We did not, actually, down Lurker last night.
We did get him to 3%, with fishies in the water. But at least three of the guild top DPS'ers were "off their game." That makes some sense, considering Kuan topped the meters for caster DPS for all but one try. Including a try where I'd forgotten to flask him. For all of them, his DPS was lower than normal for a 25-man, even after getting the lovely Mindblade Monday.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Weapons and luck
Today, and for a while now, I was feeling pretty crappy. So crappy that I wasn't going to log in to WoW last night. However, DraNgNon convinced me that I should, mostly because we thought that the regular mage tank wouldn't be there and Viljo would be needed for Maulgar.
So we logged in and killed Maulgar after a couple of wipes and then proceeded to one-shot Gruul as is our wont. We have a hard time with the coordination for Maulgar, but we've turned Gruul into a dps fight because everyone is geared.
Gruul dropped the Bloodmaw Magus-Blade!!! And Viljo was at the top of the dkp. So now Viljo is the proud owner of the lovely magus-blade. /swoon And due to the kindness of guildies and generosity of DraNgNon Viljo has the Sunfire enchant. +50 to fire and arcane, woot. I even was able to get the void crystals for that from the guild bank, which makes sense, because we've got at least 200 of them in there.
Then Kuan and Telt went to Kara to finish up last Tuesday's run. We skipped Illhoof due to a lack of aoe and a plethora of melee dps. But we one shot all the other bosses we tried. Which, given Telt's lack of health, quite frankly shocked me that we one-shotted Aran. Anyway, the Nathrezim Mindblade dropped from Prince. The only other caster dps there already had it so Kuan got it!
Yay for shiny new weapons! Yay! We shall surely kill Lurker on Wednesday night!
So we logged in and killed Maulgar after a couple of wipes and then proceeded to one-shot Gruul as is our wont. We have a hard time with the coordination for Maulgar, but we've turned Gruul into a dps fight because everyone is geared.
Gruul dropped the Bloodmaw Magus-Blade!!! And Viljo was at the top of the dkp. So now Viljo is the proud owner of the lovely magus-blade. /swoon And due to the kindness of guildies and generosity of DraNgNon Viljo has the Sunfire enchant. +50 to fire and arcane, woot. I even was able to get the void crystals for that from the guild bank, which makes sense, because we've got at least 200 of them in there.
Then Kuan and Telt went to Kara to finish up last Tuesday's run. We skipped Illhoof due to a lack of aoe and a plethora of melee dps. But we one shot all the other bosses we tried. Which, given Telt's lack of health, quite frankly shocked me that we one-shotted Aran. Anyway, the Nathrezim Mindblade dropped from Prince. The only other caster dps there already had it so Kuan got it!
Yay for shiny new weapons! Yay! We shall surely kill Lurker on Wednesday night!
Monday, January 28, 2008
draNgNon progress 28 Jan
It's been 2 weeks, and time for my progress based on my last list.
Here is my new list. Kuan needs spirit shards, badges, and the recipe for Flask of Supreme Power. Eeyan needs quests for money, badges, and Skyguard rep.
Kuanchichi Alchemy, weapon skillup, gear
• Exalted with Keepers of Time
• Heroic SH, timed
• farm for [Major Frost Prot]
• 350 on 2H Maces
• PvP... at least the daily...
• Learn Cauldron of Major Fire Prot
• [Seal of the Exorcist]
Eeyan blacksmithing, 0.5 quests, epic mount money for Teltanara
• Revered with Cenarion Expedition
• Revered with Scryer
• [Blood Knight War Cloak]
• Onyxia key
• Strat run (for Tier 0 Shoulders and Pants)
• Scholo run (for Tier 0 Hat)
• 375 blacksmithing
• 340+ all ranged
Aurochh leveling, enchanting skillups
• Start on Badlands
• Clear BB quests in STV
• Uldaman
• 280 enchanting
| Kuanchichi | |
| • Heroic SH • farm for [Major Frost Prot] • 350 on 2H Maces • PvP... at least the daily... • farm up some primals, whee • Learn Cauldron of Major Fire Prot • [Stormwrap] • [Seal of the Exorcist] | • Ran it, missed timer • did not drop • nope • have been somewhat spotty on it • banked some, some to guild • nope • got it! • still no. bad timing |
| Eeyan | |
| • Honored with Violet Eye • Revered with Scryer • Ogri'la starter quests • [Searing Sunblade] • Onyxia key • Strat run • 375 blacksmithing • 335+ all ranged | • got it • half way • Friendly with Ogri'la • no, not now • nope • and nope • 366 • got it more: Epic Flying Mount!!!! |
| Aurochh | |
| • Clear Stromgarde • Start on Badlands • Uldaman runups • 280 enchanting | • cleared • nope • nope • 277 |
Here is my new list. Kuan needs spirit shards, badges, and the recipe for Flask of Supreme Power. Eeyan needs quests for money, badges, and Skyguard rep.
Kuanchichi Alchemy, weapon skillup, gear
• Exalted with Keepers of Time
• Heroic SH, timed
• farm for [Major Frost Prot]
• 350 on 2H Maces
• PvP... at least the daily...
• Learn Cauldron of Major Fire Prot
• [Seal of the Exorcist]
Eeyan blacksmithing, 0.5 quests, epic mount money for Teltanara
• Revered with Cenarion Expedition
• Revered with Scryer
• [Blood Knight War Cloak]
• Onyxia key
• Strat run (for Tier 0 Shoulders and Pants)
• Scholo run (for Tier 0 Hat)
• 375 blacksmithing
• 340+ all ranged
Aurochh leveling, enchanting skillups
• Start on Badlands
• Clear BB quests in STV
• Uldaman
• 280 enchanting
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Saturday in Azeroth
Clara has not been feeling well, and the weather was icky, so Saturday turned into Wowday. The intention, was to use it to farm up what we needed for upcoming raids.
First, we took the Alliance toons and set up bags, banks, auctions, etc. Then Clara logged in Teltanara just in time to see one of our guildies announce she wanted her hunter alt through Heroic Mech and needed a healer. She hadn't gotten a group together so I figured why not? and logged in Eeyan. One of the guild locks came (yay, Mech is so much easier with a lock) and we pugged in a tank in blues and off we went!
It was slow going and Eeyan died lots (the Destroyers are apparently immune to Kick and Silencing Shot), but we didn't wipe unduly for a bunch of alts in blues, and we did end up downing all the bosses. Eeyan got 4 badges and a Nether! The group worked pretty well, so we swapped out the lock for a rogue from the tank's guild, and Eeyan for Kuan, and headed down to Caverns of Time for some Black Morass action and some rep.
While we were there, our guild shadow priest (we only have one!) asked for a Heroic Mech run for rep, so once we completely Black Morass Clara swapped to Viljo, the hunter alt swapped to her healy pally, and we ran it again! Hm, I don't even remember who tanked. Amazing how much easier Heroic Mech is when everyone is in epics, though. Turns out the shadow priest didn't even have Sha'tar revered, so now he does, and he went posthaste to pick up his Glyph of Power. That made me happy as he's part of our 25-man raid...
After that we did, actually, do a little bit of farming. But then it was time for a Guild PvP event. The Pally class lead loves to PvP, and we formed up a raid and tried to take over the Deeprun Tram. I'm not so sure we succeeded. But we did get to ride it about for a while. At one point the only other folks we saw on the tram... were other Horde. A new discovery for me: when Horde dies on the tram, they have to corpse run from Eastvale Logging, and entering the tram instance does not recover the corpse, you have to find it too. Anyhow once we were bored of that we raided Darnassus. Horde can access their guild bank from there, go figure.
After that Eeyan and Telt did some regular questing, but by this time it was after midnight, so it was time for sleepies; Clara was starting to feel ikky again. But quite a bit of progress and fun! I think Telt ended up picking up enough badges to get the [Bishop's Cloak]. Eeyan still doesn't have enough badges for anything. That's OK though. Probably once he gets a few more I will blow them on the cloak, instead of stockpiling them for offhand daggar.
First, we took the Alliance toons and set up bags, banks, auctions, etc. Then Clara logged in Teltanara just in time to see one of our guildies announce she wanted her hunter alt through Heroic Mech and needed a healer. She hadn't gotten a group together so I figured why not? and logged in Eeyan. One of the guild locks came (yay, Mech is so much easier with a lock) and we pugged in a tank in blues and off we went!
It was slow going and Eeyan died lots (the Destroyers are apparently immune to Kick and Silencing Shot), but we didn't wipe unduly for a bunch of alts in blues, and we did end up downing all the bosses. Eeyan got 4 badges and a Nether! The group worked pretty well, so we swapped out the lock for a rogue from the tank's guild, and Eeyan for Kuan, and headed down to Caverns of Time for some Black Morass action and some rep.
While we were there, our guild shadow priest (we only have one!) asked for a Heroic Mech run for rep, so once we completely Black Morass Clara swapped to Viljo, the hunter alt swapped to her healy pally, and we ran it again! Hm, I don't even remember who tanked. Amazing how much easier Heroic Mech is when everyone is in epics, though. Turns out the shadow priest didn't even have Sha'tar revered, so now he does, and he went posthaste to pick up his Glyph of Power. That made me happy as he's part of our 25-man raid...
After that we did, actually, do a little bit of farming. But then it was time for a Guild PvP event. The Pally class lead loves to PvP, and we formed up a raid and tried to take over the Deeprun Tram. I'm not so sure we succeeded. But we did get to ride it about for a while. At one point the only other folks we saw on the tram... were other Horde. A new discovery for me: when Horde dies on the tram, they have to corpse run from Eastvale Logging, and entering the tram instance does not recover the corpse, you have to find it too. Anyhow once we were bored of that we raided Darnassus. Horde can access their guild bank from there, go figure.
After that Eeyan and Telt did some regular questing, but by this time it was after midnight, so it was time for sleepies; Clara was starting to feel ikky again. But quite a bit of progress and fun! I think Telt ended up picking up enough badges to get the [Bishop's Cloak]. Eeyan still doesn't have enough badges for anything. That's OK though. Probably once he gets a few more I will blow them on the cloak, instead of stockpiling them for offhand daggar.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Heroic Shattered Halls!
Kuan and Viljo finally just Decided they were going to run Heroic SH. It was the daily, and we need that quest formerly-known-as-TK-attunement-prereq.
We got a resto shaman and swords rogue from our guild to go with us, but the tanks were busy. Right as we were about to give up, Viljo struck up a conversation with an SSC-geared tank in front of the Scryer bank. Don't ever lose sight of the RPG aspect of the game! When you are in town, talk to people nearby! He was happy to tank for us, for the same reasons we wanted to go.
We tried to beat the timers, but none of us had tried the instance on heroic before. Up to the first boss it's about the same, then the timers start and the differences, too.
• there are assassins at the start of the gauntlet
• there is a mini boss, with badge, at the end of it
• sheep have a giant aggro radius, near the Centurions
• the two headed ogre boss, actually, seemed easier
• Kargath cleaves twice in his charging around
• there is an executioner past Kargath. We didn't beat the timer; I don't know if he has a badge.
Even though we did not beat the timer, we did clear the instance for 4 badges, the daily, and a good learning experience. Very confidence building, as we have also recently tried Heroic Arc, albeit with an undergeared pally tank and mage alt, and couldn't down the first boss at all.
We got a resto shaman and swords rogue from our guild to go with us, but the tanks were busy. Right as we were about to give up, Viljo struck up a conversation with an SSC-geared tank in front of the Scryer bank. Don't ever lose sight of the RPG aspect of the game! When you are in town, talk to people nearby! He was happy to tank for us, for the same reasons we wanted to go.
We tried to beat the timers, but none of us had tried the instance on heroic before. Up to the first boss it's about the same, then the timers start and the differences, too.
• there are assassins at the start of the gauntlet
• there is a mini boss, with badge, at the end of it
• sheep have a giant aggro radius, near the Centurions
• the two headed ogre boss, actually, seemed easier
• Kargath cleaves twice in his charging around
• there is an executioner past Kargath. We didn't beat the timer; I don't know if he has a badge.
Even though we did not beat the timer, we did clear the instance for 4 badges, the daily, and a good learning experience. Very confidence building, as we have also recently tried Heroic Arc, albeit with an undergeared pally tank and mage alt, and couldn't down the first boss at all.
Monday, January 21, 2008
gnome banker ftw!
So, we did move our Alliance toons to Greymane. I was an idiot and nuked my AD gnome banker without pulling the 20 or so gold that was left off her, d'oh!
Once we were on Greymane, we again reassessed where these toons were in terms of questiness and gold. And unless we want to entirely ignore game design, they were, well, all in Silithus, in terms of quest progress, gearup, money, etc. Now, Silithus might be 6 minutes from Thunder Bluff but Alliance is not nearly so lucky. We parked them and went back to our fun toons on Hyjal.
So these last few nights, I have taken a few minutes before bed to roll another gnome banker. Run him through the starter area, get him big enough to run to Ironforge. Finally I got him there during Morning Coffee today! Tris and Vhaas just dumped bags, spidersilks, and auctionables on him, and he is all set up.
He's a mage, this time. I dubbed him Dinkusmagus. Heh!
...now, if only Clara could set up a banker alt. Then the Alliance toons can sit there and get poked once or twice a week and grow their gold until they can afford epic ground mounts. *nudge nudge* Ah, well, Viljo needs gazillions of primal manas and Sunfury signets, so perhaps not quite yet.
Once we were on Greymane, we again reassessed where these toons were in terms of questiness and gold. And unless we want to entirely ignore game design, they were, well, all in Silithus, in terms of quest progress, gearup, money, etc. Now, Silithus might be 6 minutes from Thunder Bluff but Alliance is not nearly so lucky. We parked them and went back to our fun toons on Hyjal.
So these last few nights, I have taken a few minutes before bed to roll another gnome banker. Run him through the starter area, get him big enough to run to Ironforge. Finally I got him there during Morning Coffee today! Tris and Vhaas just dumped bags, spidersilks, and auctionables on him, and he is all set up.
He's a mage, this time. I dubbed him Dinkusmagus. Heh!
...now, if only Clara could set up a banker alt. Then the Alliance toons can sit there and get poked once or twice a week and grow their gold until they can afford epic ground mounts. *nudge nudge* Ah, well, Viljo needs gazillions of primal manas and Sunfury signets, so perhaps not quite yet.
Gruul and Ogri'la
Last night Darkfall went to Gruul's Lair for our usual Sunday night raid. We downed both Maulgar and Gruul again, but it was a little bit strange. We were missing two of our best geared main tanks and on the Maulgar pull it showed. The new tanks didn't know where to pull to or how to pull only their mobs. So it took us a couple of wipes to get it down. Then we went on to Gruul and one-shot him. It amuses me that Darkfall seems to follow this same pattern every week. We struggle with the coordination of Maulgar and then one-shot Gruul. Admittedly this week it was a bit less smooth to down Gruul. Because we were missing our best geared main tanks the last 5% was done with after the tanks were dead.
After everyone was rezzed the loot was linked. And there were Fallen Hero pants! I bid all the dkp that Viljo had. (I learned my lesson last time: no matter how much you bid, winner only pays 2nd bid +5.) So now Viljo is a proud wearer of the [Legwraps of the Aldor] and has the (slightly lame) 4-piece bonus.
Anyway after Gruul there were some half hearted attempts to finish Kara and do ZA. However Eeyan and Teltanara pulled together a guild group and unlocked the Ogri'la quests. We even had one out of group person so that the warlock-pentagram guy was a bit easier. But now Eeyan and Telt have access to the gold mine that is Ogri'la! Possibly we shall pool their gold soon and Eeyan will get an epic mount first. He is the gatherer after all. And there are few things quite so frustrating as making your way to a mining or herbalism node and seeing a fruity night-elf already taking it.
After everyone was rezzed the loot was linked. And there were Fallen Hero pants! I bid all the dkp that Viljo had. (I learned my lesson last time: no matter how much you bid, winner only pays 2nd bid +5.) So now Viljo is a proud wearer of the [Legwraps of the Aldor] and has the (slightly lame) 4-piece bonus.
Anyway after Gruul there were some half hearted attempts to finish Kara and do ZA. However Eeyan and Teltanara pulled together a guild group and unlocked the Ogri'la quests. We even had one out of group person so that the warlock-pentagram guy was a bit easier. But now Eeyan and Telt have access to the gold mine that is Ogri'la! Possibly we shall pool their gold soon and Eeyan will get an epic mount first. He is the gatherer after all. And there are few things quite so frustrating as making your way to a mining or herbalism node and seeing a fruity night-elf already taking it.
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