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Dec3

Early in the day I log in and have a party between Leonz and his shape shifting orb and Maice, who has his up but I didn’t get a shot of it.  Regardless I am dancing with a paladin and a tank so it’s fun!

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Tonight we’re doing 10 man ICC to pick up some achievements. We do the Full House achievement for Lady Deathwhisper, though it takes a number of tries.

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All goes well until Sindragosa, where a hard fight that we all hate, gets even harder.  Apparently one of them is having one tank, and one healer, which is me however I get Unchained Magic repeatedly every time for 2 attempts. We go back to 2 healers since this is not going well but we wipe a few times more.  We’re doing it on heroic, so yuck.

At one point I die ON an ice block and it makes for  a funny death.

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It gets late and people are probably drunk, so after about 2 hours of trying we call it.  Heroic Sindragosa sucks.

I like this offhand and FINALLY killed the Lich King

Nov27

Tonight is the ICC continuation of Sindragosa and Lich King 25 man.  Tonight we have a rogue who is giving better stories than the guy with a parent in the hospital, this one says his grandfather died, he was kicked from guild, and now apparently his add ons are making him have like 2 FPS.  Plus he got booted from the raid because of said lag and apparently he was locked to just the LK.  It’s very /wrists.

It takes several attempts to get her down, and I win by 1 point on a roll for the Sundial of Eternal Dusk.  Which is funny because I just bought a PVP off hand I now don’t need.  Oh well!  It is a COOL looking offhand. Some people continually got hit by the bombs as well, including Shottie.  I am eyeballing him in particular since he joined Relentless many months ago, whined and cried about getting into raids, got a bunch of gear, then left.

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The LK fight on 25 man, we failed like 5 times then gave up.  A few highlights, Shottie clearly didn’t know the fight, someone put down a train, someone dropped defile dead center of the group,  etc.

We reform for 10 man where someone says we should get it in one shot no problem.  Well, that IS good news.  Then they decide they want to do a difficult achievement instead, which pretty much means I won’t get the kill tonight.  But, I was wrong, and I get the KILL FINALLY!!!!

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I must say, it wasn’t really even that hard.  Granted I’ve done it repeatedly these last oh, 6 months, but before I knew it we were all dead and past the point of failure, rezzed up and killed him.  Amazing.

Afterwards we ran a full clear of Naxxramus.  The only trouble I had was with Heigan the Unclean, where I died since I really didn’t know the fight.  The others I was able to learn on the fly and follow directions.  We ran it with 8 people although it went slower since we had a druid doing UNDER 2k dps.

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I haven’t seen a fight like that anywhere else, either.

We wiped once on Sapphiron, but I think a few people never saw the fight and I’ve only done it once, months and months ago.  We get it on the second try.

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The Kel’Thuzad fight took two attempts.

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and then we got him down too.  I ended up with many, many achievements that night. I have to write them down there is not enough room to screenshot.

The Frozen Throne (All 10 Player)

The Construct Quarter

Subtraction

The Military Quarter

Pest Control

The Plaque Quarter

The Arachnid Quarter

Arachnophobia

The Hundred Club

Sapphiron’s Demise

The Fall of Naxxramas

The Dedicated Few

Champion of the Frozen Wastes

Kel’Thuzad’s Defeat

Just Can’t Get Enough

Deathwing broke my stuffs!

Nov26

Someone linked me to patch notes that said that Deathwing shattered all the old alchemy vials.  I thought that was pretty funny, then I looked in my inventory and indeed found my broken vials. I have a Tainted Vial, Shattered Vial, and Melted Vial. So sure enough, they were broken!

The ICC 25 is supposed to be today but by 8pm we don’t have a full group. We fill up about 20 mins later though.  For some reason the raid lock out thinks we have 2 bosses down.  We start to go Gunship but it wasn’t toggled to Heroic, so we all die and flag it to Heoric, only now Marrowgar is up and it’s a fresh run again.  Weird.

I win the roll on the Bone Sentinels Amulet which is a nice upgrade for me, with a roll of 97.   Of course after gunship Ring of Rapid Ascent Heroic drops which is even nicer, but I cannot roll because of the loot rules since I already won.  Darn. I could cry because my mage necklace, the Amulet of Silent Eulogy drops, but clearly I’m not on my mage here.

We do ok until Fester when someone does something wrong and I die real fast, along with everyone else. I believe a ranged ran in when they were suppose to stay out, and wiped everyone.  Wonderful.  Then Shottie, who had been in Relentless until he got enough gear to leave, asked for vent info.  A little late for that I think.  We wipe again when someone pulls who is not a tank, and gets us all killed. We’re not sure who, although Fester ran to the right before any tank grabbed it.

We do get to see the new raid icons though, which I have not seen before.

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and on the third try we get it, since whoever was being stupid stopped being stupid.

During Rot I get asked to dispel and I quick flash up healbot which is what I use to dispel and cure disease.  We one shot that no prob. The wand I need drops but I roll a crappy 27 and don’t win it.

As I’m standing around noticing everyone with Kingslayer titles, I go to check mine and totally forget I have the Twilight Vanquisher title, and put that on. Twilight Vanquisher Ocyla. I like that.

Later we wipe on the Blood Queen for a combination of several reasons, one people not watching their threat and getting destroyed right away, and the other with people not biting and getting mind controlled.  We recover through 2 MC’d people but after that it does us in.  Next time we wipe again, with people not biting. Again.  We get her down on the third try though.

I win a mark so I can upgrade my pants to the sanctified version after the Queen, and then we do Dreamwalker before calling it a night. Oh also I roll a 3 on a wand I needed. sigh. I high-five the mage that also rolled a 3, though we both lose it to another priest.

Ugh the Lich King

Nov22

Logged in and queue for WG, when I first popped in it was me and one other person.

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but it worked its way up to 6 whole people later on.  It was very close, with the horde gathering up 6-8 vehicles at a time and nearly getting the relic door down, we end up winning with a combination of calling our incomings, people focusing on beating down the vehicles (which is easy with not enough people to defend the vehicles), staying close to the fort, with the minimum required to break down the towers.  So we won, but barely, but a win is a win.

Nearly me being in as a healer had a huge impact as I was the only one, and probably was a big part of our win.  Them not being able to be healed, and me healing people was a significant advantage.

I get in on another WG where we are defending and we’re doing better than ever now.  I run off more than once to start beating on a horde and receive assistance from several other ally  just in time to finish them off.

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This mage got me once and then I ran after them later, and unfortunately for them they ran back towards me and into the loving arms of the Alliance and she was whooped down at least 3 times. We win, with the horde only making a token resistance.

Later that night I got on and totally forgot that we had a RS going on for Relentless.  We stand around trying to find people for like 40 mins which is my entire play time tonight.  Sigh.  I didn’t meant to raid tonight and I forgot I signed up. So we fart around not getting a tank for about an hour then call it.  Fine waste of time.

We decide to try for LK because they say the title will be taken out tomorrow, and claim we’ll get it no problem. The other priest complains we don’t need two disc priests so to prevent whining I switch to holy.  Despite the positive outlook, we   fail repeatedly during the Valks and Defile.  On the 5th or so attempt I get picked up, someone drops a Defile right under the Valk, and I get carried off and dropped to my death.

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Shortly after the raid wipes again and I have to leave.  Pretty sure this is like my 100th fail raid, I mean really what are the chances? I may go play the lottery now. I log off in a bit of a huff.

My healing as holy wasn’t very high, but my overhealing was only about 20%, which in my experience is about 40% lower than what most holy priests do. I really don’t like to heal if nothing is incoming.

HEAL PLZ

Nov20

Get in a WSG group and we’re failing terrible and horde gets all 3 flags and us not even a single one. It’s one of those where you just want to say, just let them have it.  We’re stupid and don’t know how to play together. 36 honor on that one.

Next one is EotS and absolutely no one is communicating again and we are all over the place and lose horribly. I go and take Fel Reaver Ruins my freaking self and get to stand around listening to people say things like “inc mage”.  INC MAGE WHERE????  We lose, what a surprise.  29 honor.

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AB is after that, and we are communicating which makes me very happy. Apparently this is part of an alliance pre made since someone from Ravencrest is saying “pugs” defend.  I really must start running premade because PUGS just make me angry face.  We win, I earn 4th highest honor at 145.

Then my un-friend Soulprince asks me to do the event bosses.  Well why not. We get in and he asks how to tank it.  We all get frozen shortly after and I die. We all die.

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Soul says he can’t interupt because he’s a) busy tankin’ and b) not” looking” to interrupt anything. He tells the pally to stun the boss.  /facepalm.   We get it after much arguing about who is doing what. We end up getting it the second time however

After that we do the guy in AQ with no deaths.  I don’t get so much as a thank you for helping out. I scroll back up in my text in case I missed it, but rather than a thanks I see I missed this

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OOOOOH!  That bugs me to NO ENDS even back in Lineage 2 when people would do that, in pvp especially.  I pm him and tell him I know what I’m doing he doesn’t have to tell me to heal.  I get a “srry” because it’s so hard to type an O but that’s it.  And for the record, I always thank tanks that run me through stuff as a favor.

Hm. Speaking of favors, I recall I do need the fire boss, so I tell him I still need the fire boss because I missed the quest.  This is only minutes after defeating the last boss he needed, mind you.  He said well I’m in my guilds ICC 10 cont.  That was fast, I say.  He says they are on Sindragosa and might get LK tonight.  I’ll slit my wrists if that guy gets it before me.

Later that night we get down Blood Queen on the second attempt, and amazingly one shot Sindragosa. Oh I’m feeling this tonight, I am!  Unfortunately the first tries at LK get NEARLY to 3rd phase then get worse and worse after that.  The 25 man folds.

I get in on the 10 man and the holy priest, who had very low heals, comes with too.  She doesn’t appear to be doing very much HPS but threw me under the bus about not dispelling her, even though she was nowhere near the horror.  She was at 2k, as holy, and I was at 8k at disc.  Go fig.  I couldn’t tell that she was healing anything.  During the 2rd attempt she rezzes, takes the sickness and DC’s with no warning.  We did not get a LK kill tonight, and it was so late we just gave up.  Not really upset about it though.

I end up dropping my current guild and join up with this one however, since I’ve been raiding with them anyway and our activity in the other one has been next to nothing for months.