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Blood Queen

Nov19

I run Strand and although we do very good, and the battleground groups seem much more fair, compared to our usual groups, we lose.  I get 68 honor.  I do not like Strand very much just because we always seem to defend it fine, then we’ll almost get their door down, but we lose anyway.  Eh yeah I suppose I should read up on how that works. I do get an honorable mention in this one though.

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and I withstand several horde repeatedly for quite a while

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WG is up in 3 mins  and I queue for it, but it tells me I’m not called in for about 10 mins.  When I do get in the horde have already taken down a tower or two, we’ve made no progress on the walls, and even attempting to defend the sieges rolling in we’re no match for players standing near the dead guns shooting down, or anyone hell bent on running under the vehicles and breaking them up.  I mean, I do that personally as well, the sieges/demo can’t hit you, and it requires some kind of CC to stop you from suicide-ing to take it down.  Sieges and demos should have some kind of body-crush skill or not allow players to run THROUGH it.  IMO.

We get done one wall but end up losing. Well, I’m up to enough honor to get another Wrathful piece at any rate.  The items at the Veteran Arena Vendor are now correctly showing no arena rating required for the lower end items. I buy the hood and gem and enchant it.

I need to level cooking some more, and my next highest recipe requires eggs from the raptors around Menethil Harbor.

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I remember hating these guys on my mage since they would call for help and I’d get beat to death shortly after.

Now the shoe, she is on the other foot!

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It takes something like 50 Raptor Eggs to get the Curiously Tasty Omelet down to green on the cooking list.

I queue for WG again and we lose.  The horde can easily repel all our vehicles with their own plus defenders since we only broke through a single wall, which just makes a murder hole.  Sigh.

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Later I run a AV and someone maps out plans at the start but eventually, we lose pretty badly.  Epic battles though so I enjoyed myself, and I got another compliment from a warrior. (had to merge several images to get it all on one)

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I queue up for WG but do not get in. We win it that time though.

Queued for WG again, and I solo a hunter down to .03 health but I was screwing around going on offensive so I died before he did.  Shame!  Even though I’m shouting the entire time that all we have to do is bust up their vehicles and mostly play defense, there was only a handful of people doing defense and the horde rolls us 15 minutes in. Alliance doesn’t like to work together.

Again, queued for WG and we failed something hard.  Horde was defending, they got 10 vehicles before we had any, managed to take nearly all the workshops, then bust all the sieges we had coming out of sunken, and we didn’t even get a wall down.  I have no idea what we were even doing because we weren’t killing their vehicles, weren’t defending the towers (which they got all down), and weren’t getting vehicles.  Oooh I was furious.  We LOST.

At night I have the regular 25 man.  We do fine until Putricide where we wipe, due to the person in the abom not slowing down the oranges, then later the greens not being killed quickly, and I died when the green zapped me and no one was around to share the damage. We get it the second time though.

I do think the trash before the blood princes is, a little overpowered, when they destroy 2 of the tanks and 2 healers in like 30 seconds. These guys, they suck.

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During the Blood Queen a rogue gets MC’d and kicks the living hell out of everyone.  I run back up only to get smoked, along with everyone else “safely” waiting in the queens room when someone pulled one of the Valkyr in the rooms below and all the adds ran up to get us.  There must have been like 20 trash mobs running around up there.

People were not biting or biting the wrong people, (I got bitten once, again), not running the flames OUT of the group, and not meeting up for that connection spell thing. This is the last thing I see before we decide to not do this boss tonight since the RL is tired, and I am too.

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We get down Val and then call it a night.  My rolls are fantastic tonight and I don’t have a single roll above 20, and that was over 4 rolls.  I had like, 18, 11, 12, 14. Lovely.

Cataclysm Events

Nov18

Flew around herb-ing today, first through WG, then to Scholazar and accidentally slipped into the Borean Tundra and got that exploring achievement.  Didn’t know I was missing it.  During this WG ticks down to queue time and I queue up for it at 14 mins to go.

and watching protodrakes kill elementals is kind of epic.

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The queue comes up for WG but it tells me I’m not called yet. SIGH. I’m like, RIGHT THERE so I just fly over to see what’s going on. I get thrown back out. I crab about this in trade and someone else says they also did not get called in. I head back to WG and ask how many are in raid but no one answers, and I get thrown out again.  I get in after that point and there are 13 people in myself included.   We have a breach at west already with 19 mins to go. Shortly after they have 5 vehicles beating on the front door. Those are busted up quickly and they are down to 0/8 vehicles then shortly after up to 4/12.

The west inner wall goes down. Fortunately for us everyone is communicating well,  and the tower team gets the towers down and we win it.  The balancing I am not complaining about, only the fact that WG was never meant to be run by 10-15 people per side.

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One person is setting up a VOA 10 and needs healers, so I PM them but don’t get added.  Another person does the same and I get in on that.  We do all the bosses and I get the 10 man achievement on Emalon.  There is a mage in here named Cann (symbol over the a) which all heroic sanctified gear and he pulls 14k dps.  Wow.   He asks for Power Infusion which I oblige when I can. The other priest healer drops at the last boss but I single heal it just fine.

I get in again later around the time WG is active and queue and get the please wait thing. I get in shortly after and we have nearly 5 full groups.  I’m in at 23 minutes and the horde already has 9 vehicles, and by the time I’m finally taken down by several horde just outside of the west keep, and by the time I rez back up, they have taken the fort and won.  Well, it was quick at any rate.

Later on again I queue for a bg before our guild events are supposed to start and get IoC. Half of us run to docks and get wiped OUT.  I head back that way and get flattened by two horde and no alliance around to heal. The battle quickly turns into a, why are we even bothering kind of fight. We make zero progress and get rolled and I make out with a whole 35 honor.

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We get together for the weekly with is Malygos and I have never done it, on any character.

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It takes 3 tries to get the flight part down and it throws me because I cannot see the drakes hp bars, and my interface doesn’t show their damage.

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I swear the last phase is seizure inducing though.   We get it!

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We then run VOA 25, and like usual nothing for priest drops.  We do a full clear. Well, I give up and just buy my T10 pants for my 4 piece set.

I run a IoC, again, we lose, again. Next is AV and we get to the boss guy, everyone runs in and I die straight away.  So yeah, that was good. I get nowhere near there after that, but we do win. 139 honor.

After that is EotS and these NEVER go well and we get steam rolled at DR. Then everyone deserts me at FRR so I leave too. Then it’s all “why is no one defending it?” Um because everyone left?  We DO win it though! 89 honor on that.  I’ve had enough for today.

Queued, please wait? Since when?

Nov17

Logged in and I still have zero add ons and not even the add ons tab.  I try to queue for WG and it says something about how I’ve been queued and please wait, which I’ve never seen before.  When the battle starts it gives me the please wait again.  I dequeued and queued again, same thing please wait.  I went to the WG npc and tried to queue, and please wait.

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Well, that guy won’t let me queue so I run off the fly there, only 2 mins in the Horde already has 5 vehicles, already has 2 walls down.  Rexe pm’s me and asks if the battle is going on and I say yes but the queue isn’t working and he says he’s “OMW”.  Shortly after they take the fort since we had roughly 10 people in raid.  Total, BS.

There is some discussion in trade about who makes Goblin Rocket Fuel and, thanks to Arashikage who gave me the recipe, I link it from Alchemy.  Apparently there is none on the AH, so I take the required Fireblooms out of my bank, then head to Stranglethorn Vale to farm the Volative Rum needed to make it.

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the drop rate is abysmal, I killed at least 20 mobs with nothing.  I get around 3 after switching to the other beach area but that still takes around 30 mobs. Ugh.  It’s like farming in L2 again.

I notice one of the rifts out here, for  some reason, and iI see a Bloodsail Swashbuckler start attacking the mobs.  Kind of funny!  I have to AOE the mobs to kill them all at once to break the rift.

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which then leaves behind a Mysterious Device.  After farming the booze for a while, I head back to SW and see it’s selling for 1g per, which totally isn’t worth it.  Upset at my add ons I delete all the add ons and reload everything, and now everything is happy again and loading.  And Quartz is remembering where I saved it last.  Awesome!

Now that WG has been made even on both sides now, no one will have tenacity any more.  To prove this I kill a blood elf paladin named Sevuf (ooh, another handsome red head)  and shortly after, a horde priest whose name I did not catch, solo.

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I get myself killed multiple times making stabs at breaking down their vehicles, disc spec or no, and healing up other Alliance.  East is a bad place to be and I die oh, many times.  I mention this horde death pit in raid.

Unfortunately even though I said East was a bad place to go, Alliance rolls several sieges through there which are busted up by all the horde I said were there, and the breach clear through to the inner CY from west that someone else announced, is totally ignored and we LOSE.  I foresee us losing a lot.

Later I run my dungeon which is CoS, AGAIN.

Horde spies?

Nov14

Today I log in and no friends are on, and only 2 in guild. I run WG and we defend it and win, however we have what was probably a horde spy yelling out invalid incomings and incorrect breaches. I wonder if you can report for that. A few people are being negative saying we’re going to lose, but I point out we’re doing just fine. People that don’t do this often should keep quiet.

I get on again later and run WG again, find Rexe this time, and we win. Nothing too eventful other than I’m finding I need to heal like I’m in Lineage 2 again, which means casting a heal before damage is even incoming in the hopes that the person may survive the next strike. It is difficult this time to out-heal the damage horde is putting out.

Half of the guild is in the ICC 25 that started too early for me to join, so I pick my daily dungeon and end up with CoS, which is boring me to tears by this point. The paladin tank is very slow and the DK seems to be tanking for him. I think back to when items in here were upgrades for me, and wonder if it’ll be like that come Cata. Obviously that is a dumb question because it will be like that, but it feels like ages since I needed anything from a 5 man dungeon.

Kind of bored I queue up for some BGs and get Arathi. We lose massively, destroyed all the way back to Trollbane and can’t even leave. Sigh. I wish I had an add on that would tell me how terribly out geared we are compared to the other team.

Next one is IoC and we lose terribly again. I get sapped at the docks and another priest shields me and then starts spamming Holy Nova trying to knock the rogue out of stealth. I thought only I did that. I was about to thank them when the battle rudely ended with our loss.

Last one is a Strand and at the beginning someone is calling out orders. We capture the titan relic, then the horde does, and they win. I really don’t get this bg. I have top honor for our side. Bored, I log out.

Fing Tenacity

Nov13

I log in for the last 2 bosses for ICC 25, but WG is up in 5 so I ask if it’s ok to run that.  Yes.  I fight against a warlock for a few minutes, and a rogue assists me, but he kills us both.  Fing tenacity.  I also dislike non healing classes that can heal themselves, that seems to be unfair.   Anyway I run into Rexe as per usual 🙂

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We win and I get my 100 wins and earn Wintergrasp Veteran achievement.

We start ICC up and once again on Sindragosa, some people need the fight explained.  I’m sorry but this late in the expansion, if you don’t know the fights, go watch a tankspot video, read up on it on wowhead, something.  There is no excuse for not knowing fights that are 6+ months old. None.  We wipe on the first air phase immediately when the ice blocks come out since someone didn’t run down the stairs, and it’s painfully obvious who because of the symbols placed on everyone.  Besides that we had several people die in first phase.

Second run, was also a wipe. The fail rogue from last night, is busy being fail again tonight as well, and explains his dps isn’t that high because he’s trying not to wipe us.  Of course that angry’s up the blood because his fail is wiping an entire raid.  Why he was invited back I don’t know.  This fight is aggravating  because it just takes one person to hose the entire raid.

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Third run we got to the third phase, and I survived the wipe.  It’s pointed out the fail rogue is wearing mostly pvp gear. sigh.  We fail again at last phase the 4th time, but I survive again due to someone getting me in their ice block.   Everyone starts discussing blame and someone says “Roll for blame” and I LOL for real on that. Next go I die in an ice tomb, even throwing a renew on myself before it hit.  Well, at least I don’t have to do much dead. Dying gives one good picture opportunities though.   After that point though I lose track of the wipes.  We get it finally and I get Exalted with Ashen and get my new ring. I was dead through that, however, died at like 100k health on the boss.

The LK run went slightly better than last time, and we got into the Defile stages but after 2 attempts people said they had to go.

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They talked about reforming for 10 man and said to stay in raid if you wanted to go, which I did, only I was kicked or disbanded and not needed.  Sigh.  I’m destined to never get that title, EVER.  Maice on Nilvana promises he’ll get it for me though.  No pressure, man 😀

Turns out the reformed 10 man got the LK kill sometime within the hour after the 25 man broke up.  So depressing!  I only seem to get into the fail runs, over and over, never the ones that get it.