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Ugh the Lich King

Nov22

Logged in and queue for WG, when I first popped in it was me and one other person.

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but it worked its way up to 6 whole people later on.  It was very close, with the horde gathering up 6-8 vehicles at a time and nearly getting the relic door down, we end up winning with a combination of calling our incomings, people focusing on beating down the vehicles (which is easy with not enough people to defend the vehicles), staying close to the fort, with the minimum required to break down the towers.  So we won, but barely, but a win is a win.

Nearly me being in as a healer had a huge impact as I was the only one, and probably was a big part of our win.  Them not being able to be healed, and me healing people was a significant advantage.

I get in on another WG where we are defending and we’re doing better than ever now.  I run off more than once to start beating on a horde and receive assistance from several other ally  just in time to finish them off.

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This mage got me once and then I ran after them later, and unfortunately for them they ran back towards me and into the loving arms of the Alliance and she was whooped down at least 3 times. We win, with the horde only making a token resistance.

Later that night I got on and totally forgot that we had a RS going on for Relentless.  We stand around trying to find people for like 40 mins which is my entire play time tonight.  Sigh.  I didn’t meant to raid tonight and I forgot I signed up. So we fart around not getting a tank for about an hour then call it.  Fine waste of time.

We decide to try for LK because they say the title will be taken out tomorrow, and claim we’ll get it no problem. The other priest complains we don’t need two disc priests so to prevent whining I switch to holy.  Despite the positive outlook, we   fail repeatedly during the Valks and Defile.  On the 5th or so attempt I get picked up, someone drops a Defile right under the Valk, and I get carried off and dropped to my death.

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Shortly after the raid wipes again and I have to leave.  Pretty sure this is like my 100th fail raid, I mean really what are the chances? I may go play the lottery now. I log off in a bit of a huff.

My healing as holy wasn’t very high, but my overhealing was only about 20%, which in my experience is about 40% lower than what most holy priests do. I really don’t like to heal if nothing is incoming.

No one home?

Nov21

I get in game and only one other person is on in this new guild and they are not talking. I queue with Leonz for a BG and get AB. A horde mage and druid are repeatedly running to LM over and over and someone says they are “AFKers” meaning BG bots. Sigh. We beat them off repeatedly and everyone is doing a great job of calling out incs, but we still lose. 64 honor. I purchased my pvp wand, which is better overall than the PVE one I had.

I try to queue up for WG but get please wait, then get invited to a guild run on my mage. I switch.

HEAL PLZ

Nov20

Get in a WSG group and we’re failing terrible and horde gets all 3 flags and us not even a single one. It’s one of those where you just want to say, just let them have it.  We’re stupid and don’t know how to play together. 36 honor on that one.

Next one is EotS and absolutely no one is communicating again and we are all over the place and lose horribly. I go and take Fel Reaver Ruins my freaking self and get to stand around listening to people say things like “inc mage”.  INC MAGE WHERE????  We lose, what a surprise.  29 honor.

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AB is after that, and we are communicating which makes me very happy. Apparently this is part of an alliance pre made since someone from Ravencrest is saying “pugs” defend.  I really must start running premade because PUGS just make me angry face.  We win, I earn 4th highest honor at 145.

Then my un-friend Soulprince asks me to do the event bosses.  Well why not. We get in and he asks how to tank it.  We all get frozen shortly after and I die. We all die.

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Soul says he can’t interupt because he’s a) busy tankin’ and b) not” looking” to interrupt anything. He tells the pally to stun the boss.  /facepalm.   We get it after much arguing about who is doing what. We end up getting it the second time however

After that we do the guy in AQ with no deaths.  I don’t get so much as a thank you for helping out. I scroll back up in my text in case I missed it, but rather than a thanks I see I missed this

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OOOOOH!  That bugs me to NO ENDS even back in Lineage 2 when people would do that, in pvp especially.  I pm him and tell him I know what I’m doing he doesn’t have to tell me to heal.  I get a “srry” because it’s so hard to type an O but that’s it.  And for the record, I always thank tanks that run me through stuff as a favor.

Hm. Speaking of favors, I recall I do need the fire boss, so I tell him I still need the fire boss because I missed the quest.  This is only minutes after defeating the last boss he needed, mind you.  He said well I’m in my guilds ICC 10 cont.  That was fast, I say.  He says they are on Sindragosa and might get LK tonight.  I’ll slit my wrists if that guy gets it before me.

Later that night we get down Blood Queen on the second attempt, and amazingly one shot Sindragosa. Oh I’m feeling this tonight, I am!  Unfortunately the first tries at LK get NEARLY to 3rd phase then get worse and worse after that.  The 25 man folds.

I get in on the 10 man and the holy priest, who had very low heals, comes with too.  She doesn’t appear to be doing very much HPS but threw me under the bus about not dispelling her, even though she was nowhere near the horror.  She was at 2k, as holy, and I was at 8k at disc.  Go fig.  I couldn’t tell that she was healing anything.  During the 2rd attempt she rezzes, takes the sickness and DC’s with no warning.  We did not get a LK kill tonight, and it was so late we just gave up.  Not really upset about it though.

I end up dropping my current guild and join up with this one however, since I’ve been raiding with them anyway and our activity in the other one has been next to nothing for months.

Blood Queen

Nov19

I run Strand and although we do very good, and the battleground groups seem much more fair, compared to our usual groups, we lose.  I get 68 honor.  I do not like Strand very much just because we always seem to defend it fine, then we’ll almost get their door down, but we lose anyway.  Eh yeah I suppose I should read up on how that works. I do get an honorable mention in this one though.

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and I withstand several horde repeatedly for quite a while

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WG is up in 3 mins  and I queue for it, but it tells me I’m not called in for about 10 mins.  When I do get in the horde have already taken down a tower or two, we’ve made no progress on the walls, and even attempting to defend the sieges rolling in we’re no match for players standing near the dead guns shooting down, or anyone hell bent on running under the vehicles and breaking them up.  I mean, I do that personally as well, the sieges/demo can’t hit you, and it requires some kind of CC to stop you from suicide-ing to take it down.  Sieges and demos should have some kind of body-crush skill or not allow players to run THROUGH it.  IMO.

We get done one wall but end up losing. Well, I’m up to enough honor to get another Wrathful piece at any rate.  The items at the Veteran Arena Vendor are now correctly showing no arena rating required for the lower end items. I buy the hood and gem and enchant it.

I need to level cooking some more, and my next highest recipe requires eggs from the raptors around Menethil Harbor.

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I remember hating these guys on my mage since they would call for help and I’d get beat to death shortly after.

Now the shoe, she is on the other foot!

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It takes something like 50 Raptor Eggs to get the Curiously Tasty Omelet down to green on the cooking list.

I queue for WG again and we lose.  The horde can easily repel all our vehicles with their own plus defenders since we only broke through a single wall, which just makes a murder hole.  Sigh.

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Later I run a AV and someone maps out plans at the start but eventually, we lose pretty badly.  Epic battles though so I enjoyed myself, and I got another compliment from a warrior. (had to merge several images to get it all on one)

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I queue up for WG but do not get in. We win it that time though.

Queued for WG again, and I solo a hunter down to .03 health but I was screwing around going on offensive so I died before he did.  Shame!  Even though I’m shouting the entire time that all we have to do is bust up their vehicles and mostly play defense, there was only a handful of people doing defense and the horde rolls us 15 minutes in. Alliance doesn’t like to work together.

Again, queued for WG and we failed something hard.  Horde was defending, they got 10 vehicles before we had any, managed to take nearly all the workshops, then bust all the sieges we had coming out of sunken, and we didn’t even get a wall down.  I have no idea what we were even doing because we weren’t killing their vehicles, weren’t defending the towers (which they got all down), and weren’t getting vehicles.  Oooh I was furious.  We LOST.

At night I have the regular 25 man.  We do fine until Putricide where we wipe, due to the person in the abom not slowing down the oranges, then later the greens not being killed quickly, and I died when the green zapped me and no one was around to share the damage. We get it the second time though.

I do think the trash before the blood princes is, a little overpowered, when they destroy 2 of the tanks and 2 healers in like 30 seconds. These guys, they suck.

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During the Blood Queen a rogue gets MC’d and kicks the living hell out of everyone.  I run back up only to get smoked, along with everyone else “safely” waiting in the queens room when someone pulled one of the Valkyr in the rooms below and all the adds ran up to get us.  There must have been like 20 trash mobs running around up there.

People were not biting or biting the wrong people, (I got bitten once, again), not running the flames OUT of the group, and not meeting up for that connection spell thing. This is the last thing I see before we decide to not do this boss tonight since the RL is tired, and I am too.

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We get down Val and then call it a night.  My rolls are fantastic tonight and I don’t have a single roll above 20, and that was over 4 rolls.  I had like, 18, 11, 12, 14. Lovely.

Cataclysm Events

Nov18

Flew around herb-ing today, first through WG, then to Scholazar and accidentally slipped into the Borean Tundra and got that exploring achievement.  Didn’t know I was missing it.  During this WG ticks down to queue time and I queue up for it at 14 mins to go.

and watching protodrakes kill elementals is kind of epic.

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The queue comes up for WG but it tells me I’m not called yet. SIGH. I’m like, RIGHT THERE so I just fly over to see what’s going on. I get thrown back out. I crab about this in trade and someone else says they also did not get called in. I head back to WG and ask how many are in raid but no one answers, and I get thrown out again.  I get in after that point and there are 13 people in myself included.   We have a breach at west already with 19 mins to go. Shortly after they have 5 vehicles beating on the front door. Those are busted up quickly and they are down to 0/8 vehicles then shortly after up to 4/12.

The west inner wall goes down. Fortunately for us everyone is communicating well,  and the tower team gets the towers down and we win it.  The balancing I am not complaining about, only the fact that WG was never meant to be run by 10-15 people per side.

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One person is setting up a VOA 10 and needs healers, so I PM them but don’t get added.  Another person does the same and I get in on that.  We do all the bosses and I get the 10 man achievement on Emalon.  There is a mage in here named Cann (symbol over the a) which all heroic sanctified gear and he pulls 14k dps.  Wow.   He asks for Power Infusion which I oblige when I can. The other priest healer drops at the last boss but I single heal it just fine.

I get in again later around the time WG is active and queue and get the please wait thing. I get in shortly after and we have nearly 5 full groups.  I’m in at 23 minutes and the horde already has 9 vehicles, and by the time I’m finally taken down by several horde just outside of the west keep, and by the time I rez back up, they have taken the fort and won.  Well, it was quick at any rate.

Later on again I queue for a bg before our guild events are supposed to start and get IoC. Half of us run to docks and get wiped OUT.  I head back that way and get flattened by two horde and no alliance around to heal. The battle quickly turns into a, why are we even bothering kind of fight. We make zero progress and get rolled and I make out with a whole 35 honor.

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We get together for the weekly with is Malygos and I have never done it, on any character.

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It takes 3 tries to get the flight part down and it throws me because I cannot see the drakes hp bars, and my interface doesn’t show their damage.

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I swear the last phase is seizure inducing though.   We get it!

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We then run VOA 25, and like usual nothing for priest drops.  We do a full clear. Well, I give up and just buy my T10 pants for my 4 piece set.

I run a IoC, again, we lose, again. Next is AV and we get to the boss guy, everyone runs in and I die straight away.  So yeah, that was good. I get nowhere near there after that, but we do win. 139 honor.

After that is EotS and these NEVER go well and we get steam rolled at DR. Then everyone deserts me at FRR so I leave too. Then it’s all “why is no one defending it?” Um because everyone left?  We DO win it though! 89 honor on that.  I’ve had enough for today.