

So, a day late and a dollar short, here is my progress based on last week's list. The Alliance toons, they continue to languish, but Clara and I have perhaps figured out a plan. We'll see.

Kuanchichi
• clear one "Trial of the Naaru" quest • acquire an epic healy mace and enchant it • friendly with Netherwing • battlegrounds • clear Dukes in Silithus, damn it • Cauldron of Nature Prot • farm for Major Prot recipes • clear grey DM quests	• half of Strength • [Gavel of Pure Light] • got it • no time really... • no progress • got it • farmed but no luck • need tribute run
Eeyan
• Onyxia key. • Honored with Scryer • start on Terrokar • help Teltanara Honored with Aldor • Strat run	• still no. /cry • need 120 signets • well into it • too ambitious, for a BE • nope... more: level 66!
Trismestigus
• quests in Silithus • Honor Hold for profession training • herbing for dollars, er, gold	meh, no progress on any of this stuff
Vhaas
• clear Fallen Hero of the Horde questline • clear outdoor Eastern Plaguelands quests • 300 cooking • neutral with Timbermaw Hold, OMG! • friendly with Thorium Brotherhood • run BRD again... • and maybe some other instance.	meh, no progress on any of this stuff

Here is next week's list. Kuan's list is subject to change... I am still thinking I will respec some of his talent points into enhance when PTR closes, to skill up 2h Mace and Axe in prep for the expertise changes in 2.3. I copied him onto PTR but the expertise changes are not there.

Kuanchichi repay Rahlenti, Alchemy, grey quests, and offspec gear
• Heroic SV
• honored with Netherwing
• battlegrounds
• clear Dukes in Silithus, damn it
• farm for Major Prot recipes
• clear grey DM quests

Eeyan Ony key, 0.5 quests, blacksmithing, questing with Teltanara
• Onyxia key.
• Honored with Scryer
• Underbog
• help Teltanara Friendly with Aldor
• Strat run (he needs Tier 0 shoulders and Pants)
• 340 blacksmithing

Trismestigus epic ground mount
• quests in Silithus
• Honor Hold for profession training
• herbing for dollars, er, gold

Vhaas mount money, and Dranei rep for Elekk:
• quests and farming in Silithus
• clear Fallen Hero of the Horde questline
• clear outdoor Eastern Plaguelands quests
• 300 cooking
• neutral with Timbermaw Hold, OMG!
• friendly with Thorium Brotherhood

High King Maulgar

Yesterday evening Darkfall ran Gruul's Lair. Sadly we are still lacking people for a full guild-only run of Gruul. So it took about an hour to get the last 8-ish healers and dps we needed. However once we got people we downed Maulgar and his council on our 4th try.

There were a couple of wipes on bad pulls to start with. We definitely have enough dps for the fight, but the tricky part of this fight isn't dps like Gruul, it's the initial pull and aggro generation. Then after our 3rd wipe an annoying dumbass warlock decided that it would be faster for him to spirit rez than to hearth and get summoned back. He had already been annoying earlier but it was excruciating watching my flask and mana oil tick down.

So our 4th attempt went off well. Viljo didn't run out of mana and managed not to die. (Last time he got punted into Maulgar just as a whirlwind was starting up. Death was instantaneous.) And Maulgar dropped some nice loots. Viljo got his Pauldrons of the Aldor. Sadly Kuan didn't win the roll for his t4 shoulder token.

Tricky Treats

Viljo ate too many Tricky Treats and vomited on a night elf.

Heroic Shadow Lab!

Viljo has subbed into a Heroic SL run once a couple weeks ago, but other than that today was the first time Kuan and Viljo ran one of the 'harder' i.e. level 70 instances on heroic. it was a challenge but all in all it was pretty fun!

We had no Darkfall tanks available but right as we were going to give up Bandwee signed on. I saw him pop to Nagrand and guessed he was collecting Consortium awards. So I asked if he'd tank and he was all for that, since he too had never run the instance before.

I miss playing with Bandwee, it was pretty fun. Blackheart, we oneshotted, but the later two bosses took a learning curve, as they have different behaviour. Bandwee also needs the quest Trial of the Naaru: Strength so hopefully we will have a party together tomorrow at 2pm to run Heroic Steamvaults.

name change

The second toon I ever rolled was a Tauren huntress, named Siobhantha.

"sho-vahn-tha"

She's 45 now; I only ever use her to play with friends leveling up. Kuan and Eeyan are just far more fun.

sigh. Nobody could get it, and while some people abbreviated it the easier-to-remember "bhantha," a lot of people just called her "siob" which just doesn't flow.

Tonight I coughed up the $10 to change her name in the DB to Bhantha.

But, that is not important nor why I am posting. I just wanted to mention that the final confirmation page on name change has as a graphic, a Human warrior named Leeroy, changing his name to Elroy, and saying: "I'll finally be able to play in peace."

enhance

I wonder how viable this build would be...