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Dragon Soul LFR

Dec7

The new raids are puggable now,

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but made 3 attempts on Ultraxion before I decided it wasn’t worth it and I had to work soon.

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Did a lfr for the first 4 bosses and won Mosswrought Shoulderguards, which is funny because I JUST replaced my shoulders from 359 to 378 a few days ago, and now to 384s.  I transmog’d it to this set though, I think it’s cute.

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On the second boss 2 mage shoulders dropped (tier token) and the good fire mage got one, and an arcane mage that did zero dps on the boss got the other. When I mentioned it in raid they just said some nonsense about “not paying attention” in broken English and they were vote kicked.  But they still got tier for doing nothing.

A lot of people are furious over the loot mechanics on these fights since it’s what appears to be modified open roll.  You get a bonus amount added to your roll if the system considers your need roll appropriate, like my priest needing on a spirit piece. Only it is not taking into account several things which a normal raid leader would consider such as

1) someone winning who did no dps/healing or tanking. (I’ve seen all 3 cases already)
2) someone who already won something that same boss
3) someone who already won something on another boss
4) someone who did god awful dps/healing
5) someone who died to standing in stuff or other fail methods of dying and being dead most of the fight

etc.

But honestly I’m not even sure how they could account for all of these things. Was that death to fire because you didn’t move fast enough or because you should have been healed quickly and weren’t?  Did you die from lack of heals?  No dps would be a clear one but how about just really fail dps.  Are you hitting one button just to get past the “no dps” meter, are you just bad? Poorly geared? Learning the fights?

I think some corrections can be made like not letting one person win 2 things in the same fight, and not letting a DK roll on agi gear or a mage roll on spirit gear (with the bonus roll) but otherwise I think a lot of it we’ll just have to deal with.

New BH Boss

Dec7

Did the new BH boss today, pretty easy, stack and run around when she “bone storms” like Marrowgar, only with no fire. A fing priest won the wrist pvp item, then also won the roll on the pvp gloves. The raid leader, who was Pomography, asked them to pass their roll since they already won something. The priest (wvpearl) said no and he gave it to them anyway. I was the second highest roll. When I questioned him about it, he said he did not want to get reported for not doing by roll rules. I informed him that as RL you can do whatever you want with loot including ninjaing it and they do nothing. Apparently he did not know that.

A minor annoyance, since they were shadow priest gloves and the healing ones are better. That person only did 7800 hps though and I did 16k.

Jaina’s Staff

Dec4

Ran the 5 man dungeons over and over and over today but didn’t come away with any loot for oh, the first 5 runs I think. Earlier in the week I got side-grade gloves, robe, but I still badly need to replace 359 shoulders, and belt.  If I can get those I’ll just drop the 2pc set I have since it’s not that good and gets me killed anyway (with the mirrors) and gear it for fire, and go fire.  Arcane gets shut down pretty hard in some of these new instances and raids.

On one of my last runs for the day I picked up Jaina’s Staff, which makes me slightly sad in the pants because I had spent like 17k on Volcanospike what feels like not that long ago (2 months I think) but eh what can you do.  That other weapon served me well.  It’s a pretty staff too, in addition to the pretty robes I picked up, I’m happy with some of the looks on the new loot.

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That’s a lot of Fire

Dec4

Did a LFR with Maice even though I could not roll on loot, which went well.  Afterwards I was asked by Rexe to come heal a normal FL.  We started with Beth which we two healed and I put out something like 22k hps to get through that, barely, had to pop every mana CD I had.  We skipped Shannox and went to Rhyo which went poorly,

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and after 3 wipes I think it was, I said I had to go.  It was late and I’m not terribly keen on making progress on normal raids when I have the heroics under my belt.

Didn’t I Kill You?

Dec3

The final 5 man instance features an escort by Thrall, which I guess some Alliance players are ticked about.  The totems he throws down have the horde “logo” on it too, not sure what that’s about.

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Why wouldn’t we have an escort by Varian?  I suppose I’m going soft over the whole Horde thing (insert joke about Ladiesman stealing my Alliance card here) but eh whatever.  In that party though I joked it was total bs and brought out the war bear I got for killing Thrall a year or so ago.

Later on I did my daily bg win and who should I run into but Ladiesman on his warlock, and yes I tried to beat his ASS.  He had a druid healer on him that the other alliance weren’t taking care of. Top 3 attacked, Joeshagwell, 58%, next person, 14. Ha ha.   We lost miserably, then went on to crush horde in a SoTA.

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I plan on trying to gear both characters equally this time, and the LFR tool will help me do that without needing both chars on a regular team.