Tag Archive | Mage

Will of Unbinding

Dec7

Later that day queued up for the second set of raids, and did well all things considering.

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I thought the battles were pretty easy but seeing what they were designed for I think it’s not bad.  I don’t know, I mean harder would have been nice, but with 25 pugs I just don’t know how that would work out.  And this one was just cool.

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got to the final Deathwing thing and I had to go but it looked pretty cool. At one of the earlier raids I won Will of Unbinding which gives 780 int pretty much, non stop.  It’s also going to find a place in my pvp gear!

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And a side note, people that join a group to queue for something, and then go afk for like 10+ mins, that’s kind of shitty.  Just be like “I can’t right now”.  Don’t get in a group, go “afk sec” and then not come back for so long I could have queued for and ran half of a dungeon already.

Dragon Soul LFR

Dec7

The new raids are puggable now,

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but made 3 attempts on Ultraxion before I decided it wasn’t worth it and I had to work soon.

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Did a lfr for the first 4 bosses and won Mosswrought Shoulderguards, which is funny because I JUST replaced my shoulders from 359 to 378 a few days ago, and now to 384s.  I transmog’d it to this set though, I think it’s cute.

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On the second boss 2 mage shoulders dropped (tier token) and the good fire mage got one, and an arcane mage that did zero dps on the boss got the other. When I mentioned it in raid they just said some nonsense about “not paying attention” in broken English and they were vote kicked.  But they still got tier for doing nothing.

A lot of people are furious over the loot mechanics on these fights since it’s what appears to be modified open roll.  You get a bonus amount added to your roll if the system considers your need roll appropriate, like my priest needing on a spirit piece. Only it is not taking into account several things which a normal raid leader would consider such as

1) someone winning who did no dps/healing or tanking. (I’ve seen all 3 cases already)
2) someone who already won something that same boss
3) someone who already won something on another boss
4) someone who did god awful dps/healing
5) someone who died to standing in stuff or other fail methods of dying and being dead most of the fight

etc.

But honestly I’m not even sure how they could account for all of these things. Was that death to fire because you didn’t move fast enough or because you should have been healed quickly and weren’t?  Did you die from lack of heals?  No dps would be a clear one but how about just really fail dps.  Are you hitting one button just to get past the “no dps” meter, are you just bad? Poorly geared? Learning the fights?

I think some corrections can be made like not letting one person win 2 things in the same fight, and not letting a DK roll on agi gear or a mage roll on spirit gear (with the bonus roll) but otherwise I think a lot of it we’ll just have to deal with.

Jaina’s Staff

Dec4

Ran the 5 man dungeons over and over and over today but didn’t come away with any loot for oh, the first 5 runs I think. Earlier in the week I got side-grade gloves, robe, but I still badly need to replace 359 shoulders, and belt.  If I can get those I’ll just drop the 2pc set I have since it’s not that good and gets me killed anyway (with the mirrors) and gear it for fire, and go fire.  Arcane gets shut down pretty hard in some of these new instances and raids.

On one of my last runs for the day I picked up Jaina’s Staff, which makes me slightly sad in the pants because I had spent like 17k on Volcanospike what feels like not that long ago (2 months I think) but eh what can you do.  That other weapon served me well.  It’s a pretty staff too, in addition to the pretty robes I picked up, I’m happy with some of the looks on the new loot.

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Didn’t I Kill You?

Dec3

The final 5 man instance features an escort by Thrall, which I guess some Alliance players are ticked about.  The totems he throws down have the horde “logo” on it too, not sure what that’s about.

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Why wouldn’t we have an escort by Varian?  I suppose I’m going soft over the whole Horde thing (insert joke about Ladiesman stealing my Alliance card here) but eh whatever.  In that party though I joked it was total bs and brought out the war bear I got for killing Thrall a year or so ago.

Later on I did my daily bg win and who should I run into but Ladiesman on his warlock, and yes I tried to beat his ASS.  He had a druid healer on him that the other alliance weren’t taking care of. Top 3 attacked, Joeshagwell, 58%, next person, 14. Ha ha.   We lost miserably, then went on to crush horde in a SoTA.

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I plan on trying to gear both characters equally this time, and the LFR tool will help me do that without needing both chars on a regular team.

Saxomophone

Dec1

Tonight I decided to try the raid finder. I got a group pretty fast, but they were like 98% from Ragnaros which is all Spanish speakers, I believe.  Anyway I couldn’t understand any of it, we wiped, I left.  I came in at 3/8 anyway and I wanted a fresh raid.

Queued for another, only waited a few minutes, and got the first boss down no problem.

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The raid leaders name, as you might note, is Saxomophone, which is awesome and I told him (I assume) so.  And yes it was a Simpsons reference.

Wiped once on the second then got it down, lost both rolls on loot I wanted.  But when like 20 people are rolling on tokens what can you do. All the fights were explained well and movements announced via raid warnings.

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We got all the bosses down, I was top dps on pretty much all the fights.

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But get this, this one DK? Won EVERY SINGLE TIER TOKEN.  He won shoulders, pants, and gloves.  THREE FUCKING TOKENS TO THE SAME PERSON.  Yes I know, random is random, but when does that ever happen? Gosh.

Talked a bit with the Saxomophone person, who is on the Sargeras server, complimented their raid leading and such. Turns out it’s that guilds, guild master.  Anyway got a nice “hit us up if you are on our server” at the end.