Monday 3rd September 2007 - 2nd half of Karazhan.
TiceNits' group finished Karazhan in one night last week but we were left with Attumen, Illhoof, Netherspite and prince.
Prio: Stainless Cloak of the Pure Hearted dropped by Prince. It was this or Jade ring of the everliving
Boss: Attumen the Hunstmen
Loot Wish: Gauntlets of Renewed Hope
Details: We were only 9 people and I was mucking about trying to get my speakers working, but we still got him without wiping.
Drops: Not the Gauntlets :(
Boss: Terestrian Illhoof
Loot Wish: Nothing I can think of
Details: Got in there. RaidWanker was first to get sacrificed, he ice blocked. Then another paladin was sacrificed, divine shield. It was then suggested that it would be good for me to get sacrificed next as I could shield out, which promptly happened, then a healer and a dps followed, both were healed through and chains broken. As usual all the time I had Judgement of Light up and was spamming Exorcise and Holy Shock but then I was sacrificed again and my shield was still on cooldown and no-one bothered with the chains or healing me. Deja Vu from last week. I died but he dropped soon after.
Drops: He dropped some nice plate DPS gear which I rolled on and beat a warrior, but I let the warrior have it cos I probably won't use it!
Boss: Netherspite
Loot Wish: Girdle of Truth
Details: Went down first time and pretty easy, but I kept getting Nether Exhaustion just by running through the beams. I thought you had to be in them for 10 seconds to get the de-buff. Thinking about it now do you get the debuff 10 seconds after coming out?
Drops: Not the Girdle :(
Boss: Prince
Loot Wish: Stainless Cloak of the Pure Hearted (prio), Jade Ring of the Everliving, T4 Token
Details: We were very lucky with the infernals today and got him down very easy, my token did not drop, 2 other tokens did though and my prio did not drop either. The ring did though and luckily no-one else wanted it.
Drops: Jade Ring of the Everliving
After the raid I realised that I had hit exalted so off I trotted to upgrade my Violet Eye ring. Was not particularly impressed with the upgrade though, an extra stamina and an extra healing point I think was all it did :(
My kit now as it stands is mostly healing plate, with a blue cloak and head and a couple of healing mail epics. Hopefully Karazhan Wednesday will fill out some more spots.
Tuesday, 4 September 2007
Sunday Raiding
Sunday 2nd September 2007 - Gruul and Magtheridon
We started with Gruul's Lair. We had done the High King last week so just had Gruul the Dragonslayer to down. We wiped twice and the trash respawned before our 3rd attempt.
I had the shatter tactics sorted but people kept running towards me, that's the reason I died on 1 attempt, but on the third attempt he went down.
Some mail healing boots dropped [insert link] and 2 warrior, priest druid Tier 4 tokens dropped and a leather belt.
The boots came up first and I thought I may as well put minimum bid in, shortly after that HardAss the GM announced they were to be sharded. I had to act quickly to avoid losing them to shards again, like Karazhan last week. Turns out my bid had got lost in chit-chat (fucking retard). I got them in the end, so they replaced my blue Cenraion Greaves or whatever they were. Lost about 50 armour but these are epix and have better stats!
So we moved onto Maggy and had some good practice on him, with me finally grasping the tactic to heal the cube tank assigned to me and then moving onto the cube assigned to me as reserve "clicker".
It was fun but we got nowhere!
We started with Gruul's Lair. We had done the High King last week so just had Gruul the Dragonslayer to down. We wiped twice and the trash respawned before our 3rd attempt.
I had the shatter tactics sorted but people kept running towards me, that's the reason I died on 1 attempt, but on the third attempt he went down.
Some mail healing boots dropped [insert link] and 2 warrior, priest druid Tier 4 tokens dropped and a leather belt.
The boots came up first and I thought I may as well put minimum bid in, shortly after that HardAss the GM announced they were to be sharded. I had to act quickly to avoid losing them to shards again, like Karazhan last week. Turns out my bid had got lost in chit-chat (fucking retard). I got them in the end, so they replaced my blue Cenraion Greaves or whatever they were. Lost about 50 armour but these are epix and have better stats!
So we moved onto Maggy and had some good practice on him, with me finally grasping the tactic to heal the cube tank assigned to me and then moving onto the cube assigned to me as reserve "clicker".
It was fun but we got nowhere!
Saturday, 1 September 2007
Karazhan on Friday Night
Friday 31st August 2007 - Karazhan
We didn't manage to get a group for Karazhan on Wednesday but had enough interest for 2 groups on Friday.
Me and TiceNits were in separate groups again. How difficult is it to put us in the same group? TiceNits is in the group lead my a new guildie, we'll call him SpeakEnglish, from a raiding community that has just dissolved called "The Banal"
We skipped Attumen the Hunter and went onto Moroes. I put my prio on Boots of Valiance that he drops so when he dropped on the first attempt I was not particularly surprised that he didn't drop them! However he did drop Crimson Girdle of the Indomitable for my DPS build, however the tank had them and the raid leader asked the other paladin if he wanted them and when he said no he ordered them sharded and that's what happened before I could even speak up. Not very happy at all.
Onto Maiden of Virtue and she went down first go but no loot for me.
The Opera Event finally gave me my first look at the Little Red Riding Hood event, but didn't drop the cloak.
Forward to the Curator who went down first go, with me going into melee healing during first evocation and staying there for the duration. Still no drops for me.
Nightbane, no wipes and finally my prio from last week dropped. I stupidly go first roll again and it looks like no-one wanted it so I lose my prio (haha - it didn't drop anyway!) Emberspur Talisman.
Next up is Shade of Aran and the group are on Prince already!!! Well, we one shot Aran and he drops Drape of the Dark Reavers which is good for my DPS build too! This time I win it and it doesn't get sharded.
Raid time is over but we decide to pop to Chess for a quick go. We complete this but nothing drops for me.
We call it a day here, but the other group have now dropped Prince and have moved onto Netherspite.
And by the time they have finished they have cleared Karazhan in one night. they even did Attumen first!!! Looks like SpeakEnglish is pretty good!
We didn't manage to get a group for Karazhan on Wednesday but had enough interest for 2 groups on Friday.
Me and TiceNits were in separate groups again. How difficult is it to put us in the same group? TiceNits is in the group lead my a new guildie, we'll call him SpeakEnglish, from a raiding community that has just dissolved called "The Banal"
We skipped Attumen the Hunter and went onto Moroes. I put my prio on Boots of Valiance that he drops so when he dropped on the first attempt I was not particularly surprised that he didn't drop them! However he did drop Crimson Girdle of the Indomitable for my DPS build, however the tank had them and the raid leader asked the other paladin if he wanted them and when he said no he ordered them sharded and that's what happened before I could even speak up. Not very happy at all.
Onto Maiden of Virtue and she went down first go but no loot for me.
The Opera Event finally gave me my first look at the Little Red Riding Hood event, but didn't drop the cloak.
Forward to the Curator who went down first go, with me going into melee healing during first evocation and staying there for the duration. Still no drops for me.
Nightbane, no wipes and finally my prio from last week dropped. I stupidly go first roll again and it looks like no-one wanted it so I lose my prio (haha - it didn't drop anyway!) Emberspur Talisman.
Next up is Shade of Aran and the group are on Prince already!!! Well, we one shot Aran and he drops Drape of the Dark Reavers which is good for my DPS build too! This time I win it and it doesn't get sharded.
Raid time is over but we decide to pop to Chess for a quick go. We complete this but nothing drops for me.
We call it a day here, but the other group have now dropped Prince and have moved onto Netherspite.
And by the time they have finished they have cleared Karazhan in one night. they even did Attumen first!!! Looks like SpeakEnglish is pretty good!
Friday, 31 August 2007
Void Reaver and new addons
Thursday 30th August 2007 - Void Reaver 3
I missed the 2nd abortive attempt on Void Reaver aka Loot Reaver on Tuesday and today's attempt was over-subscribed but TiceNits and I were in the final 25 to go.
I finished off my Blades Edge Mountains daily quests and was at the Eye for raid start time.
I have just installed PallyPower and Recount.
First off, Recount is a great raid meter. it gives all kinds of details, but for me the healing meter was great, it made me concentrate on trying to out heal the other healers and therefore be a better healer. For me as a paladin thatis good as we have huge threat reduction on healing. We had 3 priests, 3 paladins and 1 dedicated druid healer. I started off above the other pallies and fighting for 4th place with the druid. By the end of the raid I was down at the bottom of the pallies. I think this was purely because I was running away from orbs too much and too far.
Secondly, PallyPower. Now I think this is a must for raiding. One of the healers, or indeed anyone, that is set as a raid assistant can enter config mode and set what all the paladins buff and even set alternative lesser blessings, ie Put Greater Blessing of Light but put normal Blessing of Salvation on a DPS warrior. The great thing about this for the paladin user is that you get a window and you mouse over the class and it shows all the players assigned to that class and whether they are in range. Left click and you cast the main buff on all the class. Right clickover a specific player and you cast the assigned normal blessing. This made my life so much easier.
We enter the Eye and manage not to wipe on the birds. Good start. In fact we clear all the way to Void Reaver without a wipe.
We start on Void Reaver and we are not doing too bad. Once it is obvious that he is going to enrage before we down him most people run for the door to reset him. I am stuck on the far side of the room and I pop Divine Shield and stick to the outside of the ring AND HE RESETS!!! Now that is a bonus.
Well, anyway, we have to reset him 4 times and we're getting better and better. 5th time I am throwing Holy Shocks at him at every opportunity and we are ahead of schedule on each check point. Towards the end I am throwing Hammer of Wrath at him too . He has 20 seconds till enrage and he is at 4%. We throw everything we have at him and I run in and start Consecrating and meleeing him as well. He dropped dead at about 1 second to enrage. OMG - We killed Void Reaver!!!
We line up for the mandatory screenshot then have a look at the loot.
A hunter gets Void Reaver Greaves, a RaidWanker blows all his DKP on Tier 5 Shoulders Pauldrons of the Vanquished Hero and the rogue, paladin, shaman Tier 5 token, Pauldrons of the Vanquished Champion, also drops. I have a look at the DKP page and see that our paladin class leader, Chico, has way more DKP than me (because I blew all mine on my Tier 4 leggings!) and a rogue has more than me. The other rogue is well down the list so I tactically bid 1 more DKP than the other rogue. I guess that the top rogue will bid 1 more than me and that the Pally class leader will bid 1 more than the top rogue.
Well, Quelle Surprise, that's what happens.
So we pop off to Gruul's Lair, Main Tank goes down and we pop back in for a second try. And take High King Maulgar down easy.
He drops 2 sets of Mage, Warlock, Hunter Tier 4 Shoulders, Pauldrons of the Fallen Hero, and TiceNits blows all her DKP on them and bags a set! He also drops Hammer of the Naaru. I haven't won anything yet so I reckon I may as well try and get this for my DPS gear! I throw in a minimum bid and win them.
Gonna load up all my DPS gear now and go do the daily quests. See what happens when a holy spec Paladin roams around in DPS gear!
And the best bit? My durability only dropped to 86% with an inherent 2 gold repair bill. Nice cheap night!
I missed the 2nd abortive attempt on Void Reaver aka Loot Reaver on Tuesday and today's attempt was over-subscribed but TiceNits and I were in the final 25 to go.
I finished off my Blades Edge Mountains daily quests and was at the Eye for raid start time.
I have just installed PallyPower and Recount.
First off, Recount is a great raid meter. it gives all kinds of details, but for me the healing meter was great, it made me concentrate on trying to out heal the other healers and therefore be a better healer. For me as a paladin thatis good as we have huge threat reduction on healing. We had 3 priests, 3 paladins and 1 dedicated druid healer. I started off above the other pallies and fighting for 4th place with the druid. By the end of the raid I was down at the bottom of the pallies. I think this was purely because I was running away from orbs too much and too far.
Secondly, PallyPower. Now I think this is a must for raiding. One of the healers, or indeed anyone, that is set as a raid assistant can enter config mode and set what all the paladins buff and even set alternative lesser blessings, ie Put Greater Blessing of Light but put normal Blessing of Salvation on a DPS warrior. The great thing about this for the paladin user is that you get a window and you mouse over the class and it shows all the players assigned to that class and whether they are in range. Left click and you cast the main buff on all the class. Right clickover a specific player and you cast the assigned normal blessing. This made my life so much easier.
We enter the Eye and manage not to wipe on the birds. Good start. In fact we clear all the way to Void Reaver without a wipe.
We start on Void Reaver and we are not doing too bad. Once it is obvious that he is going to enrage before we down him most people run for the door to reset him. I am stuck on the far side of the room and I pop Divine Shield and stick to the outside of the ring AND HE RESETS!!! Now that is a bonus.
Well, anyway, we have to reset him 4 times and we're getting better and better. 5th time I am throwing Holy Shocks at him at every opportunity and we are ahead of schedule on each check point. Towards the end I am throwing Hammer of Wrath at him too . He has 20 seconds till enrage and he is at 4%. We throw everything we have at him and I run in and start Consecrating and meleeing him as well. He dropped dead at about 1 second to enrage. OMG - We killed Void Reaver!!!
We line up for the mandatory screenshot then have a look at the loot.
A hunter gets Void Reaver Greaves, a RaidWanker blows all his DKP on Tier 5 Shoulders Pauldrons of the Vanquished Hero and the rogue, paladin, shaman Tier 5 token, Pauldrons of the Vanquished Champion, also drops. I have a look at the DKP page and see that our paladin class leader, Chico, has way more DKP than me (because I blew all mine on my Tier 4 leggings!) and a rogue has more than me. The other rogue is well down the list so I tactically bid 1 more DKP than the other rogue. I guess that the top rogue will bid 1 more than me and that the Pally class leader will bid 1 more than the top rogue.
Well, Quelle Surprise, that's what happens.
So we pop off to Gruul's Lair, Main Tank goes down and we pop back in for a second try. And take High King Maulgar down easy.
He drops 2 sets of Mage, Warlock, Hunter Tier 4 Shoulders, Pauldrons of the Fallen Hero, and TiceNits blows all her DKP on them and bags a set! He also drops Hammer of the Naaru. I haven't won anything yet so I reckon I may as well try and get this for my DPS gear! I throw in a minimum bid and win them.
Gonna load up all my DPS gear now and go do the daily quests. See what happens when a holy spec Paladin roams around in DPS gear!
And the best bit? My durability only dropped to 86% with an inherent 2 gold repair bill. Nice cheap night!
Wednesday, 29 August 2007
No Raid For Me
Tuesday 28th August 2007 - Tempest Keep 2
Today's raid went to Tempest Keep for another pop at Void Reaver. Unfortunately I couldn't go because I had a meeting I had to go to.
However I got a text from TiceNits about 45 minutes to say they have wiped three times on the birds near the start and the raid leader (RaidWanker) has stormed off in a huff because no-one was listening to him.
As it turned out they did get a good 2 hours on the boss before calling it a night.
Today's raid went to Tempest Keep for another pop at Void Reaver. Unfortunately I couldn't go because I had a meeting I had to go to.
However I got a text from TiceNits about 45 minutes to say they have wiped three times on the birds near the start and the raid leader (RaidWanker) has stormed off in a huff because no-one was listening to him.
As it turned out they did get a good 2 hours on the boss before calling it a night.
Don't Tank Prince with a Druid
Monday 29th August 2007 - Karazhan
We finished off last Wednesday's unofficial Karazhan run tonight.
Our main tank couldn't make it so we took a druid to tank. Also TiceNits had to deal with the prios as MT is also Priority person.
I put a prio on Emberspur Talisman from Nightbane assuming that all the other drops, like T4 and healing plate would not be rolled for by anyone else. We did take 3 Paladins though, so I was taking a bit of a risk.
I really can't remember what order we do things in so this is out of order:
Terestrian Illhoof - we did this without a warlock. I died near the end, but we one-shotted him! Breastplate of the Lightbinder came up - woot! I had this on prio last week but it didn't drop. I rolled on 1st roll, but nobody else did so I won but wasted my prio. Should have waited and seen if anyone else rolled. DOH!
Netherspite - again, another one shot, it was a little random over the green beam, but he went down very easily. TiceNits won Uni-Mind Headdress but let someone else have Jewel of Infinite Possibilities.
Chess Event - Easy again. As always.
Nightbane - Easy. No-one else wanted Ferocious Swift Kickers so I got them, but as it turns out I have better in the bank for my DPS build.
Prince Malchezaar - Now this was a nightmare, we had some people from a collapsed raiding guild with us, one of which was a feral druid who was our main tank, we wiped many times. Luckily after wipe 5 or so our usual MT came online, so we drafted him in and we got him down first time. Nice. Farstrider Wildercloak dropped and no-one else wanted it so I got it. Gorehowl also dropped and something else.
Not too bad at all, I got my chestpiece which I am going to get Exceptional Stats enchant put on and upgraded my DPS cloak!
We finished off last Wednesday's unofficial Karazhan run tonight.
Our main tank couldn't make it so we took a druid to tank. Also TiceNits had to deal with the prios as MT is also Priority person.
I put a prio on Emberspur Talisman from Nightbane assuming that all the other drops, like T4 and healing plate would not be rolled for by anyone else. We did take 3 Paladins though, so I was taking a bit of a risk.
I really can't remember what order we do things in so this is out of order:
Terestrian Illhoof - we did this without a warlock. I died near the end, but we one-shotted him! Breastplate of the Lightbinder came up - woot! I had this on prio last week but it didn't drop. I rolled on 1st roll, but nobody else did so I won but wasted my prio. Should have waited and seen if anyone else rolled. DOH!
Netherspite - again, another one shot, it was a little random over the green beam, but he went down very easily. TiceNits won Uni-Mind Headdress but let someone else have Jewel of Infinite Possibilities.
Chess Event - Easy again. As always.
Nightbane - Easy. No-one else wanted Ferocious Swift Kickers so I got them, but as it turns out I have better in the bank for my DPS build.
Prince Malchezaar - Now this was a nightmare, we had some people from a collapsed raiding guild with us, one of which was a feral druid who was our main tank, we wiped many times. Luckily after wipe 5 or so our usual MT came online, so we drafted him in and we got him down first time. Nice. Farstrider Wildercloak dropped and no-one else wanted it so I got it. Gorehowl also dropped and something else.
Not too bad at all, I got my chestpiece which I am going to get Exceptional Stats enchant put on and upgraded my DPS cloak!
Tempest Keep
Sunday 28th August 2007 - Tempest Keep 1
Today we went offto have a look at Tempest Keep. We had the mandatory wipe on the first group of mobs but then we gradually made our way through to Void Reaver.
Now he is pretty much a tank and spank with a little extra. He sends orbs flying towards your position which do some serious damage and silence you. They go to where you WERE standing though so if you get targetted you simply run away.
You have to watch out for other people getting targeted near you as well, and run away from them too, they have a pretty large damage range.
He also resets if you run out of the room, so that's pretty good, we wiped a few times and had fun with him but had to call it quits after 2 hours on him because the trash stared respawning.
I got no loot but got my DKP back up to 14 from 0.
TiceNits got Fire-cord of the Magus, so she was pretty happy.
Today we went offto have a look at Tempest Keep. We had the mandatory wipe on the first group of mobs but then we gradually made our way through to Void Reaver.
Now he is pretty much a tank and spank with a little extra. He sends orbs flying towards your position which do some serious damage and silence you. They go to where you WERE standing though so if you get targetted you simply run away.
You have to watch out for other people getting targeted near you as well, and run away from them too, they have a pretty large damage range.
He also resets if you run out of the room, so that's pretty good, we wiped a few times and had fun with him but had to call it quits after 2 hours on him because the trash stared respawning.
I got no loot but got my DKP back up to 14 from 0.
TiceNits got Fire-cord of the Magus, so she was pretty happy.
Friday, 24 August 2007
Grull Down
Thursday 23rd August 2007 - Gruul's Lair
19:00 Still sat outside waiting for people
19:20 Enter Gruul's Lair
19:40 High King Maulgar is down
19:50 People are back after going to socket their new phat epix loot
20:05 Start Gruul the Dragonslayer fight
20:15 Sat around Gruul's dead body celebrating.
My Teir 4 legs token dropped and I'm up against 1 rogue and 2 pallies for it. This doesn't bode well for me, but I suddenly think: "check the DKP table" and lo and behold both the other pallies have less DKP than me but the rogue has the same.
Time comes to whisper our DKP bids to loot master - I say "MAX bid" -I don't care if I go down to zero DKP - I'm not likely to get anything else in the near future and I'll earn DKP for tonight anyway.
I have a 50% chance of winning if the rogue bid MAX too! It seemed to take forever to announce the winner, but I got it! WOOT!
So whilst everyone is deciding whether to continue SSC or go to Magtheridon I go to Shattrath and check out the holy legs I can buy.
I am currently wearing mail legs with sockets adding to a +4 intellect socket bonus +27 healing +4 mp5 and +3 intellect Heart Flame Leggings - believe it or not I will lose a total of 29 healing by equipping my Tier 4 legs. However I will gain about 700 armour and a bit of Stamina and Intellect and I'll get a Stamina or Intellect enchant thrown on them if there are no healing ones. edit: DOH can't enchant legs methinks. maybe some cobrascale armour or something!
On top of that the set(2) bonus of +20 to Judgement of Light will mitigate the -29 healing as I do spend a lot of time next to the main tank healing from melee and this +700 armour and increased crit chance will help me with this.
Whilst I was comparing sets the rest of the raid were clearing the trash leading to Magtheridon, they also wiped too. Ooops!
By the time I get there we are ready for Maggy and we give him a go. The first attempt results in getting 1 of his adds down before he releases and getting him down to 99% LOL, but after several wipes we are working on his 4th add as he releases.
Every time I am the last to go down and my assigned tank is the second last one!!
Very good evening.
19:00 Still sat outside waiting for people
19:20 Enter Gruul's Lair
19:40 High King Maulgar is down
19:50 People are back after going to socket their new phat epix loot
20:05 Start Gruul the Dragonslayer fight
20:15 Sat around Gruul's dead body celebrating.
My Teir 4 legs token dropped and I'm up against 1 rogue and 2 pallies for it. This doesn't bode well for me, but I suddenly think: "check the DKP table" and lo and behold both the other pallies have less DKP than me but the rogue has the same.
Time comes to whisper our DKP bids to loot master - I say "MAX bid" -I don't care if I go down to zero DKP - I'm not likely to get anything else in the near future and I'll earn DKP for tonight anyway.
I have a 50% chance of winning if the rogue bid MAX too! It seemed to take forever to announce the winner, but I got it! WOOT!
So whilst everyone is deciding whether to continue SSC or go to Magtheridon I go to Shattrath and check out the holy legs I can buy.
I am currently wearing mail legs with sockets adding to a +4 intellect socket bonus +27 healing +4 mp5 and +3 intellect Heart Flame Leggings - believe it or not I will lose a total of 29 healing by equipping my Tier 4 legs. However I will gain about 700 armour and a bit of Stamina and Intellect and I'll get a Stamina or Intellect enchant thrown on them if there are no healing ones. edit: DOH can't enchant legs methinks. maybe some cobrascale armour or something!
On top of that the set(2) bonus of +20 to Judgement of Light will mitigate the -29 healing as I do spend a lot of time next to the main tank healing from melee and this +700 armour and increased crit chance will help me with this.
Whilst I was comparing sets the rest of the raid were clearing the trash leading to Magtheridon, they also wiped too. Ooops!
By the time I get there we are ready for Maggy and we give him a go. The first attempt results in getting 1 of his adds down before he releases and getting him down to 99% LOL, but after several wipes we are working on his 4th add as he releases.
Every time I am the last to go down and my assigned tank is the second last one!!
Very good evening.
Thursday, 23 August 2007
Not Much Loot Left for me in Karazhan
Wednesday 23rd August 2007 - Karazhan
Another unofficial run into Karazhan. Kill order today is Attumen -> Moroes -> Maiden -> Opera Event -> Curator -> Shade of Aran. I have Boots of Valiance as my priority item which is dropped by Moroes.
We managed this with only a single real boss wipe.
We took out Attumen The Huntsmen very easy and i got Stalker's War Bands because no-one else wanted it.
Next it's Moroes and he goes down very easily, the tank got garrotted first, then me but my sheild was on cooldown so I had to take the damage for a while. Then TiceNits got garrotted and I popped a Blessing of Protection on her, a druid got a garrotte but I just had to heal him through it and then he went down. Unfortunately my Prio item didn't drop.
The we got wiped by patrol trash on the way to Maiden. Argg.
We arrived at Maiden of Virtue and then wiped because the World Server went down, but we were going to wipe anyway. We took her on the second try. And I get Iron Gauntlets of the Maiden. I already have Tier 4 Justicar Handguards and I can't make my mind up which is better. I am leaning towards the maiden gloves, but I wish I had gone for the DPS Tier 4 gloves now so I'd have a set of each :(
Onto the Opera Event and we get Romulo and Julianne. I don't think people were paying attention in the 3rd phase as Julianne was nearly down as Romulo was on 50%, but just at the last moment all DPS switched to Romulo and they went down almost simultaneously.
Onto the Curator and we are taking out the last trash in his chamber when someone manages to aggro him. I am one of the first out the door and manage to cast Divine Intervention on a priest which saves us some ghost running time. When we actually try him for real I go into melee with the tank to keep Judgement of Light up and he goes down on the 3rd evocation without any deaths.
Now we head towards Aran and on the way I get Belt of the Tracker from a trash mob. Woot!
20 minutes left, so we only have time for one go on Shade of Aran, but we might well try so that all his trash despawns if we do get him. We decide to only interupt his Arcane missiles so the we can force him to drink early. TiceNits goes down pretty early but gets a battle res and we nuke him down to drinking time pretty early. i don't manage to get fire aura on before he sheeps us, but do manage to pop it as soon as I come of out of being sheeped and it may well have saved a wipe, only 1 druid died and everyone else is back up to full health and we nuke him down first go.
A happy end to a very good raid!
Tomorrow its Gruul and I'm going to try and get that 3rd healing enchant before we go.
Another unofficial run into Karazhan. Kill order today is Attumen -> Moroes -> Maiden -> Opera Event -> Curator -> Shade of Aran. I have Boots of Valiance as my priority item which is dropped by Moroes.
We managed this with only a single real boss wipe.
We took out Attumen The Huntsmen very easy and i got Stalker's War Bands because no-one else wanted it.
Next it's Moroes and he goes down very easily, the tank got garrotted first, then me but my sheild was on cooldown so I had to take the damage for a while. Then TiceNits got garrotted and I popped a Blessing of Protection on her, a druid got a garrotte but I just had to heal him through it and then he went down. Unfortunately my Prio item didn't drop.
The we got wiped by patrol trash on the way to Maiden. Argg.
We arrived at Maiden of Virtue and then wiped because the World Server went down, but we were going to wipe anyway. We took her on the second try. And I get Iron Gauntlets of the Maiden. I already have Tier 4 Justicar Handguards and I can't make my mind up which is better. I am leaning towards the maiden gloves, but I wish I had gone for the DPS Tier 4 gloves now so I'd have a set of each :(
Onto the Opera Event and we get Romulo and Julianne. I don't think people were paying attention in the 3rd phase as Julianne was nearly down as Romulo was on 50%, but just at the last moment all DPS switched to Romulo and they went down almost simultaneously.
Onto the Curator and we are taking out the last trash in his chamber when someone manages to aggro him. I am one of the first out the door and manage to cast Divine Intervention on a priest which saves us some ghost running time. When we actually try him for real I go into melee with the tank to keep Judgement of Light up and he goes down on the 3rd evocation without any deaths.
Now we head towards Aran and on the way I get Belt of the Tracker from a trash mob. Woot!
20 minutes left, so we only have time for one go on Shade of Aran, but we might well try so that all his trash despawns if we do get him. We decide to only interupt his Arcane missiles so the we can force him to drink early. TiceNits goes down pretty early but gets a battle res and we nuke him down to drinking time pretty early. i don't manage to get fire aura on before he sheeps us, but do manage to pop it as soon as I come of out of being sheeped and it may well have saved a wipe, only 1 druid died and everyone else is back up to full health and we nuke him down first go.
A happy end to a very good raid!
Tomorrow its Gruul and I'm going to try and get that 3rd healing enchant before we go.
Serpentshrine Cavern
Wednesday 21st August 2007 - Serpentshrine Cavern
We have finally made it into SSC. The intended goal of this raid was to check it out and to have fun. And this was a DKP raid, so these goals were good for me!
We started off and wiped on the first pull. Ha ha not a good start. The sporebats silence the healers and the mobs hit hard, so it s important to deal with these sporebats.
Back on track and we slowly clear all six platforms while avoiding Hydros, who although has been nerfed, is still pretty hard. The guild have investigated the resistance gear required for the 2 tanks for him and its gonna cost 5000 gold.
So we clear the 6 platforms and the water boils killing all the frenzies (which kill you pretty quick if you fall in the water)
No we can have a go at The Lurker Below. You have to fish in the strange pool to summon him. Once he arrives he hits a bit then does a 360 degree turn with a spout which one-shots you, to avoid this you have to jump in the water.
Well we wipe about 5 times and I am amongst the first to die each time. We stop because the mobs have started spawning on the platforms again so the frenzies are back in the water.
All in all a pretty fun evening.
We have finally made it into SSC. The intended goal of this raid was to check it out and to have fun. And this was a DKP raid, so these goals were good for me!
We started off and wiped on the first pull. Ha ha not a good start. The sporebats silence the healers and the mobs hit hard, so it s important to deal with these sporebats.
Back on track and we slowly clear all six platforms while avoiding Hydros, who although has been nerfed, is still pretty hard. The guild have investigated the resistance gear required for the 2 tanks for him and its gonna cost 5000 gold.
So we clear the 6 platforms and the water boils killing all the frenzies (which kill you pretty quick if you fall in the water)
No we can have a go at The Lurker Below. You have to fish in the strange pool to summon him. Once he arrives he hits a bit then does a 360 degree turn with a spout which one-shots you, to avoid this you have to jump in the water.
Well we wipe about 5 times and I am amongst the first to die each time. We stop because the mobs have started spawning on the platforms again so the frenzies are back in the water.
All in all a pretty fun evening.
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