So, I pug-ged into ICC10 last night with my druid. Bhorgia is resto/boom, but his resto is significantly better (and I'm better at playing it). These days my priest is pretty OP, and since we had the priest shortage I've been playing him fulltime, but he's dedicated to our 10 man team, so the druid is my pug of choice.
Anyway, a few guildies in the pug, and a guildie was setting it up.
He sets up pretty successful pugs in general. He says, "Link 5k gs and achieve" and even though we don't get that result, asking for it seems to bring up better pugs. However, it also brings up some fairly obnoxious jackasses. In runs like this EVERYBODY is in charge. Not following directions is standard, because everybody is playing their own strat. Luckily last night we were good enough to get Saurfang down - Festergut was a healing/tank issue for the most part, so we stopped there.
Despite the success, I am looking forward to my TEAM ZOMBIE 10-man tonight. We might do the same as the pug, but it will certainly be more fun.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
So - what do we do now?
Blizzard has done an amazing job getting us to get back into heroics. The lfd system rocks. Also, BGs are better than ever in the pre-80 days, since exp gains make it productive to be in there too.
I actually kinda like leveling my alts and lowbie, since there is so much more to do than to just run the same quests over.
Until today - it all got broke! Damn. I have the whole day off and I can't get into an instance. I have been perfectly conditioned to instance all day and night - and then rolling restart = phailzor.
Crap. Time to quest with my 72 hunter I guess. Or level mining. Or take a nap.
I actually kinda like leveling my alts and lowbie, since there is so much more to do than to just run the same quests over.
Until today - it all got broke! Damn. I have the whole day off and I can't get into an instance. I have been perfectly conditioned to instance all day and night - and then rolling restart = phailzor.
Crap. Time to quest with my 72 hunter I guess. Or level mining. Or take a nap.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Long time no see
Hey kids,
It's been a minute since I've had a chance to write. I've been doing all kinds of warcrafting, as well as getting back to the gym in RL in a big way. Plus, I'm writing a blog about my experiences with fitness and stuff. Anyway, I r busy.
In Azeroth, frankly, we've been kicking serious arse. My MT buddy, Akaichisuru is afk for a few weeks with school, but we've filled in with a great new guildie, Junesong (also a pallie). So, pretty much without missing a beat we've cleared the first 4 bosses in ICC, as well as getting Festergut 2 weeks in a row.
We had our first night on Rotface last night. 12 pulls, some of them a horrible mess, some of them pretty productive. For the pulls that lasted longer than 2 minutes we really learned a lot about the encounter. This is the biggest fight yet where everybody needs to pull their weight 100% of the time. If somebody does not follow directions, it's pretty much going to kill at least one person, and for us that means wipage.
I love having my priest for a few of the bosses in ICC. On Rotface removing disease is especially important. Remove it too early and the mini-add does aoe raid damage, remove it too late and the diseased person takes too much damage. So, for me - MT healing, raid healing with shield spam (remember, I'm disc), avoiding slime sprays, removing disease, and running my OWN diseased ass over to the OT . . . yeah, hectic. It is an awesome encounter, and I love the way it's designed. Gluth on steroids. Hopefully we can get him this week.
In even better news, our 25 man is in ICC too. We fairly well cruised through the first 3 bosses last week. Hopefully we'll be able to do the same thing tomorrow (and maybe even get Saurfang). We have 3 teams in the guild that are past Saurfang on 10-man, so I think it is pretty legit that we can get him in 25 - since everybody knows the encounter.
No song parody today - too much to do, but I have been thinking of a few. Also - I would totally take requests if somebody can think of a song they'd like to see a WoW parody of.
It's been a minute since I've had a chance to write. I've been doing all kinds of warcrafting, as well as getting back to the gym in RL in a big way. Plus, I'm writing a blog about my experiences with fitness and stuff. Anyway, I r busy.
In Azeroth, frankly, we've been kicking serious arse. My MT buddy, Akaichisuru is afk for a few weeks with school, but we've filled in with a great new guildie, Junesong (also a pallie). So, pretty much without missing a beat we've cleared the first 4 bosses in ICC, as well as getting Festergut 2 weeks in a row.
We had our first night on Rotface last night. 12 pulls, some of them a horrible mess, some of them pretty productive. For the pulls that lasted longer than 2 minutes we really learned a lot about the encounter. This is the biggest fight yet where everybody needs to pull their weight 100% of the time. If somebody does not follow directions, it's pretty much going to kill at least one person, and for us that means wipage.
I love having my priest for a few of the bosses in ICC. On Rotface removing disease is especially important. Remove it too early and the mini-add does aoe raid damage, remove it too late and the diseased person takes too much damage. So, for me - MT healing, raid healing with shield spam (remember, I'm disc), avoiding slime sprays, removing disease, and running my OWN diseased ass over to the OT . . . yeah, hectic. It is an awesome encounter, and I love the way it's designed. Gluth on steroids. Hopefully we can get him this week.
In even better news, our 25 man is in ICC too. We fairly well cruised through the first 3 bosses last week. Hopefully we'll be able to do the same thing tomorrow (and maybe even get Saurfang). We have 3 teams in the guild that are past Saurfang on 10-man, so I think it is pretty legit that we can get him in 25 - since everybody knows the encounter.
No song parody today - too much to do, but I have been thinking of a few. Also - I would totally take requests if somebody can think of a song they'd like to see a WoW parody of.
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