tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3042881969263630502024-03-19T03:04:52.982+00:00Valilor the vegetableThe official Blog of the Night Elf Valilor, Marksman Hunter from the Genetic Modification free guild Aggro My Own Vegetables on EU Chromaggus.Valilorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409281146502952195noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304288196926363050.post-52901451747915887762010-01-31T14:13:00.017+00:002010-01-31T15:30:15.932+00:00FINALLY!<script src="http://static.wowhead.com/widgets/power.js"></script><br /><b>Just like london buses</b><div><br /></div><div>As you might be aware of, I have been gunning for a Proto Drake for some time now, with all attempts at a Red Drake (a.k.a the curse of Less-rabi) and a Green Drake (51 weeks) failing.</div><div><br /></div><div>Until now!</div><div><br /></div><div>I queued up with fellow Guildy Oldbeard for a random HC and up came Gundrak. When we got there I whispered Oldbeard "I hope we fluke Less-Rabi but I'm not going to suggest doing it". Anyway, the time came and the tank said to go for it. I didn't want to bother using any pots/food (my gold is starting to dwindle) but I did equip my new <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=52021">Epic Ammo</a> for the occasion. Our line up was a Warrior tank, Cat Druid, Ret Pala, MM Hunter and a Holy Priest. The warrior said he had the first 2 interrupts covered and we should kill him before the 3rd. Here's how it went:</div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPGFD7VFAAw6kg2u7FomCQdg8qxx7jzJmfR3uce0jb54WVoHeRE8G2XRgol9YWO0036rY6xGiB0gOw2DqHv0It4NwXYiE2D084hSHNyDy_nuvsrJnk_OoKjAYgiHw8BtYpuEasLqGT5qHp/s1600-h/Lesi+Rabi+dps.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 99px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPGFD7VFAAw6kg2u7FomCQdg8qxx7jzJmfR3uce0jb54WVoHeRE8G2XRgol9YWO0036rY6xGiB0gOw2DqHv0It4NwXYiE2D084hSHNyDy_nuvsrJnk_OoKjAYgiHw8BtYpuEasLqGT5qHp/s400/Lesi+Rabi+dps.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432910146849582994" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMBAUKM9xz06a7cHsg1CXgXuObTK-9cGVivbg9zuS452tNGzlHdaaTGHZF-sjQDwZOJqzJiZ014KLRE7KnEitWoUC0STN0M0nE90ULfMzFGCHcvs4VlE1iununau3tNaGpq8GIXZO5CP7q/s1600-h/Achievements.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 91px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMBAUKM9xz06a7cHsg1CXgXuObTK-9cGVivbg9zuS452tNGzlHdaaTGHZF-sjQDwZOJqzJiZ014KLRE7KnEitWoUC0STN0M0nE90ULfMzFGCHcvs4VlE1iununau3tNaGpq8GIXZO5CP7q/s400/Achievements.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432908422903049138" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWvs64GVEBIbKPBEiLXQ7kk5W0HyNp28iNXw7BXb4ytDA3878vIkJwlAUo-aMtOIxq2ItxaQk2jiG55XjrvhOi57iqw5FkPldY-XY-SqSyNX9mC_FYU3yIJCZvO6ZBsxpOIt9gKOo43czL/s1600-h/Red+Proto.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWvs64GVEBIbKPBEiLXQ7kk5W0HyNp28iNXw7BXb4ytDA3878vIkJwlAUo-aMtOIxq2ItxaQk2jiG55XjrvhOi57iqw5FkPldY-XY-SqSyNX9mC_FYU3yIJCZvO6ZBsxpOIt9gKOo43czL/s400/Red+Proto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432908436517671250" /></a>And one week before, my 51st <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39878">Mysterious Egg</a> gave me:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPHAL5dISyUrshZ2UPBhvobe-wmp2qktuN4O5YbH7A34EfyrQX4wvzeMG_lvfIPkljYoYmzO2m3iITRypUKmCIG95KkD9ZkTmpAhi4j-004YAGWeMnSCTqWQ4yfrJ3ySgUaY-vnus2Fl6G/s1600-h/Green+Proto.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPHAL5dISyUrshZ2UPBhvobe-wmp2qktuN4O5YbH7A34EfyrQX4wvzeMG_lvfIPkljYoYmzO2m3iITRypUKmCIG95KkD9ZkTmpAhi4j-004YAGWeMnSCTqWQ4yfrJ3ySgUaY-vnus2Fl6G/s400/Green+Proto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432908428607620242" /></a>and thus ending one of the longest running jokes of all time!<div><br /></div><div>Which to use? I think the Red one looks better although it is more common.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Aggro My Own Vegetables</b></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2-O7-7pZbbk9nFY6WjKu3wkavsmOOn3g0_oXE9OaqI5VDE8aG_aqTnCpkrGY_DJ3DxeJyGZdjDGs9EwEoxk53h0Ednh7B72i0fOCVkAL19Fcqf10rwrm8yKss2WwGYeqDocD-SKBSMsx_/s1600-h/GM.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 308px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2-O7-7pZbbk9nFY6WjKu3wkavsmOOn3g0_oXE9OaqI5VDE8aG_aqTnCpkrGY_DJ3DxeJyGZdjDGs9EwEoxk53h0Ednh7B72i0fOCVkAL19Fcqf10rwrm8yKss2WwGYeqDocD-SKBSMsx_/s400/GM.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432912734485063778" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>After creating the AMOV guild and leading it for 2 years (ish?) our Guild Master has stepped down and left WoW, partly for a break and partly for <a href="http://www.startrekonline.com/">STO</a>. That increases our "main raider" departures to 5 recently (Serenades, McLovin, Elendria, Bipbaps and now TommyTank). They're all welcome back of course! I think some people miss some more than others though:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxHCx9qPmhpISgTwl5K99G8f2DkTtNmQF0OADh9KkvZCswn1Cmk2kM2dxFLqvnJkKRBJdJJPfSgkRLNoOZ412HbZaGY4yjV7_79EdkezXJhJwWujxgaSGj2XUCPsfHuvN-6D2Pue1ewVkz/s1600-h/Lynnx4serenades.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 25px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxHCx9qPmhpISgTwl5K99G8f2DkTtNmQF0OADh9KkvZCswn1Cmk2kM2dxFLqvnJkKRBJdJJPfSgkRLNoOZ412HbZaGY4yjV7_79EdkezXJhJwWujxgaSGj2XUCPsfHuvN-6D2Pue1ewVkz/s400/Lynnx4serenades.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432916910022700818" /></a><br />With Tom's departure I filled in the gap until his return as GM of AMOV. So far I've resisted the temptation to sell the guild bank! (Note to guildies: JOKE!)<br /><div><br /></div><div>It's not all sad news of people leaving though, we have recently recruited some new good players: Longoria (Resto Druid) Zyvaa (Holy Priest currently parading around as a Disc Priest) Amalix (Ret Pala), Lillemin (SV Hunter - possibly spelt the name wrong) and we have one returner to the guild Zuuric (Ele Shammy). Welcome guys!</div><div><br /></div><div>We also have a fully functioning website up and running (thanks to Laneel!) which is partly why my updates to my blog have all but stopped. Check it out: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.amov.co.uk">www.amov.co.uk</a> (Note to: Sign up on the site and use our forums!)</div><div>guildies</div><div><b>Gnome-Hate</b></div><div><br /></div><div>I think there are few bigger haters of Gnome's than AMOV's Frost DK tank: Asaron. How surprised was I to see this in my gearscore window:</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzIuR5WK30LV9qqLge36Xb9AiaS_k-b8LDTiUzeW7DLmvVt_vQQVxdNUQ16dHZuMkpRKVOrN1uyWsia4VQ2OUNyhbcCp0gUCT5OCpvnnyZgXB9ei6iogj_LPG7F_3L8gAdKFA0Fl_vhM6d/s1600-h/Asaron.jpg"></a></div><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzIuR5WK30LV9qqLge36Xb9AiaS_k-b8LDTiUzeW7DLmvVt_vQQVxdNUQ16dHZuMkpRKVOrN1uyWsia4VQ2OUNyhbcCp0gUCT5OCpvnnyZgXB9ei6iogj_LPG7F_3L8gAdKFA0Fl_vhM6d/s1600-h/Asaron.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 315px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzIuR5WK30LV9qqLge36Xb9AiaS_k-b8LDTiUzeW7DLmvVt_vQQVxdNUQ16dHZuMkpRKVOrN1uyWsia4VQ2OUNyhbcCp0gUCT5OCpvnnyZgXB9ei6iogj_LPG7F_3L8gAdKFA0Fl_vhM6d/s400/Asaron.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432914343889710546" /></a><b>Ice-Crown Citadel</b></div><div><br /></div><div>How are you all finding it? </div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH2v2PKkqnrrsBj7IBS-CrdXthb6O8MFR_gvQjMWeQDQWIAVO3LIDVuBW08siVJ-asO3s3xf4p_4uXaiAy8hivMkXRzwH6lzWxsoX3TSDsSjVt5_yVQqPGp-J_m7jaUD4-1GA64FUkcbUY/s1600-h/fester.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 389px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH2v2PKkqnrrsBj7IBS-CrdXthb6O8MFR_gvQjMWeQDQWIAVO3LIDVuBW08siVJ-asO3s3xf4p_4uXaiAy8hivMkXRzwH6lzWxsoX3TSDsSjVt5_yVQqPGp-J_m7jaUD4-1GA64FUkcbUY/s400/fester.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432915422168515426" /></a><br /></div><div>Amov (10 man raiders) currently have Festergut down and are working on Rotface (hoping to down him today, we raid twice a week). I find the boss fights here pretty cool, I can't think of any where you can simply stand and DPS (other than Melee DPS) so there's always something to be doing, which gives us lots of time to shine with out HUNTER POWER!</div><div><br /></div><div><b>I like the new Explosive Trap</b></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij4oEEXpK7B34faRSclrwFrT2XCyGWTdQCB7iD45V149q6DoEz4cfHJHlNWSHEDY1k80jdtLKEdiX5VoZ_k_pdi165pKCWf6mmuS99oHo0RtBcVIAsMqMGfe67ifYYpxntWbJmfYewmX7x/s1600-h/AoE.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 312px; height: 131px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij4oEEXpK7B34faRSclrwFrT2XCyGWTdQCB7iD45V149q6DoEz4cfHJHlNWSHEDY1k80jdtLKEdiX5VoZ_k_pdi165pKCWf6mmuS99oHo0RtBcVIAsMqMGfe67ifYYpxntWbJmfYewmX7x/s400/AoE.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432916263046747458" /></a><br /></div><div>Incase anyone missed it, Explosive Trap got a nice buff in the last patch. It's now better for us to stand near the trash so we can drop the trap without moving and then to continue volleying (Riskier business though). It's not very mana efficient (don't expect to do this for very long w/o drinking after every pull) but BOOM big numbers! The reason is that the new AoE cap is applied per ability, so we have 2 AoE things in there so 2 separate caps. I do wonder what my DK could get on this trash...</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Taking advantage of bankers</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Probably not how you expected...here is a shot of what happens to my Gnome Banker the second I go AFK with Lynnx around.</div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvYF0OIKiH5ITa1vdZ0O91Iw0Wbf4Q0yeUWzhibKLl2A2mGc3GnFyY67rLQ9xxU69sp-zVyI6NzBjXUh5NUfKygQdGhasCZf_KBSE5AOWH5_WVevaItXTejOSeWTQniyMiE7vDRnBxlWxG/s1600-h/Lynnx+the+mynx.jpg"></a></div><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvYF0OIKiH5ITa1vdZ0O91Iw0Wbf4Q0yeUWzhibKLl2A2mGc3GnFyY67rLQ9xxU69sp-zVyI6NzBjXUh5NUfKygQdGhasCZf_KBSE5AOWH5_WVevaItXTejOSeWTQniyMiE7vDRnBxlWxG/s1600-h/Lynnx+the+mynx.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 247px; height: 400px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvYF0OIKiH5ITa1vdZ0O91Iw0Wbf4Q0yeUWzhibKLl2A2mGc3GnFyY67rLQ9xxU69sp-zVyI6NzBjXUh5NUfKygQdGhasCZf_KBSE5AOWH5_WVevaItXTejOSeWTQniyMiE7vDRnBxlWxG/s400/Lynnx+the+mynx.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432918775587228338" /></a><b>New 3.3 Beast Master Spirit Beasts Pet</b></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcvajEBDzvD-zc7yYklEmkOEBw2tQlSwaNL_BZdCSgG80ZqlNEC46uSsGAOAlLmN0eEP-gUvXXaq74cSuKbAxbG32piknkjIhPMqChIbryBIgRuqJ5OD5JeeBqmapQyoGKwS72i26ursVP/s1600-h/New+BM+Pet.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 194px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcvajEBDzvD-zc7yYklEmkOEBw2tQlSwaNL_BZdCSgG80ZqlNEC46uSsGAOAlLmN0eEP-gUvXXaq74cSuKbAxbG32piknkjIhPMqChIbryBIgRuqJ5OD5JeeBqmapQyoGKwS72i26ursVP/s400/New+BM+Pet.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432919494412067154" /></a><br /></div><div>Another rare spawn was added in the la that st patch for a new spirit beasts. As spirit beasts come under the Ferocity Pet tree, this new bear model won't share the same tanking abilities that an actual bear bet will have, so bear (lol) in mind!</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Barakus</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Well my Alt got to Lv80 and as 3.3 hit has farmed every emblem item for both his Tanking and DPS offspec, so it probably fine to take into Icecrown. As my main is obviously a DPS charater, I wasn't too bothered about getting serious over Barakus DPS spec so I went for a Max AoE damage spec. I tried it out in TOC25 against some pretty high geared people (including a mage with a gear score of over 6k, which is the highest i've seen on this server) and did very well in any AoE situation (admitedly probably not the best option on the Faction Champions but I wasn't bothered):</div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYsotT3AX_WK3uIeFU9bcYOAomrjFj1XGkNmRQ7vKbc3pbCi2nfkxKdvbzIUzKpsfdwloH9AveiSCATD3-7hk_Y61ajgjpHU19rOuIEADYsA6DBwT2XzSCJ7FJsIb6A8cJqRJ8b2a_4vaY/s1600-h/Barkus+FC.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 324px; height: 227px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYsotT3AX_WK3uIeFU9bcYOAomrjFj1XGkNmRQ7vKbc3pbCi2nfkxKdvbzIUzKpsfdwloH9AveiSCATD3-7hk_Y61ajgjpHU19rOuIEADYsA6DBwT2XzSCJ7FJsIb6A8cJqRJ8b2a_4vaY/s400/Barkus+FC.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432924056247442882" /></a><br /></div><div><b>And now for some more screenies as I have run out of things to say....</b></div><div>(Bit late on the token Yogg kill screenie I know!)</div><div><b><br /></b><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit8r4vSs6ATfFoRDMirSqCEz2NYfeJQ47VWssxp0XLg_k12fF1xk8lIc73MUneMQMBUjZKTPXA5VfChOnq16g_jZbTUX919EVv16d0VNeeweIWBZmQ5DV3Z-DAZGFJ-u4nXu235rAdGOPe/s1600-h/Yoggy.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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Nothing I need from any 10 man raids now, the only upgrades I can get are from VoA25, ToC25 and ToC10 Heroic (not even going to mention 25 heroic, lol). Not bad going!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguMHXs33zOckeQwniG4jXuJE3_jfb7QSbaYIQp9bdVzRDcr7YnFZMCtlfiYuE9vIkTl7ms8-tIpJngqel6J4AI_cyX971mNHYdaSzy5e_qU_F-6oj5PxNL6j2aSgOi_jkAlLsqhYZmZDAR/s1600/Lord+J.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguMHXs33zOckeQwniG4jXuJE3_jfb7QSbaYIQp9bdVzRDcr7YnFZMCtlfiYuE9vIkTl7ms8-tIpJngqel6J4AI_cyX971mNHYdaSzy5e_qU_F-6oj5PxNL6j2aSgOi_jkAlLsqhYZmZDAR/s400/Lord+J.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405211491269292498" /></a><br /><br />I've dabbled in a bit more Arena too, played some more 2v2 with a Holy Priest and some random 3v3 games with different people but the 1400 barrier is being a pain to get past. I'm going to hopefully get a Holy Paladin, unholy DK and BM Hunter (yes, I'm going to respecced BM for PvP!) to try a "beast cleave" team. The combo got a bit nerfed but if it's still strong, it might just work out!<br /><br />I've also broken the 40th <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39878">Mysterious Egg</a> barrier without getting a Green Proto-Drake. WHEN WILL IT DROP???<br /><br />Ok, now all that text is out of the way, lets get some more screenies in!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Oldbeard</span><br /><br />Sadly my friend Wideeye/Oldbeard has stopped playing WoW again due to life balance issues...well, thats what I thought until I saw what really happened...HE TURNED INTO AN NPC!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTq_Fwpslv0L8Txo-UDgEs6uWG2utRTYd7TkbL0furEdODyNHYLMKFpaOyiFbvZf-fDzfyYxBGnpycwLiIF4Yjx57Qs4og4oAeCUhxUYAUGu8yUYqNbPwY2CxGLW5WojkGU5OPOr-LWtwn/s1600/Oldbeard.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 328px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTq_Fwpslv0L8Txo-UDgEs6uWG2utRTYd7TkbL0furEdODyNHYLMKFpaOyiFbvZf-fDzfyYxBGnpycwLiIF4Yjx57Qs4og4oAeCUhxUYAUGu8yUYqNbPwY2CxGLW5WojkGU5OPOr-LWtwn/s400/Oldbeard.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405211320020939026" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">PvP tip 1: How to win Wintergrap</span><br /><br />If all the Alliance grouped up from the west it's insta-win! Below is sadly a rare sight on Chromaggus EU.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfG-wQyC6yUB5p6SDu0a4DoU9rZYElEHDSSEPSMrAk5QYj4YTY5phUZdlLxW1zPI8e2D_xvCE56mvGdk0MDtEcbYcy4eeglVQPC7f69Coh3klvH6ab2-IKwb70eBkJ7IMj_4FrmI8KGPUb/s1600/Wintergrasp.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfG-wQyC6yUB5p6SDu0a4DoU9rZYElEHDSSEPSMrAk5QYj4YTY5phUZdlLxW1zPI8e2D_xvCE56mvGdk0MDtEcbYcy4eeglVQPC7f69Coh3klvH6ab2-IKwb70eBkJ7IMj_4FrmI8KGPUb/s400/Wintergrasp.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405212176397584146" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Free PvP Tip 2: How to win WSG</span><br /><br />If in doubt, hide the flag!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDMhQXDysivc8JKCex4fRJ9L5qijVQ_GPR9GJE8Dnfyt2msBghmyFo564yUyEsJoxwS9Y6SoFo19tf55fMNm19NJ8VrNf3aOp2p4OQTFVTmCy0gv6FLLLo-Hlx4TGxzLlbEqasCBpjBpXb/s1600/How+to+win+WSG.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 341px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDMhQXDysivc8JKCex4fRJ9L5qijVQ_GPR9GJE8Dnfyt2msBghmyFo564yUyEsJoxwS9Y6SoFo19tf55fMNm19NJ8VrNf3aOp2p4OQTFVTmCy0gv6FLLLo-Hlx4TGxzLlbEqasCBpjBpXb/s400/How+to+win+WSG.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405212482505772210" /></a><span style="font-weight:bold;">Super-size your Freezing trap</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcATW7w4VCk3dz3y7BUoZ8hIBmC95-eMCPC_3a5Kucud9ZvE7HOybSKphc7riMLwV77M3oWfj1oy3xcX0WHvKUFfqgM69Gk2T8zEXFkK6fb6GE5ufuapErETls4v7Ha0AR9HDAWNmGwe2a/s1600/Freezing+Trap.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcATW7w4VCk3dz3y7BUoZ8hIBmC95-eMCPC_3a5Kucud9ZvE7HOybSKphc7riMLwV77M3oWfj1oy3xcX0WHvKUFfqgM69Gk2T8zEXFkK6fb6GE5ufuapErETls4v7Ha0AR9HDAWNmGwe2a/s400/Freezing+Trap.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405212946566816498" /></a><span style="font-weight:bold;">Surfing <s>USA</s> Howling Fjord</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsBl6KieuhhFLcdj_yB65WcfP-gneo6t38wsMs9FGu-_Qrdo00as3f51qMmXmQnDXYCO-r0IbJz6KMDJLcMyoGG93_iJU4kG4o29cnWL4LduVdUSW3wX0eduaA04c4em9AeBlJXLFEna8v/s1600/Surfing+HF.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsBl6KieuhhFLcdj_yB65WcfP-gneo6t38wsMs9FGu-_Qrdo00as3f51qMmXmQnDXYCO-r0IbJz6KMDJLcMyoGG93_iJU4kG4o29cnWL4LduVdUSW3wX0eduaA04c4em9AeBlJXLFEna8v/s400/Surfing+HF.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405213555727931538" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Trial of the Hunters</span><br /><br />In one of the guild ToC10 attempts we took 3 Hunters!! Can you believe it. Oh and yes, one of those pets is a bear (not mine!).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqaZ1bE6SbyMCgNeFLVZrjQNSCkn4E5y9Nh0XAMVs1s9yQBmNhD0GAH0JT2MV1ZtmEGSuHGVrWAaSQuq1Z6ICX_tMtkg3A8Q_jvnsMN08z8FSzYmdPesEo9kEtOhZ-3gXXF_Jadiy3Oxet/s1600/ToHunter.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqaZ1bE6SbyMCgNeFLVZrjQNSCkn4E5y9Nh0XAMVs1s9yQBmNhD0GAH0JT2MV1ZtmEGSuHGVrWAaSQuq1Z6ICX_tMtkg3A8Q_jvnsMN08z8FSzYmdPesEo9kEtOhZ-3gXXF_Jadiy3Oxet/s400/ToHunter.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405216318050576370" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Cataclysm</span><br /><br />Wow, massive changes in the new expansion pack for us hunters...NO. MORE. MANA. We're going to be like a whole new class! Should be fun. New races will be available too for hunters, I might even consider changing my race from Night Elf to <u>Worgen</u>!<br /><br />One of the new races did jump the gun though....<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgugp0iO3iEDNNjxvl0Ah-_ffEQhaFVhOeivhZtWAVIxq_S_jIgACxOdzihIorh3phjDLL_ZGpgWqA-gkqnIPG-_66GYDuntk-aLEiKgUgNxeZiOBe_mWsCXxglYMqw_zED_jp70_A98ZJj/s1600/Goblin+hunter.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 256px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgugp0iO3iEDNNjxvl0Ah-_ffEQhaFVhOeivhZtWAVIxq_S_jIgACxOdzihIorh3phjDLL_ZGpgWqA-gkqnIPG-_66GYDuntk-aLEiKgUgNxeZiOBe_mWsCXxglYMqw_zED_jp70_A98ZJj/s400/Goblin+hunter.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405214571616481650" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Congrats Elendria!</span><br /><br />The <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1681">Loremaster</a> achievement requires a lot of dedication to get, there's no quick way around completing it so GZ to Elendria!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglhus8ivQT5ylH9OK76I2-IPZ38C9eGLZCkJR6AdtLTBZOHGLcrLZMbJY6ZlkiMXLNot996stbo_ciBiPdb4wxbSWlbmN8J_emIZ4-ztJRi_OrLq4SWAZPMVINjmuTJY9I6HZSfovmCMeT/s1600/Loremaster.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 38px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglhus8ivQT5ylH9OK76I2-IPZ38C9eGLZCkJR6AdtLTBZOHGLcrLZMbJY6ZlkiMXLNot996stbo_ciBiPdb4wxbSWlbmN8J_emIZ4-ztJRi_OrLq4SWAZPMVINjmuTJY9I6HZSfovmCMeT/s400/Loremaster.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405215024430644290" /></a><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-weight:bold;">Getting to know Asaron<br /></span><br />Asaron, a Guild Tank of AMOV holds two things very close to his heart. His love of fishing and his love of Gnomes. If you're ever looking for him, check any nearby water sources or high concentration of Gnomes, "Cuddlyhoney" in particular.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyShyphenhyphen-8socvz8zeqs3ZZ7SAP5EY5K4bardDDzMChYd7OkymADlR-UKEO8VkbMWRvLIocScVVXF2QiwvCZlRamAAORd1EAtMb8R4KiYv4taMxy3EirrZ_o-MI3Xhm7eo77IlmHdoS11Gl6_/s1600/Mini+DK.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 391px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyShyphenhyphen-8socvz8zeqs3ZZ7SAP5EY5K4bardDDzMChYd7OkymADlR-UKEO8VkbMWRvLIocScVVXF2QiwvCZlRamAAORd1EAtMb8R4KiYv4taMxy3EirrZ_o-MI3Xhm7eo77IlmHdoS11Gl6_/s400/Mini+DK.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405215678225780786" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw5d8xFNvI2Zcln4QUe2AHGnuJ9_F4PQFhQ-6AZT7b3_KWKEoX-7kF_PrW0_5WYD_qa1K0W7tZKVlHvHK_YdiBT0VHnuBI0eYqnD65rYUU_JRT9sHMMtoXlfrU3P385mGayT5R3sGFTuUi/s1600/Fish+2.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 14px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw5d8xFNvI2Zcln4QUe2AHGnuJ9_F4PQFhQ-6AZT7b3_KWKEoX-7kF_PrW0_5WYD_qa1K0W7tZKVlHvHK_YdiBT0VHnuBI0eYqnD65rYUU_JRT9sHMMtoXlfrU3P385mGayT5R3sGFTuUi/s400/Fish+2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405215672981497186" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbS2l4i3-3CA_jjx0MNGex_dJv1QbEZbfqjCTxCGiLlCRgY474UHiRj9rPnGujqXrynuQRGfELq2V3WRbVSVUY8GAA78xmDrukRRqe8Lvpg-kzGBqxQ6_uSDAcQWMutKwdRL7ssqeI8nee/s1600/Fish.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 353px; height: 16px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbS2l4i3-3CA_jjx0MNGex_dJv1QbEZbfqjCTxCGiLlCRgY474UHiRj9rPnGujqXrynuQRGfELq2V3WRbVSVUY8GAA78xmDrukRRqe8Lvpg-kzGBqxQ6_uSDAcQWMutKwdRL7ssqeI8nee/s400/Fish.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405215668303742626" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Getting to know Sunier</span><br /><br />In his own words:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhala9lqaVg8bxUQkYRDhsPG9yF87r92rBXeAf7WHQKZPhDJ2T9ZwocDr8_vZS6MllWOgYs6PMy6v38IvbSot60Xuko4jMlAc5wfmYvvO_lleBL-JQObOvYO7J4CSt9705z3EQR_pPqFQ_4/s1600/Sunier.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 301px; height: 16px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhala9lqaVg8bxUQkYRDhsPG9yF87r92rBXeAf7WHQKZPhDJ2T9ZwocDr8_vZS6MllWOgYs6PMy6v38IvbSot60Xuko4jMlAc5wfmYvvO_lleBL-JQObOvYO7J4CSt9705z3EQR_pPqFQ_4/s400/Sunier.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405216518047937426" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">New Personal VoA10 Koralon DPS Record</span><br /><br />Topped my highest DPS on this boss and I've got 2 new items of gear since :D<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikdQo_4SiNaXFDwsJbQPtLFP9G8PbPV4iLuLiwJ6m2ki4ehEa4OH-Jwb5vJsHex95zSaG_2xNV6qKXphw5gRjcAmtsCXqCkq6mej74W1YOb-fLSWXuWtiIUjX366RA3epns4QaertkFMPa/s1600/VoA10.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 282px; height: 131px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikdQo_4SiNaXFDwsJbQPtLFP9G8PbPV4iLuLiwJ6m2ki4ehEa4OH-Jwb5vJsHex95zSaG_2xNV6qKXphw5gRjcAmtsCXqCkq6mej74W1YOb-fLSWXuWtiIUjX366RA3epns4QaertkFMPa/s400/VoA10.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405223785732242002" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">VIDEO TIME!!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Trial of the Crusader: 25 Man</span><br /><br />I was lucky enough to get into a ToC25 man PuG and get all the way up to Anub'Arak (which is where most ToC25 pugs fail in my experience) and not only that, I got 2 items! Sweet: <div><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=47114">Lupine Longstaff</a> </div><div><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=48255">Windrunner's Tunic of Triumph</a><br />(ok, I did buy the trophy from someone for 800g to get that last one)</div><div><br /></div><div>Not only that, I recorded the Beasts of Northrend fight. It's best to watch the below using the HQ button and don't worry, there's no boring commentary by me or any techno music!</div><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eVfd6BwY6F8&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eVfd6BwY6F8&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YXWAQmhIC_M&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YXWAQmhIC_M&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">No Ground in AV?</span><br /><br />This weird bug happened to me in AV, the ground went see-through!<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/j5nIDgC8Uy0&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/j5nIDgC8Uy0&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Turtle Power!</span><br /><br />I was fishing for some mats for a fish feast when this mount dropped! I have no luck with mount drops usually (I think I'm about week 40+ waiting for that Green Proto Drake). I highly recommend using the mount wearing nothing but a chefs hat.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vm6tKSPx25M&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vm6tKSPx25M&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div><br /><br />See you in the Icecrown citadel!Valilorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409281146502952195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304288196926363050.post-80570626428656513622009-08-30T15:54:00.020+01:002009-08-30T16:32:44.162+01:00WoW, A new post!!!<script src="http://static.wowhead.com/widgets/power.js"></script><br />Yes, you're not mistaken, I am actually updating my blog! <br /><br />First of all, some news headlines:<br />(click on picture to enlarge)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">"Everybody Loves Valilor" 2v2 Arena team go on a 10 match hot streak</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK0uU-1KDNnPc-MGGeAV-xhM3P8ZXsV0AMnHg1eVnMyZJHbtO1XqD55AyoUI-3pjij0jfYiDnVVYZLi9Lg_dDq2N2UNJU1R_PBslIDfuMTX7Ub-uxUSWRDKtZwY35MSv6zIbKA9xFjltVT/s1600-h/hot+streak.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 206px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK0uU-1KDNnPc-MGGeAV-xhM3P8ZXsV0AMnHg1eVnMyZJHbtO1XqD55AyoUI-3pjij0jfYiDnVVYZLi9Lg_dDq2N2UNJU1R_PBslIDfuMTX7Ub-uxUSWRDKtZwY35MSv6zIbKA9xFjltVT/s400/hot+streak.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375770775204359426" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">A new optional Hard-Mode only boss has been added to Naxxramas</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaAvMhjT8xUC5UjFR47_h4v5PUzKO3sNwE877gCidkgB7MpavBG8GiWAgpbkoJ-l1qLil3If8pbkTLkLTFO1j3YqiKWCLBNoQyvySQ-GCMoBBUuhG5sXa69TuLl8vyxbdKPFDoqFGCMFZ3/s1600-h/naxx+boss.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 273px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaAvMhjT8xUC5UjFR47_h4v5PUzKO3sNwE877gCidkgB7MpavBG8GiWAgpbkoJ-l1qLil3If8pbkTLkLTFO1j3YqiKWCLBNoQyvySQ-GCMoBBUuhG5sXa69TuLl8vyxbdKPFDoqFGCMFZ3/s400/naxx+boss.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375771033869097826" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Valilor hits Lv450 at fishing</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKhISJAuyCib6D_ncM7LgptjvCKGwuWDom75J601FyKPRnHAfTvGdeoErrujc7tvcKq4lFLRjbl8yF5d3VFJ1cXLWOe1snvY4ecTIQcMBdhIK8AT4tUbcYzbUs-erMaKShsKJScob1ZNNa/s1600-h/fishing.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKhISJAuyCib6D_ncM7LgptjvCKGwuWDom75J601FyKPRnHAfTvGdeoErrujc7tvcKq4lFLRjbl8yF5d3VFJ1cXLWOe1snvY4ecTIQcMBdhIK8AT4tUbcYzbUs-erMaKShsKJScob1ZNNa/s400/fishing.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375771170626005154" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Equipment Manager has been released</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihyCcw8eH5n8xEv-AzEsoQ0Y6vaubGSysiMGW8hQF26sVBwJ2J2FMgVLYywE2pk3dEqu_TBMtXZVnRL63sfp2or_usSxhlBLra06dNlhlevZgYF7tYEMJexdcoRjYKvaS4TIXHCPgDetRA/s1600-h/Equipment+Manager.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihyCcw8eH5n8xEv-AzEsoQ0Y6vaubGSysiMGW8hQF26sVBwJ2J2FMgVLYywE2pk3dEqu_TBMtXZVnRL63sfp2or_usSxhlBLra06dNlhlevZgYF7tYEMJexdcoRjYKvaS4TIXHCPgDetRA/s400/Equipment+Manager.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375771457479516546" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Dave, Valilor's first ever pet is abandoned to make way for a PvP Crab :(</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQuyXFWIrcO2UnIbpVvYRXd575GFjuv8_jvjz1xErjveAJ2EgXuv1kAhxxHhPG1x0LqKyBxgGHlS4nPibVr8wCCdg8AsiLmXAp2W3pZUTAheJQp5nB37C4TmXaMIUanti4DRZ-JFK-Dd_U/s1600-h/bye+bye+Dave.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 271px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQuyXFWIrcO2UnIbpVvYRXd575GFjuv8_jvjz1xErjveAJ2EgXuv1kAhxxHhPG1x0LqKyBxgGHlS4nPibVr8wCCdg8AsiLmXAp2W3pZUTAheJQp5nB37C4TmXaMIUanti4DRZ-JFK-Dd_U/s400/bye+bye+Dave.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375771829701677778" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Valilor gets his...err....Red Proto Drake?</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuq-6GIDblhGBVNj1LxIZvUQ76k4StFNZFCzdIUnNP4rCqorWQrNKe_xrZa_fgVZCeUu2icE-myW1s_o-DAnGijSFKw7UWs1ToFUnI65mnr3kA9EAihKtxfPve1m0Yj-aKKtXJrJt6z3Vi/s1600-h/BRV.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 237px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuq-6GIDblhGBVNj1LxIZvUQ76k4StFNZFCzdIUnNP4rCqorWQrNKe_xrZa_fgVZCeUu2icE-myW1s_o-DAnGijSFKw7UWs1ToFUnI65mnr3kA9EAihKtxfPve1m0Yj-aKKtXJrJt6z3Vi/s400/BRV.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375772050969104914" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Kologarn attempts to stop AMOV's progress through Ulduar</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuXIjENH5DCp5joes09e4m5Kc7yAhwuIfnyDsCa234wUrOGWBHyMW6_a1OhuNzr-7umVJBjPfclsF_uParTAmoywvBDkcurBhW0c5tuxx21cQmZ1Yk8rW4wZdX843_pp3G-5prVB8aWavs/s1600-h/Kologarn.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuXIjENH5DCp5joes09e4m5Kc7yAhwuIfnyDsCa234wUrOGWBHyMW6_a1OhuNzr-7umVJBjPfclsF_uParTAmoywvBDkcurBhW0c5tuxx21cQmZ1Yk8rW4wZdX843_pp3G-5prVB8aWavs/s400/Kologarn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375772393604352658" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Valilor earns the Crusader Title!</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEKG_gC74UCREmnB71ITgh1npp3xHx8GOJbv8b4qltHwftNjsN3F5B7MC6NP6Pgie6hNRdD69yjOQf9xyxJUWHvsk1pWT7gzMm5q4ZWTbxNnUEUNNDZ1PAC3E55GfaouJjDsAhSUrOpCp1/s1600-h/Ding!.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 177px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEKG_gC74UCREmnB71ITgh1npp3xHx8GOJbv8b4qltHwftNjsN3F5B7MC6NP6Pgie6hNRdD69yjOQf9xyxJUWHvsk1pWT7gzMm5q4ZWTbxNnUEUNNDZ1PAC3E55GfaouJjDsAhSUrOpCp1/s400/Ding!.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375772999207736610" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">AMOV Maintain their "king of the rollers" title</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUAynNuipkOSoiRNk5R16LwzQkkB12y501_qmQDnJPH1_vAjAYCkpM2kvracBCfkK0Dsgyu6KOCn0LV2s_c3YIEsrjw7HgOjkG-yAUSdYm9ArK4vJwgmfr5DkYZO14rBRCaLw8M98fANDY/s1600-h/imba+roll+2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 286px; height: 70px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUAynNuipkOSoiRNk5R16LwzQkkB12y501_qmQDnJPH1_vAjAYCkpM2kvracBCfkK0Dsgyu6KOCn0LV2s_c3YIEsrjw7HgOjkG-yAUSdYm9ArK4vJwgmfr5DkYZO14rBRCaLw8M98fANDY/s400/imba+roll+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375773402662759026" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwEZsPCianQ0pEZuUNojkb8uhsTW36lCTKau9p76Z41WQeedTJnIVwWutEBFIrmlfOqCX7UwYOyLcUv1k0udar-5UlR9Eats6qojtxPb336Yb3jRsw0BoxZWuuNdq8JepRlpsCLfMctc3A/s1600-h/imba+roll+1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 71px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwEZsPCianQ0pEZuUNojkb8uhsTW36lCTKau9p76Z41WQeedTJnIVwWutEBFIrmlfOqCX7UwYOyLcUv1k0udar-5UlR9Eats6qojtxPb336Yb3jRsw0BoxZWuuNdq8JepRlpsCLfMctc3A/s400/imba+roll+1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375773397579371842" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Valilor gets a new personal record DPS on the mob before Emalon in VoA10</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_Tc22GLOKWbSV9chpapDW4gTKOVJC2mueam8jMytrchlv5pT4xixJ-qbWYLjCbLpZC3TXMW_vA6RVoxVYqh26ATFYTgA6TGw37r35IvukwxKF2OT6DsAubMnfuMRtlkVgY0-ey_Pb-6j2/s1600-h/Emalon+Trash+DPS.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 160px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_Tc22GLOKWbSV9chpapDW4gTKOVJC2mueam8jMytrchlv5pT4xixJ-qbWYLjCbLpZC3TXMW_vA6RVoxVYqh26ATFYTgA6TGw37r35IvukwxKF2OT6DsAubMnfuMRtlkVgY0-ey_Pb-6j2/s400/Emalon+Trash+DPS.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375773699899892306" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Valilor's Argent Tournament Squire starts to freak people out</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEEuUfiu9wRQs15vvHG9fVi5NZqDm2Gukyw5FdeAkGjzLjgd6BPkh-oZBIw7wwa3GXeNYRqkcRd2X6nblkEKIoGgfo52Iv7ucCx3If8uGaqu91Uf8bmveEK4wogWN-q6ZtwOVEk3tkdslj/s1600-h/freaky.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 298px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEEuUfiu9wRQs15vvHG9fVi5NZqDm2Gukyw5FdeAkGjzLjgd6BPkh-oZBIw7wwa3GXeNYRqkcRd2X6nblkEKIoGgfo52Iv7ucCx3If8uGaqu91Uf8bmveEK4wogWN-q6ZtwOVEk3tkdslj/s400/freaky.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375774028251356098" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Patchwerk is all out of play</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFS6Lh7mtgSsxDlpCcwFOeegygDbVBzJznZMYJ9vN59nXeWOHyiOT4PhyphenhyphenHTbod40W4iJoHn9I9TwQVt-F7M6XiIb0DE7DYHr8nBhQvsZ_C1xlEokY8WOAGW462K80ei9fXmJW943P_MQdt/s1600-h/no+more+patch%3F.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 188px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFS6Lh7mtgSsxDlpCcwFOeegygDbVBzJznZMYJ9vN59nXeWOHyiOT4PhyphenhyphenHTbod40W4iJoHn9I9TwQVt-F7M6XiIb0DE7DYHr8nBhQvsZ_C1xlEokY8WOAGW462K80ei9fXmJW943P_MQdt/s400/no+more+patch%3F.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375774333321911138" /></a><br /><br />Some pretty big headlines there I'm sure you'll agree!<br /><br />Not too long ago, there was a little exploit which Blizzard have since plugged which allowed hunters to tame a Worgen (You can see why now after the Cataclysm announcement). Laneelalt got in there just in time though! Shame they have all been turned into wolves now.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-HceCx3Ay3F0M0FzEJif0GzOklS5UZkWoRA7Nx57u55SvJK-7Hqvo32_KXATJ_hiJjy5ER1qzzz-d4fen42GPHZ3XybAnXp5tsqM2xA-rp-ggC856-3IB8zigpy6D9YqLrfzQtGrdQuZa/s1600-h/laneels+pet.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-HceCx3Ay3F0M0FzEJif0GzOklS5UZkWoRA7Nx57u55SvJK-7Hqvo32_KXATJ_hiJjy5ER1qzzz-d4fen42GPHZ3XybAnXp5tsqM2xA-rp-ggC856-3IB8zigpy6D9YqLrfzQtGrdQuZa/s400/laneels+pet.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375774900245745490" /></a><br /><br />Thankfully I'm not wearing it anymore but for a couple of weeks I had to put up with <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45329">this terrible looking helm</a>...what were they thinking designing this?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt0gUZWgarEAE6BxViUEPwDDA-q1nxBHvnuumGC6kLEylNlOnE5qzEgEqTcLhgzQsRSTlTsUKK10G0FMqxg74jRYDJzHrSOBjpz0VG6EfDEIC6CWU5l0RjZ7nyQm08JAGEE3232SyYRZ_V/s1600-h/dont+like+my+new+helm.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 256px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt0gUZWgarEAE6BxViUEPwDDA-q1nxBHvnuumGC6kLEylNlOnE5qzEgEqTcLhgzQsRSTlTsUKK10G0FMqxg74jRYDJzHrSOBjpz0VG6EfDEIC6CWU5l0RjZ7nyQm08JAGEE3232SyYRZ_V/s400/dont+like+my+new+helm.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375775389039930050" /></a><br /><br />I spotted the uber-rare <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=32458">Ashes of Al'ar</a> flying mount from the Tempest Keep in Dalaran the other day, check the video a bit further down. Man I want one of these! <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRlmFk5hqtMmLiQ3n_aYZbIhZqEH4g6303hVDbqqdEslJfohFeW2iHXTSosYcpa8PnG7yoWlddB1Oz_t03sZFtRGGlIGK7ZuB_dcLct7wcq3OzTwQTzWNtYg0GZDi3b7-uJ5LghbyBsnaj/s1600-h/ashes+of+alar.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 294px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRlmFk5hqtMmLiQ3n_aYZbIhZqEH4g6303hVDbqqdEslJfohFeW2iHXTSosYcpa8PnG7yoWlddB1Oz_t03sZFtRGGlIGK7ZuB_dcLct7wcq3OzTwQTzWNtYg0GZDi3b7-uJ5LghbyBsnaj/s400/ashes+of+alar.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375775677679056290" /></a><br /><br />Not only that but I've also been seeing <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=35189">Skoll</a>, the new rare exotic spirit beast around Dalaran. Shame it's exotic and not just a rare looking wolf...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy8SsrX19v8Ut2DvPSkEKIzb942KpoTMXUhq-xeUbZkYBc9jhQbqRJ6EzOzIbwO4LhZKR8dhACuym7fQ5jIxIdkBQyqSkJ3ePjGHloWAOctqwdYt1e-oP253gyaoyCuA0iT9QbXPSbz6Yv/s1600-h/i+want+that+wolf.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy8SsrX19v8Ut2DvPSkEKIzb942KpoTMXUhq-xeUbZkYBc9jhQbqRJ6EzOzIbwO4LhZKR8dhACuym7fQ5jIxIdkBQyqSkJ3ePjGHloWAOctqwdYt1e-oP253gyaoyCuA0iT9QbXPSbz6Yv/s400/i+want+that+wolf.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375775976620273762" /></a><br /><br />I also managed to solo the boss in the oculus....ok, maybe I didn't but I quite like this picture...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFY6ugpPA0vsjxPooCd3lRqtDmAcL8p2pvulsYQfcBw5cjBqkPaEAI0uY1hFKgYlX6pcPqt65uxPp1LGahy8NsUYolvC6tg6ys6E-CCRL-qR0-6FB2iq_W5LfblxoGZxSLrbTBXBjUpl21/s1600-h/solo'd.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFY6ugpPA0vsjxPooCd3lRqtDmAcL8p2pvulsYQfcBw5cjBqkPaEAI0uY1hFKgYlX6pcPqt65uxPp1LGahy8NsUYolvC6tg6ys6E-CCRL-qR0-6FB2iq_W5LfblxoGZxSLrbTBXBjUpl21/s400/solo'd.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375776593684436050" /></a><br /><br />As you probably know, I'm an Officer in "Aggro My Own Vegetable" guild on Chromaggus, so I thought I'd do a nice "meet the team" feature and here is part 1:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfFviNqZHuEpxxNUN9FRsAJsVthQJa_9IyiKrnx7zXfaerBGYlRWTisroVqqybX-jctOeC14YXKDf5u_Vq_pjCiY6hCqCmBWB9Ol5TJvpfnqkZJbGnGkCon_sVI36RbQepzoCyMDcQY7Af/s1600-h/meet+the+team.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfFviNqZHuEpxxNUN9FRsAJsVthQJa_9IyiKrnx7zXfaerBGYlRWTisroVqqybX-jctOeC14YXKDf5u_Vq_pjCiY6hCqCmBWB9Ol5TJvpfnqkZJbGnGkCon_sVI36RbQepzoCyMDcQY7Af/s400/meet+the+team.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375776895233315218" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Movie Clips</span><br /><br />Here's a clip of the Al'ar mount in action<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mxzFY5um_Tg&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mxzFY5um_Tg&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />In memory of Michael Jackson, I give you the forward moonwalk!<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RTwj_JGUvT8&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RTwj_JGUvT8&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Sometimes I get terrible lag spikes, which usually ends up with WoW DCing me or the connection just never coming back...here's what it looks like for those of you who don't get it!<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2-FhkmhTNUQ&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2-FhkmhTNUQ&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />I was going through some old video's I had, they aren't great but I found 2 old ones of me ganking and boy do I look different now! Check out the 2 vid's below and then compare it to the 3rd....Since Wrath I look a lot more bad a$$!<br />(Yes getting through doorways with my old shoulders was a problem)<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/me8HBqO6xv0&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/me8HBqO6xv0&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rvzryeO8es4&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rvzryeO8es4&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wqZ3nBwcI50&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wqZ3nBwcI50&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Valilorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409281146502952195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304288196926363050.post-20896361009137263502009-07-17T13:58:00.003+01:002009-07-17T14:34:25.184+01:00Random bits of newsI've got some bigger posts planned (I just need to find some time to post them) but here's the latest Valilor news:<br /><br /><br /><ul><li>AMOV have downed both Hodir and Freya - getting close to a full clear! (Wiping on Mimiron at the moment).</li><li>Patch 3.2 in the background downloader - coming in 2 weeks maybe?</li><li>New Chest Heirloom available which add's another +10% XP to the shoulder bonus in patch 3.2. You need the crusader title to get it though, which means being both a champion of the argent tournament and exalted with all the "Starter" factions (For Alliance: Darnassus, Stormwind, Ironforge, Gnomeregon Exiles and the Exodar).</li><li>It looks like MM hunters CAN get on par with the other pure DPS classes if you have enough Armour Penetration + Armour Penetration trinket but more on this later!</li><li>For all you iPhone users out there, there is an official WoW Armoury app available for free and it's seriously good! Check the video of it below (note how it doesn't work for Horde! Mwa ha ha!</li><br /><br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RuWel8LvxfM&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RuWel8LvxfM&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><br /></ul><p> </p><p>That's all folks!</p>Valilorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409281146502952195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304288196926363050.post-91447060878463853562009-07-01T13:04:00.002+01:002009-07-01T14:12:16.305+01:00Patch 3.2 PTR - 1st July 2009Well it's been a while since my last blog - mainly down to going to Glastonbury festival so here's an update.<br /><script src="http://static.wowhead.com/widgets/power.js"></script><br />Patch 3.2 is up on the PTR and it has some interesting changes for hunters. As it could all change before going live, the below is just speculation at the moment.<br /><br /><strong>3.2 Changes effecting MM Hunters</strong> <strong>& My thoughts</strong><br />(Source: <a href="http://www.wow.com/2009/06/29/patch-3-2-ptr-patch-notes-updated/">WoW Insider</a>)<br /><br /><span style="color:#330099;">Resilience: No longer reduces the amount of damage done by damage-over-time spells, but instead reduces the amount of all damage done by players by the same proportion. The other effects of resilience (reducing critical chance, critical damage and mana drain effects) have not changed.</span><br /><br /><strong>NERF.</strong> My concern here is that this will prolong the lengths of the arena matches, playing into the hands of the "infinite resource" melee teams, who are already top at the moment. Blizzard just "fixed" MM Mana problems but it is still a concern in PvE...longer matches will make OOM moments almost unavoidable while the melee teams can just keep coming. Ghostcrawler is aware of this and I wouldn't be surprised if something changes before it hits live.<br /><br /><span style="color:#330099;">All pets now receive 40% of their master's resilience and 100% of their master's spell penetration. In addition, if a player is at their appropriate spell hit chance or hit chance maximum, their pet will be at the maximum for spell hit chance, hit chance, and expertise. If they are below the maximum, their pet will be proportionately below those maximums.</span><br /><br /><strong>BUFF.</strong> Basically our pets will now have more survivability in PvP, assuming you have resilience. This is a big boost to BM hunters as we all know that killing their pet first is usually the best option (If you didn't know that, don't tell anyone I told you!)<br /><br /><span style="color:#330099;">Replenishment: This buff now grants 1% of the target's maximum mana over 5 seconds instead of 0.25% per second. This applies to all 5 sources of Replenishment (Vampiric Touch, Judgements of the Wise, Hunting Party, Enduring Winter Frostbolts and Soul Leech).</span><br /><br /><strong>NERF.</strong> Here is my big concern in 3.2. Blizzard have buffed MP5 and nerfed replenishment. MM Hunters only just got our mana "fixed" and now it looks like it's going to get nerfed again - we don't spec MP5 and the 20% nerf to replenishment is going to hurt us. Seems a little harsh as the change appears to be mainly aimed at Holy Paladins to get them to pick up MP5.<br /><br /><span style="color:#330099;">Silence, Strangulate, Silencing Shot, and Arcane Torrent: These abilities will also apply a 3-second interrupt effect against non-player controlled targets, making them more versatile against creatures immune to silencing effects.</span><br /><br /><strong>BUFF. </strong><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=34490">Silencing shot </a>is now also an interrupt. I thought it already was? Either way, no harm.<br /><br /><span style="color:#330099;">Aspect of the Cheetah: Can now be learned at level 16.</span><br /><br /><strong>MEH</strong>. Good for leveling but not important to end-game.<br /><br /><span style="color:#330099;">Deterrence: This ability now allows the hunter to parry spells and attacks from behind as well as in front. Now has a new visual spell effect.</span><br /><br /><strong>BUFF.</strong> While many people hated it before, I use it all the time in Arena - it's very handy, especially against <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=46924">Bladestorms</a>. Having it work from behind will allow us to run away instead of back peddling, which is a great boost. It also helped those who are a bit laggy and don't get their positioning right.<br /><br /><span style="color:#330099;">The time that traps will exist in the world after being put down has been reduced to 30 seconds, down from 1 minute.<br />Traps now have separate 30-second cooldown categories: Fire (Immolation Trap, Explosive Trap and Black Arrow), Frost (Freezing Trap, Frost Trap) and Nature (Snake Trap). A hunter can have one trap of each category placed at one time.</span><br /><br /><strong>BUFF.</strong> ZOMG how many traps?.....Wait a minute, lets think about this.<br /><br /><strong>PvE - MEH.</strong> mainly aimed at SV. As MM we don't really use traps much for DPS (running around dropping them is too much of a DPS drop) and the only time we use it is for kiting, which none of the changes will help us. SV can drop a frost down (mainly for adds) and also use black arrow getting more Lock and Loads possibly (has a new Internal CD now though) which if it does will be a DPS boost.<br /><br /><strong>PvP - POSSIBLE BUFF.</strong> This is where the changes are being aimed at. In Arena we all know hunters kite with frost trap. The change above allows us to also drop 2 more traps which will increase our damage on the targets - which isn't bad. The only downside of this is that our traps are quite mana expensive, which isn't great in the new "longer battle" scenario and also it takes 1 GCD to drop a trap - 4.5 seconds in total!<br /><br />I'm not too excited about this change really, Blizzard said they want to make our traps a little more intimidating - using immolation & snake trap in addition to frost may not be worth the mana/GDC expenditure, I'm not sure. I guess playing it will test this out. IMO if they wanted to buff traps, they could start by fixing them, for example the "arm time" of our traps (let them work instantly) and also don't let people immune to our traps completely destroy them - let them at least fire but leave the immune person alone. Standing around for 30 secs with no frost traps isn't fun!<br /><br />Here are some ideas of how we could make our traps more effective in PvP:<br /><br />Separation of frost from freezing trap, so we can kite and use a freezing trap/freeing arrow at the same time.<br />Snake Trap/Immolation Trap - reduce movement<br />Remove them from the GCD<br />Reduce their cost<br />Make Freezing Arrow an actual freezing arrow (maybe as a MM/BM CC Talent - not for Wyvern Stinging SV hunters)<br />Create a resource draining trap - Mana/Rage/Energy - etc.<br />Bear Trap!<br /><br />That's just some not-thought through ideas off the top of my head...<br /><br />I also hold the right to change my mind on this change once I get to test it out! :p<br /><br /><span style="color:#330099;"></span><span style="color:#330099;">Talent: Beast Mastery<br />Catlike Reflexes now also reduces the cooldown of your Kill Command ability by 10/20/30 seconds.</span><br /><br /><strong>MEH.</strong> No MM should have this talent so Meh. Nice boost for BM though, they're in need of some PvE boosts!<br /><br /><span style="color:#330099;">Talent: Survival Entrapment: This talent no longer works with Immolation Trap or Explosive Trap. </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#330099;">Lock and Load: Now has a 22-second cooldown. The Lock and Load effect cannot be obtained on targets immune to snare effects when Frost Trap is used.</span><br /><br /><strong>MEH</strong>. While I talent Entrapment in my MM PvP spec, I never used any trap other than frost or freezing trap so entrapment from immolation/explosive never happened - I won't notice this change. If people start getting snared from explosive traps AND frost traps, it could get a bit OP (it is only 2 seconds)?<br /><br /><strong>MEH.</strong> LnL now has a 22 sec CD - I also have this talented in my PvP spec (Used with Arcane Shot) but as the trap CD is 30 secs it doesn't make much difference (28 seconds with 4 set bonus). This is mainly aimed at SV hunters getting procs from Black Arrow and Frost Traps.<br /><br /><span style="color:#330099;">Pets<br />Roar of Sacrifice: Redesigned. This ability can now be used on any friendly target to make that target immune to critical strikes, but the Hunter pet takes 20% of all damage taken by that friendly target. Cooldown increased to 2 minutes.</span><br /><br /><strong>SLIGHT BUFF? </strong>An interesting one. At the moment it reduces damage taken by us and passes it onto the pet. This change allows us to use it on others but only works against crits as opposed to total damage. The change to work on crits is to obviously stop hunters using it in PvE on the tanks. Until I know how how much damage you save from crits vs straight damage reduction I won't know if it's any better but being able to use it on a team mate is obviously better.<br /><br /><strong>OVERALL</strong><br /><strong></strong><br />For MM, it looks like a PvE nerf because of mana regen (when we didn't need a nerf, if anything we needed a slight buff imo) and in PvP we have some buffs (also needed) - mainly through deterrence and pet survivability. It's only on the PTR so it could all change...Valilorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409281146502952195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304288196926363050.post-6046600734707813632009-06-16T01:31:00.005+01:002009-06-16T02:00:57.438+01:00Quick Update<script src="http://static.wowhead.com/widgets/power.js"></script><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiootVhlw_U9Px1pCeSj16AWN35vK-2asSYJ2g-PocdxshUoBIySvTPFCkwU2Dex7yUrpz22FI11f59HJ9cqhCXphyTAN0UNoHpwlHEwzDjcFuelTU8VMMWNwC2D8BEFzpjFGqOPhUl7nRw/s1600-h/GearsofWar2ChainsawPSDBLANK2.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 369px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiootVhlw_U9Px1pCeSj16AWN35vK-2asSYJ2g-PocdxshUoBIySvTPFCkwU2Dex7yUrpz22FI11f59HJ9cqhCXphyTAN0UNoHpwlHEwzDjcFuelTU8VMMWNwC2D8BEFzpjFGqOPhUl7nRw/s400/GearsofWar2ChainsawPSDBLANK2.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347719601041805490" /></a><br />I got the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40385">Envoy of Mortality</a> from a Naxx 25 Pug! 2 Hunters on KT but luckily the other one had <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45327">Siren's Cry</a> from Ulduar 25 so left it to me. Exciting end to the encounter too, KT was almost dead when the tank died, so PN (mage) kited him, ice blocked which bought me enough time to Pew Pew (s)Kill Shot! It was like Die Hard or something but, you know, more undead (I guess you could argue Bruce willis is getting closer to KT in every film).<br /><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_-cH1OycO_Ls-EO440_w8TK2g8xrmjd-LeE8PyL1qOTR4RYv3ZL2BF0qqzyF8d4M5JeUDTGXCKY6mW1hw1VMQaC_Y9SfrxKvQPgXmme8v6esoD4MK16ff-ePan0XYbkr65_8q7b5NkcAe/s1600-h/KT25.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 286px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_-cH1OycO_Ls-EO440_w8TK2g8xrmjd-LeE8PyL1qOTR4RYv3ZL2BF0qqzyF8d4M5JeUDTGXCKY6mW1hw1VMQaC_Y9SfrxKvQPgXmme8v6esoD4MK16ff-ePan0XYbkr65_8q7b5NkcAe/s400/KT25.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347722967587454738" /></a><br /><b>V</b><b>ALERIYA HAS THE <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44707">GREEN PROTO-DRAKE</a>!!</b> Heloko and I are up to week 12 now waiting for it to hatch from the mysterious egg when Valeriya strolls up and gets it on her second week. Women!</div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikw-MhLY_2I0AInwW9KTbSKn133gXTw6LKWpfEGLaZMeTJvUkYW-6r1TORaovvKBVND8IM2JkeCFX8HC6WzxGV_IjTtKr-YMQzP1HoA5_mk3mw1LwU0hjXiGumfP1tYOOZ1tRcOz6VBAEE/s1600-h/wheres_waldo_movie+copy.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 213px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikw-MhLY_2I0AInwW9KTbSKn133gXTw6LKWpfEGLaZMeTJvUkYW-6r1TORaovvKBVND8IM2JkeCFX8HC6WzxGV_IjTtKr-YMQzP1HoA5_mk3mw1LwU0hjXiGumfP1tYOOZ1tRcOz6VBAEE/s400/wheres_waldo_movie+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347722965070002034" /></a><br /><br /><b>MISSING: HARDMODE</b>. No, not a hard mode in Ulduar but our Our guild's Top DPS(tm) - he has disappeared! Has anyone seen this Destruction Warlock? Rumour has it, Caparzo made good of his word and punched him in the face! Lol </div><div><br /></div><div>AMOV have also just got further into Ulduar...update to come! :D</div>Valilorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409281146502952195noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304288196926363050.post-25968777903247470612009-06-02T10:15:00.003+01:002009-07-01T12:59:38.975+01:00Patch 3.1.3 2nd June 2009<strong>In patch 3.1.3</strong><br /><br />More good Hunter news!<br /><br /><ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#000099;">Hunter's Mark: The ranged attack power bonus from this ability has been increased from 300 to 500. </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#000099;">Master Marksman: This talent now also decreases the cost of Aimed Shot and Chimera Shot by 5/10/15/20/25%.</span></li></ul><p><span style="color:#000000;">The hunters mark is getting buffed so we'll now have an additional 200 AP on boss fights (marknig trash doesn't happen too often). This is pretty good news and even better for BM hunters as they will benefit from this more (They need some more loving). Probably not enough for them to catch MM/SV up though.</span></p><p>For all MM hunters, you will already have talented 5/5 into <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=34489">Master Marksman </a>so our aimed and chimera shots will have their mana reduced by 25%! This is great news for encounters where we go OOM (Probably every boss fight in 10 man) so will be a direct improvement to our DPS. In 25 man where mana isn't such an issue it won't really benefit the hunters too much. </p><p>It's a good buff for us 10-man raiders and it shows Blizzard haven't forgotten about us when they <a href="http://valilor.blogspot.com/2009/05/patch-312-20th-may-2009.html">buffed only 25-man ranged weapons</a>! (Speaking of which, I've defeated KT in Naxx25 each of the last two weeks and still don't have the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40385">Envoy of Mortality</a>, one time it dropped and I came 2nd in the rolls and the second time it didn't drop and I was the only hunter :( )</p><p>From a PvP perspective the mana saving will help as we will be firing both aimed and chimera as soon as they cooldown so, our mana at least, will last a little longer. </p><p>So 2 patches and 2 hunter buffs. Why you ask? Well I think it might have something to do with this: <a href="http://www.wowmeteronline.com/rank/classrank/dps/7/0/3/310">http://www.wowmeteronline.com/rank/classrank/dps/7/0/3/310</a> If you take an average of all the scores across all the Ulduar bosses we're about mid table - behind a few <em>hybrid DPSers</em>. For shame! (We should be up with the Rogues/Locks/Mages - the <em>Pure DPSers</em>)</p>Valilorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409281146502952195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304288196926363050.post-53771141991701475852009-05-23T19:02:00.029+01:002009-05-29T18:51:45.777+01:00AMOV Special: Ulduar 10 Part 1 - The Siege of Ulduar<script src="http://static.wowhead.com/widgets/power.js"></script><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHtD8lpWumVRH0B4y8u3GfxHpw-_NyqXbYgplFZfMCTTXdeiVjvC1HbQr3UmOLKK5hycOEst9g9f_ypyPbp73S3mjh3A48yo4-juKXo9kqwcTo7UhrUJKlAyl_sYyn3jarzE1M3HWgqug2/s1600-h/ULDUAR.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339084294567615202" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 282px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHtD8lpWumVRH0B4y8u3GfxHpw-_NyqXbYgplFZfMCTTXdeiVjvC1HbQr3UmOLKK5hycOEst9g9f_ypyPbp73S3mjh3A48yo4-juKXo9kqwcTo7UhrUJKlAyl_sYyn3jarzE1M3HWgqug2/s400/ULDUAR.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />After finally downing Malygos, AMOV are now working their way through Ulduar. Like Naxxramas, <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?zone=4273">Ulduar</a> is a big raid, containing 14 bosses and on their first visit to Ulduar, AMOV tackled the first section: The Siege of Ulduar, which includes the first 4 bosses.<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">AMOV Raiders:</span><br /><br />Tanks<br /><br />Caparzo - Prot Warrior<br />Deekay - Unholy DK<br /><br /><div>Healers</div><div><br /></div><div>Heloko - Holy Paladin</div><div>Chisuka - Disc Priest</div><div>Valeriya /Tessera - Resto Druid/Holy Priest</div><br /><div>DPS<br /></div><br /><div>Valilor - MM Hunter<br /></div><div>Succi - Feral Druid</div><div>Jammiedodger - Combat Rogue</div><div>Rosencrantz - Fire/Frost Mage</div><div>Nvision/Valeriya - Ret Paladin/Balance Druid </div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">The Flame Leviathan</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV7ajTlVUmpWMrw26sTrcIOS-tLTjvLDjcEljmpYPwu7xLVwgiN1MxzB74d28Oh6uIwi12jmMdQz33FZxRy4Ke5MatmduWBoYeMRyGBf4-iF_vu-9FYXSBtYIeNsttRHBtmkvjWdXf2w0-/s1600-h/Flame.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 296px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV7ajTlVUmpWMrw26sTrcIOS-tLTjvLDjcEljmpYPwu7xLVwgiN1MxzB74d28Oh6uIwi12jmMdQz33FZxRy4Ke5MatmduWBoYeMRyGBf4-iF_vu-9FYXSBtYIeNsttRHBtmkvjWdXf2w0-/s400/Flame.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340934071932695602" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Overview</span></span><br /><br /><div>The <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=33113">Flame Leviathan</a> boss is the first boss in Ulduar which must be defeated to progress further. It's a vehicle based encounter and if you've come here after Malygos, you'll probably be thinking "FFS, not another vehicle boss fight" but unlike Malygos - this one is fun!</div><br /><div>There's 3 vehicles to pick from; A Siege Engine, Demolisher and Chopper. In a 10 man raid, you will be picking up 2 siege engines, 2 demolishers and 2 choppers, with the first 2 siege engines/demolishers taking a driver and passenger and the chopper with just a driver. </div><br /><div>Before you get to the boss, there's loads of adds & towers to kill but it's not too difficult if you stay as a group. Your vehicles scale to the iLevel of your gear (Download the add-on<a href="http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/rating-buster.aspx"> rating buster</a>) so the better geared raiders should be driving. </div><br /><div>The boss is fun, everyone engages him and he picks a target at random (either a Siege engine or Demolisher) and he has to be kited around. The demolishers also fire their passenger up and into the boss where they destroy his turrets, making him take more damage for a few seconds and enough time for them to jump off and back onto the vehicle. </div><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Result</span></span></div><br /><div>After clearing the trash leading up to the boss - and wiping once when a tank decided to clip through the landscape into oblivion (Don't boost over ramps) - we came up to the boss. In went 2 Siege Engines, 1 Demolisher, 2 Choppers...hang on, 1 demolisher? Yeah, we had one locked out! /facepalm. I blame <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Heloko </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="">for this - women drivers eh? ;)</span><br /></div><br /><div>With one vehicle down on our first attempt we ended up wiping. However, as we died, ressed, got repaired and back in - the demolisher that wasn't in the fight then engaged the boss - died and a massive AoE from the boss killed us all again. 2x repairs, nice! </div><br /><div>Our third attempt well pretty smoothly, we got past "Human Cannonball" NVision's "Fire me, fire me please" spam and took him down. I won some pretty sweet loot too: <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45286">The Pyrite Infuser</a> - now I'm hit capped without any +hit gems, enchants or buffs! Sweet.</div><br /><div>Not worth linking the WWS for this boss really, it took 5 mins 5 seconds.</div><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Hunters PoV</span></span></div><br /><div>Nothing special here, we can't get launched due to our close-range deadzone but nothing else to consider really.</div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Razorscale</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghxk4PFDZcAjOHUYe8ad70fZPLm5TTybTIM3wtN9OjwYrs1OuOFi3ny-wGb1Jj6gHR5RfeIr19URiQreILJSqIr7WPXBL3IDdtOWMi7FtYP-wuhVbdY44ykDjpkD2KeL-MgfKBqEMD54Oj/s1600-h/Razorscale.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339581704746841874" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 302px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghxk4PFDZcAjOHUYe8ad70fZPLm5TTybTIM3wtN9OjwYrs1OuOFi3ny-wGb1Jj6gHR5RfeIr19URiQreILJSqIr7WPXBL3IDdtOWMi7FtYP-wuhVbdY44ykDjpkD2KeL-MgfKBqEMD54Oj/s400/Razorscale.jpg" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Overview</span><br /><br />After downing the Flame Leviathan you come to a crossroads, dead ahead is the deconstructor boss and to the right and left are 2 optional bosses, the left being Ignis and the right being <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=33186">Razorscale</a>. Razorscale has no trash to deal with before you engage him so you can go quickly from the Flame Leviathan to Razorscale.<br /><br />To begin the encounter you have to talk to an NPC standing nearby and then some adds come up from the ground. These get tanked and AoEed down. As this is going on, 2 harpoon guns get repaired by the NPCs (A bit like the ones in Utgarde Pinnacle) and they need to get fired to get Razorscale down. When he comes down everyone turns to nuke him until he goes back up and then return to the adds (The OT keeps the adds while Razorscale gets nuked). Once Razorscale drops to 50% HP he will land for good and it's a tank and spank from there (with the tanks swapping due to a debuff).<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Result</span></span><br /><br />After the first boss, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">NVision</span> had to leave so we got <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Tessera</span> in and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Valeriya</span> went to DPS mode. We did the boss as described above, wiped once and killed it on our second go. It wasn't a very hard fight, everyone just needs to keep out of the fire! For the harpoon firing it makes more sense for a ranged to do it (less distance to travel) or anyone that can clear the gap quickly or maintain DPS with pets/DoT while running towards them. In this run I figured that I was probably best to do this so I volunteered.<br /><br />In our first attempt the healers were running low on mana, so <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Rosencrantz</span> kindly switched from Fire to Frost so we could get some replenishment and it paid off! If you look at the stats below, most of the raiders "DPS Time %" increased which goes to show we we a lot more effective in attempt 2! Surprisingly, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Rosencrantz</span> DPS hardly dropped at all, only by 5 overall! (That's down to the increased AoE ability of frost according to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Rosencrantz</span>)<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2p7xpwrKBiTYfSQtCfV79_hyphenhyphenwEYxxl6Oabm_uNigZEjUPkKJUr-YX3j60mLsNTH4ud3LkdjEcPO2UjCX5VVikrfUXBmzEnoiPynq948tKYdllfbBBmxi8SQVnlVg4hEuHYpUc5eb3znc5/s1600-h/Razor+stats.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339590201523688210" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 278px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2p7xpwrKBiTYfSQtCfV79_hyphenhyphenwEYxxl6Oabm_uNigZEjUPkKJUr-YX3j60mLsNTH4ud3LkdjEcPO2UjCX5VVikrfUXBmzEnoiPynq948tKYdllfbBBmxi8SQVnlVg4hEuHYpUc5eb3znc5/s400/Razor+stats.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />WWS report <a href="http://wowwebstats.com/edddlctd2p3e3?s=14094-29033">here</a>.<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Hunters PoV</span></span><br /><br />This is quite a long fight with lots of mobs with no mana bars so mana was a big issue for me. The mobs which come up from the ground need to be killed in order or AoEed down. On our first attempt I went to go for a single target approach and on the second I chose to go AoE and volley them all down. Obviously it was back to Single target on the boss.<br /><br />In single target, failed attempt 1, I was in aspect of the viper for 17% of the fight, that's a long time and as a 50% damage reduction that means I had to nerf myself for 8.5%! I got 13k mana back from AotV, 5k from Rapid Recuperation (when in Rapid Fire mode) and 2k from Judgement of Wisdom - we had no replenishment!<br /><br />Attempt 2 I went for a more AoE approach so the mana-expensive volley came out to play. As expected, this meant I was in AotV for longer - 19% of the time, which is 9.5% nerf. This could have been even worse if it wasn't for the increased mana I received from other sources (Rosencrantz switching helped). This time I got 16k from AotV, 7k from Rapid Recuperation, 8k from Judgement of Wisdom, 7k Replenishment, 4k mana pot and 0.4k from hymn of hope. So for me to stay out of AotV here, I would have to find another 16k of mana from somewhere!<br /><br />So what does this all mean? Well it means going AoE is more mana expensive but the result was this: Attempt 1 DPS = 2763 Attempt 2 DPS = 3808.<br /><br />I can also calculate roughly the benefit to me (not to mention every other mana user) of Rosencrantz switching to frost. If I had no replenishment then I would be in AotV more for the extra 7k I got from replenishment. If 16k = 19% uptime, then 23k would be 27% of the time, thats 8% longer. My DPS with the 9.5% nerf was 3808 so without it would be 4208 so the benefit of replenishment is 50% of 8%, so Replenishment reduced <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Rosencrantz</span> DPS by 5 but increased mine by 168!<br /><br />Isn't maths fun :p<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Ignis the furnace master</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbD4eId-OKwVqei1UbonrBu4VyPYIJ_F8nTae0Mbr_0VKzuXGHPmbVwQhtEyJo4Uy3rXV1Yj9o7m-T9mbzxbbL99D4C-LcXBaRSliKSlE6zq71t1mcuLioSMjpnQTx6rZCmt1e4cdSQg5V/s1600-h/ignis3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 349px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbD4eId-OKwVqei1UbonrBu4VyPYIJ_F8nTae0Mbr_0VKzuXGHPmbVwQhtEyJo4Uy3rXV1Yj9o7m-T9mbzxbbL99D4C-LcXBaRSliKSlE6zq71t1mcuLioSMjpnQTx6rZCmt1e4cdSQg5V/s400/ignis3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341212417472066834" /></a><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Overview</span></p><p>Before engaging <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=33118">Ignis</a>, you have to clear the trash before him, which is the hardest trash we've come across yet and when Blizzard said that you'll probably wipe on the trash in Ulduar they meant it! They come in pairs and need to be tanked seperately and generate lots of things to look out for/avoid - some are probably harder than some of the Naxx bosses! No simple AoE threat/DPS here. Some do have a 0.9% chance of dropping the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=46342">Golemheart Longbow</a>, which would be a nice upgrade for me! :D (Still no <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40385">Envoy of Mortality </a>though)</p><p>The boss itself is hard but optional. It's quite an interesting fight, the boss needs to be tanked and moved around in a circle so the tank doesn't stand in the hot spots he leaves around. He also summons Iron Constructs which the Off Tank needs to pick up, walk into the "hot spots" (<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=33118">scorched </a>ground) until the turn <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=62373">molten </a>and then walk to the water - at this point they turn brittle (You have +50% crit on them at this point) for a few seconds and must be <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=62383">shattered </a>(Killed by 1 hit if over 5k damage) ideally by a ranged DPS because of the AoE damage. For every Add up the boss gets a <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=64473">buff </a>so taking them down is a priority. If this wasn't hard enough, Ignis also picks one person at random and puts them into his <s>Heloko</s>Slag Bucket, where they take a lot of damage and need to be healed through (can heal themselves in there also).<br /></p><p>Here's a useful video from tankspot.com for the 10 man encounter:</p><br /><br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Hp50gUCAqwc&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Hp50gUCAqwc&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><br /><br /><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Result</span></p><p>Our strategy here was for me to Misdirect the boss onto the MT (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Deekay</span>), who was standing near the left pool (as you look at the boss) and from there he would tank the boss right in an anti-clockwise circle avoiding the "hot spots". Everyone else was behind the boss and I was on Shatter duty.</p><p>I won't lie, this didn't go well. We wiped 7 times. We had a few different problems, from critical people going into the slag pot and dying, add's getting lose and causing trouble or having too many adds up at once, giving the boss too many buffs. Having a hunter on shatter duty isn't ideal as it pretty much means I have to bank on one of my big hitting shots critting, otherwise I have to wait for the cool down! I was luck this time though, every one did crit (the +50% helped!) but for the one that didn't, I was able to use readiness and fire it again.</p><a href="http://wowwebstats.com/edddlctd2p3e3?m&s=75675-85416">Attempt 6</a> was our best one, we lasted 4 mins 36 before wiping. If you have a look at my stats below, if Chimera shot crits, it's easily over the 5k damage to shatter and arcane/aimed are too...just. Bit risky, I think a class which can do a guaranteed crit/hit over 5k would probably do better but I don't think shattering was our problem.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Hunters PoV</span><br /></div><div><p>This is a long fight and as a MM hunter, that means mana is going to be an issue if you're on DPS duty. If you're on shatter duty you can all but forget about DPS on this encounter. To ensure that I could shatter a construct as soon as it was ready, I didn't fire any Chimera shots once they started coming as I didn't want to waste the Cooldown. As MM's main offender, not using it means no DPS. I also didn't use Aimed Shot, just in case Chimera didn't crit. Nice loot available from Ignis too! (<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45311">Relentless Edge</a>, and a possible down-grade: <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45309">Rifle of the Platinum Guard</a>)</p><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhosr0qnTY1MRP8MjyWROyTNvq21z21Z7oigzS-K6nksXdc0YkRmdhupWQdVIZG6VoX9WbCIq8ctzvMrtvhGikKAU-2d3I51t8aW19brW5mVZv6GHEDMYF9q1pTDQ17FqV4Lu7WOQsXdLlj/s1600-h/Ignis+Stats.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 387px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhosr0qnTY1MRP8MjyWROyTNvq21z21Z7oigzS-K6nksXdc0YkRmdhupWQdVIZG6VoX9WbCIq8ctzvMrtvhGikKAU-2d3I51t8aW19brW5mVZv6GHEDMYF9q1pTDQ17FqV4Lu7WOQsXdLlj/s400/Ignis+Stats.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341212422200599522" /></a><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">XT-002 Deconstructor</span></p><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9J7C6KiCTG__KbNKABUV-HNoNynCP-4OmRFZIxJgdYEsO6i90wUgZmsXkN_BdTyVQCAm87Xq3Y5whiMRtkFOKuxeOo2Rp43431HwDnxh4gVgpq7exm17Hie9kskFQb4XzFSvsz9SvIJdM/s1600-h/deconstuctor.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 384px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9J7C6KiCTG__KbNKABUV-HNoNynCP-4OmRFZIxJgdYEsO6i90wUgZmsXkN_BdTyVQCAm87Xq3Y5whiMRtkFOKuxeOo2Rp43431HwDnxh4gVgpq7exm17Hie9kskFQb4XzFSvsz9SvIJdM/s400/deconstuctor.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341226173782582210" /></a><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Overview</span></p><p>The final boss of the Siege of Ulduar area and can be accessed even if you're too scared to fight Ignis!</p><p>First off, have your sound on in this battle, the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=33293">deconstructor </a>sounds funny and his/her (not sure which) animations are good too! There are 3 phases to the fight, phase 1 where he/she has their heart in and phase 2 where it's out (I'm not quite sure why you'd rest with your heart out but I suppose I'm not a robot).</p><p>In Phase 1 you have to tank the boss facing away from the raid and just DPS away. He will cast 2 debuffs on random players (<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=63018">Searing Light </a>and <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=63024">Gravity Bomb</a>) at which point they must run away from the raid in different directions until the debuff expires, a little like with grobbulus. The boss also does a <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=62776">harsh AoE </a>move which will need a lot of healing to be done.</p><p>Phase 2 the boss rests to get some HP back. In this stage he pops out his/her heart which melee doubles any damage taken to it and also 3 adds start spawning from the corners which either need to be Nuked fast (Boombots), AoE'd down (Thingys) or picked up by the OT (Pummellers). If the scrap bots reach the boss they can heal him so they need to be taken out by the Melee DPS if they get to close.</p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Results</span></p><p>It was getting late when we arrived at the deconstructor (we were at Ignis for some time!) and one of our healers (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Valeriya</span>) had to log out for bed, so not only was it our first time on this boss but we had to 9 man it! (We started our run at 9:06pm and we were at the deconstuctor at 12:01am, having spent about an hour wiping on Ignis). </p><p>Out tactics were fairly straight forward, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Caparzo</span> would tank the boss facing away from the raid, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Deekay</span> would pick up any adds and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Rosencrantz</span> and I would nuke any adds coming which weren't getting picked up by <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Deekay</span>.</p><p>We did get over-run by the adds a few times and it took us a while to get used to the encounter but on our 4th wiped and called it a night and headed off for some much needed rest! The WWS report will only show our wipes but we did come back the next week and defeat him with 10 but more on that next week....</p><p><a href="http://wowwebstats.com/edddlctd2p3e3?m&s=122424-126560">WWS Report</a><br /></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">NEXT WEEK IN ULDUAR.....</span></p><p>Will <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Hardmode</span>, the new top-DPS in AMOV, help us progess?</p><p>Who will be the first to hit on <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Valeriya</span>?</p><p>Will <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Caparzo </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="">hit first?</span></p><p>Find out next week on THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF AMOV!</p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfpvradSnPS6FvlP7z6gDB3L6XGD9MyPZzdT_HuqGq1-5jMggA1PbiVtALA1FOD32nzmY3sHXdCKcQiwfTS59xEaO1j946ox1iCUbDUIt0QnoQrZQeo-vaWP_aXcnzktifFKFejdyHT8sP/s1600-h/ignis+invesments.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfpvradSnPS6FvlP7z6gDB3L6XGD9MyPZzdT_HuqGq1-5jMggA1PbiVtALA1FOD32nzmY3sHXdCKcQiwfTS59xEaO1j946ox1iCUbDUIt0QnoQrZQeo-vaWP_aXcnzktifFKFejdyHT8sP/s400/ignis+invesments.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341230915666027426" /></a></div>Valilorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409281146502952195noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304288196926363050.post-81089950907863612332009-05-20T15:58:00.005+01:002009-05-20T16:33:07.367+01:00Patch 3.1.2 20th May 2009I'm going to start doing some "<span style="font-style:italic;">Marksman Hunter New</span>s" posts and where better to start than today, patch day!<script src="http://static.wowhead.com/widgets/power.js"></script><br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">In Patch 3.1.2</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Not too many changes to the mechanics of how MM Hunters play, we get the equipment manager to let us change quickly between PvE/PvP (or whatever set-up you might have) but 1 area where we are getting a nice <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">buff</span> is with our ranged weapons.<br /><br /></div><div>Before we have a look at the buffs, this is the reason why the damage on some of our ranged weapons is increasing (From mmo-champion):</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"The developers believe hunter dps is too low, so today we are implementing a change to ranged weapon damage to improve dps across the board. <br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br />Bows, crossbows and guns of item level 226 or higher (which means weapons from Kel'Thuzad, Ulduar and the Furious Gladiator pieces) will do around 30 more dps. This should translate to a hunter damage increase of a few percent.<br /><br />We don't think this will be quite sufficient in boosting hunter dps to where we think it needs to be and we have another buff that we plan to get in sometime over the next couple of weeks. We'll announce that change when it gets closer. (We have some plans for other classes as well, but we ask that you please keep this thread on the topic of hunters and the ranged weapon changes.)<br /><br />As hunters may recall, we had an ambitious plan to change the way ammo worked for 3.1 that ended up being overly ambitious, causing us to scale back. However as part of that change, we stopped itemizing bullets and arrows. Since hunters could not upgrade from the ammo available at the launch of Lich King, their damage had started and would continue to fall behind as other classes upgraded their gear. This change basically incorporates the ammo damage into the weapons -- as you get better ranged weapons, it's as if you got better ammo to go along with them. This is likely to be a design we continue for the next few tiers of content until we have the opportunity to overhaul ammo completely." (Ghostcrawler, Lead Systems Designer)</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div>So how does this effect us? Well to start with any ranged weapon over iLv226 will have it's DPS improved. Not all our shots will benefit from this but we should see good gains on our auto shot, Steady shots, Aimed Shots and Kills Shots for "free". Not bad at all really.</div><div><br /></div><div>However, there is a catch. This is only going to benefit 25 man raiders, so for yours truely, I won't be seeing any benefit of these buffs as 10 man raids go up to Ilv 219. There is one exception though and that is to get the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45870">Magnetized Projectile Emitter</a> from <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=33293">XT-002 Deconstructor</a> in Ulduar 10 Hard Mode! </div><div><br /></div><div>The other option for a 10 man raider to get one of these weapons would be to get in a lucky 25 man Naxx25 PUG and hope you win the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40385">Envoy or Mortality</a> from KT or to go the PvP route and pick up a <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?items=2&filter=sl=15;ty=2:18:3;minle=226;cr=93;crs=1;crv=0">Furious Ranged Weapon</a>! PvP guns aren't ideal for PvE but the massive difference in damage from a Furious Gladiator Ranged Weapon vs. a 10 Man PvE ranged weapon will make it superior even in PvE.</div><div><br /></div><div>So what does Valilor plan on doing you ask? Well, I'm going to stick with my <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40346">Final Voyage</a> and hope I can get <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40385">lucky in a Naxx25 PUG</a>! AMOV are currently working our way through Ulduar so it will probably be a while until we try hard modes but as soon as we can, I'll aim for the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45870">Magnetized Projectile Emitte</a>r!</div><div><br /></div><div>Happy Shooting!</div><div><br /></div>Valilorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409281146502952195noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304288196926363050.post-87746997182482840762009-05-15T17:09:00.012+01:002009-05-15T18:56:45.586+01:00Champions!<script src="http://static.wowhead.com/widgets/power.js"></script><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">AMOV: CHAMPIONS OF THE FROZEN WASTES!</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ23V8ZCteF_se_JNC04Bgj1bcPgThrQFozwRRLMXw0D9yY45ji3QQvJDM7iEcufw4dPtU1FBYcrGxF8NLWLtNW0bYAixrPC7USMUjRCa-8YyPKbQPvZEFER4BgDaE0k9L0Hd-LySqyl5I/s1600-h/cotfw.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ23V8ZCteF_se_JNC04Bgj1bcPgThrQFozwRRLMXw0D9yY45ji3QQvJDM7iEcufw4dPtU1FBYcrGxF8NLWLtNW0bYAixrPC7USMUjRCa-8YyPKbQPvZEFER4BgDaE0k9L0Hd-LySqyl5I/s400/cotfw.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336095466451636082" /></a><br /><br />We did it! For the past month, the guild has had one big, blue thorn in their side in the form of </span></span><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=28859"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">MALYGOS</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">. We spent 3 evenings (I'll spare you the WWS) wiping countless times on him, 90% of the time in phase 3, even though everyone knew what to do. For us, we appointed 2 people to heal (me and one other), the healers would cast HoTs on themselves and then AoE heal while the DPS would go 1,1,2 etc. Anyway, on our forth visit we we one shotted him to the amazement of most the people there! :D<br /><br />It was anything but uneventful though, we had the MT dying in an earlier phase (He got combat res) and when we did kill Malygos he had reached his enrage timer - when he fell we all died at the same time, if this was Street Fighter it would say "Double KO" - luckily it's not though. So we killed him but we were all dead...how do we loot? We ran back into the raid and some of us landed on a drake while some of us fell to our deaths again - eventually I got on the drake and was able to get the loot going :)<br /><br />We didn't stop there though, oh no. We went to Ulduar and defeated the first 2 bosses! The </span></span><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=33113"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Flame Leviathan</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> is the first boss in Ulduar and it's a fun vehicle fight - something we really appreciate after hours of Malygos fighting! After that we went to </span></span><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=33186"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Razorscale</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> and defeated him too and called it a night there....to be continued on Sunday!</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">We also went on a mini-recruiting mission last week and now we're full! I think the days of having to find randoms to fill in spots in our 10 man raids are finally behind us :D<br /></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Hoard-ing the food</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc1YISzfHwKcbXjHKz1YZqgeHYY0A_g6jg0ZOMDrzN50_palDEAXqIGGJzqA2NFyUOK7b_P4pLnCngMXVgSZtfGUP5jHXgo2QJPO3i9_lmkuTILJRdwO2iJgJ-Z2W7TmDh3UtoG4e_Gz10/s1600-h/Hoarders.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc1YISzfHwKcbXjHKz1YZqgeHYY0A_g6jg0ZOMDrzN50_palDEAXqIGGJzqA2NFyUOK7b_P4pLnCngMXVgSZtfGUP5jHXgo2QJPO3i9_lmkuTILJRdwO2iJgJ-Z2W7TmDh3UtoG4e_Gz10/s400/Hoarders.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336095472371293986" /></a><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I was walking through Dalaran when I saw this shocking display of wasting food! Think of all the starving people! Farming the mats for those is a right pain too....</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Lestar-eight-i</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGXSC7mcZFbTbLPawmsUTI_8OtXDc4ks05E6cqf7nmqRGXQeKVvI5m2OwebDkVSQp7Ter_MZH2VCLFxbcsA0p73UtJDe2uCQtma6P7tkTsH2mvYabfNl6YskVcexiylaqfICtHOTUm4Yuc/s1600-h/Lestari+80.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 315px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGXSC7mcZFbTbLPawmsUTI_8OtXDc4ks05E6cqf7nmqRGXQeKVvI5m2OwebDkVSQp7Ter_MZH2VCLFxbcsA0p73UtJDe2uCQtma6P7tkTsH2mvYabfNl6YskVcexiylaqfICtHOTUm4Yuc/s400/Lestari+80.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336095477561381554" /></a><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Heloko's</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> alt finally reached Level 80, now our main healer has an Arms warrior to play around with too - cool. Leveling to 80 must have taken AGES ;)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Master Fisherman</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Ze6AojE6YKrTohc9K3k9OzQmh_gEtM9NyYZ-XGKyNpfnVbdydYyYoBFKevo1aQb8mi2k_q6OVKIXIQRZUnypxruIbFWDGO9GWGsyM2DhU4BXgYYSv8SrKgpe7UXwghai8aLaSmnd2jVP/s1600-h/Fishing.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Ze6AojE6YKrTohc9K3k9OzQmh_gEtM9NyYZ-XGKyNpfnVbdydYyYoBFKevo1aQb8mi2k_q6OVKIXIQRZUnypxruIbFWDGO9GWGsyM2DhU4BXgYYSv8SrKgpe7UXwghai8aLaSmnd2jVP/s400/Fishing.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336092942686752930" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I finally reached Lv300 in fishing. I haven't been trying to level it up, I've just been trying to get mats for the new </span></span><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43015"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Fish Feast</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> I can cook for the guild raids. I find fishing in Wintergrasp for the </span></span><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43015"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Glacial Salmon</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, Sholazar Basin for the </span></span><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43015"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Nettlefish</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> and Borean Tundra for the </span></span><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41806"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Musselback Sculpin</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> works best and can be done at the same time as the fishing dailies, so it's not too bad I guess. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A few days ago, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Gloam</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> and I went fishing in Wintergrasp while there was a battle on. As usual, lots of people were saying "inv" in the general chat so I invited them to our "fishing raid group" - they didn't stay for long! We also got a Wintergrasp mark when the battle was over just for fishing. Nice. Pacifism FTW!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Arena</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9XH2leAwqQJ5UYUbrXNlmFvALctcpI6_Yflkq3uZqx-Nf4uYN8vvOsT0xH7__1TXS9pzEzkC7TzkuiLlgpx9CgrnjPDDEKxx2CfsC9rqpqWxhawFPtxEVCu0ZqisrgvpYz5idOlWtiVxU/s1600-h/dead+arena.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9XH2leAwqQJ5UYUbrXNlmFvALctcpI6_Yflkq3uZqx-Nf4uYN8vvOsT0xH7__1TXS9pzEzkC7TzkuiLlgpx9CgrnjPDDEKxx2CfsC9rqpqWxhawFPtxEVCu0ZqisrgvpYz5idOlWtiVxU/s400/dead+arena.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336096864451986834" /></a><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Over the past 3 weeks i've been dabbling in a bit of Arena. I've got in 2 arena teams, a 2v2 with </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Tessera</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> (Holy Priest) and a 5v5 with </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Tommytank</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> (Prot tank), </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Heloko</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> (Holy Paladin), </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Tessera</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> (Holy Priest) and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Succi</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> (Feral DPS). Obviously I'm a MM Hunter :) . So far the 2v2 team have played 66, won 27, lost 39 (win 41%) - which isn't great but a lot better than I was expecting! The 5v5 team is doing better with played 40, won 18 lost 22 (win 45%).  </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I've not got some arena points and some honour but unlike PvE I have no idea what the "optimal" gear is! How much resilience do I need? I guess I'll start to get the feel of it soon...</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Here's the spec I'm currently using but i'm not 100% sure it's best, I'm also considering taking points out of <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=53238">Piercing Shots</a> (as it procs from crits, which are less likely in arena than PvE) and putting them elsewhere. <a href="http://eu.wowarmory.com/talent-calc.xml?cid=3&tal=000000000000000000000000002053050310302132321350010515303302011200000000000000000">Valilor's MM PvP Spe</a>c.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I recorded 2 games which just happen to be victories if anyone wants to see what arena is like from Valilor's perspective (Watch in HQ otherwise it looks pants):</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7hCSvImF6gA&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7hCSvImF6gA&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DHRt0frgRaw&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DHRt0frgRaw&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Oh and over the course of the 5v5 teams games, I think we found the best healer in the world!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN0CLkP365OPmmiDBgsF9QXSmzC7sS48pRGTbZzkv5mouRZzKK_7Lo8bPKHvRoq5KOuCMPOZygbcIR3b278dVIVEHAfRY9g2fSDELwfHelBDnURz0q_UaYhwfVuVjmlc-7CvRLTdkGylkP/s1600-h/Arena+stats.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 233px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN0CLkP365OPmmiDBgsF9QXSmzC7sS48pRGTbZzkv5mouRZzKK_7Lo8bPKHvRoq5KOuCMPOZygbcIR3b278dVIVEHAfRY9g2fSDELwfHelBDnURz0q_UaYhwfVuVjmlc-7CvRLTdkGylkP/s400/Arena+stats.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336095466364757362" /></a><br /><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Argent Tournament</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNujs62N8axsu8EICrDpDZDN-gfJrTGQdNSgLzIfPUi44vCeNX7MRd_dQb7WDudwj3wgb6VTQ-zCRKnAJ2XFd0o1ZY8VZqn0XXi0_SeJEnCzTvQOd4Z2MTr4UnR4Hu3We-XwBcB4wXCCIi/s1600-h/Ironforgevaliant.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNujs62N8axsu8EICrDpDZDN-gfJrTGQdNSgLzIfPUi44vCeNX7MRd_dQb7WDudwj3wgb6VTQ-zCRKnAJ2XFd0o1ZY8VZqn0XXi0_SeJEnCzTvQOd4Z2MTr4UnR4Hu3We-XwBcB4wXCCIi/s400/Ironforgevaliant.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336095472174892962" /></a><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">If I had to sum it up in a word it would be GOLD. Once you reach champion of a faction, you can do champion Qs and also Valiant Qs (for another faction), and many of them are the same so by doing 1 Q you're really doing 2 and you can cash them both in for around 30-40 gold. Kaaaaching! I haven't been doing this everyday but every now and then when I fancy a bit more gold I just pop on over ;)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">If you read my earlier posts, you'll know that I'm a Champion of Darnassus, well now I'm also one of Ironforge but riding their mount looks silly, it's like Peter Crouch driving an old Mini Cooper!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Bronze Drake</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuUiYTDADtpSUw7lIUdE-Y6wLkHZD8CZ2XzmdH7wa54tsvfxH0j2CwoTLDJMcHSmnislYD9BZa_NE6dtPlu7N6aZSfvHNfIJeGSeiYgINRXCJHoMjrpLyy4GQjAc6V1aOlAYANE43402DE/s1600-h/drake+mount.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 249px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuUiYTDADtpSUw7lIUdE-Y6wLkHZD8CZ2XzmdH7wa54tsvfxH0j2CwoTLDJMcHSmnislYD9BZa_NE6dtPlu7N6aZSfvHNfIJeGSeiYgINRXCJHoMjrpLyy4GQjAc6V1aOlAYANE43402DE/s400/drake+mount.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336092936889592450" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The hunt for a Proto-drake goes on but I managed to win a roll at the end of a Timed Culling of Stratholme and now ride a </span><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43951"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Bronze Drake</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">! At first I wasn't too excited about winning one but after using it, it's so much better than the standard flying mount i've been using for some time - the "Soar" animation is quality. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Other bits and bobs...</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I was running a Naxx25 PUG with 3 other hunters, all of which were survival. Llevellyn however, wasn't using a wolf like the rest, no, she was using a wasp! It looks pretty cool and we were pretty much tying for top DPS (even though I think I had slightly better gear) so it's good going!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibNbrTXqShB3TsEhpVU8nX-DZf7uOGo4vOMlf0eRAAi4JYG_PcWLd8Vf1SHa-6dU5b_ZcWwCl_bCY-ANNOWxT24kdeOo7NtaQTvHbIWv-yDbnx0y7YBYNEEhK1hIq6w_XvxkAM4bcKRk3K/s1600-h/wasp+pet.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 325px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibNbrTXqShB3TsEhpVU8nX-DZf7uOGo4vOMlf0eRAAi4JYG_PcWLd8Vf1SHa-6dU5b_ZcWwCl_bCY-ANNOWxT24kdeOo7NtaQTvHbIWv-yDbnx0y7YBYNEEhK1hIq6w_XvxkAM4bcKRk3K/s400/wasp+pet.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336096869737756610" /></a><br /><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I've had a good spell for gear recently, I got the </span><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45286"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Pyrite Infuser</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> from Ulduar and the </span><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40074"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Strong-Handed Ring</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> from Naxx25 which made me finally hit-capped without needing any gems or enchants for +hit! That's one less thing for me to worry about (for now) :)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I'm going to re-organise this blog a little, the "Monday Yolk" update will just be moved to the sidebar and not be a new blog update (unless a proto-drake drops of course!)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">And finally....</span></span></div></span></span></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMdlf1PeDAmCA9vfec1gc4TkOzjflsGos9NNg71-N71WCSDuPBqlNbk2AQN7uksKcHYxPOuMrRhxbqCZL8N8hwhu4DwXaAyvnf6pItR_F01EgKpr557XUD66dt-xxCZWfIPdX6uop2eUfI/s1600-h/Spider2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMdlf1PeDAmCA9vfec1gc4TkOzjflsGos9NNg71-N71WCSDuPBqlNbk2AQN7uksKcHYxPOuMrRhxbqCZL8N8hwhu4DwXaAyvnf6pItR_F01EgKpr557XUD66dt-xxCZWfIPdX6uop2eUfI/s400/Spider2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336111092579498130" /></a><br /></div>Valilorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409281146502952195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304288196926363050.post-78606126110709288762009-04-27T17:58:00.014+01:002009-04-27T19:28:26.704+01:00Big Update! (it's been 2 weeks)<script src="http://www.wowhead.com/widgets/power.js"></script>Well it's been 2 weeks(ish) since my last update so what's been going on in Valilor's world?<div><br /></div><div><strong><s>Friday's</s> <s>Saturday's</s> Sunday's Yolk</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /></div><p align="left"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu-By-_7e_SY1ny8gxXL3sb6Rykrm_OZ1J9oJdRroy4KMFs2j6V5_ttM4jwJb9aVXu0ddUk2VVPzQUj5aEU1Yg8ZDP-j0CDIiXlniBSVg0k3lWYBgJiKbpWUruNhnt5-x6jk3xk1JAJJUn/s1600-h/Yolk.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313033536336237058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 267px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu-By-_7e_SY1ny8gxXL3sb6Rykrm_OZ1J9oJdRroy4KMFs2j6V5_ttM4jwJb9aVXu0ddUk2VVPzQUj5aEU1Yg8ZDP-j0CDIiXlniBSVg0k3lWYBgJiKbpWUruNhnt5-x6jk3xk1JAJJUn/s400/Yolk.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Any Proto-Drakes in AMOV yet? See below....<br /><br /><u>Valilor/Heloko/Ultradeath</u><br /><br /><strong><em>Week 1:</em></strong> <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44722">Aged yolk</a> (30%) / Nothing / Nothing<br /><strong><em>Week 2:</em></strong> <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=61351">Cobra Hatchling</a> (19%) / Nothing / Nothing<br /><strong><em>Week 3:</em></strong> <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39899">White Tickbird Hatchling</a> (20%) / Nothing / <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44722">Aged yolk</a> (30%)<br /><strong><em>Week 4:</em></strong> <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=61351">Cobra Hatchling</a> (19%) / <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39896">Tick Bird Hatchling </a>(21%) / <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44722">Aged yolk</a> (30%)<br /><strong><em>Week 5: </em></strong> <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39899">White Tickbird Hatchling</a> (20% /<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44721">Proto-Drake Whelp</a> (8%) / ? (?%)<br /><strong><em>Week 6: </em></strong> <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39899">White Tickbird Hatchling</a> (20% / <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44721">Proto-Drake Whelp</a> (8%) / ? (?%)</p><p align="left">So 6 weeks in and I'm no closer..sigh. </p><p align="left"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Naxx - DPS - Ramas</span></p><p align="left">Volley's damage was nerfed by 30% shortly after Wotlk came out, in patch 3.0.8 I think. Sadly I never got to Naxx before the nerf so I can only imagine how OP it must have been as if you check this short clip below, in moderate gear it causes LOADS of damage on trash!</p><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4fxfAwYc48E&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4fxfAwYc48E&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><p align="left">You'll need to watch it on HQ mode and if anyone was wondering, I died about 2 seconds after that video ended! (I was just trying to get a good angle and lots of targets for the clip)</p><p align="left"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Could I be any more exalted?</span></p><p align="left">Did you just read that in a Chandler from friends voice in your head? Just wondering...</p><p align="left">Anyway...I finally reached exalted which takes me to exalted with all the Wrath factions (minus the frenzy hearts) - at least before 3.1. What did I get for it? An epic fishing rod! The <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44050">Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole.</a> Whoop whoop. Guess what? I can't use it! You need to have fishing level 300 to use it and mine is less than 200 at the moment. D'oh!</p><p align="left"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX7gDLMnCz2LcOKEjTJOFUgdO032sme1l4r6GUYcv58KoWlt0Tiy95yW0Q8pySndDr3qQoFpc7HkRUAgHNqSIeOMh0hILCFDhSQWif4WSJyoY-GH8o9rAt_D0BVT-D_7k6mwDk7-NgnFwJ/s1600-h/kalu'ak.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 357px; height: 82px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX7gDLMnCz2LcOKEjTJOFUgdO032sme1l4r6GUYcv58KoWlt0Tiy95yW0Q8pySndDr3qQoFpc7HkRUAgHNqSIeOMh0hILCFDhSQWif4WSJyoY-GH8o9rAt_D0BVT-D_7k6mwDk7-NgnFwJ/s400/kalu'ak.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329421593878520578" /></a></p><p align="left" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyoBeyKsACsQLoA04Rzet4dtQnZ3Mq7dVvDsaAjhR_eKukxIELwETK4xTB2thZPXQ94uz_UMUXfyN_UmBq4aTHkqTql6-9DlDtQwgAr3xLLwbKw1Mezvi1LtAU38C2tGGAByWNsbpBJ0u-/s1600-h/Fishing.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 341px; height: 90px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyoBeyKsACsQLoA04Rzet4dtQnZ3Mq7dVvDsaAjhR_eKukxIELwETK4xTB2thZPXQ94uz_UMUXfyN_UmBq4aTHkqTql6-9DlDtQwgAr3xLLwbKw1Mezvi1LtAU38C2tGGAByWNsbpBJ0u-/s400/Fishing.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329430691061960594" /></a>Duel Spec</span><br /></p><p align="left" style="text-align: left;">With 3.1 out everyone can dual spec, which is pretty cool. I thought I'd try out some different things, so I kept my main spec as PvE MM and went PvE Tank as my offspec.....</p><p align="left" style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXzttYSHC5QxXY3Fs65qnTPGE9KQMUTKXsVjrYHap00MT8DiL6-5J-jQYVo-MniLkHxCmo5OL4ga6P2vy88awQzUT3zjmxNav80D4IoaHxefLcxmc5GLsc7sSBA66xL_-AIxwv9R1cuE9C/s1600-h/Valatank.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 257px; height: 100px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXzttYSHC5QxXY3Fs65qnTPGE9KQMUTKXsVjrYHap00MT8DiL6-5J-jQYVo-MniLkHxCmo5OL4ga6P2vy88awQzUT3zjmxNav80D4IoaHxefLcxmc5GLsc7sSBA66xL_-AIxwv9R1cuE9C/s400/Valatank.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329422731258631826" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">- HP Sauce</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Ok, that's not strictly true - my beefed up HP is from being outnumbered in Wintergrasp. Had you there for a second, right? I actually tested out PvE Surv spec for a little while and while having replenishment is nice, it wasn't a big jump up in DPS from MM, if any at all, as MM got a nice boost (but more on that at a later date) so I'll be sticking as a MM hunter. I've made my dual spec PvP MM, so for the first time ever, everyone's favorite MM hunter is going to take on the world (of warcraft) in Arena!! </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">If you've checked my armoury before, you'll probably have noticed that I'm not particularly good at PvP but we'll see how things go this time. So far in 2v2 it's played 23, won 11 lost 12. Not too bad (also, best arena team name ever!).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">One in One out</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">One of my last postings I mentioned how we got a new guildie - well sadly he left. Our late Sunday night raiding time wasn't ideal for him, which is fair enough and I wish him well wherever he ends up. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">One week later and we have a new guildie - A Ret Paladin by the name of NVision. I've done a few heroics with him in the past so keep an eye out for him in future postings/reports!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Valilor of Darnassus</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCl7gwBy3Q1ONAZE1LNJCh3nxKR3SKp_HjJDzByCCV1Isj0AaQ5XqSKAYkSbcfhtENOg3FxPM7WXij6Eqp2W3c9eMjXQO3DMxVL_biR8E3XbetecGOo6O_g8SScmej4kwdAVElNFyn1UDW/s1600-h/ofdarnassus.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 330px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCl7gwBy3Q1ONAZE1LNJCh3nxKR3SKp_HjJDzByCCV1Isj0AaQ5XqSKAYkSbcfhtENOg3FxPM7WXij6Eqp2W3c9eMjXQO3DMxVL_biR8E3XbetecGOo6O_g8SScmej4kwdAVElNFyn1UDW/s400/ofdarnassus.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329426846222623858" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I'm a fan of this place. The vehicle mechanic is quite fun, the dailies are quick and easy (and can be done in one circle from Icecrown > Crystalsong > Dragonblight/Grizzly Hills > Storm Peaks and back) and there's loads of gold to be made, especially when you get to the champion level!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I've been doing these Qs a bit on/off but last night I got my second title:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj82e1ZhwUl5Zlz69CLt82uhd1w01KSmglSpoSKzex_k-49nT9S8CRKvzfFRCnrnsygI-heo1LBgKw-nmpAD9ijJH9iWGhH7UmRdrMHhU-YvGaR5ZsVs6Rpo01Jf9CH0AXhBjk9C437CngV/s1600-h/darnassus.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span><img style="text-decoration: underline;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 360px; height: 181px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj82e1ZhwUl5Zlz69CLt82uhd1w01KSmglSpoSKzex_k-49nT9S8CRKvzfFRCnrnsygI-heo1LBgKw-nmpAD9ijJH9iWGhH7UmRdrMHhU-YvGaR5ZsVs6Rpo01Jf9CH0AXhBjk9C437CngV/s400/darnassus.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329428849156521298" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">-<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">V</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">alilor of Darnassus</span></span><br /></div><br />Sweet. I'll probably do the same for all of the other factions as it's a great source of gold but I don't think I'd use any of their titles - clearly for a Night Elf Hunter, "Of Darnassus" is the best of the bunch.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I think I've pretty much got the horse combat mechanic down too, I haven't lost against an NPC in ages, whether it be a valiant, champion or even Black Night. I even went and beat all of the factions for fun in about 10 mins!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVhY9-fzogPGQo_vGbD7084ZmlI715Mko_fVdFWHQiZ01lKmVZYqkOEycZigdG2TAvo9RyQCeKVWZ-DQINjxFMXy8oSChDSvjIiaRY6TexGdjnGKcztb6VWAZolMIoGdCI1yvPaydTbcAF/s1600-h/lance2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 235px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVhY9-fzogPGQo_vGbD7084ZmlI715Mko_fVdFWHQiZ01lKmVZYqkOEycZigdG2TAvo9RyQCeKVWZ-DQINjxFMXy8oSChDSvjIiaRY6TexGdjnGKcztb6VWAZolMIoGdCI1yvPaydTbcAF/s400/lance2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329428221360195266" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-4ggsUtvYl4irTfvH-0yw9ics5XvLRne4LUAEtf69vXPo8obLUtOo-X0FEpODfVuHv_FNmkE-hOSQlAabTXECWq_JTJN0syxjDNz1Q0wo8qzZkTYn2zO7zAJ4-30sLrejXuSpnqY0DHhyphenhyphen/s1600-h/lance1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-4ggsUtvYl4irTfvH-0yw9ics5XvLRne4LUAEtf69vXPo8obLUtOo-X0FEpODfVuHv_FNmkE-hOSQlAabTXECWq_JTJN0syxjDNz1Q0wo8qzZkTYn2zO7zAJ4-30sLrejXuSpnqY0DHhyphenhyphen/s400/lance1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329428223540099298" /></a><div>And one other thing I'd like to add about the Argent Tournament is it's design from above. We've put up with those dodgy named dailies from the Sons of Hodir but now this?</div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHDfdIkc_XIEtF1x2aSdnokRag5-IckrWO1410f-NoceVfF6xPPssAqc2wE0AMQ9GC7Kov89NZifLFkmHN7u1UxmsDKbw_tqQhTpOU_GG-ApDwVyFg0sdU5UMgf-x-RAt5gpD6oHI3OAAa/s1600-h/Tournament.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 357px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHDfdIkc_XIEtF1x2aSdnokRag5-IckrWO1410f-NoceVfF6xPPssAqc2wE0AMQ9GC7Kov89NZifLFkmHN7u1UxmsDKbw_tqQhTpOU_GG-ApDwVyFg0sdU5UMgf-x-RAt5gpD6oHI3OAAa/s400/Tournament.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329430023950576290" /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">- It's been argued for some time now which faction is the b*llocks but this settles it: It's both! The Alliance are the right and the Horde is the left :p</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Vault of Emalon</span></div><div><br /></div><div>The VoA raid has suddenly become a lot harder with the introduction of the new boss: Emalon. In the first week of 3.1 I entered VoA10 with a PuG, killed Archavon (I now can hit 4.4k DPS!) and then went on to Emalon. No-one had read any tactics or anything and the time was running out - we had 10 mins before the next Wintergrasp battle started so we rushed him....and wiped in about 2 seconds. I was then saved to the raid and unable to get another chance of some Emalon loot!</div><div><br /></div><div>The second week went much better, I went in and the group started with Emalon (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Note</span>: Everyone should do this!). If Emalon dies, Woot, you can get some T8 loot. If you fail, no worries - you're not saved! You can always kill Archavon afterwards, it's miles easier in comparison. After about 3 attempts we got him, some T8 loot dropped and everyone was happy - I think it was every ones first Emalon kill in the group and when the screen fills up with achievements it's a satisfying moment! No hunter drops but I wasn't expecting any - I've only ever seen 1 hunter item drop in all the 10/25 man raids I've been to in VoA and I didn't win the roll either.</div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjqLN2x8TNz74spXgC6Vveyx2eMTFFarEMegWsg3zbvFXH8uCXYeDHjULHFCNsikmW2AJhk9m0qOmolUE188UeoQHHT6SF7YATkp0j2YuJ1MXHv2nJFqbMF0-es9-KEEiwFcjvFPHF4nav/s1600-h/Emalon.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 380px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjqLN2x8TNz74spXgC6Vveyx2eMTFFarEMegWsg3zbvFXH8uCXYeDHjULHFCNsikmW2AJhk9m0qOmolUE188UeoQHHT6SF7YATkp0j2YuJ1MXHv2nJFqbMF0-es9-KEEiwFcjvFPHF4nav/s400/Emalon.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329438108679801794" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">- Emalon "Don't call me Emma" The Storm Watche</span>r<br /></div></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Dalamount</span><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>When 3.1 launched, the top 0.5% of Arena players in their battle group got their reward, the very cool <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=64927">Frostwyrm</a> Mount.  I downloaded and installed the patch the day it came out, popped to Dalaran and what do I see? The Frostwyrm mount! </div><div><br /></div><div>No, it wasn't mine (they don't also give it to the bottom 0.5% sadly) but it was another players. Horde unfortunately but he declined my offer of a duel. Probably for the best really, I wouldn't want to embarrass him ;)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZbZhSeYKQwDValA-G1Vyxo87oHCmslYKAvRjHo6E3hPC0QBgcDPgcry1i_xMZCWDTwATamedI-ptimfh0VPvdGX5qLZZdXXTLTTVD3ntIwduBXc4Qd8xNNrgE3wwXl-ea26J4G8a_NMv0/s1600-h/frostwyrm.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZbZhSeYKQwDValA-G1Vyxo87oHCmslYKAvRjHo6E3hPC0QBgcDPgcry1i_xMZCWDTwATamedI-ptimfh0VPvdGX5qLZZdXXTLTTVD3ntIwduBXc4Qd8xNNrgE3wwXl-ea26J4G8a_NMv0/s400/frostwyrm.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329432319132790130" /></a>Another cool mount I saw around was a <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=33225">Spectral Tiger.</a></div><div><br /></div><div>I hadn't seen one of these since I was on the Burning Legion server (months ago now) but up popped one in Dalaran. I asked the rider how he acquired it and he said it was from the first pack of WoW cards! That's so lucky! If that happened to me, I'd probably sell it on Ebay - they are worth around £700 which is probably more useful than a cool looking mount which can't fly.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioGQYqI6zKeF1rLLK7mq-aWvBtgum-n_0rcy5Qw3CSyMzL1WjDb6yJMzwLpTt13wcK-cvUqa_8iddyjbGT7LzF3glJTn_4hg9ybSVMcslAMbUstxsgv6vwHyr3NbPqLXONhLdau9Yf5Vfp/s1600-h/Nayta+Spectral.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 387px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioGQYqI6zKeF1rLLK7mq-aWvBtgum-n_0rcy5Qw3CSyMzL1WjDb6yJMzwLpTt13wcK-cvUqa_8iddyjbGT7LzF3glJTn_4hg9ybSVMcslAMbUstxsgv6vwHyr3NbPqLXONhLdau9Yf5Vfp/s400/Nayta+Spectral.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329432321917094114" /></a>Not really a mount but in a recent Naxx PuG I saw a Spirit Beast! That's also very rare, I think i've seen about 2 of them around since Wrath came out so it was good to see it in action. I took a screen shot (see below) the spirit beast is on the left (not the Feast!).</div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEx6WMn6SyOCgRgf0gCu1loczOQzjJbrmzetp0H1jWyg-tNCmY8nXQdxeMYSpCUAkC5keHMznBouQG4y9JTDyB6FOIb7jKUVa2BPTQ5M4GqYIc3QW_J8AJLMVatpgpVEwxNRFdrX6E7PWU/s1600-h/spirit.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEx6WMn6SyOCgRgf0gCu1loczOQzjJbrmzetp0H1jWyg-tNCmY8nXQdxeMYSpCUAkC5keHMznBouQG4y9JTDyB6FOIb7jKUVa2BPTQ5M4GqYIc3QW_J8AJLMVatpgpVEwxNRFdrX6E7PWU/s400/spirit.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329433788083743234" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Aggro My Own Vegetables are....</span></div><div><br /></div><div>...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Famous</span>! We got a mention in the wowinsider Guild Watch post for our Naxx 10 clear :) Pretty cool getting some recognition and also very well earned! We'd never have imagined doing anything like that in TBC so we've really stepped up to the plate! Not only that but our guild name got a mention for being cool - both by wowinsider any by another poster (who wasn't one of use before you ask!). Good Times.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Guild Watch Post: <a href="http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/04/22/guildwatch-this-is-not-a-f-ing-joke/">http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/04/22/guildwatch-this-is-not-a-f-ing-joke/</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEcNBtCX8nxrM3o-k0hWcKz0ioEitTCspkbMUXERaPHUcKs-5qRAU-Nc5MxL6Fl6Uyd-CU6dXtcy72HmoXDlAbEhME-iOxnNQw0RMh7Sp0S-dyHrfSwbXUecu5EBw82kdVeLKF23TvXoJd/s1600-h/amov.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 77px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEcNBtCX8nxrM3o-k0hWcKz0ioEitTCspkbMUXERaPHUcKs-5qRAU-Nc5MxL6Fl6Uyd-CU6dXtcy72HmoXDlAbEhME-iOxnNQw0RMh7Sp0S-dyHrfSwbXUecu5EBw82kdVeLKF23TvXoJd/s400/amov.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329435052808075746" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBGyTUFkE9ehpEjHZZozt399__Zjejm2bNNMSWjt487xaR3S9pYPWUhDlSJnjycGSN8s5GlTagf4ZIg_NPtFFJzWllNQmIjUlpJ_hQcafRQGhJoKke2YzKKZvoCArqgSVA9V_tXpI0BBTQ/s1600-h/amov+comment.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 106px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBGyTUFkE9ehpEjHZZozt399__Zjejm2bNNMSWjt487xaR3S9pYPWUhDlSJnjycGSN8s5GlTagf4ZIg_NPtFFJzWllNQmIjUlpJ_hQcafRQGhJoKke2YzKKZvoCArqgSVA9V_tXpI0BBTQ/s400/amov+comment.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329435053528799746" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Growing the vegetables</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div>So what next for AMOV after clearing Naxx? Our next targets, and topic of my next post will be on the Eye of Eternity and OS10 + 1 Drake. If we can master them, get everyone geared up there is only one possible place next: ULDUAR!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /></div>Valilorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409281146502952195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304288196926363050.post-32785715786368123632009-04-15T10:23:00.003+01:002009-04-15T11:03:19.161+01:00AMOV Special: Naxx Conclusions<strong>DPS Progression</strong><script src="http://www.wowhead.com/widgets/power.js"></script><br /><br /><br />After a successful raid run, it's good to look back on how you've performed and how you've improved, as in a PvE progression guild, this is what it's all about.<br /><br />I've taken everyone's DPS from the downed boss' we had on both runs and compared them to see how, if at all, we've improved on DPS. In run 2 we were missing our mana battery Gloam, the Ret Paladin, which obviously has an impact on any mana using classes *cough*ME*cough* and we were also without any flasks which we had used on the first run. On the other hand, some people may have picked up better armour and also would have more experience which can help increase DPS efficiency so it's a case of swings and roundabouts.<br /><br /><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdRpXe2MGvIUNy-bfx9gKV2fkP-6qvtGxUw5xb0Ij5W554gclfRVOcrumxktWCGjvkvyMTV9eLTh1PxnqalDfVL43URjhgahoJa81tYgFpbQ1zdRZNSWQXIw4cd8t1Ze0BDje4bnYR_37L/s1600-h/New+Picture.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324856061508487618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 103px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdRpXe2MGvIUNy-bfx9gKV2fkP-6qvtGxUw5xb0Ij5W554gclfRVOcrumxktWCGjvkvyMTV9eLTh1PxnqalDfVL43URjhgahoJa81tYgFpbQ1zdRZNSWQXIw4cd8t1Ze0BDje4bnYR_37L/s400/New+Picture.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Overall we were slightly up on average on the boss' but this was mainly down to Heloko (Holy Paladin) going to what he likes to call "DPS Mode" ;) If I just take the average across all the boss of the 3 main DPS people above (Ultra, Rose and Myself) we are on average up by 7 DPS - so pretty consistent. This shows that everyone is both getting better and getting better gear as keeping it consistent without replenishment/flasks is pretty good going!<br /><br />Most boss fights can be pretty random affairs, people have to move around, CC adds, feign death...etc so comparing different runs is quite difficult. One boss does stand out for a DPS test though and that's patchwerk. Looking at the table above my DPS dropped by a massive 500DPS! My rotation/talents/pet haven't changed, I have a sligtly improved trinket but missing <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=57669">Replenishment</a> and the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40084">Flask of Endless Rage </a>obviously makes a huge impact!<br /><br />Luckily though Ultradeath almost made up the whole of my slack, rising by 496 DPS. The lack of replenishment wouldn't have made much difference to him but this gear/skill must have increased a lot more than the value of a flask!<br /><br />Just looking at the 3 DPS above for Patchwerk, we were down by only 41 DPS on average between us, or 124 for the raid - not very much really. I'm also definitely NOT going to mention Heloko's 337DPS increase either...no way! :p<br /><br />I excluded Cumulonimbus (who changed name to Xeus) from this table as attempt 1 he was a resto shaman and attempt 2 he was a enhansement shaman, so it wouldn't be a fiar comparison. Deadcreepy was much improved on the 2 boss' he cleared both times, especially Razuvious where it was a 537DPS increase, nice!<br /><br /><strong>Loot</strong><br /><br />Before going to Naxx, I researched the loot tables and made a "<a href="http://valilor.blogspot.com/2009/03/final-pre-naxx-post.html">wish list</a>"of some side-grades and some up-grades - how did I do for the upgrades? Let's see:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39581">Heroes' Cryptstalker Spaulders </a>- HIT<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39297">Cloak of Darkening </a>- MISS<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44582">Key to the Focusing Iris</a> - HIT<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39277">Sealing Ring of Grobbulus </a>- MISS<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39404">Cloak of Mastery </a>- MISS<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39421">Gem of Imprisoned Vassals</a> - MISS<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39578">Heroes' Cryptstalker Headpiece</a> - MISS*<br /><br />*It did drop but I didn't roll for it, I got an upgrade from OS25, the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40451">Hyaline Helm of the Sniper</a><br /><br />So for loot, not bad, not great! 2 out of 7 could have been a lot worse really.<br /><br />And there ends the Naxx Special. I'm sure AMOV will go on to clear this out a few times but with EoE and Ulduar to go, there's plenty of us to be getting on with!<br /></p>Valilorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409281146502952195noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304288196926363050.post-51141941897090040152009-04-12T19:16:00.022+01:002009-04-15T10:00:36.274+01:00AMOV Special: Naxxramas: The Fall of NaxxramasWell it took 2 weeks but AMOV returned to the 10 man raid which once humbled them to. Did we finally clear it or was it another occasion to be put down to a learning curve?<br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><br />Been here before...</span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><script src="http://www.wowhead.com/widgets/power.js"></script><br /><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ4KXZMobL8ewGIAiWxDOdVEaO5j0Z9jifBGT3yjTCeW1niPTn1V1gNCqqePsCEhftgv5Icb2KaPLWhtWq3w2ij7Pwa4fG_ltjfiUEnlqAmLaR9886m5VDO0w7iT26_J6kVqAlhtR22OOU/s1600-h/deja_vu.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323871729974634162" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 286px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ4KXZMobL8ewGIAiWxDOdVEaO5j0Z9jifBGT3yjTCeW1niPTn1V1gNCqqePsCEhftgv5Icb2KaPLWhtWq3w2ij7Pwa4fG_ltjfiUEnlqAmLaR9886m5VDO0w7iT26_J6kVqAlhtR22OOU/s400/deja_vu.gif" border="0" /></a><br />Starting with the Arachnid quarter again, we quickly progressed through there, the plague quarter and up to Grobbulus in the Construct Quarter and also up to the 4 horsemen in the Military quarter. I won't bore you with the details on those boss' again (you can see earlier Naxx postings in the sidebar) but my personal highlights was getting the<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39581"> T7 Hunter shoulders </a>from Loatheb, <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39270">Hatestrike</a> from Patchwerk, doing the "AMOV Gothik Strat" (tm) and participating in one of the longest ever heigan fights! I died but not from an inability to dance...!!<br /><br />The core raiders were unchanged but a couple people couldn't make it this time so we had to get in a few "randoms." Unlike the first time we were also lacking any replenishment (no Gloam - our Ret Paladin) and we also didn't use any Flasks - to mana was a big issue for me on boss fights! Things should be better in 3.1 though :)<br /><br />Anub Rekhan (<a href="http://wowwebstats.com/u3hvyl5h3ui6c?s=5268-13883">wws</a>)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifP2ffMyR5mhrHHLY-OeR8aIj8E4El6_3oNojYzSeys6SB9NprxVRAegqFOP4NkNhJdgzgKFC2NCFeVyHMs5iuomGt8p5zh2ggzNUdeogZE8KRhi6u6OiEGf6_UQlHUGb-U5gYD-G1ZrTQ/s1600-h/AR.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323876179402376226" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 247px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifP2ffMyR5mhrHHLY-OeR8aIj8E4El6_3oNojYzSeys6SB9NprxVRAegqFOP4NkNhJdgzgKFC2NCFeVyHMs5iuomGt8p5zh2ggzNUdeogZE8KRhi6u6OiEGf6_UQlHUGb-U5gYD-G1ZrTQ/s400/AR.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Grand Widow Faerlina (<a href="http://wowwebstats.com/u3hvyl5h3ui6c?s=24533-33364">wws</a>)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC6VDETm9T_BLM-MuDBxF3bjBgsKHWx9kMclAEJSBMXP-ybTILFraSuGxR3143uhl07e7AWetSc64xukxVnGwT9ys2uJxH_ShltktDFQll_oXNoO4AMAZB-m905JxVciWI5pYJhrFvQLzi/s1600-h/GWF.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323876182799157570" style="DISPLAY: block; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 260px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-XoFhGI6sRqzJm840JIMuKd6v0rj1mhVsPsMtaZ4f-fgOE_5Ty8rpxOG29TeCUgRazahmiVjrTqvg58GdYS8-AcXbtoAMWINW2XB24kFbtMjCBlMR3jEfX1AUqZVvEDHfz91EZJHT6jIJ/s400/GTH.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Grobbo</span><br /><br />After 4 failed attempts on our previous run we were a little scared of this boss but those 4 previous attempts were far from wasted, upon returning to Naxx we were much more efficient and wiped once but on our 2nd attempt we downed Grobbulus in <a href="http://wowwebstats.com/u3hvyl5h3ui6c?s=171831-182826">4 mins 25</a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH1xVzTg8SKDNAqa_pqiQXnfbHalPZA5T0Qb4sb659ZTYejoN60bNzu4IBE9Lx5sgT-e0nvmPjJ5ciKP0pq6tGuNySmpj4Cr7etmGpO_sMTs-NMf8Ju27QAJD0iFs0d0vGy8oM2XxGysop/s1600-h/Grobbulus.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323880039474759714" style="DISPLAY: block; 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This fight isn't too difficult but everyone needs to be on the ball. Starting above the room, everyone drops in and immidetely aggro's the boss on landing, so it's important to make sure the main tank goes in first, then the OT, Healers & DPS and the kiter last. The tanks tank Gluth against a door on one side of the room and have to switch tanks when they get too many debuffs. Meanwhile, the designated kiter has to kite the adds which come away from Gluth as if one reaches him he'll get all his health back. These adds come with approx 500k HP so they can't be killed either, until Gluth does his decimate spell which drops everyone in the raid and the adds to 5% of their HP - at which point everyone nukes the adds. This cycle keeps going until Gluth dies and also Gluth has a soft enrage which can be cancelled with a hunters <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=19801">Tranquilizing shot</a> or a rogues <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43237">Anesthetic Poison</a>.<br /><br />I've killed this boss in a few random PuGs and I've always played the kiter. This time a DK (they are well suited to this) - wanted to do it by the name of Tyraxor, as he said he had done it hundreds of times - so we went with that.<br /><br /><a href="http://wowwebstats.com/u3hvyl5h3ui6c?s=183836-194100">Attempt 1:</a> From the strat above, falling in the right order is pretty essential. I'm not sure what went wrong but a healer was first to get aggro and died immidetely so we were down to 9 men for the entire first attempt. Off we went - I was using Tranq shot when necessary and also dropping frost traps down to help the DK. A few mins in I heard "Kiter is down" across Vent - oh crap I though....I turned around to take over kiting but one mob got through and Gluth got all his HP back. Wipe.<br /><br /><a href="http://wowwebstats.com/u3hvyl5h3ui6c?s=183836-194100">Attempt 2: </a>Falling in the correct order, Gluth was correctly tanked and killed with no player deaths in 3 mins 39 secs. Good stuff.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHMNY1_4e4H2QU17NY_7lrPSyOAQGQ4RoGedoAfc4VG1pDMSdyEp7iAQE5Bhnxvw1KzfwgVgil_UaF_1HiHohL1UKTIL0HronPdIKn7lbOt4F93XJpH8NfIJ9Sg05JgJDylBtM-I_eaQus/s1600-h/Gluth.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323884052548889362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 261px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHMNY1_4e4H2QU17NY_7lrPSyOAQGQ4RoGedoAfc4VG1pDMSdyEp7iAQE5Bhnxvw1KzfwgVgil_UaF_1HiHohL1UKTIL0HronPdIKn7lbOt4F93XJpH8NfIJ9Sg05JgJDylBtM-I_eaQus/s400/Gluth.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Thaddius</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq3tzsJfu4vZS1FvVR-YZ93Cnu47lqX9lBA-m_8NfoKVoREypnfs8KWI76UqBqPZcepjqtvnYmH58Od8xFVMb2eL0UhEAUhBGpphuY1QOTQhomJf-Id1jZQiOxzc0VwJnQ-gZLs1Vombla/s1600-h/NECJ2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323888599118170834" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 282px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq3tzsJfu4vZS1FvVR-YZ93Cnu47lqX9lBA-m_8NfoKVoREypnfs8KWI76UqBqPZcepjqtvnYmH58Od8xFVMb2eL0UhEAUhBGpphuY1QOTQhomJf-Id1jZQiOxzc0VwJnQ-gZLs1Vombla/s400/NECJ2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />And then we were on the last boss of the construct quarter: Thaddius. This is meant to be one of the harder boss fights in Naxx but I quite enjoy it. To start with you have to seperate into 2 groups and kill 2 mobs within 5 seconds of each other (easier than it sounds), make a jump to Thaddius and start attacking him but watching for your "charge" - and making sure you're with similarly charged people as crossing them can cause some pretty big damage. When fighting the 2 mini-boss' before Thaddius, the tanks get switched around - something I forgot to tell everyone in our tactic chat before attacking him...<br /><br />Heloko: "Why can't I heal Asaron?"<br />Mynnx: "Why can't I heal Destromath?"<br />Valilor: "Oh yeah...one more thing...."<br /><br />It didn't take much for the healers to correct themselves and we quickly dispatched of the 2 mini-boss' within a second of each other. Next was the jump I told everyone about a couple of times.<br /><br />Valilor Jumps. Valilor Misses. /Facepalm<br /><br />Pretty embarassing for the person giving out the strats to mess this bit up...and when returning to Thaddius I also had the wrong charge on the wrong side. Much pain. Being a few people's first attempt at Thaddius there was much to learn and we wiped after <a href="http://wowwebstats.com/u3hvyl5h3ui6c?s=217640-220974">1 min 36 secs</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://wowwebstats.com/u3hvyl5h3ui6c?s=227772-238031">Attempt 2</a> was much better, after 3 mins 7 secs and no player deaths, Thaddius and the construct quarter fell to the force of AMOV! Just the 4 Horsement to go and we would be on the final straight....<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgijRvNF1Yg8eX5rnWpykdYwWOoI2CgiyyKN-w20Xo3XfhyoUlwVb9EuiagRA6vhjcK_NQ1nrDpj0v-xmVHcUuNC2ztxVsOfsSFMmlgt8s2RZfOMraCRlxQa1aH3ZGHpSKSrWpgqqZGQ7Q_/s1600-h/Thaddius.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323887536728041218" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 232px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgijRvNF1Yg8eX5rnWpykdYwWOoI2CgiyyKN-w20Xo3XfhyoUlwVb9EuiagRA6vhjcK_NQ1nrDpj0v-xmVHcUuNC2ztxVsOfsSFMmlgt8s2RZfOMraCRlxQa1aH3ZGHpSKSrWpgqqZGQ7Q_/s400/Thaddius.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">4 Horsemen</span><br /><br />We only used 2 healers up to this point and we knew from our previous run that it would be hard with 2. At first we tried to put to people who could self-heal at the back and keep the 2 healers at the front. At the back was a Enhansement Shaman (Xeus - Formely Cumulonimbus if you're following the guild) and 'lock called Cezil. They did an alright job but the damage was too much for them to self-heal through with the healers at the front...and as soon as one of them died, we wiped (the open Boss nukes the whole raid hard). We also tried it with Mynnx the druid healer using a HoT before the fight started but again, no use. We really needed 3 healers.<br /><br />Xeus rather kindly volunteered to respec as healer and we also changed things around a little, I went to the back to tank one of the boss' and Cezil stayed on the other. Mynnx came to the back to heal and Heloko and Xeus stayed at the front. After one more wipe as we got to grips with the new tactic,<a href="http://wowwebstats.com/nrrgjun6tcmhi?s=73721-84060"> we did it</a>! The military quarter was down and AMOV was on the final straight of Naxxramas.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS8-ppuu328Vl54FyI1EJkVk6nAOXqJahx_i9DwhZW11YBt46WddvOY7DHAsACuGPy_sZZn9btS5diiClXaswohjEEq7TwOamiLF_j476Z3DG5yGA1j6RqN7QgSUmXohI838Z0MNEL_Vt5/s1600-h/4h.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324705354049050322" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 237px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS8-ppuu328Vl54FyI1EJkVk6nAOXqJahx_i9DwhZW11YBt46WddvOY7DHAsACuGPy_sZZn9btS5diiClXaswohjEEq7TwOamiLF_j476Z3DG5yGA1j6RqN7QgSUmXohI838Z0MNEL_Vt5/s400/4h.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><br />Sapphiron</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX_rO0_svDFNLZh5h9rhwwB0mEPlWYO4csOjIxH3KKDd8qD1hb3l11unQNDbqpQQEDo2MrKGW0SEAzDnWw6amT2BPOEHNMZhPdYFSQkLkCvFxrpUeRtkSkHEkap09M6i6_0hngn3hnmP4w/s1600-h/sapp.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324713509233342178" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 299px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX_rO0_svDFNLZh5h9rhwwB0mEPlWYO4csOjIxH3KKDd8qD1hb3l11unQNDbqpQQEDo2MrKGW0SEAzDnWw6amT2BPOEHNMZhPdYFSQkLkCvFxrpUeRtkSkHEkap09M6i6_0hngn3hnmP4w/s400/sapp.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />After clearing the 4 quarters, 2 boss' remain in Naxx, both Sapphiron and KT. To access them, you return to the start and go through a different portal - one which you also can't go back through so make sure everyone is summoned before you do so!<br /><br />The Sapphiron encounter looks pretty cool, his skeletons renamiates and you spend the rest of the fight putting it back to how you found it! There's 2 phases to this fight which keep cycling, Sapp on on the ground and Sapp in the air.<br /><br />While on the ground Sapphiron needs to be tanked facing away from the raid while the raid attack him from his side (he does a tail swipe). While this is going on he also cast's a <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=28560">Blizzard</a>, much like a Mage's but much bigger so the DPS/Healers need to keep out of them. Sapphiron also casts a<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=28542"> life drain</a> curse which needs to be removed ASAP as it both hurts the target and heals Sapp. After every 45 seconds phase 2 begins where Sapphiron takes to the skies.<br /><br />While in the air, Sapphiron will cast Blizzard but also <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=28522">freeze</a> 2 players in the 10 man raid and turn them into ice. When this happens, everyone has to group behind them to avoid Sapp's <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=28524">Frost Breath</a>, which is similar to the Arcane explosion you have to hide from in the Oculus.<br /><br />And that's about it.<br /><br />One thing which can happen is that you all group behind an ice cube only for the Blizzard to start hitting you at that spot - you can't get away of you'll get hit with Frost Breath so you just have to hope it can be healed through...obviously at the cost of the healers mana.<br /><br />Our first 2 attempts were wipes with Sapp being at exactly 58% HP exactly but we carried on and attempt 3 was a clear! From the Sapphiron drops, I managed to win the roll for the<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44569"> Key to the Focusing Iris</a>, which will let me open up the Eye of Eternity (Malygos) raid when the time comes.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoRLRhzRESGxMKncYazEeLYOGUolAuKw2A0AcB5MOcEBCQr-WN2lYhLNxLhzgu9tq4fbujBuqUrEInAoclK3t8pnwvsH9XIeznv040pqL6LXjRM3bPFk9yfUazy0G1vvDXZwRox9GcZgKM/s1600-h/Sapp2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324712865073692146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 253px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoRLRhzRESGxMKncYazEeLYOGUolAuKw2A0AcB5MOcEBCQr-WN2lYhLNxLhzgu9tq4fbujBuqUrEInAoclK3t8pnwvsH9XIeznv040pqL6LXjRM3bPFk9yfUazy0G1vvDXZwRox9GcZgKM/s400/Sapp2.jpg" border="0" /></a>Asaron, the guild's main tank also had a nice drop here for him, the massive skeletal ribcage. Also interested in this was our brand new OT recruit Nynth. AMOV don't operate a DKP system, everyone has a fair roll on their main spec if it's an upgrade. Asaron rolled first..94! Surely that upgrade was his, right?<br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR1lJPxjj8UvvbB8ONi75yr_ql2dJGGvFUogYi9k_V7r6TPRhTEhBwA6NcxadSUqoGzDqZtkl3IT9muX9ZYQx62Hf10UCHl24BdzxvJ-fWd_AuYlm_llj_fmG1ykAGDQchA5Abjg3SKLZP/s1600-h/asa+roll.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324715740904082098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 120px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR1lJPxjj8UvvbB8ONi75yr_ql2dJGGvFUogYi9k_V7r6TPRhTEhBwA6NcxadSUqoGzDqZtkl3IT9muX9ZYQx62Hf10UCHl24BdzxvJ-fWd_AuYlm_llj_fmG1ykAGDQchA5Abjg3SKLZP/s400/asa+roll.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">-I'm sure that blue chest is still good though :p</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Kel'Thuzad</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcauInVJ0KOF0Bl02npNvsozNyvQ5JjfwNHZM0353EHVeN8UEvpegdF73SaCr6_MhmG7877wt4gDZvVGA0E9ts5TILMHm00V0Rhc4Bww7EFQDiHjr5S2MMN4ZTP_Ox_YNP5ZIYO_x0IZuu/s1600-h/kt.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324713502939752274" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 284px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcauInVJ0KOF0Bl02npNvsozNyvQ5JjfwNHZM0353EHVeN8UEvpegdF73SaCr6_MhmG7877wt4gDZvVGA0E9ts5TILMHm00V0Rhc4Bww7EFQDiHjr5S2MMN4ZTP_Ox_YNP5ZIYO_x0IZuu/s400/kt.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />For anyone keeping up to date with my blog/twitter, you'll know that before this run I only had KT and Malygos to go, so I was pretty happy to finally get this far with the guild! It also means that finally everyone in AMOV has pretty much got as far as me as far as content is concerned as we've cleared all the heroics, VoA and OS - so soon we might be rolling out with the "Champion of the Frozen Wastes" titles, sweet! Almost as long as our guild name too (Aggro My Own Vegetables). Long names/titles FTW!<br /><br />So on to KT. This fight has 3 stages, the first you have to deal with adds, the seconds is KT and the third is KT with some more adds in a bit of a DPS race. I don't want to bore you with the strategy as it can take a while to type but it can be found <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=15990">here</a>.<br /><br />So how did we do?<br /><br />We started this fight at 00:32 am and after clearing some pretty difficult boss' we were all tired and also had to get up early for work the next day. We thought we'd give it a go though....and unfortunately <a href="http://wowwebstats.com/nrrgjun6tcmhi?s=124843-136391&m">we wiped</a>. It was a good first attempt, we wiped after 7 mins during the seconds phase when 3 people got caught out standing too close together. We then agreed to meet again the next day to finally finish Naxx.<br /><br />The next day we regrouped, we had a few different faces but the core was pretty much the same. Back to KT we went and after 10 mins 42 secs we one-shotted him!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Q4aMvlw6DM0LCdErOLIlzG-en5uIcrnIMueyoKW1RCAR1ZWPO7jHp2S4OeMQdpiUGMTTmwfctGi7-dJhwfFyl4RenUsqJ3aQB2Rc-O8cW3LlKxTrBwGKkR-dTvBY8NGku2b1GtP0w8Xg/s1600-h/kt2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324712867683853330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 256px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Q4aMvlw6DM0LCdErOLIlzG-en5uIcrnIMueyoKW1RCAR1ZWPO7jHp2S4OeMQdpiUGMTTmwfctGi7-dJhwfFyl4RenUsqJ3aQB2Rc-O8cW3LlKxTrBwGKkR-dTvBY8NGku2b1GtP0w8Xg/s400/kt2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Most of KT's loot table is pretty good and one item I wanted actually dropped....the<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39421"> Gem of Imprisoned Vassal</a><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39421">s</a>...a nice upgrade to my current neck but alas, I didn't win the roll. The Neck went to Ultradeath. If he also gets a Proto-Drake drop from the Mysterious Eggs before me I'll....I'll....<span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">not be best pleased.</span><br /><br />So there we have it, AMOV has cleared Naxx 10! Coming from the Burning Legion server, we were only a very small guild who had only cleared a few heroics pre-Wotlk but wow look how we've grown! VoA/OS would always have been achieveable but for the first time we've cleared a multi-boss raid within a week, which is great as it's quite a time contraint for our "Casual Hardcore" guild.<br /><br />So what now? I think the answer is obvious..... Malygos and the Eye of Eternity! Once that big blue monstrosity falls we'll have cleared the pre-Uludar content.....and will be <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Champions of the Frozen Wastes</span>!<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Victory Lap</span><br /><br />Straight after here, with the raid reset coming up we went straight for OS10. The non-AMOV raiders had left and we were left with 8. Feeling pretty confident we went with those 8 and it worked! DING! <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=624">Less Is More</a>! Took <a href="http://wowwebstats.com/c5gpmkaldwplu?s=45969-56362">6 mins 57 seconds</a>.<br /><br />Is there anything we can't do?? :D<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvryksqUxKl4xxT39SLJtcHAfiq2-CjvGm_kjGshtJbBgDdeiMzsO_No-MZXVTtIv20GzmtrCctTcHXl1XqRFdV2l3vCjvjt-FYdG0rnXFV8tQeXHx_47zkN0uLxYgMDf3-ILtpjGvAyAU/s1600-h/os108.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324718160459651858" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 232px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvryksqUxKl4xxT39SLJtcHAfiq2-CjvGm_kjGshtJbBgDdeiMzsO_No-MZXVTtIv20GzmtrCctTcHXl1XqRFdV2l3vCjvjt-FYdG0rnXFV8tQeXHx_47zkN0uLxYgMDf3-ILtpjGvAyAU/s400/os108.jpg" border="0" /></a>Valilorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409281146502952195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304288196926363050.post-36040045700717228452009-04-07T13:19:00.004+01:002009-04-07T13:42:28.243+01:00New Guildie!<div align="left"><strong>Drak'Tharon Keep (Heroic)</strong><br /><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN3A6cCryipRlLR5JGkw5DtMsV7Au7X0YifjtTAPw29gykHCOAjyTN_u_rWRdBiTyKRIH4fEoo1Nm7Z6CxTaLcpoRAEcvYSCThnFSQk8ICjpQZjxpZAKyvkwhc_yRhSaAmHD_bjJkiejMm/s1600-h/dred.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321927505707742706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 335px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN3A6cCryipRlLR5JGkw5DtMsV7Au7X0YifjtTAPw29gykHCOAjyTN_u_rWRdBiTyKRIH4fEoo1Nm7Z6CxTaLcpoRAEcvYSCThnFSQk8ICjpQZjxpZAKyvkwhc_yRhSaAmHD_bjJkiejMm/s400/dred.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center"></a><em>- Better off dead more like</em></p>4 AMOV guildies (Ultradeath , Valilor, Heloko & Rosentrantz - in height order) were online and looking to do some more heroic achievements. DTK looked like the next best bet (putting off Oculus as long as possible!) so off we went, we were just lacking 1 vital thing...a Tank!<br /><br />I entered LFG, and asked for any tanks looking for an achievement run in / LFG, /trade and /general (I was in Dalaran) and nothing...until a whisper came in from <a href="http://armorylite.com/eu/chromaggus/nynth">Nynth</a>. He said that he'd give it a go, was def capped but was also in a lot of blues/Lv70 epics and hadn't been there before - but being the gung-ho, equal opportunity people that we are, we gave him a chance.<br /><p></p><div align="left"></div><p align="left">First up in DTK was <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2151">Consumption Junction</a>. Here you have to tank <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=26630">Trollgore </a>in a corner of the room so everyone is out of Line of sight when he does his <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=49380">Consume</a> spell. Everyone caught in LoS when he does this grants him 1 stack of his consumption buff (including adds) - the achievement is to kill him before this gets to 10. The add were very weak, around 2k HP - easily controllable by 1 person but unfortunately we got the positioning wrong and he died with 17 stacks. D'oh! Looks like we'll be coming back...</p><p align="left">Next up was <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2039">Better of Dred</a>. Here you have to kill 6 raptors with <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=27483">King Dred </a>still active. We were a little worried about the warriors survivablity as King Dred hit's hard but Nynth had some pretty good skills and we managed to one-shot this achievement. Great! We were very impressed with his skills generally so we asked him if he wanted to join us, which he did, so it was win - win!</p><p align="left">I guess the lesson to be learnt here is that undergeared people should be given a chance (unless there is some gear check somewhere) - especially people with high iLevel Lv70 gear, they obviously needed some skill to get that back in TBC so they obviously know what they're doing!</p>Valilorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409281146502952195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304288196926363050.post-33512674673245324652009-04-07T12:50:00.007+01:002009-04-07T14:09:34.733+01:00Update<script src="http://www.wowhead.com/widgets/power.js"></script><div align="left"><strong>Another bank goes under....</strong></div><br /><br />In todays tough economic climate, many banks have gone under and Valilor's bank(er) is no different! I had to delete Lloydstsb, a Lv1 rogue to make room for a warrior for "Project Alt." I now have one of each class and you can keep tabs on how they're doing on the right side bar.<br /><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdWmXSplsT-USKuxX_ROzKwEDEObjki1VbmheNZZ5hS7qcM43AYpdTssXDvE7dMKNFYl5o6QknTH-fTSRSIIPF1zG7VsEpaQHvweeNwVXsnfiHo8Cxi0AKd0EK_cpyeup__0VcSXKtx907/s1600-h/lloydstsb.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321916919255771234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 303px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdWmXSplsT-USKuxX_ROzKwEDEObjki1VbmheNZZ5hS7qcM43AYpdTssXDvE7dMKNFYl5o6QknTH-fTSRSIIPF1zG7VsEpaQHvweeNwVXsnfiHo8Cxi0AKd0EK_cpyeup__0VcSXKtx907/s400/lloydstsb.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center"></a><em>- So long Lloydstsb, you've served me well ;(</em></p><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM7tRbXC3NwetNEsAg15cQ_7D3deffWIru_QPgluD7btk_mzv1EafHuV-0zaHPFtgQi5eu82rwzUys9Z_exEYLANap9eNBjw8e8wlsMOrt-TQ4FXg2DhiKkecuPm6LHv9WiRuwtz4z5YO8/s1600-h/Valessra.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321916724469607538" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 294px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM7tRbXC3NwetNEsAg15cQ_7D3deffWIru_QPgluD7btk_mzv1EafHuV-0zaHPFtgQi5eu82rwzUys9Z_exEYLANap9eNBjw8e8wlsMOrt-TQ4FXg2DhiKkecuPm6LHv9WiRuwtz4z5YO8/s400/Valessra.jpg" border="0" /></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;"> - Hello Valessra, current favourite from Project Alt</span></em> </div><div align="center"></div><div align="left"><strong><s>Friday</s> Saturday's Yolk</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /></div><p align="left"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu-By-_7e_SY1ny8gxXL3sb6Rykrm_OZ1J9oJdRroy4KMFs2j6V5_ttM4jwJb9aVXu0ddUk2VVPzQUj5aEU1Yg8ZDP-j0CDIiXlniBSVg0k3lWYBgJiKbpWUruNhnt5-x6jk3xk1JAJJUn/s1600-h/Yolk.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313033536336237058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 267px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu-By-_7e_SY1ny8gxXL3sb6Rykrm_OZ1J9oJdRroy4KMFs2j6V5_ttM4jwJb9aVXu0ddUk2VVPzQUj5aEU1Yg8ZDP-j0CDIiXlniBSVg0k3lWYBgJiKbpWUruNhnt5-x6jk3xk1JAJJUn/s400/Yolk.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Looks like I have some Green-Proto drake competition now, 2 sneaky AMOV members have joined in on my party! I'll add them to these updates but I'm going to be so annoyed if they get one before me! GRRRRRR<br /><br />This week I got another Cobra Hatchling, sigh. I stuck it on the AH for 25g and I'll see if it sell. Better than a kick in the teeth I guess, hopefully better luck next week!<br /><br /><u>Valilor/Heloko/Ultradeath</u><br /><br /><strong><em>Week 1:</em></strong> <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44722">Aged yolk</a> (30%) / Nothing / Nothing<br /><strong><em>Week 2:</em></strong> <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=61351">Cobra Hatchling</a> (19%) / Nothing / Nothing<br /><strong><em>Week 3:</em></strong> <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39899">White Tickbird Hatchling</a> (20%) / Nothing / <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44722">Aged yolk</a> (30%)<br /><strong><em>Week 4:</em></strong> <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=61351">Cobra Hatchling</a> (19%) / <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39896">Tick Bird Hatchling </a>(21%) / <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44722">Aged yolk</a> (30%)<br /><br /><strong>Another helmet to polish?</strong></p><p align="left">No, not more <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=13006">Son's of Hodir dailies </a>or anything else for that matter - I have a new helm! I joined a 25 man Sarth PuG and the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40451">Hyaline Helm of the Sniper </a>fell and I won the roll! Sweet. </p><p align="left">With a pretty useless socket bonus, I skipped it and put in a <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39999">Bright Scarlet Ruby</a> and the hunter's fave <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41398">Relentless Earthsiege Diamond</a> meta gem. </p><p align="left"><strong>Coming up...</strong><br /><strong></strong><br />Next part of my hunter guide plus AMOV return to Naxx! Will we kill Grobbulus? Will we kill the 4 Horsemen? Will we clear Naxx? Find out soon!</p>Valilorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409281146502952195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304288196926363050.post-57065770471328048322009-04-02T13:59:00.002+01:002009-04-04T14:51:21.093+01:00MM Hunter Guide (Patch 3.0.8) - Part 1; Pets<script src="http://www.wowhead.com/widgets/power.js"></script><div align="left"><br />I've been reading a lot of hunter blogs around and one thing stuck me; there isn't a lot for Marksmen Hunters! BM Hunters have <a href="http://www.bigredkitty.net/">BRK</a> (Even though every time I check on him in the Armoury he is Survivial spec....suspicious!) and Survival hunters have OUTdps amongst others so I thought I'd do a 3 part MM Hunter guide, starting today with <strong>Pets</strong>.<br />(Note: I don't do any PvP so this will be 100% PvE) </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*UPDATE*</span> BRK has given up blogging/WoW!!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Choosing and Taming your pet</span><br /><br />There are many families of pets for hunter to choose from and they fall into 3 classes, tenacity (tanking), ferocity (DPS - Dungeons) and Cunning (Buffs/Debuffs - PvP). For a MM hunter the choice is pretty simple, if you are doing dungeons are raids, you'll want a cat and if you're questing/soloing, you'll want a gorilla.<br /><br />Cats have the highest DPS output of the pets for MM Hunters and Gorillas cause the most threat generation. DPS is the name of the game in dungeons/raids so maximizing this is key. Some other families of pets provide stat boosts/debuffs to mobs but they don't usually stack with other players' buffs/debuffs so it's best to rule these out.<br /><br />Gorillas have an AoE move which is great for farming if you couple it with volley and their higher threat generation is important, as unlike sissy BM hunters, we actually hit a lot harder than our pets and we don't want to be getting any of that silly aggro from them!<br /><br />To find which Cat/Gorrilla you want, head to <a href="http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/">petopia</a> - it's the best place for pet information on the internet!<br /><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNbt-qtYQGgjtAf4lz_M7r1yzLEwM4ehX68aZdhb9l_C6Z23KQZBqzNWDjaTUzSZ70J9SoN0U5SpvCefaRLPpYRGSrKMdUKJ1_7s2WfaAORPJMrE9SmucgzPnDOKmJVVQ-JaI_rx3cerqe/s1600-h/Cat.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320072867450312034" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; height: 234px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNbt-qtYQGgjtAf4lz_M7r1yzLEwM4ehX68aZdhb9l_C6Z23KQZBqzNWDjaTUzSZ70J9SoN0U5SpvCefaRLPpYRGSrKMdUKJ1_7s2WfaAORPJMrE9SmucgzPnDOKmJVVQ-JaI_rx3cerqe/s400/Cat.bmp" border="0" /> </a><p align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>- Just you try and tame me...I dare ya!</em></span></p><br />Once you've decided and found the one you want, taming pets is pretty straight forward; set a freezing trap down, start taming the pet and as it approaches it will get frozen - which doesn't stop you taming - so you'll usually be able to get a pet tamed with minimal damage received. [<em><strong>Note</strong>: You can't have a pet out to tame, you can't even have one out and then dismiss it, so to tame a pet stable it and then come out with no pet (unless you want to completely release it and let it free). I can only imagine the frustration for a BM hunter if they are with their much-loved pet and they come across a spirit beast!</em>]<br /><br />I haven't read quite as much for surv/bm hunters but I believe the same applies for Survival hunters but for BM the best DPS is a Devilsaur.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pet Talents</span><br /><br />Pets now have talent trees just like us, so you need to carefuly select which talents to give them, either to maximise DPS for a Cat or to Maximise threat/survivability for a Gorilla. Here are my recommendations:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?petcalc=0m">Cat Spec</a><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?petcalc=0h0G0rR0bzo">Gorilla Spec</a><br /><br />The Gorilla spec is a little more flexible than the cat one so feel free to change it around a little. BM hunters will have 4 extra talent points to spend but this isn't a BM hunter guide!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Action Bars</span><br /><br />Most of a pets skills can be left on automatic in the skill book but you can move 4 forward to the action bar to manually use and you should do the following:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Cats</span><br /><br /><br /><p></p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiMOjlWj1KZxyQ2Z9E9bcqex_53f1N8TpE2g2vbHZ3URQvWOWLX40EDExni3Gzga2sJziMd_AmmfYJ6fK2C5myHZ_r-D974RoXcZ8PTejV_qH45N2q3VLaTV20fSIqATdYh8buDqSccGFS/s1600-h/cat.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317923560238618274" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 45px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiMOjlWj1KZxyQ2Z9E9bcqex_53f1N8TpE2g2vbHZ3URQvWOWLX40EDExni3Gzga2sJziMd_AmmfYJ6fK2C5myHZ_r-D974RoXcZ8PTejV_qH45N2q3VLaTV20fSIqATdYh8buDqSccGFS/s400/cat.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The cat bar from left to right is Attack, Follow, Stay, Growl, Claw, Call of the Wild, Stealth, Aggressive, Defensive and Passive.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Gorilla</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvo6KF0CewMNOl6yxk8c-n9TYUFw92A4WyL6XnfSL_S6QLNAB_k0Tqsz4zPMH_c3HRqbdN38N9zQE9I9SpD-mu9KPQnbAkhckGaIzIJoK9PWVq2ihBv10E0xkdyRyR4x5AW2XDdMgAx5T8/s1600-h/gorilla.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317923649360424946" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 42px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvo6KF0CewMNOl6yxk8c-n9TYUFw92A4WyL6XnfSL_S6QLNAB_k0Tqsz4zPMH_c3HRqbdN38N9zQE9I9SpD-mu9KPQnbAkhckGaIzIJoK9PWVq2ihBv10E0xkdyRyR4x5AW2XDdMgAx5T8/s400/gorilla.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The gorilla bar from left to right is Attack, Follow, Stay, Growl, Smack, Thunderstomp, Taunt, Aggressive, Defensive and Passive.<br /><br />The first 3 and last 3 buttons are the same for all pets, the first 3 are their movement instructions and the last 3 are their stance.<br /><br />99.9% of the time you'll have you pet on "follow"<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Using your pet</span><br /><br />For a MM Hunter, your pet will contribute 10-15% of your DPS so if you want to top meters it's important to keep them alive. Not only do they have their own DPS but while they are alive they'll also boost your DPS with <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=35030">Focused Fire</a>. </p><p><strong><em>Questing</em></strong></p><p>Think of yourself as a 3 man team, you play the DPS and the Healer, your pet is the tank. When going after Mobs, send in your gorilla, let it get aggo with a growl, taunt and possibly a thunderstomp and then open up with your shot rotation. In most cases you'll kill the mob before you get aggro but don't forget to heal your pet too!</p><p>A hunter can usually solo 3 man Q's too. Select your target mob, stick on a hunters mark, drop a frost trap and then cast heal pet. Heal pet heals your pet over time (it's a HoT) so it can be healing as it's attacking. Send the pet in and start opening up your DPS. You don't need to go too strong as you don't want to get aggro too quickly, so maybe just stick to auto + steady shot. This will keep the mob on your pet and you'll be healing the pet at the same time so essentially it's like you're a one man party! As a MM hunter you'll inevitably get aggro over your pet as your damage is considerably higher, so when the mob comes, strafe backwards while still firing and kite him through the frost trap. If you can't maintain this, feign death and start again.</p><p>Occasionally this is quite difficult to do if there are lots of adds. If this is the case, try Freeze trapping one and turning off thunderstomp (so it doesn't break the trap by mistake) and getting your gorilla to tank both while you target the main mob the gorilla is attacking.</p><p>You can use similar tactics with a cat for questing but it is far easier with a gorilla as they are tought, cause more threat and can recieve more health from your heals. </p><p>A note on your action bar: Keep your taunt abilities turned on but keep your "Focus Dump" abilites turned off. You want all your focus to be used on keeping theat rather than damage when questing which will be reversed later. </p><p>For stance, you'll probably also want the pet on "defensive" - this is great for if you're too lazy to send your pet in as it will go in automatically. Be sure to put it on passive when entering a town as some people can attack your pet, it will attack back and then you will be a target of the town guards! Died so many times in Booty Bay because of this back in the day ;)</p><p><strong><em>Dungeons & Raids</em></strong></p><p>With other people in the party, it is important to make sure you control your pet well otherwise it can end up in a wipe! I know - I've done it enough times!</p><p>For the majority of raids/dungeon, you'll just send your pet in but with all taunting abilities OFF (Taunt, Growl & Thunderstomp - although you probably won't be bringing your Gorilla). This is important as only the Tank/Off-Tank will want to have Aggro. This is why the Cat is best in dungeons/raids as they have more DPS and less threat. With all that spare focus turn your "Focus Dump" ON - so that's smack/claw - and increase your pets DPS!</p><p>In Dungeons/Raids, I like to keep my cat on defensive - this way when I start shooting the cat will automatically go so I don't waste any time pressing the "pet attack" button. Keeping it passive here is ok too. Aggressive is a big no no as it could pull other mobs from another group and cause a wipe.</p><p>When tabbing between enemies (if you do), be sure that they are the current group you're targeting before sending in the pet - I've cause a couple of wipes this way when I get lazy and press tab + pet attack too quickly! Learn from my mistakes hunters!</p><p>Another usefull ability of a pet is to help out when things go wrong. Sometimes healers can get aggro and as you're usually standing near them, quickly sent your pet to intercept the mob before it attacks the healer and quickly turn growl/taunt on to keep it off the healer. It might die in the process but this is better than a healer dying and it gives the tank some time to get the aggro back. Pets are also good for boss' who trap you as they can come and attack your trap and free you without getting anyone else to help (as long as it's a weak trap).</p><p>Finally, pets don't like to jump. In some places you'll have to make a jump, like from platforms in Nexus. As a pet won't jump they will run the long way to get down, which can mean it will pull any mobs with it for a lovely suprise when it returns to you :D Before jumping, dismiss your pet. This is the #1 thing I forget to do as it's a bit of a pain!</p><p>There are other clever little tricks you can do with a pet but the above are probably the main tactics to use and doing so can impress in PuGs!</p><p><strong>Feeding your pet</strong></p><p>Cats like meat, Gorilla's like bread. You can buy both from any inn so you shouldn't have any problems keeping them happy. You should always keep them in a happy mood as their damage will increase by 25%! The higher the level of food the higher the amount of hapiness they get. At Lv80 I find the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=33454">Salted Venison </a>the best value for cats and the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=33449">Crusty Flatbread </a>for gorillas.</p><p>As well as keeping them happy, you can also get food which gives the pets stat bonus' much like the ones we get. At the moment there are only 3 available and require cooking. Bizarrely, YOU have to eat the food for the PET to get the benefit, you can't feed the pet this food! It doesn't over-write any food buff you might already have (e.g. from a Great Feast) so it's not a problem.</p><p>The best 2 Pet Food Buffs are from:</p><p><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=33874">Kibler's Bits</a></p><p><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43005">Spiced Mammoth Treats</a></p><p>Kibler's Bits/Spiced Mammoth Treats are the best two but the Kibler's Bits mats are cheaper to come AND Kibler's Bits can be used from Lv55 while the Mammoth Treats is from Lv70.</p><p>The other food buff isn't as high as the above two and at that level it probably isn't worth using, as these food buffs are really only worth using in the Lv80 "End Game" - where you're trying to Max that DPS!</p><p><strong>Leveling your pet</strong></p><p>You pet levels up by fighting mobs which are in the level range for you to level up, which I believe is from 8 levels below you to any levels above you. At Lv80 this is obviously a little trickier, so if possible level them up on your way to 80 or just bring them to heroics/Lv80 areas with you.</p><p><strong>3.1 Patch</strong></p><p>All the pet tree's are being re-done, Focused Aim will transfer onto the pet AND the wolves AP boost will stack with the Paladins/Warriors, so it's all going to change!</p><p>If you're a MM/SV hunter and you've already got a Cat/Gorilla like me, now is the time to get levelling that Wolf :)</p><p>I <em>think</em> Devilsaurs will still be the top DPS option for BM hunters.</p><p><strong>Coming Soon....</strong></p><p>The next step of the guide will be on gear, stats & testing. Stay Tuned!</p><p></p>Valilorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409281146502952195noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304288196926363050.post-49849687934732542812009-03-30T10:11:00.006+01:002009-03-30T10:29:49.991+01:00Sunny Side Up<div align="left"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><s>Friday's</s>Saturday's Yolk - Week 3</span><script src="http://www.wowhead.com/widgets/power.js"></script><br /><br /></div><p align="left"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu-By-_7e_SY1ny8gxXL3sb6Rykrm_OZ1J9oJdRroy4KMFs2j6V5_ttM4jwJb9aVXu0ddUk2VVPzQUj5aEU1Yg8ZDP-j0CDIiXlniBSVg0k3lWYBgJiKbpWUruNhnt5-x6jk3xk1JAJJUn/s1600-h/Yolk.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313033536336237058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 267px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu-By-_7e_SY1ny8gxXL3sb6Rykrm_OZ1J9oJdRroy4KMFs2j6V5_ttM4jwJb9aVXu0ddUk2VVPzQUj5aEU1Yg8ZDP-j0CDIiXlniBSVg0k3lWYBgJiKbpWUruNhnt5-x6jk3xk1JAJJUn/s400/Yolk.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />I was busy on Friday so I couldn't log in to check on my egg until a day later, so "The Friday Yolk" now becomes the "Saturday Yolk"</p><div align="left">Anyway, I'm sure you're just busting to find out what this weeks <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39878">Mysterious Egg</a> was, and it was a.......<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39899">White Tickbird Hatchling</a>. </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"></div><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOROC0f5t7nndtfF_k4IOjbN-LrSni-YeSAmmKbakyPiEN_AzwwuEDc0sCAq_5xZZFgzS65zAvXIl_5ZdseT91GdDkRvL6WLSVijIog87BuP71F2-bTM2-7SK_JNuVHXiMgt3mDs9-dDCS/s1600-h/new+companion.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318909466270177234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 245px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOROC0f5t7nndtfF_k4IOjbN-LrSni-YeSAmmKbakyPiEN_AzwwuEDc0sCAq_5xZZFgzS65zAvXIl_5ZdseT91GdDkRvL6WLSVijIog87BuP71F2-bTM2-7SK_JNuVHXiMgt3mDs9-dDCS/s400/new+companion.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><p>Getting closer?<br /></p><p>Week 1: <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44722">Aged yolk</a> (30%)<br />Week 2: <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=61351">Cobra Hatchling</a> (19%)<br />Week 3: <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39899">White Tickbird Hatchling</a> (20%)<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>(% is the drop rate)</em></span><br /><br />Heloko pointed out to me that you can buy the mysterious egg once you're revered with the oracles - I thought it was exhalted so I didn't visit the Quartermaster until I was exhalted which means I've missed out on 2 eggs/weeks! (21000 rep @ 1700 per day).<br /><br /><strong>A side project</strong><br /><br />When I want to play WoW and Valilor hasn't got any raids, heroics, dailies or things to farm there's not a lot to do...so I've decided to level an alt! Which class to choose? There's quite a few, all very different from hunters so I've decided to level one of each class to level 20 (Apart from DK obviously)! I wonder which I'll prefer? As of level 5, my money is on Shaman.<br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318909605942859554" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 309px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCJhPbMr4v5-7EVmFVVi-_UNkRsclWvbvAsXnGzoywpGN4CXLhvEwROYkRxKSwWOonExSpbVMF-5lk75Donl0_mMUEnVaB1m68PJOWDvOHPdolNl7U_Qi8IKfNrQyYaQTfAMa-L8dKaf-d/s400/pla_army.jpg" border="0" /></p><p align="center"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">- Valilor's alt training program was immense</span></em></p>Valilorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409281146502952195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304288196926363050.post-29525550407432418022009-03-27T14:15:00.013+00:002009-03-27T17:02:05.997+00:00Mini Update<script src="http://www.wowhead.com/widgets/power.js"></script>After a few unproductive days in WoW, yesterday was just the remedy!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Azjol-Nerub (Heroic)</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguffH72sFqipc04ISSL6TFzbKnV0QLA0TeJuYkmofbT5cBu4LMkaterjoX9CSbiUVZfpmnrX9U-OyyuigunpVVfv_rF1h5bMQkD0yVW58kj2H71qBv-cCdupbLXtiHrp0_u7B2qchDvsCO/s1600-h/120809.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 307px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguffH72sFqipc04ISSL6TFzbKnV0QLA0TeJuYkmofbT5cBu4LMkaterjoX9CSbiUVZfpmnrX9U-OyyuigunpVVfv_rF1h5bMQkD0yVW58kj2H71qBv-cCdupbLXtiHrp0_u7B2qchDvsCO/s400/120809.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317902561662642242" border="0" /></a>Heloko, Ultradeath and myself went to AN chasing the 2 achievements which had so far eluded us; <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1296">Watch Him Die</a> and <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1297">Hadronox Denied</a>. Watch him die is probably one of the hardest to get and it was also first up. Here you have to kill the boss without killing any of the watchers.<br /><br />Our first attempt was for me to try and kite all the mobs out of the boss room, up towards the entrance while everyone else nukes the boss ASAP. We gave this a try but I failed to kite them all up, some stayed behind and the group wiped. Ouch.<br /><br />Our second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth attempt we tried another tactic, which eventually paid off. We pulled each group, one at a time, and killed the warriors/shadowcasters/skirmishers but left the watcher..the tank then picked these up and also the boss and we nuked him ASAP. This tactic needs a bit of luck and some good gear - anyone that gets webbed needs to be freed immediately and it's a touch task on the healer. Using <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=19801">Tranq shot</a> on the the watcher gashra which enrages is pretty handy, I made a macro which auto targets it so I could fire it as soon as it was off Cooldown. We managed it on attempt six - we killed the boss and then wiped...but it was worth it!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2n-ih9ifnOwSDPUeVcqvuGPJEQqQXUGD7NxrncdP4tTvVGBnOcm9pnBuOJPy2gxPdISO9-yW4ts34uDoxzAFI_bOsNqYTfzkgsXy-0QB2PqZgZbizfcfvMWzoVQ2Ym88ZxGqZWhjWdmnN/s1600-h/whd.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 121px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2n-ih9ifnOwSDPUeVcqvuGPJEQqQXUGD7NxrncdP4tTvVGBnOcm9pnBuOJPy2gxPdISO9-yW4ts34uDoxzAFI_bOsNqYTfzkgsXy-0QB2PqZgZbizfcfvMWzoVQ2Ym88ZxGqZWhjWdmnN/s400/whd.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317903910489937234" border="0" /></a><br />The next achievement, Hadronox Denied, was a breeze compared to the last one. Using an exploit, I aggro'd the first group and <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=5384">FD'd</a>, this reset the encounter so we could all run downstairs and take the boss down before any adds came. Easy.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikTIGJu-DljkR-g6JZZnMhdr3227aggmROEAlGT5Z_MEsq7DmmN6eflTl2Vt_ycmgsWV3zIqOl-CjStvyzLwhm3ucLbGstX-4ulPI0_7AZcFx2sYAmMsrf8Zo8jYgVq0J2lbbs7VHe_tq-/s1600-h/hd.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 364px; height: 152px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikTIGJu-DljkR-g6JZZnMhdr3227aggmROEAlGT5Z_MEsq7DmmN6eflTl2Vt_ycmgsWV3zIqOl-CjStvyzLwhm3ucLbGstX-4ulPI0_7AZcFx2sYAmMsrf8Zo8jYgVq0J2lbbs7VHe_tq-/s400/hd.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317904018248934578" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">- What happens when you don't take Succi</span></span><br /></div><br />AN is now completely cleared! 2 more achievements down 14 to go :D<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Obsidian Sanctum (25 Man)</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbLzpMZVXoZM8crhnsbOqdGHzIRBlgRL9lBGOhroj2Pk1I9EcIDlGbKv1SLkScl-uETDN9EkE3XTcy7Sm2r1BvXoLVIe2x5HLlp85RZDTIH1SVXLaTU6REDdtokKb4wTcHEot8ekRYw-uR/s1600-h/115993.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbLzpMZVXoZM8crhnsbOqdGHzIRBlgRL9lBGOhroj2Pk1I9EcIDlGbKv1SLkScl-uETDN9EkE3XTcy7Sm2r1BvXoLVIe2x5HLlp85RZDTIH1SVXLaTU6REDdtokKb4wTcHEot8ekRYw-uR/s400/115993.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317903043877632130" border="0" /></a><br />After the successful AN run, the 3 of us joined a PuG to <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?zone=4493">OS25</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Raid Leader</span>: "Only 1 rule here: No Loot if you get hit by the magma wave."<br /><br />Pretty hard rule but I've done this before without gettig hit so it wasn't impossible. A little worrying about what the PuG might be like though, when a RL comes out with rules like that in a PuG I usually assume the worst. That and his use of swearing didn't sit right.<br /><br />Anyway, off we went, clearing the drakes from left to right and then onto Sarth. With the rule still fresh in my head I focused on not getting hit - which was probably to the expense of my DPS slightly but we killed him on our first attempt; I got to roll!<br /><br />The usual non-hunter drops where there and then woah, the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40431">Fury of Five Flights</a> was there! I rolled an 89.....and I won! The Leader took a while to respond and then said "I'll see if you got hit" (His mod recorded who did) but I was ok. He then said he wasn't sure because I had "Noob DPS"...WTF? I came 4th with 3.2k which is pretty good in my opinion, especially for hunters as this isn't a hunter friendly fight (How big is Sarth's hit box?? Really?!?!) anyway, after some umming and aaaahhing I got it, sweet! My first drop in some time :D<br /><br />The drama didn't end there though - Heloko called the RL a pr*ck, which was more than fair enough and the RL even agreed that it was true. Heloko then rolled for the<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40433"> Wyrmrest band</a> and lost the roll but the RL gave it to him anyway!<br /><br />I'm not sure what the lesson here is, maybe it's to call the RL a Pr*ck when you're in a PuG to get more loots! XD<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_EBTbXvPoxpO7Gei2-T6ey3PkTqS-_W0AACVPpBrfRcI1zmdifKg5QF1UoTVeHlykztaWVQvX12Bez0YrC1OMeGnM1kPOi79v17CdHFsT0MuNPxBi6jiyoGrlLpeL3MYsSKCkShMhVfNN/s1600-h/prick-chips1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 311px; height: 384px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_EBTbXvPoxpO7Gei2-T6ey3PkTqS-_W0AACVPpBrfRcI1zmdifKg5QF1UoTVeHlykztaWVQvX12Bez0YrC1OMeGnM1kPOi79v17CdHFsT0MuNPxBi6jiyoGrlLpeL3MYsSKCkShMhVfNN/s400/prick-chips1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317912824305243954" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Obsidian Sanctum (10 Man)<br /><br /></span>I had arranged an AMOV run at OS10 at 9:30pm and 6 of us were ready so we had to call in 4 randoms to fill the gaps. Present were:<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><br />Asaron (DK Tank)<br />Succi (OT Feral Druid)<br />Heloko (Healer Paladin)<br />Valilor (DPS Hunter)<br />Ultradeath (DPS DK)<br />Gloam (DPS Paladin)<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span>We filled in another 2 healers (Oddybody & Chemic) and one other DPS (Can't remember who) and off we went.<br /><br />Again clearing left to right, we stayed out of the 1st portal and entered into the third, with Asaron and Heloko staying outside in all 3. Being Asaron's first time to OS, he never got to go inside a portal so he missed out on seeing all the naked women mud-wrestling....unlucky Asaron, maybe next time ;)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX60Dhm3k0978Dij1tbn2MOgKNAuZts3jh_d08vxEDIFkz5NRpFFC9QFR474GqILsuAJ1pf9xzlfxfLAZzSKXPZqIbhx19mBm-Qe4Hs3YqRe6AGN1n4AKgNqtcNsqWt0T8bPg5JONGehQX/s1600-h/mud.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 249px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX60Dhm3k0978Dij1tbn2MOgKNAuZts3jh_d08vxEDIFkz5NRpFFC9QFR474GqILsuAJ1pf9xzlfxfLAZzSKXPZqIbhx19mBm-Qe4Hs3YqRe6AGN1n4AKgNqtcNsqWt0T8bPg5JONGehQX/s400/mud.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317905939259824242" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">- Next time Asaron</span><br /></span></div><br />There was a good DPS race going on, Gloam, Ultradeath and I were keeping up all the way around, I pulled ahead after every drake fight but on the trash Gloam and Ultradeath closed the gap...pretty tense stuff! I was probably only 5k ahead in total damage before Sarth but I managed to steal top DPS spot in the end....better luck next time Gloam/Ultradeath, MWA HA HA!<br /><br />So the first AMOV OS10 run was a complete success! We'll start farming this short raid weekly now and as it was such a breeze, we'll try Sarth +1 Drake next time!<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Some random bits<br /><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4lGNwTcYzBO6N8m170Cjfi6N7gBuGEySr_-Udcbzpy7984VqQtItke__WyqOvNwHVUMwPiyihIk1taPtCqE03E5sF6taOtejBY-PjJVJLL-O6mztrvMxq5zUCpSssHXXE-YJwMuavVBdV/s1600-h/Survivors.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4lGNwTcYzBO6N8m170Cjfi6N7gBuGEySr_-Udcbzpy7984VqQtItke__WyqOvNwHVUMwPiyihIk1taPtCqE03E5sF6taOtejBY-PjJVJLL-O6mztrvMxq5zUCpSssHXXE-YJwMuavVBdV/s400/Survivors.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317906626544881154" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">- Pirates vs Ninjas</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTxnrGStHuk7TxcKIV7MK4H6_8vxkIhE8sY18piwJV0K4YYRMA074X5uZL5B1daCYLkhmxeIkdi52WjPL5IQeMz-9rk2baW-NXiDcFEHf5llu1CNWDPVZlqLIOHZ8e4CaR3AkGk4sTBIph/s1600-h/stoned.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTxnrGStHuk7TxcKIV7MK4H6_8vxkIhE8sY18piwJV0K4YYRMA074X5uZL5B1daCYLkhmxeIkdi52WjPL5IQeMz-9rk2baW-NXiDcFEHf5llu1CNWDPVZlqLIOHZ8e4CaR3AkGk4sTBIph/s400/stoned.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317906556487982242" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">- AMOV about to get stoned</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UhyCmtX8Lt4&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UhyCmtX8Lt4&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- Fun with a Paladin almost goes wrong</span><br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EmAUO-bKmFw&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EmAUO-bKmFw&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- Strange bug if I press jump at the same time as mounting up</span><br /></div>Valilorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409281146502952195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304288196926363050.post-35907982019241094812009-03-26T09:56:00.009+00:002009-03-31T13:12:05.816+01:00Uludar Approaching!<script src="http://www.wowhead.com/widgets/power.js"></script><strong>To fail to plan is to plan to fail</strong><br /><br />With 3.1 and Uludar fast approaching (early April it's expected) now is a good time to take a step back and set some goals to aim for before you leave them behind and focus on Uludar.<br /><br />After pondering about this for a while, here are my objectives in order of importance:<br /><ol><br /><li>Kill Kel'Thuzad and Malygos and earn the title "Champion of the Frozen Wastes"</li><br /><li>Complete the achievement <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2136">Glory of the Hero </a>and earn a Red Proto-Drake</li><br /><li>Get to Exalted with the Kalu'ak</li><br /><li>Earn the Chef title</li><br /><li>Complete some old-WoW content</li></ol><br /><p>Options 1 & 2 are the main things I want to do, 3-5 are pretty much optional. Lets see how I do!</p><p><strong>Glory of the Hero</strong></p><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiae9Fu0PdQ0XcHOAg27EYV3s0KwyTfw5Cj6X8UGolynZfG6Q8lhkrWzKJyra5Q2Zg79mfkGnLEaeEcGwXvnMElDFUhZy1NVUVUvJxoBTfLWBRrF_4gQ2Z6qc77kPsc0Q5tzOFs0I-ZxwNC/s1600-h/protodragon_northrendred.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317439705523404866" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; height: 277px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiae9Fu0PdQ0XcHOAg27EYV3s0KwyTfw5Cj6X8UGolynZfG6Q8lhkrWzKJyra5Q2Zg79mfkGnLEaeEcGwXvnMElDFUhZy1NVUVUvJxoBTfLWBRrF_4gQ2Z6qc77kPsc0Q5tzOFs0I-ZxwNC/s400/protodragon_northrendred.jpg" border="0" /> </a><p align="center"></p><p align="center"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Will be mine</span></em><br /><br /></p><p>There's quite a few achievements to complete to get the proto drake but I'm quite far in...here's what I have left to do:</p><br /><p><strong><em>AN</em></strong><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1296">Watch Him Die</a><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1297">Hardronox Denied</a></p><p><strong><em>Old Kingdom</em></strong><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1862">Volazj's Quick Demise</a><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2038">Respect your Elders<br /></a></p><p><strong><em>DTK</em></strong><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2039">Consumption Junction<br />Better Off Dred</a></p><p><strong><em>VH</em></strong><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2153">A Void Dance</a></p><p><strong><em>Gundrak</em></strong><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2152">Share the Love<br />Less-Rabi</a></p><p><strong><em>HoS</em></strong><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1866">Good Grief</a><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2155">Abuse the Ooze<br /></a><br /><strong><em>CoT</em></strong><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1872">Zombiefest!</a></p><p><strong><em>Oculus</em><br /></strong><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1868">Make it Count</a><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2044">Ruby Void</a><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2046">Amber Void</a><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2045">Emerald Void</a></p><p>So quite a bit then! Feel free to leave any tips!</p><p><strong>Poll Time!</strong></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilvKzcU8TuodLr32BM4nyZmFMYH5bTZSXdM3VjLN114oCedqZeb1AgddmKkDlV7JCgX7F59OixSCw8cxCC6wyP5deBQRLIhWGpDMXgGeeEjjUY4s4XywmOb6c3X4XL2wnZN0rb477c9eS_/s1600-h/Page_1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317442142923850738" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 397px; height: 400px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilvKzcU8TuodLr32BM4nyZmFMYH5bTZSXdM3VjLN114oCedqZeb1AgddmKkDlV7JCgX7F59OixSCw8cxCC6wyP5deBQRLIhWGpDMXgGeeEjjUY4s4XywmOb6c3X4XL2wnZN0rb477c9eS_/s400/Page_1.jpg" border="0" /></a> Which wing of Naxx do you find the hardest? Vote here: <a href="http://twtpoll.com/2cppve">http://twtpoll.com/2cppve</a></p><p><strong>Coming Soon:</strong> My next post will be some nice Marksman Hunter tips!<br /></p>Valilorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409281146502952195noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304288196926363050.post-73017995664789784482009-03-21T08:05:00.008+00:002009-03-21T08:25:23.617+00:00Not aged<script src="http://www.wowhead.com/widgets/power.js"></script><span style="font-weight: bold;">Friday's Yolk - Week 2</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu-By-_7e_SY1ny8gxXL3sb6Rykrm_OZ1J9oJdRroy4KMFs2j6V5_ttM4jwJb9aVXu0ddUk2VVPzQUj5aEU1Yg8ZDP-j0CDIiXlniBSVg0k3lWYBgJiKbpWUruNhnt5-x6jk3xk1JAJJUn/s1600-h/Yolk.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu-By-_7e_SY1ny8gxXL3sb6Rykrm_OZ1J9oJdRroy4KMFs2j6V5_ttM4jwJb9aVXu0ddUk2VVPzQUj5aEU1Yg8ZDP-j0CDIiXlniBSVg0k3lWYBgJiKbpWUruNhnt5-x6jk3xk1JAJJUn/s400/Yolk.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313033536336237058" border="0" /></a><br />This week my <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39878">Mysterious Egg</a> didn't turn into a <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44722">aged yolk</a>, it turned into a........<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=61351">Cobra Hatchling</a>.<br />Better than an aged yolk but still not a <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44707">Green Proto-Drake</a>, lets see what happens next week!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_6_vSbxIPVGYhpK2DcJyqN9ULkrz-ccxnE7qexd9lQjF4xgv_t9mPqs8ByZ_GceIX8h_3pGJiLDtEmoAasQxBpa5MHo28aL88vzks5slUYhNAl8hS7vrZFFFa36vKS42U2W_Di4FIemuy/s1600-h/cobra.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 345px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_6_vSbxIPVGYhpK2DcJyqN9ULkrz-ccxnE7qexd9lQjF4xgv_t9mPqs8ByZ_GceIX8h_3pGJiLDtEmoAasQxBpa5MHo28aL88vzks5slUYhNAl8hS7vrZFFFa36vKS42U2W_Di4FIemuy/s400/cobra.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315550931201886802" border="0" /></a><br />Week 1: <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44722">Aged yolk</a><br />Week 2: <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=61351">Cobra Hatchling</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Easy Achievement</span><br />Achievement: <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1781">Critter Gitter</a><br /><br />While waiting around Naxx I noticed that just inside, before you get to any mobs, a lot of critters (maggots, rats and spiders) are around the place, so I decided to bring 10x <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43004">Critter Bites</a> next time I went. On Day 2 of the AMOV Naxx run I gave it a try and it was easy, I doubt I was anywhere near the 3 min time. As you don't need to clear any mobs to do this, anyone can get this here, you just need to be in a raid group and level 80.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjseUGkhqzHA_UCfzKlYSC34jSLvEuiSehtMu3Va8KcS0URl51EYGhrYImQrVvPBaHTWfroFWVJjd44E7xqjBt1CDM6kJxepVeskhh1sZ6ysDGcDHTzAEcYRxB3SgyLhyphenhyphendwIgShoC0VSJPX/s1600-h/achievement.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 379px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjseUGkhqzHA_UCfzKlYSC34jSLvEuiSehtMu3Va8KcS0URl51EYGhrYImQrVvPBaHTWfroFWVJjd44E7xqjBt1CDM6kJxepVeskhh1sZ6ysDGcDHTzAEcYRxB3SgyLhyphenhyphendwIgShoC0VSJPX/s400/achievement.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315552756721640626" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_3tnv6hO4SPoc-v1UD17IfspfaA852tn8i5afM7DWt_9Av1j-5NVe-qt6GzV1rN3hOIhvlY5nCMOHLxJyUUbbKHB0G1f5sPY8FJrbVAIJooaPXjkUVDo0Wk0tzbDWEu5Jhdet2MYKOrfY/s1600-h/naxx10.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 188px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_3tnv6hO4SPoc-v1UD17IfspfaA852tn8i5afM7DWt_9Av1j-5NVe-qt6GzV1rN3hOIhvlY5nCMOHLxJyUUbbKHB0G1f5sPY8FJrbVAIJooaPXjkUVDo0Wk0tzbDWEu5Jhdet2MYKOrfY/s400/naxx10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315552836917463714" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Improving Succi</span><br /><br />As you might have seen me mention in the previous Naxx postings, our Feral Druid, Succi, gets a lot of connectivity issues. I had a cunning plan to get around it but from the picture below you can see that it wouldn't work!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu6gUxyEnSJOMwHdLPqA4BA06crroRvk64iHHB1TH5lckgvuvTgw1yyhflg7h9ozrfysj84j2Ikwteqkgv_J7I5ktogKclLjhQqlthN-qZYym6Q12YwuagjmaY2M8O0kazFJh4AFgQ5eQv/s1600-h/Succi.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 244px; height: 154px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu6gUxyEnSJOMwHdLPqA4BA06crroRvk64iHHB1TH5lckgvuvTgw1yyhflg7h9ozrfysj84j2Ikwteqkgv_J7I5ktogKclLjhQqlthN-qZYym6Q12YwuagjmaY2M8O0kazFJh4AFgQ5eQv/s400/Succi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315553320819248946" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=1515">Tame Beast</a></span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And finally.....</span><br /><br />Rumors of me looking for a different guild are completely untrue.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9b-siMQDSnJNX45KSVUVu8sABqWJPBy_7tNFvL5h-7gDOlzeYxF1r2qtiiAdBlKHubsBP2x3RUXnmvDErFspEbQjGngqXVEbljRuQQLJtsMpo6KvcLkxrPA42Mp8wnbednvyJqp1TSv6m/s1600-h/TMNT.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 355px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9b-siMQDSnJNX45KSVUVu8sABqWJPBy_7tNFvL5h-7gDOlzeYxF1r2qtiiAdBlKHubsBP2x3RUXnmvDErFspEbQjGngqXVEbljRuQQLJtsMpo6KvcLkxrPA42Mp8wnbednvyJqp1TSv6m/s400/TMNT.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315553826915306610" border="0" /></a>Valilorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409281146502952195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304288196926363050.post-32931227548725274882009-03-20T12:55:00.024+00:002009-03-20T17:18:21.669+00:00AMOV Special: Naxxramas: The Construct and Military Quarters<script src="http://www.wowhead.com/widgets/power.js"></script>Arachnid: Done<br />Plague: Done<br /><br />Onto the construct quarter!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gear Check!<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsKjVzo8HCjbLiOvPjB40Wb9weJR4g6KE49_QFbvx6DQCJ6JvhtTtuku0BNvc6gkx_n3zN7no6pbQJ2Osab_yzQeKoOfH_2w40yVyOSz1Jk6QP5tiEAEGHu2Nq2e57npyTyO-FZB_glf9C/s1600-h/Patchwerk+pic.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 383px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsKjVzo8HCjbLiOvPjB40Wb9weJR4g6KE49_QFbvx6DQCJ6JvhtTtuku0BNvc6gkx_n3zN7no6pbQJ2Osab_yzQeKoOfH_2w40yVyOSz1Jk6QP5tiEAEGHu2Nq2e57npyTyO-FZB_glf9C/s400/Patchwerk+pic.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315258927317869858" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>Before entering the construct quarter, make you're all repaired (if no repair bot is available) and have a good supply of arrows, as if you need to leave Naxx for any of those, joining your raid again can be a pain because of the respawning slime (which needs most of the raid to kill so you can rejoin).<br /><br />There's lots of trash in big groups in Naxx to deal with and you know what that means.....<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=58434">VOLLEY</a>!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQcKZRRGklSiT58ce5Kqv-sqV4qzlkW5DUMRRfvLgjOPwk4XdNWyGYa9dlPjmg8WyOkF_ss85i-9QLmIBqiFzvp2UgCx3PYyntjTduq7YHOyNfFmbpQR_Qvh1AJ7g724TqbYugf9W4SP2e/s1600-h/imba.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 294px; height: 145px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQcKZRRGklSiT58ce5Kqv-sqV4qzlkW5DUMRRfvLgjOPwk4XdNWyGYa9dlPjmg8WyOkF_ss85i-9QLmIBqiFzvp2UgCx3PYyntjTduq7YHOyNfFmbpQR_Qvh1AJ7g724TqbYugf9W4SP2e/s400/imba.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315262406431925170" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">11,505 DPS? Thank you please</span> </span></div><br />After dealing with the trash, we came to our first boss, the infamous <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=16028">Patchwerk</a>.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />"</span>The fight is often referred to as a "gear check" - tanks need to be able to survive the huge damage output, healers need to be able to heal almost constantly and DPS need to put enough DPS out to beat the Enrage timer." (Wowhead)<br /><br />I think that pretty much sums the fight up. The healers will only be healing the melee classes, the ranged DPS/Healers shouldn't be getting hit at all in this fight. His main 2 abilities are <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=41926">hateful strike</a>, which he uses every second to hit the player with the highest health in melee range and <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=26662">beserk</a> - Patchwerk's enrage timer which will wipe the raid after 6 mins.<br /><br />With the majority of AMOV geared in heroic gear (apart from maybe Heloko, Ultradeath and I) this would be a good test of how we're doing gear wise...and after 4 mins 23 seconds we passed! Patchwerk, being a single target boss which doesn't require you to move is known as the "DPS test" to see how good your DPS is. Here's the report: <a href="http://wowwebstats.com/2zzw5pbip36fo?s=168165-180310&m">WWS Patchwerk</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeIF83bqsSMs5lt-gTvyDDyni8k4kP8mjseQVRKHBUPiAw1OCz1eaWaDGz1gVN_YlZw6cjAtatVLvjgjR7176KIYR_zCHak9vDvHrOUCl-Nq_wWICy6qUbStOrLSTDOX3fu2GL2BoU-tRQ/s1600-h/patch+stats1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 252px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeIF83bqsSMs5lt-gTvyDDyni8k4kP8mjseQVRKHBUPiAw1OCz1eaWaDGz1gVN_YlZw6cjAtatVLvjgjR7176KIYR_zCHak9vDvHrOUCl-Nq_wWICy6qUbStOrLSTDOX3fu2GL2BoU-tRQ/s400/patch+stats1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315259282031483218" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimtgDmqqYW0ZznS69DMBIEg_OSInG4YUYQlCo0pyCGoZ3U7-jAzsgXNH3MkBa7rZo8aYyP5cTkE_EYH5N9CqkJK7KIsm3gZbLWNctF99WdzcEwWGoH78orKhyphenhyphenvVsOKf6WjCMGRLDi-9Ts-/s1600-h/Patch+stats2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 357px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimtgDmqqYW0ZznS69DMBIEg_OSInG4YUYQlCo0pyCGoZ3U7-jAzsgXNH3MkBa7rZo8aYyP5cTkE_EYH5N9CqkJK7KIsm3gZbLWNctF99WdzcEwWGoH78orKhyphenhyphenvVsOKf6WjCMGRLDi-9Ts-/s400/Patch+stats2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315259322358162066" border="0" /></a><br />From the above you can see that Dave still misses a bit even though I'm "hit capped." This is because I reached the cap by using a point in <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=53620">Focused Aim</a> which does not pass onto my pet. Since this run, I've adjusted my talents and gear a little, I've swapped out <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=36979">Bjarngrim Family Signet</a> for the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43251">ring of Scarlett Shadows</a> which has less AP & Haste but it has more hit. This took me to the hit cap with only gear so now my pets will be hit capped so no more miss' and I have a free talent point to play with, which I put in <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=19617">Unleashed Fury</a>, taking it to rank 2 (of 5). Next time I face patch it should be interesting to see if this makes a big improvement.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">H(N)axx</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9JbfWaRTuQGtCDX0CAMAkK_tGG445-aHmdB8ZawplllSXrn5yBS3epsNNZnbRu4dcyB4m-xoi2Uy12G_Zvn_3RBgtnL8VmvikPmScGdQfr_L9vBBByx104m6GRProXSpGBSqxNr5wuzu9/s1600-h/grobbulus-stand.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 360px; height: 313px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9JbfWaRTuQGtCDX0CAMAkK_tGG445-aHmdB8ZawplllSXrn5yBS3epsNNZnbRu4dcyB4m-xoi2Uy12G_Zvn_3RBgtnL8VmvikPmScGdQfr_L9vBBByx104m6GRProXSpGBSqxNr5wuzu9/s400/grobbulus-stand.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315263220886497986" border="0" /></a><br />We defeated Patchwerk at 23:25pm, it was getting late but we moved on to the next boss <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=15931">Grobbulus</a>. He is strange, he has no face just a tube connecting to his chest....what's the point in that? If I was him I'd just roll over and die...<br /><br />While on a good day he could probably only see his own liver, his abilities require the whole raid to be on the ball though, otherwise it'll be a wipe fest. Grobbulus' abilities require him to be tanked around the room to keep out of his <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=28240">Poison Cloud</a>. Every 20 seconds (and more frequently as the fight goes on) he casts <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=28169">Mutating Injection</a> on a player at random, which when the effect kicks in will make the player drop an AoE around them, possibly wiping the raid so they have to run away from the group, drop the AoE and then return. For the rest of the fight the melee DPS have to attack Grobbulus from the side, the Tank tanks him around the room and the ranged/healers stand in the middle unless someone gets the mutating injection. Grobbulus also has a 12 min <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=26662">enrage timer</a>. Oh and he summons slime add's at certain times which will need to be OT'd and nuked by the DPS. Plenty to do then.<br /><br />So in AMOV went, following the tactics as described but we didn't keep control of the slimes well enough. Every person that gets hit infront of Grobbulus will create a slime - and when they are killed they leave a poison cloud. By the end of the run too many people were hit this way and the floor was covered in poison clouds. Even with that problem it was our best attempt at Grobbulus and after 6mins 30 we <a href="http://wowwebstats.com/2zzw5pbip36fo?m&s=185457-198135">wiped</a> and annoying Grobbulus was on less than 100k HP!<br /><br /><a href="http://wowwebstats.com/2zzw5pbip36fo?m&s=198908-198984">Attempt 2</a> was funny, not really an attempt but it's classed as one in WWS so I'll count it! We all ran back after the first wipe, started healing/buffing up when a rogue Mirror Image from Rosencrantz either was over confident, brave or just stupid and engaged Grobbulus by himself...this attempt lasted 22 seconds in which time Gloam, Cumulonibus, Deadcreepy and Rosencrantz died. I can't say anything about this as I'm sure my pet control has wiped enough parties in the past.<br /><br /><a href="http://wowwebstats.com/2zzw5pbip36fo?m&s=199472-204863">Attempt 3 </a>lasted 3 mins 25. I can't remember what happened on this run (a problem when you blog about it too many days later) but not as good as our first attempt. The time was now 00:02am and we decided to give it one last try...<br /><br /><a href="http://wowwebstats.com/2zzw5pbip36fo?s=206187-220392&m">Attempt 4</a> was another good attempt. We were going well, tanking the adds, running out of the group when we had the injection and Grobbulus knew this...that's why he used another ability which wasn't mentioned anywhere online...HAXX! First of all we lost Ultradeath - one DPS down, disconnected half way through the battle. Harsh. Next went Heloko - A key healer - he was still on vent but disconnected, only to come back near the end with UI problems - he could only see his own group. We wiped after 8 mins 09 seconds.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQQt26eOvE60oXFtCLyrtYnl4fRzzNtBUJjUghdZBLKSg4RzDl24iZEwst7kjpXft2ks_FEp4ddyjVy6V77Zo-feeGET4tSzezEh5f_VuJCir8TdQ1j97m8jRUdPQ0JT7RWAjmXmJKITvm/s1600-h/Ultraj.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 139px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQQt26eOvE60oXFtCLyrtYnl4fRzzNtBUJjUghdZBLKSg4RzDl24iZEwst7kjpXft2ks_FEp4ddyjVy6V77Zo-feeGET4tSzezEh5f_VuJCir8TdQ1j97m8jRUdPQ0JT7RWAjmXmJKITvm/s400/Ultraj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315295136580032690" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Ultradeath disconnected :(</span></span><br /></div><br />And there we ended the day, to return tomorrow. Day 1 report <a href="http://wowwebstats.com/2zzw5pbip36fo?m">here</a>. Don't worry, you don't need to wait till tomorrow as tomorrow is already here!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZVe3qrMDgNG0Fcnam9000bZixa3trcBAHpg7pxFjGwo4fpFnxInkowFBUr3R97xvmlULfE30yg-buztXUCsfPng9eYdLEY7Nqub0W3R2Jrrlq3KrKUtQ6vngiuehjoG7dIARsPIG9k9PN/s1600-h/Day+1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 253px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZVe3qrMDgNG0Fcnam9000bZixa3trcBAHpg7pxFjGwo4fpFnxInkowFBUr3R97xvmlULfE30yg-buztXUCsfPng9eYdLEY7Nqub0W3R2Jrrlq3KrKUtQ6vngiuehjoG7dIARsPIG9k9PN/s400/Day+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315271540783331186" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tomorrow</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAlRTzzqWqAV7EXLwe6JYCprpRZ6yzIeM04V6JsL-IODQorRqx_ShiI_nu6obPtc4I-QOx4joqzDq24s8EXovUIB5-okx7El1thw2TnkmiPj54z1XPE89nRVA9D9GTOw3VusNXbHOAhc8-/s1600-h/Gullable.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 288px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAlRTzzqWqAV7EXLwe6JYCprpRZ6yzIeM04V6JsL-IODQorRqx_ShiI_nu6obPtc4I-QOx4joqzDq24s8EXovUIB5-okx7El1thw2TnkmiPj54z1XPE89nRVA9D9GTOw3VusNXbHOAhc8-/s400/Gullable.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315274698975500674" border="0" /></a>We arranged to continue on the Monday evening but before entering Naxx we thought we'd have a bit of fun with Succi as he wasn't in our raid group yet because he was Arena-ing.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">*While outside Naxx in Dragonblight*</span><br />Heloko: "Ok, Asaron pull now"<br />Asaron: "Ok"<br />Valilor: "Wait! Let me cast MD"<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">*We were doing nothing of the sort obviously*</span><br />Succi: "Huh? What's going on?"<br />Heloko: "OMG Succi, where are you? You're on adds!"<br />Valilor: "Oh oh"<br />Succi: "What? You've started?"<br />Heloko: "Yup...where are you?"<br />Succi: "Hang on...it doesn't say your in Naxx in the social panel?"<br />Asaron: "There's lag between where we are and when the panel updates, that's why you can't see where we are."<br />Succi: "Oh crap ;( "<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">*Couple of mins pass*</span><br />Heloko:"FFS Succi, where were you? You were on adds!"<br />Asaron: "Wipe :("<br /><br />LOL - Not word for word perfect but pretty much the gist of what happened. Succi's been after a title for a while now and it looks like he finally has one: <span style="font-style: italic;">Succi the Gullible!</span><br /><br />So after that little bit of fun we all met at the summoning stone in Naxx, or so we thought...where was Cumulonimbus? We were 1 healer down when we entered Naxx for day 2 so we thought we'd give the construct quarter a miss, it was pretty close with 10 so we went for the military quarter as the first couple of boss' are meant to be easier.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Instructor Razuvious</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWFRdC52dbU7ruMYqS5ni-JnyT2ZY8xKlYyoJlJ9ivTCDnEeGemwBd57zySXYwGcTn9OtEwraxOZLVP7_VQBklGWZY_cAFHL4WqWjL5-WOO8cWx7vVqX563xzSd_KY7tqtUblzLL-26dPL/s1600-h/instructor.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 304px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWFRdC52dbU7ruMYqS5ni-JnyT2ZY8xKlYyoJlJ9ivTCDnEeGemwBd57zySXYwGcTn9OtEwraxOZLVP7_VQBklGWZY_cAFHL4WqWjL5-WOO8cWx7vVqX563xzSd_KY7tqtUblzLL-26dPL/s400/instructor.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315279529493408050" border="0" /></a><br />The first boss in the Military quarter is a very hard hitting instructor. The strategy here is for 2 tanks to mind control 2 other mobs next to the instructor and tank him with those...taking it in turns to tank as the mind control runs out and timing bone shield/taunt accordingly. Everyone else needs to hug the boss and hunters need to keep him at the min range (just outside of melee).<br /><br />We attempted to 9 man it with 2 healers...it was hard work though, the two tanks were Succi who kept disconnecting at the most inappropriate times and Asaron, who plays with an XBox 360 controller (and mouse/keyboard). It didn't go too well and we <a href="http://wowwebstats.com/cr2jn342im3ak?s=17692-20905">wiped</a> after one of the tanks died (reason unknown) after 2 mins 57.<br /><br />For <a href="http://wowwebstats.com/cr2jn342im3ak?s=21261-30171">attempt 2</a> we thought we'd enter LFG for another healer. In came Mübarek a Paladin healer. He said "If we wipe I'm leaving" before we started - not a good sign for a healer. He was relatively well geared but went out of mana really early on in the fight and after 5 Mins 35 we wiped.<br /><br /><a href="http://wowwebstats.com/cr2jn342im3ak?s=30455-38730">Attempt 3 </a>we were back to 9 men but had the tactics down much better but possibly due to a Succi dissconnection we lost control of one of the tanks, who one-shotted Mynnx leaving us with 1 healer and we wiped after 6 mins 05. We knew we coud do it this time though, we just needed to stop any disconnections! It looks like Succi has earnt his second title on this run: <span style="font-style: italic;">Succi the Disconnector!</span><br /><br /><a href="http://wowwebstats.com/cr2jn342im3ak?s=30455-38730">Attempt 4</a> = Success and also in 4 mins 31! Much better :D<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfPXaiXjPGdkY18kEdzhq1eOPXRYupMElf94UiebHUHotKT3QWae0n-iLuABv-gGQ1Lj3k7DbiI2jVQUO7MsZfbqTlNRLYHtnL-lPXiaNInw6rzQkFkZqA5n8YstcuwVpi1XkncegrTVBa/s1600-h/IR+stats+1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 248px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfPXaiXjPGdkY18kEdzhq1eOPXRYupMElf94UiebHUHotKT3QWae0n-iLuABv-gGQ1Lj3k7DbiI2jVQUO7MsZfbqTlNRLYHtnL-lPXiaNInw6rzQkFkZqA5n8YstcuwVpi1XkncegrTVBa/s400/IR+stats+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315281741866782082" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Boss or Mob?</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS9Q_ASYHpLgBErmHshWxUJ6FlxZaWUXvGabo-sAQdFs7joAxADpMHCgOHeS6yw5qGxlnWzs_SZiKTmyd0du1gRxMS1gCudm0fquYyAbVt4FMprx6Zhce75YJFAQjv8mwcr_3udT6RvakD/s1600-h/Gothik.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS9Q_ASYHpLgBErmHshWxUJ6FlxZaWUXvGabo-sAQdFs7joAxADpMHCgOHeS6yw5qGxlnWzs_SZiKTmyd0du1gRxMS1gCudm0fquYyAbVt4FMprx6Zhce75YJFAQjv8mwcr_3udT6RvakD/s400/Gothik.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315283273495037298" border="0" /></a><br />Next up was <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=16060">Gothik the harvester</a>. Here you usually split into 2 groups and deal with the alive/undead side but when we entered the room no-one had read any tactics and Asaron noticed he only had around 800k HP so:<br /><br />Asaron: "He only 800k HP, what a sissy!"<br />Heloko: "Go on then, Aggro him"<br />Asaron: "What are the tactics?"<br />Heloko: /Chicken<br />Asaron: "Don't make me!"<br /><br />Asaron Engages Gothik!<br /><br />All 9 of us were on one side, the death knights came, were promptly killed and they rose in spirit form, waiting for us on the other side. This went on for a few cycles until the doors separating the sides opened and a tide of mobs came! Chaos! Usually with all these adds I get volley out but I was too scared of the aggro so I just shot at Asaron's taget..it was mental! Gothik then came down to join in the fun, teleporting from one side to the other - completely pointlessly as the gates were open and we just nuked him into the ground (Usually the gates are closed and each group gets a go). What an easy boss! No tactics necessary...or maybe we can call this 9 man tactic "To AMOV it!"......Leeeeeeeerrrooooooyyyyy! [Report <a href="http://wowwebstats.com/cr2jn342im3ak?s=61416-71580">WWS Gothik</a>]<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI6NIJC8nh1InemhQog72UGrKRncFbxIa4uRbUE1kXr2vGNKNd1ko7cOQk-kxpf8Fa8guWZzDXDw65q6AdYN7_l-GAgiC45aOYN2VmNhdDjTmGtuxB5a64s3CtNJXUvH4AsXxd1TlBJBsS/s1600-h/gothik+stats.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 251px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI6NIJC8nh1InemhQog72UGrKRncFbxIa4uRbUE1kXr2vGNKNd1ko7cOQk-kxpf8Fa8guWZzDXDw65q6AdYN7_l-GAgiC45aOYN2VmNhdDjTmGtuxB5a64s3CtNJXUvH4AsXxd1TlBJBsS/s400/gothik+stats.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315285311859414530" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bear-Faced Cheek!</span><br /><br />Between Gothik and the 4 Horsemen are some pretty tough trash mobs, so tough in fact that Valilor, Extra-Brave (apart from PvP) MM hunter has a chance of dying...and I did. What isn't too help full is when the feral druid comes to sit on your vunerable, helpless dead body and then for the resto druid to shift to a bear and sit on you too!<br /><br />Once everyone was finished laughing, Heloko ressed me. I was in need of some healing......and a wash!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSlNGAgaYWVVYra4Atuyvg-KCyQ69Yc32RRoN-hT55FHvtamvCnx4-KEsOhXGjoIyEpQemJIuMZFXchweCF8mjfiIOiiN7S2M_AuyaiaYv8XUy4P8Egqx6NCTt8Db14_bCehFo4xPJ1P0M/s1600-h/Rudej.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSlNGAgaYWVVYra4Atuyvg-KCyQ69Yc32RRoN-hT55FHvtamvCnx4-KEsOhXGjoIyEpQemJIuMZFXchweCF8mjfiIOiiN7S2M_AuyaiaYv8XUy4P8Egqx6NCTt8Db14_bCehFo4xPJ1P0M/s400/Rudej.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315292904212625010" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Apocalypse Now?</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfIylfFTra3dA3E7N0mA2_GC_l4ZOWqZDjXLNu5Gwjsoa7zmHil2_JRva5zbiVRJZriTrMhWcCF4t4McAnHGRhG6X1svs5yd1wn-rIzuaOMV598u6ofvyViajpkU86qm2Z7bjcCadpm5Sz/s1600-h/o-wwe-four-horsemen.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 285px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfIylfFTra3dA3E7N0mA2_GC_l4ZOWqZDjXLNu5Gwjsoa7zmHil2_JRva5zbiVRJZriTrMhWcCF4t4McAnHGRhG6X1svs5yd1wn-rIzuaOMV598u6ofvyViajpkU86qm2Z7bjcCadpm5Sz/s400/o-wwe-four-horsemen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315286730066552114" border="0" /></a><br />The last boss of the Military Quarter are the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?object=181366">Four Horsemen</a>. There's various tactics to use here but with 9 men and only 2 healers we were pretty limited. The four horsemen is arguably the hardest boss in Naxxramas as it needs the most co-ordination. For our first attempt we went for the strategy of using Gloam and Ultradeath to tank the rear ranged horsemen with Mynnx healing them and at the front Succi and Asaron tanked a boss each with the DPS nuking one of them at a time and Heloko healing. It started ok but we soon had problems with Heloko recieving the debuffs from both front boss' and then got one-shotted. With 9 men, one death = wipe and this was no different. 2 mins 13 in we <a href="http://wowwebstats.com/cr2jn342im3ak?s=87719-91022">wiped</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://wowwebstats.com/cr2jn342im3ak?s=91431-94310">Attempt 2</a> we pulled Mynnx to the front and left no healers at the back, hopefully Gloam and Ultradeath could heal themselves through it but again we wiped after 1 min 40.<br /><br />It was getting late now, attempt 2 ended at 00:24am but we decided to give it one more try. Using the same tactics as attempt 2 we <a href="http://wowwebstats.com/cr2jn342im3ak?bl=94210">wiped</a> again after 1 min 10 secs. At 00:33am we decided to call it a night and that's where we left Naxx, AMOV's first attempt at Naxx was now complete - the reset coming just over a day later.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">To be continued!</span><br /><br />With 2 quarters cleared, most of the military and 1 boss from the construct, AMOV will return again - probably same time this week to re-run what we've already done and to hopefully get further this time! With the same 10 people, with no disconnections and a full turn out I have no doubt we can do it next time! A few people have also been running Heroics hectically since the Naxx run so we'll be better geared for our next Naxx attempt :D<br /><br /><a href="http://wowwebstats.com/2zzw5pbip36fo">Day 1 stats</a><br /><a href="http://wowwebstats.com/cr2jn342im3ak?m">Day 2 stats</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhmyWXbxMiYmigRoYrMWumdNZpvRqH5b8zi35Ne8EPqEmO_euYrCYzTSdUPolCsWfIsJMaQXaaunPRs-9zhxF_BpPYZqt-b5vEDUth2AbnsFlSXrW1C_4E5svBHSNuCJ736Md_NlEaOwGW/s1600-h/next+time.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhmyWXbxMiYmigRoYrMWumdNZpvRqH5b8zi35Ne8EPqEmO_euYrCYzTSdUPolCsWfIsJMaQXaaunPRs-9zhxF_BpPYZqt-b5vEDUth2AbnsFlSXrW1C_4E5svBHSNuCJ736Md_NlEaOwGW/s400/next+time.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315291757242587506" border="0" /></a>Valilorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409281146502952195noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304288196926363050.post-71155756601638147492009-03-19T09:36:00.019+00:002009-03-19T14:50:28.997+00:00AMOV Special: Naxxramas: The Plague QuarterAfter clearing all 3 boss' in the Anarchid quarter, AMOV rolled on to the next quarter - the plague quarter. Unlike the Anarchid quarter, the plague quarter actually has a drop I need - the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39581">T7 shoulders </a>(see <a href="http://valilor.blogspot.com/2009/03/final-pre-naxx-post.html">previous po</a>st) , which drop from Loatheb. Did I get it? Find out below! Here's the <a href="http://wowwebstats.com/2zzw5pbip36fo">Day 1 WWS Report</a><br /><br /><br /><div align="left"><strong>Noth the Plaguebringer</strong><br /></div><div align="left"><strong></strong></div><br /><br /><div align="left"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314835631816117490" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 324px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUMMqRhXz-iHxjyirn_LSjR7muOiqFPi1vnL0rxDW4lRbgogFdfyU70bQA36M0pNBm0EnK171kXA1JKydH5qmJHTarmT9P_Y-O8nRR9LcOZZUxTwwYIQh1EvP1xIcmrq5KXg7HwokR7mx5/s400/Noth.jpg" border="0" /> After clearing out the trash without much hassle we found ourselves at the first boss of the plague quarter, <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=15954">Noth the plague bringer</a>. Noth has this title as he can inflict a <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=29213">plague </a>on some players, which if not decursed will spread and<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=29214"> wipe the raid</a>. Along with this ability, Noth can summon skeleton adds and at 3 points in the encounter he will teleport to a balcony and let the raid fight lots of mobs, which need to be picked up by the tanks and OTs.<br /></div><br /><br /><div align="left">Pretty straight-forward fight, we finished him in 6 mins 40 secs and as the nature of the fight has noth teleporting in/out and summoning adds, it's not a great one for Marksman Hunters and their mana, I went out of mana a few times and had to switch to the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=34074">Aspect of the Viper</a>. The report for the boss is here: <a href="http://wowwebstats.com/2zzw5pbip36fo?s=89616-105752">WWS Noth the Plaguebringer</a></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314840788915708146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 237px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6xGhTj-J7RacJeA4l0IAiZLGReqSxkMXtQd_4YLCKd1naSwrn5DasimlF9OmhmR5kkzB6jtLx5VXwOhkJrYX2bUdwPoJ56QunsEIZVEEI9b7TMf0YPmaqyGeScEFxEIQZWiDEpGoAkcNg/s400/noth+wws.jpg" border="0" /><br />If you look at the below, in this fight I had to use Aspect of the Viper for 20% of time. Using that ability reduces your damage by 50% so I effectively had to nerf my DPS by 10% in this fight...and that's with both <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=53408">judgement of wisdom </a> and <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=57669">replenishment </a>- I need to figure out what happens in 25 man raids that can stop me from running out of mana....and copy it!<br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314840843179520898" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 313px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjrJge3nP-P_areIqGR1ZMoOYMl56sIroEaDeBYJ5NMkNCg_kXjvii0ynoFTuRhsTHdhT60_NP6Gy_KfceC0sPrKnlEMfIOYxhrNyHk346ozRYJWV8O0DpbgdeKb1FYKMBwJihtnvtk3Rn/s400/AoV+time.jpg" border="0" /><br /><p align="center"><em><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=13161">Aspect of the beast</a>? lol</span></em><br /><br /><strong></strong></p><strong>Tishoo, tishoo, all fall down....</strong><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9ySfLR_ZsoR5vV5roTBfAN6JdZV7s7jj3ijeXsU15DW3yDx5STaIyON8wf3phUm9SjMTEJesiq1dwQy-8udpXQgABSQ7Il5AxvNx0ASEQKgx9oAcibupTTcm1sXVwqpVsNzuwxtADFAoq/s1600-h/Heigan+Image.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314879106690829074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 348px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9ySfLR_ZsoR5vV5roTBfAN6JdZV7s7jj3ijeXsU15DW3yDx5STaIyON8wf3phUm9SjMTEJesiq1dwQy-8udpXQgABSQ7Il5AxvNx0ASEQKgx9oAcibupTTcm1sXVwqpVsNzuwxtADFAoq/s400/Heigan+Image.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=15936">Heigan the unclean</a> is infamous for wiping raids that don't know the "<a href="http://www.theorderls.com/belt/wm/wow/heigan.html">dance</a>". AMOV aren't one to turn a good old dance down though and we are most certainly not affaid to bust a move...so off we went to face DJ Heigan in an epic battle for the dancefloor!<br /><br />Heigan's has 2 phases and different abilities in Naxx10. In Phase 1 (The Slow Dance) the ranged DPS/healers have to run up to the platform and shoot pew pew heigan while the tank and melee DPS follow him round and perform the dance. The waves hit every 10 seconds and Hiegan can also <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=29310">silence </a>all casters within 20 yards so the tank has to keep him a safe distance from the platform. After 90 seconds of slow dancing, Heigan presumably gets bored and begins Phase 2, the fast dance. In this phase Heigan goes back to the platform and EVERYONE has to get to the dancefloor, just as if Fatboy Slim just got on the decks. Valilor hates DJs. Phase 2 everyone has to do the dance, ranged can keep shooting if they can but the important thing here is survival - each wave happens every 2-3 seconds instead of 10 so you're constantly moving around. After 45 seconds of this Phase 1 starts again.<br /><br /><p><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=27978">This </a>item won't help you on Heigan unfortunately.</p><p>So how did AMOV fair? Well not everyone had been here before so I was expecting the worst. In phase one 2 melee DPS died and in phase 2 nearly the whole raid was finished...a few survived but by the time phase 2 came around again I found myself the last man standing, just like at the end of a night when everyone's coupled up....So only one thing for it, Solo Heigan!</p>/R "I'm going to have him, CHARRRRGGEEE!"<br /><br />/R "Lol, go on, solo him"<br /><br />*I get hit pretty hard*<br /><br />/R "Ouch!"<br /><br />*I run towards the exit*<br /><br />*next hit comes*<br /><br />*I <em>die*</em><br /><br />/R "LOL, you suck!"<br /><br /><em>*I press jump*</em><br /><br />/R "Huzzah, I survived!" Feign Death is great :D<br /><br />Ok, I didn't actually say Huzzah but some word to that effect. Here's the proof of my survival!:<br /><br /><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIeXKmWDIsi80JLqthgKQgpSINIn9AKalFi5mB5PnhzjoRep2y_rvNn15Tb0MVIL_DAMsPjVhcN545TfsV450biPLz7pzIOK6EcBU33Y4c1J_5Ff7WA5b9ymVDKTytRgpuff_0aBgdDdDM/s1600-h/Heigan+try+1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314866754201538386" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 249px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIeXKmWDIsi80JLqthgKQgpSINIn9AKalFi5mB5PnhzjoRep2y_rvNn15Tb0MVIL_DAMsPjVhcN545TfsV450biPLz7pzIOK6EcBU33Y4c1J_5Ff7WA5b9ymVDKTytRgpuff_0aBgdDdDM/s400/Heigan+try+1.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><br /><p>For attempt two, I got everyone to watch me as I did the "dance" before we pulled Heigan (bad thought: Imagine pulling heigan in a club, eewww) and I had a big star on my head for people to follow....it wasn't enough though, we wiped again after 7 mins 21. The problem this time was that we didn't all die in the dance, there was just not enough DPS left by the end that we couldn't kill him quick enough so we started to get mana issues and also running the risk of hitting the waves each time.<br /></p><br /><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3bQvg1-JH5oEzYmQwV1HKFIIjU9plirEiW-lyJnwThugYBvgUtdX8M7qNHEkAEyLPLHtcPMUn0sMVGNr7fuF5ZMN4kBddJPxIR7UVL5P29D_6FuYh9-sWCFDW3Hi41fSWgtClCEG_Nowi/s1600-h/wipej.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314869962905074882" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 250px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3bQvg1-JH5oEzYmQwV1HKFIIjU9plirEiW-lyJnwThugYBvgUtdX8M7qNHEkAEyLPLHtcPMUn0sMVGNr7fuF5ZMN4kBddJPxIR7UVL5P29D_6FuYh9-sWCFDW3Hi41fSWgtClCEG_Nowi/s400/wipej.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> Sign of a good party? Everyone on the floor....</span></p><p>Attempt 3 = Success!</p><p>After an epic 9 mins 57 and down to 4 men standing (Valilor, Ultradeath, Asaron and Heloko), we defeated Heigan and won the dancefloor! <a href="http://wowwebstats.com/2zzw5pbip36fo?s=122431-130711">WWS Heigan the unclean</a><br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLevwBUcQxULsLeZM3a7Xtkhpqi2ZBxG65ISqcVlS03f0o4vVkXaJqbhUygA09p7jw-zv8XeYoWyR7xYFBmst_qdudDLOl6Rus-MGFWsF-W0JhFfnBY2gYZCk1_imAcZO89_oB1wLWc_ga/s1600-h/New+Picture.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314869388353831298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 242px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLevwBUcQxULsLeZM3a7Xtkhpqi2ZBxG65ISqcVlS03f0o4vVkXaJqbhUygA09p7jw-zv8XeYoWyR7xYFBmst_qdudDLOl6Rus-MGFWsF-W0JhFfnBY2gYZCk1_imAcZO89_oB1wLWc_ga/s400/New+Picture.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><br /><p>So after a hectic party, we clearly had enough dancing...time for some magic mushrooms..</p><p><strong>Drugs are bad, M'kay?</strong></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmj-fvmQ-aBQyI8Ok68Q24e6N4MJPhyphenhyphenFJWs0icuuWVK3xWtYGYcTjx4SfBaVv0Tb1zqjkD76H1M_IVxFt8vQTPDVZz4CYdc1drt97zpvdw4kvWGnhInnGa-uYFq3tLyNQqnTbv9Lvhyphenhypheno5Y/s1600-h/Page_1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314891101368840898" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 271px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmj-fvmQ-aBQyI8Ok68Q24e6N4MJPhyphenhyphenFJWs0icuuWVK3xWtYGYcTjx4SfBaVv0Tb1zqjkD76H1M_IVxFt8vQTPDVZz4CYdc1drt97zpvdw4kvWGnhInnGa-uYFq3tLyNQqnTbv9Lvhyphenhypheno5Y/s400/Page_1.jpg" border="0" /></a> So on we went to the final boss of the plague quarter, <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=16011">Loatheb</a>. Loatheb is an interesting fight as there's 2 key things to look out for: Spores and the Necrotic Aura.<br /><br /><p>The DPS need to run to a <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=29232">spore </a>(they can't be aggro'd) and kill them when theres at least 5 people within a 10 year range of it. The 5 people will get a +50% Crit buff plus will not cause any threat from their moves, which last 2 mins, so it's important to get this on the top DPS. A spore is summoned every 30 seconds so it's possible to get all DPS buffed up.</p><p>The <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=55593">Necrotic Aura </a>makes the fight interesting for healers as it creates 20 second cycles, 17 seconds where they can't heal and 3 seconds where they can, so it's a mad scramble in those 3 seconds to keep everyone topped up.</p><p>Loatheb also casts <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=55052">inevitable doom </a>which causes nature damage and after 7 mins he enrages and casts this ability more frequently, so it's a DPS race to kill him as quick as possible before the damage becomes unhealable which is why you'll need all the crit you can get...his HP is 6.69 million!<br /><br />Here's a breakdown of the fight:</p><p>1min-5min: Uneventful</p><p>5:54</p><p>Cumulonimbus dies</p><p>6:11</p><p>Rosencrantz dies</p><p>7:26</p><p>Gloam: "Don't heal me, i'll use <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=48788">Lay on hands</a>"<br />*Gloam presses wrong button*</p><p>Gloam has died</p><p>8:21</p><p>Mynnx has died<br />Loatheb has died</p><p>Loatheb looks a bit like a reto druid, maybe he had a spiritual bond with Mynnx the resto druid?</p><p>Report is here: <a href="http://wowwebstats.com/2zzw5pbip36fo?s=133084-151282&m">WWS Loatheb</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEp_vBA-TYwpc5Mg_Em9bRiDLo9dKx24fIDAPUUdwxPmnjL2CBoGVmbQGc-M_9w8IZhGTQHVvWq6IZYsFQkIZA1-SNqRWVMwjMxIa8a83xOPB9_4UuGextgUdjXyff5eYCdSmPJmTrmVlq/s1600-h/Loatheb+attempt.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314891394135272178" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 257px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEp_vBA-TYwpc5Mg_Em9bRiDLo9dKx24fIDAPUUdwxPmnjL2CBoGVmbQGc-M_9w8IZhGTQHVvWq6IZYsFQkIZA1-SNqRWVMwjMxIa8a83xOPB9_4UuGextgUdjXyff5eYCdSmPJmTrmVlq/s400/Loatheb+attempt.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>Over 4k DPS? Lots of Crit Buff!</em></span><br /><br /></p><p>Did the T7 Hunter shoulders drop? NO! So 2 quarters down, nothing rolled on....on to the construct Quarter!</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimpplkAq0djeYm1KPpDAuz5Sdroo-2U_uSSMZ5tkGi9RWgAbCLj09wIHwysI7f1x94BspC0Jmc-G2vhKrkq4RRwBzcEsFJItydGZINYTb9yOw0rpuO2X1eLTq6KnrXb0eR061jkEcD1b1d/s1600-h/christmas-patchwork1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314892705361628786" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 267px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimpplkAq0djeYm1KPpDAuz5Sdroo-2U_uSSMZ5tkGi9RWgAbCLj09wIHwysI7f1x94BspC0Jmc-G2vhKrkq4RRwBzcEsFJItydGZINYTb9yOw0rpuO2X1eLTq6KnrXb0eR061jkEcD1b1d/s400/christmas-patchwork1.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><p align="center"><em>Our next task....</em></p><p>TO BE CONTINUED....</p><p></p>Valilorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409281146502952195noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304288196926363050.post-10914977793604089892009-03-16T18:51:00.016+00:002009-03-17T13:24:00.402+00:00AMOV Special: Naxxramas: The Arachnid Quarter<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcQHSTV-zrjIeL5THrf1h9L8kiVAAZgKq8gTUXvuhjHFD3xAzpO6mqlSXeXTrQxfS5vdMVEFHH0N99rAeawV76kuWX_OOlWOdEzrqZ28WhLkdNInf7lXvBlQUFPaeNX5_3x3q33Z96_1Mi/s1600-h/Naxx2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313880836726254066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 250px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcQHSTV-zrjIeL5THrf1h9L8kiVAAZgKq8gTUXvuhjHFD3xAzpO6mqlSXeXTrQxfS5vdMVEFHH0N99rAeawV76kuWX_OOlWOdEzrqZ28WhLkdNInf7lXvBlQUFPaeNX5_3x3q33Z96_1Mi/s400/Naxx2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Sunday, March 15th - Aggro My Own Vegetable's first ever guild raid. Unable to do a full clear in one sitting, at the end of day 1 we called it a day at <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=15931">Grobbulus</a> in the construct quarter. The Day 1 report is <a href="http://wowwebstats.com/2zzw5pbip36fo">here</a>. This evening we continue hopefully clearing the construct and military quarters before heading for the final two, including <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=15990">KT</a> who is on my hit list!<br /><br />Doing a full report of the whole run in one go would probably be a bit too much for me to do and you to read so I'll post a quarter at a time.<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">The check list</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguOLgZZ0UqxImPDzdSrYCc7d05TCWnt3_qwvBO803n9j_vy0yGAPKBUCYUjQtaZfJPDy4qVumBr542zOTCdaowoznhhzQY9u85UCFFWUnR4tyuFvS6hbiC7y5rGNnHDUaxG0rbUsQKjHKc/s1600-h/checklist.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313881946921089154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguOLgZZ0UqxImPDzdSrYCc7d05TCWnt3_qwvBO803n9j_vy0yGAPKBUCYUjQtaZfJPDy4qVumBr542zOTCdaowoznhhzQY9u85UCFFWUnR4tyuFvS6hbiC7y5rGNnHDUaxG0rbUsQKjHKc/s400/checklist.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Going on a raid isn't quite as simple as just turning up, you need to get everything ready so I went through this check list:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=34753">Raid</a> & <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=33874">Pet</a> Food [Strangely YOU have to eat the pet food for the pet to get the bonus]<br /></li><li>Buy 5600 <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41586">arrows</a>/<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41584">bullets</a> [28 Slot <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44448">quiver</a>/<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44447">ammo</a> pouch]</li><li>Unless you're gunning for a <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2187">undying</a>/<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2186">immortal</a> achievement, get the relevant <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40084">flasks</a> which persist through death.</li><li>Repair all your gear.</li><li>Make sure everything is enchanted/gemmed.</li><li>Check your <a href="http://www.wowwiki.com/hit">hit</a> rating [Being hit capped might not be possible for everyone]</li><li>Read boss tactics.</li><li>Sign into Vent [If available]<br /></li></ul>With all the above done, you'll already be better than 90% of PuG raids and ready to go. When buying <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41584">bullets</a>/<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41586">arrows</a>, if you're not an engineer or if you don't have one in your guild I would buy the cheaper arrows/bullets from a vendor and then a few stack from the AH of the highest damage <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41165">arrows</a>/<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41164">bullets</a> and swap them in for any boss' which need a little more punch. Remember, you can even change your ammo type in combat. For an example of the difference in price, a stack of 200 <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41586">Terrorshaft arrows</a> cost around 30 silver, while a stack of 200 <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41165">Saronite Razorhead</a> arrows on the AH cost about 8 gold! On average I would say a quarter of Naxx might use up 8 slots of ammo, so if you're just using the expensive ones, that's 64 gold per quarter!<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Enter, Stranger(s).....</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMoatW6chuIpXhnd0g2OUWpqg0NAiQbXRkKuwqAssRBniJOWXlIQM_KsSIP7gHU0JS3sVcBzrnYwiBa5XRiH5u8F2u9teR36UQjzGQZ1hvQ-swbKMjYj-eZhQyWSyRhLgTb3CeWxLrk_zO/s1600-h/Group.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313883402013800914" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMoatW6chuIpXhnd0g2OUWpqg0NAiQbXRkKuwqAssRBniJOWXlIQM_KsSIP7gHU0JS3sVcBzrnYwiBa5XRiH5u8F2u9teR36UQjzGQZ1hvQ-swbKMjYj-eZhQyWSyRhLgTb3CeWxLrk_zO/s400/Group.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />For the first time in the history of AMOV we not only had 10 level 80s online but we were going on a raid! The 10 split was as follows and only Wideeye, a Level 64 BM hunter, was left behind. Some say he was left to cook and wash up while the men went to battle.<br /><br /><u>Tanks</u><br />Asaron (MT) - Frost DK<br />Succi - Feral Druid<br /><br /><u>Healers</u><br />Heloko - Holy Paladin<br />Mynnx - Resto Druid<br />Cumulonimbus - Resto Shaman....or possibly a cloud<br /><br /><u>DPS</u><br />Valilor - MM Hunter, a.k.a ME!<br />Ultradeath - Blood DK (who also happens to have the same name as my pet, Dave)<br />Deepcreepy - Combat Rogue<br />Gloam - Ret Paladin & Mana Battery<br />Rosencrantz - Arcane Mage<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">A plague of locust</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfrzppaNdg3EAoxQIDzPF_ugN91IpI0Z5mRAorpdFnKvA8aIaI-TglC-UClXLIIjjWY6dyZjak_iQn_8R9-8E1yGqXbaOPDsYOFjyHC79ESTwawX_Azr39w4OkpGS6cEY6jqR6AtZMsZiv/s1600-h/anub"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313884022957000050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 250px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfrzppaNdg3EAoxQIDzPF_ugN91IpI0Z5mRAorpdFnKvA8aIaI-TglC-UClXLIIjjWY6dyZjak_iQn_8R9-8E1yGqXbaOPDsYOFjyHC79ESTwawX_Azr39w4OkpGS6cEY6jqR6AtZMsZiv/s400/anub'rekhan.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />So off we went into Naxx, for some of us we'd been here before but for some it was their first time. We didn't get off to the smoothest of starts, as Raid Leader at the beginning we went in for someone to point out that I still had it on heroic, d'oh! For once it wasn't something I could blame my pet for. Once that was all done Heloko and I, both cooks over Lv400, thought we'd have a cook off. Heloko put down a great feast, a good solid entry. I went one better, I put down a great feast and then cast a <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=21745">ring of light</a> on it! I thought that was enough but then someone helped out heloko and did the same, it was a draw...Bar humbug!<br /><br />Once we were all buffed we went into Naxx. Killing all trash on sight we were an unstoppable machine, all fell before us. Would we roll on straight through the first boss?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=15956">Anub'Rekhan</a> was first up. Looking like some freaking beetle, this Nerubian Crypt-Lord would be our first challenge. There's 2 tactics to use on the boss here, both involve the ranged DPS and healers to stand near the middle of the room but where they differ is how to tank the boss. Option 1 is to kite him around the room when he casts his locust swarm while Option 2 is to heal the tank through it. The OT picks up the adds and everyone kills/AoEs them down before going back to the boss. We went for option 2.<br /><br />Not much to report here other than it was a cakewalk, Anub'Rekhan was dead after 4 mins 28 seconds with no player deaths. The report is here: <a href="http://wowwebstats.com/2zzw5pbip36fo?s=4551-14820">WWS Anub'Rekhan</a>.<br /><br />As far as my performance was here - it was ok. With lots of adds to switch between it makes an impact on my DPS. For Boss fights, single targets are much better for my DPS as AoE (Volley) is mana inefficient so I'll do better on single targets. This isn't the cast on trash, where Volley is king as my <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=53232">Rapid Recuperation</a> will proc and keep my mana up.<br /><br />Drops? Well if you saw my <a href="http://valilor.blogspot.com/2009/03/final-pre-naxx-post.html">previous post</a> you'll know that there wasn't anything I'd need on in this quarter so nothing useful here...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbThSsz0K8Y74uEnaIyd4tvDAyRIwuaCS59eCvptaKi7v10jPtq-GBHF0Di379SeQWd8d4o25Dh5M-oy1gFEjxRofbFzlNd5v6c2jWyebbX41QbMhaE121Yuicm6Aq0yTF7gI-Hw9xzl_z/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313884213601061618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 252px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbThSsz0K8Y74uEnaIyd4tvDAyRIwuaCS59eCvptaKi7v10jPtq-GBHF0Di379SeQWd8d4o25Dh5M-oy1gFEjxRofbFzlNd5v6c2jWyebbX41QbMhaE121Yuicm6Aq0yTF7gI-Hw9xzl_z/s400/Picture+1.png" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Not so grand</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL1FZFE2e6l1bK8ZToWTzvAwAvFsVT4qzfi-xd_WZz5qwjGLeWWEJ5Cif4DwLSA0SqrHAPCdBmNiZkQBSvujkvN6_4zG4WacQNCh2d3y03RbKhruXFNZCCToAko1Mt1ijmaeZumeSMqVcN/s1600-h/grandwidow.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313884559949194866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 208px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 153px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL1FZFE2e6l1bK8ZToWTzvAwAvFsVT4qzfi-xd_WZz5qwjGLeWWEJ5Cif4DwLSA0SqrHAPCdBmNiZkQBSvujkvN6_4zG4WacQNCh2d3y03RbKhruXFNZCCToAko1Mt1ijmaeZumeSMqVcN/s400/grandwidow.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Without much bother we were at the next boss, <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=15953">Grand Widow Faerlina</a>. This boss has 4 worshippers in Naxx10 and 3 abilities to look out for. One is a poison DoT she casts at the closest 3 players, an AoE called Rein of Fire and most importantly Frenzy. The Dot is disspellable, the AoE needs to be stepped out of and Frenzy can be stopped by killing a worshipper, so the tactic here is to tank and spank the boss until she frenzies, then kill 1 worshipper and go back to the boss. Easy. And it was, after 3 mins 13, no player deaths, boss #2 was down. <a href="http://wowwebstats.com/2zzw5pbip36fo?s=26227-34761">WWS Grand Widow Faerlina</a>.<br /><br />A better performance for everyone's DPS here as while we had to hit a few extra mobs, they died very quickly so we were nuking the boss 99% of the time.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh94Lwl6aPmyqwDTiYnJ1NX-Aw_htNYk1crN3E4xSFEhc5nb5cXU-s6GHLdTL3OEPgTbgyqvrfN1Jrl0Qf3L9AkSvERNzZlMoB6R4PlttxHaMXOZkbmNCCQQDMEEQmDaZtTsPzx3TqadCPQ/s1600-h/Picture+2.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313884749282246610" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 259px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh94Lwl6aPmyqwDTiYnJ1NX-Aw_htNYk1crN3E4xSFEhc5nb5cXU-s6GHLdTL3OEPgTbgyqvrfN1Jrl0Qf3L9AkSvERNzZlMoB6R4PlttxHaMXOZkbmNCCQQDMEEQmDaZtTsPzx3TqadCPQ/s400/Picture+2.png" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sorry, no Rogues</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-vtqjtRN2rc8e8yToKX-xifhpNdrKAwY5pOAG6aZRE5f7k6G2FhrK_Mz2hyphenhyphenRocMEDGahjGfqhksIDN_djDttT9tMkbyLqKtgEsmd1W1hsYSRovseA6PG9cBailjpwdByRQ8gG4esuYkk8/s1600-h/Picture+4.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313885649411334578" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 267px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-vtqjtRN2rc8e8yToKX-xifhpNdrKAwY5pOAG6aZRE5f7k6G2FhrK_Mz2hyphenhyphenRocMEDGahjGfqhksIDN_djDttT9tMkbyLqKtgEsmd1W1hsYSRovseA6PG9cBailjpwdByRQ8gG4esuYkk8/s400/Picture+4.png" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The last boss in the arachnid quarter is said to Feign Death and give out loot but after 2 easy boss kills, fighting <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=15952">Maexxna</a> didn't go so smoothly....<br /><br />After clearing out the rest of the trash, we climbed up the webbed ladder and entered Maexxna's lair. Looking like a a <a href="http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/mobs/mob_mystspinner.html">Myst Spinner</a> from Bloodmyst Isle, I offered for everyone to stay where it's safe and I'll go in and tame it....the offer was rejected! Maexxna's abilities are to spawn little spider mobs which need to be AoE'd down and off tanked (or at least kept off the healers), poison, web wrap (which freezes everyone for 2 secs every 40), enrage @ 30% health and cocooon, which randomly wraps one player in web from which they will need to be freed - a bit like the spiders in AN. Our tactic was to tank the boss, everyone else DPS and Rosencrantz and I take care of opening any cocoons.<br /><br />*Ready Check Confirmed*<br />"Everybody in?"<br />"Yes" x10<br />*Asaron engages boss*<br />"WTF?" x 3<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfmzqarGHhfX4PBTKQO7dTo78AYeeHD9OIZpA6Nwc4gubLrqNceqZAIKW3LDMRhvTPQbCNcqZyaQTUNyIqCaNREFD1Y37Eo1e9trP8k6xcee2KDkrXwxdbu0WpEiWK90nkZ1b3c7E7FiI8/s1600-h/polar.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313887527827361794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 346px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfmzqarGHhfX4PBTKQO7dTo78AYeeHD9OIZpA6Nwc4gubLrqNceqZAIKW3LDMRhvTPQbCNcqZyaQTUNyIqCaNREFD1Y37Eo1e9trP8k6xcee2KDkrXwxdbu0WpEiWK90nkZ1b3c7E7FiI8/s400/polar.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Yup, 3 DPS were locked out of the Boss fight as they weren't in properly, lol. <a href="http://wowwebstats.com/2zzw5pbip36fo?s=47467-62388">Here</a>'s the stats for that attempt. Without 3/5 of our DPS missing we didn't have the fire power to kill off the boss very efficiently and after 8 mins 25 seconds we wiped after the boss enraged. I hope it was a fun 8 mins to watch from the sidelines guys!<br /><br />After running back in (None of the 3; Deepcreepy, Ultradeath or Rosencrantz could res) and rebuffing we were ready to take down this big spider.<br /><br />*Ready Check Confirmed*<br />"Everybody in this time??"<br />"Yes" x10<br />*Asaron engaged boss*<br />"WTF?!?!" x1<br /><br />LOL, Deepcreepy didn't make it again - looks like Maexxna, like most people, don't like Rogues. Pretty strict door policy really! With only 1 DPS missing this time the attempt was a lot more successful and in exactly half of the time we wiped in, we killed the boss (4 mins 12 secs). <a href="http://wowwebstats.com/2zzw5pbip36fo?s=64999-75871">WWS Maexxna attempt 2</a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9EyewPRaNjWsNoElNeWKnUWkauPOvJSMM3uuCn-MqKpgPEU11r4pm4HfokmtYEzcJpoJQDH8aDtIE1htMPWLCaqPcWJDRUPjiiy2KcHcAy_fhRU1g16sKKtSkqXVhD0-HHYdturHgMx75/s1600-h/Picture+3.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313887851238126514" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 260px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9EyewPRaNjWsNoElNeWKnUWkauPOvJSMM3uuCn-MqKpgPEU11r4pm4HfokmtYEzcJpoJQDH8aDtIE1htMPWLCaqPcWJDRUPjiiy2KcHcAy_fhRU1g16sKKtSkqXVhD0-HHYdturHgMx75/s400/Picture+3.png" border="0" /></a><br /><br />With 3 boss' down we bugged out of there (Get it? Bugged! LOL) and headed to the next quarter where we heard someone called Heigan was having a Disco!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhocOltLplNiptZdNN9ol7wFV4s70Zw0EObL2Bio5wz6X4PpUbbXqXUqIVcEUmwrEhDsAziYooKsIv_XwV1zAnWYMZ-w2XWN_4oWx35nd1NqkqP4NmfMaIpSpm_PFDBF_2UMe3DonD3vgOp/s1600-h/heigan.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313890199083631058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhocOltLplNiptZdNN9ol7wFV4s70Zw0EObL2Bio5wz6X4PpUbbXqXUqIVcEUmwrEhDsAziYooKsIv_XwV1zAnWYMZ-w2XWN_4oWx35nd1NqkqP4NmfMaIpSpm_PFDBF_2UMe3DonD3vgOp/s400/heigan.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />TO BE CONTINUED......Valilorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409281146502952195noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304288196926363050.post-84531619457105420312009-03-14T11:55:00.007+00:002009-03-14T13:40:32.842+00:00Final Pre-Naxx post<script src="http://www.wowhead.com/widgets/power.js"></script>Only 1 day to go until AMOV take on the evil forces in <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?zone=3456">Naxxramas</a>! I have a quick few updates and also something that could become a new Friday feature.....<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Friday's Yolk - Week 1</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu-By-_7e_SY1ny8gxXL3sb6Rykrm_OZ1J9oJdRroy4KMFs2j6V5_ttM4jwJb9aVXu0ddUk2VVPzQUj5aEU1Yg8ZDP-j0CDIiXlniBSVg0k3lWYBgJiKbpWUruNhnt5-x6jk3xk1JAJJUn/s1600-h/Yolk.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu-By-_7e_SY1ny8gxXL3sb6Rykrm_OZ1J9oJdRroy4KMFs2j6V5_ttM4jwJb9aVXu0ddUk2VVPzQUj5aEU1Yg8ZDP-j0CDIiXlniBSVg0k3lWYBgJiKbpWUruNhnt5-x6jk3xk1JAJJUn/s400/Yolk.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313033536336237058" border="0" /></a><br />My <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39878">Mysterious Egg</a> turned into a <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39883">Cracked Egg </a>on Friday....and what did I get? <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44722">Aged Yolk</a> :( I bought another mysterious egg which will again hatch on Friday so stay tuned for the next installment of the <span style="font-style: italic;">exciting adventures of the mysterious egg</span>!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfXiO5404wvlRaByWsQrA8C6e9HO76zwvKhlVUQ0Rv4_VEK8N9R1Dso1vmFbC9XnXJohwQdOVzDLMss1KGLq5qA3nNs3CvBkoRTGet8PllwoecuX1UJiNlKqnfDmRh7bTt3lo45Frn57kl/s1600-h/destiny.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 318px; height: 105px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfXiO5404wvlRaByWsQrA8C6e9HO76zwvKhlVUQ0Rv4_VEK8N9R1Dso1vmFbC9XnXJohwQdOVzDLMss1KGLq5qA3nNs3CvBkoRTGet8PllwoecuX1UJiNlKqnfDmRh7bTt3lo45Frn57kl/s400/destiny.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313035242133457042" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Eat my [Epic] shorts</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUHKVVPXCdt2N6WnHuSOkalyO89mfXTph6uem1kOoKMm0QKKKNbDRdEgE7ynvOazyLfnNfQzztd4RvCayjAOWNMuBPf-rZjmbLgBo1j9IuifizLhmQN8ajQwiBVLzyl3yo-nTBKHwpIIJ5/s1600-h/5864922_e426a14772.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUHKVVPXCdt2N6WnHuSOkalyO89mfXTph6uem1kOoKMm0QKKKNbDRdEgE7ynvOazyLfnNfQzztd4RvCayjAOWNMuBPf-rZjmbLgBo1j9IuifizLhmQN8ajQwiBVLzyl3yo-nTBKHwpIIJ5/s400/5864922_e426a14772.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313033891500105602" border="0" /></a><br />Heloko and I joined a Naxx25 PuG 2 night ago and cleared out the arachnid and plague quarters but failed on patchwerk. Heloko got a couple of drops and I got one, the pretty much best-in-slot <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40201">Leggings of Colossal Strides</a>. Just need Kynnx to make me one of those <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=50967">Icescale Leg Armor</a> kits for my new legs and they'll be ready to rock Naxx10!<br /><br />We failed 3 times on Patchwerk - twice because the melee DPS/healers messed up and once because we didn't have enough DPS, which without that we weren't going to progress. That also ended the run. Here's a s/shot from recount on our DPS, I'm pretty sure at just over 3k DPS I shouldn't be top!<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMf8mj2naNrlBUS6LOGlTzYbAnFlktz9VsSDFTFp-mdZNSlGRqHoLEYWXswhA29twj77kxzWcY5ISnSEVgJ2zdoFi_feDsz7ASWvfsmPcA4HO4FI985XjzR_NQwOyrzjiiVY8zApiMw5ty/s1600-h/Patchwerk.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 127px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMf8mj2naNrlBUS6LOGlTzYbAnFlktz9VsSDFTFp-mdZNSlGRqHoLEYWXswhA29twj77kxzWcY5ISnSEVgJ2zdoFi_feDsz7ASWvfsmPcA4HO4FI985XjzR_NQwOyrzjiiVY8zApiMw5ty/s400/Patchwerk.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313035455066899858" border="0" /></a><br /></span><span>At one point in Naxx, at the beginning of the Arachnid quarter Heloko whispered to me:<br />"I think my recount is broken, you're doing over 8k DPS"<br />"Ah, that'll be Volley :) You should have seen it pre-30% nerf!"<br /><br />And that's why looking at DPS on Trash isn't important, just check the boss damage - Anyone with AoE damage has a big advantage, especially if they invest 6 <a href="http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-talents.xml?r=Chromaggus&n=Valilor">talent points</a> into it :p</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr11zSjBdexhmI52_bbqhqgNAiaL42oVgwjBZ8z-QAnqZWmtQPsthmxRuYYDs8ohyphenhyphenfeDj0v8CybOpRVk-KK0oKU4EmNOUIzkfuSxY0p0mNNFbKMO0-85fUJOfOKK9KOVcg08b8_jNlHtd_/s1600-h/Picture+7.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr11zSjBdexhmI52_bbqhqgNAiaL42oVgwjBZ8z-QAnqZWmtQPsthmxRuYYDs8ohyphenhyphenfeDj0v8CybOpRVk-KK0oKU4EmNOUIzkfuSxY0p0mNNFbKMO0-85fUJOfOKK9KOVcg08b8_jNlHtd_/s400/Picture+7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313036825246250578" border="0" /></a><br /><br />You are not prepared!</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgTB7JEcQfUB-rYjM2zrfRFPVb1GW6LLXolzuxDZ3yzMB09UeKBachy4nMCc9QHi-JxhksXwitRjP9WDzv4whDDydDSTKi9-BZV97_rb6QNFMz6tkDe2pQo6B-1rTm87tydSNle3gqEJ7r/s1600-h/be_prepared.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 265px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgTB7JEcQfUB-rYjM2zrfRFPVb1GW6LLXolzuxDZ3yzMB09UeKBachy4nMCc9QHi-JxhksXwitRjP9WDzv4whDDydDSTKi9-BZV97_rb6QNFMz6tkDe2pQo6B-1rTm87tydSNle3gqEJ7r/s400/be_prepared.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313034370091554418" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Before going on a raid it's best to know what drops you need/don't need to save time and confusion on rolls! With this in mind I got working on Naxx10 drops, lets see what I get! (Percentages are the odd's of the item dropping)<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Arachnid Quarter</span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=15956">Anub'Rekhan</a> - <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39146">Collar of Dissolution</a> 18% - Nice bit of hit on these but with the +expertise I'll pass on for any melee DPS.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=15953">Grand Widow Faerlina</a> - <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39194">Rusted-Link Spiked Gauntlets</a> 10% - These are BoE but with their +hit they can give me a bit more flexibility should I need to swap any gear around.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=15952">Maexxna</a> - Nothing! (I already have the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39221">Wraith Spear</a>)<br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Plague Quarter</span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=15954">Noth the Plaguebringer</a> - Spaulders of Resumed Battle 19% - Nice shoulder with +hit, again giving me more flexibilty but as it's leather I'll let other class' need before me.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=15936">Heigan the Unclean</a> - Nothing!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=16011">Loatheb</a> - <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40623">Spaulders of the Lost Protector</a> 29% - Trade that in for Tier 7 Hunter Shoulders (<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39581">Heroes' Cryptstalker Spaulders</a>). <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39257">Loatheb's Shadow</a> 10% is nice but more of a side grade for me so I'll let someone else need before me.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Construct Quarter </span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=16028">Patchwerk</a> - <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39270">Hatestrike</a> 24% - Obviously I'll let any rogue need before me but it has some very hunter-friendly stats. I'm kinda hoping it doesn't drop or if it does there is a rogue there as I hate the 2H vs. Dual-Wield argument in my head! Things would be much simpler if hunters just used 2H...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=15931">Grobbulus</a> - <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39277">Sealing Ring of Grobbulus</a> 10% - Probably the item I need most from Naxx10 - a big upgrade from my current <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=36979">Bjarngrim Family Signet</a>! <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39279">The Blistered Belt</a> of Decay 9% is also nice but again it's a bit of a side grade so I'll let others need above me.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=15932">Gluth</a> - Leggings of the lost protector 10% - Tier 7 Hunter legs (<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39580">Heroes' Cryptstalker Legguards</a>) nice to get set bonus but possibly a downgrade so I'll probably pass. <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40623">Spaulders of the lost protector</a> 9% - can drop here as well as from Loatheb earlier.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=15928">Thaddius</a> - <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40620">Leggings of the lost protector</a> 26% - These could drop again but they are still a possible downgrade and there's nothing else of interest!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Military Quarter</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=16061">Instructor Razuvious</a> - <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39297">Cloak of Darkening</a> 10% - Great cloak, just a shame about the lack of hit. Still a nice <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?compare=43406;43566;39297&weights=Hunter%20-%20Marksmanship;Hunter%20-%20Marksmanship;23:119:61:21:114:103:96:77;23:119:61:21:114:103:96:77;100:90:70:63:62:59:43:38;100:90:70:63:62:59:43:38">upgrade</a> for me though.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=16060">Gothik the Harvester</a> - <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39379">Spectral Rider's Girdle</a> 10% - Nice belt but lacking hit bit of a <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?compare=39379;37407&weights=Hunter%20-%20Marksmanship;Hunter%20-%20Marksmanship;23:119:61:21:114:103:96:77;23:119:61:21:114:103:96:77;100:90:70:63:62:59:43:38;100:90:70:63:62:59:43:38">side-grade</a> for some more hit balancing options.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?object=181366">Four Horsemen</a> - Nothing! (I already have the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39397">Pauldrons of Havoc</a>)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Frostwyrm Lair</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=15989">Sapphiron</a> - <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44569">Key to the focusing Iris</a> 89% - not really gear, just a key to open the EoE raid encounter so it's not too important who gets it really. <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39404">Cloak of Mastery</a> 17% - Another cloak <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?compare=43406;43566;39297;39404&weights=Hunter%20-%20Marksmanship;Hunter%20-%20Marksmanship;23:119:61:21:114:103:96:77;23:119:61:21:114:103:96:77;100:90:70:63:62:59:43:38;100:90:70:63:62:59:43:38">upgrade</a>, this time with hit! <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39399">The Helm of Vast Legions</a> 16% is a bit of a +hit <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?compare=39399;39294&weights=Hunter%20-%20Marksmanship;Hunter%20-%20Marksmanship;23:119:61:21:114:103:96:77;23:119:61:21:114:103:96:77;100:90:70:63:62:59:43:38;100:90:70:63:62:59:43:38">sidegrade</a> to my current helm. Being leather though, I'll leather wearers have priority.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=15990">Kel'Thuzad</a><br /><br />First of all, I just want to say I want to kill this punk bad! Just need to kill him and Malygos and I've killed everyone pre-Uludar.<br /><br />There's loads of 1H weapons here I could need on - too many to link - but I'll see who else needs what first. The <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39421">Gem of Imprisoned Vassals</a> 19% is a nice neck <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?compare=39421;40678&weights=Hunter%20-%20Marksmanship;Hunter%20-%20Marksmanship;23:119:61:21:114:103:96:77;23:119:61:21:114:103:96:77;100:90:70:63:62:59:43:38;100:90:70:63:62:59:43:38">upgrade</a> for me. The <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40617">Helm of the Lost Protector</a> 27% is the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39578">Tier 7 hunter helm</a> which is a nice <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?compare=39578;39294;39399&weights=Hunter%20-%20Marksmanship;Hunter%20-%20Marksmanship;23:119:61:21:114:103:96:77;23:119:61:21:114:103:96:77;100:90:70:63:62:59:43:38;100:90:70:63:62:59:43:38">upgrade</a> and could get me the next set bonus, which is good for long boss fights where I have to switch to <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=34074">Aspect of the Viper</a>. Finally the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39419">Nerubian Conquerer</a> 19% drops here which has more AP, Critand Agility than my Final Voyage but less Haste. A <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?compare=39419;40346&weights=Hunter%20-%20Marksmanship;Hunter%20-%20Marksmanship;23:119:61:21:114:103:96:77;23:119:61:21:114:103:96:77;100:90:70:63:62:59:43:38;100:90:70:63:62:59:43:38">side-grade</a> but worth needing on though in case I hit the haste cap or need to swap things around.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Naxx Conclusion</span><br /><br />Some straight forward upgrades available for my cloak, ring and helm here and a few side-grades should anyone else not need them. I'll be pleasantly suprised if we can do more than the Arachnid and Plague quarters on our first run, so with those 2 in mind there's nothing other than side grades available for me :( Oh well, should be fun and for the better of the guild!Valilorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409281146502952195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304288196926363050.post-454203333157570782009-03-12T12:35:00.015+00:002009-03-14T13:43:38.521+00:00A need for achievement....<script src="http://www.wowhead.com/widgets/power.js"></script>What a fun night of heroics! While not everyone really loves achievements, no-one can argues that they have made heroics a lot more fun - with the added bonus of getting a proto-drake when they are all complete!<br /><br />Last night a crack unit of AMOV guildies went after some achievements.<br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><br /><strong>Featuring:</strong><br /><br />Valilor - Hunter DPS<br />Tommytank - Warrior Tank<br />Heloko - Paladin Healer<br />Succi - Feral Druid - DPS<br />Rosencrantz - Mage DPS<br />Deepcreepy - Rogue DPS<br /><br /><em>and the non-AMOV :<br /><br /></em>Deltares - Noob Rogue DPS</div><div align="center"><br /><br /><br /></div><div align="left"><strong>Ahn'kahet: The Old Kingdom (Heroic)</strong></div><div align="center"><br /></div><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312295934025869298" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; height: 302px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIpFuTUDe9NYKLmPolPH3yTSjppp0CW8YkMVRXLM_dg68SHb1MwOt3JHCMHLqZII0zNlA6UtzRkUS5Lq2sF_o4ORFKiygfFw1R4iJWShuEjFdGWZrzyPQAvrfNoIClAs72H9023J9h2eae/s400/ok.jpg" border="0" /><br />I just logged in and checked who was online in the guild - including me there were 5 of us, 1 tank, 1 healer and 3 DPS...the scene was set. Unfortunately one person couldn't join in so we had to enter LFG for a random and up came "Deltares" - at the time a person on Heloko's Friends list as "good DPS" (emphasis on "at the time").<br /><br />We decided to hit the Old Kingdom as there's lots of achievements to be had there so off we went. First up was the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2038">respect your elders </a>achievement. Here we have to kill the boss Elder Nadox without killing his guardians. The challenge is managing the adds and keeping them a distance from the boss as the guardians make the boss immune.<br /><br />On our first attempt we couldn't keep the boss from getting immune and the healer died and we wiped. Not surprising really, it was our first attempt and it was a bit fiddly. Attempt two is when the fun happened. We went in, started doing better on the boss but as soon as a guardian spawned, Deltares - the random rogue - killed it, making us fail the achievement. When asked why, he said "I don't have the time or the gold for the wipes". Nice. A little more lip came in the form of "I was the only survivor" - which not only invalidates his gold excuse but was also incorrect as I too had survived. To cut a long story short, we killed the boss, failed the achievement and booted him from the group.<br /><br />Leaving just Tommy Tank, Heloko, Succi and I we ventured on, which was pretty handy actually as the 4 man achievement <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1861">The Party's Over </a>was up next. We did this one on our first attempt, it wasn't too tricky, you just need decent burst damage for one person gets <em>sucked </em>(sorry, don't know how else to describe it!). After this boss Rosencrantz joined us bringing us back to 5 men. Big improvement over that Rogue, that's for sure!<br /><br />Next up was the difficult <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2056">Volunteer Work </a>achievement. The boss here summons one of her volunteers and sacrifices them to give her a buff. Usually you'd just kill the volunteer but the achievement is to not kill any. On our first two attempts we wiped. When buffed she hits very hard with an AoE attack which can kill the tank and also any other Melee DPS around (Succi). She also puts a circle on the ground which we all have to keep out of. When we succeeded, the tactic was to disarm her reducing her damage (Tommytank did it on her first buff, I used <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=3043">Scorpid Sting</a> with <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=53209">Chimera Shot </a>on her subsequent buff) and to avoid her AoE damage/circle. Done.<br /><br />The final boss was a 2 min time challenge for <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1862">Volazj's Quick Demise</a> - we didn't have any tactics here, we just went for it as quick as possible...which was too slow. 2:51 was our time. Not too much of a problem though as we just have 2 achievements to come back for!<br /><br /><strong>Nexus (Heroic)</strong><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312296887732389458" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 259px; height: 400px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYrCquzl5kz53kPucMsDEaBIBM0DpuneGnpESU6pzn0NDya4AM3SSXGsFB8O50tEUB4pgz1PTZMgIAqgnZWOckdw8Rw74fkHxa0652nUryrW4hveAcBSxnwPirvDuzka0c0dMscRAPPOY4/s400/nexus.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br />I had 2 achievement to do here before I finally had no need ever to return to Nexus so off we went.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2150">Split Personality</a> was the first achievement up, not too difficult if you can control your damage. Our tactic was to take one image down to 5k health then move on to the next, then the next and then to AoE them to zero. Our first attempt didn't go to plan, one of the images seemed to give up the will to live a bit too easily so we all ran out of the boss room and it reset. Attempt 2 was a complete success. 1 down 1 to go.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2037">Chaos Theory</a> requires you not to kill any rifts, which means to survive the tank needs to take all the damage from the rifts and everyone else stay a safe distance behind - killing adds, and the whole fight has everyone back peddling down the plateaus. This was pretty difficult - we did it on our first attempt but only just - we wiped but with Rosencrantz dying breath he killed <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=26763">Anomalus </a>- getting us all the achievement. Sweet!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8g5brSNWadG6Oo5blDNDduAZRG3D5UlxGMe-T1F_6_LUKdy8V6HJdkebZ3Vs662Imes3CnEmdccct-ofROYZfjeL5Sy6kZ0U6o3yXG1kcmodkKmnEABV5NT8g4ByeZQiHazHw8iQykik_/s1600-h/Picture+3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 148px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8g5brSNWadG6Oo5blDNDduAZRG3D5UlxGMe-T1F_6_LUKdy8V6HJdkebZ3Vs662Imes3CnEmdccct-ofROYZfjeL5Sy6kZ0U6o3yXG1kcmodkKmnEABV5NT8g4ByeZQiHazHw8iQykik_/s400/Picture+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313038428409193506" border="0" /></a>Just before the last boss I thought I'd have some fun with Tommytank as he played around with his UI.</p><p>/p Tommytank: "blah blah blah UI etc"<br />/p Heloko: "yak yak yak etc"<br />/w to Heloko: "Psst, shall I have some MD fun with Tom?"<br />/w from Heloko: "LOL, yeah go for it!"<br />/p Tommytank: "blah blah blah more UI stuff etc"</p><p>*Valilor sneaks off round a corner and spots a mob*<br />*Valilor presses the MD macro button (casts on tank)*<br />*Valilor shoots mob and then stands still*</p><p>/p Heloko: "Yeah that should fix your UI and LOOK BEHIND YOU!!"</p><p>The mob was pretty easy but it was fun none the less. It was just a shame there was only one around ;) We then went on to kill the 2 boss'. Tommytank also got the<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2036"> intense cold </a>achievement and I now had no need to ever return here!</p><p>A quick note on this for any other non-BM hunters out there. There's no way we can do this on our own, you'll get trapped 3 times on this boss and unless you have any method of getting out of it (pots, PvP trinkets, Human racial etc) it's impossible. The two ways of doing this is to either get someone to heop you out (Heloko did this for me with <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=1044">Hand of freedom</a>) or to no join in the fight!<br /><br /><strong>Violet Hold (Heroic)</strong><br /><br /></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312297127286363154" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; height: 253px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIn8nOH8CYTMnqjf723a76aMob7t0ZTp8vck_TodNyAZP2D6NF13tj_1zq3B8cD2jzIa1jjqKKSCIA7RW9sGQtbRXfWBPkWmA71-9P8AI2ssPAtzfNUv2fM_u5cy6L7CBPJApYSmliUG2K/s400/VH+Boss.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">His name might be vegetable he's not food!</span></em><br /><br /></p><p>Here I was after the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2153">Void Dance </a>achievement and Succi was after the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2041">Dehydration </a>achievement but it's a lottery for which boss will turn up. Unfortunately neither one we wanted did turn up so we just did a standard clear....or so I thought. There was one other achievement AMOV would get.<br /><br /><strong>No skin off my back....</strong><br /><br />I'm pretty much invincible these days, well AMOV must think so as they went for the "Kill Valilor Achievement." This achievement is possible with the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=29316#comments">Moragg </a>boss - when he puts the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=54417">Ray of Suffering </a>on Valilor everyone nukes the boss. Ouch. I died unsurprisingly as the healer somehow forgot to heal me too! LOL. I probably deserved it for all the "Misdirection fun" I had in the past ;)<br /><br />It was getting late and Rosencrantz logged out here and in came Deepcreepy.<br /><br /><strong>Utgarde Keep (Heroic)</strong><br /><br />Initially we just entered this dungeon for the first boss and the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1919">On The Rocks</a> achievement. Pretty straight forward here, we had Succi to Off-heal should Heloko get frozen or to Off-tank should Tommytank get frozen so no problems there. Achievement unlocked. Not a lot else to report here, pretty straightforward clear - my DPS was over 3.5k on the last 2 boss - that's a new record for me in Heroics :D<br /><br /><strong>Achievements</strong><br /><br />So a pretty successful night! Only 7 heroics I need to go to now for achievements, so hopefully they'll be over soon. My main concern is with the Oculus as no-one really enjoys running that heroic and to do all the achievements it will require it to be run at least 3 times...<br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312299916223986434" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; height: 236px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQeF8-Z6fsq1mAkCGbUXAcZtJuVe9dd2A699qLyVQ3ZXjlPoU8i15tk-G1n0rYoP211Q1YqgSq2nJ3wdy_qYtushcpEXeQizm9XgzXpBL-9V3KxJxhv-MAVY6ZJzDlJTNvlLsOQmJx_WYa/s400/Heroics.jpg" border="0" /><br /><strong>Enchanting</strong><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312301758072420914" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; height: 307px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu0DuyNgFyAjp-FZIqvKqowI4SY3Srt4iv8gXIfNTqdkd06m-LOArtfhCnQkJnvhpkWg9FXbpiG3aOM5zl0EMZjGWEeyTe6wwmWl61ojuGP9CgRBkMizA0W8bn56EELOR8tUIrXUCxNFlc/s400/enchanting.jpg" border="0" /><br />Dinged 450! I don't even want to think about how much that has cost me - I've never sold any items i can DE since I started learning enchanting back at level 1o (probably) - I could be rich beyond my wildest dreams if I didn't!!<br /><br /><strong>Coming up soon....</strong></p><p>Friday: My <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39878">mysterious egg </a>hatches!</p><p>Sunday: AMOV's first Raid (Naxx 10) </p>Valilorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409281146502952195noreply@blogger.com0