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Deepholm

Feb4

Finished up the chain of Deepholm quests, and ran the dailies for Therazane.

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Ran TB twice today as attacking and did not take it.  During one of the battles, a worgen named Shíggles starts carrying on about how TB is so easy to take, I say it’s not, in raid, and they decide to take the convo to pm’s.  Basically we’re in agreement that you need a coordinated group of people, preferably on voice comm, to take TB.  What I disagree on is that is it NOT EASY.  It’s not easy because even amounts of people have uneven jobs.  The defenders with 50 people need to only keep one base.  The attackers with 50 people (for example) have to take and keep THREE BASES.  That, is not easy.  Add to the fact that you are running around with people who may not be in pvp gear, probably not with the ideal amount of healers, with various people attempting to lead, and other lack of communication, it is NOT EASY.

But to me, bringing 50+ people that work well together, in itself, is not considered “easy”.  They then ask if I’ve heard of Rogue’s Vent, which no I have not.  Rather than telling me what that is they keep expressing shock and awe that I haven’t heard of it. I couldn’t find a thing on it, and they gave me the wrong url for it 3 times, only then could I locate anything about it.  I was willing to go into vent and speak about this more, but shortly after I kept saying their vent link didn’t work, they asked me to stop pming them and I said fine.

I mean, if it takes that much coordination and everyone in a vent server, I’ll do it.  But that, people, is not easy.

PW Shield kind of sucks

Feb3

Had a fun TB where we beat the horde to their GY and just camped it for a while. Did some herb farming but it got frustrating in Vashj’ir with too many other people collecting and only picked up like 10 herbs. Went to Deepholm where there were a lot more and did some more quests there.

At night we ran Blackwing again and I got Incineratus which helps my need for more haste. We got up to Atramedes but kept wiping then I had to go. I can’t do midnights on weekdays.

I will be going back to holy spec for now; my disc shield blocks about 12k damage, which is quite the joke. 12k is about what a non crit regular old Heal does. Even with a glyph’d Prayer of Mending, I can’t do enough raid wide healing to be much use.

I’m a manataur!

Feb1

Haven’t had much to report lately.  The mage I disliked in Relentless is in this guild now, I ran a bunch of heroics to get my awesome “white wizard” helmet, and I spent time farming herbs a lot.  I LOL’d at this part in Uldum and started doing quests there

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then went back to Deepholm to try to pick up on my quests there to work on Therazane rep.

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Ran a TB battle where I tried to defend the South Spire, but the way the siege vehicles work is considerably different than in WG.  In there, one person could break the siege up in and the person driving it had to stay in it for it to move.  In TB you need 2-3 people beating on it for a good minute or so AND the driver can set it to attack a spire, hop out and defend it while the siege is still attacking the spire.  I agree with them having more health, but geez. A full double set of my normal shadow attacks barely got the thing to 85% health.

Ran a battle with Janusz and it’s really, really frustrating how many damn healers horde rolls with.  I think we were fighting against a rogue, 2 priests, and 2 paladins, all just healing, healing, healing.  I do enjoy smite healing even in pvp though.

Later on I ran battlegrounds by myself and we lose (gilneas), lose (strand), win (Twin Peaks), lose (AV). When someone says in battleground “I don’t want to do this any more” I totally agree.

Why is his claw sleeping?

Jan28

Ran my TB dailies but didn’t get to the pvp ones before the battle started.  We defended it, then ran the other dailies with Rexe and another character whose name escapes me but said they knew me on Chmar and that I’ve saved them many times.

When the next battle comes up I pair up with Rexe again, we defend again, and I don’t die the entire battle.  I now have enough badges to get my DRAKE!

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I switch from holy spec to disc too, and redo all my keybinds to be in a more logical order so when the game puts me in a vehicle or a gun, etc, they are on my most used keys rather than ones not in good locations.

Holy still has way, way more tools than disc does, but I am hoping with the new patch they boost us quite a bit.  There is also no reason to have 2 holy healers at a raid, among all the holy healers we already have.  I took the archangel build also to at least give me a few more options than bubble, to compensate for the loss of spirit of redemption, light well, circle of healing, guardian spirit, chakra and all the holy words… sigh.  Yes, this disc patch better be GOOD.

Anyway! Tonight we get down the first three bosses in Blackwing Descent, and Atramedes!  Then we try Chimaeron.

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It’s one of those healing fights, ewww.  But it’s late, and we call it after a few attempts.

After that I get in on a TB, that we lost to the horde at some point, and we do not take it.  When the battle ends I pair up with a paladin named Wilks in killing a few horde on the way out, and I get thanked for healing and we take his chopper out, off the bridge and into the water. I comment that I wondered what would happen if you fell off the bridge and he said nothing, and you can just swim around to the Alliance camp.  Good to know, since some fall zones you just die (like in Outland).

I want that TB mount

Jan27

Today I run the TB dailies solo, and farm for many hours to make 8 Flasks of Draconic Mind.  8 takes about 5 stacks of 2 kinds of herbs right now.

I run TB a few times and run into Rexe, we take it around lunch time and we do those  pvp dailies together.  I need about 20 more badges to get my dragon, yay!

Later that night, rather than doing 2v2s, we do Bastion of Twilight and get the two dragons down. And this trash, is nasty, like ICC boss nasty if you can believe it.

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and these guys, will be entertaining, but most of us had to go to bed after a few attempts.

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