Tag Archive | Dungeons

Day to day operations

Log onto the priest and WG is about an hour and a half away.  I sell my grey items and an old sword to the vendor, then visit the bank and deposit dusts/shards and some other things.  I pick up my mail from the mage

and send one back containing my Frostweave cloth, chilled meat (since I didn’t learn cooking very high on this char) and crystallized fire.

There’s a political discussion going on in chat about Republican, Democratic, and Tea Party, parties going on in trade chat.  I see no reason to comment. Ooh I stand in front of the Horde area of town just to gape at the blood elves, this one is a paladin too!

I use my Mind Vision to get a look into what I assume is the Horde Inn.

I queue up for a random dungeon to earn my 2 Frost Badges a day and 26 gold. I don’t have to wait very long as a healer.

I get Halls of Stone (HoS) and like my last few HoS groups, the dps is low

the tank is slow and wants to do optional bosses which makes the whole run take FOREVER…

and we wipe. I leave the group fully willing to accept the deserter buff, but it took so long to get down one boss I can queue right up again.

This time I get another group quickly, only a dps times out and I’m back in the queue for another minute or so. This time I get Utgarde Pinnacle (UP) which is one of my favorites.

This is one of my favorites scenes, of a 2 story Lich King image turning a vrykul into a Val’kyr.

Then the beast room.

and a Worgen which will be seen in Cataclysm as a playable class.

Using the harpoons to get Skadi the Ruthless off his drake.  I almost lose someone here because they stood in the path of his Whirlwind.  I hate warriors and stupid whirlwind.

The mage drops in the room before the final boss and the bear tank admits he’s “rusty”.  I shield the mage prior to the mobs in the boss room and still nearly lose him, but manage to heal up from 1%.

The last boss gives us little problems but during the cowering stage I am glad I kept Prayer of Mending bouncing around to handle the damage while I could not heal. I FINALLY get my frost emblems and gold and log out.

Gundrak

I decide I really must start doing dungeons again on this character, both for the JP and for the gold, since repairs on cloth are up to plate repairs in cost.  It was 90g to repair my pvp robes last time even though not a single piece was in the red.  Ouch.  Repairs never topped 50g before.

I run Gundrak, which I’d have to say is another of my favorites, behind AH and up there with UK and UP. Oops I blinked!

We easily get one person the Less Rabi achievement, which is a little messed up because you use to need a pretty pro group to do it, although we’re across the board at 5,500 dps but for the druid tank at 2k which is still quite good. I already did my horseman run for today and it’s time to take a break.

When Dungeons were hard

Last night got in on a heroic Stonecore raid, and yeah ok heroic 5 mans are harder than a lot of the ICC 10 and 25 man raids. You stand in the wrong spot, one shot, don’t jump during a slam, one shot, stand in junk for 2 seconds only to run out and have more junk spawn under your feet, one shot. We also got the Rotten to the Core achievement in there.

That entire run didn’t drop a single cloth or healing related item either, so that was screwy.

After that we ran old instances I don’t believe I’ve ever done like Stockades, which I did not do on this character, heroic Hellfire Ramparts, Heroic Shattered Halls, Heroic Blood Furnance. I dungeon’d my entire way through this character, so I had very poor Outland rep so I had to change to the mage to do the rest.