Cassio

Nov15

Got in a Domo raid the other night, with, siiiigh, 2 other mages.   However when Raliden, on his alt, mentioned something about the other mages objecting I laughed and said knowing mages at least one will rage quit.  And one by the name of Torch or something like that, did rage quit after our 2nd wipe.  Cassio did me a favor and came in and we got it down, and I properly rolled crappy and didn’t win my shoulders.

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Then I went on to try Rag with VoW (I know, I know) but we wiped like 5-6 times before it was called.  I had 2nd or 3rd highest dps and I feel I can dps any of the fights now.

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Nothing of note really today other than helping a hunter, who was trying to solo thsose elite mini bosses in firelands, to get that achievement for killing them all.

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which got me the achievement as well.  Since the hunter was pulling a whopping 5k dps, Cassio again came in and helped out, and even then it was pretty close a few times.

Murkbottom

Nov12

Funny thing, I had Murkbottom on my friends list for a long time because he said he wanted to try arena sometime, but we never did anything or talked much after that.  So yesterday I removed him from my list, then today I was asked to do 5’s.  We went 5/8 which wasn’t too bad, but the last fight had 3 arcane mages which was just dumb.

I queued for a “regular” heroic and got SFK which I hate, and apparently the pally healer hated mages because I did not get a heal, at ALL, until I died on the second gruop to trash.  I was at 20%, ice blocked the full duration, got no heals, got no heals after that, then got brought up to 40% so I guess I got slight heals and was just left that way until I died.  I left that group. Got dungeon deserter so switched to the priest.

ZA and ZG are hard

Nov12

Since I was on dungeon CD on my mage, I queued for Z dungeons and the first one I logged into last boss of ZA, and died straight away since the healer left the party during a wipe. They said the healer sucked but I had to put out 16k hps on the eagle phase since everyone was standing right in the tornados.

Next one was last boss of ZG, wiped once when no one was getting the body slams but me. Died, asked if everyone knew the fight, yes. Turns on the shaman did not because the second attempt they were nowhere near the chains on the jumps, and apparently life grip doesn’t work to correct them, or I just wasn’t fast enough. Managed to barely get that down though. So two sets of VP runs in about 10 mins, yay. Got a ZA after that which went well also. I forgot how nice healer queues are. Then got in an AV win.

Hardmode Ulduar

Nov7

Did a hardmode 25m Ulduar achievement/transmog run last night.  I’ve only seen a few of the fights in here since I started during Wrath, when that content wasn’t done any more.  There was a druid by the name of Flardoran who wasn’t in vent, and being randomly rude in chat, saying we were fail and that kind of thing.

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Anyway I found the fights interesting and new, since most of them I have not seen outside of the ones you had to do for those weekly raids back in Wrath, but those were limited to Razorscale, Flame Leviathan, and that furnance guy if I remember right.

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The invite didn’t specify “must know fights” but there seemed to be a little bit of eye rolling over not knowing them in advance and the assumption that some of us think you can just faceroll all mechanics, which I know is not the case, and something I am glad you cannot do.

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I almost wish I was around when this content was new because it seems quite a bit different than where I came in at to begin with.  Giants and robots?  Lineage 2 ad similar lore with Cruma Tower and Giants Cave so the theme has probably seen a lot of use.

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During the next fight, someone posted an achievement where you had to not get hit by any of the shadow crashes.  Someone said we would most assuredly fail on this, which I seemed kind of pessimistic until I watched another druid, Knuggy, take a full face of a crash without making the slightest attempt to move.  So, yeah.

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This fight I’d almost like to see in newer content.  You could not regen mp, at all.  No evo, mana gems, nothing.  As arcane needless to say, I was wanding it most of the fight.  I don’t know what I would have done on my priest, all Heals maybe?

We tried Yogg  but as one of the tanks pointed out, certain people (like that druid again) appeared to be purposely bathing in the green clouds, and I died the first attempt when I got the brain link, was snatched up by a tentacle, and died there a few seconds later.

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We put in 2 attempts then people started dropping.  I think we only had 15 people, maybe a few more, but it just goes back to people having the worse patience ever sometimes. My rolls have continued to be awesome, rolled a 10 on a tailoring recipe I wanted, rolled an 88 on a dagger I wanted but still lost to a 94.  Good stuff. I was glad to see all these fights though, I can’t get over how much content is in the game that I’ve completely missed.