Sometimes the Past Repeats Itself

Not unlike our Lei Shen kill, we spent the first raid night wiping to Garrosh again. On our second night, we one-shot him. It was poetry in motion. Nobody died to standing in bad, mechanics were handled, and massive DPS was, well, DPS'd. Obligatory screenshot was taken, and there was much rejoicing. The only downside was that our long-time mage wasn't with us for the kill. There will be other kills though, and we can start working on heroics now. Now that the pressure is off, we are going to kick back a bit. Our raid leader is doing the CTR podcast on our first raid night, and we will do a fresh run on normal to shake the rust off those earlier bosses on the second night, and perhaps do some achievements.

Big Damn Heroes

 I added another 90 to my group, hitting max level on my hunter. I was running what I hoped would be my last time in Siege of Niuzao Temple, and we were having a rough time. The tank was a little too under geared and inexperienced. Not even halfway through the Commander Vo'jak fight, and the battle-res was used and the tank down again. At around 50%, it was only me and the healer. With my pet on growl, I dropped down to the lower level. He killed my pet and made a beeline (pun intended) for me. I feigned death just as he got to me, and he turned back towards the healer. I quickly revived my pet and pulled him off the healer. Lather, rinse, repeat until he dropped. It felt like old times, back when my main was a hunter.

The tank and the healer eventually dropped after multiple wipes on General Pa'valak. I knew we were in real trouble when he was pulled with the adds in the middle still up. There would be no heroic come from behind victory with this boss. I was only able to feign death and wait for the rest of the group to corpse walk back to the instance. I did eventually hit 90 on this boss, and finished the run wearing the two timeless items in my pack. After the run, I got the rest of the gear out of storage and had 496 gear in every slot except neck, one trinket, and weapon.

I still have my notes from the recent RAF experience, and will most likely write up a little guide. I may also write up some basic leveling guides as well, since they seem to be few and far between as Stubborn noted.

Original 11x90 server	"new" team
Hunter  90	Death Knight 90
Rogue 90	Hunter 90
Mage 90	Rogue 87
Druid 90	Mage 88
Warlock 90	Druid 90
Priest 90	Warlock 86
Warrior 90	Priest 86
Paladin 90	Warrior 56
Shaman 90	Paladin 86
Monk 90	Shaman 86
Death Knight 65	Monk 86

 

Busy Busy Busy

Still raiding and still 13/14, with an 8% wipe in the final phase. It's been tough as we've had some churn in our raid team. We still seem to be perpetually short a healer, and hit or miss on a replacement DPS.

I was able to boost all but one character to 85 with the RAF bonus, and recently added another 90 to my growing collection. Most of the leveling was done in pugs, with some questing to bring in some gold. The majority of the pugs were uneventful, with some minor exceptions.

For some reason, Shado-Pan Monastery seems to be a headache most of the time. Either an overzealous tank will pull too many sha after the first boss, people face-pull adds on the run to the last boss, or DPS ignore the mechanics of the final boss.

When I finally hit 90 on my druid, I was able to get him decked out in a full set of timeless gear and a 484 BOA weapon. I was just under the ilevel for the latest LFR, so I queued for Thorne of Thunder. The first boss when down without issues, and then the fun started.

After the first wipe on Horridon, both tanks dropped along with half the raid. The wipe was mainly caused by  the tanks not talking and leaving the adds to run free. There were few DPS with me on the adds as well. The second wipe happened because one of the tanks dropped group after the pull. Asshole. Wipe three was all about add management, again. Most of the group dropped at that point, and I think I was one of only two people from the original group at that point.

With twenty new people, the rest of the run when smoothly. No loot for me, so off to the next wing. Tortos went down quickly, even though someone pulled the boss before the last group of adds were down. I saw a ranged attack hit him, but couldn't tell which idiot did it. The run to Mags was PULL ALL THE THINGS! Boss down. PULL ALL THE THINGS AGAIN!! Boss down, no wipes. Alas, no loot.

Original 11x90 server	"new" team
Hunter  90	Death Knight 90
Rogue 90	Hunter 88
Mage 90	Rogue 86
Druid 90	Mage 87
Warlock 90	Druid 90
Priest 90	Warlock 86
Warrior 90	Priest 85
Paladin 90	Warrior 56
Shaman 90	Paladin 86
Monk 90	Shaman 86
Death Knight 65	Monk 86