meanwhile, Naxx!

One of the tanks in Thwarted Destiny is in India on business and can't make regular raid times. So, he got his act together, logged in quite early Sunday (IST), and organized what was for us a Saturday night 25-man Naxx pug. It was Kuanchichi's first time in Naxx at all and well, whoa.

There's very little trash, it feels like you just go from boss to boss. I guess they culled out the trash in an effort to streamline it for 10-man runs. But a lot of the participants in the raid were from top-notch guilds so we cleared two wings (Arachnid and Plague) even with Kuan's crappy DPS (which nonetheless was better than the balance druid in my group). Kuan ended up getting two of the drops: an offspec mace that went to free rolls, [Angry Dread], and an onspec ring, [Seized Beauty]. The ring is so good he was able to vendor a couple blue rings he'd been carrying around.

Yesterday Kuan and Viljo got into a Thwarted Destiny guild run of 10-man Naxx. The raid leadership decided, probably for optimized loot distribution, to do the harder wings first, so we immediately went to Patchwerk. The problem was, at least 4 people in the raid, including one of the tanks, hadn't seen the fights at all, so after 6 hours we'd cleared the Construct wing and done the first boss on Military. However that boss also dropped the ele shaman bracers, [Iron Rings of Endurance], which Kuan happily equipped in place of his lvl 70 badged bracers, woot. Perhaps in the future Kuan's DPS will be slightly less crappy! A little while later I messed with Kuan's heal outfit and realized that those bracers are also better healy bracers than the leather ones Kuan had. So, two onspec items translated into replacing 4 slots of gear. Yay bag space.

As for Viljo - yes, Viljo went on a guild run with Thwarted Destiny, Clara gquit Darkfall Saturday night! Whoa! And Viljo got his goofy T7 shoulders out of the guild run too, as well as a glove upgrade from the 25-man pug. I don't have the links for those, Clara will have to edit the post and add them in later.

Anyhow, a coworker pointed out to me today in email, that since Kuan and Viljo are attuned for Naxx out of LHC, the AD Naxx quest chains are available, starting with Echoes of War. We will go pick that up tonight so that any future Naxx runs will contribute to completion, even if there are hardly any trash mobs there.