Last night, after the raids and before Violet Hold, Kuan and Viljo went into heroic Azjol-Nerub. I thought it would be faster than it was, but we had a hard time with the last boss, Anub'arak. With all his adds he is a bitch on heroic.
But we got him after a couple of tries, and he dropped the Rod of the Fallen Monarch, and Viljo won the roll. I felt bad that Valrauko didn't get it, but it was too nice pass on, even if Viljo had gotten the Stone-Worn Footwraps from the first boss.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
a familiar obsession
I haven't mentioned it much since the expansion dropped, but last night Kuanchichi hit 395 2handed Axes, which makes him 395+ in all weapon skills. He's already maxxed in unbuffed Defense.
Now with 3.0, there are achievements for maxxing Unarmed, as well as 4 separate weapons. I will probably still follow the pattern I always do, try to take everything to 399 (max - 1) and then max them all in turn. Starting with Unarmed. If Kuan's bags are full (and they often are) and only the 2H weapons are below 399, I'll have him equip a fist weapon.
This is for outdoor questing of course. In dungeons and raids he'll wear his caster weapon... of course I'll stabby stabby with it if the mobs get close!
Now with 3.0, there are achievements for maxxing Unarmed, as well as 4 separate weapons. I will probably still follow the pattern I always do, try to take everything to 399 (max - 1) and then max them all in turn. Starting with Unarmed. If Kuan's bags are full (and they often are) and only the 2H weapons are below 399, I'll have him equip a fist weapon.
This is for outdoor questing of course. In dungeons and raids he'll wear his caster weapon... of course I'll stabby stabby with it if the mobs get close!
25 Man Raiding
Last night Kuan and Viljo logged in, after a horrendous queue. The queue wouldn't have been quite so terrible if I hadn't kept disconnecting about 75% of the way through it. Three times! Augh!
Anyway once Viljo was finally on he got a whisper from our friend Xstal, who is the alt of Jataka, the healer from the first ever heroic we finished. Anyway Xstal wanted to know if we wanted to come to 25man Vault of Archavon. I said sure, and it turned out to be a complete pug. But that was fine, because we still managed to one-shot the boss.
The loot that dropped was quite nice. Including the Valorous Frostfire Leggings! Another mage won the roll for them, but then the loot master messed up and passed them to Viljo anyway. So, much as it pains me, I have these lovely legs in the bank waiting for the GMs to deal with my ticket to move them to that other mage. Ah well it would be more annoying to look at them and know they should have gone to someone else.
Anyway after we did that we moved on to 25man Obsidian Sanctum. That went quite well actually, though neither of us got any loot, we did get nice badges from both instances.
It seems that both of the heroic (25 man) versions were easier than their 10 man counterparts. The bosses have more hp on 25man, and they do more damage, but all the raid buffs really help.
Anyway once Viljo was finally on he got a whisper from our friend Xstal, who is the alt of Jataka, the healer from the first ever heroic we finished. Anyway Xstal wanted to know if we wanted to come to 25man Vault of Archavon. I said sure, and it turned out to be a complete pug. But that was fine, because we still managed to one-shot the boss.
The loot that dropped was quite nice. Including the Valorous Frostfire Leggings! Another mage won the roll for them, but then the loot master messed up and passed them to Viljo anyway. So, much as it pains me, I have these lovely legs in the bank waiting for the GMs to deal with my ticket to move them to that other mage. Ah well it would be more annoying to look at them and know they should have gone to someone else.
Anyway after we did that we moved on to 25man Obsidian Sanctum. That went quite well actually, though neither of us got any loot, we did get nice badges from both instances.
It seems that both of the heroic (25 man) versions were easier than their 10 man counterparts. The bosses have more hp on 25man, and they do more damage, but all the raid buffs really help.
Raid Frames
Pre-BC, I used CTRA for my raid frames. They were displayed across the top of my screen, all raid members sorted by class.
Once Burning Crusade dropped I started using the native UI raid frames. They're a little bigger, and with Paladin in there my top got a little squeezed, but I made it work. Thus I was able to ditch CTmod entirely after a while.
But with Lich King, we have ten classes. It just doesn't work. Clara says use Grid for raid frames, and I'm fielding comments from friends to not use xPerl and to try sraidframes. But I don't want to re-memorize where all the tank raid frames are every damn raid. So I guess I'll try sraidframes, although I think they will not solve the real estate problem.
Once Burning Crusade dropped I started using the native UI raid frames. They're a little bigger, and with Paladin in there my top got a little squeezed, but I made it work. Thus I was able to ditch CTmod entirely after a while.
But with Lich King, we have ten classes. It just doesn't work. Clara says use Grid for raid frames, and I'm fielding comments from friends to not use xPerl and to try sraidframes. But I don't want to re-memorize where all the tank raid frames are every damn raid. So I guess I'll try sraidframes, although I think they will not solve the real estate problem.
Defenseless
Defenseless is Kuanchichi and Viljo's most recent achievement. It is very specific!
I suppose that would be a more significant achievement if I actually had known there were Defense Control Crystals to use, and under what conditions they ought to be used.
I guess Clara knew. But our party just treated it like Black Morass...
Defeat Cyanigosa in The Violet Hold without using Defense Control Crystals and with Prison Seal Integrity at 100% while in Heroic Difficulty.
I suppose that would be a more significant achievement if I actually had known there were Defense Control Crystals to use, and under what conditions they ought to be used.
I guess Clara knew. But our party just treated it like Black Morass...
Monday, December 29, 2008
Frost Resist Gear
I've been doing a little bit of reading about Naxx. Just to figure out the bosses and such. And it looks like there is no resist gear needed, except for the second to last boss, Sapphiron. He needs a bunch of frost resist gear.
The cloth resist gear is the Glacial Robe, Glacial Slippers, and Glacial Waistband. And the mail resist gear is Icy Scale Chestguard, Icy Scale Boots, and Icy Scale Belt.
Each of these sets will give a total of 287 frost resist, if not gemmed for frost resist. Since, at 80, you only need 415 resistance to be capped against a mob 3 levels above you, which is the level of bosses, the missing 128 resist can be made up by Shaman totem or Pally aura.
There is also a Titanium Frostguard Ring, which can add another 68 frost resist, if some more mixing and matching is desired.
And even though there is an achievement for doing the Sapphiron fight with less than 100 frost resist on each person I think that will come a while after the boss has been killed with frost resist a couple of times. So I'll start looking in to the mats for these and seeing how expensive it is to buy the mats and find a crafter as opposed to just buying the gear off the AH.
The cloth resist gear is the Glacial Robe, Glacial Slippers, and Glacial Waistband. And the mail resist gear is Icy Scale Chestguard, Icy Scale Boots, and Icy Scale Belt.
Each of these sets will give a total of 287 frost resist, if not gemmed for frost resist. Since, at 80, you only need 415 resistance to be capped against a mob 3 levels above you, which is the level of bosses, the missing 128 resist can be made up by Shaman totem or Pally aura.
There is also a Titanium Frostguard Ring, which can add another 68 frost resist, if some more mixing and matching is desired.
And even though there is an achievement for doing the Sapphiron fight with less than 100 frost resist on each person I think that will come a while after the boss has been killed with frost resist a couple of times. So I'll start looking in to the mats for these and seeing how expensive it is to buy the mats and find a crafter as opposed to just buying the gear off the AH.
Nexus and Azjol-nerub
Last night, as DraNgNon posted, Eeyan and Telt got to 72. After they leveled, and trained they went with a couple of friends to Nexus and Azjol-Nerub. It was a lot of fun to actually get them leveled and then to do some instancing. I always forget just how much fun it is to heal when I'm questing. Questing is fun, but to be honest Eeyan is a colossal bad ass, and really doesn't need Telt trailing along behind him. He's just nice, and lets her tag along.
The one downer about the Nexus run was that the tank was a druid who respecced out of boomkin. So he wanted caster stuff, too. This is cool, but I was kind of annoyed when he passed on a nice caster offhand and then got huffy when I was going to need it. I guess that is just a reminder to me to always get loot rules straightened out at the start.
It was a lot of fun to instance with Eeyan and Telt again :D
The one downer about the Nexus run was that the tank was a druid who respecced out of boomkin. So he wanted caster stuff, too. This is cool, but I was kind of annoyed when he passed on a nice caster offhand and then got huffy when I was going to need it. I guess that is just a reminder to me to always get loot rules straightened out at the start.
It was a lot of fun to instance with Eeyan and Telt again :D
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