a new look for Kuan

Serpentshrine Cavern reset tonight, so Darkfall went in there and down'd Leo again. And he again dropped the shaman gloves x2... and nice mail healy shoulders. We had a healy pally in the raid, Crisara, who got the first pair, but everyone else was either new or depleted or much more interested in those shoulders. So Kuan has a pair of gloves to match his pants.

Darkfall's blueish-black tabard with the red and white details just doesn't look good with yellow and rust-colored gear, though. After some consideration, I decided since getting exalted Keepers of Time was such a pain I should wear the tabard. After all it also has a dragon logo on it, how appropos!



On another note, our guild leader has been lock-tanking Leo. Since his main is a warrior right now, seeing all these T5 gloves drop has been disappointing. Another lock has been working on gearing up for that, and all he needed was Magtheridon. So after we called SSC, we jumped into Magtheridon's Lair to get the other lock the Phoenix-fire band for completing the quest.

Why do I bring this up? Rahlenti went with us, his first Darkfall raid. I'm thinking he's not really been to Karazhan much with his gear. He ended up making out like a bandit, getting a couple pieces off Lurker and T4 Chest from Mag. Woot!

about those PANTS!!!

I am still doing the Pants Dance.

I should go to bed. OMG I have been annoyed forever that T4 legs were a skirt, and even more annoyed that Kuan was in a skirt.

/dance

So about the re-gem. T4 pants are +20 spell hit. T5 +14 spell hit, +20 crit. What I basically did was say screw it: I pulled the Veiled Noble Topaz out of his boots, the only red socket Kuan has, and replaced it with the Runed Crimson Spinel which is the other quest reward for getting the Heroic Magisters' Terrace Key. Then, in the new yellow socket in the T5 pants I put Great Dawnstone.

So the bottom line, gem-wise, is that +5 dmg +4 spell hit has been replaced with +12 dmg, +8 spell hit. Not so shabby.

But enough sitting here typing. I need to dance more. Must focus on what's important: no more skirt, on my beautiful male troll! Then, to bed.

Karathress Down!

As DraNgNon has already posted we downed Leotheras for the 2nd time tonight and then went on to kill Fathom Lord Karathress.

It was pretty late so a bunch of people had to go. This meant that Teltanara was needed more than Viljo. This was sad, because 2 mage,warlock,hunter tokens dropped, and Viljo missed out. But it was also awesome because I've tried really hard to keep Telt geared up enough that she can be brought in when we have a lack of heals. And here she is, helping out against Karathress.

The first couple of attempts against Karathress were not so good. Mostly because I was put on healing a pretty difficult target. My favorite warrior tank, Isd, was tanking the shaman for Karathress. Walkietalkie (who just joined the guild) and Telt were put on keeping him up and we just couldn't deal. :( The shaman doesn't do a lot of damage, but what he does is very bursty, because of the windfury procing.

So Telt was swapped with another priest, and a pally got added to her new target, as apparently the previous priest hadn't been able to keep everyone up either. She was now healing the tank for the priest for Karathress.

And then the raid owned Karathress, hardcore. We 24-manned him with only one death. And that person got a battle rez, so the fight ended with everyone still alive. We were short one rogue who probably fell asleep. He's gonna be annoyed tomorrow, but ah well.

I'm so so glad that we managed to down him that last time. Otherwise I would have started seriously stressing about Telt's ability to heal. As it is I've decided that I will be patient and save her badges for the 150 badge healy mace. She managed to snag the t4 hat in Kara over the weekend, so I'm pretty pleased about that too. :D

PANTS!!!

"Once more into the breach dear friends..."

Darkfall tried yet again to down Leotheras the Blind. We tried and tried, and tried and tried, and then he died. Two pairs of Shaman T5 glove tokens dropped! Kuan bid the amount of DKP 2 raids' attendance was worth. Of course he did not win.

That left us with raid time left, nothing better to do than go after Fathom-Lord whatshisbutt, and everyone qualified for those T5 tokens depleted in DKP.

So now Kuan is in pants again: Cataclysm Leggings. omg, no more stupid skirt. omg, so happy.

Now, to re-gem, he's dropped below hit cap.

old faces reappear

Rahlenti started playing again! Even better, he app'd to Darkfall and has yesterday joined the guild! yay!

Clara agreed with me on the Alliance lameness. However that is no good as Khyrie is her only druid. So yesterday she re-rolled Naranon and started him leveling up.

Mag's head

Last night was Gruul + Mag for Darkfall. Viljo was the mage tank (/flex) and we managed to down Maulgar and Gruul on our first tries. Of course this meant that once we got to Magtheridon we messed up the first time. It was due to someone not being sure if they were a cube clicker and not getting an affirmative in time to click. Anyway Mag died our second try, once we got the clicking sorted out.

Vilijo already had the wand and t4 chest from Mag. So Viljo isn't all that interested in the loot. Except for Mag's head. I decided that I wanted the head. The ring you get as quest reward isn't all that great. But it would be a slightly better boss dps ring than what Viljo had. And even more importantly it would be a quest that Viljo finished.

So Viljo bid all his dkp. I figured I might as well. If I didn't bid everything and someone else got the head, I'd be annoyed that I missed out. And if I did bid everything and someone else got the head, then that someone else would deplete their dkp.

Viljo is now the proud weared of the Band of Crimson Fury.

Progress in the Old School

Last night, after considering my list and the list Clara never posts, we decided to park Eeyan next to the back door to Stratholme, and walk Kuan and Viljo through it so a) they could get rep, b) Viljo could get enough Runecloth to hit Exalted Darkspear, and c) Eeeyan could get his shoulders, becuae of course the leather agility shoulders will be what drops if a mage and a shaman are obviously farming.

I noted Kuan hadn't done the Fras Siabi quest either, and he picked it up. I note that this was lame since it did not grant AD rep. I think I knew that at some point. Stupid dwarf.

Anyhow we screwed up the Fras Siabi quest with inadequate clearing. So, in the middle of it we went to Ogrimmar so Viljo could turn in the Runecloths we had and thus free up bag space.

This plan was a success. Kuan's AD rep went up 1500, Viljo ended up Exalted with Darkspear, and since we were clearly farming Strat with a mage and a shaman, Cannonmaster finally dropped the [Shadowcraft Spaulders] for Eeyan. Meh, that is still lucky; he might have dropped Lightforge.

But then we were too tired to try the undead side. Ah well. Just need the King of Pants to drop [Shadowcraft Pants] and Eeyan can finally turn in Anthion's Parting Words.

the new and improved list

We haven't posted in a while. Part of the reason is that my progress list clearly got out of control. I didn't want to update til I'd done that, and I didn't want to bother...

Anyhow here's the summary. Kuan's been raiding with indifferent success and picked up a lot of offspec gear. Eeyan hasn't gotten much done other than clearing Path of Conquest, because Kuan has also been farming badges. Upon hitting 100 badges and taking a second look at [Hauberk of Whirling Fury] I decided it wasn't really going to be worth it.

Tylara is 25 and has cleared Ghostlands. Not sure what to do next. Aurochh is 43 and has cleared Uldaman. And Ikoli, is 323 Tailoring.

And lastly, Vhaas got her first 10 Firewing Signets, and the SW Children's week quests done. Whilst doing that I came again to the conclusion that Alliance could turn even the most intelligent people into idiots. Haven't logged her in since.

The list is still pretty useful, but it needs to be a reminder and not some out of control thing. So here it is again, slightly reformulated. Here's what we're working on, which means: what we'll fill in the time with when we are logged in, and aren't in a guild run etc. Badges & honor is a given for level 70s.

Kuanchichi
• Reputation: Keepers of Time, Shattered Sun, Argent Dawn
• Heroics: Magisters', Black Morass
• Raid instances: Zul'Aman + whatever Darkfall is on
• Arenas
• Farm: [Major Frost Prot], Primal Water

Eeyan
• Skills: 375 blacksmithing, 345+ all ranged
• Reputation: Outland factions, Argent Dawn, Thorium Brotherhood
• Raid instances: Kara, Gruul's, Molten Core if we can swing it
• Farm: Tier 0 Shoulders and Pants, Primal Air, Adamantite, [Plans: Ragesteel Helm], [Plans: Felsteel Helm]

Ikoli
• Skills: 350 Tailoring
• Quests: priest runups to Sunken Temple

Aurochh
• Skills: 290 enchanting

Tylara
• Quests: Hillsbrad, Thousand Needles

Fathom Lord Karathress

Kuanchichi and Viljo went to SSC with Darkfall last night. Lurker and Leotheras were already dead from earlier in the week. So we skipped straight on to Fathom Lord Karathress.

This was an interesting fight. The trash was just a bunch of bog giants, and really not all that painful, especially compared to Leo Trash, which is just excruciating. Once we got that room cleared we had 5 or 6 attempts on the Fathom Lord before repops happened on top of us.

We eventually got the fight down to the point where we had the 3rd add mostly dead by the time the tanks had started taking dirt naps. (Silly sleepy tanks.) Things started going better when we killed the shaman first, had an off tank ready for the hunter's pet, and had an ele shaman near the priest for interrupts, self-heals, and extra heals.

I think our main problem was that we were missing a few healers at the start so some alts got swapped in. And people kept coming in or leaving so we kept having to re-explain. That said I suspect that the next time we try him out we'll do a much better job, and the time after that we'll probably get him down.

Leo Down

Darkfall finally downed Leotheras the Blind. For weeks we haven't been able to get him below 20%, including the first attempt tonight. Then, second attempt, he was pwned. Kuan died at 1% having gotten whirlwinded twice. I was mad and started to yell, then Leo fell.

Gloves for each class dropped. I didn't bother going for them as I knew at least one shaman and one rogue who wanted them badly. They tied on bids, and the rogue rolled a 2. Now the shaman feels guilty, but does, after all, have spiffy new gloves.

I figure, there's always next week. The rogue can get them then. Or, I'll take a shot at them.

Meanwhile, last night we downed Maulgar, Gruul, Magtheridon. The latter two were oneshots. Maulgar, though, just can't get him right, and it took 3 tries. Maulgar however is officially considered On Farm so Kuan got his T4 shoulders without needing to bid. Becuase who knows when they will bother fixing Void Reaver.

draNgNon progress 5 May

Tempis fugit, and it's time for progress on my last list! It's not as much as I wanted, with the new pally. But without any further ado:

Kuanchichi
• [Hauberk of Whirling Fury] • Exalted with Keepers of Time • Exalted with Shattered Sun • Zul'Aman run at least til Akil'zon • PvP... get at least 2 pieces of S1 • Arenas 5x5 • farm for [Major Frost Prot]	• 3/4 there • 18555 Revered • hahaha • nope • no time • some, not a lot • nope more: Children's week!
Eeyan
• 375 blacksmithing • Get urn to summon Nightbane • Revered with Thrallmar • Revered with Shattered Sun • Finish Scryer quest chains in SMV • Path of Conquest • Strat run • Scholo run • 345+ all ranged	• no progress • got it • got it • about 2/3 there • done • no tank • nope • cleared it for a Pally hat • gettin' there on guns more: Children's week!
Aurochh
• Uldaman • ZF again • RFD • 290 enchanting	• nope • nope • nope • 287
Ikoli
• Mooncloth • 300 Tailoring • priest runups to Sunken Temple	• been making it • 321!! • nope
Vhaas
• First 10 Firewing Signets • Allerian flight point • Harborage flight point • Clear Dranei quests in Hellfire • BRD, sigh • Slave Pens • Try Hellfire Ramparts maybe	• got em • got it • got it • nope • nope • cleared • nope more: level 64! and: Friendly with CE
Trismestigus
• quests in Silithus • 290 Tailoring	no progress on any of this

Let's take a stab at the next 2 weeks.

Kuanchichi
• [Hauberk of Whirling Fury]
• Exalted with Keepers of Time
• Exalted with Shattered Sun
• Heroic Magisters'
• Zul'Aman
• Arenas
• farm for [Major Frost Prot]

Eeyan
• 375 blacksmithing
• Revered with Shattered Sun
• Path of Conquest
• a Gruul's run
• Strat run (for Tier 0 Shoulders and Pants)
• Scholo run (for Tier 0 Hat)
• 345+ all ranged

Ikoli
• Imbued Netherweave
• priest runups to Sunken Temple

Aurochh
• Uldaman
• ZF again
• RFD
• 290 enchanting

Tylara
• BFD
• Freewind post FP
• clear Ghostlands
• Blood Knight tabard

Vhaas
• Children's week SW quests
• more Firewing Signets
• help Khyrie with Marks
• clear Dranei quests in Hellfire
• BRD, sigh
• clear CH quests
• try Hellfire Ramparts maybe

Trismestigus
• quests in Silithus
• 290 Tailoring

Old Hillsbrad

Last night we had planned to run Tylara and Mornara through BFD, and then Run Evallen and Aurochh through Ulda. Or perhaps do that in the opposite order. Either way, it didn't happen because Evallen's internet was not working.

So I logged in Lithui and got him up a level and then we decided that we wanted to run something with Cerantra. Cerantra had never done the Caverns of Time instances. So we hopped onto Kuan and Viljo and grabbed a guildie bear tank and a healer to run as 3rd dps.

We were terribly sloppy running through the instance :) Because we were so over powered for it. But it was a ton of fun. Got a couple of shards and some KoT rep. Kuanchichi is now at 18555/21000, so just two more runs of anything will get exalted and the recipe for flask of supreme power.