Sorry, not much content this week. Reversion is out of town on business and I’m preparing to go out when he gets back, so not much blogging around here. Or WoW playing either: I logged on Monday but haven’t felt in the mood to play. When you always play with someone, it’s really quite boring when they’re not around.
Anyway. Last Friday night Rev and I joined a GDKP run with our pally and spare druid pair, both as healers. We didn’t have that much money but enough to make their time worthwhile. If you’ve got undergeared alts you can get some really good deals these days in GDKPs; chances are there are a lot of drops that very few people need, and we bought about seven things (mostly for Rev’s druid) at the minimum 1000 gold bid. When the party was over, we got almost all our money back; well geared, gold rich raiders along for that one trinket or token drop paid 7 or 8k for things and the pot got large.
I saw Blood Princes and the Queen for the second time and got to watch people doing things wrong on the Queen; we wiped twice and I learned some strategies. Funny how sometimes you only see how things are supposed to work when people don’t do them, or do them wrong, because then people explain WHY you were supposed to do it that way (ie, “first bite has to wait til almost the end of the time so that you don’t have to worry about the second bite going out during an air phase”)
And then on to Sindragosa, who I had not seen before. The spider trash was fun, I like waves of mobs coming at me. A lot of people in the raid hadn’t seen the fight so we got a detailed explanation, got started, and wiped. We came back, got all the way to phase two, and wiped. Came back, did better, wiped. Wiped and wiped and wiped. We were getting solidly into phase 3 and people were having trouble with frost tomb placement. Finally, we got to the last 14% – and someone dropped their ice tomb in the raid, froze us, and we wiped.
That person got kicked. I’m pretty sure he’d left a slime in melee during Putricide, and they had someone else begging to come for a chance at Sindragosa, so one more attempt – and this time everything went perfectly and she was down. It felt epic.
But that fight was hard, and really hard to communicate to a pug. I’ve never seen the LK fight but by reputation, it’s an order of magnitude harder to coordinate. Even with now a 30% buff, will a random pug be able to do it?
I don’t know, but I also still don’t think I can commit to a raid guild schedule. So I guess we’ll keep trying pugs. A ten man pug seems more doable.
And I suppose we can always come back at 85 and laugh in Arthas’s face.
I like the idea of almost getting your money back after a GDKP… I’m tempted to join a GDKP run just for the money, too bad there’s virtually none on my realm.
As for the LK… you kinda need a regular PuG group. We did it at 15% or 20% buff, and it took 5 or 6 nights to get him down. It will be easier now, but the mechanics are still complicated, and it takes time to learn them – more than 1 night. (This is for 10-man btw, I haven’t done the 25-man fight.) Good luck!
That is pretty much the issue. With people that know it and have gear you can stand a tiny bit of sloppiness (very tiny as far as I understand), but with pug you can be al but certain of MORE than a tiny bit of sloppy. Maybe not much, even if you get lucky. But it is sure to take a lot of wiping. That GDKP run tolerated more wipes than any pure pug I have ever been in… Because they knew their money was just a few wipes away and they had to stick it out. It seems that a GDKP semi pug is more likely to get Arthas down than a pure pug, even one with some good people in it. That ‘motivation to wipe’ plays a big factor in end game.