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Dead

June 22, 2010

Guys. Hey … guys! Is anyone still there? Can you get me out of this thing?? My body feels like it’s wasting away and there are flowers growing under my feet… I think you left me here too long.

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I was invited to fill in on the main progression run in Crits this last week. Since my run was cancelled again (more on that later) I was more than happy to help them out. Sunday night we went in and two healed 8/12, leaving BQL and the two dragons for last night. Fiak swapped his tree in place of his rogue for the continuation.

BQL still took a couple of tries or so. Every time someone was supposed to bite me, I got Swarming Shadows and had to move, so they bit someone else. Which was cool, actually, because I ended up with the Once Bitten, Twice Shy achievement from it.

Dreamwalker was no problem. Moving on … Sindragosa, I hate you. Actually, the raid handled it much smoother than any of the times I’d been to her before.  It looked … well … almost exactly like the Tankspot video, as far as where to  group up and how the ice tombs were placed in Phase 2. Everyone there had killed her before other than Fiaks and me. Yes, I put my ice tomb in the wrong spot once and wiped us. Pro tip – getting an extra person entombed is almost surely a wipe … getting one of the tanks entombed is a guaranteed wipe. >.>

It took .. geez I dunno. Five tries? Really not bad considering. I’ve been waiting for this one for a looooooooooong time.

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Alright, kids, we’re off to see the wi … Lich King!

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Hey look! It’s my favourite paladin!

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Owait … wrong screenshot … that’s just Cael. I meant this one …

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Yeah so … the Lich King … I dunno. Necrotic Plague bounced around and we died in less than a minute on each of our three tries. Or maybe it was four.

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They’ve gotten to phase 2.5 or something before, but not with us there. hehe. Maybe on their continuation this week they can make progress. HUGE thanks to Cael for bringing us along and letting us finally get that damn dragon down and at least get to see the Lich King. That really made my week.

Now as for Karius’ regular 10 man … it has been dissolved. So that might have been it for him. Not sure what I’m doing yet, there is talk of forming a new group, there are other groups that always need a fill in … I may just not commit to anything for now and concentrate on the guild’s 25 man, at least until after my vacation. So, thanks again to everyone I ran with, and to Lore for holding the group together through personnel changes for as long as he did. See you all tomorrow night at 25!

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Spoiled Paladin is Spoiled

June 18, 2010

Yeah, so remember how I asked to be showered in spellpower gear on Monday? It’s fun being spoiled.

I’m hanging around Dalaran getting ready for my first trip to ICC…you know, making sure I have buff food, collecting the three kinds of flasks out of the mail that Karius made for me, swapping in a glyph of Holy Shock since I’m expecting to be needing it a lot. Lore logs on and he’s like, ‘Hey, do you need Cable of the Metrognome?’ I look and I’m wearing some iLevel 200 belt with crit on it that I got in HoL. ‘Uh .. yeah! That would be awesome!!’ Grab a buckle out of my bank, stick one of the gems in it that I was planning to bring along just in case, and away we  go.

So I’ve been a paladin for less than a week and I already hate the whole buffing procedure. I’m the only paladin, can’t I just give everyone kings? Well, I suppose the hunter and his pet should get might. Except, whenever I hit the pet bar on pally power to give him might, it also gives it to the warrior… who is tanking … and wants kings. Grrrr. And the two shaman, one is resto and one is enhance, so one wants kings and the other wants might. Now I understand why paladins run low on symbols of kings, even when they come with a couple hundred to start with. What a freaking PITA.

Trash was .. interesting. What happens when you pull the last room along with 3 traps? Hehe. Hey, I TOLD you guys to bring plenty of gold for repairs … although it’s not totally the healer’s fault when pulls go astray. There were a few aggro issues as well that did get worked out, but not before the hunter and mage made several donations of gold to the Ashen Verdict repair NPCs just inside the instance.

 We get to Marrowgar eventually,  and Cael decides to go holy on his priest and three heal it, since it’s my first time and all. So of course the only death in the fight was … Cael. I swear, it wasn’t on purpose! Geez you guys, come on, he crafted gear for me, drug me through raids and dungeons, and gave me a spot on his raid team. You think I’d …. ok fine, yes I would. lol. Not much I could do though when he wasn’t freed from a bone spike quick enough. Ok, but here is how awesome Cael is … he won the Sliver of Pure Ice but since he went back to shadow after that, he let me wear it for the next two hours and then I traded it back to him before the trade timer expired.

Deathwhisper was easy. Man that fight is boring without the mind control. Almost as boring as lootship. Maybe next week I’ll jump just for the hell of it. I mean really … Amber has a great flowchart for how to make the fight somewhat interesting as disc, but what do you do as a pally? Maybe Ori would have some suggestions. Well, I got rewarded for staying awake (and keeping people alive) with this super awesome Ice-Reinforced Vrykul Helm. All the shammy gear has yummy yellow sockets and lots of haste. ❤

Saurfang was pretty easy. Other than the tank that’s currently tanking him, and whoever has boiling blood, no one really takes damage. Apparently there was some sloppy handling of the beasts .. I dunno, while healing I saw even less of the beasts than I do when I’m tanking. I just stood in my little corner happily spamming The Light on whoever needed it, and got rewarded with … achievement spam!

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He dropped a Ramaladni’s but … seeing as how my ret gear is COMPLETELY ungemmed/unechanted, I was more than happy to see the DK tank pick it up. 

We took a short break, then it was on to Festergut. A few more pains here … strange aggro/positioning problems on the first try, holy-wtf-just-hit-the-tank on the second try (newb healer yarr ok you can blame me sort of maybe … no wait, just blame Hartbane) … and then the third try was like clockwork. Bam, boss down, and lookie there … spellpower plate! Squee!! Now I can get rid of my cloth gloves with hit on them. >.>

Rotface was … one-shotted. o.O I didn’t have to cleanse, Cael took care of it. Maybe it’s because I’m such a noob but … I had absolutely no problem ignoring the cleanses showing up on my healbot. Not me? Don’t care. 😀  No Lockjaw …. /cry. But  I got these sexy Shuffling Shoes … yes, once again, shammy gear with yellow sockets and lots of haste. Hooray!

That’s as far as we got (farther than I expected I admit) but we had a really good try on Putricide before a really bad try, and we got our bonus frost badge off the vry’kul chick. Oh yeah, I also got my friendly Ashen Verdict ring right before Festergut, so … that’s five upgrades counting the belt from Lore.

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One spoiled and tired paladin

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Blood Princes Down (x2)

June 17, 2010

Crits 25 man

Rewind to Friday night.

Not included in the title is the first Dreamwalker rescue. Cael of course had to show off his uber HPS.

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Blood Princes wasn’t exactly pretty, but the screenshots are! .. because I was dead on the floor and had plenty of time to play with camera angles. >.<

Selv collecting balls for tanking Keleseth.

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Cifer

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And the ‘killshot’, which I was a little late on because I was still taking screencaps with the UI turned off … but it turned into a fantastic (and somewhat scary) image of Majinx.

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Apathy 25 man

Apathy got the Princes down to I think 500k last week, so we were confident that they would go down this week. We weren’t exactly expecting it to be this smooth though. One shot, 24 man, only one death (unless there was a brez that I’m forgetting, but I don’t think there was.)

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That puts both raid teams at 8/12 in 25 man ICC, with just the end wing bosses and the Lich King left.

Those of you who enjoy rubbernecking at car wrecks might want to tune in tomorrow, as Kerick will be making his ICC10 debut tonight. :p

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I Can Haz Gearz?

June 14, 2010

Ok, that’s it. Kerick is 80. Shower me with spellpower plate. :p

Ok, fine, so it’s already happened. Thanks to numerous members of Crits who pitched in and helped with mats (Arcanus, Billz, Bloodfrenzy, Multi, Quest … probably others I’ve left out) I received a surprise in my mailbox from Cael before I even dinged 80. I made many visits to my mailbox over the last level to caress my shiny new Sunforged chestpiece and bracers. The first thing I did after dinging on Saturday evening, of course, was to return to a mailbox and put them on.

As soon as I finished training, the guild got a group together and we went to my first heroic. Yeah, with 245 chest and bracers, it let me go straight to heroics. HToC … screw that easy stuff, let’s go right to The Black Knight and his magical AoE damage. Grom, ever ready to sacrifice himself for my benefit, got to be the first person I let die. What? Don’t look at me like that, it was either him or me … and I don’t trust his Art of War procs to keep a tank up. :p

We chain ran a few heroics, then hit up the regular ICC 5 mans. That was fun and I got some decent upgrades. Then, despite it being pretty late, Cael was like ‘regular? No way, we’re doing heroic.’ So … yeah. On the same day, heck just a couple hours after I hit 80, I’m off to heal FoS, PoS and HoR .. heroic. Nothing like trial by fire, right?  It was … not so bad. We had a mishap on the gauntlet and lost the ret pally when Cael ran out of mana, so we didn’t have the dps to finish it before the timer ran out. Cael and I were still up with like 1 second left  when the Lich King finished us off. Boo. But we got it done eventually. And went to bed. They kept me up too late!

Sunday … I spent a little time running around cleaning up loose ends (including finishing off the last two achievements Kaly needed for Glory of the Hero) and then logged on ready for heroics. Well, the guild was having none of that. I soon found myself standing inside Naxxramas for the weekly raid quest, trying to figure out how the hell pally power works. Anub’Rekhan died so fast it really almost didn’t count as my first raid healing experience, but at least I got the whole pally power/buffing crap figured out… sort of. And got new ret boots.

Heroics nao? Yeah, right … not even. Anub’Rekhan not enough of a challenge? Meet Anub’Arak. Fortunately, thanks to my newbness, we went in with 3 heals instead of only 2 (seriously, does anyone ever 3 heal ToC anymore unless they are carrying a newbie healz? Hart claims he can single heal it … and I don’t doubt it). Spellpower plate, go! Er … or mail, or leather, or cloth. I think I’m wearing all four. My heals were wayyyy below the other two (no surprise, I’m in there in dungeon gear that’s not even gemmed or enchanted) but bosses died. Anub phase 3? All I have to say is I’m glad I was the pally and didn’t have to worry about keeping the raid just alive. Beacon a tank and heal the other, no problem. Dead bug.

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Ok, so we can handle snobolds, and demon lords, big bugs and val’kyr, and even the champions of the Horde. But can we handle many whelps? Time to find out … yeah, so, we’ll just pretend that first try didn’t happen ok? I wasn’t the only rookie healer I guess. The tank went in without any pre-hots and I lagged behind like I normally do on the mage and wasn’t in range of the tank in time to save him. Oops? Fortunately, Kaif was on top of things and picked her up while the main tank got brezzed but still … that one was totally and absolutely healer failure and we never recovered. I think it took us three tries altogether, although the second try kinda doesn’t count, because someone who dc’d in the first try reconnected while we were buffing for the second try … in the middle of the floor … yeah, she pulled when he appeared. We did our best to salvage it but ultimately wiped it and went for a clean pull. Third time is a charm!

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Justice helm? Please?? No??? Stupid dragon. I got nothing. Well, that’s not true … I got achievements and valuable experience. Time for another run through the three ICC heroics. This time we had a wipe late in the first room, on like wave 9 I think, but we had no mishaps on the gauntlet.  Moar spam for the guild.

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After that I took my emblems and bought myself a Talisman of Resurgence and a Heartmender’s Circle, then collected gems and enchants for everything, figuring I had enough pieces that weren’t going to change much before ICC now. Cael will look at my vast collection of intellect gems and smack me, but … well, I have the cut and that’s what Hartbane gems so … trust me, it’ll be fine. The belt will get  replaced tonight. I did a couple of heroics after Kaly’s ICC late last night with some of my buddies in Apathy, and they said my gearscore is 4648. (yeah I know, I hate gearscore too, but … everyone always wants to know) I’d say that’s pretty good for being 80 only a day. Now .. how to weasel my way into an ICC run …. /plots

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