Highs and lows
Low point
On Saturday I was struck with the desire to bring my lvl 65 hunter (my very first WoW character, rolled the day after the game was released) out and try to finally get him going again. I bought 145 emblems worth of heirloom items, paid for normal flying, and then tried to figure out how to play a hunter again. I lost interest immediately.
High point
Rolled a new warlock instead–yes, this is on top of my other alts: the 42 druid, the 41 shaman, the 48 mage, the 80 DK–I have Alt-ADHD.
Spent the better part of yesterday leveling it with Cendra’s new rogue. Was pretty fun, and I love all the spells it has at such a low level. I’ll probably play it until 40 or so and then get bored.
Low point
Saturday I threw together a somewhat impromptu Undying run. Razuvious was the raid weekly this week, so turns out half the people invited were saved already. Finally decide we’ll just 8 man it, everyone’s pumped for a fun drunk raid, and we go to do Razuvious first. While manning one of the Understudies, my pet frame was turned off and I couldn’t drop mine in time to save Zilga’s from dying. I pick Raz back up, we’re doing good, last 10% of health. Then I lose aggro, Razuvious runs over and instagibs a poor warlock and then before we can all flee to reset, the boss dies. I screwed up Undying on the first boss.
High point
Went and did ToGC-10 instead, finished it with 48 attempts left. Got a few upgrades for the warlock, who I hope will start raiding soon. One for the win column, overall.
Low point
After that tried a late ICC-10 alt run. Never got past Marrowgar because people couldn’t switch to spikes or avoid dying in the fire.
High point
No one got saved to a fail run.
Low point
Didn’t kill Putricide last night in ICC-10 (mains run).
High point
On our best attempt we got him to 26% and there was a marked improvement every attempt that didn’t have some crazy RNG screw up early on (ie, every “real attempt”). We definitely could have killed him with a lot more time.
Also, as you might have guessed, we killed Roface on 10man for the first time. We had a third healer in the group switch to actual heals for the fight and it reduced a lot of the “one healer dead = wipe” issues we had last week. Our first try we wiped at 7%, second at 1%, third a clean kill with no deaths. Was a thing of beauty.
Low point
Went into an AV yesterday to drop a Great Feast and score my Dinner Impossible achievement. Someone asks if there’s a tank and some tool responds he can tank it. Another guy says “Rhidach has 51.1k” (no wasn’t me) and the tool retorts “I’ll out threat him and live longer.” I kept trying to type in /raid a witty riposte (“Oh ho ho, so you think …”) but I failed to realize that you use /bg to talk in the battleground raid channel. I lose my chance to salvage my ego.
High point
I haunted him the whole way to Vann where he pulled and after a few seconds I pulled aggro by out tpsing him. He taunted back, the healers didn’t have enough time to react, and he died. And I lol’d. Oh, how I lol’d.
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25 January 2010 at 2:00 pm #
We spent a week of attempts on Putricide, and our best shot was 60%. The next week, he was down in four attempts. It’s my personal opinion that his fight improves dramatically with practice, not change in strategy.
Just make sure that the healers keep the tanks up when you go into P3, and that there aren’t any slime pools on the ground – the damage spikes up a bit.
awesome funny post, albeit some sadness and I’m laughing a bit at your misfortune. Aussies do that without any spite, honest!
I’ve wiped on Raz too, by forgetting any spell cast will break the channelling, then feeling even more stilly for forgetting that.
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Better to mess up an Undying run on the first boss rather than 3 wings in.
Undying has become the joke of our guild. We have gotten all the way to KT before losing it. Our last try it was about month ago. Get to KT, get him to about 20% and a shammy lagged, and of course murphy’s law a void spawned under him. Sigh…. We still have not had the heart to go back and clean up that achievement.