Magtheridon has been slain! Woohoo! 6 pieces of loot, 3 hunter chest pieces!! (mage & lock too I guess...). I actually didn't roll because my chest piece is quite nice from ZA and figured the other 2 hunters and a newer lock would benefit more (as I rack up the DKP).
Now, SSC wasn't as successful, but it was our first time! We couldn't try Hydross because our Nature Resist warrior was not around. So, as painful as I feared it would be, we tried Lurker. Yes, painful...but promising I must say. We got a lot of practice and people are getting it down. Besides, we have never failed a boss on consecutive weeks. I am betting we can down Hydross AND Lurker next week! :)
Aggression came from PVP. After our SSC run I still had my flask and was raid buffed. So, I decided to do the EoTS daily. You know, EoTS as alliance is not as bad as you may think. Ok, it is pretty bad, but I am consoled by the way my hunter performs now. I can tell one short snippet of why I love it. The horde team in one EoTS was doing their old "Hold the flag and farm" technique. So, I crept up the side of the tower and realized a shaman in ghost wolf with 5k HP had the flag. Sadly, he had 2 priests and a resto-druid with him...what to do...
So, I have a flask, 988 Agility and 42% crit right now, right? Lets try it! Aimed Shot, 3700 crit, arcane shot, 1500 crit and then bam Multi-shot hits the Shammy for 2100 (DEAD!) and both priests for over 1500. Just like that the Shaman dies. From there the fun level dwindled as I fought 3 healers for...I dunno, 3 minutes? :D Either way, it was refreshing to see I can drop someone faster than healer reaction time. Did he have 300 resilience? Probably not. But hey, we were down by a bagillion points at the time and it was the shining star of that BG for me!
Friday, May 9, 2008
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Gruul...Mag...SSC...Oh mY!
So, for the first time, Nomakk will enter SSC . Last week he got to meet Mag for the first time as well! Mag is the most fun I have had in an instance/raid in a long time. We got him to 17% on try 3 (our guilds first ever attempts), but never closer than that. We seem to be having trouble with the cubes. If anyone has any insight on click timing, please share! We followed everything we can find, but it seems to be a bit ambiguous as to when to click them.
SSC will likely start tomorrow, barring Mag owning us tonight. I have decided to deepen my survival points from 33 to somewhere from 34-40, not quite sure yet. I am assuming trap resist, timing and cooldown will be needed again. We have 1 lock and 3 mages though, which is why I am conflicted as to the respec (dps loss for cc quality). If anyone knows how important it is, please let me know. Regardless, the respec would provide an excellent spec for those "hero moments" where the raid realizes that hunters do indeed save the day from time to time! :)
Wish me luck and any advice is much appreciated!
(telling me to spec BM, is NOT advice!) =D
- When bigwigs says "5 seconds to..."
- When we see the cast begin
- When the spell is channeling?
Our best success seemed like we always did it early, but then there was some debate as to whether we should do the clicky early. He goes down tonight!
SSC will likely start tomorrow, barring Mag owning us tonight. I have decided to deepen my survival points from 33 to somewhere from 34-40, not quite sure yet. I am assuming trap resist, timing and cooldown will be needed again. We have 1 lock and 3 mages though, which is why I am conflicted as to the respec (dps loss for cc quality). If anyone knows how important it is, please let me know. Regardless, the respec would provide an excellent spec for those "hero moments" where the raid realizes that hunters do indeed save the day from time to time! :)
Wish me luck and any advice is much appreciated!
(telling me to spec BM, is NOT advice!) =D
Monday, April 28, 2008
AV- Secrets revealed!
So, last night I decided to try and do the AV battleground daily quest. I remember a time, back in the day where winning AV was just plain easy. Horde somehow couldn't dominate the only BG involving something multi-dimensional. Which made AV your consolation BG when you lost a 2 hour wsg 0-3 for 125 honor or got your 20 AB marks in 18 AB's.
I digress. So, I am sick of the horde turtle we have to face now-a-days in AV. This led me to take my (under-geared, all blue's) 70 Pally and say "fine, I am going straight for the frostwolf relief hut to open". I mean, I am a pally, I can get there faster than anyone else and if all else fails I will be an annoying immune bubble for 12s of fun! Low and behold, I get to the relief hut and kill the 4 guards and take it. No horde, so I take both towers. Two horde come, but luckily, all the people dying at the next closest GY (the turtle spot) are now rezzing at the relief hut. Both towers turn, we drop Drek and what do ya know, the alliance wins with 415 reinforcements remaining! Wow, that seemed too easy.
Let's revisit on Nomakk (can a Hunter do this as well?). So, this time I get to the relief hut with much more of an annoyance on the way, so it takes me an extra 3 or 4 minutes due to a pesky mage and a pesky Shaman who died for the glory of Drek! Again, I took the relief hut, grabbed one tower (luckily a fancy ice mage took the other for me) and played the waiting game. After killing the mage and Shaman a few times, some real horde finally came. It was nice to farm them on the ramp like they do us so often. I would say at the peak of the battle it was 10 alliance vs 15 horde. To their shame, we dominated them. In most part because half of them simply tried to run to Drek's room mounted (fools!).
Alliance won again, with 350 reinforcements left this time. Isn't it amazing to think that you can sway a battle by simple taking your weakness (too susceptible to a turtle) and making it a strength (make the death at the turtle automatically HAVE to come to you by take the hut)? By default, the turtle is fueling the Drek engagement force. I will test it more and more in the coming days, but it truly felt like alliance knew the better strategy last night. Not to mention in both battles the honor output was 500-ish without it being AV weekend. I will do more to see if it is truly a new solution!
I digress. So, I am sick of the horde turtle we have to face now-a-days in AV. This led me to take my (under-geared, all blue's) 70 Pally and say "fine, I am going straight for the frostwolf relief hut to open". I mean, I am a pally, I can get there faster than anyone else and if all else fails I will be an annoying immune bubble for 12s of fun! Low and behold, I get to the relief hut and kill the 4 guards and take it. No horde, so I take both towers. Two horde come, but luckily, all the people dying at the next closest GY (the turtle spot) are now rezzing at the relief hut. Both towers turn, we drop Drek and what do ya know, the alliance wins with 415 reinforcements remaining! Wow, that seemed too easy.
Let's revisit on Nomakk (can a Hunter do this as well?). So, this time I get to the relief hut with much more of an annoyance on the way, so it takes me an extra 3 or 4 minutes due to a pesky mage and a pesky Shaman who died for the glory of Drek! Again, I took the relief hut, grabbed one tower (luckily a fancy ice mage took the other for me) and played the waiting game. After killing the mage and Shaman a few times, some real horde finally came. It was nice to farm them on the ramp like they do us so often. I would say at the peak of the battle it was 10 alliance vs 15 horde. To their shame, we dominated them. In most part because half of them simply tried to run to Drek's room mounted (fools!).
Alliance won again, with 350 reinforcements left this time. Isn't it amazing to think that you can sway a battle by simple taking your weakness (too susceptible to a turtle) and making it a strength (make the death at the turtle automatically HAVE to come to you by take the hut)? By default, the turtle is fueling the Drek engagement force. I will test it more and more in the coming days, but it truly felt like alliance knew the better strategy last night. Not to mention in both battles the honor output was 500-ish without it being AV weekend. I will do more to see if it is truly a new solution!
Monday, April 21, 2008
And so on. . .
Have you ever read something you wrote and couldn't figure out how it came out that way? Well, anyway, I feel like I write to myself on this blog sometimes, but that shouldn't stop me should it? I mean, I do enjoy my awesomeness on most days.
Well, for Nomakk, things have been going pretty well. Nice bow, nice pvp and pve gear, blah blah. I find he has started to feel a lot like a daily grind instead of fun. I am thinking a flask and 30 healing pots are in order and to hop in wsg and be "that guy" that people think is cheap for a while!
Estario, my Pally alt is finally 70. I had carefully acquired all the reputations needed for my 5/5 pvp blue set while leveling, so his gear isn't completely worthless. I also decided that until I have a nice pvp set, I will use better heal gear and spec. Then, when the gear is there, I will switch to a shockadin build.
In other news, I may finally level a horde beyond 18! (As much as I pvp, I would probably have more fun with a horde main) Apparently bloggers unit in a guild called "Pox Arcanum" and play a structured and planned play style (http://poxarcanum.blogspot.com/). it seems fun. It will be my first troll and first serious shaman! I find that lowbie + friends = remembering why warcraft is fun. So, look forward to those crazy adventure ridden times ahead!
Well, for Nomakk, things have been going pretty well. Nice bow, nice pvp and pve gear, blah blah. I find he has started to feel a lot like a daily grind instead of fun. I am thinking a flask and 30 healing pots are in order and to hop in wsg and be "that guy" that people think is cheap for a while!
Estario, my Pally alt is finally 70. I had carefully acquired all the reputations needed for my 5/5 pvp blue set while leveling, so his gear isn't completely worthless. I also decided that until I have a nice pvp set, I will use better heal gear and spec. Then, when the gear is there, I will switch to a shockadin build.
In other news, I may finally level a horde beyond 18! (As much as I pvp, I would probably have more fun with a horde main) Apparently bloggers unit in a guild called "Pox Arcanum" and play a structured and planned play style (http://poxarcanum.blogspot.com/). it seems fun. It will be my first troll and first serious shaman! I find that lowbie + friends = remembering why warcraft is fun. So, look forward to those crazy adventure ridden times ahead!
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