>Thunk thunk<
Is this thing on?
Oh hi there. Yeah. So I guess it’s been a while?
Took a break from raiding. And sort of a break from Wow. Not a real one. I leveled my shaman to 85. Poked around at a few things. But I’ve been concentrating hard on my writing and, well, WoW was feeling boring for a while. I knew I’d be back.
I took a long weekend this past weekend and when I finished Mass Effect 3 (wow, the ending was dumb on so many levels) didn’t have much else to do. Fortunately I’d already scheduled a fun raid for Saturday night. We had a great time. Zari talked about it and we had a special guest star, Arioch, come help fill out our roster. And of course the lovely Bocat and Repgrind were there. But they haven’t written about their experiences yet so I can’t link directly to them. So there!
We had some wipes on things we maybe shouldn’t have wiped on. The 8 second cooldown on cleanse really threw me. As did the fact that they renamed it. Which I realized after our wipe on Zon’ozz. Oops. Mana felt tight but Rep and I two healed it and none of the wipes were down to healing. I blame Log. Not really but when the off tank disconnects randomly it makes thing tricky.
Better yet was when we went to do spine, Log doesn’t stand in a hole and goes flying off the dragon 18 seconds in. Thanks to the high dps and people being on the ball, we one-tank two-heals the whole fight. I guess that 35% nerf makes a big difference. I remember when that fight was a healing nightmare.
Then Deathwing died. He dropped the Blazing Drake which I won and totally didn’t get a screen shot. Oops. But it’s cool, trust me.
Sunday I got bored. So I decided I needed a chopper. They were selling for 40k on the AH. Fortunately Rev’s hunter/engineer has the pattern so we went on a quest, grabbed the mats, and made me a chopper. Of course I had to learn it first on the gnome mage. Gnomes look so silly on the chopper. I gave Approximate a ride.
Then I decided to clear up alts a little. That worgen warlock was never going to level past 20. I just don’t like worgen enough. So I stripped her bare and got Rev to fly her somewhere vaguely appropriate for a suicide.
Eh, maybe not the best screenshot but killed by an angry fire demon seems ok for a warlock. Then I started a new one – but hey, I’ll save some of those stories for later, huh?
Anyway. Had a great time. Looking forward to pandas. Probably going to do a whole post about it but I need two dps for a Saturday night raid in MOP. I’d kill for a hunter but we could work in a lock, mage, rogue, monk, dk… or double up on something we’ve got already.
Analogue out…
HaHa it was a blast! Grats on the drake!
*perks up* did you say Rogue???
I have one with no pants 😀
You’re my bestest shadow priest, though! No switching on me!
I’ll tentatively toss my ghoul in the ring for a raid spot… but probably as a filler. Not sure how quickly I’ll be up to max cap for MoP. Maybe Tir, too. But if someone else can actually commit, by all means take them.
Hey, we’d love to have you! I think we’re going to take things relatively easy. Rev and I have some life situations that may come bite us in the butt at any time (there’s a move in our future. Where and when, we don’t know) so my goal is to be leveled in a week or so, doing LFR for a week or two, and then start trying to raid by mid October.
Does Tir have a class on Winterhoof? I’m probably out of the loop on things…
We’re basically like what you saw Saturday night. Usually a little more on the ball. Sometimes goofier. I try for a low-drama laid-back raid where we have fun but don’t excuse stupidity with the “it’s just a game” deal. My plans right now are to run Saturdays from 7 to 11 CST. We were doing two nights last expansion but I can’t commit to that much right now…
He doesn’t have anything on WH, but through the magic of RealID, he’s always just an invite away from me. I’ll check with him and see what’s up with his schedule.
In order of appearance on my character select screen:
Priest – Naerityah
Paladin – Hekyla
DK – Tyraele
Shaman – Rorcia
Warrior – Paleteal
Warlock – Rakela
If you need a ranged class, I can keep the shaman and the priest unlocked this week (my guild has finished up DS, so they just want to do achievements now). All toons on Lightbringer-US. I’ll come if needed. Preference leans toward my priest/pally/dk as they are the best geared (and the ones I am most comfortable with.)
Not sure how cross-realm raiding is going to work in MOP, are all the raids going to be accessible?
Thanks for the offer. We’re not raiding this week because Rev and I have to go celebrate our anniversary and I’ve gt a business trip but I may try to schedule something for the following week. If we do another DS we’d welcome anybody you want to bring, we’re not caring about gear any more, just having a good time…
I say “best-geared” in the sense that those toons are the ones I most play, so those are the ones I am most comfortable with.
Also (I missed the first part of your comment), Blizzard has yet to confirm/deny if the MoP raids will allow cross-realm groups. A lot of assumptions have been thrown around, but nothing is set in stone.
Yay! You’re back! It’s good to see you. 🙂
Welcome back and grats on the drake.
And bribe those two with all you can, def plus in any raid group.
Awwww, thanks!
I’ll admit I was most disappointed in my performance. I did not spend any significant portion of the raid closely inspecting the floor. I fayled at being a DK!