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10301

w00t!

Ran my first random Heroic today, with my friends the druid and the priest!

We got The Oculus and it was … easy. Why does the Oculus look just like the Nexus? I thought the Oculus was under Wyrmrest Temple? I thought we were in the Nexus until the box and the achievements popped up at the end. Anyway, the final boss was a bit tricky because nobody mentioned until then that the red drakes are “tanks” and the bronze drakes are the “DPS”, so we had 3 reds, one bronze, and one green. We pulled it out, though, with only the green going down. My drake had a whopping 608 HPs when the big boss finally keeled over :eek:

No gear dropped for me, though, so I just rolled DE on everything.

On the downside … I finally, finally managed to engage Putridus after having him spawn in my vicinity something like 10 times now without ever being able to get to him first. It was a tough fight, but I got him beat down to “almost dead”, when that damned RDF box popped up in the middle of my screen to tell me I was ready to enter the dungeon, startling and distracting me, and down I went dead. And then got dropped from the queue because I took too long to click :mad: And then somebody else got to Putridus while I was flying back to my corpse :mad::mad:

10302

No, that’s Obsidian Sanctum under the temple. The physical entry to the Oculus is immediately above the entry to the Nexus.

Did you remember to loot your satchel out of the chest? It has an extra Emblem of Triumph or two, some blue gems, and sometimes the blue drake mount.

10303

Ah, okay.

Yeah, fortunately one of the group announced that everybody needed to click the box to get their loot. I got a Something Monarch Topaz and a couple Triumphs.

So Eilyssana now has 8 Triumphs and 2 Frosts :slight_smile:

10304

Hey, I didn’t notice when I posted earlier that I/we also earned the Make It Count achievement while we did Heroic Oculus :slight_smile:

So anyway, with a whopping total of one Heroic under my belt, later the same day my new friends goaded me into … The Forge of Souls, The Pit of Saron, and The Halls of Reflection. Not Heroic, though. I think I died on one of the early bosses, but survived the rest of the way.

Alas, there was a severe lack of plate armor and weapon droppage in anything Eilyssana ran, but I did get to upgrade my cloak: Tapestry of the Frozen Throne. And by the end of the day I had 8 Frosts and 16 Triumphs :slight_smile:

10305

Grats to all and good work on getting the guild together Quasi I wish I could roll a toon there to join in.

I finally dinged 60 on my Warlock so now I can turn into a demon every 2 and a half minutes or so. I can’t see myself ever getting bored of it.

Thanks for the jousting tips all, I gave up as a Valiant because I failed every attempt but I’ll try these strategies soon.

10306

I just checked my Warlock in the Armoury and got my first look at her most recent gear, last night I equipped some stuff just before exiting the game. This is isn’t right is it? Filth. http://i41.tinypic.com/678ttv.jpg

10307

You march right back into your room and put some pants on, young lady!

The Burning Dog Legion cleared the Military Quarter of Naxx last night. We were a little slow in getting started and wiped several times, especially on the Horsemen which I think took four (maybe five?) attempts. We ended up stopping a little earlier than last week when the MT had to leave.

For tomorrow night’s dungeon run, I think we should do Durnholde again, for three reasons. 1) Only three of us did it last week and I think completing Durnholde is required for the next CoT instance, Black Morass; 2) Some of us still need to kill Don Carlos for his hat; 3) I’m still 66 and would like to ding one more level before going to Sethekk Halls where 67 is the recommended minimum.

10308

Coldarra has The Nexus (low-level 5-man), The Oculus (high-level 5-man, though lower than the later additions of ToC and ICC), and The Eye of Eternity (raid, Malygos is the boss). Under Wyrmrest Temple is the Obsidian Sanctum (raid, Sartharion is the boss).

Yay! Are you glad they pushed you to try them out? It certainly sounds like you’ve been having fun. :slight_smile:

Hell, IMO getting Horsemen down in that many attempts is an accomplishment for a group of people that involves some inexperienced raiders! With the swapping you have to do, they’re pretty hard to just brute-force your way through.

10309

Yeah, the tricky part was that we only had two healers and one of them was on a secondary spec. As the main healer, I stood in the back to distract one of the bosses, and we had a hunter working on the other one. The trouble was that the hunter couldn’t keep his pet alive long enough for the rest of the raid to take out the front two bosses and come to our rescue. Once he switched to a tank-pet instead of dps-pet, and we moved closer together so I could heal us both at the same time (Binding Heal ftw) it went much better.

10310

Sorry I couldn’t show. :frowning: It was a long day at work and I just didn’t have it in me to participate in a raid that late. As it was, I wound up not actually doing anything at all in WoW all night aside from the fishing daily and futzing with a couple new addons.

10311

No worries Boss. We all have stuff come up. That’s why we’re a casual guild. If anything, it’s kind of fun to improvise. You should have heard the guys trying to run CoS without a tank! :smiley:

10312

Eye of Eternity … I just realized I keep typing “EoE” when I’m talking about BGs, when what I meant was EotS (Eye of the Storm). I hope everybody figured out what I meant, here and on the official boards where I was asking for PvP advice :smack:

Oh yeah :smiley: Though they keep telling me I should join their guild, which I really don’t want to do … I mean, my “vanity guild” has my name in its name — <The Order of The Rik> — it would feel funny not having my main in my own guild!

In any case, I glad somebody in-game started pushing me. On Eilyssana, having completed Loremaster of Northrend and being Exalted with every single NR faction (aside from Ashen Verdict), there was really nothing left for her to do outside of achievement-chasing until Cataclysm comes out. And I’ve honestly been starting to get really really really bored doing Icecrown dailies (and in any case, with Keliraeda being level 80 now and working her way toward having access to all those dailies, two toons doing all of those every day was just going to be too much). I’d already stopped doing the dailies down at Onslaught Harbor because I just don’t like them, and yesterday I finally decided that I’m not doing that asinine “Slaves to Saronite” daily any more. A couple days ago I posted the following in Icecrown General:

“LFG to pimp-slap the Blizzard devs who designed the Slaves to Saronite daily”

I got several people volunteering to join me :smiley:

10313

Yup, I caught that, but I figured you meant EotS. I might have corrected it, but I couldn’t remember what the hell the BG was actually called. :smiley:

I gotta say, I’m kind of jealous of you being in the position of just getting to discover all these five-mans. I’m at the “hideously bored with them” stage myself, and it would be nice to be able to go back to when they were still fresh and exciting.

10314

Scene: CoS (4th wipe):

Jsor: Awww, man…I’m sorry about that.
Yeti: Really, it’s noooooooooo problem…We’re a caaaaassssssssuuuuuuuaaaaaaalllllll guild.

It was fun trying to do it without a tank though…until the 5th wipe.

10315

I think it was the 4th attempt:

1st wipe before the first boss was killed.
2nd wipe just before or just after first boss was killed.
3rd wipe before 2nd boss was killed.
4th time we had it down (the switches) and took out all four.

10316

I only got in one random Heroic today; my druid friend worked 2-midnight over in the Central time zone (I’m Pacific), and so wasn’t on all day, so my random group was truly random. Aaaaaand I didn’t get any achievement because the RDF dropped me into an in-progress H-AN run with only Anub’arak to go.

It was … interesting. We worked our way down to Anub’arak; I mentioned I’d never been in there before and asked the tank to explain the fight, what to expect, what to watch out for, etc., and he did so pretty clearly. Then, in we went.

Tank pulled, I followed a bit behind him and waited for him to get the boss turned around and get in a few whacks. Then I ran up behind, dropped a Consecrate and hit the boss with my Judgement, while the hunter and the other DPS (it was a gnome, either a rogue or a DK, can’t remember which) opened up behind me. The tank immediately lost aggro. I got stunned by something I didn’t see about three seconds after joining the fight, without ever swinging my sword, and then promptly died while stunned. The non-hunter DPS went down a couple seconds later, leaving me to watch while the tank, priest, and hunter tried to take the boss down alone (there was no point in my releasing and running back - not knowing my way around I would have just gotten lost and not made it back in time anyway). They lasted about two more minutes before everybody wiped. Though watching the fight, I thought the priest did a remarkable job keeping the tank alive as long as she did.

Rezzed at the GY and ran back, where we discovered the tank and the DK or rogue had dropped group. So we queued up again and pretty soon we had a new tank and DPS. Ran to the boss, engaged, and this time we took him down in maybe 5 minutes.

After that I decided to queue up for a random BG, and got WSG. Yay! The one BG where I actually have an idea what the hell’s going on! However, it was something of a clusterfuck, with most of the Alliance team spending the whole battle duking it out in the middle of the BG instead of trying to cap the flag, and so the Horde continued its WSG dominance, beating us 3-0. OTOH, I think it was my personal best showing so far in my PvP BG career. I was only credited with 2 killing blows, but I contributed to enough enemy deaths to balance out my own deaths.

At one point I attempted to guard the Alliance flag room, but for some reason … I can’t find the damn thing! I can run into the Horde base and straight to their flag, but damned if I can find the Alliance flag. Maybe I did find the flag room, but our flag was being carried by an enemy at the time so it wasn’t there to tell me I was in the flag room. Who knows?

Also, I removed the insignia from several dead Horde, but aside from this gaining me a handful of silver, I have no idea what that accomplishes. Do I get some extra Honor for doing that, or what?
And finally, for the edification of new jousters and anybody else who cares to look, I brought in a film crew to capture my jousting exploits. It really needs a voiceover or something, but I don’t know how to do that yet:

Had a bit of trouble right off the bat with the UC Champion, when my first Charge resulted in that annoying flip-a-180-on-impact thing, but otherwise I thought the whole sequence went well. The delays before the 3rd and 4th matches was me waiting on the cooldown on my Heal.

10317

WSG is a perfect mirror image, so whatever method you use to get you to the Horde FR will lead you to the Alliance FR - either go straight up the tunnel or enter the door back by the graveyard. If you’re in a large blue tinted room with a nook in the back wall for the flag, you’re there.

Pulling an insignia in a BG will get you some gold, and in AV will get you some items you can turn in for rep or to start certain events (assuming the fight lasts long enough). It will also force the player whose insignia you took to resurrect at the graveyard. Most players resurrect at the graveyard all the time anyway, since you come back with full health and mana, but from time to time when I’ve noticed the other team has left my corpse without pulling my insignia, I’ve done a corpse run as a way to easily get behind enemy lines.

10318

Anub’Arak in AN does a frontal conal AOE stun + big damage. If it hits anybody but the tank, it’s pretty much a one-shot situation.

10319

Actually, there’s no point in releasing & running during the Anubarak fight; a wall goes up around the battlefield and no one can get in if they aren’t standing on the circle around him. (You might have someone tell you to “stand on the dirt” before the fight - that’s to make sure no one is locked outside, which happened to me once).

I guess there’s some point - it gives you a head start on the run-back if you think you’re going to wipe anyway.

(There really aren’t a whole lot of fights where release & run makes much sense - only one I can think of off hand is Skadi the Ruthless in UP, if a couple of the DPS get whirlwinded down.)

10320

Thanks for the jousting advice, guys. Between this thread and a couple of videos our GL made, I’m getting the hang of it without so much freakin’ pain and tedium. Halfway to my 25 Valiant’s Seals!