Heh, my holy pally moved to Northrend this weekend and on one of the quests I accidentaly took on six of those Alliance-pirate type guys at once, all of them one or two levels above me. It took a long time but I didn’t really have much trouble taking them all down one at a time (although it got easier as they whittled down; six at once was a little hairy).
To my guildies: Sorry I missed the raid last night! I played a bit in the afternoon and then we hosted a cookout. After the last person left a little before 9:00 I tried to get logged in, and apparently my modem crapped out. I tried to reset it and only one light comes on (and it’s not the Power light). I think it’s dead. So off to buy a new one during my lunch today. I hope you all had enough people to raid with.
Yep they are a few of us here not sure if we have enough for a European branch of the Burning Dog Legion though?? Anyone else interested? Maybe a separate thread for this?
We’re going to need to start recruiting again for tanks and healers. DPS we have NO problem with – we actually have too many. But it seems that if we have both tanks then we’re missing a healer, and vice versa. Grah. And this is the worst time as well to be beating the bushes what with Cata, summertime, and emigrations to Alliance side. Fuuu.
I feel like I need to start having a serious second look at my 65 DK and 57 pally since if our GL gets her tank geared then we lose totems and BL. On the up side, little Arh is now about halfway to 79, and then on to 80 and the heroics treadmill.
Huh. What’s your guild like? “LF heals 5k GS ICC 11/12 MUST KNOW FIGHTS”? I’ve been giving serious consideration to finding a raiding guild, but the trick is finding one willing to give an undergeared raiding newbie a willing shot, especially this late in the expansion cycle. Healing’s always more interesting to me than DPS, and I’ve been seriously enjoying my Holy Pally this past week. (Although Horde-side all I have is my BDL Druid, who’s roughly geared to take on Ony10, ToC10, and Uld25 according to WoW-Heroes, and I’ve been neglecting him sorely the past couple of months. Nahren on Cairne if you want to have a look, but he’s Feral-geared on Armory so that’s useless.)
Logged in Keliraeda, my 80 belf pally (who I’ve really been neglecting lately) and ran a couple heroics, including CoS (her first time in there). Partway through, like right after Meathook, the tank said, “afk for a sec - brb”. 5 minutes later he still wasn’t back, and we vote-kicked him. But by the time we got a new tank there was no possible way to get to the drake-dropping boss in time. That was like the third time I’ve seen a tank pull that crap in CoS.
Ran heroic FoS on my mage … that was interesting. Bronjahm dropped the Very Fashionable Shoulders, and I won them They would be awesome, except she’s already got the T9 shoulders, which are a bit better. (I also had my headphones on and the sound cranked up, and finally got to hear the funky soul music playing in the background during that fight!) More “I Hate People Sometimes”: right before the Bronjahm fight, an iLvl 232 dagger dropped off some trash (I want to say it was Blood Weeper, except that some trash dropped it, not Devourer of Souls), the rogue won it, said, “OMG! Awesome!” and dropped group. On the amusing side, we finished the Bronjahm fight, ran out of the room, then stopped and looked around … where’d the tank go? Oh, he’s dead. But we couldn’t find his corpse. Turned out he ran out of the room, turned the corner, ran right off the edge of the platform and plummeted to his death. He thought it was pretty funny, and we had a good chuckle while he ran back.
But the most amazing part of the run was the Devourer of Souls fight. We had her (it?) down to about 20% when one of the DPS died. Then the tank died … and then the healer died :eek: leaving just my mage and a boomkin. But … we survived. Boomkin quickly switched to bear and started tanking, and a few seconds later my Mirror Image came off CD and I cast it again and kept pouring on the damage. The druid was able to simultaneously tank and throw occasional heals at me, and we managed to stay alive and keep the boss busy long enough for the healer to run all the way back and rez the tank (I assume he didn’t bother running back because he didn’t figure the boomkin and I had a chance in hell of lasting much longer, and I don’t blame him - I wouldn’t have bet on our chances either), and then we finished the fight. Absolutely astounding!
was tanking an instance today, and one of the DPS was a 5kHe took aggro from me more often than not, but np cos he was so over geared he may as well have been tanking. No idea why he wasn’t running heroics.
Thanks! Sorry to hear about your recruitment issues. That’s always the way with raiding guilds though; you have to be constantly recruiting in order to find the ones that are good for your guild. It might be best to try and get some hybrids geared up in both healing/tanking specs, just so you have some flexibility. Good luck to you, though, whatever you choose to do.
I ran my pally healer in his first Northrend dungeon yesterday (UK) and we ended up with a level 80 tank with a gearscore > 5000. I kept stopping to loot things while he stormed ahead, but he never needed much healing.
Finally before the last boss I asked him “Why are you running this anyway?” Turns out he was running a friend through. Nice for me, though, since with the three UK quests I got three nice upgrades to my gear for very little actual work.
Nice of him to bring other lowbies along. I’ve got a couple of friends who do this all the time, but we never pick up puggies along the way.
On a separate note, MAN it feels good to have my bank organized! I hadn’t touched Nahren’s bank since before I’d installed Bagnon, and it was a complete mess, with holiday items, random bits of low-level blacksmithing mats, quest mementos like Linken’s Sword and Boomerang, half of a set of Balance gear…I upgraded all the bags, which were a mishmash of 12-16 slot bags, with a full suite of Frostweave Bags, then made myself throw out all the gear and mementos I would never actually need. I did keep the holiday items, but there’s really no reason I should keep the Fire Extinguisher around, and I’m never going Balance with Nahren. I sold a bunch of junk and got the whole thing reorganized, and it’s so much cleaner and spacious now. I just wish getting my house clean was that simple.
So I finally got to test out my new mouseover macro’s in ICC25 and I have to say it was a hack of a lot easier to heal people and I could react much faster. I still have to do a couple of new keybinds so that my abolish poison and decurse are easier to use, but overall I’m happy with my setup now, even if a few of my friends say my UI makes them weep.
ICC25 went well enough even though we had to pug out quite a few spots thanks to the memorial day weekend. Picked up the resto boots from Gunship and my Revered ring at the end of the raid. We got down the usual 6 bosses with a little difficulty on Rotface thanks to our pugs not running to the offtank with their oozes leading to us having two big oozes at least twice during the fight.
I had an 80 tank in Nexus the other day while I was randoming on my hunter, from Cairne no less. We were all pretty happy until it became apparent that he had no clue what he was doing. Ended up jumping off the platform before Anomalus and dying then dropping group, along with our healer. Really strange, but we picked up a couple of new bodies and steamrolled the place. Felt pretty awesome to have my Devilsaur tank the last few percent of Keristraza after everyone else had died.
Hee. My friend and I did this this weekend. We’re both 80s, and he’s pretty well geared. We just decided to randomly queue for UK, because we really, really liked it when level 80 people showed up in early dungeons.
We also switched characters and ran HoL. That was. . .interesting. I was able to figure out his DK. He was not able to figure out my 'lock, though he managed okay DPS with RoF. Fun times.
The thing about those printed companions is that they can often be outdated quickly. Also, I’ve found that it’s a lot easier asking people you trust to help you out as their information will probably be much more to the point than the dungeon companion. Just my opinion.
What Daedelus said. When I bought WoW vanilla I also got the BradyGames guide, and I think there were parts of it that were already obsolete before I even bought it.
For up-to-date information, there’s plenty of online information about WoW instances. Here’s a good level guide that tells you when people should be hitting what dungeons. Clicking on dungeon names on that page takes you to the WoWwiki page for that dungeon, which has general information about what mobs and bosses are there, as well as a dungeon map, and links to sites with more specific information (Wowhead, thottbot, etc).
Did a VOA 25, comported myself quite well as tank and quasi-raid healer. Didn’t get many heals on Toravon because SOME PEOPLE eyes druids and shammy didn’t stick to their healer assignments and just healed over me. We took Koralon with some of the raid dropping out. Some people died, but by god the tanks lived. More specifically, MY tank lived, and I topped the healing chart because with one of the druids gone I had to help the raid heals.
So when the raid leader grabbed people for VOA 10, it was only natural that I got kicked from the raid.
…Wait, what? :smack: I’m healing this shit in mostly 200s and some blue gear, and I’m doing god damn good! That’s a friggin’ insult!
ETA: Oh, yes, and I was the only one courteous enough to lay down a Fish Feast for everyone. Not that everyone needs it, but even so.
I’ve been giving serious consideration to finding a raiding guild, but the trick is finding one willing to give an undergeared raiding newbie a willing shot, especially this late in the expansion cycle. Healing’s always more interesting to me than DPS, and I’ve been seriously enjoying my Holy Pally this past week. (Although Horde-side all I have is my BDL Druid, who’s roughly geared to take on Ony10, ToC10, and Uld25 according to WoW-Heroes, and I’ve been neglecting him sorely the past couple of months. Nahren on Cairne if you want to have a look, but he’s Feral-geared on Armory so that’s useless.)
They would be awesome, except she’s already got the T9 shoulders, which are a bit better. (I also had my headphones on and the sound cranked up, and finally got to hear the funky soul music playing in the background during that fight!) More “I Hate People Sometimes”: right before the Bronjahm fight, an iLvl 232 dagger dropped off some trash (I want to say it was 
