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Deathwing broke my stuffs!

Someone linked me to patch notes that said that Deathwing shattered all the old alchemy vials. I thought that was pretty funny, then I looked in my inventory and indeed found my broken vials. I have a Tainted Vial, Shattered Vial, and Melted Vial. So sure enough, they were broken!

The ICC 25 is supposed to be today but by 8pm we don’t have a full group. We fill up about 20 mins later though. For some reason the raid lock out thinks we have 2 bosses down. We start to go Gunship but it wasn’t toggled to Heroic, so we all die and flag it to Heoric, only now Marrowgar is up and it’s a fresh run again. Weird.

I win the roll on the Bone Sentinels Amulet which is a nice upgrade for me, with a roll of 97. Of course after gunship Ring of Rapid Ascent Heroic drops which is even nicer, but I cannot roll because of the loot rules since I already won. Darn. I could cry because my mage necklace, the Amulet of Silent Eulogy drops, but clearly I’m not on my mage here.

We do ok until Fester when someone does something wrong and I die real fast, along with everyone else. I believe a ranged ran in when they were suppose to stay out, and wiped everyone. Wonderful. Then Shottie, who had been in Relentless until he got enough gear to leave, asked for vent info. A little late for that I think. We wipe again when someone pulls who is not a tank, and gets us all killed. We’re not sure who, although Fester ran to the right before any tank grabbed it.

We do get to see the new raid icons though, which I have not seen before.

and on the third try we get it, since whoever was being stupid stopped being stupid.

During Rot I get asked to dispel and I quick flash up healbot which is what I use to dispel and cure disease. We one shot that no prob. The wand I need drops but I roll a crappy 27 and don’t win it.

As I’m standing around noticing everyone with Kingslayer titles, I go to check mine and totally forget I have the Twilight Vanquisher title, and put that on. Twilight Vanquisher Ocyla. I like that.

Later we wipe on the Blood Queen for a combination of several reasons, one people not watching their threat and getting destroyed right away, and the other with people not biting and getting mind controlled. We recover through 2 MC’d people but after that it does us in. Next time we wipe again, with people not biting. Again. We get her down on the third try though.

I win a mark so I can upgrade my pants to the sanctified version after the Queen, and then we do Dreamwalker before calling it a night. Oh also I roll a 3 on a wand I needed. sigh. I high-five the mage that also rolled a 3, though we both lose it to another priest.

Ugh the Lich King

Nov22

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

and I withstand several horde repeatedly for quite a while

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.

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!

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

Fing Tenacity

Nov13

I log in for the last 2 bosses for ICC 25, but WG is up in 5 so I ask if it’s ok to run that. Yes. I fight against a warlock for a few minutes, and a rogue assists me, but he kills us both. Fing tenacity. I also dislike non healing classes that can heal themselves, that seems to be unfair. Anyway I run into Rexe as per usual 🙂

We win and I get my 100 wins and earn Wintergrasp Veteran achievement.

We start ICC up and once again on Sindragosa, some people need the fight explained. I’m sorry but this late in the expansion, if you don’t know the fights, go watch a tankspot video, read up on it on wowhead, something. There is no excuse for not knowing fights that are 6+ months old. None. We wipe on the first air phase immediately when the ice blocks come out since someone didn’t run down the stairs, and it’s painfully obvious who because of the symbols placed on everyone. Besides that we had several people die in first phase.

Second run, was also a wipe. The fail rogue from last night, is busy being fail again tonight as well, and explains his dps isn’t that high because he’s trying not to wipe us. Of course that angry’s up the blood because his fail is wiping an entire raid. Why he was invited back I don’t know. This fight is aggravating because it just takes one person to hose the entire raid.

Third run we got to the third phase, and I survived the wipe. It’s pointed out the fail rogue is wearing mostly pvp gear. sigh. We fail again at last phase the 4th time, but I survive again due to someone getting me in their ice block. Everyone starts discussing blame and someone says “Roll for blame” and I LOL for real on that. Next go I die in an ice tomb, even throwing a renew on myself before it hit. Well, at least I don’t have to do much dead. Dying gives one good picture opportunities though. After that point though I lose track of the wipes. We get it finally and I get Exalted with Ashen and get my new ring. I was dead through that, however, died at like 100k health on the boss.

The LK run went slightly better than last time, and we got into the Defile stages but after 2 attempts people said they had to go.

They talked about reforming for 10 man and said to stay in raid if you wanted to go, which I did, only I was kicked or disbanded and not needed. Sigh. I’m destined to never get that title, EVER. Maice on Nilvana promises he’ll get it for me though. No pressure, man 😀

Turns out the reformed 10 man got the LK kill sometime within the hour after the 25 man broke up. So depressing! I only seem to get into the fail runs, over and over, never the ones that get it.

Wrathful

Nov12

I need a few hundred honor more for another Wrathful piece, so I run EotS which we lose like always, then WSG which was a decent run but we lost. I still don’t understand why people can see someone sapped, especially a healer, and just run away. I’ve also experienced a decent amount of people, usually DK’s, that are fighting a horde with me assisting on heals, then they bail as the horde turns to me and just run away. That, sucks.

After that I get another Strand, and earn Ancient Courtyard Protector achievement, and we win! I have enough honor for my Wrathful Satin robe now, and I was going to replace that last but there’s nothing stopping me from just saving the pretty Relentless so I went with the robe upgrade.

Going to try to keep the graphics quality up too but I have to turn it down in some raids, especially Marrowgar because it makes it next to impossible to move.

I run a few more BGs and try to take some action screenshots but as in all games making pretty pvp shots makes your skills suffer greatly. Here is me getting whomped in Strand by some orc brute

and another of me dancing around a blood elf rogue (again!)

and just a mage that made me want muffins

I fraps’d part of an Ancients battle but the way I pvp is not very pretty, both using raid frames and health bars to heal, so either it looks awful to watch or hiding the bars, I don’t heal so well. That or it’s zoomed out too far to be very pretty.

There’s been no one on in guild all morning, no friends on. I log out.

The ICC 25 this time takes only an hour to get together, and we start off trying Marrowgar on heroic. This will be my first time on 25 heroic anything besides Gunship. Some tards pull him right away and wipe it. Then on the way back in, someone triggers a trap. The bear tank starts arguing about how it should be done, in addition to being annoying with an add on that tells everyone what they did wrong or how they died.

I die on the second attempt on a bone spike no one was killing. Then the bear tank pulls trash when no one is ready and quite a few people die. Sigh. Then the fail bear tank says he forgot his girlfriend was coming over, and had to leave. There was much mocking of that needless to say. Prior to all this I am discussing gear with Nilvana/Maice and I say I still have a 245 ring. I lose the roll on the ring from Marrowgar, but then win Ring of Maddening Whispers from Deathwhisper, which was probably better for me anyway.

Flipping to heroic gunship resets trash, again. Annoying. I do not win the roll for the mark off Saurfang, but Nilvana/Maice gives me his winning one. WOO! Now I can upgrade my robe to sanct, two ugrades in one night, SWEET.

It seems most people don’t listen to loot rules when it’s one main spec need, and they win something, then immediately roll need on something else too. They say it applies per wing but with 25 people if someone hasn’t won something, that seems unfair to someone who has won, so I do not roll on Trauma. I do roll on Holiday’s Grace however but don’t win.

We get down Putricide and I get 25 Plagueworks.

Then on Blood Queen, people can’t seem to handle the biting and we wipe, then the second try some stupid dps bites me, and I bite someone but the rest get MC’d and we wipe again. And again, and again.

We did get her down with most of everyone dead, though I stayed up with another healer, one tank, and a few dps. Got the 25 man achievement there too. And won another mark! Gonna be using up all my gems tonight looks like.

We also get down Dreamwalker so there is another achievement. I go get my gloves, upgrade to sanct, then upgrade my robe too. Place the gems and enchants, and it’s late as well so I GO TO BED!

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