I needed about 70 more justice points to get my firelord pants, to complete the 4pc t11 set on this character, so i queued for a regular dungeon. We got heroic throne of tides again, and the hunter repeatedly kept using AOE which was breaking my sheep on the casting mobs constantly. Then after the first boss for some reason, the entire party dropped except the hunter and I. They were replaced by players all doing 8k dps or lower, so I left, and bought my pants. So I’m at t11 4pc on both chars now.
1 Tank 2 Healers
Ran a dungeon with one guild member and Leonz!
he had to save us TWICE when the DK took more damage than I could Guardian and flash heal through, so the only person that wiped twice was the tank. At one point on a bit of trash I had 22k hps, ffs.
Ran all my firelands dailies too. I liked this one where you get your own party to go kill stuff.
Much like the quests with the prince of SW, they also come with their own flight forms (for the druid defenders) and a rocket mount for the knight, Maximilian I believe it was, for when you go flying.
Caverns of Time
While I was waiting on a dungeon queue, I ran a little quest through the caverns of time, which look pretty bad assed now.
Ugh, the randomness of… randoms, is crazy sometimes. Leonz and I queued for for a Z dungeon and first got one at the very last boss which we one shotted.
Next one we pulled, and the tank died. Why? Because the healer, was SHADOW. They swore they queued as dps but with a ret pally, prot pally, hunter, and me, obviously they must have chosen healing too. Plus they had the healing symbol on them. So the tank died the first trash pull because NO ONE was healing. Leonz must have tanked through it because the rest of us didn’t die. The healer switched to disc, but went completely OOM the next trash pull by bubbling the entire party, and then bizarrely casting BW Barrier on the same trash.
Now, normally I will not mock a healer if it looks like they are trying, or it’s the tank fault, or something. I think the last time I had was back in early Wrath. But this guy, holy shit. As I watched them go to 2% mp by casting shields constantly, I mentioned that it’s clear they don’t know disc healing. They told me to shut my face and that they would manage their mp. I told the tank that the healer clearly had no idea what they were doing, and on the first boss the healer again went OOM at about 50% health on the boss, by basically throwing every heal and shield they had at all the wrong times. I said, after we all wiped, that it was clear as day they had NFI what they were doing, and they dropped stating they “weren’t a good group healer”. No joke.
After that, the hunter stated they had never been to this dungeon before, and the new tank we got said they were fresh full of 346’s. We did ok but I ended up jetting when we died on another boss twice, because it was fireworks time.
Later I queued for a dungeon myself and got an all guild group from Torn, on Gorefiend, and we just TORE ZA UP. Was a good run, but haven’t gotten anything I could equip in a while. That reminds me I must replace my BLUE necklace now…
Defender of a Shattered World
Got my Defender of a Shattered World title, never thought I’d have it on my mage rather than on the priest who ran raids 3-4 times every week for months.
For some reason I had never finished Heroic Throne of Tides, which I did today. We wiped at least 7 times, 2 of which I avoided, and we ended up kicking a bad hunter doing 5k dps, using a tank pet. When they told him to bring out a dps pet, and the guy had no idea what to do. I did a vote kick with the reason “too stupid to play” which the other members enjoyed as the guy was kicked.
I’m sorry if you are 85 and don’t know what a dps pet is, just quit.
Ala’kir Down
Last night we got down Ala’kir, but I did not get my shattered title since I never did Throne of Tides heroic. Go figure!
Afterwards we went to Firelands and tried Shannox. Fun fight, I liked it a lot. We got him to 400k once, but people getting trapped in crystal traps too much, really put a damper on things. If you have to spend 30 seconds dpsing a crystal trap, plus the person inside isn’t doing anything for that one, it’s hard to recover from. One a fight is ok but it seemed 2 or more, you may as well just wipe. I got caught in one in several attempts well after midnight but that was it.
One of the healers in the group seems to have continual computer problems though. They are lagging, disconnecting, going random afk without saying anything, etc. It’s a little frustrating to wipe on a boss then find out your healer was afk because they were outside yelling at a dog or something without mentioning it. This is probably why most raids have rules about afking like that.