Tempest Keep

Morning Folks!

Raid group cleared Tempest Keep to Kael last night, getting all the bosses down in 1 go pretty much (solarian needed a reset at 10-15% into the fight due to some bad luck when one of our crew DC'd just as he got the bomb.

So 3/4 Bosses cleared in TK, when the raid was called off 2 of us tried running to Kael, but there were too many spawns there, so we didnt get to see him. Damn! I was hoping to get at least a quick look at him.

So tonight we're gonna clear 5/6 in SSC again or maybe 4/6 then friday night we'll try Vashj again I imagine.

So I'm gonna get another shot at the Tsunami Talisman, and the T5 Legs. Lets hope I get lucky, I've got a lot more dkp than most people so if they drop they will be mine!

But as usual I imagine they either wont drop, or someone else will out bid me..

/sigh

Just a quickie...

Morning peeps!!

I need any level 70 druids to go try something for me.....

Last night 3 of us went to Onyxia to try and kill her.

Druid tank and 2 Paladins.

1 tank, 1 healer, 1 dps.

Phase 1 was easy - she was hitting like a girl.

Then we got her to phase 2, she flew up into the air and we started killing the whelps.

"Onyxia takes a huge breath"

"oh...that hurt..."

So we all corpse run back to the cave, summon in another paladin healer and re-enter. Seriously the trash mobs in there hit harder than Onyxia.

Anyway we buff up and our druid goes into cat form and stealth's around her and gets ready to pounce.

"OK guys lets go!" I shouted and we four brave souls once again entered the jaws of death.

"WTF?!?!?" We all cried as we watched Onyxia start running around the cave totally ignoring the 4 of us as we continued to hit her.

This continued for 10 minutes or so, she just kept wondering around while we kept hitting her.
At about 80% she started moving out of the area where she sleeps.

BAM!!

The four of us were hit for 22-25k

"Oh I forgot to mention that!!" Said the druid, "If you try to kite her out of the area she wipes the raid"

"Darn it.."

So we ran back in for another go...figure we'd see if she'd bug again like that.

Druid stealthed in behind her and off she went on her merry way, completely ignoring us.

This time she wondered into the egg area....damn... what we gonna do now?

She backed herself up against a wall in there and wouldn't come out. We tried going in there after her but the whelps respawn really fast so this was a no go...

Time was running out before people had to go to the raid but we figured if we had some ranged dps with us we could nuke her down even if she was hiding in the whelp bit...

So we're gonna go back there tonight to see if we can pull it off again...we'll get her down though!! Just it might take a while.

Old World Fun'n'Games.

Greetings folks!

I trust you all had a good weekend?

Had quite a bit of fun over the weekend so lets start at the beginning...

Friday Night.

The raid group gathered at SSC for some tries on Lady Vashj. We finally were getting our act together in sorting out the cores and got her to the 3rd phase but there were too many dead to do anything about it.

So that was the end of the evening's raiding fun. I then jumped to IF and respec'd to my pvp build.

Saturday.

Didn't really do much, just a fair bit of PVP - did some pre-made AB's, EOTS, and WSG. Which was really good fun! Our Raid leader and main tank has a 1900 arena team and he's awesome at co-ordinating teams.

Sunday.

Got a rag-tag group of 14 people for a run to Blackwing lair - had 3 attempts on the first boss and then lost a few people. So we went onto Onyxia!

7 men! We got her down in 1 go. Nice work chaps.

I had taken Gwindle as we needed a healer and she was better at healing than firelight.

She got the t2 helm which i was really excited about and each of us got just over 25g.

We then went to Azshara to see if we could find Azeregos (spell check please!)

Wow that's a long fight....really easy though, but looooooong.

Another 30g each as we'd lost 1 person. I got a really nice pattern for a spell damage sword for 59's. Not sure its worth anything, maybe 500-600g maybe as its epic and a really nice item. But i might just learn it on Firelight and maybe get it crafted and try to sell the end item - probably make more money that way. But with it being a level 59 item I'm not sure if it'd be replaced in seconds in outland...

Then in the evening we got a rough group of alts and mains for an embarrassing run into grulls.

We got High King down, but gruul showed us who was boss and we called it after the 4th wipe.

Shocking....

SSE Sadness...and Madness...

Morning Peeps.

I'm a little low today :(

We did really well last night in SSC all bosses to Karathress 1 shotted, but we needed 2 restarts on Karathress due to unlucky pulls. But we hot him down in the end.

I spent most of the time switching gear around to see what sort of damage changes i could make by using my tier 4/5 gear. General consensus was that my warrior gear is way better for me. I just have to watch my Mana. But as long as we have judgement of wisdom on the mob its not a problem really. I think I used maybe 2 mana potions last night and that was on the karathress fight due to no judgement of wisdom on the bosses.

Leotheras didn't drop the trinket.

Karathress did however drop the paladin legs. This was the last item i wanted from the bosses we have on farm in there since I've decided not to go for the mace he drops.

I was out bid by a fellow paladin for the legs at 825 DKP. He only had 24 dkp more than me.

So no loot again for me from SSC. I think tonight we'll take morogrim in SSC, and then go to TK:The Eye after.

Arena Ownage!

Hey Peeps!

No raiding last night, but our pvp team did our matches last night and we did very well.

We went up nearly 150 rating last night in 12 matches!

10 wins 2 losses.

Not bad eh!

This morning after 2.3.3 was quickly downloaded and installed i logged Firelight who I'd parked in Area 52 and ran to the arena vendor...

I stood there for 10 minutes looking at my gear, and thinking what to do...

And what conclusion did i come up with?

I decided that i cant really use any of the s3 stuff apart from the gloves for Raiding. Oh apart from maybe the weapon if we get a high enough rating.

So I'm going to have more armour in my bags! /rolleyes

I think I'm going to bank my tanking/healing gear well maybe just my healing gear as sometimes i might have to off tank...aw but sometimes i have to off heal in 5-mans as well!! gaah!!!

So anyway i picked the Season 3 Helm. This will boost my Resiliance quite a bit for our PvP matches. I cant remember how much, but it was sat at 108 last night, so i imagine it'll be close to 150 or something.

Just need to put a nice meta gem and strength gem in it and we're set!

It has far too little hit rating for PvE use.

We're going to SSC tonight i think - Hopefully for a full clear with only Vashj left.

Hope the trinket drops!!

Tempest Keep 0 - Rage 3

Morning Peeps!

Small Warlock Update Follows...stay tuned for our regular program....

As soon as I got home last night i logged my warlock and quickly handing in the quest to get my Infernal!!

/use Hearthstone

I ran to Goldshire as quickly as my little horsey's legs would take me, picking up some infernal stones on the way.

Bwaahahahahahaa, i thought to myself as i rode down there. Fingers crossed that it was busy.

Damn! It wasn't so busy, but still worth a shot. I summoned the bugger which looked pretty cool.

I dismissed him and he immediately starting slapping me in the face! Ouch! What the hell i let him kill me! Then I watched as he started picking off the lowbies. 6 in total went down before a level 70 druid killed him. I was in stitches!! Call me juvenile, but i thought it was funny as hell.

So back to Paladin news!!

Last night entered Tempest Keep.

We cleared the trash to Solarian First and one shot her. Which was just brilliant. Only the 2nd time for the guild to be there.

She dropped some lovely legs that i won:

Greaves of the Bloodwarder
Legs Plate
1406 Armor
+49 Strength
+46 Stamina
Red Socket
Yellow Socket
Blue Socket
Socket Bonus: +4 Strength
Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 31.

Now i won these and I wasn't sure if they'd be an upgrade or not.. I cant remember how i socketed them up, but they pushed my unbuffed AP to just under 2000 and my crit up to nearly 32%

But by replacing my Tier 4 Legs I've lost more mana....

Not that i think its going to be a huge problem really for 2 reasons:

1 - In Raids i very rarely run out of mana, with only a couple of exceptions, but i just chug a mana pot and I'm usually ok.

2 - Hopefully tomorrow I'll get the season 3 legs from my arena points.

So we'll see what happens!

We then went on to Void Reaver and 1 shot him.

For some reason in a moment of insanity i started bidding for t5 shoulders.

350 DKP i spent. I thought that i might as well try to get some of the set...

I'm gonna try and run with a proper pally set tomorrow consisting of t4 and t5 and see what sort of damage I'm doing. I think having some more spell damage for command judgements will more than make up for the drop in attack power?

I dunno what to do!!!

So after VR was down we spent 40 minutes re-clearing the trash in a'lars room to then 1 shot him.

This was a major acheivement as the guild had spent the previous evening wiping 5 times on him.

So grats everyone!

No raiding for us tonight but my arena team have to do our matches tonight. We found a new healer last night as ours has been offline with PC problems.

Warlocks Own!!

Hey people!!

Hope you all had a good weekend and managed to get everything done you wanted!!

No raiding for me all weekend, not even Kara or ZA.

Saturday I was stuck for things to do, so i logged my warlock and decided i wanted to get my Fel Guard.

Starslayer was 47 so i hit the ground running and made 50 by the end of the night!

Just before midnight in fact in the middle of desolace i dinged 50!

I put the talent point into my felguard and started summoning my shiny new minion.

Flaatom appeared beside me shouting "WHO DARES SUMMON ME!!!!"

Flaatom? Flaatom?!?! What sort of sucky name is that! I've decided to call him Fat Tom!

Anyway i did more questing on Sunday, got a guildie to take me to sunken Temple to get the warlock quest done, and now I've got a shiney Sythe!! (even though one of the guildies told me to get the trinket instead, but that staff looks so cool)

He's almost 52 now, and I'm about to hand in the items to get my infernal demon. (i think)

Anyway I really enjoyed playing on my lock over the weekend. With the fel guard he's so imba.

I'm nearly done with felwood and I've started up in Western plaguelands as well. I think I'm gonna stay in Azeroth till I'm 60.

Also I'm going to try and get the full 50-60 dungeon set as the lock one looks so cool!!

I don't care how long it takes me, or the fact that I won't need it, it still looks stunning.

Plus you just don't see people in those old classic armour sets any more!

I have the 3 Bind on Equip parts already so just 5 more to go! Once I'm 54 or so I'm going to blag some 70's to take me into Scholo and strat a few times to get the rest of the bits, then maybe into UBRS to try and get the chest piece.

Did a couple of heroics on Gwindle as well and did the heroic daily quest as well. Which was fun. Got some badges. I need to get a nice epic item for gwindle's chest slot.