I’ve been having fun with old content. Mostly working on Netherdrake rep on my mage, enjoying the old world and the relaxed end-of-expansion feel. We put Deathwing on farm months ago, took a long break from raiding, and I felt like we “won” this expansion.
Well, maybe not. Tuesday night Rev got an invite from the off-server group we did Firelands with the other night. Did he want to come tank heroic Dragon Soul? Of course he did! I wished him luck and worked on my writing and went to bed at a decent time, and he got all the heroic Dragon Soul bosses down. Awesome!
And then last night they whisper me. They’re going back on alts for one last run, do I want to get the achievement? Of course I do! But only if there’s a healer slot because my dps sucks right now.
There was a healer slot! In fact we two healed it and I was proud to be able to hold up my end enough to do that. I really didn’t want someone to have to switch. Tirael gave great concise feedback for what I needed to do. I screwed up a couple times, but not too badly. The heroic fights were a lot of fun. I’m not sure that I’d have enjoyed wiping on them dozens of times, but three attempts on Spine and a half-dozen attempts on Madness seemed reasonable. One wipe was completely and utterly my fault, I died twice in the first two minutes and felt really embarrassed, but then we got him down. That was a cool feeling.
I also realized why killing Deathwing doesn’t feel as good as killing Arthas. There’s just no matching that “we’re all dead, now we’re being rezzed, he’s down and wow cutscene” feel. I hope Blizzard pulls off something as awesome in MoP.
Anyhow. Killed him. Rolled on the mount. Won it. Felt vaguely guilty about coming into another guild’s raid and stealing the cool mount but – man, that is a cool mount. Thanks, Tirael and Arioch, for a great time!
And now all that’s left is planning my pre-release party this weekend. Chinese food, Kung-fu Panda movie, and friends over. We’re going to kick off MoP in style.
Grats on Heroics and the mount! WooHoo!
It was super fun! I think I could perform at a heroic level if I wanted but raid lead a heroic progression raid? Don’t think so, that’s a whole different skill set.
Oppa gangnam style?
Y’know, I’ve SEEN that video and I still don’t even know what that was about…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangnam_Style
Also, don’t feel bad about “taking” the mount. Without you there, I would have had to deal with someone else (and god help them if it was a pug). You earned your mount just fine. For what it is worth, even our own healers (let me remind all your readers that we were a 25m progression guild, going down to 10m for MoP) would not (nor could not) two heal the encounter.
I was hoping to try more Heroics in DS before MoP, but with only a few days left (eek!) I think I missed the boat. Get it? Boat? hahaha 😀
At least you were alive for the Madness kill… I like to think of it as my contribution to the support of 2-healing the encounter by being one less warm body to have to heal on the last platform.
A good time was had by all, yay!
Achievement’s an achievement. I’m not going to qualify mine with “well I was totally carried by a group that knew what they were doing” when I brag to people ;-p
Woot! Grats on the heroic bosses and the mount! 😀