New Mount Hyjal

No, Mount Hyjal hasn't changed, but it's a new week so in we go!!

20:30 - Start; still deciding what the fuck we are doing.

20:45 - The real start.

21:00 - WinterTwat down 1st shot. I used Divine shield when I got the ice block, but it put my trinket into cooldown - WTF??????? Then I got iceblocked again but luckily the trinket was up again. Then I got iceblocked again!!! Ouch, both DS and trinket on cooldown. But WinterTwat died several seconds later.

21:30 - AnEnema down 1st go.

22:00 - Kaz'Roger'Roger down 1st go.

22:15 - Nearly ready to start Az'Galore

22:16 - Noob GM talked to Thrall before everyone was ready. We nearly recovered but wiped in the end. The first wipe of the night.

22:35 - Started Az'Galore properly and even burned though wave 6 easily. We started the boss and got him down to 26% before lots of people started dying. In the end Thrall died at 15%. Arggg!!
23:00 - Raid called :(

Finally the Sheild

I didn't do many battlegrounds last night, but I did get my honour back up to 10K. The reason why was mostly attributable to Stella Artois but there was a Kara run going on when I got home. They were about to have a pop at Prince and I asked if there was any healer spots open as I'd really like 2 more badges so I can get my badges tanking shield.

I think he also drops Shield of Impenetrable Darkness, but that would just be a bonus.

Either way I'll be able to get rid of the blue Ogrilla Aegis :)

The main druid healer says he'll step aside for me and everyone else is amenable (read: "Excellent, drunken HolyWarrior is coming, we'll die!") as he is quite drunk too! They are itching to go and I was still in Arathi Basin so they go ahead without me, but they still have Hoof and Spite to go.

They take out Prince in 1 go and then I swap in for Hoof. We one shot him without a warlock and no deaths and I get my 2 badges.

The druid is quite happy for me to take out Spite too, seeing as it would just waste time swapping the druid back in I go for Spite too, begging that I don't have to do the red beam. Luckily we have 3 warriors so I get assigned the green beam for phase 5.

We are 3 healers and each of us will take a full turn in the beam. Reminds me of the awful times when we used to have to swap people into the beams midway through each phase; Oh the wipes that used to cause. I don't know if the beams or debuff got nerfed or we are just too uber now, but it's fine with me.

Of course we one shotted him and now I have more than enough badges for the shield.

Latest Noob PvP Gear Question

Having started a 3v3 team as well now it looks like I now have 4 arena ratings.

My personal and my team 2v2 rating and now my personal and team 3v3 rating.

So, if there is a rating requirement to purchase a PvP item does just one of these ratings have to meet this requirement? (or at least one set of ratings personal + team)

Arena Week #4

Err, oh dear. After getting my resilience up to 251 I was really hoping we'd be doing better this week.

The arena point total has gone up to 727 after last week and we started off with a rating of 1359.

We lost 8 games. The 2 we won were against a Warrior/Warlock which gave us 16 points and a Warrior/Rogue team which gave us 12 points. A Rogue/Warlock team took a massive 20 points from us and we ended our 10 matches with a rating of 1271. A loss of 88 rating. Ouch!

So having failed in 2v2 I thought I'd give 3v3 a try. I asked in /guild and a couple of mains said they'd be interested with their alts. So HolyWarrior, RogerTheRogue and UselessHuntard ventured into 10 quick matches of 3v3.

We lost 8 matches 3-0, 1 match we killed a priest and 1 match we won. DOH! So my 3v3 team's rating dropped from 1500 to 1376!!

Bastard Teron

We went to Teron tonight. I was expecting a few wipes while people who had not seen it before got used to it and then onto some Bloodboil attempts. Oh no....

14 Freeking wipes. Four Bloody Teen.

After last weeks success the Teron Macro had been vindicated. This week we had several people who wiped the raid on multiple occasions and they blamed the macro for not working.

BULLSHIT - Do not blame your failures on the macro. Jeeezus they probably expected it to play the frigging game for them. RTFM FFS Nubz!

Medallion Loving

After a goodly bunch of all kinds of battlegrounds and handing in many batches of Concerted Efforts I have skipped a few steps in my PvP requirement list and skipped straight to the huge 40,000 honour purchase of Medallion of The Alliance.

Oh Yeah Baby! The epic version with 45 resilience on it. I reckoned that I should go straight for this as I need it for my primary role - PvE healer. So I really should prioritise it, and the resilience is a huge bonus to my PvP set. Oh, and why get a blue item if there is an epic one available now?

My resilience is now 251 and I am starting to notice it. No longer can that rogue stunlock me and finish me in seconds. Now I usually have a chance to survive the length of the lock and then stun him and get some heals off even if my bubble and trinket are on cooldown.

These 40,000 honour grinds are seriously tedious, but I think I need to get at least another out of the way for the shield and mace.

Grabbing 9 or 17K for other gear and then spending it when you are a good wedge of your way to 40K is so painful, so I may have to do them first or I may give up!!

Tying Up Loose Ends - Part 1

In preparation for WotLK, I have made a list of goals to be accomplished before I venture to Northrend.

Points 1 and 2 for HolyWarrior were

1. Clear quest log - a fair chunk of Shattered Halls Heroics, attunement quests and old world grey quests.
2. Get PvP gear and do arenas.
   

Well,I think I have just about sorted point 2. I'm up to 206 resilience and spent a good whack of today in battlegrounds so honour is building nicely.

On point 1 I've gotten attuned for Onyxia, BWL and keyed for UBRS - LOL!! And today I got myself a group of mainly guildies and a retarded mage for Heroic Shattered Halls.

4 quests I have in there.

1. One of the "Trials of the Naaru" quests
2. Kalynnas request, prequest to Nightbane
3. A David Wayne quest to get more stuff for demon killing
4. A quest to kill first boss for his Fel Embers, this maybe another important quest.

So in we go, take out Grand WarBloke Nethercruise and collect badges and quest items.

On our way to the next pull the tank advises me in /part ychat that I am low on mana and I should drink. So I sit down to have a quick drinky. A few seconds later the retarded mage says in party chat, "keep up Palla".

What a bloody cheek I think, it's a 4/5 guild run, and he is the only guildie, and basically we're carrying him and his blue gear with mostly our T5/T6 epics.

On the next pull my heal "misses" him! Hmmm.

Another boss, another badge.

At some point we come across the quest giver to save the people that are going to be exectued. I think you only get this quest if you are on the "Trials of the Naaru" quest. I didn't know it was timed. I started it. DOH!

A 3rd boss. Another badge.

We wiped on a trash pull gone horribly wrong with about 20 orcs on us.

Omoggoggogog down, 4 badges.

Final boss down and it looks like none of the captives have been executed so I get to finish the Trials of the Naaru quest by picking up the Unused Sword of the Executioner or whatever the fuck it's called.

After the final boss kill I realise that I didn't get the tears from boss 4 for David Wayne. I run back but he has despawned :(

Turns out that the Tear's of the Earthmother don't drop in heroic mode!! Eh? WTF? How stupid is that? Looks like David Wayne is gonna have to wait a little longer before I report back!

Once back in Shattrath I realise that Fel Embers isn't complete either. Turns out when you have picked up a necklace or something from NetherCruise you have to use it on one of his braziers near his thrown to get the quest item to complete the quest. DOH!!

But A'dal is happy with me and all I have left is the rescue Millhouse from Heroic Arcatraz and then I'll have Maggy to down.

I also got a complete for Kalynna so fly up to Area 52 and hand in and get "Nightbane". Yeah a little late seeing as we're 4 bosses deep in Hyjal and BT, but this is a clear up remember!!

So 2 quests complete out of 4 and I just need to go to a normal Shattered Halls now to use the braziers by boss 1 and kill boss 4 for the Tears.

But another 5 badges so 31 in total. If there is no other healing gear I want I can finally pick up my 33 badges tanking shield in 2 more badges!

Errr ... More PvP Noobiness

Quick question peeps.

If I were to [theoretically] hit an arena rating of 1575 (which is never going to happen!) I would be able to purchase a Guardians Belt (or whatever!).

The item says "Requires Personal and Team Rating of 1575" (or somesuch).

Scenario/Question: OK so I go out and buy that piece of armour and then I go do my arenas for the week and lose 10-0 and my rating drops to 1425. DOH!!! Can I still wear my sparkling new 1575 rating belt? Was it only the rating required to purchase it or is the rating also required to wear it?

Thanks for helping a PvP nab out :)

OMIGOD!!!

According to Mr. Random Ravings WotLK has made a slight change to macros.

Macros and key bindings are now saved server-side so there is no longer a need to reconfigure them when logging in using another computer.

This might not mean much to most people, but take it from someone that logs into his account on up to 5 different PCs/laptops.

This is GOLD with an extra double-sized italicized bold capital G.

I have tried many times and given up, creating the very same macros, in the same order with the same icons and names and everything on another PC and they still don't show up in the same slots when you log onto a different PC and you then have to replace them on your bars all over again.

Farming

Dare I say it? We have the first three bosses of Black Temple on farm.

We went, We Saw, We Conquered. Well the first 3 bosses anyway. Raid start was about 20:45. Najentus was 1 shot at about 21:15, Supremus got his at around 22:00 and Akama defeated his shade at around 22:45.

2 Hours, 3 Bosses, 6 Badges. What a hoot. Setting us up for Teron on Sunday and if we're up to repeating his last death then some attempts on GurgleGurgle BloodBath are in order.

26 Badges now and I'm going to have to decide whether to spend those badges on a tanking shield or whether I can get that from pvP and there is something I can get that I can't get from PvP.