I'm not in that category, but I did switch guilds again. For the record, I've changed my underwear every day for at least the last week, so I'm safely outside of the title group.
I went back to one of my old guilds: Blood for Blood.
I had two reasons for leaving B4B: Teurion left and the guild leader's girlfriend was a real piece of work. Now, Teurion left because of the gf, so maybe there was just one reason.
Well, the guild leader dumped the girl friend, so that cleared the way for our glorious return!! That might be a bit overstated...
Anyways, after getting nothing but silence on Friday when asking about who was up for a Heroic, Daxie got fed up and /gquit. I don't think anyone noticed as I didn't get any whispers.
A little bit later, when DV /gquit, I got one whisper. /shrug. I explained why I left and added the reason that B4B was in 25 man content now, rather than soon, and left it at that. Teurion left after being in our Friday Naxx25 raid for an hour.
And speaking of raiding, I got in more than my fair share this past weekend - so much that I need to cut back a bit to balance out my home life.
Daxie got the call to heal the 25 man Naxx on Friday night (my wife was scrapbooking, FTW!) and ended up with some emblems of valor. Unfortunately, the Saturday Naxx10 and Friday's Naxx25 are kind of running together in my head, so I can't really remember who or what we did. I think it was Arachnid quarter and Plague quarter. I do remember dancing with Heigan...and surviving. I also remember the healing windows on Loethab, so we must have done him as well. I suppose I need to take some notes or something. nah....
What I do remember better is the Naxx10 we did on Saturday. We cleared out the Construct quarter and the Four Horsemen, which finished up all the wings. So we took a shot at Sapphiron...and one shotted the dragon! So we took a look at Kel'Thuzad....and got our butts beat.
For the evening, Daxie got a set of gloves that turned out to be worse than the Moonshroud ones and her first piece of T7 gear - her pants.
The priest T7 gear doesn't seem to suffer the same issues as the hunters' set. I did have to gem it correctly, but the item was a solid upgrade to the best Heroic drop. That's what I'm talkin' about!
Monday, February 9, 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009
T7....I don't know.....
Last night, we went to the Military quarter after wiping twice on Loethan (our druid healer was OOM in the first 10% of the fight despite being told he could only heal at certain times....).
Now, I expected this to be the toughest quarter yet, and the trash pulls tended to bear that out in that we couldn't grab two groups and kill them without wiping. But, it turns out that the first two bosses are a cake walk if you know what to do!
The Instructor is tanked by his adds via the mind control orbs (sorry 25 man people....Naxx10 For the Easy!) and is a check to see if your tanks can swap aggro, put up a spell before tanking (bone shield), and release and resnag their Death Knight. It took one wipe for Teurion and the other tanking dude (not the OT, in this case) to figure it out, and we easily killed him.
The next boss is even easier if you know to split up into two groups with the better DPSers on the dead side. We put three dpsers on the Live side and the Warlock (that out dpses me) and I on the Dead side.
Wave after wave was killed on the Live side and popped up on the Dead side. They were a joke! It was almost like they got the level 80 elite name without changing anything else from being a level 60 elite. Now, I'm not complainin'; I'm just sayin'.
Soon enough, the boss came down on the Live side, was pewpew'd at for a bit, then came over to the Dead side for a visit. We obligidingly pewpew'd him and sent him back to the Live side. I think he only made it back to the Dead side one more time before the gates opened, and we smoked him. A pretty easy fight, IMO.
I passed on the hunter belt (had a shammy that wanted it) cause the emblem belt that I had was sorta...kinda....better. I'm also thinking about leaving the guild to return to Blood for Blood and didn't want to be accused of ninjaing anything.
So, now to the subject of the post: DV has 60 emblems, which is enough for his T7 glove token. And yet, I hesitate. The gloves that I have are pretty nice, and I lose +crit by swapping them out for the T7 gloves. What's the deal?? Shouldn't T7 stuff be, like, at the very least a pure upgrade to what it's replacing??? /sigh. I might just have to wait to get the T7.5 stuff....
Now, I expected this to be the toughest quarter yet, and the trash pulls tended to bear that out in that we couldn't grab two groups and kill them without wiping. But, it turns out that the first two bosses are a cake walk if you know what to do!
The Instructor is tanked by his adds via the mind control orbs (sorry 25 man people....Naxx10 For the Easy!) and is a check to see if your tanks can swap aggro, put up a spell before tanking (bone shield), and release and resnag their Death Knight. It took one wipe for Teurion and the other tanking dude (not the OT, in this case) to figure it out, and we easily killed him.
The next boss is even easier if you know to split up into two groups with the better DPSers on the dead side. We put three dpsers on the Live side and the Warlock (that out dpses me) and I on the Dead side.
Wave after wave was killed on the Live side and popped up on the Dead side. They were a joke! It was almost like they got the level 80 elite name without changing anything else from being a level 60 elite. Now, I'm not complainin'; I'm just sayin'.
Soon enough, the boss came down on the Live side, was pewpew'd at for a bit, then came over to the Dead side for a visit. We obligidingly pewpew'd him and sent him back to the Live side. I think he only made it back to the Dead side one more time before the gates opened, and we smoked him. A pretty easy fight, IMO.
I passed on the hunter belt (had a shammy that wanted it) cause the emblem belt that I had was sorta...kinda....better. I'm also thinking about leaving the guild to return to Blood for Blood and didn't want to be accused of ninjaing anything.
So, now to the subject of the post: DV has 60 emblems, which is enough for his T7 glove token. And yet, I hesitate. The gloves that I have are pretty nice, and I lose +crit by swapping them out for the T7 gloves. What's the deal?? Shouldn't T7 stuff be, like, at the very least a pure upgrade to what it's replacing??? /sigh. I might just have to wait to get the T7.5 stuff....
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
A full night!
After work yesterday, I hopped on Daxie to see if I could snag a Heroic or two before dinner. I was pleasantly surprised to get an invite to H. Violet Hold within a couple of minutes.
I was in the channel for HVH, so it shouldn't have been a surprise...lol. I specifically chose that instance to gauge where I was at in terms of managing my mana for chain pulls. I did just fine, although I really missed having mana biscuits. I was chuggin' tea all night long.
Short story, no wipes, one death (mine), and got a nice pair of caster bracers off the last boss. Oh, and I managed my mana just fine.
So, the DK tank then asked if the group wanted to go do Halls of Lightning, and the DPSers declined. Now, I've had some difficulty with that instance on DV and didn't think that I could do a good job of healing. But, the tank took a "let's just see" attitude and gathered up three DPS to fill our our depleted group.
In short, we did do just fine. I had a death here and there from AoE or having to chose between DPS or tank (tank always wins those) or people's inability to dance with Loken. We also had a couple of wipes. But all in all, we were able to complete the instance and get the phat lewtz....a leather item for three casters, a hunter, and a DK. /roll for vendor.
So, I have high confidence now that I can heal just about any Heroic. Yay on Daxie.
After dinner was our guild's Naxx10 run. Allow me to dispense with what you all want to see:
So, guess who was able to dance the Heigan fight 5 times....I know, you guys are tired of hearing that.
On the plus side, the Warlock was able to stay alive for the last dance to speed up our kill.
We were able to take out Noth, Heigan, and Patchwerk. The Patchwerk decision was made after our 4th wipe on Heigan, and Teurion wanted to get the raid's confidence back. We knew we had the DPS to kill Patchy, so it was a good bet to take a couple of tries at him.
We ended up one shotting the big guy!
So, with that boost, we went back and killed Mr. Safety dance (although we didn't get that achievement due to over half the raid still dying...).
On my performance, the damage done pretty much speaks for itself, but what I really like is I had no misses with a 149 hit rating and a draenai alive at all times. I would have liked it better if I had no misses with all the draenai dead on a long fight like Heigan so I could gauge whether or not 149 +hit is good enough. That just sounds morbid doesn't it....
I was in the channel for HVH, so it shouldn't have been a surprise...lol. I specifically chose that instance to gauge where I was at in terms of managing my mana for chain pulls. I did just fine, although I really missed having mana biscuits. I was chuggin' tea all night long.
Short story, no wipes, one death (mine), and got a nice pair of caster bracers off the last boss. Oh, and I managed my mana just fine.
So, the DK tank then asked if the group wanted to go do Halls of Lightning, and the DPSers declined. Now, I've had some difficulty with that instance on DV and didn't think that I could do a good job of healing. But, the tank took a "let's just see" attitude and gathered up three DPS to fill our our depleted group.
In short, we did do just fine. I had a death here and there from AoE or having to chose between DPS or tank (tank always wins those) or people's inability to dance with Loken. We also had a couple of wipes. But all in all, we were able to complete the instance and get the phat lewtz....a leather item for three casters, a hunter, and a DK. /roll for vendor.
So, I have high confidence now that I can heal just about any Heroic. Yay on Daxie.
After dinner was our guild's Naxx10 run. Allow me to dispense with what you all want to see:
So, guess who was able to dance the Heigan fight 5 times....I know, you guys are tired of hearing that.On the plus side, the Warlock was able to stay alive for the last dance to speed up our kill.
We were able to take out Noth, Heigan, and Patchwerk. The Patchwerk decision was made after our 4th wipe on Heigan, and Teurion wanted to get the raid's confidence back. We knew we had the DPS to kill Patchy, so it was a good bet to take a couple of tries at him.
We ended up one shotting the big guy!
So, with that boost, we went back and killed Mr. Safety dance (although we didn't get that achievement due to over half the raid still dying...).
On my performance, the damage done pretty much speaks for itself, but what I really like is I had no misses with a 149 hit rating and a draenai alive at all times. I would have liked it better if I had no misses with all the draenai dead on a long fight like Heigan so I could gauge whether or not 149 +hit is good enough. That just sounds morbid doesn't it....
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Head Arcanum!
Yay, Daxie is Revered with the Sha'tar, so she can pick up the Arcanum of Power! Yeah, I don't need the +hit, but the 22 spell power will definitely help me get that new hat that I need!!
First Heroic healings
Yesterday, Daxie got to heal the last boss in H. Utgarde Pinnacle for the daily quest (three emblems for one kill!) and healed H. Halls of Lightning.
For the HUP run, she was around 1400 spell power (unbuffed). She had a well geared tank, so it really wasn't an issue keeping him alive, and the fight wasn't that bad.
For the HHoL run, she had climbed to 1576 spell power (unbuffed) due to the Titansteel Guardian, a ring, a nice trinket, and some enchants. She had a well geared tank for this run as well, but we had a bit of trouble in the instance.
Of course, HoL has quite a bit of AoE damage as well as a painful dance on the last boss. I had a couple of player deaths due to having to choose the tank over them, but over all, we had an acceptable number of deaths, imo.
Loken is a pain! We tried to just heal through the fight in one place, but that resulted in a wipe. The next try, we decided to run, but I didn't run fast enough and died. But the NEXT try, I was able to run with the group and survived long enough. Yeah, I died with 50K health left on Loken, and the Warrior and two DPS were able to take him down.
I "needed" on the caster belt that dropped as the Warlock didn't need it. It was a pretty good upgrade for me with an Eternal Belt Buckle attached to it.
And that brings me to my next point: If you want an upgrade to a slot, make sure you gem/enchant/enhance it with what ever you can. This will ensure that you get that drop that will force you to do it all over again!
Last night, I did exactly that with my waist item - attached a belt buckle, threw in a nice +16 spirit gem, and BAM! get a replacement on my very next run. /shrug. If that's all it takes, I'll make sure to keep everything up to snuff!!
(Oh, and, sadly, I never did grind the proper BC rep for the head arcanum, so I'm stuck grinding out Wyrmrest rep. But, now that I've said that, I've just realized that since the change to Spell Power from +Healing, I might be able to get another BC faction's arcanum...must research....)
For the HUP run, she was around 1400 spell power (unbuffed). She had a well geared tank, so it really wasn't an issue keeping him alive, and the fight wasn't that bad.
For the HHoL run, she had climbed to 1576 spell power (unbuffed) due to the Titansteel Guardian, a ring, a nice trinket, and some enchants. She had a well geared tank for this run as well, but we had a bit of trouble in the instance.
Of course, HoL has quite a bit of AoE damage as well as a painful dance on the last boss. I had a couple of player deaths due to having to choose the tank over them, but over all, we had an acceptable number of deaths, imo.
Loken is a pain! We tried to just heal through the fight in one place, but that resulted in a wipe. The next try, we decided to run, but I didn't run fast enough and died. But the NEXT try, I was able to run with the group and survived long enough. Yeah, I died with 50K health left on Loken, and the Warrior and two DPS were able to take him down.
I "needed" on the caster belt that dropped as the Warlock didn't need it. It was a pretty good upgrade for me with an Eternal Belt Buckle attached to it.
And that brings me to my next point: If you want an upgrade to a slot, make sure you gem/enchant/enhance it with what ever you can. This will ensure that you get that drop that will force you to do it all over again!
Last night, I did exactly that with my waist item - attached a belt buckle, threw in a nice +16 spirit gem, and BAM! get a replacement on my very next run. /shrug. If that's all it takes, I'll make sure to keep everything up to snuff!!
(Oh, and, sadly, I never did grind the proper BC rep for the head arcanum, so I'm stuck grinding out Wyrmrest rep. But, now that I've said that, I've just realized that since the change to Spell Power from +Healing, I might be able to get another BC faction's arcanum...must research....)
Monday, February 2, 2009
WotLK Priest Heroic Drops
| Slot | Name | Instance |
| Head | | |
| Neck | Culling of Stratholme | |
| Shoulders | Culling of Stratholme | |
| Back | | |
| Chest | No good Heroic drops | |
| Wrist | Utgarde Pinnacle | |
| Hands | Drak’Tharon Keep | |
| Or | Nexus | |
| Waist | Oculus | |
| Legs | Violet Hold | |
| Feet | Violet Hold | |
| Ring1 | Drak’Tharon Keep | |
| Ring2 | Utgarde Pinnacle |
And then there were two...
Last night Daxie joined Dwarfvader in end game.
So, yay on her!
I have several crafting items to make as well as rep to grind. It turns out Wyrmrest rep is the first one I need to grind. I should have checked that out BEFORE I started wearing the Kirin Tor tabard. Oh well, I have time....
So, yay on her!
I have several crafting items to make as well as rep to grind. It turns out Wyrmrest rep is the first one I need to grind. I should have checked that out BEFORE I started wearing the Kirin Tor tabard. Oh well, I have time....
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