Wohoo!
Got me my new Axe last night from Kel'thuzad!
Betrayer of Humanity
Two Hand Axe
606-910 Dmg Speed 3.40
(222.9 damage per second)
+66 Agility
+121 Stamina
Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 87.
Equip: Improves haste rating by 57.
Equip: Improves attack power by 226.
This is awesome! Shame I cant afford to do anything with it enchant wise just yet.
Might have to plumb for the 110 AP enchant till I can get the mats together for berserker.
I also got the T7.5 leg token which I need to get some gems for and some new gloves (neither which I have equipped so I cant check the stats)
Is anyone else having issues getting hold of Red Wrath Gems? There are never any on the auction house!! I was however lucky enough to get one of our guild Jewelcrafters to pick up the +16 Strength gem pattern for me. So at least that's one thing I don't have to worry about.
So from last night I've taken on board some of the things Stoico had to say on my last post and I've started crafting little things like the belt buckle and putting them on the AH at a reasonable price. but not undercutting. By this morning one had sold already! Now if only I could stop spending it all on Dark Iron Ore and running to BRD and handing them for rep - mind you I'll be done soon!!! 3k rep to go!!
Anyway things are going to slow down a bit here for a couple weeks, I will update where I can about my progress on new stuff I do.
Showing posts with label Naxxramas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Naxxramas. Show all posts
Friday, 16 January 2009
Friday, 19 December 2008
Naxxramas 25-Man Update
Hey guys - Just some quick updates and thoughts on Naxxramas 25.
So with the instances all reset this week Rage entered Naxxramas and cleared 3 of the 4 wings in 4 hours.
Death Knight wing all bosses cleared no wipes.
Plague Wing all bosses cleared no wipes.
Spider Wing all bosses cleared no wipes.
Last night we were 2 men down for the night due to no-shows and cancellations but our raid leader took us to Naxx none the less to see if we could get through it.
Patchwerk is a wall. A big fat wall of PAIN.
I mean don't get me wrong, we've gotten past him already last week, but 2 people missing and its just pain city.
This is NOT a dps for melee and no-matter what we tries it just ended every try with the melee going down hard and fast.
Its so unforgiving. Its a DPS race - but the healers cant heal anyone but the 3 tanks. melee have to keep themselves under 8/9k health or die a horrible insta-gib death.
Anyway so we moved on and took down Sartharion then the raid disbanded.
My first egg from the Oracles hatched today, and I got the White birdy non-combat pet out of it.
Bought another one - and just gotta play the waiting game till I can get the other 2 non-combat pets and eventually I imagine the Mount.
PS - If anyone is after the "Red Winter Hat" the best place to get it is normal Nexus - 2/3 level 80's can skip most of the mobs as long as you've got a ret-paladin/warrior/druid - well any melee class that can take a beating from 3/4 mobs at once. The mage boss in there seems to have a 100% drop rate of the hat. Much easier than years past.
PPS - Has anyone seen a blue "!" running around in Dalaran on the mini-map called "Frostie"?
I saw it twice last night...I cant find any mention of it anywhere on the web and nothing on the WoW forums either.
Please tell me I'm not seeing things!!!
So with the instances all reset this week Rage entered Naxxramas and cleared 3 of the 4 wings in 4 hours.
Death Knight wing all bosses cleared no wipes.
Plague Wing all bosses cleared no wipes.
Spider Wing all bosses cleared no wipes.
Last night we were 2 men down for the night due to no-shows and cancellations but our raid leader took us to Naxx none the less to see if we could get through it.
Patchwerk is a wall. A big fat wall of PAIN.
I mean don't get me wrong, we've gotten past him already last week, but 2 people missing and its just pain city.
This is NOT a dps for melee and no-matter what we tries it just ended every try with the melee going down hard and fast.
Its so unforgiving. Its a DPS race - but the healers cant heal anyone but the 3 tanks. melee have to keep themselves under 8/9k health or die a horrible insta-gib death.
Anyway so we moved on and took down Sartharion then the raid disbanded.
My first egg from the Oracles hatched today, and I got the White birdy non-combat pet out of it.
Bought another one - and just gotta play the waiting game till I can get the other 2 non-combat pets and eventually I imagine the Mount.
PS - If anyone is after the "Red Winter Hat" the best place to get it is normal Nexus - 2/3 level 80's can skip most of the mobs as long as you've got a ret-paladin/warrior/druid - well any melee class that can take a beating from 3/4 mobs at once. The mage boss in there seems to have a 100% drop rate of the hat. Much easier than years past.
PPS - Has anyone seen a blue "!" running around in Dalaran on the mini-map called "Frostie"?
I saw it twice last night...I cant find any mention of it anywhere on the web and nothing on the WoW forums either.
Please tell me I'm not seeing things!!!
Tuesday, 2 December 2008
Naxx 10 Man Cleared! Kel'Thuzad Explained.
So as the title suggests we cleared Kel'thuzad in Naxx last night in 10 man.
It felt really good to defeat a proper challenge again after the level 70 stuff was nerfed.
I know its not the 25 man content, but its still an achievement in itself for a casual raid guild.
The fight itself is a really interesting one, but very straight forward.
Phase 1 - The group run into the centre of the room and the fight starts. The room itself is a large circular room with seven or eight alcoves dug out into the walls with portals in the ends of them.
In these alcoves undead mobs spawn:
Skeletons - these have really low health and can be one-shotted with any of my abilities
Abominations - these need to be tanked and nuked down.
Soul Reavers - these banshee's move really really slowly towards the raid and do 8k damage to anyone who gets into melee range. These need to be nuked down by that ranged DPS classes.
These mobs will come randomly and attack the group - its not hard - you should not be wiping in phase one!
Phase 2 - After 2/3 mins of the undead mobs attacking Kel'thuzad stops channelling his portals and the undeads stop spawning and he joins the fight.
At this point the raid should spread out - and be more than 10 yards apart if possible. This is a MUST!
Kel'thuzad has 3 abilities during this phase:
1 - single shot shadow bolt - hits 1 random target for a reasonable amount of damage.
2 - Multi shot shadow bolt - his most, if not all, of the raid for a few thousand health.
3 - Iceblock thing - This will wipe the raid if you're not careful and is the single most important reason why the raid need to spread out. The affected target will be encased in a tomb of ice which will do 105% of the players health as damage over 3/4 seconds. It cannot be bubbled out of, or ice-blocked out of. Anyone who is with 10 yards of the affected player will ALSO get this. So its really bad if you have your healers all stood together and all 3 of them are affected - Yep thats a wipe!
Your healers really need to be on-top of their game to keep the affected player alive. As a ret-paladin I was helping out a lot with the healing where i could - if I got an instant cast heal i would top up the health of anyone who had low health - bearing in mind that my Flash of Light can crit for 3/4k while raid buffed. So that's quite a lot of healing for a dps to do. It really helped us out last night.
Phase 3 - at 40% Kel'Thuzad will cry out for help from the Lich King who kindly obliges the lich with 2 big nasty bugs. Each of these should be tanked by the off tank. You cannot kill these dudes as they have the same health as Kel'Thuzad. (2.5 million if I remember correctly)
These guys have a buff that increases there damage by 15% each stack - this can stack 99 times.
Both our tanks last night were Paladins, so when Kel was down to about 5/10% our off tank went down as he just couldn't stand up to the damage those things were putting out.
When phase 3 starts - its a dps race - pure and simple. Kill Kel'thuzad as quick as you can or your tanks are going to get killed by the bugs.
Phase 3 isn't all that difficult - we had more problems getting through phase 2 without loosing a healer from the ice-block.
Prior to the Naxx raid we went and helped out in Wintergrasp so we could do the 10-man boss in there Archavon. Wow is he easy in 10 man. Having seen the 25-man and that being one shotted - its really free epixx!! If you've not been yet i suggest you group up and go there as soon as you can - its really fun.
Anyway here are a couple pics from after we owned Kel'Thuzad!
It felt really good to defeat a proper challenge again after the level 70 stuff was nerfed.
I know its not the 25 man content, but its still an achievement in itself for a casual raid guild.
The fight itself is a really interesting one, but very straight forward.
Phase 1 - The group run into the centre of the room and the fight starts. The room itself is a large circular room with seven or eight alcoves dug out into the walls with portals in the ends of them.
In these alcoves undead mobs spawn:
Skeletons - these have really low health and can be one-shotted with any of my abilities
Abominations - these need to be tanked and nuked down.
Soul Reavers - these banshee's move really really slowly towards the raid and do 8k damage to anyone who gets into melee range. These need to be nuked down by that ranged DPS classes.
These mobs will come randomly and attack the group - its not hard - you should not be wiping in phase one!
Phase 2 - After 2/3 mins of the undead mobs attacking Kel'thuzad stops channelling his portals and the undeads stop spawning and he joins the fight.
At this point the raid should spread out - and be more than 10 yards apart if possible. This is a MUST!
Kel'thuzad has 3 abilities during this phase:
1 - single shot shadow bolt - hits 1 random target for a reasonable amount of damage.
2 - Multi shot shadow bolt - his most, if not all, of the raid for a few thousand health.
3 - Iceblock thing - This will wipe the raid if you're not careful and is the single most important reason why the raid need to spread out. The affected target will be encased in a tomb of ice which will do 105% of the players health as damage over 3/4 seconds. It cannot be bubbled out of, or ice-blocked out of. Anyone who is with 10 yards of the affected player will ALSO get this. So its really bad if you have your healers all stood together and all 3 of them are affected - Yep thats a wipe!
Your healers really need to be on-top of their game to keep the affected player alive. As a ret-paladin I was helping out a lot with the healing where i could - if I got an instant cast heal i would top up the health of anyone who had low health - bearing in mind that my Flash of Light can crit for 3/4k while raid buffed. So that's quite a lot of healing for a dps to do. It really helped us out last night.
Phase 3 - at 40% Kel'Thuzad will cry out for help from the Lich King who kindly obliges the lich with 2 big nasty bugs. Each of these should be tanked by the off tank. You cannot kill these dudes as they have the same health as Kel'Thuzad. (2.5 million if I remember correctly)
These guys have a buff that increases there damage by 15% each stack - this can stack 99 times.
Both our tanks last night were Paladins, so when Kel was down to about 5/10% our off tank went down as he just couldn't stand up to the damage those things were putting out.
When phase 3 starts - its a dps race - pure and simple. Kill Kel'thuzad as quick as you can or your tanks are going to get killed by the bugs.
Phase 3 isn't all that difficult - we had more problems getting through phase 2 without loosing a healer from the ice-block.
Prior to the Naxx raid we went and helped out in Wintergrasp so we could do the 10-man boss in there Archavon. Wow is he easy in 10 man. Having seen the 25-man and that being one shotted - its really free epixx!! If you've not been yet i suggest you group up and go there as soon as you can - its really fun.
Anyway here are a couple pics from after we owned Kel'Thuzad!
Wednesday, 8 October 2008
Fun In Naxxramas and the PTR!!
Hey guys'n'gals! its another Wednesday morning and the servers are down, so I thought I'd post something up to keep me busy before work!
Oh and by the way, the blizzard downloader is currently downloading more stuff for the new patch - its up to 1.5gb now. (I had already downloaded the 900 or so mb)
Anyways last nights raid was cancelled so no updates on Illidan but one of our guildies Senias, is a bit of a completest and decided that he wanted to go into Naxx to pick up some patterns he didn't have on his tailor warlock.
Knowing full well that there is going to be a new set of frost-res gear available from someone in Wrath of the Lich King!!
Basically in the Death Knight wing there is a vendor with the patterns who is locked up in a cage at the back of the first main room. Its quite a big room so we had to be fast and safe. Our plan? To run in, bubble then when Sathy was in position cast Divine Intervention onto her so she could safely talk to the NPC and get the patterns.
So it took us a few tries but we got there in the end!
Here's a vid of the event I made! (Right Click, Save Target As... 55mb)
Also I managed to get 50 mounts in the PTR and now have the Albino Drake:
Oh and by the way, the blizzard downloader is currently downloading more stuff for the new patch - its up to 1.5gb now. (I had already downloaded the 900 or so mb)
Anyways last nights raid was cancelled so no updates on Illidan but one of our guildies Senias, is a bit of a completest and decided that he wanted to go into Naxx to pick up some patterns he didn't have on his tailor warlock.
Knowing full well that there is going to be a new set of frost-res gear available from someone in Wrath of the Lich King!!
Basically in the Death Knight wing there is a vendor with the patterns who is locked up in a cage at the back of the first main room. Its quite a big room so we had to be fast and safe. Our plan? To run in, bubble then when Sathy was in position cast Divine Intervention onto her so she could safely talk to the NPC and get the patterns.
So it took us a few tries but we got there in the end!
Here's a vid of the event I made! (Right Click, Save Target As... 55mb)
Also I managed to get 50 mounts in the PTR and now have the Albino Drake:
Click images for larger versions!
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