Wednesday, June 12, 2013

At the Halfway Point

We downed Mags on the third attempt, and then made our way through the next batch of "fun" trash to Ji-Kun. The big bird bit the dust on the fourth attempt, but just barely. I was the only one left alive, and I managed to utilize the few remaining cool downs that I had left to outlast the boss. Plus tier pants to boot! We had enough time left to get a few pulls on Durumu before calling it a night. We're now 6/12, and looking forward to possibly getting the raid finished before the next patch drops.

Last night I managed to get all of the world bosses done, and was back to getting nothing but gold again. Even with the bonus rolls on Sha and Gal. I had time to queue for LFR, and with my tank gear pretty squared away I can focus on my lacking DPS set. Zoned into wing four and got a fresh run for a change. Iron Qon - loot! Twin Consorts - loot! Lei Shen - loot! I hit the trifecta! No tier gear, but solid upgrades none the less.

I hopped on my new lowbie priest and queued for a LFD run before bed. I zoned into a Ragefire Chasm run already in progress. The tank seemed to be a little bit lost, which is expected in the lowest level dungeon. As he made his way around the loop of mobs that surround Slagmaw, the DPSers got bored and engaged the boss about 3/4 the way around. I was running back and forth healing both groups until the tank finally caught up with everyone else. The tank did eventually die, but only because he ran off the ledge and into the lava right after the boss died. Because I zoned in on a run in progress, I missed out on the quests. I wanted that sweet XP, soI manually selected the same dungeon and got a fresh run. Feeling a little more confident with this character, I started DPSing between shield cool downs. I ended up on in the number two spot, right behind the DPS warrior (who also had heirlooms)! These things are going to be crazy overpowered once we can use the good enchants in the next patch.

11x90                                   "new" team

Hunter 90                            Death Knight 90
Rogue 90                            Hunter 33
Mage 90                             Rogue 25
Druid 90                             Mage 20
Warlock 90                        Druid 23
Priest 88                             Warlock 15
Warrior 88                          Priest 18
Paladin 85                           Warrior 15
Shaman 86                          Paladin 16
Monk 84                             Shaman 16
Death Knight 61                  Monk 15

Monday, June 10, 2013

50

50 attempts and Tortos finally went down. With the "One-Up" achievement to boot! We spent the previous (2 weeks ago) raid trying to down him, getting to about 20% on our best attempt. Last week, we started the second night on him, and downed in on the first pull which left us the entire night to work on Mags. We were getting almost through the last rampage before wiping on our best attempts. We came into this week with high hopes. We two-healed Jin and got him down before the third throw. Horridon also fell quickly. We tried to two-heal the council, but went back to three after having some issues with people standing in the bad too much. We got to Tortos, and he decided to slow us down. We did eventually get him down on the twelfth and final attempt of the night. Tonight is Mags again, and hopefully we'll get the kill.

My new army of alts is slowly but surely leveling, and I managed to get their main professions leveled up to 75 across the board so I could get the Darkmoon Faire profession quests done on them.


11x90                                   "new" team

Hunter 90                            Death Knight 90
Rogue 90                            Hunter 33
Mage 90                             Rogue 25
Druid 90                             Mage 18
Warlock 90                        Druid 23
Priest 88                             Warlock 15
Warrior 88                          Priest 15
Paladin 85                           Warrior 15
Shaman 86                          Paladin 16
Monk 84                             Shaman 16
Death Knight 61                  Monk 15