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Grim Batol

Dec26

Today I logged in and ran Twin Peaks bg and we won, earned 198 honor, and earned two achievements, Drag a Maw and Twin Peaks Perfection. I wait in the Tol Barad queue for about 14 mins and do not get in right away, and rather than wasting time waiting for it I queue up for a normal dungeon.

I get an in progress Grim Batol. They comment after the first boss, on how bad the other healer was.

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We do ok until the last boss where half the dps clearly doesn’t know the right and are not getting in the center of the shadow gale thing. We wipe, then the boomkin leaves, which is fine because they are under 5k dps anyway. We get that boss down.

Leonz tells me he wants an invite to the guild so I do so. We then run Tol’vir together. One paladin down, one more to go XD  The DK tank is lagging like hell but Leonz picked up the slack and tanks all the laggy spots, and we finish it even with the tank dead.  Sometime during this I hit Revered with Hyjal so I can go pick up the head enchant

Math is hard, guys

Dec24

Ok, tailoring rant.  Why is it people cannot do math? I had someone ask for a tailor in SW today, I responded and linked my tailoring.  They want frostweave bags made.  Well, one bag requires..

6 imbued frostweave bolts and 2 Eternium Thread

1 imbued bolt takes 2 regular bolts and 2 infinite dust

1 regular bolt takes 5 cloth

so one bag takes 60 cloth (12 bolts) plus 12 Infinite dust (2 bolts + 2 infinite dust = 1 imbued bolt) plus 2 eternium thread.  They say they have 160 cloths.  That’s not enough to make a bag by itself but you can make 2 bags that way if they also have the other mats.  They say they want 12 bags.  We’re looking at 720 cloth, 144 infinite dusts and 24 thread.  They express their amazement and stop messaging me after that.  Yes thanks for wasting my time not knowing how to craft things.

Does Cloth Exist?

Dec23

I switch my off spec to holy and try to get use to it in some battlegrounds.  Not having shields is difficult to get use to though, it’s just part of my play style so much I’m going to have to really get use to another way.

Pauldie invites me to a guild run of Heroic Lost City of the Tol’vir, and we wipe once on a boss, due to me getting bounced around (I didn’t know the fight) and another time I lost the druid, but we got it down.  Not a single cloth piece drops, which seems to be the theme for this expansion.  I get that achievement though.

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We also get guild level 6 during this run.

Onehitdan

Dec23

Oh gosh, I’ve been behind in updates.  I will get the pictures up after I write this all down.

First I have me in showing off my winter gear to Stout!

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Then in Tol Barad I am unfortunately surrounded by flagged Horde who are childishly spitting on me and making rude remarks and such.

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To stop the abuse I use one of those neat Lifegiving Seeds and turn into a bush, which they cannot target so the spitting stops.  XD

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When the battle starts I run around and find Janusz, and I have to account for him running around in stealth a lot by making it not as obvious I’m traveling with someone.

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We win that one, but I don’t think it’s quite as fun as WG.  I spent a lot of time in the swamp hogging up all the Whiptail, which I sell on the AH for 400g A STACK.  Of course the next day, the stack prices are greatly reduced, which is the way of the market.  Still I made at like 2k off of that, which is good because I spent a lot of money getting the last 10 points for my mages tailoring.

That night I form up with Stout and Lladin and we attempt to do Heroic Deadmines.   The first tank is a bear that I can barely keep alive spamming the balls out of Greater Heal, Penance and shields.  He drops after the first boss.

The second bear tank gets in, pulls a whole room and there is no outhealing that and we all die.  He says he thought it was regular Deadmines and I “seriously?”‘d that and Lladin made similar unbelieving comments and the tank left.

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Then we got a warrior named Onehitdan and I am able to use the stupid efficient Heal quite a bit.  And people need to shut up and stop telling me to use that heal, when I clearly know it won’t work.  I am well versed in estimating incoming damage and speed vs strength/ power, and speed of my own heals from Lineage 2.   If a tank goes from 90% to 70 to 50 in the matter of seconds, I have to use my 2.3 second Greater Heal to heal for 20-30k if Penance is down or if more heals are needed.  A 2.3 seconds 5-10k heal is not going to cut it.  In both cases with the bear tanks I needed spam Gheals just to keep them from dying.  A lower powered heal of the same speed, wouldn’t have worked.  So dps? Be QUIET.

On the third boss we wiped about 3 times, and I wasn’t in the mood so I said I had to go.  I ended up running 2-3 bgs with Jan where we get this compliment.

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the thanks in the picture was to me for healing that person when they were almost dead, from atop the ledge in this room.

I remember people

Dec21

I can’t recall if it’s come up in this log before, but today I notice that Tierael, who is a paladin I made friends with months ago in WG, is back online playing. We discuss the new content, how gear works, etc and I give him some tips and a port.

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I also run into Leonz who gives me a green winter outfit, which I forget to take a photo of, but I will later.  I am trying to convince both paladins to join my newer guild as well.  I haven’t really played with either, so I can’t vouch for them all that much though.

Then at the bank, for some reason, three fat boomkins are blocking an entire side of the bank.  Why I don’t know.

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I don’t even know how they got back there.