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Karazhan

Published at July 16, 2008 in Kara, Tankadin and World of Warcraft. 0 Comments

Its been a while since my last raiding update.. I think my last Kara post was back in December when I was still raiding on my mage.

Since then I’ve retired the mage and replaced it with my Paladin as my main.. I burnt out pretty bad on the mage to a degree that I refused to raid on it anymore. Spamming Frostbolt for four hours  just wasn’t doing it for me (slight exaggeration but that’s how it felt back then)

It took some convincing and a 7 mob pull in heroic Mech, but I was given a shot at tanking Kara for one of our guild runs after a long period of inactivity…

…long story short, alongside another burnt out DPS who had also re-rolled a Prot Paladin, we went back into Kara determined to rock the place and rock it we did!

My last post, we could only drop Attumen, Moroes, and the BBW opera event.. 3 weeks ago, right before I went away to America we cleared the full instance in two nights with the majority of the bosses downed on the first night!

This week will be my first time tanking Kara in 3 weeks, we hope to clear it in one night.. updates to follow :)

Kara Update

Published at December 10, 2007 in Kara, Online Diary, PC and World of Warcraft. 0 Comments

Another Kara update. I actually got to go in, saw the first boss go down and had a few attempts at Maiden this time!

We were scheduled to raid it last Sunday but our MT and one DPS class had gone in with a PuG and were saved to another groups ID so we had to call it.. last night, despite missing our off tank we managed to find a replacement and get everyone inside Kara within an hour of the start time. First attempt at the trash clear leading to Attumen, an unlucky aggro on a patrol led to a wipe, then again on the last set of mobs and when we ran back and zoned in.. trash had respawned.

Half of us zoned out and headed for Stoneard for a repair, the other half stayed for summons.

Once we got back in there, we cleared the Attumen trash on the first attempt, then dropped Attumen without any deaths, neither healer went /oom, no-one pulled aggro from the tanks.. for our troubles, 2 epic healing bracers dropped. One for the Shammy MH, one for the Pally offhealer! Very pleased with the performance, had a lot of fun, and progressed the healers kit a little which is great..

From there we decided we would try Maiden next as for some reason people thought Moroes might be too much trouble. After losing our way at first (and clearing out a lot of spider trash mobs) we return to the entrance hall and go up the stairs for Maiden.

Trash pulls were easy and caused us little problems. Maiden was a little different :-)

First attempt, someone got too close while the kill strat was being explained, starting the event before we were ready.. everyone wipes, rezz’s and runs back. Second attempt, as the kill strats are being finalised in chat, someone else gets too close and starts the event. Some people try to run out of the room to reset the encounter but not everyone sees the call for reset go up in chat. Third times a charm, strats laid out, positions taken, we start the encounter.. everything was going well at first but then repentance knocks out ranged, I Ice Block out of it and nuke, pull aggro and wipe hard. Meanwhile, both healers are silenced, the pally didn’t get chance to BoS anyone to break the stun effect, offtank goes down to the Holy Ground thing, main tank goes down soon after.

We tried it twice more after that but couldn’t get the rhythm of going up a step so Holy Ground broke Repentance, then back down again, so called it right as the spawns came back.

All in all, great run, I had a lot of fun plus saw Kara for the first time, and pleased with our Attumen kill. Wont be long till we get Maiden dropped with any luck..

Kara updates

Published at November 28, 2007 in Kara, PC and World of Warcraft. 0 Comments

So, last night was our first Kara run. Or at least it was for everyone but me. Was supposed to be online for 7:50 for invs and to get started, at around 6ish my internet cut out, never to return for the rest of the night.

Spent an hour on the phone with some idiot at BT with no satisfactory conclusion so had to concede defeat and give up which really put me in a bad mood for the night.

On the plus side, our virgin raiders reached Attumen, whom they then proceeded to down on the first attempt with only one death as I understand it.

Yes, its a gear check, yes its only the first boss, But considering no-one had any raiding experience I thought they did very well to get the first boss down on the first night in the place.

Disappointed  I missed the guild first though. So frustrating to have months of planning and work blown at the last minute by outside interference beyond my control.

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Attunement Progress

Published at November 15, 2007 in Kara, PC and World of Warcraft. 0 Comments

KaraFinally 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.

Kara update

Published at November 9, 2007 in Kara, PC and World of Warcraft. 0 Comments

KaraBrief update.. Attunement Deadline is today and I still need Black Morass for my key.

Blasted through Arca for the last key fragment I needed, didn’t do a full run just punched a hole through to the Guardian, quick kill/loot then back down for a tank-less take-down of the first boss.

From there we piled into the first CoT instance, Escape From Durnholde where we continued to punch holes in anything in front of us.. great run, all clear in what I thought was a quick time. Problem came as everyone zoned out of the instance and our guild-leader/main healer asks in chat if I had spoken to Taretha in the inn and I got that sinking feeling.

In my defense, and yes, it is a weak one I realise… I was busy drinking after the encounter at the top of the inn and by the time I realised I could speak to Taretha, someone started the event. No problem I thought, usually when we do stuff like this it auto updates your log same as when we escort and someone else initiates the encounter. Not for me… :(

Back in we go, smooth run again.. Taretha encounter all worked, quest updated/completed and BM unlocked.

That’s when it started to go pear shaped. Lag was DC’ing our hunter every 2 minutes so the first 8 waves or so we 4 manned with some difficulty but not too bad.

On Temporus (not sure of the name at the mo) our Tank DC’ed twice dropping aggro right on my frail frosty lil’ mage, wiping the group twice. By that point a ton of extra portals were open, shield at 47% and dropping.. a reset was discussed but it was getting late and the Hunter and Tank needed to go so we called it. Shame too as we were steamrolling everything up to that point.

Still, great night.. comms helped a lot and restored some of the fun back to the game for me. hearing the trademark banter from the guild was great fun :)