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Pickpocket Hagara

Dec11

Was supposed to raid DS 10 with Rayzo tonight but he showed up late, and apparently no one waited and all logged. Talked to Lilawolf in the meantime and was going to join another raid but instead of waiting a few minutes on me they got some other disc priest.

The reason I had to ask for a few minutes before I could join, is because I ran Well of Eternity for the satchel, but ended up getting Foul Gift of the Demon Lord as well, which I used to replace Eye of Blazing Power. I liked the Eye trinket but the Demon Lord one has the same exact int, and a more useful on equip ability of a lot of mastery (which turns out to be awesome sauce). But unfortunately unlike the groups that wait forever for a healer or whatever when I’m ready to go, this one didn’t wait. Oh well that trinket was worth it.

Was halfway through another satchel run, when I got added to that raid anyway. Huzzah! The first boss went fine, the next one we wiped on over and over and over. The healing we had to put out was incredible and I was going OOM pretty fast. Anyway we swapped out the pally for a druid healer, and got it down. 2 bosses and no loot that applied to me.

On the third guy with the slimes, we should have had it but wiped like 4 times and by then I had to go. Poor Rayzo, I really wanted to last until the pick pocket boss.

Will of Unbinding

Dec7

Later that day queued up for the second set of raids, and did well all things considering.

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I thought the battles were pretty easy but seeing what they were designed for I think it’s not bad.  I don’t know, I mean harder would have been nice, but with 25 pugs I just don’t know how that would work out.  And this one was just cool.

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got to the final Deathwing thing and I had to go but it looked pretty cool. At one of the earlier raids I won Will of Unbinding which gives 780 int pretty much, non stop.  It’s also going to find a place in my pvp gear!

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And a side note, people that join a group to queue for something, and then go afk for like 10+ mins, that’s kind of shitty.  Just be like “I can’t right now”.  Don’t get in a group, go “afk sec” and then not come back for so long I could have queued for and ran half of a dungeon already.

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.

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.