Reputation Grind

Someone beat me to this, but that’s ok.

Monday night, Classic Raid Night. They gave me raid assist this week ahead of time so that I could invite some non-guildy friends. And then the GM didn’t show up on time so guess who had to start up the raid and fill the mostly just-for-show role of raid leader?  I’ve never lead a raid before. The closest I ever came was once when Airon passed lead to me for a couple minutes while he swapped over to get something off one of his alts.

So anyway, raid time rolls around and there’s no one else on to start it up, and Krizzlybear is whispering me asking if invites have started, because I had invited him along earlier in the day through comments left on his blog. Ah, the internet is a wonderful thing!  So I invite him to a party and get the raid invites rolling. We get about 16 people. After some discussion in vent, we decide to hit up AQ20.

So some of us head out there and summon the rest, and then we all gather just inside the entrance. Amazingly enough, I think everyone in the raid had a mammoth.

AQ20 went very fast, so we decided to go on to AQ40. A few people had to leave, but we picked up a couple others as we went, since Elgar finally decided to show up, and one of my friends from another guild had a raid get cancelled and asked if the invite I had extended to him was still open. As it turned out, having his tree along was very helpful … I’m actually not sure we would have beat C’Thun without him.

I made Kriz hold still for a screenshot before he took leave between the two. Hey Kriz, I just realized something! Both of the raids we’ve done together, one was my DK and your mage, and one was my mage and your DK! Hmm…I don’t have a druid though. Maybe someday your druid and my priest can heal something together. We’ll have to talk about that in 20 levels.

Here ya go .. Karius and Wimzig.

Well, AQ20 may have been fast and mostly unremarkable … but AQ40 was the exact opposite. There are these mounts that drop, Ahn’Quiraji Battle Tanks, that can only be ridden inside the instance. AND they count towards the mount achievements. Too cool! Of course … I was the very last person to get one. doh! But it worked out, everyone got one.

The Twin Emperors fight was *crazy*. We noobed it up quite well, they healed a lot, it took forever. No one died or anything. Saltimbanco, my tree friend, was running around with an army of bugs swarming him, so I took time out from dps’ing the boss dude to aoe them off of him. Resto druids’ ability to run around spamming heals while being beat up on never ceases to amaze me … or disgust me, in the event that the tree happens to be on the other team.

C”Thun … I can’t tell you much about. I stopped after getting my mount, to find it in my mount tab and put it on an action bar so I could ride it. Everyone ran on ahead. I actually had to do a /rw and say ‘hey guys! your RL is lost!’ … lol. A couple people ran back to find me, and led me back, and *just* as Lajos and I were getting to his room, an eye beam took us both out in the hallway, far enough behind the doorway that we couldn’t even watch the fight. Doh! So yeah … I never even laid eyes on him until after he was dead. Oh well, next time. I gotta go back and get the rest of the mounts ya know!

CoS

I’m running late on getting this up as it is, but since someone already posted his, mine have to go up too. I was so totally nervous about tanking this.  I had never successfully completed a mount run in here as the tank. The last time I tried tanking it (just a couple of weeks ago, in fact) it was an absolute disaster. Take that, and then throw the fact that Lajos didn’t have the mount yet and this was my chance to see to it that he got one .. well, that’s a fair bit of pressure on my shoulders. I don’t think we had *much* time left, but we weren’t down to the last second or anything. It was a darn good run. So .. we danced.

And then went back to Dal and I made him mount up and show it off.

And then I ask what he was flying before and he brings out a red drake.

Gripe of the Day: Why can’t I get freaking Oculus as my random now that they’ve added the special rewards and drakes, huh? Huh?? It’s almost like they removed it from the random selections … but of course, that can’t be true, because Mr. I’ve-Got-Two-Blue-Protodrakes-From-Skadi Bloodfrenzy got one on one of his toons. &#@%