Did Auchenai Crypts tonight, Shirrak is one creepy mofo. Mother Brain with teeth?
Anyway, when I joined it was a guild doing a run, and the healer told me the tank was in training and I could ditch if I wanted, but hey - I know it sucks to cycle through people a bajillion times so I stuck around.
We actually started out in the Mana-Tombs but people just weren’t experienced enough to do it with Mana Burn getting cast and we wiped a few times. So then we went to the Crypts, went much better until Shirrak. I think we totally wiped twice, then I got smart and started Feigning Death once the tank died. Everyone else died about 3 more times, then they got pissy and kicked the tank - from their own guild! That’s harsh, dudes. Healer called in level 80 friend for help and we finished off the dungeon.
I do that a lot–some of my alts get terribly neglected, so if I’m focusing on another one, I’ll just roll through all the inactive alts to check their mail.
Damn you, Quasi! Now I want a popsicle. (But thanks for reminding me we’re entering Delicious Frozen Treat season… Time for me to pick some up from the store!)
1.) Bring a lot of reagents if you’re a caster with buffs that require them. Bring a lot of ammo if you’re a Hunter. Stock up on Soul Shards if you’re a Warlock.
2.) Bring at least a couple stack of water if you’re a caster. Food can be a good idea for everyone to bring, since it can speed up wipe recovery, but it’s not 100% required.
3.) If you can, bring bandages and health and/or mana potions.
In addition to what SfG said above, remember to use your Soulstone ability on the healer, so that if there’s a wipe he can self-ressurect and then res the party instead of everyone having to run back. You should also mention in party chat that you’re doing this. (Just “soulstoning heals” is enough of a notice.)
Haha, I completely forgot to relate what happened to me last night:
So, as I’d bitched about previously :D, when I beat Dreamwalker on 25-Heroic, I didn’t get credit for the regular fight, so I was missing the achievement for killing every boss in ICC25. I’d opened a ticket for it on Thursday night, and while a GM finally responded Monday night, I was in the middle of a raid, so they closed me out and had me submit a follow-up to reopen it.
When I logged on last night, I saw that I’d received a response… from a GM who clearly hadn’t been paying attention to the original ticket. They first said that they don’t do anything with achievements (while the prior GM was going to fix my missing one), and then explicitly confirmed that you should get credit for the regular kill when you do the Heroic one. :smack: So I submitted a follow-up to the follow-up.
I hadn’t been waiting too long–maybe an hour–when another GM contacted me. It was right when raid was supposed to start, but I was able to quickly log off while she fixed things, then log back on to pick up my raid invite. True to form with the other occasion that a I had a GM misread a ticket and close it without addressing the issue, she made the mistake up to me… this time, with *12 days *(!) of comp time.
Had a nice ego boost last night–the other new Prot War had to sit out again for H-LDW. I whispered the RL and offered to sit out in his place, since the other guy had been sitting for every boss but LK last week. But the RL said he’d rather have me in there. And Yogg+0 is on the schedule for Monday–which I’m very excited about, since if it were Thursday, I’d have to miss it. Fingers crossed that we can get a Freya+3 in, too.
Oh and! One of our Ret Paladins, Murdersmash, completed the guild-first Shadowmourne last night. I believe we’re going to do straight-up bidding on the items that drop when we kill the LK this week. (Man, I hope I’m in for that kill.)
Ouch. I guess this is round 2? If it is, can anyone post a list of all the ones that are going down for the day (spoilered, to avoid wall of text in the middle of the thread)?
Ideally, the healer would rez *BEFORE *everyone else dies and prevent the wipe in the first place.
Figuring out who to soulstone in a group is a fine art, or so I understand. In a five-man, you’re going to want to put it on the healer or the tank–probably the healer. In a raid, you always want to SS a Druid whenever possible, because they’re the only class with a battle-rez (so SSing a Druid is like getting two rezzes for the price of one).
Well, that’s situational; the other day I chose poorly when we somehow managed to aggro an extra pack while fighting one of the OK bosses (the one with the volunteers); I soulstoned back in the middle of the fight and basically died right away again anyway.
Word. In both the raid nights we’ve been in, Ollyn tends to Soulstone me. Understandable, because I’m a healer and I’m his buddy in the raid. But we’ve got a Pally healer who’s tying himself to the tanks and a Priest raid healer. I frequently die last, simply because I’m usually covered by the tanks and I tend to heal myself as much as I heal them, plus, you know. Plate armor and shield. I do sometimes die early, but not nearly as often as a poor clothie, so I had to tell Ollyn to SS the Priest instead.
Yeah, thus “ideally.” Learning when to take rezzes is also a fine art. Last night, for example, we decided to blast through a few Ulduar bosses after stopping our ICC run for the night in preparation for Monday; I ended up using two b-rezzes on Kologarn, because I got squeezed to death (going for the “kill no arms” achievement) and automatically punched the rez button right away… only to immediately die when he did his earthquake-thingy AOE. :smack:
Ah yes, I keep forgetting you’re over there. There’s already been one round of 24-hour outages, but my server wasn’t part of the first group.
Yeah, no. No way do I want every toon I have visible to my friends…no way do I want my real name visible to my friends (some of them know it, some don’t–I’m very careful about who knows my real name in WoW)…and no way do I want my real name visible to anybody my friends happen to add as their friends.
Blizz really dropped the privacy ball on this one. I’m disappointed, because I have one friend who plays on another server (former guildie until our guild broke up and we all scattered) whom I’d like to cross-realm chat with. But not that way.
The problem is, what people expected and wanted and what Blizzard is providing are two very different things. People wanted a cross-realm chat with online buddies. Blizzard provided a system for real life friends to keep in touch with each other. Your real name shouldn’t be an issue with this system, they think, because the person you’re adding to your Real ID list already knows it.
I disagree with them and think a more general cross-realm communication system would have been far more useful and popular, but there’s a fine difference between trying to provide X, but doing it poorly, and providing Y and doing it just fine, even though people wanted and expected X.
Yeah, when I got this E-mail it had been delivered to my spam filter, and reading it over I started suspecting that this was a phishing scam or something. Especially when I went to Blizzard’s actual site (via typing in the URL, not following their link) and saw no mention of it!
Me too - the server went down seconds after a Wintergrasp battle no time to say good night to everyone. I’ll probably roll a new character on another server (maybe RP or PVP? Both?) to get me through the night.
I wouldn’t even have a problem with it if this were the only thing that were true. If all I had to worry about was that the people I designated as friends know my real name, that’s fine–because the only people I’d want to use it with already do know my real name.
However, Blizz has also decided that everybody:
Wants their friends to always know when they’re on, even if they have a “secret alt” that they play when they just want to be left alone.
Wants their real name to be visible to their friends’ friends.
I don’t think it goes as far as showing all your toons and your online status to friends of friends, but even if it’s just real name, that’s a dealbreaker.
What I think Blizz should do is:
Let you make a nickname that you go by for your RealID account. They can verify it internally to make sure you’re really you, but your real name won’t be visible to anyone unless you specifically allow it.
Let you designate toons as “visible” or “invisible.”
If they did these two things, I’d be all over it. Until then, I’ll have to settle for interacting with friends outside the game.
Blizzard’s counter to both of these is that you shouldn’t be sharing Real IDs with people you might have a problem with knowing these things. Ideally you wouldn’t share your Real ID with someone who would share theirs with a goldspammer or hacker, f’rinstance.
I think it’s an unnecessarily limited use of the functionality, and I would have preferred something closer to the global names and chat channels City of Heroes employs. But as far as I can tell, in this Blizzard really doesn’t give a damn.
(bolding mine)
:rolleyes: Some people Just. Don’t. Get it. No true paladin would identify themselves with a name like that, nor would they accept such a nickname from others. And, hopefully, no sane parents would christen their child with such a name at birth.
Sorry, character names are something I just have a bug up my ass about. Maybe it’s just me and maybe it’s silly, but in an RPG I believe the player should look at his/her character as, well, a character. Your character should be something you identify with, not just a collection of tools. I spotted a level 80 resto druid the other day named (get this) Restodruid. I was grouped through the RDF a couple days ago with a toon named Healslfg (he was the tank, WTF?). I once spotted a priest named Thisguyheals. I can see the reasoning behind names like that - they were clearly hoping people would see their names and invite them to groups. Hopefully we’ll see a reduction in such character “names”, now that the RDF has made doing a /who and whispering random people of whatever class/role you’re looking for unnecessary.
I’m also still debating whether to report a couple characters I’ve seen, “Varimathris” and “Festergut”, for ToS violation.
(But thanks for reminding me we’re entering Delicious Frozen Treat season… Time for me to pick some up from the store!)
And Yogg+0 is on the schedule for Monday–which I’m very excited about, since if it were Thursday, I’d have to miss it. Fingers crossed that we can get a Freya+3 in, too.
Learning when to take rezzes is also a fine art. Last night, for example, we decided to blast through a few Ulduar bosses after stopping our ICC run for the night in preparation for Monday; I ended up using two b-rezzes on Kologarn, because I got squeezed to death (going for the “kill no arms” achievement) and automatically punched the rez button right away… only to immediately die when he did his earthquake-thingy AOE. :smack: