ICC

Nov3

Last night we ran ICC 10 man and I went on my priest, so I won’t have many screenshots.  Hiding ones interface when healing is simply not a good idea.

We tried Marrowgar on Heroic but did not have the DPS to take him down.  I found that running the game as high graphics sampling lags it out like CRAZY when the blue flame criss cross the entire room.  I was also put in a spike nearly every time, but fortunately the paladin healer we PUG’d was good enough that it was not really an issue.  We ended up having to do that on regular though.

We did all the fights on regular up to the Gunship battle which was Heroic however again we did not have the DPS to take down Festergut on heroic.  Story of our lives lately, another well geared Warlock barely pulling 5k dps.

I did not do well on the Festergut fight and was hit with the Malleable Goo many, many times.  My shields and mending are instant, as well as the first flash of Penance but otherwise that causes major problems with casting speed nerfed into the ground for like 30 seconds or more.  Again I mostly had to rely on the paladin healer.

We did the rest of the fights on normal thanks to the sub par dps.  At the start of the event before Dreamwalker the warrior dropped raid with no warning. We finished Dreamwalker with 9 people, though it took one wipe because the paladin lagged out.

I rolled on a nice staff for my shadow spec and won it, then the warlock rolled late and beat me, so I had to hand it over.  What kills me is the person was like, oh do you need it? It’s like well I rolled on it so clearly I wanted it, and then you won the roll.  Why ask when I have the trade window up if I want it, of course I do! Whatever, I handed it over anyway; it was for my off-spec.  The weekly was the one where you have to kill Fester and Rot so that was a nice extra 5 frost badges and some gold.  I haven’t seen a BOE in my bag yet.

I then ran my daily dungeon with Maice and got Ahn’kahet: The Old Kingdom (OK).  Apparently the group prior to us wiped on the first trash and were out a tank and a healer.  With that completed I am now 1 Frost short of a new cape.

Also the person I made the potions for, who said they would send me a tip once they got their potions in the mail, never did tip me.

/flex 10k HK

Nov3

Ran a quick daily dungeon in VH, getting the blob boss and the flame dog thing and complete it with little trouble.  Afterward I stick on my pvp gear (nearly 1300 resilience) and run a WG. I log out for a bit.

Later I log in and catch another WG and hit my 10,000 Honorable Kills achievement. That alone deserves a photo next to the WG battle mage.

Unfortunately for me I have to work midnight to who knows when so I have to log.

40g a run, right

Nov2

Ran EotS and the horde raped us all the way back to the first spawn zone, and since you have to fall down to get anywhere, they just destroyed us each time. I just sat down and waited out the inevitable win on their part.  I’m fairly certain the horde runs full premade groups in Eye of the Storm because they do this often.

I then get WSG and despite being brutally taken to task by several Horde rogues repeatedly we win and I get the Warsong Expendience achievement.

For the last BG I get Alterac Valley which I dislike for both its size (you can run for like 2 minutes straight and not find anyone) and it’s length (battles can go on for hours it seems).

This one we also end up getting absolutely destroyed back to our starting spawn point and it just stays bad like that until we lose. I really hate AV.

I cool my jets in WG where we destroy Horde wee wee wee all the way home. I am happy again! I get mail from someone who wanted me to make them an Elixir of Minor Fortitude, create the items and mail them back.  There is a great deal more of trust in this game, that’s for sure.  I log out.

At night I log in and queue for my daily dungeon.  I get Halls of Reflections, oh I groan.  The ground inside is already littered with bones of failure and I’m told they’ve already gone around a few healers.  Fantastic.

We wipe 2x on trash for reasons I don’t have time to see but it seemed to be mostly dps related as the priest is doing 3100, the rogue 3100, the boomkin 2800 and the tank 1705.  So that explains a lot of it.  I am healing more than I do on heroic ICC let me put it that way. I tell them “last try” since I’m wasting Firecracker Salmon and reagents all over the place and what do you know we hit the first boss.

then the second, and start the gauntlet. I never really noticed Jaina is rocking an ice mage’s shield here.

We barely make it through running away from the Lich King, and I had to pop Divine Hymn but we do in fact make it. I pat myself on the back.

The Skybreaker shows up and we get our loot.  I go run for repairs that run me 47g. Lovely.  If only that PoS group yesterday had actually paid me 40g huh?

Poor Martin Victus

Nov2

I log in and stand around in town a bit seeing what raids are going on.  I already did VOA 10/25 which I verified on my in game calendar which tracks such things.   I’d like to do Ruby Sanctum (RS) but the only group looking for (LF) people wants the achievement linked, which I have on Silver but not the priest.

Arashikage is the only friend online and we jabber on about expansion changes. I see someone offering 40g for someone to heal Pit of Saron (PoS).  The RS person is being very specific on wanting a SHAMAN healer too, nothing else. Bleh. I decide to offer to heal in the PoS group as I have nothing else going on. We’re still at the mercy of a tank queuing up though so we have to wait quite a bit.  Of course, quite a bit in WoW is like, 10 minutes maybe. I remember to put on my Wyrmrest Accord tabard so I can level up rep for them. Average wait time shows 16 damn minutes for PoS, omg what did I get myself into! (I didn’t get 40g btw)

The ready check comes up but a tank declines it so we’re back to waiting again. I hate that. We get in and we pull too much and I die right away and obviously with no heals everyone dies.

There is the usual WHO PULLED THAT??? in party chat and I say that it came up behind us, which is no ones fault other than people not clearing roaming mobs.

Other than that little mess, the rest of the dungeon goes smoothly, very much so. Even the run through the tunnel with the ice falling on our heads is no problem. Of course, I do rock at healing.

We hit sexy voiced Scourgelord Tyrannus and he goes down fairly easy…

…other than the hunter continuing to dps during Overlord’s Brand and nearly killing the tank.  This was the same hunter who got himself killed during Ick and Kricks Poison Nova too though. He was clearly noobish besides all that, coming in with 2449 dps, on par with the tank with the rogue doing 5455 and other hunter 6915.

And alas we lose poor poor Martin Victus to a sneak attack by that sand paper voiced Sindragosa.

Run dude run!

I then queue up for WG and turns out the whole guild that is online is there too. I pop on my PVP gear using Equipment Manager.

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It’s nearly impossible to pvp heal and take screenshots, I mean you’d need a video to see how awesome I heal.  Still at one point I run to Sunken and find a lone warlock fighting a GOD DAMN boomkin and catch him just just before he dies, THEN the calvary tromps in and beats the horde right out of the area. So very much win!

At a IRL lunch today Maice said he could use some Flasks of Endless Rage and since I have way too many I mail him 20.  Gotta keep your tanks happy or nobody gets to do anything!

I queue up for a random battleground and get Isle of Conquest again, yay! I die pretty quick though since a ton of horde were at the gates already.

I can tell this is going to go well when I get sapped by a rogue (probably an UNDEAD ONE) and the alliance around me actually notices and starts spraying spells around trying to knock them out of stealth.  I love you people really!

I get some more thanks for the awesome healing, which I get fairly often, and we win! I pick up the Mine achievement. I like sorting by healing done  😀

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I am full up on playing today so I log for the night.

Day to day operations

Nov2

Log onto the priest and WG is about an hour and a half away.  I sell my grey items and an old sword to the vendor, then visit the bank and deposit dusts/shards and some other things.  I pick up my mail from the mage

and send one back containing my Frostweave cloth, chilled meat (since I didn’t learn cooking very high on this char) and crystallized fire.

There’s a political discussion going on in chat about Republican, Democratic, and Tea Party, parties going on in trade chat.  I see no reason to comment. Ooh I stand in front of the Horde area of town just to gape at the blood elves, this one is a paladin too!

I use my Mind Vision to get a look into what I assume is the Horde Inn.

I queue up for a random dungeon to earn my 2 Frost Badges a day and 26 gold. I don’t have to wait very long as a healer.

I get Halls of Stone (HoS) and like my last few HoS groups, the dps is low

the tank is slow and wants to do optional bosses which makes the whole run take FOREVER…

and we wipe. I leave the group fully willing to accept the deserter buff, but it took so long to get down one boss I can queue right up again.

This time I get another group quickly, only a dps times out and I’m back in the queue for another minute or so. This time I get Utgarde Pinnacle (UP) which is one of my favorites.

This is one of my favorites scenes, of a 2 story Lich King image turning a vrykul into a Val’kyr.

Then the beast room.

and a Worgen which will be seen in Cataclysm as a playable class.

Using the harpoons to get Skadi the Ruthless off his drake.  I almost lose someone here because they stood in the path of his Whirlwind.  I hate warriors and stupid whirlwind.

The mage drops in the room before the final boss and the bear tank admits he’s “rusty”.  I shield the mage prior to the mobs in the boss room and still nearly lose him, but manage to heal up from 1%.

The last boss gives us little problems but during the cowering stage I am glad I kept Prayer of Mending bouncing around to handle the damage while I could not heal. I FINALLY get my frost emblems and gold and log out.