Kara Progress & A New Objective to The Quest

Ok, so last night I had some RL stuff to take care of before I could just on WoW. I got home at around 8:15, which didn't seem so bad as the night before we started Kara at 8:30. As soon as I jumped onto Vent, before I'd even logged it, Averie screamed "Raitin! Where have you been?!". Not such a great start. "Didn't Magikstix tell you I was going to be late tonight?". "He isn't on either!". Oh dear. For clarification, Averie is out Druid MT and Raid Leader. Magikstix is a RL friend of mine that shot me the invite to the guild.

So 30 seconds after logging in, I'm shot a Raid invite and I'm flying my way back to Kara. I'm there before they get a chance to summon me. We had a few bits of trash to clear, then we were going to attempt the Opera Event. Oh the drama!

We start-reset’d the event to see what we were going to get. Wizard of Oz was our draw for the night, no biggie. After a quick run-down of the strat for the 1st timers, we began. Dorethee goes down, Tito goes down, Strawman goes down, Roar goes down and finally Tinhead goes down. All no deaths and no issues. Crone spawns and Averie picks her up. There were a few shaky moments where chain lightning almost took out a few people (me included!) but we dropped her. A very successful 1st attempt at Opera for mostly Kara-nubs. No Rogue drops from this even, but I did get 2 badges.

Ok, now the really exciting stuff starts.

We took the back door and cleared the few trash to The Curator. We had decent heals and dps, so we were confident. 1st attempt starts and we were still getting used to the fight, so we wiped after the 1st evocation. Ok, so now everyone has the hang of it.

2nd attempt was the clincher. Everything was running like clockwork. Flares are dropping like flies, we are beating Curator's face in. Magikstix dies at around 6%. Averie tries to do a battle rez while Curator is Evocating, but things just didn't get timed quite right. Evocation stops and Averie is killed! DPS goes all out on Curator. 5%.......4%.......4%......2%...... People are dying left and right. 1%. I pop evasion, fearing the worst. Curator comes to me. Dodge, dodge, dodge. 0.0001% (I assume haha) and my evasion wears off. Wipe on 1%. "Nooooooooooooooooo!" goes the cry on vent. Oh well, we rez, repair, rebuff and have another go.

On the 3rd attempt, we were missing Magikstix's DPS and had trouble downing the Flares in time to pound on Curator. We wipe at around 19%. As soon as we dropped Curator below 20%, his 10-minute enrage timer ticked as well as his scripted enrage and we lasted all of 3 seconds. Ouch.

So now the 'what if' section. What if I had of popped my evasion 3 seconds later, before he started attacking me? What if Melee DPS had of ignored the last Flares during Evocate and pounded on Curator? These are things best left lying. Although I WILL be suggesting to the Guild that melee DPS ignore the final Flares before Evocation and hit on Curator. Even missing 1-2 melee DPS, 20 seconds should be plenty of time for 3-4 ranged dps to drop a Flare. It will help our overall dps and help us miss that nasty 10-minute timer!

Well, if anyone else has any suggestions, please let me know via a posted comment, or drop me a tell/mail in game. You should all know the name and server by now (if not, look slightly to the right of this page...). Take it easy everyone.

P.S. I TOTALLY forgot to tell you guys about the 'New Objective to The Quest' I was talking about. I plan on saving up my BoJ's and getting the new Fist Weapons from the vendor in IoQD. They are sexy! That is all.

Changing Guilds, starting Karazhan & 1/2 the quest completed!

Hello again and welcome to the next instalment in The Quest For Fist!

First and foremost, I'm not going to apologise for not posting as often as I should, or not updating the site as I said I would. It will happen, eventually, just got other things on my mind lately.

I have gotten over my 'meh' attitude with WoW, not sure what cured it, but one day I logged into my Rogue and did all the new daily quests we had unlocked on IoQD and it was fun. So I did it again. And again. I have not touched any of my alts, because although I thought they were helping, I have a feeling that they may have contributed to my downfall before.

So where to begin?

I left my guild the other day, it had all but disbanded anyway, so why wait? I /gquit without saying goodbye. There hadn't been anyone online in my guild for days anyway, so no one to say goodbye too.

Yesterday, a RL friend of mine told me he had just joined a brand new Guild, fresh from the oven so to speak. They started less than a week ago and it was for starting fresh in Karazhan. 'Excellent' I said and got the /ginvite.

Just before going to Kara, I decided I would spend some of my ~10K honour. I said to myself 'if the MH fist is 13K, I'll save it, but otherwise I'll get the OH fist'. Guess what, the MH was 18K. I got 1/2 of my quest completed! Gladiator's Left Ripper was mine! /cheer

Anyway, just over 1 hour later, we were in a brand new Kara run. Our DPS was amazing and heals were great. The Huntsman goes down, no wipes. Moroes goes down after 1 reset, no wipes. I'll pause here to say that Moroes was kind enough to drop the Edgewalker Longboots for me :) I was very happy.

We ran into a small amount of trouble on the way to Maiden. 1 wipe. No biggie. We jump into the Maiden fight. We wipe and she is still above 50%. Hmmmm. Not to worry, we will give it 1 more shot before calling the night (we do short raids). Last attempt and all runs like clockwork, no one dies and Maiden goes down.

So tonight we will continue on in Kara (assuming the reset bug doesn't happen...) and hopefully will see The Curator and Opera go down, at least. I will keep you guys posted, as now I have something new and exciting to update on :)

Peace.

Alts, ahoy!

Hey all, what's happening?

Me? I've been getting sick of playing WoW in general over the last week. Why? Not sure really, but I can't play a single toon for more than 10-20 minutes in a row now. It's sad.

So what do you do? You make alts! Woo hoo! Fun, fun alts. Ok, first of all, I transfered my 60 Druid from Aman'Thul to Dath'Remar. Check. I also made a human Paladin, who is now level 11.

I am still going to be leveling my Blood Elf Paladin on Barthilas, don't worry about that. But I'm also considering transfering my 35 Blood Elf Mage to Barthilas if possible so I'm not leveling 2 Prot Pallies at once. Talk about dull!

But I still am getting sick of playing the same thing over and over. I think it's not the game, it's the content. I haven't seen all of the Horde content, or the TBC content, it's the leveling content I am sick of.

So what am I to do? Nothing really. I will strive to level my alts quickly and PvP on my Rogue. I also am doing daily quests and some minor gold-farming on my Rogue, in very non-farmed locations I've found (no, I'm not telling you! *coughGrimBatolcough*).

Well, I'd better get to work! I promise Armoury links will be posted for all of my toons soon and I will post pics and other nice things as well.