Archive for the “raids” Category

I got an invite to SSC fun last night with the guild that The Boyfriend and I had run TK with Wednesday night. They were up to Leo, which they haven’t managed to get down as of yet. Sadly, last night they weren’t able to get him down last night either, even with some insanely close calls. The last attempt was with him at 3k health left. That one just made everyone cry. After we were done, the other hunter in the group and I hung out for a while talking hunter macros. I showed her what I had and I think she has some plots now for some of her own.

A couple of days previously, I’d talked to some of my friends in WoW and asked if I could use their shadowcloth cooldowns. They were gracious enough to say sure, and I sent off the mats. My mage is still frost spec (and happily so), and in desperate need of the Frozen Shadowweave set. After I got their shadowweave back, I found I had enough cloth to make the last piece of the set: the robe. So as of last night (or early this morning, I kinda lost track), my mage is now decked out in all her Frozen Shadowweave goodness. /cheer

(Now if I can just get her a better weapon, get rid of the green pants, and get some new shiny trinkets…)

Today? Here’s hoping that I can get into some Heroic Ramparts or Heroic BLood Furnace runs on Sia. I need Exalted on her with Honor Hold and had some volunteers to help get it for her. ::grin:: The rest of the weekend? Who knows.

Tonight I did something that I haven’t done for a while: a 25-man raid. Oh god it felt good. The working with a large group of other people to take out part of an instance. The “oh crap!” moments follow by the “oh damn we’re good!” butt-out-of-the-fire moments. The silliness in chat and Ventrilo. The group the boyfriend and I went with is a group he was introduced to by some friends of ours. They raid with this other guild on occasion and they seemed to be amenable to having guests along for the ride. Seeing as how they’re about at the point (or slightly behind) our guild was at before all The Mess happened, this seemed like a good fit.

So I finally got a sign-in name for their raid calendar, signed up for Tempest Keep tonight, signed into WoW, then promptly went to Ironforge, closed my eyes, hit the “relearn talents” button an respec’d Beast Master. Why? Well my old guild was fine with me using a Markman spec. I did decent damage with it, knew my role, etc. But taking Siana out to a new raid group? Yeahhh I wanted to show to the best of my abilities on the damage charts as well as “okay yeah she knows where to step and where not to.”

I wasn’t sure if I’d be going, since there were more than 25 people signed up by the time that raid time came around. Eventually tho, I got a whisper asking if I was ready for a raid invite. 30 minutes later, I was up to my ankles in dying or dead Blood Elves and DAMN it felt good! Oh wow, have I missed this. Kara was good, don’t get me wrong. But those 25 man raids…. ::happy sigh::

At the end of the evening, The Boyfriend and I had helped the other guild get their first Void Reaver kill, and while he took the #2 spot on the tank lists, I took #3 on damage done and #5 on DPS. Not too bad for someone that had respec’d all of 3 hours previously and was holding back, trying to make sure I was following the raid correctly. ::pleased purr::

Did they do things differently than our guild did? Oh yeah. Some of it was good, some of it was just different. They’re enough like what I’m used to that I have no problems dealing with them. So tomorrow, it’s (hopefully) back to SSC for the first time in a while for me and seeing if we can help them get their first Leo kill. Whee!

I’ve been back from training since Friday night. This weekend, I happily dropped myself into WoW and got my fix of killing mobs. A friend needed assistance on getting some group quests done, I had a mage that had some of those quests, and by the time it was all done, 5 of us had all piled together to rampage across Netherstorm. There was giggling and chaos involved. Oh yeah, good times.

Saturday night was Kara, which I was REALLY looking forward to. I’d asked to take my mage, since she could actually still use some gear from there. But the big bouncing for me was Aerye going on the run. I was massively looking forward to her seeing everything. She’d been on one run previously but only part way. This time, it was to be a full clear.

So that’s how a mage ended up in the hunter private channel with Aerye and the other hunter on the run. I think it was his 3rd time there. I gave tons of advice to them, and they did great. Well except for when the mobs looked at them and said “mm yum ::nomnomnom::”. Heehee. Aerye got phat lewt and badges, my mage got badges and a sparkly offhand, so everything was dandy.

Yesterday, I took time off to play with the PS3 and the cats’ brains, what little brains they have. Today? Errands, with hopefully a side of killing things in WoW. God I hope so. Yeah, can you tell I’m not quite as depressed anymore?

Friday night, the guild met up and went into TK for the 3rd (or is it 4th?) time. We haven’t officially raided 25 man content in over a month. We were there to kick some serious ass.

I don’t think the poor (ha!) mobs leading the way to Void Reaver ever knew what hit them. The guild was there for blood and phat lewts. There was a lot of good-natured ribbing, a lot of really bad jokes, and a LOT of laughter: just the way we like to have raids go.

Then we got to Void Reaver. He’s still borked up with his globe attacks and the non-announcements by addons. There was a bit of adjustment to that, then the guild started chewing away on him. We had one more shot before things would respawn in bad places (we took more time than we liked. there were too many jokes involving “balls” and “face” and we were all being too damned silly) and then…. Boom. Dead Void Reaver.

So the guild went to TK, we saw VR, and all I got was some shoulders. Such a nice WoW birthday present, even if it was 3 days prior to my actual birthday! (Yes, my birthday’s today, like Fimlys posted earlier on his blog. Sing away. ::grin:: )

One thing that I haven’t written about is a change that happened recently. Due to a sudden influx for Real Life vacations, moves, midterms, new jobs, illnesses, as well as good ol’ burnout, the guild got hit hard for getting a full group of 5 people online to do 25 man content. The officers all talked then gave the guild a heads up that we were going to hold off on raiding til further notice. There was just too much going on in everyone’s lives for us to actually make any progress on 25 man content, and it wasn’t fair to those that came out week after week to keep putting other things on hold, only to find we would have to cancel that night’s raid because we lacked people.

Pretty much, the whole guild agreed this was a good idea. I think everyone’s been getting frustrated at the brick wall we seem to have hit in progression. There an ebb and flow to MMOs: you’re either making progression or you’re not. You losing members or you’re not. And a lot of times, we see that those two flow hand in hand. As soon as a guild stops raiding, there are some that feel they have to move on to guilds that are still raiding. For our guild, I don’t think we’d hold it against them.

I know that I’m actually happy about the no raids other than the guild members throwing together Kara runs or 5man content. See, I’m about to do a Big Thing: a “life reboot”. I’m quitting my current job as a graphic designer, moving two states away (lucky Boyfriend, he gets to not fully unpack, then pack up what he didunpack and move all over again in less than two months), and starting a new life as an art store/teacher resource/bookstore manager for a brand new store opening in a town I’ve never lived in, only visited. I’d already known I’d have to put raiding on hold til the move was done and we were settled, but this way, I don’t feel guilty for not being there to help and (I’ll admit it) jealous at the Phat Lewt others are getting.

Of course, knowing my luck, they’ll start raids back up two nights before we leave Atlanta. :;sigh::

So what do the non-raiding folk do? For my part, it’s heroics, Kara on those nights people have it and I get picked, rep grinds, dailies (oh god lots of dailies), and… well… yeah. Oh and alts. Don’t forget about alts. Now I have the alts on my main server, and then there’s the ones on the About Last Night’s server. And then there’s the shiny PS3 that keeps singing it’s siren song at me from downstairs. Hmm, maybe I do have quite a bit to do.

(Bonus points to anyone who figures out where I bastardized my post title from.)

it was a nice quiet weekend for me. Friday night, I did nothing. Storms came through and while a few booms of thunder did make me wonder if I should power down, it was the flickering of the lights that made me log off. About 15 minutes after I’d powered down and was in bed reading, the power went out. Early night!

Saturday was fits and starts. I got power back finally, then it was off to do a few dailies before saying hell with it and mucking about on the mage for a while. Eventually a Kara run was organized and we went trooping off to go pwn undead things. Happily, they let me take my mage. Granted, Sia could use the badges, but my poor mage is not as nicely geared as she could be. I blame myself for being horribly busy (and a little lazy) in not getting her geared up. But now that I don’t have the “GAH Must grind money GAH!” thing going on Sia, I can concentrate a bit more on the mage. I did manage to pick up the Uni-Mind Headdess, as well as get the exalted Violet Eye Archmage rep ring. A little bit better in the gear, even tho I need to work on her more.

Sunday evening was time for the About Last Night group run. Due to scheduling conflicts, two members couldn’t make it, so the other three of us made Taurens and had fun decimating the wildlife. Little things like all of us dinging at the same time (and me falling over giggling each time) and me smacking every plainstrider from the bristleboars to the beginning Tauren camp, while the other two finished them off as they followed me, meant an highly entertaining evening for me and a great way to end the weekend.

Tonight, I get to take a long hard look at the mage and figure out what to do with her. I have a feeling a respec is coming, along with a bunch of heroics. ::sigh::

Wow, okay then! I know I’ve been a bit sporadic lately, but I blame that on real life. >.> On the plus side, my new floors look awesome. (And yes, for the morbidly curious, I will post pics at some point.)

I’ve made some nice personal WoW progress, actually getting dailies done (shock!), helping with the SSO faction, and getting closer on getting some other factions to exalted. I even had some time to get some SSO dailies done on my mage, which was a REAL shock to me. Raiding has been a bit slow recently, as we have quite a few people away on vacation, personal time off, or dealing with the last few weeks of school. But last night, we tried something crazy. Really crazy.

We tried to kill Doom Lord Kazzak.

Yeah we failed spectacularly, but I don’t think anyone really expected us to take him down. What we did have was a great time being silly and making a group effort at something none of us were anticipating doing when we all logged in. So what if we didn’t kill him. We had fun, and that’s what this is all ultimately about.

All that said, I can’t wait til we get more people and higher DPS and we go kick his tail around til he begs for mercy. ::evil grin::

Last night was guild ZA run.

Last night, I found my Mojo.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Listen, I know I didn’t see you on our usual day last week. I know I canceled on you on pretty short notice. However, I really was ill and under the Nyquil fog. I told you I wasn’t coming in good faith.

So meeting up with you last night, I foolishly expected things to be okay. I mean, I communicated. However, all I got from you for the first 30 minutes were rejections, snippy comebacks, early trap breaking, trap resistances, and just plain weird behavior. That’s not like you. I know you’re better than that. Granted, I will give you points for finally acting like your usual self towards the end of our evening. But really, was that prior 30 minute span of snit-fits the best way to handle things? The most mature way?

::sigh:: It really pains me to say this, but I think I might have to start seeing other bosses in other instances. I’ve talked to Void Reaver a couple of times and he’s quite the charmer. I mean, he drops T5! And those Greaves of his. Oh man. It’s enough to really turn this Hunter girl’s head.

Bottom line is this: unless you put more into this relationship than you did last night, I’m going to have to call off this relationship, because I don’t really see this going anywhere. I would like to say though, thank you for the shards. They were lovely and look great hanging in the guild bank.

Love,
Nightravyn

Class Lead: ok I want to make sure Pally Tank has aggro on Leo during elf phase.
Class Lead: no more dying!
Me: I’ll try!
Class Lead:
Class Lead: well if you die, I have to molest your corpse
Hunter #3: well dang, that’s what I’ve been doing wrong!
Me: you realize you’ve just given me reason to die, right?

oh yeah, we have issues… >.>