Finally completed my Kara attunement last night with a day of the deadline left so that’s a relief. Was starting to think I wouldn’t get it done in time. Took a while to get a group up (why so little people going in CoT:Dark Portal?) but eventually, with the help of two guildie’s and two randoms (mage/tank) we got going.
Little sketchy at first, I got overconfident on one of my trash-runs and pulled too many mobs in the clearing stage which resulted in a wipe for me. Got enough AoE off for the group to clear up and rez me though so no biggie.
Starting the event was a worry for me. Last time we tried this I was on add detail and in the second phase (after the first boss) an add slipped past me unnoticed. As I was burning the next mob down I realised the shield was dropping and fell back to Medivh to pick the add up, during this time another (mob) had popped and I was out of range of the healer, so once I’d blown my cool-downs and gathered the adds, I was a sitting duck and fell soon after. Released as fast as poss and ran back but the adds were too many, 2 portals were then open and I couldn’t get back on top of the adds. When the shield hit 47% we gave up and called it.
Determined not to mess up this time, I said I’d pick adds up again. Filled my bag with water, buffed the group, made all my mana gems and readied myself.
No idea how the run went for the other 4 guys but come the last boss that shield was at 100% and not one single add had got anywhere near Medivh so I was happy with a job well done. Its a micro-managing feat playing a mage in BM at times. Popping the pet every 3 min’s, trinkets every time the cool-downs up, Racial berserker bonus, timing mana gem/evocations.. so much to do and so little time to get anything wrong.
One thing I noticed and was pretty happy about.. my DPS wasn’t that far off the fire mage, and in some areas (pre-event trash clear) was higher. Given that he was focus firing the elite the tank was holding and I was swapping targets every 30 secs and didn’t cast a single spell on any of the elites/bosses till the last one, I don’t think that’s bad for a frosty. To be fair, he /tell’ed me asking if I needed the shoulders from the second boss (still no idea what shoulders they are), which I didn’t as I already have my Shadoweave set, so I assume I was better geared which would account for the DPS.
All in all a great run with minimal fuss and the added benefit of getting two more of us attuned taking the total up to 12 now I believe.
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