Last night, the Purple Poxers got together for 3 hours of fun, frivolity, and farming.
First stop was RFC. We gathered up, buffed up, and danced up (lolwut?) before charging into Yellow's living room. Pull, kill, pull, kill, pull, kill, etc, etc, etc. There really wasn't any challenge until Harisan accidentally pulled 4 instead of the intended 3. Woot! I got to use Lesser Heal!
We suffered no deaths, got one shard, and got Salindar his red robe so he could look like Daxe, only not as good. And we also got everyone to level 16 while we were in there so we could all go train right there in Orgrimmar, well, except for Madja....poor Druid..../sadface.
Then we scampered off to the Barrens to start the two quest chains that send us into the Wailing Caverns. We've decided to level by doing instances, but would like to have the quests for the instance as well. As a side note, I've always hated getting quests that send you into an instance to complete the chain, and here I am actually LOOKING for quests to send me into an instance.
So, we're finding the Forgotten Pools - no problem, planting seeds in the Stagnant Oasis - only one of us had to complete this for the group!, and collecting Altered Snapjaw Shells. Ew! We each needed 8 (that's 40 total for the math challenged). Thankfully, each turtle dropped a shell and the hardest part was finding a corpse that you had to loot that got killed over yonder. But we persevered and dominated the poor things. And then the fun started.
See, we had another collection quest for Intact Raptor Horns for the quest Smart Drinks. This time we only needed 5 each (25 total for those without a calculator), so I figured it'd be a bit faster.
Wrong.
It turns out that during battle, quite a number of horns must have shattered, burst, or chipped, because we found very few Intact Raptor Horns. The first area around the colored nests yielded only a few, and the surrounding area only gave up one or two. By that time, though, we remembered the raptors west of Northwatch Hold.
Yes, pretty much all of us that had ever quested as Horde in the Barrens remember the fast respawn rate of these dinos and being trapped by them. And dying at their claws. Oh, the Reckoning WAS AT HAND!!! We slaughtered and slaughtered and slaughtered and...well you get the idea. We must have cleared the area 4 or 5 times before we (I was the last.../cry) got all of our Intact Raptor Horns.
Good grief! Thankfully, the next couple of collection quests will be inside WC, which we'll be running a couple of times.
We then killed our way to Ratchet, turned in the quest, picked up the follow up, flew to Xroads, turning in the turtle shells, flew to TB, turned in the quest there, flew BACK to the Xroads, and headed out the WC to find a bottle of port.
We picked up the quests above WC, found the guy and killed him, retrieved the port, sipped a little port, headed to the port for the turn in, and parted ways.
/whew!
There was a lot of running around last night, which I didn't really like. I think what I really like about this group is the team play. I am amped about getting into Wailing Caverns next week.
Even if we don't get very far, even if we have a wipefest, even if we shard all the blues.
I just like playing with my fellow Poxers and taking down instances as a team. Pure joy!
So, next week, watch out WC....we're comin' for ya!
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Shattered Halls, another post?
Shattered Halls is one of the instances that I've not spent a lot of time in...until recently. Rysteranch has been in it once (and got the bow), and Dax was in it once as well (completed one of the quests for a pair of boots he still wears).
But recently, I really wanted to get Revered with Honor Hold for the Glyph of Renewal, which adds 35 to my healing and 7 (I think) MP5. The glyph is a head enchant, so it is pure additional goodness to replace the +10 stamina that I had there.
Over the weekend, I attempted it on Heroic with a PuG. Not good. Then got halfway through it on normal with a PuG before I aggroed dinnertime (yes, we eat dinner as a family - how quaint). And after dinner, we moved on to Heroic Mech. On Sunday, I convinced Turion and company to run through it, but around 1/4 of the way through, he had enough people for Kara, and we dropped it.
Which brings us to the after work session yesterday. Turion, Bloodpebble, Sweetmage, and Daxenos decided to 4 man the instance when we couldn't find another DPS. Four man.....a level 70 instance......riiiiiiiiiiight.
I was expecting just enough progress to get Revered, or at the very least clearing the first couple of pulls a number of times between wipes...lol. What I was not expecting was for us to take that instance by the tail, twirl it around a coupla times and lay the smackdown on it.
But that's what we did. Yes, we had some wipes, but they were due to unanticipated adds or stupid stuff. One wipe happened on the first boss when Turion got locked outside the door that had been unlocked by BP. We got the boss down to around 12% before he finally killed us....and that without a tank!
Pulling 6 elites at once? No problem for Turion with Dax at his back! I almost never drew healer aggro; in fact, the mage drew aggro more than I did, even though I was at times spamming Greater Heal.
At one point, Sweetmage had to watch one of his siblings, so he let her play for him. We pretty much 3 manned the instance at that point as his sister usually just wanded the mobs.
Other than that first boss wipe, we didn't have any issues with any of the bosses. I guess it shows what a good tank, a good healer, and good DPS can accomplish. In fact, if Sweetmage wasn't busy afking, babysitting, and trying (TRYING!!!!) to pull aggro, we probably wouldn't have had any wipes!
I guess I wrote this up because I'm still amazed that we were able to 4 man the instance. Oh, I forgot to mention that Dax is the only one that's epic'd out. Turion, Bloodpebble, and Sweetmage have some epics, but mostly have blues.....and we still rocked the house!
But recently, I really wanted to get Revered with Honor Hold for the Glyph of Renewal, which adds 35 to my healing and 7 (I think) MP5. The glyph is a head enchant, so it is pure additional goodness to replace the +10 stamina that I had there.
Over the weekend, I attempted it on Heroic with a PuG. Not good. Then got halfway through it on normal with a PuG before I aggroed dinnertime (yes, we eat dinner as a family - how quaint). And after dinner, we moved on to Heroic Mech. On Sunday, I convinced Turion and company to run through it, but around 1/4 of the way through, he had enough people for Kara, and we dropped it.
Which brings us to the after work session yesterday. Turion, Bloodpebble, Sweetmage, and Daxenos decided to 4 man the instance when we couldn't find another DPS. Four man.....a level 70 instance......riiiiiiiiiiight.
I was expecting just enough progress to get Revered, or at the very least clearing the first couple of pulls a number of times between wipes...lol. What I was not expecting was for us to take that instance by the tail, twirl it around a coupla times and lay the smackdown on it.
But that's what we did. Yes, we had some wipes, but they were due to unanticipated adds or stupid stuff. One wipe happened on the first boss when Turion got locked outside the door that had been unlocked by BP. We got the boss down to around 12% before he finally killed us....and that without a tank!
Pulling 6 elites at once? No problem for Turion with Dax at his back! I almost never drew healer aggro; in fact, the mage drew aggro more than I did, even though I was at times spamming Greater Heal.
At one point, Sweetmage had to watch one of his siblings, so he let her play for him. We pretty much 3 manned the instance at that point as his sister usually just wanded the mobs.
Other than that first boss wipe, we didn't have any issues with any of the bosses. I guess it shows what a good tank, a good healer, and good DPS can accomplish. In fact, if Sweetmage wasn't busy afking, babysitting, and trying (TRYING!!!!) to pull aggro, we probably wouldn't have had any wipes!
I guess I wrote this up because I'm still amazed that we were able to 4 man the instance. Oh, I forgot to mention that Dax is the only one that's epic'd out. Turion, Bloodpebble, and Sweetmage have some epics, but mostly have blues.....and we still rocked the house!
Monday, March 10, 2008
Hunter goodness
I have had a hunter ever since I started playing WoW.
My first hunter was Rysteranch, the Troll, with his faithful companion PuddyTat, the Barrens Huntress. My troll survived to level 49 and was relegated to twink status to farm BGs and low level instances for the rest of the Ryster team over on Spinebreaker.
After I got tired of the repeated gankings on the PvP server, I decided to reroll as Alliance over on Baelgun. My first toon was a Pally and quickly became a bank alt. My second is the much heralded Daxenos. And my third is Rysteranch, the Night Elf Hunter, with HIS faithful companion PuddyTat, a Tedrissal black striped cat. He is level 70 and somewhat active.
With over 119 levels of huntering behind me, I started another hunter, Daxen the Blood Elf, over on Ravenquest so I could experience the Horde side of things again. Daxen's first pet was, like my others, a beginning area kitty, which I named PuddyTat (how original).
So, yesterday, Daxen at level 15, was looking to find a pet that had dash so she could train PuddyTat with it. She bought a stable slot and went looking around Durotar for a raptor. She soon realized that she might be in for a couple of fights before she found her new pet, so she decided to tame a "trash" pet.
Enter some poor level 7 black boar.
Daxen had no issues taming the boar and after feeding it, sent it in to tank a scorpid that was blocking the way.
Zoe.
Em.
Gee.
I (yes perspective change) was in love. I had never run with a piggy, so I'd never been able to experience the thrill of the charge. That sucker took off like a rocket! WHAMMO!!!! Even without the benefit of training, my piggy did a great job of holding aggro and taking the hits.
I immediately named her Pigglet. Yes, how original. 134 levels of huntering, and I've finally got my first pig. What a noob!
PS. And when she dies for the first time...BACON!!!!....before rezzing.....
My first hunter was Rysteranch, the Troll, with his faithful companion PuddyTat, the Barrens Huntress. My troll survived to level 49 and was relegated to twink status to farm BGs and low level instances for the rest of the Ryster team over on Spinebreaker.
After I got tired of the repeated gankings on the PvP server, I decided to reroll as Alliance over on Baelgun. My first toon was a Pally and quickly became a bank alt. My second is the much heralded Daxenos. And my third is Rysteranch, the Night Elf Hunter, with HIS faithful companion PuddyTat, a Tedrissal black striped cat. He is level 70 and somewhat active.
With over 119 levels of huntering behind me, I started another hunter, Daxen the Blood Elf, over on Ravenquest so I could experience the Horde side of things again. Daxen's first pet was, like my others, a beginning area kitty, which I named PuddyTat (how original).
So, yesterday, Daxen at level 15, was looking to find a pet that had dash so she could train PuddyTat with it. She bought a stable slot and went looking around Durotar for a raptor. She soon realized that she might be in for a couple of fights before she found her new pet, so she decided to tame a "trash" pet.
Enter some poor level 7 black boar.
Daxen had no issues taming the boar and after feeding it, sent it in to tank a scorpid that was blocking the way.
Zoe.
Em.
Gee.
I (yes perspective change) was in love. I had never run with a piggy, so I'd never been able to experience the thrill of the charge. That sucker took off like a rocket! WHAMMO!!!! Even without the benefit of training, my piggy did a great job of holding aggro and taking the hits.
I immediately named her Pigglet. Yes, how original. 134 levels of huntering, and I've finally got my first pig. What a noob!
PS. And when she dies for the first time...BACON!!!!....before rezzing.....
Pug guy in action again
Saturday, Dax played Pug guy again; this time it was for his old guild, The Iron Ring(TIR)! It seems that Turion has done a bang up job of recruiting and conned,erm, persuaded enough level 70's to join his guild for a Kara run.
So, 8 Iron Ringers, one PuG'd Warlock, and Pug Guy Dax headed into Kara for what I thought would be a wipefest. Oh, I didn't mention it, but we only had two healers. Now both of the healers were in mostly T4 or equivalent and had over +1700 healing, but still, we only had two.
The first try on Attunmen resulted in one wipe on trash and another on him. By the time we got to the second try on him, trash had respawned and joined the fight! Ok, meet up at the entry, buff up, and clear trash again. This time the trash went faster as now the raid knew we weren't kidding about trash respawns!
I'm pretty sure we had at least two tries on Attunmen that time. Anyways, the last time (ha ha) we killed him! And there was much rejoicing. Kat won the leather thingamajigs that dropped and Av won the plate. So gratz on them. I had to leave after that, but they continued on the the Moroes wipefest with another healer.
Sunday
We started with the crackhead Moroes. Wipe, wipe, wipe. Etc, etc. Of course, every raid has to figure out the best strategy depending on their raid make up. DA has two warriors tanking Moroes and a druid tanking the adds; we burn down all the adds and then kill Moroes.
TIR has no such make up. In fact, I didn't realize it, but tanking of the adds wasn't really discussed. So, we were just letting whoever had aggro on the add, tank it.....ROFL!! No, it did not go well....and I got Cleaning the House aggro and had to leave.
So, after I left, the raid continued with another healer and tried the strategy of keeping all of the adds CC'd and just burning Moroes. This seems to be the best strategy for them as they got him all the way down to 3% on one try.
So, 8 Iron Ringers, one PuG'd Warlock, and Pug Guy Dax headed into Kara for what I thought would be a wipefest. Oh, I didn't mention it, but we only had two healers. Now both of the healers were in mostly T4 or equivalent and had over +1700 healing, but still, we only had two.
The first try on Attunmen resulted in one wipe on trash and another on him. By the time we got to the second try on him, trash had respawned and joined the fight! Ok, meet up at the entry, buff up, and clear trash again. This time the trash went faster as now the raid knew we weren't kidding about trash respawns!
I'm pretty sure we had at least two tries on Attunmen that time. Anyways, the last time (ha ha) we killed him! And there was much rejoicing. Kat won the leather thingamajigs that dropped and Av won the plate. So gratz on them. I had to leave after that, but they continued on the the Moroes wipefest with another healer.
Sunday
We started with the crackhead Moroes. Wipe, wipe, wipe. Etc, etc. Of course, every raid has to figure out the best strategy depending on their raid make up. DA has two warriors tanking Moroes and a druid tanking the adds; we burn down all the adds and then kill Moroes.
TIR has no such make up. In fact, I didn't realize it, but tanking of the adds wasn't really discussed. So, we were just letting whoever had aggro on the add, tank it.....ROFL!! No, it did not go well....and I got Cleaning the House aggro and had to leave.
So, after I left, the raid continued with another healer and tried the strategy of keeping all of the adds CC'd and just burning Moroes. This seems to be the best strategy for them as they got him all the way down to 3% on one try.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
RFC - PWNED
A nice little photo op with the weird scrying ball thing in RFC after downing the bosses for the second time.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Ka-Plok
Or something like that. Daxie went to Kara in Dax's place last night. Yes, I was hoping for all priest drops since I would be the only one that could use them. But...none dropped. She did get a nice wand off Opera and some rep with the Violet Eye, so she feels good about the run.
Tonight, I'm really looking forward to RFC and running with my fellow Purple Poxers. I've laid off playing Daxe in order to concentrate more on my Alliance toons, so it'll be good to play her again. Also, I've temporarily suspended my AH activities on her to let the other Pox People take advantage of the markets. It's nice to be level 12 and have 200 gold....rofl!
Tonight, I'm really looking forward to RFC and running with my fellow Purple Poxers. I've laid off playing Daxe in order to concentrate more on my Alliance toons, so it'll be good to play her again. Also, I've temporarily suspended my AH activities on her to let the other Pox People take advantage of the markets. It's nice to be level 12 and have 200 gold....rofl!
Monday, March 3, 2008
And smiled....and smiled
Yes, Dax got more epic loot last week. In addition to replacing his last AH green with a nice pair of gloves from Attunmen, he picked up a nice purple trinket that added 14 more +healing and won the roll on the cape from Prince, which was an upgrade, but just replaced an epic with an epic.
But the real news of the weekend was the Chess event. And the hat. The Headdress of the High Potentate. I was very excited to see this upgrade to my Watcher's Cowl. Now, finally, I have something worthy of grinding Honor Hold rep for the Glyph of Renewal (or what ever that thing is called).
So, Dax now has just two blue items left - a pair of boots and the Lower City prayerbook. I'll be running Heroic Mech in hopes of Boots of the Pious, and at 75 BoJ's, I can get another trinket that will add 18 +healing.
Now Dax has almost everything that he wants out of Kara. The T4 gloves, Boots of the Incorrupt, and Prince's mace would be nice, as well as the healing bracers off Maiden (I have the caster bracers off her). But, I'm happy where I'm at for the time being. Besides, if I get more stuff, that means I have to grind out the enchanting mats and gems for it....which isn't a lot of fun...
But the real news of the weekend was the Chess event. And the hat. The Headdress of the High Potentate. I was very excited to see this upgrade to my Watcher's Cowl. Now, finally, I have something worthy of grinding Honor Hold rep for the Glyph of Renewal (or what ever that thing is called).
So, Dax now has just two blue items left - a pair of boots and the Lower City prayerbook. I'll be running Heroic Mech in hopes of Boots of the Pious, and at 75 BoJ's, I can get another trinket that will add 18 +healing.
Now Dax has almost everything that he wants out of Kara. The T4 gloves, Boots of the Incorrupt, and Prince's mace would be nice, as well as the healing bracers off Maiden (I have the caster bracers off her). But, I'm happy where I'm at for the time being. Besides, if I get more stuff, that means I have to grind out the enchanting mats and gems for it....which isn't a lot of fun...
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