Loot, Ulduar and the Cold, Cold Turkey!

It's been awhile since I've posted and it really has been a depressing couple of weeks. After progressing far into Ulduar 10, people suddenly gave up. Maybe it's because the challenge of downing the first few bosses is gone at the same time, the people who suddenly quit already got their gear which for me is infuriating!

Some people passed on loot for you and now that you have them you just quit?! Sigh, it's the same old WoW story in any other guild, I know. It still irks me when people do that though. No more raids, lately I've been pugging most of my runs and nothing happens. It's depressing. You work hard for the raid then you get cheated out of your loot. Happened to me twice already! Same old story.

So, I've been shopping for a new guild and nothing out there has morning raid times except for this #1 guild that wouldn't put you in the core 25 even if hell froze over. Most of the guilds in my server have weekday evening raids. Sucks 'coz it's morning in our part of the world.

I'm down to 3 choices:

1. Lay down my Life and Death and retire my toons to oblivion. Go cold turkey and WoWquit!
2. Spend money and change to an Oceanic Server then go through the whole process again.
3. Stay in Thrall and wait til hell freezes so I can raid on the #1 morning guild.

Nice choices huh!

On the otherhand, my bf gave me a fourth option. Do #1 and play his shadowpriest until his subscription runs out then totally WoWquit!

What do you think?!

9/10 Ulduar Progression: Thorim

We finally got Thorim down last night after 3 tries on last night's raid. After being raped a couple of times, it was pretty awesome. We finally got the groups down pat. Warrior tank with mage, rogue hunter pally and priest on circle, Druid, ret pally, elems shammy and healing shammy on the hallway.

Healing in the circle was pretty intense as dps tend to get aggro from AoE. Deafening Thunder is also a pain in the neck for holy pallies. This is where Aura Mastery helps. I usually pop it when either the tank is going down or when the other priest healer with me is near dead. We also solved the AoE aggro issue by letting our warrior tank thunderclap then single targetting the bigger adds. I pop sacred shield on the mage most of the time with Holy Shock to defuse the damage.

After Thorim we went to Freya. Trash in Ulduar is definitely harder than the boss! We got a couple of tries on her and called it a day since most have work the next day. We resume next week hopefully we progress on to Freya and Mimiron by then.

8/10 Ulduar 10man Progression : Auriaya, Ignis, Hodir, Iron Council Down!

We got 8/10 Bosses in 10man Ulduar as of our 2nd raid! I'm positively ecstatic! Who would've thought that we can do 8 bosses. Of course with such progression comes endless wipes, tries and repair bills but nonetheless it's awesome! :)

We are still working on Thorim trying to balance out our groups inside the corridor and the first room. On Hodir we cheated a bit and our OT used his dual-spec into tree heals for it. Auriaya was easy once the tanks got the pulls right and the Iron Council dropped after a couple of tries.

I've noticed that most of the fights are definitely healing intensive. On tanking the most challenging part would be Auriaya. Blizzard also focused a lot on AoE tanking and specific mobs to dps down or to interrupt. I can say 10man Ulduar is definitely more challenging compared to 10/25m Naxx.

Veterans Down Flame Leviathan, XT-002, Razorscale and Kologarn!

After months of unsuccessful raids in our guild, members leaving and moving on to greener pastures, guild veterans decided to make a solid 10man ulduar team. We regrouped and decided to raid by ourselves and not recruit more members as of now. Farm 10m content then proceed to 25 with pugs or friendly guilds.

It payed out well! Last night was our very first attempt as a group of local (RL) friends. We only had 1 wipe per boss due to misunderstandings, failed readychecks and basically getting the attempt down.

We got Flame Lev, XT-0002 which we only downed once ever! Razorscale who's been creaming our butt since we started doing 10mans, and Kologarn, our first guild attempt ever!


For XT-002 we got 1 healer on main tank, 2 heals on raid and on OT on the adds. DPS on the heart til it got to 10% then just focus on adds. Maybe we'll attempt hard mode some other time hehe! Everyone got the gravity bombs pretty well.




Razorscale! This dragon wrecked our gear over and over before we finally got some solid advice from another guild. We range dps on right side, melee on the left. Range should dps sentinel asap and melee should interrupt chain lightning. 2 Turrets should be fired at the same time. Once Razorscale lands, burn him while dps'ing on her side. No one should be on her tail or in front of her. 3rd phase Tanks need to kite her in a circle kind of like Grobbulus in Nax then switch aggro with the OT soon as he has 2 debuffs while kiting, like Gluth. From here on it's tank and spank but make sure to burn him fast.



Last night's Kologarn was our first guild attempt. I've healed on this guy on a pug but I didn't catch when the tanks should switch aggro on the body and the right arm. Anyway, our first attempt, since we're all pretty fuzzy on this guy, Raid lead decided to let the MT tank the body and the right arm. Tank charged and we all died! Lol.

So try # 2 I told him to let the OT tank the left arm and MT on the body, switch aggro at some point ( I let the tanks decide this haha ) while the OT grabs adds. Laser beamed like Superman ( our raid lead's words lol ) were to go to the stairs while melee have to just move away from group. Pally heals on the MT, shammy on the OT and priest on raid heals. Of course we try to help out as much as we can on the stone gripped. Oh, I forgot to mention at some point, Kologarn grabs one of you and holds you in his hand. This has to be healed by the healers. It's not like Ignis that you can heal yourself in the cauldron.

We were all surprised that we got to Kolo on our first attempt. Honestly We've been trying Ulduar 10man a couple of times with a different guild group and it always was a fail. I guess it really must be synergy between friends and knowing how to work well with your raiders. Also, all of the raiders we had were quick to learn, know how to adjust and plays their characters well.

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!

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.

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.