Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Picture post

Since I've got nothing much to blog about right now, and I don't intend to rant about this asshole PuG rogue I was in an instance with... here are some screen shot cuts for hecks! XD

Nothing feels better than winning 'big'


Curse these fat fingers!


I'm a camera whore IRL, and in WoW XD


Great help in decision making...


A long time ago... on a character far far away....

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Loving the Pally

My Pally's now 67, only 3 more levels before I fully spec her to holy. I wonder how she would do when she's full holy because I've PuGed and main healed in instances like Slave Pens and Underbog when I'm half ret half holy and it worked out pretty sweet. I can't remember Slave Pens cos it was a while ago but last night I PuGed Underbog (while dragging Maldavo's rogueish ass along) and there were only 2 deaths in total. Not that I should be proud of it cos a death's a death.... but at least there were no wipes! Even with a bad pull included. And being able to tease Maldavo throghout the instance and after, it was fun >:)

I stand at +600 healing now thanks to all the green healing gears I've collected on my mains. Hope to get this up to +1000 ASAP once I hit level 70, and get Kara keyed. It's quite often I see PuG Kara groups looking for healers so this might be an opportunity for me to get some rep in there for the ring. Speaking of rings.... I better get my ass levelled and get into a Headless Horseman group for the epic ring before the event is over. I really want that ring it's like sooooo sweet! /drools

Once I'm done with my exams I'm going to get her to 70 by the end of this week.... Hopefully =D

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Tier 5 baby~!!!!!!

AHAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAAHAH~!!!!!!! I got my Tier 5 shoulders last night!!!!!!

Nordrassil Feral-Mantle

It's a teeny weeny minor upgrade for me actually.... bleh how I wish it was a better upgrade. I'm probably still going to use the T4 shoulders just because I get the 4-piece set bonus from it. I lose 1100 armor if I swap to T5 shoulders, but gain a little more agility, stamina and strength. I've already socketed the +18 stamina epic JC craft gem in it, and probably going with +4 agi / +4 hit for the yellow socket. That would mean I lose 50 health, but gain more aggro generating benefits. Really a tough call.... but I'm hoping once we down Magtheridon and if I get my T5 chest piece I can swap out my T4 shoulders with the T5 ones.

One thing about druid gear though.... it's all about the armor and the stats but nothing on defense. And truthfully that sucks balls. As it is right now I'm not meeting the 415 defense requirements, but I make do with resilience ratings thanks to my arena chest piece. But what happens when I swap it out for T4 chest? I'm hoping for the Illhoof cloak for that +defense but there's so much restriction to the T4 pieces. Am I supposed to socket +defense gems to cover up for the loss of defense? That will suck so bad because I'd rather socket +4 agi / +4 hit to yellow and red sockets, and +12 stamina ones to my blue sockets. I'd have socketed defense gems if only the darn T4 set would have +hit to it as well. I mean come on, if you're going to make it a feral set, make it a set where cats can use it too.

Right not cat form gear is similar to a rogue's gear, and with the new patch coming in to take away +20% strength and make it +10% attack power (feral talent: Heart of the Wild), T4 will be shitty for cats. And all the gear I have which has strength would be worthless cos now, attack power is better. Bullshit I tell you. I need to start recollecting rogue-ish gear like the cloak off Aran and the neck from Attumen. It's as though I'm not already having a hard time trying to get the shoulders off chess and the rings from Prince and Curator, and the chest from Nightbane. I'm honestly going to focus more on getting the cloak off Illhoof for now. I'm first and foremost a bear tank and if people want to give me shit about not doing good DPS in cat form, well go screw yourself. I'm never rolling on rogue items over a rogue because a rogue is the more superior energy-user-DPSer. My rogue in blues and greens could out-DPS a feral cat druid in about 75% kara epics. I'd rather be a lousy cat than to hurt raid DPS as a whole due to a rogue not getting an upgrade. Most of my cat gear are usually in my bag sitting there anyways cos I'm always needed to tank.

I rest my case =P

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

New toys

Yay got new toys for Lase and Ladylase~!

A new sword for Ms Sword Spec'd Lase Merciless Gladiator's Slicer

And a new stick for Ms Crit Frenzy Ladylase Merciless Gladiator's War Staff

All I can say is..... I've never felt better for them in such a long time, especially Lase. Now no one can diss her main hand anymore!

Friday, October 12, 2007

Magtheridon says "Hi"

This is Magtheridon. He reminds me of Jabba the Hut mutated with Rancor and a Bantha.



This, is Magtheridon's ass.... something I want to kick.



And this... is Magtheridon's head on a stick. Something I'd like to do soon.




Ok so the guild attempted Magtheridon today. It was our first time there so we were learning. The trash was easy imho. I mean I've heard people say trash pull sucks and what not... I say it's cake. Could probably get them down in less than 30 minutes and spend lots of time attempting and learning him next week. From what I've experienced last night, here are some things to share with any readers who might want some insight on certain things that are happening when you engage the adds.

I posted this on my guild forums but this is a more generalized version for anyone still in the learning process of this raid too:

1) It's obvious a non-prot warrior can tank the Channelers just fine. A warrior in DPS gear, with sword + shield, and defensive stance only receives a crushing blow of 3k. So it won't hurt DPS later when all adds are dead since weapons are swappable during combat, and stances as well. This would probably work fine if there is a feral druid who is going to be DPS on Magtheridon. Get in cat DPS gear, but go bear form, maybe swap weapons to a tanking weapon if need be.

2) Burning Abyssals (ie infernals) seem hurt most with it's fire blasts which hits for an average of 2k, but I think healers can heal through this. What sucks is that healers and casters who are being hit by these infernals are getting their spells interrupted, which is no good. Since these infernals only deal an average of 700 melee damage, I'm assuming it's easy for (again) a non-prot warrior to grab as many of them as they can to stop them from raping the healers. I've had 2 on me from swipes and their hits are really sissy.

3) Once Magtheridon is released, he does not have an aggro list right away. It takes him about 2 seconds to get his aggro list out, and targets someone. Tank should usually be beside Magtheridon then, waiting to get aggro. It worked fine, I waited on him and aggroing him was not too hard thankfully.

5) That sonofabitch cleaves for 9k on me. So when the tank gets ready for Magtheridon to be released, designated healers would have to ignore the rest of the raid and focus on the MT. Kinda like imagine Gruuls on Growth #10. Cleave is very very bad, so tank has to tank him where the two channelers are dead, not where the whole raid is killing the 3rd channeler.

The loot whore strikes back!

This week is another loot whoring week for me. =( I feel so bad sometimes =/

It was a good night for Team Noozy (combination of Team Noob and Crazy). We one shotted Aran with lots of people dead including yours truly. I learned that holding 3 adds while getting targetted by Aran sucks balls. Especially when he casts frostbolt cos I think that hurts A LOT! Anyways Fyofyo (Fyoren) got the nice cape from Aran (finally it dropped!) which Trinitylsin's been aiming for but let's hope it drops next week again :) Off to chess, and guess what? FINALLY!!!! Mithril Chain of Heroism dropped!!! I lost the roll to Serithia actually.... but he passed it to me XD

Off we head to Prince. Urgh... prince. Have I mentioned I hate how random the fight is based on luck? Well guess what? We were SURE AS HELL lucky last night!!!! No one needed to move from where they were standing, until the final infernal which landed on top of the ranged, but AFTER Prince died. So yeah basically it was smoooooooth. And a nice ring dropped which I'm aiming for in future runs when I'm not such a loot whore winning shit from other bosses. Netherspite was quite smooth too, and I was silently hoping hoping hoping the sword Vorcon wants does not drop because he'd be crushed (speaking of which, he owes me 10 bucks cos he bet with me it will drop XD ). But even if it did it was HIS FAULT! Cos I clearly sent him a PM asking if he wanted to take my spot for Netherspite since we could have Ersane OT him, but noooooo he had to be all hungry and went afk for food. In a way, it was a good thing because Cowl of Defiance dropped!!!!! And both rogues had that or better so.... MINE! Muahahahahaa.....

We did not one shot Illhoof sadly, took a 2nd attempt to bring him down but it was all good. I did get sacrificed 3 times! Come on! Lol.... Illhoof was dumb the 2nd attempt, he sacrificed Serithia, who bubbled out... then sacrificed Rondaris... who also bubbled out. Noob Illhoof XD He dropped the damn octopus staff again. What a tease! For 5 weeks he did not drop it and now twice in a row? Drop the damn cloak dammit! Pfft stupid Illhoof. Of course I would have been a loot whore and gotten the cloak since Dartmus already has it but still.... it's ok to be a loot whore with Illhoof, right? Right?

Off to the final boss we have left.... Nightbane. Nightbane was a BEE-ATCH! We took 5 tries to get him down, and 2 of the tries were at 4% and 10%! Like ZOMG FTW BBQ! Oh, and there was this one attempt (10% attempt) where Dart died and I tried to get aggro and after I did I actually resisted his fear!!!! AHAHAHAAHAAAHHAA!!!!! Yeah so he died and that lovely leather chest piece dropped for Trinitylsin! Wewt! It was really some sort of rogue-ish night for us XD Can't complain for sure!

So why is this a loot whore week for me when I only got 2 items? Well cos on Day 1 from Attumen through Curator I was on my hunter Phynn and I won the following:
Stalker's War Bands
Gloves of Dexterous Manipulation
Beastmaw Pauldrons

Loot whore indeed +_+



PS: Fyofyo is copyrighted to me, so is Shockie, Kippypoo and Mellinoob. Sadly can't copyright Ernst or Akira-sama =(

Monday, October 8, 2007

Value

Have you ever received e-mails or read online or being told by a friend the article that was circulated about value of time? Something which goes like:

To learn the value of an hour, ask the person who missed his flight.
To learn the value of a minute, ask the person who failed his test.
To learn the value of a micro second, ask the person who ended up 2nd in a 100m sprint.

Well you get the picture, yes? Where am I going with this?

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To learn the value of 5 seconds, ask the 25 GotN members who almost killed Void Reaver, only to wipe when he had 10000 health left. 5 seconds would really make a huge difference =(

Thursday, October 4, 2007

ZOMG WTF Kara Batman

Today has got to be THE BEST kara loot day for me. First, I helped out Team Aggro on my rogue (almost brought my hunter but I assume I've not played her much to get used to raid dps output on her) and Emerald Ripper dropped. I'm a sword spec'd rogue, but since Madmatt has it already, I got it, and keeping it just in case I respec to dagger in the future. Although, I might actually use it as my off-hand, just because I don't have a good sword off-hand right now DPS or stat-wise. And checking damage meter with Asok after I need to leave for Team Crazy (and since Gaage came online - I was only filling in his spot till he comes online), I was 2nd in damage losing to Madmatt by 10k damage. =O I'm so happy about it, really.... happy.... /tear Why am I so emotional about it? Because usually I tend to feel like I'm a noob when I play my rogue, and that her damage sucks ass because she lacks gear. And mainly cos I've been looked down by a lot of rogue 'friends' in the past. I've always though I don't play my rogue as good as I could. So seeing me dish out damage like that makes me happy and even more motivated to get more gear and do more damage. I'm waiting to get the sword from Arena season 2 and that will really boost my DPS cos my mainhand is currently a generic level 70 sword 'of the bandit'

So then I switched to Stryphe to tank for Team Crazy. The start can be said to be pretty bad but that was because some zoned in through the side door while others through the front door. But we killed Curator easily (and the damn mage/hunter/lock T4 gloves dropped yet again - and everyone had it so it was greeded o.O ) but I got my first loot of the night! Forest Wind Shoulderpads. Thanks Aftershock for not wanting it! XD Head to Aran, and ZOMG! We actually killed Aran before he polymorphed the raid. Serious shit that was some AWESOME DPS! And that's after someone moved during flame wreath too! And all 3 healers died! But thankfully Serithia had a soulstone on him, Aftershock's self-resurrect was up and I battle resurected Mellisande. Verdict? Very very nice experience for the Aran fight. I can't remember what the loots were though :p

Off to chess event! As usual nothing much I can say for that, except I didn't get the cleric piece this time (I usually play the cleric cos I love the ranged DPS and heals). Took a pawn, played till it died, and then took a water elemental which was rather cool except the max mobs I had around me was only 2. Would have loved to have like 5 around me and see the damage done. :D Of course I'd die sooner too, probably. The shoulders and necklace I wanted didn't drop, but Trinitylsin got the leather belt and Aftershock (finally) got his mail leggings (which he later on so evil-ly ditched his loyal Earthsoul Leggings just cos it's leather). /pats the leggings

Chess is done, off to Prince! I.Hate.How.Random.This.Fight.Is. We were unlucky the first.... 3 tries I think. And we were pretty close in 2 attempts too! So finally we got him (with a lot of people dead thanks to stupid infernal placings) and guess what? I got my T4 helm!!!!!! ARGH!!!!! XD XD XD XD So happy!!!! Stag-Helm of Malorne mmmmmm sexy... so who cares if I look like a mutated deer wearing that! It's AWESOME! And my armor is now at 31k too! *drools* I love it so much!!!! I was literally shaking after winning the roll on that, not to mention screaming into my monitor like a wild monkey. Crazyvixen got the sweeeeeeet caster main hand too.

Off to Illhoof we go! As always I'm tanking Kilrek so I usually get into my DPS bear gear (so I can generate aggro, and kill Kilrek fast at the same time). DPS, again, was uber! Mellisande died of course, but no Illhoof fight is complete without the noob priest-who-keeps-forgetting-to put-his-stamina-gear-on dying. And..... Terestian's Stranglestaff dropped!!!!!!!!! ARGH!!!!!! OMG OMG OMG!!!!! Like ZOMG! +_+ I swear if I had a weak heart I'd have a heart attack already. So yeah only druid ftw! Mine! Muahahahhaa finally yay! Now Taloren can't tease me of my noob DPS :D

We had time to hit Nightbane, and we wiped on the first attempt cos Nightbane was a bastard who feared before Dartmus' cooldown (to be immune to fear) was still not up due to the previous fear. Bastard I tell you! I tried to tank him (zomg in dps gear without much armor but I had awesome heals) and I was praying so hard I don't get feared, or that I'd resist the fear... but I did not. =( So we wiped. 2nd attempt was smooth... beyond smooth. I almost died though because when he landed for the final time he went after Mellisande (healing aggro) and all I could think was "Hit it pull aggro off healer it doesn't matter if you die!" and that was what I did, I managed to hit it once to pull aggro, but not to hit anymore to let the tank get aggro (hopefully before I died). And zomg I was at like 3% health but I lived. The tank got hold of aggro and the thing running in my head was "Please Nightbane don't cleave don't blow fire don't kill meeeeeee" and I lived, went back to cat, and we pwned the sucker. I was silently hoping the druid healing chest doesn't drop because I really don't want to win anything else that night. Enough is enough! And yay it did not drop. Crazyvixen got a nice off-hand (to match the main hand from Prince!) while the healing necklace went to Aftershock. Oh, did I mention that the DPS was so uber we had time to spare after killing the skeletons (when he takes flight) and had to WAIT for him to land. Mmm.... uber.

It was truly a wonderful night, and it will surely help the guild in terms of progression and probably less stressed kills (like remember the VR kill 1 second after enrage?).

Now if only I could post a picture of myself with a HUGE ASS GRIN on my face. XD

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Team Aggro overthrown the Prince

=D

First kill by Team Aggro. And I'm glad to be a part of it, what more to main tank it. We did take 3 tries to get him down. But with people who has never done it to people who has done the fight but not successful, to people who has seen him die, no matter which people may fall into, everyone ROCKED the house! Healers were awesome, DPS was so good, tank was a little noob but did ok. =P

We gave Nightbane some shots but only got him to a best of 70%, mainly cos the tank was a noob with blues. Crushing hits me for 6.5k-7k so that hurts bad. But still, good learning experience for me, and for everyone. And ZOMG stance dance sucks ass! >_<