Shamans damn you!

This truly is our nemisis.

We had another go. This time we had Marv with us as Treehouse was out celebrating his birthday.
We got in and Flinkan was ready for war.
He was itching to get these down. "Let's kill these fuckers first try and get onto Nazgrim!" He furiously typed into raid chat. He couldn't have done a worse thing.
"You know now you've jinxed us. If we wipe, you're paying the repair bill..." I said.
We were getting ready and there was talk about healers not going up and just leaving the tanks to it or having both bosses down and causing chaos. "Are you trying to make it so that Flinkan has to pay the repairs?" I asked. "Yes" was the reply I got.
[Raid chat][Flinkan] BASTARDS
Was the further reply.

This time I got my act together and went in to reset the bosses after we cleared the trash. I'd stolen Flinkans job.
We got to our positions and pulled. It was going well. One dog down and then they pulled one boss up the hill with the other dog following them.
"You have a dog!" I squealed over ts. As funny as it would be to wipe and tease Flinkan about paying our bills, doing it this early would not be good.
"It's ok the dog died halfway up"
Disaster averted we pressed on.

Running to purple near the auction house the worst thing happened.
"Omg. WE HAVE AN ADD" I yelled.
"What? You're kidding?!" Tsff blurted.
"Nope!" I said as I battled with it. Jolly pulled it off just after it got very angry with me and sacrificed me to Garrosh.
"Was it a big one?" Someone asked
"It just one shot me"
"It's an Overseer" someone else chipped in
"Ohhh, that's from the black smiths"

Needless to say we didn't quite clear all the adds. And we may have been somewhat distracted by trying to find more supply crates... But we will gloss over that part!

I continued to give directions. It's amazing how much easier it is to do when you're dead. We almost contained all of the clouds and swirls to where they should have been but then Jolly snuffed it.
"You have a gatecrasher" I called out, forgetting that they weren't actually up a hill and I didn't have to yell at them.
"Oh what!" Marv started to rally the troops. "Everyone down!" Alas it was too late. Sad times.

Flinkan went afk just in time for the repairs. "36 gold" I said on ts. He had heard me and when he got back opened a trade window and put in there 25k gold. There was a moment of hesitation while I hovered my cursor over 'trade' when it went green. He cancelled it and skipped away.
"You know I was so close to clicking trade then..."
[Raid chat][Flinkan] hahahaha
While we were waiting and before Nanutza switched to her Warlock to give us cookies I noticed that her and Jolly looked quite alike.
"You two could be twins" I said.






"Nanutza and the yellow-peril"
"Hey I quite like that!" Jolly replied.

We had a couple more wipes which were entertaining. Then we got it. At 1% Marv said over ts "and there you go,  your first shaman kill." There was much whooping. It turned slightly to dismay as we realised that both bits of gear that dropped couldn't be used. I even tried to convince Danue to take the cloth head that dropped. "It's got spirit!" She said, passing on it. True... There's not many raid teams that wouldn't take something when it's a big upgrade in terms of ilvl just because it's got a stat that isn't much good to them. Hell, if I got some intellect mail that took me from timless to normal gear I'd have it. And pretend I'm a smart Hunter. Kinda...

We pressed on to the demolishers. Jumping in them they were being spun around like crazy so they got confused.
"Are you dizzy Jolly?" Tsff asked
"No? I'm stood still"
"I'm spinning around"
Then came the inevitable...
"I'm spinning around, move out of my way..." Marv started singing.
Cue more groaning on ts and the admission that nearly everyone was thinking the same thing.

Onto Nazgrim we went. Into the tunnel. Just before we dropped down to bypass the Doomlord Tsff asked if we could kill it. There was no need to but we did anyway. Once they were down Blunnerz spotted some Rogue trainers.
"Can we kill the Rogue trainers as Rogues are annoying?"
"Where are they?" Tsff asked
"Up the ramp"
I spotted them and walked up. One multi shot later and they were dead.
"There you go"
Flinkan who had followed us made a comment in chat.
[Raid chat][Flinkan] I'm lost
Oh dear.
"I killed the poison vendor too" I said on ts.
"Good. Rogues are so annoying" Blunnerz said. "Kill the trainers so there are no Rogues"
"I'm so glad Aska isn't here" I laughed.
"Why?"
"Because he's a Rogue!"

We got to Nazgrim. We killed the adds near the back and were sat down eating when combat started.
"Someone pulled?" Tsff asked, suprised.
"I'm resetting" Blunnerz replied as all of the Faithful stampeded out of the room after him.
"Is that what we're calling it now, it's not ninja pulling it's resetting the boss..."

I chucked a zeppelin at him. He didn't notice.
"I have my zeppelins ready." I said, gently encoraging people to start throwing them. Tsff put Blingtron up. Some people didn't get any to throw.
"You can by them" Danue offered.
"Where?" Nanutza asked.
"In Stormwind. The gnome pushing the cart by the canal"
Secretly everyone planned to stock up.

Several zeppelins were thrown at Blunnerz as the endless entertainment of him running away from them ensued. He had three hot on his (literal) tail. 
"If ever there is a boss where you need someone to kite zeppelins them I'm the guy" he said as he was running around. Ant however had other ideas and used his 'leap of faith' that he had gained from symbiosis to pull Blunnerz back into them.
"Awww"

We stopped messing around long enough to do some boss killing. We had ravagers. Which was fun. The assassin seemed to pick on me and by the last 15% we were being over whelmed by adds.
"Can you collect the adds Jelly... oh I mean Jolly!" Tsff asked.
"Jelly..."

Eventually with more coordination and some attempt at making the adds by myself we managed to get him down.
"He looked so much better when he had his Santa hat on..." I mused just before he died.
"I didn't even see that" Blunnerz said.



Awwww cute!

Oh Shamans, how we hate thee...

We started off as me meant to go on. And by that I mean messing around trying to climb up things. When we teleported to the dock everyone was jumping up at the end pillars. These ones are quite easy to climb (yay) as you just need to jump into the ropes and then hop up. Nanutza put down the banquet on the top so we had to get there to eat it.
This one we did actually make!






We started on the trash to get going. We didn't pull everything at once and even left a shaman out of the way so we didn't wipe. All good so far. We got all the way along killed everything we needed to. At one point I was confused by a new green spiral that was circling around the group and asked what it was as I'd not seen it before.

(Blunnerz on TS) that's the spirit link totem
[Raid Chat][Flinkan] omg you've never seen it and you play a shammy =)

We then made our way back. So clean and easy.
We did however forget to detonate a cannon so someone made the lonely trip back to find the last one.
Once it was done we were good to go. Ish...

Some last final prep was done. Cookies, food, flasks...
Ant had run out of flasks. Usually there are a few being carried around by other healers so he always manages to get hold of one. Although he wasn't clear quite what he was after...






After Ant got his 'Flaks' we were good to go. Things went surprisingly well. We got the mobs down in time, the tower group (which failed hard last time) managed to get everything down very quickly. I cleared the drakes with the cannon so we only had Galakras to focus on and then I was down ready for the next tower.
The King was kept at a safe distance. He did get a few slaps to the face but nothing too bad for him. Although how he ever made it as a gladiator I don't know. He is as useful as a chocolate teapot.
Galakras was shot down and we took our positions. All stacked up and nowhere to go. At one point I did have a horrible feeling we were going to wipe. But the green spiral of hope went out and we made it through the peril.
He went down quick and we checked our drops. Nobody needed them for main or off-spec. So we won two sha crystals! Hooray!

We ran on to Juggers and as I was the last one there I questioned why we hadn't had a ninja pull.
Blunnerz protested that he had been very good and hadn't done anything.
Nanutza tried to convince him that if you run into him you get a mount.
Tsff decided to be naughty.
"If you run through him and make it to the gate you get a mount"
Jollyjanes ears pricked up. "Really?' He said with enough enthusiasm to make us question if he realised Tsff was pulling his leg.
"No! Tsff is joking with you" Nanutza said quickly to try and deter such a suicidal move.
Jolly went for it anyway. Charging into Juggers and running though as fast as he could. We watched his health bar as we stood there. (Out side of the gate for when Juggers had eaten Jolly and decided to go on a rampage)




"Awww I was 10 foot from the gate."
Juggers despawned and we made our way around the fences to see just how close jolly had gotten. It was a sorry sight. He was so close but as his corpse told us, so far away.



We decided to press on after ressing him up. This beast needed to be killed so we could get to one of our most favorite bosses is the whole of WoW.
Seeing as we were this end of the area and the boss had been reset we decided to kill it facing the gates. It was interesting... Being the opposite end put us out of sync and we ended up wiping. We had been stacked up for it with Ants green circle and Flinkans blue circle. But with the bombs and the drills we seemed to spend more time out of the circles than in them, which as Flinkan so kindly kept reminding us, meant we deserved to die. The second attempt went much better. Getting our bearings and making use of the extra space we had down this end meant that we could move around more (now that the healers know this is what we were going to be doing) and ensure that eight of us were not hit by the borer drill in one go. Juggers went down very cleanly and we went on. Another two Sha crystals! Woo!


We finally made it to Shamans. Working through the trash Blunnerz pipped up about the boxes full of flasks.
"What?" I asked as I truly had no idea what he was going on about.
"There are supply boxes you can click on and they usually have loads of flasks in them."
Right, that was it. The trash had been semi forgotten and we all started to sneakily rummage around the buildings without anyone noticing. I had just had a look through a building when Danue and Flinkan came running at me. There was nothing in there but I made my escape to have a nose around somewhere else.
As we killed off the mobs by the cages I spotted one. I made my way over just as Blunnerz did too. He got there just before me.
"Damn you Blunnerz!"
"I didn't know one was there, I just saw you running and went for it! "

The trash was down, we were ready. As the others grouped up in the middle I started to prepare to reset the bosses to only see Flinkans health bar go from blue to black and then for him to run out two seconds later. To be fair it is quicker for him to run in, aggro, die and then res than it is for me to put my pet away, move my auto shot and feign death onto my keybind slots, then run in and aggro, feign death, run back out...

We got to our markers eventually. And pulled the boss. Taking out the dogs we set off on the seemingly never ending circle of coloured markers as we slowly grinded the boss down. It didn't quite go to plan. The silence over ts was broken by my laughing as a blob made its slow way up the hill. Followed by Blunnerz complaining that he was being eaten by the blob. We were losing tanks up the hill due to the dot or a misplaced wall. After the down group died via an unwanted party crasher we regrouped in the middle to eat up and buff up. We made or way back to the totem.
[Raid chat][Zionxi] what does this totem do?
[Raid chat][Flinkan] what totem?
You point at resistance totem
[Raid chat][Flinkan] swirly one?
[Raid chat][Zionxi] resistance one
[Raid chat][Flinkan] fire frost nature dmg reduced by 10%
[Raid chat][Zionxi] Ohhh
[Raid chat][Zionxi] so it's not just pretty
[Raid chat][Flinkan] hahaha

The swirly one was discussed at Galakras. Got to love spirit link! And you have to love that my description of things have filtered down to the rest of them!

We tried again and again. Just as one group was going well the other would go badly. Jolly would end up out of range of the healers and we would have to move regardless or the dot at the top would kill someone.
One particular time we sent Blunnerz up to heal the tanks. After a while Nanutza made a mistake and they all died.

"Sorry that was me" she said as the bottom group nervously watched the health of the other two. A second or so later Tsff and Blunnerz were dead as well.
"How was my healing up there?" Blunnerz asked as everyone was being ressed.
"Apart from my boo boo" Nanutza asked.
"Yeah, apart from the fact you all died, how was the healing?"

Still we kept going and wipe after wipe we kept pressing on. 4%... 3%!...

In the end it was getting late and you could sense that people were getting tired. After the last attempt and my corpse had been rescued from between the bosses


We had a discussion about what we could do to help ourselves out. From swapping healers to calling out where Jolly should move to.
I asked Jolly if he was zoomed out, to which he said he was.
"Would it be helpful if I called out what colour you should go to so you're in range as a couple of times you weren't and we had to keep moving when we didn't really need to?"
"Sure! That would be great" he replied
"You were running out of range of the healers?" Tsff asked
"It was when falling ash was going on and stuff" I explained as Tsff wouldn't have been able to see what was going on.
"Me? Yeah I'm just concentraiting on staying alive" Jolly replied.
"Urgh. Now I have the Bee Gees in my head" I started laughing but everyone else was silent.
"Why?" Tsff asked, completely confused.
"Stayin' Alive..."
Cue groaning on ts as everyone got it stuck in their heads as well. Haha!

Getting back into our stride

We got around to doing SoO as a 10man from the beginning again tonight. It feels like the last time we did this we had a completely different team.

I was a bit late logging in as I'd hurried back to vote in the elections and there was a queue to get in the polling station. Typical. Nevertheless, the team went ahead and cleared the trash on the way down to Immerseus.

We had a brief chat about platforms and Tsff and I both tried to use the purple marker at the same time. I wanted to use it to explain the dps placement and he wanted to use it for the tanks platform. In the end it marked the tanks and I completely forgot about explaining the stack and spread. Once the raid started everyone seemed to know instinctively what they were doing. Or everyone was telepathic...

Immerseus is a terribly boring boss and due to the fact we didn't do anything particularly stupid or out of the ordinary. Which is a shame as now I don't have anything funny to write about... Anyway we killed it, got some loot and then went on to the protectors. 

This was a bit more interesting. Blunnerz decided  he was going to dance around the bosses. Wary to what happens when he gets close to bosses I asked if he was going to ninja pull...

"Yes."

He then decided to morph into Vinz and tell us that we were going to stack in the circle.  

"Really!?" I said over TS.
"Yeah, it will be fine" He replied.
"If you go out of the circle, then you deserve to die" someone else added.
"Look happy!" I chirpped, followed swiftly by "is this going to work?"
"well, if it doesnt then we will just do it the other way" Blunnerz said (with what could only be described as a vocal shrug) 

Well, we stacked up and went for it. There were a couple of hairy moment but it all went pretty perfectly. At one point during Rooks phase Gloom went down really quickly and I was completely oblivious as after Sorrow went down and I turned back towards the group I said "on Misery" to then have a small voice tell me "He". 

"Oh, lol they went down fast" I laughed as I tried to find He in the mass of cats, dogs and goats flailing around in the middle.

The rest went without a hitch. Tsff went afk to take a phone call and Jolly was in charge of clearing the way to Norushen. We had the most trouble ever on the god damn trash than we did on the bosses. 

Someone ninja pulled (I was around the corner sorting out the loot so I can not confirm it was Blunnerz or not) Ant got a Sha fist to the face, there were many deaths. I trotted around the corner and had a look at what was going on. I'm not sure I can describe it any other way than a clusterfuck. People were running around everywhere trying to get away from the adds. Jolly was chasing after them trying to gather them up as they went on a rampage. Through all of that we still managed to get them down in next to no time and grouped up again to take on the packs that would be waiting at the bottom of the hill. 

We charged in, reckless and gun-ho. Jolly gathered the first lot which was rather easy, then we got another pack and then we managed to get a load of bigger ones. Pulling everything that was near us we valiantly tried to kill them all but Jolly died. One by one the Sha came after us. As we looked at our corpses and mused over the fact that we could kill two bosses without breaking a sweat but got owned by the trash in between. Tsff asked what was going on mid-phonecall.

“Oh, I’m just dead” Jolly replied with such happiness. “We’re wiping on trash while this joker in yellow is pretending to tank”
“Ok...” Said Tsff “I’ll be a few more minutes”
“No worries!”
“It’s ok, now there are less of them to kill” Blunnerz added

After ressing and regrouping we went to Zeal and managed to get that bugger down in one go. Typical.

We got to Norushen and it was quite exciting. We hand’t managed to get this down as a whole raid team and the last time was quite frustrating as Jolly found it difficult in the other realm. We have wiped so many times on this boss. Tsff said he was going to be one more minute. “It’s fine, we can wait. This boss is my nemisis so it would be better if we had a proper tank!” Jolly said. Bless him, we all know how much he hates this boss. Everyone has one that they just cant get to grips with. Mine is Durumu, Tsff hates Shamans. This one is Jollys. After such a long break on this one, it was always going to be difficult to get into the stride of it again. 

When Tsff was back we kinda forgot what the hell we should be doing. We discussed what tanks were to go in where, Treehouse was always going to go in first,  Blunnerz bagged the second spot and then we just pulled. We didn’t stack or call out when we went in. Jolly was so close to coming out alive but at the last moment died. We got him up, I ran over an orb by accident so was pretty much doing nothing to the boss. Then someone else ‘fell over’ and we started to unravel. “Jolly, go back in the orb” Tsff said. “Some one get in there so we can get a res” Nanutza joked. “everyone hug the beam!”

We died, obviously. Jolly came out with a fifth of his health.

“Don’t die Jolly!”
“Yeah don’t die to that dot”

He made it! Mass res incoming!

Our first wipe, it wasn’t tragic and we really didn’t care. We also realised Ant was afk and it lead us to devise a devious plan. 

“run out of the room” “omg thats so mean, we could just wait up here” “stack behind the pillar”

We waited for a bit and then got a bit bored. Someone decided to climb the pillars and for the first time ever, I managed to get up there while Blunnerz struggled. It was then suggested that we could take off all our gear and blame Ant for our deaths. Or we could all lay on the ground around him and pretend to still be dead. It was at this point that Blunnerz who was levitating realised that he couldn't use the /sleep command. He just decided to float around. The lack of cloud made it look very creepy as I had a dog float towards me. He then also stripped off...

With all of us entertaining ourselves with floating around time soon passed and Ant got back in. We then went to devise some actual strategies and get this boss killed.

We did it! Finally, as a group and without any help! Onwards to Sha of Pride!

We ran into the room, trying to not get annihilated. I was asked if I was still alive "yes" I was then asked to multi-shot and missdirect.
"errr... god damn it"
"oh, you're dead?!"
"yes, so I shall multi-shot from the grave"

Again, nothing much interesting happened during this fight, we did it without any casualties. Treehouse was amazingly quick at getting on the button when people were in prison and the 'add at the back' was killed very fast. Sha went down without a hitch.

We portaled over to Galakras and started to clear trash pack by pack. Halfway along I asked if anyone was in the cannon.

"no?"
"oh Treehouse is"

There was a pause.

"I like how we didn't realise that he was in the cannon, his huge dps and we didn't bat an eyelid"
"yeah, he's a warlock so its like its normal!"

By this time it was safe to say we were getting a bit tired. I for one wasn't doing very well after being blasted off the towers, twice. On the second attempt I got blasted off and ended up miles away from the group.

We only had a few more goes at it, we got better, but we still were not on top of our game. Although we will have a night to get through the second part. Our feelings for Galakras were nicely summed up by Snuggles.

Until next time Galakras!

Malkorok and Spoils again...

Last night we carried on from where the 25man had finished. We were on Malkorok again and after defeating him once already we felt like we could easily get through this again.

We spread out, zoomed out and got ready to take him on.

Tsff was marking so that I could get some more dps out rather than just auto-shot doing the damage while I marked. We both had TargetCharms add-on (thanks Verdie for this!) which made it 10 times easier. we managed to soak up puddles and got the the second phase where it all went a bit wrong. It seemed that we had forgotten our CD's and stuffs and were just stood there like lemons while we were being battered. We got through it and ended up in the first phase again, kinda... we hadn't spread properly.

I had Flinkan and Blunnerz stood together which meant that we missed a puddle in the section that Flinkan was supposed to be standing in. ouchy. Then when we stacked again to avoid the breath we ended up with Ant with us as well. 'Healer Party by the gate!'

We ended up missing two puddles :-( So while I sacrificed myself with my dagger to speed this shit up, Ant apologised for getting lost.

[Raid Chat][Antduid] sorry about that i got disorientated
[Raid Chat][Flinkan] we missed 2 puddles
[Raid Chat][Zionxi] Flinkan, If you remember youre to the left of me then it should be fine
[Raid Chat][Flinkan] so i can blame you if anything goes wrong, right?
[Raid Chat][Flinkan] :P
[Raid Chat][Zionxi] LOL

 

We decided to use Treehouse's gateway as a positioning marker so people could work out where they needed to be on the spread out parts. This worked well. I didn't have any more gatecrashers on my side, as fun as it was having three healers near me, I'm pretty sure the rest of the raid were feeling left out.

We set up to have another go with the positioning marker. While the ready check was sent out I noticed Blingtron. "omg wait!' I yelled as I ran back over to him. He gave me a back scratcher and Zeppelins... I never tend to use the Zeppelins so I was a bit disappointed.

We had another go this time getting all the way past the second phase nicely due to Blunnerz using his "yellow dome" and then we had a few casualties in the repeat of the first phase again. We were not full health in that part so a slam would kill you. I was struggling through at 3% health when we called to wipe again. This time my dagger was still on cooldown so Blunnerz and I were stood in the breath and got confused when it didn't kill us. I then used feign death so that the remaining people would get bludgeoned first. I was the last one alive. Unfortunately so was Snuggles.

"Oh my god, die Snuggles!..."
(I got hit by something or other and died)
"God damn stupid pet"

I don't usually wish for my pets to die but at 3% health and trying to outlast the boss meant that he needed to just stop and accept his fate like a true Huntard pet before he killed me... Bad Snuggles!

On the way back in Tsff decided to have some fun as Ant was taking a phone call and pull a whole load of trash we had managed to sneak past on the way in. Nanutza ran through them all, Blunnerz threw a healing spell to her and then his pristine white raid frame turned black.

"I was just doing my job and I got punished for it..."

We were still waiting for Ant while we were all around the boss. We had our fill of noodles and cookies and were having a chat when I decided to have some fun with the Zeppelins. Ant was opposite me so I went to throw one at him but as he was out of range I had to edge around the ring until I was just in reach. Bingo! I ran back to my position like I'd done nothing at all and then looked for my next target. Blunnerz was close, but not too close and he was in the middle of the melee group so he wouldn't be able to see clearly. I threw one his way.

"Who threw that?"

There were several denials over TS. I stayed quiet. I also threw a Zeppelin to Flinkan. Blunnerz noticed...

"I saw that one! Ella!"

This set off a chain reaction. Someone else threw one at Blunnerz and he started running away from it. As he ran past me I thought I would join in the fun and threw another one.

"Is that speeding up?!" he said as he struggled to keep ahead of them and not aggro the boss
"Nope, theres two of them" Tsff started laughing and then I couldn't help myself, I was trying to keep quiet and laughing so hard that I had tears in my eyes. I couldn't hold it in any longer and I started laughing hysterically over TS as Blunnerz was running around and around trying to keep away from the two Zeppelins that were after him. I don't know why I found it so funny but I did!



 

Serious time started again and we got a lot further, down to 3%. We were cursing the boss but dusted ourselves off and tried again. I was at the other side of the room due to being mass ressed and I got myself confused. I asked over TS why Ant was near me to which Blunnerz replied "you're in the wrong place" oopsy...

It was on this try that we got him down and moved on to the next boss.

 

Spoils! Yay! Soooo much fun! Box!

We tackled the dude who spawns the other dudes quite nicely.

"ooh, he went down quick! Remember when we were here last time and we had to use hero on this guy" I said (thinking back to the 25man run)
"oh yes, we struggled with dps on him" Tsff replied.

We were at the box, in our positions and we had remembered our teams. So much win right there.
We were doing the opposite sides to what we were used to for this, which threw me slightly as I was lagging behind with yelling at Jolly to open stuff!

We didn't have many attempts at this as we still had another night before the lock ran out to kill it. One priceless thing from last time was Flinkan saying about the flowers eating him. So Tsff was advising his side to stack up to not get a huge line of flowers just at the same point that we got a bloody huge line of flowers.

"Oh" I said
"So not just what we got then..." Blunnerz said at almost the same time
"Oh and another line.." I added as the Panda ran out again and left another huge long line on the floor.

Unfortunately, Tsff's side wiped so to speed things up Blunnerz started running through all the flowers to try and kill himself. After soaking an entire line, he still wasn't dead. Flowers need to eat him quicker!

We called it as we were getting tired and we needed to get a plan for what we were doing as it was a side we were not entirely comfortable with. Hopefully tonight we will get a good go at it. I'm also planning on a few wipes so we can work out what is in all of the boxes!

Getting that valor

I'm about half way to getting my 3k valor. Progress is slow. I'm not a fan of the whole 'it will definitely take you three weeks' part of this questline.
I'm just running lfr from the bottom to the top when I can(be bothered) and just enjoying the ride.

In the very first raid, the beginning was just dandy. We got through the trash at the top of the stairs and as we regrouped the tank was at the bottom pulling the room.
We dawdled down chucked a few healing spells his way and then concentrated on the rest of the raid group who were wandering around trying to work out what exactly they should be killing. As the room is quite long everyone was in when the bosses were activated. They were all tanked in one corner. Helpful.
There were amethyst pools everywhere and ranged were slowly having to move further and further away. This coupled with the blue crystal things that shoot out from the floor it meant that players were having to just deal with standing in shit or we would never get this boss down.

After popping healing tide totem to get through the last nuke as everyone was standing in shit. (This isn't Malkorok people...) the tank was off up the stairs quicker than we could heal everyone back up. Pulling all the trash to just outside the second boss the tank then just ran straight in and attacked the boss. The majority of us followed him in as the gate slowly started to rise. This tank was not willing to wait but had failed to let anyone else know that he was an impatient little sod.

The off tank decided to go AFK. Possibly under the impression that this guy could tank the whole raid on his own. After positioning healing rain over as many of the ranged as I could (stack up bitches or die!) and putting a shield on the main tank I noticed a message in raid chat from the other shammy healer. "Lilou, put a shield on the other tank" I'm sorry? I've just put one on this tank... But dutifully I did,  to be fair he was kinda half dead (if a DK can be any more half dead) and put a riptide on him for good measure. This Boss went down quick but so did a few dps so after we defeated it I went on 'res your sorry ass' duty while the other shammy called for a mana break.

The horrible trolls came out of nowhere.  Throwing clouds of crap and punching people into next week. The main tank got eaten and he was not happy.
"Good job healers, must be really hard to press one button"
We said nothing as we were busy pressing three buttons.
Someone popped hero. This trash was too much for someone to bear/they got over excited.
A dps came to our rescue "when people are dead and someone asks for a mb and you still run in then you made the decision"
Tank replied "there's more than one healer"
Another dps had the last word "one healer can make all the difference"
HIGH FIVE DPS! Extra heals for you!

After this you would have thought that he wouldn't have just run in and pulled everything. But no. He did. And he died,  again. Secretly, I think possibly the whole raid was sniggering about it. I know I certainly didn't put any more sheilds or riptides on him. He was pretty much nearly dead for the entirety of that last fight, someone was either feeling sorry for him or he was having to heal himself. Har har.

Moral of this story is: it's endlessly more entertaining to be a healer in lfr. Also if you're a twat and it doesn't work in your favour, don't insult the people who are keeping you alive because even though we don't know each other, we end up like the Borg and operate with one mind that just keeps whispering 'let him almost die'...

You have the dumbs now

 

I'm not sure what was exactly happening that day but I was clearly being stupid and as I often like to do, I shared my stupidity with the guild.

I don't know why I was heading for Kalimdor... but it is with a heavy heart that I remember what lead up to this declaration of dumbs.

The shrine is the place to be if you want fast access to the major cities. I however looked at the portal room and thought, "Im too lazy to fly from the Alliance cities that are stuck out in the ocean" so I had a 'brain wave' and decided for some obscure reason that if I went to Stormwind, I could then take to portal in the Mage tower and go to the Dark Portal, as that would put me in the south east region of Kalimdor... Clearly my brain saw 'portal' and thought 'orcs come through that' and then put two and two together and had the disasterous outcome of nine. Looking back now, I think what I was thinking of doing was going to Dalaran and then going to the Caverns of Time. Scumbag brain took over and whispered to me 'what you actually want to be doing in portaling to the Eastern Kingdoms main city and then just portal a little further down... we totally know where you should be going'.

However after doing that and then looking at my map I realised that I was in fact further away from the place where I wanted to be than if I had stayed in god-damn Pandaria. Then I had to fly to catch a stupid boat and hope that I wasnt blown off it like I was last time just before it cut to the loading screen -.-

Anyway... after announcing my dumb-ass moment to the guild, I had the small brain wave of sharing my dumbs and then this amusing conversation followed...











 

Boys and their insults...

Tea

Aska LOVES tea. The only way a guild member couldn't know this small but often repeated fact is if they couldn't read.

After hanging around in shrine, chat got around to finding peoples names/obsessions/character flaws in WoW based things. This happens quite frequently and usually causes the recipient to make a noise. A groan or a laugh but a noise nevertheless...

When this happens, usually quite a few people will get involved and it spreads like the plague. That person who you have only seen online twice in four years? Yeah, he'll pipe up and stun you with something witty/annoying/stoooopid (delete as appropriate)

Anyway. All it took this time was a whisper from Goredel to Aska with this little nugget of comedy and it all went downhill so very very fast...

 









 

In the end, he just walks into them... no escaping the guild!

 

Flex fun to keep us occupied

As most of RT3 are due to attend the 25 man run today, last night we had a go at some Flex to practice.

We were going to do Siegecrafter Blackfuse up to Garrosh but we were having issues with the belt. Out of our group of 10 only the main tank had ever been on the belt before so we were all popping our belt cherries as it were!

To cut a long story short, none of us really knew what we were doing. I certainly didn't. I'd been here before and knew what to shoot and when but actual tactics? Nope. Truth be told I haven't ever read up on it because it's not the stage we are. Rather than overloading everyone, I get them to read one or two bosses and then we go for it. Anyway,  a blind man would have had a better understanding of what was going on...

It was a bit of a quiet affair. We were kinda out of our depth due to being clueless, we were not getting practice on the bosses that the tanks didn't like and it wasn't progression.

After a while of wiping due to mines not being killed in time on the belt, it was discussed as to whether we could kill them on the floor when they spawned. Snares and traps are all useful but it's just getting there to kill them with so much else going on. Still we gave it a go until we were sacrificed to the fiery laser as it got kited through the group due to all the sawblades making a nice little semicircle around us. Fail!

After an hour of doing this we decided to go to part 2 to deal with Shamans. We zerged through Galakras and Juggers, even with a blinding ninja pull by Blunnerz and we didn't wipe on trash!
I asked about clearing the remaining trash but it was decided that we would just two tank it so the last few trash at the top were left and I reset the boss. I came back out and joined the melee group as I'm always worried that they will just come out and eat me.

When they did appear they didn't eat me (phew) but they headed straight to Flinkan and ate him instead. The bosses went crazy, smiting people left, right and centre. Flinkan asked what the hell happened. Tsff had just got back to his keyboard to find the place littered with bodies. Verdie, who was listening in with us offered the idea that if I had some healing on me then when the boss reset it would eat the healer. This was followed up by =( from Flink.
We then decided to three tank it to practice and once the doggies were dead Nanutza and Tsff were off to the top of the hill with Flinkan healing them.
"Oh Zionxi you're going to say I told you so!" Came out over TS. I looked at the raid party. Flinkan was dead and Nanutza was following him close behind.
"What's happened?" I asked.
"You know you said about clearing the rest of the trash..."
"OH! hahaha! Oopsy!"

They died. People on the ground died. I tried to run out of aggro range and finally the boss in the middle disappeared. Treehouse and I were ok and just as I jumped around the middle getting ready to res people the other boss charged down and clobbered me around the head and I dropped like a stone.
"Err, there's a random boss running around" I tentatively said over TS as I was trying to understand why they both didn't reset. I watched the angry boss run back up the hill, where they're was no one alive and then just before the top, he reset too...
"A random boss? Describe the random boss" Tsff laughed.

We got our stuff together and went for it again, this time killing the trash at the top. Tsff and Nanutza were up there already killing them when we had just been ressed, I got my pet out and mounted up just as she called out "can someone come help". Tsff then said "two tanks are not doing much damage here" to which the priceless reply from Nanutza was "were going to hit beserk on trash!" We got them down and then got to our positions.

This attempt went better. The coloured markers were in a different order than I was used to so until I worked out what way they went I was just yelling "Move! Movemovemove" directing my little army to where they needed to stand, when they needed to stack and such fourth... Unfortunately Jolly died and then Tsff and Nanutza got a party crasher. Half the raid was dead. Everyone who was left alive was ordered to go up and help them as we were at 14%. Tsff, Flinkan and Blunnerz were the last men standing. Watching them run down the hill followed by a zillion blobs was amusing. "All those blobs!" I said over TS. "All those stacks!" Tsff replied. It for quite messy and there was stuff everywhere. Unfortunately, it was too much and I watched Blunnerz be chased through the wall by the blobs. It was like watching sheepdog trials, if Blunnerz was the only sheep and he was being herded to what could only be described as the slaughter house by 20 sheepdogs...

We decided to call it there as it was only a fun run. We were hearthstoning and such fourth when there was a ninja pull just before I left the instance.
"Blunnerz was that you!?"
"Leave the instance! Leave the instance!"
"Who pulled?"
Blunnerz then typed in:
It wasnt me >.> <.<

Haha, yeah yeah...

SoO back to front and upside down.

RT3 have been working our way through SoO normals. While we struggled for a while getting enough players with the same commitment and attitude we now have found a great bunch of people who 'live for wipes'.

Last night we were on Malkarok. The back to front boss. Move away from the markers and stand in shit.
We had a few messy moments as we got to grips with the puddles. I had the task of marking. Which was interesting to say the least!
I'd been doing it with the camera as far as I could make it go by default and Tsff said over TS about if you zoom right out you can see the whole ring. I'd completely forgotten about the script that Blunnerz had said about a few nights before.
Here it is for those who don't know:
/script SetCVar("cameraDistanceMax",50)

It mad things so much easier. Yes, I couldn't now see who was who but I was at least able to accurately put down the markers to make sure we knew where not to go.

I did have my moments however:
I had forgotten to clear the markers at one point, so while I was doing that, I forgot where the cone attack went. We were a marker down and then no one knew where to go... oopsy.
I was busy putting a marker down and completely missed the puddle that was right behind me... oopsy.
I was trying to put a marker down and accidentally started a role check... oopsy.
After one round of cone attacks and putting the three markers down I yelled at everyone to stack up... we were still in phase one and I had got over excited... oopsy.

This boss wasn't particularly difficult, it was a lot less confusing that Shamans (which we have managed to skip blissfully over) but with this, timing is everything. too slow to move, you're dead. And that happened a lot...

Once we had gotten past the first phase, it was a lesson in cooldowns and cookies. After a few wipes on the blood rage phase we decided that we just needed to pop cooldowns and stand there a bit to share the pain.

After a valiant effort and an agonising cry when we wiped at 5% we knew we had him. That massive shit was going down.

And finally we did it!



 

Tonight was particularly fun. We had managed to find our way to Spoils and were faced with splitting up and working as two little groups.

This was a good boss for practice makes perfect as we could have a crack at both sides.

We had Team Diamond and Team Triangle. Diamonds went to the Mogu side first and Triangles got the Mantid side. At first Tsff and I were on the same side, which meant that there were two players comfortable with instructing on one side and then the others were kinda left to their own devices... I swapped to Triangle and took the lead with directing Jollyjane around :-)
(By directing, I mean shouting "MOREMOREMORE, STOP!" at him throughout the fight)

We had a random way of going about things on Triangle, where Tsff had a nice methodical way of doing things.

Although things didn't always go to plan...





 

Yeah.. those panda boxes...

Although we had a good practice and we got quicker and quicker at getting through, neither side managed to make it through the gates at the same time as the other side. We geared up for another attempt on the other side to what we were used to just so we can get practice in for when we launch ourselves through the gates. Ant needed a flask and when he was asked on TS what one he needed he then typed in 'Toilet break'. After letting him know that there wasn't a flask called that he then said "warm flask". So Ant needed a flask and a toilet break, and the result of that was a warm flask... eeeew!



And yes... I needed a smoke after all of that!

Once we had enough attempts for the night Blunnerz showed off his skills by jumping on the box in the middle. It then meant that everyone wanted to jump on the box... and could we? Not for your life! After a few (hundred) attempts at jumping up I set my charachter to walk rather than run and turned away from the group and stated 'Fuck this shit. I'm walking away!' To then have Blunnerz 'leap of faith' me onto the box.



We also somehow managed to get a mailbox inside the box in the middle and had people running around it until they found the point where they could get the mailbox click icon to come up. And there was an amusing part where for some reason my UI decided to reset itself (ahmahgahd) and I needed to exit the game and set it up again. When I got back in, I was inside the box. It has gold in it should you wish to know. Why Blizzard decided to actually put something in there I do not know but I was jumping around and all people could see was my pets tail flapping around outside of the box while I was doing it.



Actually, thats a lot of gold... I'm buried and thats just the tip of my bow poking out!