Proving Grounds are HARD

Sep27

Haven’t updated in a while. Hm. Well, when I stopped raiding I had a lot of free time, so mostly farming and making things and such. Got past the Black Prince exalted part of the legendary quest line and got my meta gem.

Before all that I got gold in Proving Grounds, but it was REALLY HARD. I had to go as holy and use all my fingers, thumbs and maybe a toe or two to get past that, plus it took several attempts. A priests lack of utility really hurts in there along with the low gear level. I think it was on par with getting gold in challenge modes. Apparently druids and monks have it much easier, monks probably because low spirit is what they do anyway, and druids have a ton of utility to help block some of the damage. I will try it on my druid soon, now that I have some PVE trinkets.

Otherwise, the new LFR, kind of brutal. Spent 3 hours total one day not getting a damn thing down. Asking LFR dps to stop dpsing just doesn’t happen. Needing part of a group to do something else, not gonna happen. Having a fight where the lazy afk tunnel vision players get instantly killed and fails the raid. Hm. Not so good. I mean, that design is good, but for morons in LFR, not so much.

NOT IT

Sep25

Seriously what is the deal with people defending nodes?  I’ve had all of the following circumstances ALL THE TIME:

On my healers.  Lone defender, usually a hunter.  They either request help or I see them being attacked, check the map and run and save them.  They promptly scoot off and leave me alone.

5 people rush a base, usually farm or stables (depending on faction), cap it.  All 5 run off, leaving me solo.

On my hunter.  Healer cries they are solo at a base.  I go to add my dps.  They run off and leave me alone.

DPS or heal, at a base with someone else.  That person is afk and just stands there as I’m being attacked.

Sometimes it gets frustrating being the only one doing objectives.  But still, horde wins a lot.

People in LFR are Rude

Sep19

Did LFR on my priest the other day and ended up with and off hand and a necklace, which upgraded was like 6 ilevels higher than what I had.  But I like replacing gear and I’ve had so little of it I just did it.  That group was really good, everyone explaining the fights, and more than one mage was really helpful and defending people against others being jerks.  I was down a rabbit hole I think.

Also ran it on my druid and got a neck piece I didn’t need, but used a roll on that.  That went a little differently, I phased in on Sha of Pride and for no reason a hunter slapped me across the face and  said “Coquette, fuck you k?”

I wasn’t sure what that was even regarding so I asked “problem?”  They linked Gift of the Titans.  Ok? No one was dying, we were about to beat the boss.  They said “You don’t know?” and I said apparently not.  I guess they didn’t like me dispelling without pairing up, or whatever that function is, which is totally a no big deal and we got the boss down fine. Also, these shoulders are AWESOME.

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Legendary Cloak

Sep17

Decided to actually get back on the legendary quest line seems it feels more or less mandatory now since you need the cloak to jump the gap in the bridge on Timeless Isle. It seems wacked to do that (Hellbound cough cough) but eh I can’t let my gear get too far behind raids if I want to keep doing world pvp.

Censer of Eternal Agony

Sep15

Hm a lot to catch up on.  I am a beast vs a rogue currently with my reflective shield and Divine Insight.  I almost killed him a few times but he’s way too fast for me. Apparently on the new Timeless Isle, we have an item much like the Zariche in L2 where you become hostile to everyone.

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Alliance aren’t very good at this.  We stood there for a while and no one bothered attacking, and later Ladiesman fought me and no one helped.  I had 2 alliance paladins, I think it was, pair up and try to kill me with this buff but ended up ditching over the side with gliders.  Nothing like starting shit and running.

Ladiesman also helped me get the chest on the part of the island I can’t normally get to without the legendary cloak.

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I was dumb and forgot it was BoA and opened them all right away. Sigh.