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!

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.