Emalon and XT got served!

Wednesday night, I rushed home to catch the 10M Ulduar raid. Logged in at exactly 11 to see that the raid is full :( Got a little miffed 'coz I skipped my scheduled overtime to get home asap. I was on standby so it wasn't anyone's fault.

I saw a pug forming at Dalaran for 25VoA and since I wasn't raiding that night, I joined in. It took an hour to get the raid going. People are now wary against VoA pugs whereas before you can do it with a couple of people in greens. First pull wasn't pretty. Tanks died before they even got to their spot. Uh-oh right?

We tried a second time, BOOM! Emalon died like a pansy! Woot! Was I surprised? YES!! I've been to so many pugs for VoA and they all ended with a big fat repair bill. And now we two-shot it? My faith in pugs have been restored somewhat lol!

Loot time! It was depressingly all PVP gear! Save for a ret pally and DK pants :( Boo! Nevertheless sweet still! My very first Badge of Conquest!


Then a spot opened up for Ulduar 10M, one of the healers had to log off. I arrived and they were working on XT, took us 8 tries for that piece of jellybean! Finally figured out that we were doing hard-mode instead of normal lol! In the end we downed XT-002 by not range dps'ing the heart but let them focus on adds. We got the achievement too for not dying on gravity bombs! Armbands of the Construct and Vest of the Glowing Crescent dropped but i figure my Bracers of Liberation are still good. Difference between 3 iLevels is kinda small to re-enchant ! Yeah, I know, I'm a cheapskate!

Good night for my pally's progression raid!

Lootmaster stress

I've been lootmaster for a while now, and let me tell you it's not an easy job!

I've been delegated this simply because out of all the regular officers, I have the most stable connection. I took the time to learn it and I figure I'm the least temperamental of the officers lolz.

Since I started doing loot, my heals have gone down, I spent most of my time in raids talking to people regarding the loot system and addons. Specially since we got a good number of new people and addon updates are aplenty now with the 3.1 bug fixes.

What gets me most is loot drama. I mean that's why there is a system in place to minimize drama! I don't know if EPGP has a bug but a specific member of ours wasn't on the PR list when he should be. His name just doesn't show up.

I told him to get the updated version of the addon and he said he has it. He messaged me and the GM saying that he should have gotten the ring. I told him, your EPGP doesn't work and it shouldn't be my problem if you don't have it ! Of course I didn't say that literally, but along the lines hehe!

For the person who just received the loot, it sucks to receive something then have to ticket it to another person. Kinda like you won the lottery, but you have to give the money back because they messed up the spelling of the name of the winner.

For me, loot is easy to get. Just run it a couple of times and you'll get it. Causing stress and drama is so not worth it. It's just too much trouble for so little reward!

Shields Up!

We ran Hnaxx and finally got my Voice of Reason from KT! Woot! After raiding that place for so long, I'm so glad it finally dropped and I had the Priority for it. Finally trashed Shield of Assimilation and my Aegis of Damnation. Ain't it pretty? Now to wait for my Torch of Holy Fire! I figure I might get another 1H from Ulduar hahah!

Flame Leviathan Down!

Friday night we made a 10man Ulduar team to see how we're going to handle Saturday's 25m. Most of the class leaders were there and the officers. Good thing we did that coz, it wouldn't be good to see everyone floundering about in the 25m tom. We figured out how trash worked on the way to Flame Leviathan. How the vehicles respawn when you wipe and that there is a repair guy right beside the vehicles. Little things like that matter in leading 25man.

I got to use the motorcycle!!! Never thought I would, always thought I'll be a passenger being catapaulted to the turret. Lol! It was sweet, I set it on auto-run and just weave thru everything. slick and sonic!

We wiped a few times of course. Mainly on trash! People were still having fun on their vehicles trying it out and not knowing what to do with trash. Plus it was a bit late to know that there's a repair platform for the vehicles. Wiped 2x on Flame but otherwise it was good. We got Ironsoul
and Firestrider Chestguard

We decided to try Razorscale but our main tanks kept on disconnecting, so we called it and maybe we'll try again tomorrow. It's a morale boost for everyone. I'm hoping it will be as well tomorrow for the 25m.

Emalon and his friends

We decided to try Emalon in VoA 10man last night. We got the group ready and everything. 2 tanks 2 healers and the rest are dps. We were buffing and getting ready right outside his hall, when our mage decided to play tank and pulled an add while eating his Conjured Biscuit! I taunted and damn, that guy hits hard!

I'm not sure if I'm geared right yet, tanking is just my 2nd spec and I only get trash epics that our warriors don't need anymore. I saw my life go down quick and it was good thing that our healers were ready.

So down we went to the boss. Rebuffed again and then someone asked,

"Does anyone know the fight?"

It was the raid leader.

Uh oh! Then someone explained, ok maybe this won't turn into a ___ raid afterall.

5 wipes later, I look at my recount and saw a DK doing 600 dps! 600!!! Also, people kept getting aggro, I haven't done anything on the back adds but the healers were going down coz they were trying to heal me. I don't know if it's my hit rating or because they're too far back for me to hit with Avenger's Shield.

Also I had to manually mark the enraged add for the dps. I couldn't see which add it was coz they were all bunched up together in front of me, I had to tab them and it takes time to see which one has full health. Hm., now that I think about it maybe I should've turned on the health bars over their heads. Eesh!

Of course, dps just couldn't follow that priority was burst dps'ing the add for 10secs or we wipe. After 10 tries, I wanted to cry. I think I spent 100g on that boss alone that I felt wasn't that hard especially on 10man.

I'll try again one of these days, hopefully it'll be as heals and not as a tank. I think I'll stick to healing on progression raids for now.

Dawn of 3.1

As with any patch day, world server is going up and down. Old and new players are logging on all at the same time and the servers just can't handle it. Orgrimmar's at a snail pace, Dalaran you can barely move. People are forming pugs to do VoA, Ulduar 10 and 25 and then they get stuck! lol!

Ascent got into Ulduar 25m soon as the servers went up, and from what I hear they've only managed to down Flame Leviathan. 2 of the first four bosses are unkillable (bugged) and Ulduar is laggy and buggy as hell. Oh and they're stuck there, can't port out, can't mage port and can't hearth! damn! They must be pissed as hell!

Most of my guildmates are asking if we're gonna do 25m Ulduar this weekend. Probably, maybe was my answer. I figure if it's this laggy on a weekday, what more over the weekend right? But then again we are a morning raiding guild so... we'll see!

Got my dual-spec up and running. I saw it over PTR so it wasn't anything new. What I thought they'd integrate into it is automatic gear change. Like if you swap to a different spec, the gear that u use automatically equips. Outfitter, re-spec rolled into one. Maybe in the future.

Also they should put an icon in your main window if you're in your main spec or offspec, it got confusing. I was checking out why my heals was about 200 less spell damage, turned out I was in prot spec. lolz!

Most of my old add-ons are working. I have to see later if EPGP add-on works fine in 3.1 otherwise I would have to manually calculate the priorities if we do manage to down a 25m Ulduar boss this weekend. Eek ! Math! Pally power works fine, so does dottimers. I figure the hardest hit add-ons are Deadly Boss Mods ( of course they have to fine tune the boss timings ), UI add-ons like XPerl.

Overall a good patch day for Blizz, just an extended maintenance and a laggy first day. Although people inside Ulduar definitely think otherwise, lolz! Then again, I figure they must be used to it by now being the Guild who usually downs these raids first.

Ulduar is here!

3.1!!!

We're trying out Ulduar 10man this wednesday! Wish us luck! Hopefully 3.1 patch won't be as heavy as Zul Aman's causing 1 day maintenance and 1 week's worth of bugs!

Let's pew pew laser some bosses and grab some leet loot!

Too much drama

The only thing I don't like about playing WoW is the drama. Too many people are jerks and so few are actually good players without an attitude problem.

I logged on my paladin at 6am server and stayed til 3pm. I spent more time sorting out problems than actually playing. From loot system to raid leader whines even guild rank! I mean c'mon! Guild rank? Why should it matter if you're a raider or a senior raider! It's not as if you are given responsibities. It's just bragging rights!

Then a member also whispered me to ask if he can be an officer. I wanted to tell him,

"Have you done anything for the guild?"

I mean really!

Then another situation came up, a probationary toon was talking trash in gchat and 2 of our regular raiders gquit because of him. This was the second time he did this, first i pm'd him to be more respectful. His response was,

" Your opinion only matters if you're an officer"

Big mistake dude!

I wrote,

" I AM an officer!"

second time?

/Gkick!

After 7 hours, all is well in WoWLand. A couple of people are stepping up to the job and hopefully this month's drama will be over soon and we can get on to our regular awesomeness! I have high hopes on this rebuild. It sucks that people you've played with have moved on, but raiding must go on. Change comes with every patch! ( cliche? damn right! ) That's the only constant thing in WoW and real life.

Newbie's Tanking Perspective

I've been trying out tanking for a few weeks and finally got a chance to off-tank in 10man Naxx! It was fun! It's a lot less stressful than tanking heroics. Weird right? Then again I was just the OT.

The raid i.d. we had cleared most of the easy bosses so we went to Gluth and Thaddius then to military quarter Sapph and KT! Tank throw was the best for me! It was pretty cool going from one side to another! ;) 4 Horseman was cool too, though we got 6stacks of debuffs!Thank god heals were OP! Razuvious was cool too, 10man Mind control! I got to single tank KT with 2 adds when the MT dc'd and died! It was definitely an interesting raid for me overall! I don't know if the healers had a hard time healing me yet. I should've done wws just to see the damage I was getting.

I'm glad I chose the right spec to build. I get to see much more of the game as tank and healer than a dps ever could. I have a warlock too and most of the time it's just spam dots spam, spam spam... move out of fire, spam spam spam! I fall asleep most of the time!!

Definitely looking forward to dual-spec and 3.1! Maybe I can tank and heal in Ulduar! haha! Oh and i got the Red Sword of Courage just before we did Naxx! Woot! Say goodbye to UP and Hello AN for the trinket !!