Happy New Year everyone, I hope you had a safe and fun weekend!
Grim Batol
I love this place. I really do! Great rep cool fights will challenge players skill a bit. The fights are not face rolls. Not entirely complex but you can't round them up and burn them down. But it was a PUG.
My fault for doing this, it was New Years morning about 6 AM server time, 9AM for me. I looked and no one was on in guild beside a "friend and family" level 25 shammy.
I every so brilliantly PUGGED! I know what you are thinking, why? Well I wanted to knock my Valor points out for the day. In all honesty as I zoned in the group make up was not bad.
Me
Priest heals
MM Hunter
Rogue
'Lock
Gear wasn't bad and a few even said "hi" as we zoned in. I gave kill order and CC order. Things went smooth and stuff was dying fast. The 'Lock DC'd 3x's and a vote kick went out. She was removed. Incomes a DK. He was a gem. He arrived w/"sup, never been here b4".
He proceded to pull 3k DPS on trash and our 1st boss attempt. Somehow we wiped on trash and had the healer rez him.
We got to General Umbriss, his DPS went up to 4k. We wiped at about 40%, the healer had to rez him. The rouge tells him stop being a lazy ass and rez. He says "I've never been here before, I don't want to get lost"
We wiped 3 more times on Umbriss, for some reason the healer wanted to stand on top of me. I was charged 3 times. My fault for not moving but it was an insta kill for the healer. Usually I can live thru his charge. The helm dropped, the hunter took it and left group. I was sad, she was a smart hunter. She was replaced by a lock.
Me to 'Lock- are you glyphed for fear? What is that? o.O
On the next boss Forgemaster Throngus we wiped A L O T! Four times in a row were 2% ish wipes. The lock and 3k DK left and were replaced by a Shammy, who was wearing PVP gear "cuz its just fill in til i get good stuff".
The shammy and DK died on his fire phase. They both left and were replace by 2 toons that zoned in and DC'd. They never came back. In comes a 'lock and a DK.
Me
Priest heals
Rouge
DK
'Lock
Lock SS DK, we all go "WHAT?" oops sorry wrong target. Pull boss, DK dies in fire. Uses SS and dies in fire...........LOL
We finally get him dead, the wand drops, healer needs takes it and drops group.
Druid heals comes in, we pull to Drahga Shadowburner wipe a few times because people are unable to get behind him during the drakes flame phase. This was for a brief second, my fault "cuz tank doesn't have aggro on boss" "use taunt so drake doesn't turn towards group"
OMG
We figured that out, lost the lock, got a mage and killed the boss. All was good, a decent group with great DPS and nice make up for Erudax and slowing his adds.
I tell group how we should set it up - Mage help w/both adds. Rogue take left, DK take right. Slow adds and kill them before we get to the eggs to hatch.
Rogue "I can't use crippling poison, it will hurt my DPS"
Mage "I don't have a frost spec, I can't slow"
DK "I'll chains them both, others burn them down."
It didn't work like 4 times. Some way, shape or form these three guys couldn't get the adds before the birds got hatched. They were all at 7k dps or better and couldn't do it.
Healer drops, DK drops, Rogue drops. 3 hours into this place....I'm at my wits end but soooo want to finish this. I'm so close to my valor points, I don't know if I can stomach redoing a heroic today to get them.
The mage stayed with me, zoned in are a shammy healer, MM hunter, Frost DK , me and the mage.
Mage give run down of boss, and says, what I have said about 15 times....Kill adds fast and we win.
We wiped. But I noticed something the hunter and DK were doing 12k dps. Oh, could it be, could we have a chance to do this?
DK says I'm so sorry I messed that up. We got him next time and....
We did! I was so excited for killing this simple ass boss I could have hugged all those toons IRL for real.
In case you lost count: TL, DR:
17 wipes
3 1/2 hours (9am til 12:10pm)
17 players (plus 2 more that zoned in and dc'd and never came back)
96g in repairs
70 valor points
one very patient tank who used every CD he had multiple times (including LoH 5x's)
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Sunday, January 2, 2011
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Tanking adventures
Yes there is more...
I hit level 15, bought an AH shield and que'd up to start my journey as a warrior tank. I'm spec'd as Arms currently til I can dual spec and this allows me a bit of versatility, in my mind anyway.
Aside from the 'lock that wanted to pull everything (which I didn't mind, I don't want to stress over Deadmines and a bored wow player waiting for cata come out) but the grey geared healer fixed the 'lock from pulling to much as he let the lock die A L O T! and the rogue made sure he knew that he didn't like the 'lock pulling stuff. Deadmines went by fast and I leveled fast. Oh and I got the shield which the healer rolled against me on.
WC and RFC-
Hello, back with a new tank and more adventures and I love it, or we will see. I rolled a Belf Warrior. 1st impressions? Not bad really, I love the torrent silence and rage thing. Kinda OP as a warrior. Since the last time I played a warrior (to lvl 36) they have fixed rage up alot. I'm not always rage starved.
I hit level 15, bought an AH shield and que'd up to start my journey as a warrior tank. I'm spec'd as Arms currently til I can dual spec and this allows me a bit of versatility, in my mind anyway.I que'd and was almost immediately thrown into Deadmines. The first boss was already dead, the 'lock was dead (this was a common thing I would find out) and the pally healer was spec'd ret and had a grey shield and str gear...OH JOY!
Aside from the 'lock that wanted to pull everything (which I didn't mind, I don't want to stress over Deadmines and a bored wow player waiting for cata come out) but the grey geared healer fixed the 'lock from pulling to much as he let the lock die A L O T! and the rogue made sure he knew that he didn't like the 'lock pulling stuff. Deadmines went by fast and I leveled fast. Oh and I got the shield which the healer rolled against me on.
WC and RFC-
Got into my next group fast as well. I joined an almost finished Deadmines group again, downed the bosses and had the group say "great job tanking, do you wanna run more?" Well, all that flattery how can I resist.
RFC up first, Fast and kinda fun. I really like the idea of having quests at the start of the instance. The only really bad thing is having to go back to the front of the instance to turn them in.
WC is SO long! We lost a few of out other group and had a Tauren pally join. Oh my are they big and clunky. War stop is cool and at level 18 they are almost warriors. He knew his way around and we didn't get lost in there. I did fall over that jump you need to make twice, I feel like an asshat but I do it with every toon.
We killed every boss in WC which is SOOOO long if I haven't said it before, the healer, a Troll Druid compliment me on my tanking. This really makes me wonder how bad tanks out there really are. I guess my experiences as a tank help me, as a warrior thou, I'm not great. Hell, maybe not even good.
Over all, I leveled from 15 to 20 in about 2 hours. I was rocking my Tabard of Silvermoon and gaining rep which is cool and I got my mount after I left WC, which btw is REALLY long.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Tanking Adventures DK edition
News Flash; Cata is coming soon...
I'm being silly.
I know everyone knows this but I wanted to have a DK to level 80 before it hit. Being kind of bored, na, very bored I decided to level my 75 DK. Much to my surprise mining is so good at giving XP I did a whole level mining.
I was going to say in my Tanking Adventures that with Cata coming and everyone getting used to the new class mechanics that there is almost a calm before the storm attitude. Doing my daily dungeon to get my JP has been smooth, fast and fun. I have had no issues, until yesterday...
I que'd as DPS, I was mining and just wanted to get my points, have no stress and grab some XP. No such luck, almost 15 minutes and I had my fill. I que'd as tank, switched specs and my que pooped. I shook my head and wondered out loud to myself, what is wrong with me and gave a giggle.
I zone into HoS, I wasn't at full healt so I sat to eat and the lock pulls. Yep, but he did stun the mobs so I guess he did us all a favor by at least stunning them so I could grab aggro. Right before those fully died, the warrior charges and grabs the next mob, pulling the two Golums behind. I managed to grab them all, not happy and rethinking to myself "why didn't I wait for the DPS que again. The healer needed mana at this point and BTW no buffs were handed out. We get set and again, MR. Lock pulls the next 3 pack at that same time, in party chat Mr. Warrior says, we are all here for the same thing to get XP so lets move this along faster. I grabbed what I could due to the fact that this pull if not done with bit of caution you can get two 3 pulls and a two giants. I back up and at that point after send the lock a tell "if you want to tank, please que as such next time" I get a party chat response of, "YOU ARE A CONTROL FREAK, LETS MOVE ALONG" and proceeds to pull the next 3 pack. Then the warrior pulls the next giant. I gather all these guys and say, PLEASE do not pull, if you pull from now on you will be tanking.
We are not even past the 1st hallway and I want to leave. At that point the 3 pat that comes around the stairs gets the mage who has failed to move up. I gather the caster and lay D&D down. The melee come towards the healer, I get them and have it under control.
I get "Tank, could you please try harder on aggro" from the Mr. Lock and at that time the Warrior says, "I'm going to tank" then switches specs.
I feel relieved and a bit butt hurt but it will pass. Off goes the warrior, half health and at the AoE pack and grabs the 2 golums too. Mobs go everywhere then die. He charges into the next AoE pack and the mage dies. This is going to be brutal. After we kill the stone boss and head down the hall the Warrior take a right, pulls all 3 packs. Its not pretty and I switch presence and pop a few CD's the tank is dead, the lock is dead and so is the mage. Healer is at almost dead and I'm at full health but its too much. We wipe!
I couldn't contain myself, I say in party...."that was a well planned pull and a HUGE time saver", Yes yes I know I shouldn't have. The tank responds with "if you were tanking we still be standing there". "Yes", I say, "but we'd be alive and the mobs wouldn't".
The gauntlet was brutal and the mage died. At the end I get a tell from the healer "you did a much better job tanking than this guy". I say "TY".
Mind you in all this I don't pull slow. I'm a tad cautious on the DK cause I'm not totally comfortable. But in no way am I slow.
We finish w/o anymore wipes, before we drop group the lock says to the warrior thank you for stepping up and doing such a good job. I just laughed.
I am very close to hitting level so I que once more, in comes Mr. Rezsickshammy. Not his name but he still has the debuff and its fresh an new. I ask about it he says, "don't worry about it, just tank". The healer sends me a tell saying, "what and asshat this guys is". He did an incredible 310 DPS, oh wait...he hit 810 DPS with blood lust. He did manage to pull every boss with wolf's regardless of the healer having mana or not.
I have since rethought the feeling the class and being on cruze mode...LOL
Isn't pugging wonderful?
I'm being silly.
I know everyone knows this but I wanted to have a DK to level 80 before it hit. Being kind of bored, na, very bored I decided to level my 75 DK. Much to my surprise mining is so good at giving XP I did a whole level mining.
I was going to say in my Tanking Adventures that with Cata coming and everyone getting used to the new class mechanics that there is almost a calm before the storm attitude. Doing my daily dungeon to get my JP has been smooth, fast and fun. I have had no issues, until yesterday...
I que'd as DPS, I was mining and just wanted to get my points, have no stress and grab some XP. No such luck, almost 15 minutes and I had my fill. I que'd as tank, switched specs and my que pooped. I shook my head and wondered out loud to myself, what is wrong with me and gave a giggle.
I zone into HoS, I wasn't at full healt so I sat to eat and the lock pulls. Yep, but he did stun the mobs so I guess he did us all a favor by at least stunning them so I could grab aggro. Right before those fully died, the warrior charges and grabs the next mob, pulling the two Golums behind. I managed to grab them all, not happy and rethinking to myself "why didn't I wait for the DPS que again. The healer needed mana at this point and BTW no buffs were handed out. We get set and again, MR. Lock pulls the next 3 pack at that same time, in party chat Mr. Warrior says, we are all here for the same thing to get XP so lets move this along faster. I grabbed what I could due to the fact that this pull if not done with bit of caution you can get two 3 pulls and a two giants. I back up and at that point after send the lock a tell "if you want to tank, please que as such next time" I get a party chat response of, "YOU ARE A CONTROL FREAK, LETS MOVE ALONG" and proceeds to pull the next 3 pack. Then the warrior pulls the next giant. I gather all these guys and say, PLEASE do not pull, if you pull from now on you will be tanking.
We are not even past the 1st hallway and I want to leave. At that point the 3 pat that comes around the stairs gets the mage who has failed to move up. I gather the caster and lay D&D down. The melee come towards the healer, I get them and have it under control.
I get "Tank, could you please try harder on aggro" from the Mr. Lock and at that time the Warrior says, "I'm going to tank" then switches specs.
I feel relieved and a bit butt hurt but it will pass. Off goes the warrior, half health and at the AoE pack and grabs the 2 golums too. Mobs go everywhere then die. He charges into the next AoE pack and the mage dies. This is going to be brutal. After we kill the stone boss and head down the hall the Warrior take a right, pulls all 3 packs. Its not pretty and I switch presence and pop a few CD's the tank is dead, the lock is dead and so is the mage. Healer is at almost dead and I'm at full health but its too much. We wipe!
I couldn't contain myself, I say in party...."that was a well planned pull and a HUGE time saver", Yes yes I know I shouldn't have. The tank responds with "if you were tanking we still be standing there". "Yes", I say, "but we'd be alive and the mobs wouldn't".
The gauntlet was brutal and the mage died. At the end I get a tell from the healer "you did a much better job tanking than this guy". I say "TY".
Mind you in all this I don't pull slow. I'm a tad cautious on the DK cause I'm not totally comfortable. But in no way am I slow.
We finish w/o anymore wipes, before we drop group the lock says to the warrior thank you for stepping up and doing such a good job. I just laughed.
I am very close to hitting level so I que once more, in comes Mr. Rezsickshammy. Not his name but he still has the debuff and its fresh an new. I ask about it he says, "don't worry about it, just tank". The healer sends me a tell saying, "what and asshat this guys is". He did an incredible 310 DPS, oh wait...he hit 810 DPS with blood lust. He did manage to pull every boss with wolf's regardless of the healer having mana or not.
I have since rethought the feeling the class and being on cruze mode...LOL
Isn't pugging wonderful?
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Tanking adventures
Whats new-
I'm kind of in the spot where nothing really exciting can happen unless I get to raid. I finally got my GS up to 5k by getting the trinket Glyph of Indomitablity which isn't a great heroic trinket but decent for raids. Currently with the brewfest going on, I have dual stam trinkets if I want which gives me options.
Joined a guild-
Wait what? Yes I was already in a guild but I joined a guild which I can raid with. The recruitment post was really cool, they were recent server transfers and all "light of dawn". They post said they were planning on raiding two times a week and wanted competent but laid back back raiders who knew their class still wanted advancement for Cata.
I applied, did the interview and got the invite. They told me I was going to be an off-tank as long as my gear could move along which it should because most tanks in raiding guilds are 264/251 geared easy with only tiny pieces to replace. They had a few small questions for me about prot and spec....etc.
They seem very cool for the most part 'leet but past the hard core raids in Wrath at least.
Then the guy who invited me asked on vent, you going to be on for a few? I said sure, just doing another heroic to get my trinket. He then said, "good, let me get my shammy and I can run one with you". I was joking and said, watch we get Occulus and you will have no clue on how I tank in there. Guess what?
We got occ.
I jokingly said, lets do another so you can see how I tank in a place that give you a better idea. We qued again and got HoS which sucks because of the gauntlet which is less of a tank check and more of a "IR DPS let me hit the mobs when they show up" at this point in the game.
All I can say about this guy and his Shammy was, WOW. He did ridiculous dps, I mean out of this world. In heroics w/o BL he did 9k dps on bosses and almost 10k on trash. I did ok at holding threat but for the most part he killed the mob before he could get aggro. I salved him on ever boss fight. He was testing me no doubt. I'm competent enough tank to know threat a shammy draws w/o holding back isn't my fault. I couldn't help feeling I slightly failed his test.
In HoS the hunter grabbed a Golum before I could get him back a 3 pack ran past me, so I wasn't perfect on that pull, which no I didn't need to be but felt bad I let a few get past me.
I looked at his gear after the run as we were chatting and he was 277 in most slots. If he did have 264 it was best in slot or side grade. I said to him, "I'm kinda proud of myself for hold aggro after looking at your gear" his response makes me rethink me being in the "laid back" guild. He told me "you did ok, need to work on a few thing and a bit more threat".
I'm kind of in the spot where nothing really exciting can happen unless I get to raid. I finally got my GS up to 5k by getting the trinket Glyph of Indomitablity which isn't a great heroic trinket but decent for raids. Currently with the brewfest going on, I have dual stam trinkets if I want which gives me options.
Joined a guild-
Wait what? Yes I was already in a guild but I joined a guild which I can raid with. The recruitment post was really cool, they were recent server transfers and all "light of dawn". They post said they were planning on raiding two times a week and wanted competent but laid back back raiders who knew their class still wanted advancement for Cata.
I applied, did the interview and got the invite. They told me I was going to be an off-tank as long as my gear could move along which it should because most tanks in raiding guilds are 264/251 geared easy with only tiny pieces to replace. They had a few small questions for me about prot and spec....etc.
They seem very cool for the most part 'leet but past the hard core raids in Wrath at least.
Then the guy who invited me asked on vent, you going to be on for a few? I said sure, just doing another heroic to get my trinket. He then said, "good, let me get my shammy and I can run one with you". I was joking and said, watch we get Occulus and you will have no clue on how I tank in there. Guess what?
We got occ.
I jokingly said, lets do another so you can see how I tank in a place that give you a better idea. We qued again and got HoS which sucks because of the gauntlet which is less of a tank check and more of a "IR DPS let me hit the mobs when they show up" at this point in the game.
All I can say about this guy and his Shammy was, WOW. He did ridiculous dps, I mean out of this world. In heroics w/o BL he did 9k dps on bosses and almost 10k on trash. I did ok at holding threat but for the most part he killed the mob before he could get aggro. I salved him on ever boss fight. He was testing me no doubt. I'm competent enough tank to know threat a shammy draws w/o holding back isn't my fault. I couldn't help feeling I slightly failed his test.
In HoS the hunter grabbed a Golum before I could get him back a 3 pack ran past me, so I wasn't perfect on that pull, which no I didn't need to be but felt bad I let a few get past me.
I looked at his gear after the run as we were chatting and he was 277 in most slots. If he did have 264 it was best in slot or side grade. I said to him, "I'm kinda proud of myself for hold aggro after looking at your gear" his response makes me rethink me being in the "laid back" guild. He told me "you did ok, need to work on a few thing and a bit more threat".
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Tanking Adventures
Updates:
Well my goal of getting into ICC at around 30 hours of play time has past. Due to a few pieces of gear, I could not get GS anywhere near the level where RL would talk to me. My server is HUGE and I'm learning with HUGE servers, there are a ton of players who have alts who will log to get spots for their alts. The other thing I have come across is, when people are putting together 10 man ICC's they want HM's, so I get "sorry if it were normal, it wouldn't be an issue". Sooner or later thou, I'll get into ICC.
I just want to mention, as I geared this toon DPS and my groups have been a ton more tolerant and I haven't run into the "baddie w/the blue gear" nearly as much as I did with other toons I've put thru the LFG system. Could it be people are getting the social aspect of 10 minute friends?
Currently stats:
GS: 4976 (I hate that stat but its a feel of where I'm at)
Instances entered: 205
Deaths: 63
Def: 540 (690)
Damage taken: 74,689,136
Me the raid leader?
I was sitting in trade after doing my JC daily looking for a ICC 10 and WG just finished, LFM of VOA was being spammed. After a few minutes a LFM Tank for VOA 10. I sent the tell and got the invite! I was shocked no, GS? Ach? ETC... the only thing the RL said was, "you know its a full clear right?" "NP" I respond, I need the badges anyway.
We zone in, buff up and start the trash. We do Emalon 1st, my co-tank is a warrior. He is part of the "GOGOGO" crew, he says nothing to me, now...silly me...I'm a pally tank so I go in 1st, like he told me and grab the adds, and he follows me. He then taunts the adds and we wipe. Yes, *hangs head in shame* we in the era of free gear wiped on a T8 boss in 10 man. He sends me a tell, "you have more HP's, take the boss." I say "Ok, sure, NP but I'm a pally and never seen a warrior grab the adds, I've always just done it". He says, "ya just do it my way and try to keep up".
OK
I say in raid "sorry for the mix up, we are fixed up now the adds won't be an issue". He tells me "GOGOGOG" again. I send him a tell, if you want adds you have to go first and I'll taunt boss off you. Well, that was the only time he worried about aggro, cause the newb crew that we were, killed all the adds on the first Overcharge, the DPS AOE'd all the mobs dead, adds were now everywhere and the warrior, was not taunting. I just grabbed them all and tanked the whole thing. I've done it before but when I overgeared the place w/healers I trust. My health alert was beeping every hit. Boss dies, I live and loot is given.
Other tank says, I have to AFK, take 5. In VoA we are taking breaks.
We go to Korolan, I send the other tank a tell "I'll grab him, pull him in the corner, just stand on me and move out of flame" guess what he didn't do? Yes I had to tell him "move" or "flame" or he stood there like a BOT. Both healers died to...guess? Fire! And I looked at my DPS meter, I was 4th in dps. You did read that right, I was 4th in DPS on non undead/demon mobs and basically single target. OH MY.
We go to Archavon, I get aggro and snatched and thrown and guess what, the other tank doesn't taunt. 2 DPS die and send him a tell, as I'm going thru the air "TAUNT". Rez's incoming.
On to Toravon and raid lights up with "gogogogo".
NO! I say. Mark 1 mob, the RL marks me. I pull and hope the other tank grabs one of the adds, I'm not geared enough to take both for long, or so I thought. Cause the other tank, didn't grab an add, he basically dps'd.
Before pull I say "kill frost orbs" and send the tank a tell, "at 4 stacks, taunt off me. I don't care what is going on, you have to taunt at 4 or we will wipe". At 4 stacks, I have aggro, taunt tattle isn't showing his taunt. I send him a tell "TAUNT", still nothing, I'm at 7 stacks now. One more tell and nothing, I have to bubble. OH MY! He gets to 4, I taunt, he taunts back. I taunt again and have the boss for now. At 4 I have to tell him, taunt again. DPS is dying and boss is about 50%. OMG we are going to wipe on this face roll! Well I guess it isn't all bad. We didn't wipe, he figured the taunt rotation out and I got my 10 VoA achievement. WOOT, I'm hard core now.
Its amazing to me that on a server as big as Lightbringer is, with all the raiding people and as easy as VoA is that we had that much trouble doing it. If I hadn't done that place 4000 times, it would have been a mess. I finished 5th overall in DPS as the tank. I had to tell everyone what to do and on top of it a DK kept DG the trash mid fight.
Otherdin info:
In this section I will talk about my other tanks and what is going on.
Only a few issues:
Chasey-Ran a HoR on my main, landed mid fight mid pull during the waves. I figued out what happened and got the job done. Hunter wasn't in the instance and we 4 manned the last wave. Killed boss and scratched my head, the healer was DPS'n. Yep, 850 DPS and my health was ok but low all fight.
We did the LK escaped, the healer kept taking shots at the group and was very snide. Hunter wouldn't get w/group and got smashed by Arthus himself. LOL in group and said, you can't kick me in combat.
We ended up finishing and got to kick the hunter before loot was given out. Right after the badges hit the bags I got up for a second, came back to the healer telling me my gear was all gemmed and enchanted wrong. They said they knew I was a bad tank and could see that in my choices.
Mind you I had my heroic DPS set in with str and 10 stats gem 50 ap enchant weapon on. I was looking to kill stuff, cause even in this set of gear, I'm at 560 def and 49k health. I was very close behind the top DPS in the run. Before the healer zoned out, they told me to L2play a pally as AGI/Stam is not something a pally uses and stra and 10 stats gems don't go in tanking gear. I scratched my head.
Taiten-
I don't play on this server or this toon much. LFG is usually a nightmare. Mal'Ganis players are really hard to take in groups. I ran a random just because and I got a zZq toon from Mal'Ganis and a Goon Squad toon from another server. It was amazing, no "baddie" statements and huge DPS. It was fun and almost restored my faith that it isn't the server and more the person. Which I know but run after run you get the same junk.
Sorry for being so lenghty but I haven't had much to talk about lately.
Well my goal of getting into ICC at around 30 hours of play time has past. Due to a few pieces of gear, I could not get GS anywhere near the level where RL would talk to me. My server is HUGE and I'm learning with HUGE servers, there are a ton of players who have alts who will log to get spots for their alts. The other thing I have come across is, when people are putting together 10 man ICC's they want HM's, so I get "sorry if it were normal, it wouldn't be an issue". Sooner or later thou, I'll get into ICC.
I just want to mention, as I geared this toon DPS and my groups have been a ton more tolerant and I haven't run into the "baddie w/the blue gear" nearly as much as I did with other toons I've put thru the LFG system. Could it be people are getting the social aspect of 10 minute friends?
Currently stats:
GS: 4976 (I hate that stat but its a feel of where I'm at)
Instances entered: 205
Deaths: 63
Def: 540 (690)
Damage taken: 74,689,136
Me the raid leader?
I was sitting in trade after doing my JC daily looking for a ICC 10 and WG just finished, LFM of VOA was being spammed. After a few minutes a LFM Tank for VOA 10. I sent the tell and got the invite! I was shocked no, GS? Ach? ETC... the only thing the RL said was, "you know its a full clear right?" "NP" I respond, I need the badges anyway.
We zone in, buff up and start the trash. We do Emalon 1st, my co-tank is a warrior. He is part of the "GOGOGO" crew, he says nothing to me, now...silly me...I'm a pally tank so I go in 1st, like he told me and grab the adds, and he follows me. He then taunts the adds and we wipe. Yes, *hangs head in shame* we in the era of free gear wiped on a T8 boss in 10 man. He sends me a tell, "you have more HP's, take the boss." I say "Ok, sure, NP but I'm a pally and never seen a warrior grab the adds, I've always just done it". He says, "ya just do it my way and try to keep up".
OK
I say in raid "sorry for the mix up, we are fixed up now the adds won't be an issue". He tells me "GOGOGOG" again. I send him a tell, if you want adds you have to go first and I'll taunt boss off you. Well, that was the only time he worried about aggro, cause the newb crew that we were, killed all the adds on the first Overcharge, the DPS AOE'd all the mobs dead, adds were now everywhere and the warrior, was not taunting. I just grabbed them all and tanked the whole thing. I've done it before but when I overgeared the place w/healers I trust. My health alert was beeping every hit. Boss dies, I live and loot is given.
Other tank says, I have to AFK, take 5. In VoA we are taking breaks.
We go to Korolan, I send the other tank a tell "I'll grab him, pull him in the corner, just stand on me and move out of flame" guess what he didn't do? Yes I had to tell him "move" or "flame" or he stood there like a BOT. Both healers died to...guess? Fire! And I looked at my DPS meter, I was 4th in dps. You did read that right, I was 4th in DPS on non undead/demon mobs and basically single target. OH MY.
We go to Archavon, I get aggro and snatched and thrown and guess what, the other tank doesn't taunt. 2 DPS die and send him a tell, as I'm going thru the air "TAUNT". Rez's incoming.
On to Toravon and raid lights up with "gogogogo".
NO! I say. Mark 1 mob, the RL marks me. I pull and hope the other tank grabs one of the adds, I'm not geared enough to take both for long, or so I thought. Cause the other tank, didn't grab an add, he basically dps'd.
Before pull I say "kill frost orbs" and send the tank a tell, "at 4 stacks, taunt off me. I don't care what is going on, you have to taunt at 4 or we will wipe". At 4 stacks, I have aggro, taunt tattle isn't showing his taunt. I send him a tell "TAUNT", still nothing, I'm at 7 stacks now. One more tell and nothing, I have to bubble. OH MY! He gets to 4, I taunt, he taunts back. I taunt again and have the boss for now. At 4 I have to tell him, taunt again. DPS is dying and boss is about 50%. OMG we are going to wipe on this face roll! Well I guess it isn't all bad. We didn't wipe, he figured the taunt rotation out and I got my 10 VoA achievement. WOOT, I'm hard core now.
Its amazing to me that on a server as big as Lightbringer is, with all the raiding people and as easy as VoA is that we had that much trouble doing it. If I hadn't done that place 4000 times, it would have been a mess. I finished 5th overall in DPS as the tank. I had to tell everyone what to do and on top of it a DK kept DG the trash mid fight.
Otherdin info:
In this section I will talk about my other tanks and what is going on.
Only a few issues:
Chasey-Ran a HoR on my main, landed mid fight mid pull during the waves. I figued out what happened and got the job done. Hunter wasn't in the instance and we 4 manned the last wave. Killed boss and scratched my head, the healer was DPS'n. Yep, 850 DPS and my health was ok but low all fight.
We did the LK escaped, the healer kept taking shots at the group and was very snide. Hunter wouldn't get w/group and got smashed by Arthus himself. LOL in group and said, you can't kick me in combat.
We ended up finishing and got to kick the hunter before loot was given out. Right after the badges hit the bags I got up for a second, came back to the healer telling me my gear was all gemmed and enchanted wrong. They said they knew I was a bad tank and could see that in my choices.
Mind you I had my heroic DPS set in with str and 10 stats gem 50 ap enchant weapon on. I was looking to kill stuff, cause even in this set of gear, I'm at 560 def and 49k health. I was very close behind the top DPS in the run. Before the healer zoned out, they told me to L2play a pally as AGI/Stam is not something a pally uses and stra and 10 stats gems don't go in tanking gear. I scratched my head.
Taiten-
I don't play on this server or this toon much. LFG is usually a nightmare. Mal'Ganis players are really hard to take in groups. I ran a random just because and I got a zZq toon from Mal'Ganis and a Goon Squad toon from another server. It was amazing, no "baddie" statements and huge DPS. It was fun and almost restored my faith that it isn't the server and more the person. Which I know but run after run you get the same junk.
Sorry for being so lenghty but I haven't had much to talk about lately.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Tanking adventures 77-79
D-I-N-G! I hit 80!
Yes I'm sorry I'm going to combine the last few levels.
To be honest nothing really exciting has gone on and the gear drops have been small.
Stats.
Instance entered: 130
Health: 30,304 w/sanc upon hit 80
Deaths: 51
Def: 542
Damage taken: 36,085,557
I have to be honest, these last few were horribly boring, long and hard to take. I was burnt on tanking with people who didn't care. I seen far to many plate wearing tanking gear because "it was an upgrade". To many times I seen off spec loot drama and greed in a low level 5 man. I burnt myself out. Nothing that is going to make me stop playing or to stop this tanking adventure blog.
My patience wore thin on little mistakes that I guess people that are learning how to play a class or toon will make. But if you run HoS 6 times in a row you know the mobs pattern others don't. I did learn alot about tanking and I think I got a bit quicker with some of my key'd abilities.
Onward...
So what now with this toon?
I'm on a huge sever with little tolerance for lower gear score and I need to make sure my play is on point. I'll share with you a few of my goals:
Gear as quick as I can to accomplish my goal of seeing the Alliance side of the RP Lore of Sauerfang.
I'm going to keep a log of my runs (the best I can) and journal the variety of people I run across and loot I get.
I have set a goal of doing this in about 30 playing hours. Yes I said 30 hours of play time at level 80.
I'm not going to do this with my guild or set it up prior, I just want to PUG on a major server to see how it goes.
Will this become my main?
I'm going to say, with as busy as life as gotten recently, and the lack of time to raid, it is for now going to be the toon I concentrate on. Chasey is my main and always will be. But for the time being, there not much more to accomplish with her.
Yes I'm sorry I'm going to combine the last few levels.
To be honest nothing really exciting has gone on and the gear drops have been small.
Stats.
Instance entered: 130
Health: 30,304 w/sanc upon hit 80
Deaths: 51
Def: 542
Damage taken: 36,085,557
I have to be honest, these last few were horribly boring, long and hard to take. I was burnt on tanking with people who didn't care. I seen far to many plate wearing tanking gear because "it was an upgrade". To many times I seen off spec loot drama and greed in a low level 5 man. I burnt myself out. Nothing that is going to make me stop playing or to stop this tanking adventure blog.
My patience wore thin on little mistakes that I guess people that are learning how to play a class or toon will make. But if you run HoS 6 times in a row you know the mobs pattern others don't. I did learn alot about tanking and I think I got a bit quicker with some of my key'd abilities.
Onward...
So what now with this toon?
I'm on a huge sever with little tolerance for lower gear score and I need to make sure my play is on point. I'll share with you a few of my goals:
Gear as quick as I can to accomplish my goal of seeing the Alliance side of the RP Lore of Sauerfang.
I'm going to keep a log of my runs (the best I can) and journal the variety of people I run across and loot I get.
I have set a goal of doing this in about 30 playing hours. Yes I said 30 hours of play time at level 80.
I'm not going to do this with my guild or set it up prior, I just want to PUG on a major server to see how it goes.
Will this become my main?
I'm going to say, with as busy as life as gotten recently, and the lack of time to raid, it is for now going to be the toon I concentrate on. Chasey is my main and always will be. But for the time being, there not much more to accomplish with her.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Tanking Adventures 76
Stats for 75
Instances entered: 113
Damage taken: 26,035,059
Health: 19,138
Deaths: 46
Def: 511
Farley fast level. Nothing special happened, and the groups all seemed normal. I did a fare amount of questing to get this level as well. The money is just too good questing not to.
For gear I got the crafted saronite helm and got a really good deal on a def enchant for the shield. I did get the shield from VH and that's all I've seen drop. The quest rewards are no where near the quality of the crafted Saronite set, so I'm able to vendor those.
I get to fly now that I leveled to 77. This will help me farm. I do notice my patience is wearing thin with dumb! Yes I said dumb! I did run a DTK in which every player (I move at a fast pace too) face pulled including the hunter who entered, had his pet on aggressive and attack the mobs upon entry.
Chasey
I jumped on my main to tank a quick heroic, just to stay sharp. I did a FoS and lead in DPS and damage done, which isn't a surprise due to the gear but the group who I was with was very friendly and fun. The only real issue was the first boss the spark that you have to kite him away from was spawing RIGHT on top of him, so he got some huge heals. I did get the scorpion which no on minded cause the group was all clothy.
Taiten
This is an alt pally that I rearly play. I'm close to a precordial saronite so I jumped on of the badges, I entered HHoR after the 1st bosses were dead so no corner for me. The group was still talking about the tank that left, he apparently ninja'd loot and none of them were happy. Taiten is a bit under geared, barely breaking 4800 GS (I hate that mod) and we did the run to the ship, w/o incident. There was 3 players from the server Mal'Ganis. A ret pally from another server. We get to the chest and the Ret pally and DK Greed on the tank helm that falls. I ask politely "would you guys mind if I get that helm" both reply, "we have tanking off specs" the DK from Mal'ganis won it and said "great now I can vendor it" and left group. I was a bit ticked off. Oh well, I've learned not to expect much from that servers players.
Instances entered: 113
Damage taken: 26,035,059
Health: 19,138
Deaths: 46
Def: 511
Farley fast level. Nothing special happened, and the groups all seemed normal. I did a fare amount of questing to get this level as well. The money is just too good questing not to.
For gear I got the crafted saronite helm and got a really good deal on a def enchant for the shield. I did get the shield from VH and that's all I've seen drop. The quest rewards are no where near the quality of the crafted Saronite set, so I'm able to vendor those.
I get to fly now that I leveled to 77. This will help me farm. I do notice my patience is wearing thin with dumb! Yes I said dumb! I did run a DTK in which every player (I move at a fast pace too) face pulled including the hunter who entered, had his pet on aggressive and attack the mobs upon entry.
Chasey
I jumped on my main to tank a quick heroic, just to stay sharp. I did a FoS and lead in DPS and damage done, which isn't a surprise due to the gear but the group who I was with was very friendly and fun. The only real issue was the first boss the spark that you have to kite him away from was spawing RIGHT on top of him, so he got some huge heals. I did get the scorpion which no on minded cause the group was all clothy.
Taiten
This is an alt pally that I rearly play. I'm close to a precordial saronite so I jumped on of the badges, I entered HHoR after the 1st bosses were dead so no corner for me. The group was still talking about the tank that left, he apparently ninja'd loot and none of them were happy. Taiten is a bit under geared, barely breaking 4800 GS (I hate that mod) and we did the run to the ship, w/o incident. There was 3 players from the server Mal'Ganis. A ret pally from another server. We get to the chest and the Ret pally and DK Greed on the tank helm that falls. I ask politely "would you guys mind if I get that helm" both reply, "we have tanking off specs" the DK from Mal'ganis won it and said "great now I can vendor it" and left group. I was a bit ticked off. Oh well, I've learned not to expect much from that servers players.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Tanking Adventure 75
Stats for 75:
Dungeons entered: 108
Damage taken: 24,593,537
Health: 17,760
Def: 495
Deaths: 46
I did seven 5 mans and they were all smooth as butter aside from one. I have been running AN and OK over and over. They are very boring at this point. AN is fast and thats the best part. I think I have 1 DK in every group and who knows maybe I'll keep track of that for the next few levels.
I got a huge help from the new guild I joined and they came and helped me do Amphitheater of Anguish. I asked in zone for a bit and then asked in guild and got the help. That allowed me to level very fast.
As for gear, I got a few upgrades, the pants from VH, I made the Monarch Crab and of course the cloak in VH dropped. I should have waited but of course I would have waited, never got it, had Tormented Skies made and then it would have dropped. This replaced my trinket from the hell fire quest chain and added a ton of health. I used my dragon's eyes, which may seem like a waste but really they are free, I don't have any or many blue patterns so its cheap, getting me points cutting them and stacking stats.
I will say I'm usually doing the most DPS in my runs. Yes I'm enchanted and know the toon but its kinda funny that a prot pally is leading damage and dps even at 75.
This leads me to my horrid run. I entered OK and had a level 80 healer, a DK, a Hunter and a fire mage. The run was going smooth, the mage was a bit erradic and running ahead. I noticed before the 1st boss I didn't have Mark of the Wild. I asked the healer, a druid for it and he asked what MotW was? The mage called him a newb and stupid A$$ then said he was on ignore so let him know if he said anything. I noticed they were from the same guild and server. I lol'd it off. A few minutes later the mage said tell the healer is bad. I said and I quote "I feel the tension, but lets just move on". We got to the second boss in Ok, the mage says "hey tank, ya Fa& B!t%H but w/o the symbols. Did you know I F&cked your mother". Well I was like hey look, you guys can boot me or w/e but you aren't going to talk to me like that. The healer said "lets just go, stop newb'n it up tank" I opened my mouth and said well maybe the mage can pull his face off the keyboard at level 75 and do more than 700 DPS and we'd go faster. I'm not going to say all the nice talk I heard but I ended up leaving that run. I allowed it to go far and should have just left at the initial comments.
My guess is these guys were friends or family and just looking to start something. But really, this is the strangest experience I've had running a 5 man. Made me scratch my head.
Thanks for reading, I'll have more soon.
Dungeons entered: 108
Damage taken: 24,593,537
Health: 17,760
Def: 495
Deaths: 46
I did seven 5 mans and they were all smooth as butter aside from one. I have been running AN and OK over and over. They are very boring at this point. AN is fast and thats the best part. I think I have 1 DK in every group and who knows maybe I'll keep track of that for the next few levels.
I got a huge help from the new guild I joined and they came and helped me do Amphitheater of Anguish. I asked in zone for a bit and then asked in guild and got the help. That allowed me to level very fast.
As for gear, I got a few upgrades, the pants from VH, I made the Monarch Crab and of course the cloak in VH dropped. I should have waited but of course I would have waited, never got it, had Tormented Skies made and then it would have dropped. This replaced my trinket from the hell fire quest chain and added a ton of health. I used my dragon's eyes, which may seem like a waste but really they are free, I don't have any or many blue patterns so its cheap, getting me points cutting them and stacking stats.
I will say I'm usually doing the most DPS in my runs. Yes I'm enchanted and know the toon but its kinda funny that a prot pally is leading damage and dps even at 75.
This leads me to my horrid run. I entered OK and had a level 80 healer, a DK, a Hunter and a fire mage. The run was going smooth, the mage was a bit erradic and running ahead. I noticed before the 1st boss I didn't have Mark of the Wild. I asked the healer, a druid for it and he asked what MotW was? The mage called him a newb and stupid A$$ then said he was on ignore so let him know if he said anything. I noticed they were from the same guild and server. I lol'd it off. A few minutes later the mage said tell the healer is bad. I said and I quote "I feel the tension, but lets just move on". We got to the second boss in Ok, the mage says "hey tank, ya Fa& B!t%H but w/o the symbols. Did you know I F&cked your mother". Well I was like hey look, you guys can boot me or w/e but you aren't going to talk to me like that. The healer said "lets just go, stop newb'n it up tank" I opened my mouth and said well maybe the mage can pull his face off the keyboard at level 75 and do more than 700 DPS and we'd go faster. I'm not going to say all the nice talk I heard but I ended up leaving that run. I allowed it to go far and should have just left at the initial comments.
My guess is these guys were friends or family and just looking to start something. But really, this is the strangest experience I've had running a 5 man. Made me scratch my head.
Thanks for reading, I'll have more soon.
Friday, September 3, 2010
Tanking Adventures 74
Stats for level 74
Instances entered: 101
Damage taken: 22151358
Deaths: 45
Health: 15,949
Def: 491
It didn't go by fast...
This was a LONG level. I tanked a ton of instance or so it felt. For the most part, I'm going to say kind of a boring one. Nothing special at all.
I did solo Ragemane's for the mace. I died once doing it, huge lag spike before I could pop a cool down. I had him to 15% too. Turning that quest in is how I leveled. So I guess I have started the Argent rep quests now. That was a goal of mine due to the helm enchant.
At this level I've run into a few different kind of players. The really good who can do some great DPS at 72-75ish. The really bad who are always on the boss but don't put up numbers and the lazy ones who only want the badge/XP/gear. My highlight at this level was something I'm kind of proud of, I had a level 80 warlock in DTK (I have no clue why either, it wasn't for gear) who was in 232 ave gear and I only lost aggro to him one time. That time was due to a stun I got early in the fight. That made me happy.
On the gear front, I put on the sarnonite belt at the start of the level. When I hit 75, I had the saronite boots and helm (its for the next level) I got the mace from the quest and I spent about 48g plus 15g tip for the Cloak of Tormented Skies, I needed to upgrade this bad! I was wearing a level 62 green "of the Champion" cloak. Totally worth the investment. As for a few other things I did I put a weapon chain on the mace and an agility enchant on my cloak, It was 4g so not bad. My next upgrade will be the Monarch Crab JC trinket.
Instances entered: 101
Damage taken: 22151358
Deaths: 45
Health: 15,949
Def: 491
It didn't go by fast...
This was a LONG level. I tanked a ton of instance or so it felt. For the most part, I'm going to say kind of a boring one. Nothing special at all.
I did solo Ragemane's for the mace. I died once doing it, huge lag spike before I could pop a cool down. I had him to 15% too. Turning that quest in is how I leveled. So I guess I have started the Argent rep quests now. That was a goal of mine due to the helm enchant.
At this level I've run into a few different kind of players. The really good who can do some great DPS at 72-75ish. The really bad who are always on the boss but don't put up numbers and the lazy ones who only want the badge/XP/gear. My highlight at this level was something I'm kind of proud of, I had a level 80 warlock in DTK (I have no clue why either, it wasn't for gear) who was in 232 ave gear and I only lost aggro to him one time. That time was due to a stun I got early in the fight. That made me happy.
On the gear front, I put on the sarnonite belt at the start of the level. When I hit 75, I had the saronite boots and helm (its for the next level) I got the mace from the quest and I spent about 48g plus 15g tip for the Cloak of Tormented Skies, I needed to upgrade this bad! I was wearing a level 62 green "of the Champion" cloak. Totally worth the investment. As for a few other things I did I put a weapon chain on the mace and an agility enchant on my cloak, It was 4g so not bad. My next upgrade will be the Monarch Crab JC trinket.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Tanking Adventures 73
Stats for level 73
Instances entered: 95
Damage taken: 20,007,735
Deaths: 42
Health: 14,533
Def: 484
It was a fast level. It felt like it took forever but it was fast. As you can see I tanked alot by the damage I took and the 5 mans entered. I finished up the quests from the Wrathgate area, got to revered with Valiance Expedition. I can buy the shield now but...its a level 78 which really does me no good.
I ran nexus alot, which is getting boring. Most of Wrath is to be honest. This has been fun so I'm ok I guess. I found a group on my realm or a couple people anyway and I ran about 4 in a row where I had no health issues and in fact I don't seem to have many issues with healers making my health bar DING when it gets low. I have only been crit a few times and I try to make my avoidance count.
The last group I ran with before I hit level 74 was bad, really bad. Not bad players but new! They didn't do anything right and made me and the healers job a tad harder. It wasn't something that can't be overcome but playing with people like this make you appreciate the good or let me rephrase that, smarter players.
I got three upgrades as I leveled to 74, all of them crafted and it only cost me 25g for tip. I got the Tempered Saronite Belt , the Tempered Saronite Legplates and the Jade Ring of Slaying I put a perfect cut 14 def gem in the slot. All of them were a big upgrade.
On a side note, if anyone can tell me how to ling a viewable drop down item instead of a redirect that would be awesome. I tried but can't seem to figure it out.
Looking for banner help as well, so if you can help me with either of the two, shoot me an email at Judgingchasey@gmail.com
Thanks
Instances entered: 95
Damage taken: 20,007,735
Deaths: 42
Health: 14,533
Def: 484
It was a fast level. It felt like it took forever but it was fast. As you can see I tanked alot by the damage I took and the 5 mans entered. I finished up the quests from the Wrathgate area, got to revered with Valiance Expedition. I can buy the shield now but...its a level 78 which really does me no good.
I ran nexus alot, which is getting boring. Most of Wrath is to be honest. This has been fun so I'm ok I guess. I found a group on my realm or a couple people anyway and I ran about 4 in a row where I had no health issues and in fact I don't seem to have many issues with healers making my health bar DING when it gets low. I have only been crit a few times and I try to make my avoidance count.
The last group I ran with before I hit level 74 was bad, really bad. Not bad players but new! They didn't do anything right and made me and the healers job a tad harder. It wasn't something that can't be overcome but playing with people like this make you appreciate the good or let me rephrase that, smarter players.
I got three upgrades as I leveled to 74, all of them crafted and it only cost me 25g for tip. I got the Tempered Saronite Belt , the Tempered Saronite Legplates and the Jade Ring of Slaying I put a perfect cut 14 def gem in the slot. All of them were a big upgrade.
On a side note, if anyone can tell me how to ling a viewable drop down item instead of a redirect that would be awesome. I tried but can't seem to figure it out.
Looking for banner help as well, so if you can help me with either of the two, shoot me an email at Judgingchasey@gmail.com
Thanks
Monday, August 30, 2010
Tanking Adventures 72
It went fast...
Stats for level 72:
Instances entered: 86
Damage taken: 17,815,982
Deaths: 42
Health: 13921
Def: 480
My Instances entered are lower due to me questing and doing the Wrathgate quest line for most of this level. I quested for the gold and I really wanted to see Wrathgate on the Alliance side. I then got to jump into the battle of the Undercity.
I'll give my two cents on this: The Horde side is better. I like the lore but after seeing both of them, Horde felt different and what was wrong with Varian Wrynn. It ended poorly. Why would any leader without backing and having been invited by the opposite factions leader to defend and take retribution against the death of his man at Wrathgate, then decide to take violent action against that leader who had backing (troops) and another faction leader with him? It just made zero sense. On the game front, I'm glad I did it and glad I seen both sides. If you haven't seen the Horde side, and you at all like lore check it out.
I only did two 5 mans. The first was simple, good group and very fast. The DPS was crazy good for 71ish people. I was last in DPS for the 1st time and I did 900 DPS. Not bad.
I was pretty tired, almost finished with Wrathgate and wanted to break it up and jump into a instance before I logged. I got AN! Cool, finally a chance of getting gear for me. The ring off of Anub is pretty nice. It would fix up my def issues I'm having now.
The group was ok, the run did go smooth and you could see that everyone had done AN before be it heroic or regular. Seemed to be a bit of AFK's in this one but nothing to long. Last boss went down, kill was smooth and the tanking ring dropped. And guess what....The Warrior rolled Need on it. Before I rolled, I asked him if he really rolled need on a tanking ring...here was his reply:
Needless to say I was a bit perturbed by this and more so by his answer! He didn't feel like tanking but he is still going to roll on a tanking piece?
I don't get this, I understand it but he didn't even ask, "Hey do you need that?" he felt entitled to this. This is a issue with how some people view life in general. His stance on this was, "I don't wanna do whats needed but I'm entitled."
This is not the first time this has happened to me nor is it a really bad attempt at a ninja. What really gets me and the reason I'm putting as much into this as I am, is this:
Don't rub your eyes, yes this guy rolled a toon on my server and to tell me I was the childish one for asking why he tried to ninja loot. Yes, he took time out of his play time to tell me I was QQ'n for asking why he did this.
I asked him if "You mad bro?" but he had logged off already.
This may seem like I'm bitter or over reacting but remember this is in part to give my thoughts and let others know what I've seen as I level a new toon on a fresh server with only my knowledge of the class and toon.
Good news in all this: I won the ring! What an upgrade for me, a real tanking ring. I think this is what angered him a ton. I'll just finish this by saying, loot is loot. It will drop again. If you are going to roll on something you really want, either play that spec or ask the other if you can roll on it. This game even being played on a computer still takes human contact either via type, chat or other. I would love to see more courtesy in game. Everyone plays their roll, they should have a better chance at getting loot for that roll.
I joined a new guild, the one I was in was a ghost town. No on had been online for over a week. The new guild has a crazy name and seems to be more populated with players of all levels. I hope it stays this way.
Stats for level 72:
Instances entered: 86
Damage taken: 17,815,982
Deaths: 42
Health: 13921
Def: 480
My Instances entered are lower due to me questing and doing the Wrathgate quest line for most of this level. I quested for the gold and I really wanted to see Wrathgate on the Alliance side. I then got to jump into the battle of the Undercity.
I'll give my two cents on this: The Horde side is better. I like the lore but after seeing both of them, Horde felt different and what was wrong with Varian Wrynn. It ended poorly. Why would any leader without backing and having been invited by the opposite factions leader to defend and take retribution against the death of his man at Wrathgate, then decide to take violent action against that leader who had backing (troops) and another faction leader with him? It just made zero sense. On the game front, I'm glad I did it and glad I seen both sides. If you haven't seen the Horde side, and you at all like lore check it out.
I only did two 5 mans. The first was simple, good group and very fast. The DPS was crazy good for 71ish people. I was last in DPS for the 1st time and I did 900 DPS. Not bad.
I was pretty tired, almost finished with Wrathgate and wanted to break it up and jump into a instance before I logged. I got AN! Cool, finally a chance of getting gear for me. The ring off of Anub is pretty nice. It would fix up my def issues I'm having now.
The group was ok, the run did go smooth and you could see that everyone had done AN before be it heroic or regular. Seemed to be a bit of AFK's in this one but nothing to long. Last boss went down, kill was smooth and the tanking ring dropped. And guess what....The Warrior rolled Need on it. Before I rolled, I asked him if he really rolled need on a tanking ring...here was his reply:
I don't get this, I understand it but he didn't even ask, "Hey do you need that?" he felt entitled to this. This is a issue with how some people view life in general. His stance on this was, "I don't wanna do whats needed but I'm entitled."
This is not the first time this has happened to me nor is it a really bad attempt at a ninja. What really gets me and the reason I'm putting as much into this as I am, is this:
Don't rub your eyes, yes this guy rolled a toon on my server and to tell me I was the childish one for asking why he tried to ninja loot. Yes, he took time out of his play time to tell me I was QQ'n for asking why he did this. I asked him if "You mad bro?" but he had logged off already.
This may seem like I'm bitter or over reacting but remember this is in part to give my thoughts and let others know what I've seen as I level a new toon on a fresh server with only my knowledge of the class and toon.
I joined a new guild, the one I was in was a ghost town. No on had been online for over a week. The new guild has a crazy name and seems to be more populated with players of all levels. I hope it stays this way.
Tanking Adventures 71
Oh what a great level...
Stats for level 71:
Instances entered: 84
Damage taken: 15,587,502
Deaths: 40
Stam: 13500 unbuffed
Def: 477 (its dropped a bunch but I am not cap for my level)
Sorry for the few days without a post, some real life time was needed.
For the most part the level went by pretty fast. I did make one error in judgement or I guess you could say I broke a rule. I was leveling JC and got to the point were I could cut JC meta gems. I was excited and very tired. I Talked to the JC, got the quest and it lit up yellow, I clicked him again...got my 1st token and turned it in for a dragons eye. So I logged to my banker and bought a broken necklace and powder to get the recipe for solid dragon eye and put the new stam gem in my belt.
This goes against my rules due to spending the gold. It wasn't a priority and wasn't a make or break upgrade. Yes its very cool to have that gem but I could have waited, I guess this comes down to being excited and playing way to much. Taking the weekend off helped and due to more real life things, I will probably have to cut back a bit but...I will have time to hit 80 and some decent gear.
I have really tried to quest a bit, I want to do the Alliance side Wrathgate quest line and I tried to solo Kreug Oathbreaker the 5 player elite quest. He killed me a few times. The stuns he did really ate my healt huge. I will give the solo part of those Wanted: quests in Dragonblight for now.
I have noticed a few things as I level. UK tends to be harder for level 68-71's than it is in heroic. All the bosses seem to be more of a challenge. That's kinda shocking because, well most TBC instances are tougher than UK.
I do have a great story to tell about level 72 instace I just did but that will be told in the next day or two. I only want to ask one question, why do none tanks roll on tanking gear and then say, I have a dual spec?
Stats for level 71:
Instances entered: 84
Damage taken: 15,587,502
Deaths: 40
Stam: 13500 unbuffed
Def: 477 (its dropped a bunch but I am not cap for my level)
Sorry for the few days without a post, some real life time was needed.
For the most part the level went by pretty fast. I did make one error in judgement or I guess you could say I broke a rule. I was leveling JC and got to the point were I could cut JC meta gems. I was excited and very tired. I Talked to the JC, got the quest and it lit up yellow, I clicked him again...got my 1st token and turned it in for a dragons eye. So I logged to my banker and bought a broken necklace and powder to get the recipe for solid dragon eye and put the new stam gem in my belt.
This goes against my rules due to spending the gold. It wasn't a priority and wasn't a make or break upgrade. Yes its very cool to have that gem but I could have waited, I guess this comes down to being excited and playing way to much. Taking the weekend off helped and due to more real life things, I will probably have to cut back a bit but...I will have time to hit 80 and some decent gear.
I have really tried to quest a bit, I want to do the Alliance side Wrathgate quest line and I tried to solo Kreug Oathbreaker the 5 player elite quest. He killed me a few times. The stuns he did really ate my healt huge. I will give the solo part of those Wanted: quests in Dragonblight for now.
I have noticed a few things as I level. UK tends to be harder for level 68-71's than it is in heroic. All the bosses seem to be more of a challenge. That's kinda shocking because, well most TBC instances are tougher than UK.
I do have a great story to tell about level 72 instace I just did but that will be told in the next day or two. I only want to ask one question, why do none tanks roll on tanking gear and then say, I have a dual spec?
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Tanking Adventures Level 70
Well, 11minutes ago on the play time clock I got the big DING on the 70 clock. I ported to IF and trained, headed to the mail box and grabbed my new set of gear.
The Cobalt Clad Holy Warrior-
As I began to apply piece after piece of gear I noticed something, my defense was climbing and so were my other stats. My avoidance is pretty stellar. My HP's are decent and I'm uncrittable with the Cobalt Shoulders on. I'm really close to that level with my BOA shoulders on. The stats on my BOA shoulders are so much better I don't know if being at 488 (2 points under crittable) is worth not having that extra 10% Xp I gain wearing them. I guess my healer and my DPS in the run will dictate that.
My stats unbuffed with out the Cobalt shoulders are:
13979 Armor
488 Def
17.86% dodge
14.86% parry
10.44% block (480 BV)
12,212 HP
I can't believe how good this set is really. I entered Wrath with my other pally in T4/T5 and Isle badge gear. Yes my stats were good and I had them all socketed w/the best there was, but I don't think my numbers were much better. Not by a ton anyway.
The Goals-
To put pen to paper, so to speak and just keep myself with in limits here is my plan from 70-80 and beyond.
- I want as much gold as possible when I hit 80, as this won't really be a raiding toon til Cata but I want a solid start once Cata starts.
-I am at a bit of a disadvantage, I don't know anyone on this server, its a new world to me and TBH reading trade while doing banking, this isn't a very inviting server to new players.
-I want to make it into a raiding guild that fits my schedule/style/skill level.
-I don't see Cata being released really soon, I have time to do what I want at my pace, including getting to 80 with this toon and setting up a DK to help me farm other mats in cata (ugh that means messing around with another dk)
-I don't know if its possible but I want to see the Sauerfang ICC 10/25 lore before the fight. I should be able to get in there. Depending on how much I grind badges.
The Plans-
-No gems that I can't cut. I'm JC and a miner. I need to plan ahead on newer gear to be at the JC skill to cut what I need.
-No Armor that isn't craftable. That is cryptic tired talk for, farm what you need. Don't buy it, unless you have to.
-Keep the enchants to the bare minimum. If I need it to stay around uncrittable, buy it but....it doesn't need to be the best. Armor kits will and can do.
-Save all the GOLD you can.
Where at-
-I plan on leveling in 5 mans as much as I can. I have noticed that real gold comes from questing so I need to do that as much as possible.
-As soon as I can I need to get to the Argent rep area. I need the head enchant and the legs are still pretty good.
-ToC normal at level 78 is also going to be on my to do list. Blackheart is a must as are the dailies to bring up my gold and rep, I really want to ride a ram.
-At level 75, I will be in sholzar basin to farm and do the quests there.
-I want to do the allinace side wrathgate quest line as well.
I will log all my up-to-date stories and upgrades to let you all see this. I'm looking forward to this project. It will keep me out of the in-game-boredem I'm feeling on my main.
So every day or two I'll post up my level, stats, stories and maybe I'll jump in on Beta tester talk as well.
The Cobalt Clad Holy Warrior-
My stats unbuffed with out the Cobalt shoulders are:
13979 Armor
488 Def
17.86% dodge
14.86% parry
10.44% block (480 BV)
12,212 HP
I can't believe how good this set is really. I entered Wrath with my other pally in T4/T5 and Isle badge gear. Yes my stats were good and I had them all socketed w/the best there was, but I don't think my numbers were much better. Not by a ton anyway.
The Goals-
To put pen to paper, so to speak and just keep myself with in limits here is my plan from 70-80 and beyond.
- I want as much gold as possible when I hit 80, as this won't really be a raiding toon til Cata but I want a solid start once Cata starts.
-I am at a bit of a disadvantage, I don't know anyone on this server, its a new world to me and TBH reading trade while doing banking, this isn't a very inviting server to new players.
-I want to make it into a raiding guild that fits my schedule/style/skill level.
-I don't see Cata being released really soon, I have time to do what I want at my pace, including getting to 80 with this toon and setting up a DK to help me farm other mats in cata (ugh that means messing around with another dk)
-I don't know if its possible but I want to see the Sauerfang ICC 10/25 lore before the fight. I should be able to get in there. Depending on how much I grind badges.
The Plans-
-No gems that I can't cut. I'm JC and a miner. I need to plan ahead on newer gear to be at the JC skill to cut what I need.
-No Armor that isn't craftable. That is cryptic tired talk for, farm what you need. Don't buy it, unless you have to.
-Keep the enchants to the bare minimum. If I need it to stay around uncrittable, buy it but....it doesn't need to be the best. Armor kits will and can do.
-Save all the GOLD you can.
Where at-
-I plan on leveling in 5 mans as much as I can. I have noticed that real gold comes from questing so I need to do that as much as possible.
-As soon as I can I need to get to the Argent rep area. I need the head enchant and the legs are still pretty good.
-ToC normal at level 78 is also going to be on my to do list. Blackheart is a must as are the dailies to bring up my gold and rep, I really want to ride a ram.
-At level 75, I will be in sholzar basin to farm and do the quests there.
-I want to do the allinace side wrathgate quest line as well.
I will log all my up-to-date stories and upgrades to let you all see this. I'm looking forward to this project. It will keep me out of the in-game-boredem I'm feeling on my main.
So every day or two I'll post up my level, stats, stories and maybe I'll jump in on Beta tester talk as well.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Tanking adventure 69
Please read level 68 below this. It was a fast level and had a very memorable instance in it. I broke this up due to the length of these 2 stories.
Well, I hit level 70, 11 minutes ago on the play clock. My adventures are from the very end of level 67 and ending on my last run in UP with about 4% to level to 70.
Stats-
Level: 70 (11 minutes into the level.)
Instance entered: 74
Damage taken: 10,917,578
Deaths: 35
On to level 69...
I finished off 68 with quests and a few randoms. I hoped 69 would be better.
I couldn't get back into Shattered Halls, no healers that level. So I just did randoms. OMG Settek Halls all night long.
I think total I ran it four times. Only two stand out:
DK meatshield
I que as tank, zone in to fighting and a DK is tanking a ton of shit! Mobs are everywhere. No one says hi, the DK just keeps pulling. Five pulls later, he says "sorry, go head and tank, I just got carried away". I said, I qued as tank, if you wanna do it, by all means, go for it.
The lock in the group is pulling off DK alot, I would taunt and grab that mob. I OT'd. The Dk says:
"Lock, stop being bad and control your pet".
The rest of the run is smooth, and well...the DK actually did a good job.
Oh my, I'm a pally.
Lower level group, I had just finished tanking shattered halls, I took some huge shots there so I know what kinda of damage the toon could take. I pulled fast and said what I say to every healer, "please let me know when you want mana" as I have found out, healers are funny about mana, some like to stay topped off, some run about 50% and don't care.
This group, we had a pally healer that was, um....rusty. I stayed alive but that was barely and the others didn't. The group was slow, I requested they kill the totems fast and well, they didn't, they chose route 2, kill the person that is MC'd....lol This caused some irritation in the group. We had a DK that was really new to the game, I told him 3x's please take off frost, he told me he like the extra HP's. The mage, who had died a few times to the DK on the mind controls, told him he sucked and to learn his class before he wasted others time. He took off frost then.
All in all, it was a bad group, and right after my dealings with Mr. 'Lockstar, I was a tad shaken as a tank, and wondering why the hell I play this game some times. Not because I don't think I can't tank, but was tonight just a night where I should be questing and allowing the players who think they know, but don't understand all log on and say...you are bad....I'm a DK still in starting zone gear at level 67 cause its blue and greens suck.
When we got to the boss, I asked like I always do, "does everyone know this boss"? We got 2 no's! Brilliant. I give the, "when he starts to cast 'arcane' run behind the pillar and out of LOS". I get a why? from the DK. "Just do it please or you will die".
Pull the boss, get good aggro, switch to seal of wis so I have mana and he ports to the pillar area, and begins to cast! Healer and DK die! Me the mage and a hunter alive. He is well over half, I have no mana and its going to be a wipe! Again, what do I do....
Seal of light, judge light and hope for the best, cast again, Mage and Hunter are now dead!
Me vs. Talon King Ikiss, I'm a level 69...I'm going to die, but
NOT WITHOUT A FIGHT!
I have my forbearance cooldown and potion still, He begins to cast arcane again, I run around a pole and bandage. 480 per tick x's 4....NICE. Back to the boss, I'm kiting, to allow the dots on him to tick his health away and I won't take damage. I'm playing ring around the pillar. Dots all gone and I must face my fate.
He hits me hard! Crits me and I'm out of mana, almost out of health. What do I do? I LoH of course. I have full health and no mana! He either misses me or hits me, no dodges, parry's or block's. The RNG gods are against me. No mana and watching my health tick away. He is going to kill be and all I can do is white swing. I look down and I have a mana pot I can take. Do I do that or take a health pot? Go mana at least I can heal or do something offensively.
So I did it, I basically solo'd a final boss in a level 67 instance. Point I guess I'm trying to make is, I used my tools and got a bit lucky but I refused to give up.
I killed the boss, I did my job and avoided damage that I could and made "the GROUP" a success.
It was out of stubbornness, and not wanting to lose this fight. It felt good, one of the reasons people want to tank. To be the groups wiping post! and the pace setter. No this isn't a huge feat but I can tell you, I will never, ever forget this fight. It will go down as one of my iconic fights in my wow playing time.
My add-on says I'm level 68 in those pictures, but I know I was 69...I left outlands right afterwards and headed to Borean Tundra. I wanted to try my hand at Utgarde Keep.
The damage was severe
I pulled slow, just putting a DK thru UK a few times I know that the stuns were harsh on a tank. I'm crittable at this point. My group is all below 70. I have a druid healer and I can say, this is the 1st time I've ever seen a druid run OOM as a healer. He kept me alive but he used every trick in the book. But we did it, no wipes. Lots of scary moments and we had a great boomchicken who knew when to knock back.
Second time thru was not such a great thing. We never completed it. The healer took a bunch of AFK's and couldn't keep anyone alive on the last boss. He admitted, it was his brothers toon.
The group fell apart after the 3rd wipe, I had to grind a few quests to hit 70 and then I logged, I needed a break...
In the coming days, I will lay out the plan for my goals for getting to 80, and my plans once I hit 80. I also hope to start a guild bank guild named Judging Chasey on Lightbringer. We will see how this goes, stay tuned.
Well, I hit level 70, 11 minutes ago on the play clock. My adventures are from the very end of level 67 and ending on my last run in UP with about 4% to level to 70.
Stats-
Level: 70 (11 minutes into the level.)
Instance entered: 74
Damage taken: 10,917,578
Deaths: 35
On to level 69...
I finished off 68 with quests and a few randoms. I hoped 69 would be better.
I couldn't get back into Shattered Halls, no healers that level. So I just did randoms. OMG Settek Halls all night long.
I think total I ran it four times. Only two stand out:
DK meatshield
I que as tank, zone in to fighting and a DK is tanking a ton of shit! Mobs are everywhere. No one says hi, the DK just keeps pulling. Five pulls later, he says "sorry, go head and tank, I just got carried away". I said, I qued as tank, if you wanna do it, by all means, go for it.
The lock in the group is pulling off DK alot, I would taunt and grab that mob. I OT'd. The Dk says:
"Lock, stop being bad and control your pet".
The rest of the run is smooth, and well...the DK actually did a good job.
Oh my, I'm a pally.
Lower level group, I had just finished tanking shattered halls, I took some huge shots there so I know what kinda of damage the toon could take. I pulled fast and said what I say to every healer, "please let me know when you want mana" as I have found out, healers are funny about mana, some like to stay topped off, some run about 50% and don't care.
This group, we had a pally healer that was, um....rusty. I stayed alive but that was barely and the others didn't. The group was slow, I requested they kill the totems fast and well, they didn't, they chose route 2, kill the person that is MC'd....lol This caused some irritation in the group. We had a DK that was really new to the game, I told him 3x's please take off frost, he told me he like the extra HP's. The mage, who had died a few times to the DK on the mind controls, told him he sucked and to learn his class before he wasted others time. He took off frost then.
All in all, it was a bad group, and right after my dealings with Mr. 'Lockstar, I was a tad shaken as a tank, and wondering why the hell I play this game some times. Not because I don't think I can't tank, but was tonight just a night where I should be questing and allowing the players who think they know, but don't understand all log on and say...you are bad....I'm a DK still in starting zone gear at level 67 cause its blue and greens suck.
When we got to the boss, I asked like I always do, "does everyone know this boss"? We got 2 no's! Brilliant. I give the, "when he starts to cast 'arcane' run behind the pillar and out of LOS". I get a why? from the DK. "Just do it please or you will die".
Pull the boss, get good aggro, switch to seal of wis so I have mana and he ports to the pillar area, and begins to cast! Healer and DK die! Me the mage and a hunter alive. He is well over half, I have no mana and its going to be a wipe! Again, what do I do....
Seal of light, judge light and hope for the best, cast again, Mage and Hunter are now dead!
Me vs. Talon King Ikiss, I'm a level 69...I'm going to die, but
NOT WITHOUT A FIGHT!
I have my forbearance cooldown and potion still, He begins to cast arcane again, I run around a pole and bandage. 480 per tick x's 4....NICE. Back to the boss, I'm kiting, to allow the dots on him to tick his health away and I won't take damage. I'm playing ring around the pillar. Dots all gone and I must face my fate.
He hits me hard! Crits me and I'm out of mana, almost out of health. What do I do? I LoH of course. I have full health and no mana! He either misses me or hits me, no dodges, parry's or block's. The RNG gods are against me. No mana and watching my health tick away. He is going to kill be and all I can do is white swing. I look down and I have a mana pot I can take. Do I do that or take a health pot? Go mana at least I can heal or do something offensively.
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| Mid fight |
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| Right after fight |
So I did it, I basically solo'd a final boss in a level 67 instance. Point I guess I'm trying to make is, I used my tools and got a bit lucky but I refused to give up.
I killed the boss, I did my job and avoided damage that I could and made "the GROUP" a success.
It was out of stubbornness, and not wanting to lose this fight. It felt good, one of the reasons people want to tank. To be the groups wiping post! and the pace setter. No this isn't a huge feat but I can tell you, I will never, ever forget this fight. It will go down as one of my iconic fights in my wow playing time.
My add-on says I'm level 68 in those pictures, but I know I was 69...I left outlands right afterwards and headed to Borean Tundra. I wanted to try my hand at Utgarde Keep.
The damage was severe
I pulled slow, just putting a DK thru UK a few times I know that the stuns were harsh on a tank. I'm crittable at this point. My group is all below 70. I have a druid healer and I can say, this is the 1st time I've ever seen a druid run OOM as a healer. He kept me alive but he used every trick in the book. But we did it, no wipes. Lots of scary moments and we had a great boomchicken who knew when to knock back.
Second time thru was not such a great thing. We never completed it. The healer took a bunch of AFK's and couldn't keep anyone alive on the last boss. He admitted, it was his brothers toon.
The group fell apart after the 3rd wipe, I had to grind a few quests to hit 70 and then I logged, I needed a break...
In the coming days, I will lay out the plan for my goals for getting to 80, and my plans once I hit 80. I also hope to start a guild bank guild named Judging Chasey on Lightbringer. We will see how this goes, stay tuned.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Tanking Adventures 68
I am leveling so fast.
I logged on last nite at level 67, I was about 10% from leveling. I was finishing up my Nagrand quests and wanted to que for Shattered Halls, the people this level seem few and far between as they all head to the NE and the "good gear". I figured it would take me long enough in que that I would ding 68 before it popped.
I was wrong.
We zoned into the Halls and I was a bit nervous! The mobs are already running at you and the screaming starts. I buffed and told the group, I'm going to pull all the way to the end of the 1st hall or they keep coming until you kill them, so target my target and kill them quick. We had the 2 guards left, and a few more mobs had spawned but we were doing ok and the healer goes OOM and leaves party....OMG! We wipe and the group kinda laughs about this but everyone stays and a new healer pops before we all zone in. I had no business at level 67 tanking this, being crittable and the 7-9 pulls you get but we are moving along fine. We need to stop after every pull to allow the 69 priest some mana as she is blowing thru it fast but we are doing ok.
We get to the 1st boss, down it slowly due to the rogue standing in the bad stuff on the ground. But as the 1st boss died, the rogue was off line, we said we would wait a few minutes, cause the group was good. Well he didn't come back. So he was booted.
In comes the lockstar who had no grasp of English. I was a level 67 tank with 1% to ding, he is a level 70 lock in TBC blue pvp gear. On our 1st pull after the 1st boss died, we have the huge 9 pull I think it is, with the mobs that are fighting on the sides. There is little room for error and I don't have the avoidance or health to survive 13+ mobs. As it is the healer is drinking after every pull. Well I get the 1st group, hitting the main guy and 1 caster and going LOS. The 'lockstar decided to pull the 2 door guards and we had a few summoned adds, I did ok grabbing every mob, keeping alive, and even controlling the casters to keep them on me. Instead of AOE'n the huge pack of mobs I have he decides to target a summoned add that went right to him, and what does the guy do? What does every lock star do, FEAR and AOE fear. OMG mobs are everywhere! I keep the crowd under control and there is minimal damage to the rest of the crowd and THANKFULLY he didn't pull the side pack.
Me to 'lockstar: "plz don't fear"
'lockstar: u keep aggro on ur mobs!
Me: you face pulled and the feared, if you target my mob or AOE the main pack, you'll be ok.
Me: and don't face pull again, no one was ready for that.
'lockstar: u not doing a good job n he (meaning imp) pulled those.
Me: Its your imp, control it.
BTW I'm still a level 67 and he is a 70, I feel I was doing a really good job on aggro and keeping alive.
Ding 68!
The rest of the big pulls went ok, including the side pulls. On the second boss, I newb'd it up and said, blow your CD's before he MC's us. And after this there is rogues, they will stun me, just keep them off healer. I'll grab them as soon as I can.
Well, on normal, Boss doesn't MC and we down him w/o a hitch.
On to last hall, I get stunned by a rogue, I pop every man for himself and another rogue gets me, what does 'lockstar do? What does every 'lockstar do? FEAR, pulling the dog pat, another rogue and then sends his void after the feared rogue, pulling the next rogue. I finally get myself under control and the mobs as well, we had a good dk that really helped the group. No wipe, I died thou.
Me: PLZ do NOT fear!
'lockstar: stop losing aggro!
Me: eff off, I was sapped
group: Be nice, this is going ok so far.
'lockstar: dis nat muh 1st time here, i know what to do.
He proceeds to run down the hall and grab the last few rogues and dies. He chimes in saying: see, I know what I doing find all mobs!
Before we get to the final boss, 'lockstar says: 2 mins, wait. We were waiting on the lighwell the priest popped, he was thinking this will save us.
I say, when the fight starts, please run past me and behind where to boss is now. The 'lockstar face pulls the boss! *facepalm* I run in grab boss, and say in type: Run behind me, well...a rogue and a add got our healer, the boss is at 80% and that rogue got the 'lockstar too, I did get the add as well. We have no healer and I'm dinging "low health".
What do we do...
I go into defensive mode, me the DK and a hunter are left. I put on Seal of Light, start judging light and wait til I need to further make a decision. I have three options here, 1/2 bubble, bubble or LoH. I have great aggro at this point, almost no health and mobs running around. Boss leaves me, does his charge and kills the hunter. Me and the DK left.
I'm about 45% health, boss is at 65% but I've got 2 adds and boss on me, if I bubble and heal, the DK is dead. If I half bubble, I still take damage and I'll have no heals or mana. I chose to wait til the last second to LoH. And that is the choice I make. Long story short, we got the boss! LoH worked, it was a great choice. I still had to take a mana pot to keep aggro and try and kill the boss before he killed me.
'lockstar: why u not get rogues?
me: you are an idiot, you face pulled and didn't listen to the "stand behind where boss is now"
'lockstar: I didn't think adds would do that much damage
I qued a few more times at level 68, got some training and finished my quest.
On to level 69...
I logged on last nite at level 67, I was about 10% from leveling. I was finishing up my Nagrand quests and wanted to que for Shattered Halls, the people this level seem few and far between as they all head to the NE and the "good gear". I figured it would take me long enough in que that I would ding 68 before it popped.
I was wrong.
We zoned into the Halls and I was a bit nervous! The mobs are already running at you and the screaming starts. I buffed and told the group, I'm going to pull all the way to the end of the 1st hall or they keep coming until you kill them, so target my target and kill them quick. We had the 2 guards left, and a few more mobs had spawned but we were doing ok and the healer goes OOM and leaves party....OMG! We wipe and the group kinda laughs about this but everyone stays and a new healer pops before we all zone in. I had no business at level 67 tanking this, being crittable and the 7-9 pulls you get but we are moving along fine. We need to stop after every pull to allow the 69 priest some mana as she is blowing thru it fast but we are doing ok.
We get to the 1st boss, down it slowly due to the rogue standing in the bad stuff on the ground. But as the 1st boss died, the rogue was off line, we said we would wait a few minutes, cause the group was good. Well he didn't come back. So he was booted.
In comes the lockstar who had no grasp of English. I was a level 67 tank with 1% to ding, he is a level 70 lock in TBC blue pvp gear. On our 1st pull after the 1st boss died, we have the huge 9 pull I think it is, with the mobs that are fighting on the sides. There is little room for error and I don't have the avoidance or health to survive 13+ mobs. As it is the healer is drinking after every pull. Well I get the 1st group, hitting the main guy and 1 caster and going LOS. The 'lockstar decided to pull the 2 door guards and we had a few summoned adds, I did ok grabbing every mob, keeping alive, and even controlling the casters to keep them on me. Instead of AOE'n the huge pack of mobs I have he decides to target a summoned add that went right to him, and what does the guy do? What does every lock star do, FEAR and AOE fear. OMG mobs are everywhere! I keep the crowd under control and there is minimal damage to the rest of the crowd and THANKFULLY he didn't pull the side pack.
Me to 'lockstar: "plz don't fear"
'lockstar: u keep aggro on ur mobs!
Me: you face pulled and the feared, if you target my mob or AOE the main pack, you'll be ok.
Me: and don't face pull again, no one was ready for that.
'lockstar: u not doing a good job n he (meaning imp) pulled those.
Me: Its your imp, control it.
BTW I'm still a level 67 and he is a 70, I feel I was doing a really good job on aggro and keeping alive.
Ding 68!
The rest of the big pulls went ok, including the side pulls. On the second boss, I newb'd it up and said, blow your CD's before he MC's us. And after this there is rogues, they will stun me, just keep them off healer. I'll grab them as soon as I can.
Well, on normal, Boss doesn't MC and we down him w/o a hitch.
On to last hall, I get stunned by a rogue, I pop every man for himself and another rogue gets me, what does 'lockstar do? What does every 'lockstar do? FEAR, pulling the dog pat, another rogue and then sends his void after the feared rogue, pulling the next rogue. I finally get myself under control and the mobs as well, we had a good dk that really helped the group. No wipe, I died thou.
Me: PLZ do NOT fear!
'lockstar: stop losing aggro!
Me: eff off, I was sapped
group: Be nice, this is going ok so far.
'lockstar: dis nat muh 1st time here, i know what to do.
He proceeds to run down the hall and grab the last few rogues and dies. He chimes in saying: see, I know what I doing find all mobs!
Before we get to the final boss, 'lockstar says: 2 mins, wait. We were waiting on the lighwell the priest popped, he was thinking this will save us.
I say, when the fight starts, please run past me and behind where to boss is now. The 'lockstar face pulls the boss! *facepalm* I run in grab boss, and say in type: Run behind me, well...a rogue and a add got our healer, the boss is at 80% and that rogue got the 'lockstar too, I did get the add as well. We have no healer and I'm dinging "low health".
What do we do...
I go into defensive mode, me the DK and a hunter are left. I put on Seal of Light, start judging light and wait til I need to further make a decision. I have three options here, 1/2 bubble, bubble or LoH. I have great aggro at this point, almost no health and mobs running around. Boss leaves me, does his charge and kills the hunter. Me and the DK left.
I'm about 45% health, boss is at 65% but I've got 2 adds and boss on me, if I bubble and heal, the DK is dead. If I half bubble, I still take damage and I'll have no heals or mana. I chose to wait til the last second to LoH. And that is the choice I make. Long story short, we got the boss! LoH worked, it was a great choice. I still had to take a mana pot to keep aggro and try and kill the boss before he killed me.
'lockstar: why u not get rogues?
me: you are an idiot, you face pulled and didn't listen to the "stand behind where boss is now"
'lockstar: I didn't think adds would do that much damage
I qued a few more times at level 68, got some training and finished my quest.
On to level 69...
Monday, August 23, 2010
Tanking Adventures 66
Well, I've changed it up a bit. Due to not playing the DK and concentrating on the lil pally. I know sooner or later I'll grab the DK again and level it but the goal is the Alliance pally.
I slowed down the leveling due to JC and spent the last few days recouping some gold. I did do the first few Nagrand Nessingway quests and I'm working on the reps that I want. I really like the Honor Hold tabard and the tanking trinket.
So on to tanking...
I have spent a ton of time in Mana Tombs, I didn't get UB and SP to much. As we speak I'm level 67 and have que'd for 65 dungeons. Not bad and its fun. I have not run into many bad players at the upper level 60's so maybe they are figuring out how to play the toons. I've noticed less DK's in my groups.
I'm kinda sad, the Outlands seem to be flying by, I really love the instances, the way they are set up and the pulls. No there still isn't any CC but you have to pull LOS at times, watch pats and keep an eye on the casters. Mana is an issue but threat is never, ever an issue. Mobs stun, fear and silence you. I understand now a bit more how the Heroics were actually Heroic. Wrath Heroics are joke like compared to even normals in BC.
I have maid the choice to stay in Outlands til 70. I know its not the best XP but OMG I don't wanna be stuck in UP for 4 levels. I want to hit a few of the higher level Outland places too.
I slowed down the leveling due to JC and spent the last few days recouping some gold. I did do the first few Nagrand Nessingway quests and I'm working on the reps that I want. I really like the Honor Hold tabard and the tanking trinket.
So on to tanking...
I have spent a ton of time in Mana Tombs, I didn't get UB and SP to much. As we speak I'm level 67 and have que'd for 65 dungeons. Not bad and its fun. I have not run into many bad players at the upper level 60's so maybe they are figuring out how to play the toons. I've noticed less DK's in my groups.
I'm kinda sad, the Outlands seem to be flying by, I really love the instances, the way they are set up and the pulls. No there still isn't any CC but you have to pull LOS at times, watch pats and keep an eye on the casters. Mana is an issue but threat is never, ever an issue. Mobs stun, fear and silence you. I understand now a bit more how the Heroics were actually Heroic. Wrath Heroics are joke like compared to even normals in BC.
I have maid the choice to stay in Outlands til 70. I know its not the best XP but OMG I don't wanna be stuck in UP for 4 levels. I want to hit a few of the higher level Outland places too.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Tanking Adventures 8-19
I regret to say I have not touched the DK as of late. Real life has been hectic and I am having a ton of fun on the lil pally.
Lil Pally-
This is my first Alliance toon and its on a huge population server.
I don't really have a feel for the battle group yet but there seems to be a TON of DK's running the Outland instances. I know these toons at this point are still pretty fresh and they are learning to play them but....WOW I think DK's feel its thier job to DG a mob to them. Not a caster standing back on a aggro'd healer but any mob they want. I went from confusion to OMG to "you pull it, you tank it" to I'm just laughing. I don't even worry about that mob any more. Unless I see the healer get aggro, I concentrate on the mobs I have pulled and move on.
I have run 50 instance now, just hit level 63 and I'm still in Hellfire. Its one of my favorite zones in game and I really need the exhaulted trinket from the rep vendor. The quests aren't really different from horde, they do have different names thou
I don't have any really bad player stories or abusive stories either. Just the DK's who DG everything to them. I did have one healer who was level 65 who had trouble keeping me alive so I'm guessing he wasn't paying attention. Oh...he really didn't sit to drink either. He was always low on mana! I'd ask, "do you need mana?" he'd reply..."GO GO GO" All in all, I think that people are really trying to learn how to DPS at the low level 60ish level and they don't care to much on the speed of the instance.
Chasey-
I did get some time in on my Main pally, I raided ICC and I can say, I'm really not liking it any longer. Its not the lack of gear I need or achievements I need but the repetition and total burn out I feeling being in there.
We tried a few hard modes we have either not done or seldom completed. Lady Death Whisper was frustrating and no one was doing what was needed at all. No interrupts, no MD's or Tricks. Aggro swap was horrid and we lost a DPS or two every attempt due to aggro issues. We did do Sauerfang and well, its really easy now. Raiding was cancelled last night due to the long log in times on alot of servers. I could not log on at all, nor could most of our members.
Lil Pally-
This is my first Alliance toon and its on a huge population server.
I don't really have a feel for the battle group yet but there seems to be a TON of DK's running the Outland instances. I know these toons at this point are still pretty fresh and they are learning to play them but....WOW I think DK's feel its thier job to DG a mob to them. Not a caster standing back on a aggro'd healer but any mob they want. I went from confusion to OMG to "you pull it, you tank it" to I'm just laughing. I don't even worry about that mob any more. Unless I see the healer get aggro, I concentrate on the mobs I have pulled and move on.
I have run 50 instance now, just hit level 63 and I'm still in Hellfire. Its one of my favorite zones in game and I really need the exhaulted trinket from the rep vendor. The quests aren't really different from horde, they do have different names thou
I don't have any really bad player stories or abusive stories either. Just the DK's who DG everything to them. I did have one healer who was level 65 who had trouble keeping me alive so I'm guessing he wasn't paying attention. Oh...he really didn't sit to drink either. He was always low on mana! I'd ask, "do you need mana?" he'd reply..."GO GO GO" All in all, I think that people are really trying to learn how to DPS at the low level 60ish level and they don't care to much on the speed of the instance.
Chasey-
I did get some time in on my Main pally, I raided ICC and I can say, I'm really not liking it any longer. Its not the lack of gear I need or achievements I need but the repetition and total burn out I feeling being in there.
We tried a few hard modes we have either not done or seldom completed. Lady Death Whisper was frustrating and no one was doing what was needed at all. No interrupts, no MD's or Tricks. Aggro swap was horrid and we lost a DPS or two every attempt due to aggro issues. We did do Sauerfang and well, its really easy now. Raiding was cancelled last night due to the long log in times on alot of servers. I could not log on at all, nor could most of our members.I'm very bored on this toon at this point in the game. Yes I could do loremaster or....whatever but thats not me. I'm not into achievements, I like a challange and well, leveling the Alliance pally is pretty fun.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Tanking Adventures 8-15
Did alot of leveling so don't have a whole lot to say about instances.
DK-
1st things 1st...where did all the good dpsers go. I know that people are still in the leveling process but WOW, seems lots of low dps and absolute bad players. Nothing outrageous but just don't get it. Wrong targeting, face pulls and awfully low DPS. I've have had some good groups too, Nexx and AN have been my instances. No new drops or gear but the XP is all I'm looking for. I'm really not doing well leveling a few different toons. The DK has taken a bit of a back seat.
This goes to my 1st point, I've wiped in AN a few times due to the keepers on the timer are coming before the set I pulled or are fighting die. It has caused a few wipes but people have been really patient and well, we get thru it. I do now know, I don't really like NE instances much.
Lil pally-
Well I'm flying on the levels, I just hit 60 and as of now I'm at 44 instaces entered. I went to the outlands at 59 due to some flying round the world quest turn ins and since it my first alliance toon, I'm kinda trying to see how the alliance quests are. I did the Uther line in EPL.
I did alot of Diremaul and BRD...which I'm not a huge fan of. I had some really good groups there. They actually made it a good. But...I was ready for the Outlands.
I didn't feel like questing so I jumped back in que. I got ramps again, of course. This time it was like butter...so smooth. The healer was saying I'm very easy to heal and started DPS'n. The server went down and I was removed from group. When I got back on I was ported to town.
So que #3! Ramps...(I suspect I'll be there for a bit) again. This time was even better. The healer was keeping me topped off and the dps was really good. At level 59 a Mage did almost as much as some of the 72's my dk is running with. The Mage did close to 600 DPS. Things died, I was taking no damage and we kicked its butt. We all requed and did it again. This time in about 20 mins. Yes that isn't fast per wrath standards but we are level 60's and doing full clears. I have a funny feeling everyone is happy to be away from vanilla and into outlands and the change of scene.
I did after the runs, go spec full prot and got my favorite thing ever! Hammer of the Righteous! I will miss PoJ for now thou. I was running a spec that had 13 points in ret for ever to speed up riding and running while questing and seal of command. I will see how this works thou as I lose parry and I lose my speed bonus.
Alt Pally-
Well yes I do have 3 pally's now. I do like the class so this one is on a low pop server and I stil have friends there so I keep her there.
The ToC was going ok, kinda buggy like....well ToC is at times. We did the pull after Jousting and it bugged. The second time I noticed that the dps seemed low. I looked and they were all around 3k which is ok for ToC. But Stuff wasn't dying. After the 1st boss died loot took forever but I got Mark of the Relentless from ToC. After the third boss the Shammy the group, had the away tag above his head I asked the group if they knew what was going on?
At that time, he comes back and says and I quote " I haven't done Sh!t and there isn't anything you guys can do about it, you guys lose!" and I'm walking away with my badges and loot too. He got a few comments thrown at him but WOW. That is kind of despicable. This is the reason that LFG gets a bad name, well this and other things. I guess its our fault for not seeing him do nothing sooner.
DK-
1st things 1st...where did all the good dpsers go. I know that people are still in the leveling process but WOW, seems lots of low dps and absolute bad players. Nothing outrageous but just don't get it. Wrong targeting, face pulls and awfully low DPS. I've have had some good groups too, Nexx and AN have been my instances. No new drops or gear but the XP is all I'm looking for. I'm really not doing well leveling a few different toons. The DK has taken a bit of a back seat.
This goes to my 1st point, I've wiped in AN a few times due to the keepers on the timer are coming before the set I pulled or are fighting die. It has caused a few wipes but people have been really patient and well, we get thru it. I do now know, I don't really like NE instances much.
Lil pally-
Well I'm flying on the levels, I just hit 60 and as of now I'm at 44 instaces entered. I went to the outlands at 59 due to some flying round the world quest turn ins and since it my first alliance toon, I'm kinda trying to see how the alliance quests are. I did the Uther line in EPL.
I did alot of Diremaul and BRD...which I'm not a huge fan of. I had some really good groups there. They actually made it a good. But...I was ready for the Outlands.
I did a few quest in outlands, and jumped in to que. I got ramps and a group that ws on the last boss. I got the YAY! a pally tank. I got to the group the people who did the corpse walk caught up to me. A DK ran up to the 2 mobs right before the flying boss and pulled. He was basically 2 shot, and started yelling to the druid, REZ ME NOW! REZ ME. The druid rez'd him, he taunted the boss and died again. The other DK in the group, DG's a mob to him. I often wonder why DK's have a bad name and well....this is why. As the original guy who pulled, died, rez'd and died again. Started yelling...REZ ME REZ ME QUICK. I had to leave group, with this statement "Just so you know guys DG is a taunt, if you want to tank, please que as a tank in the future" and I left.
I didn't feel like questing so I jumped back in que. I got ramps again, of course. This time it was like butter...so smooth. The healer was saying I'm very easy to heal and started DPS'n. The server went down and I was removed from group. When I got back on I was ported to town.So que #3! Ramps...(I suspect I'll be there for a bit) again. This time was even better. The healer was keeping me topped off and the dps was really good. At level 59 a Mage did almost as much as some of the 72's my dk is running with. The Mage did close to 600 DPS. Things died, I was taking no damage and we kicked its butt. We all requed and did it again. This time in about 20 mins. Yes that isn't fast per wrath standards but we are level 60's and doing full clears. I have a funny feeling everyone is happy to be away from vanilla and into outlands and the change of scene.
I did after the runs, go spec full prot and got my favorite thing ever! Hammer of the Righteous! I will miss PoJ for now thou. I was running a spec that had 13 points in ret for ever to speed up riding and running while questing and seal of command. I will see how this works thou as I lose parry and I lose my speed bonus.
Alt Pally-
Well yes I do have 3 pally's now. I do like the class so this one is on a low pop server and I stil have friends there so I keep her there.
I ran a random just because...and I got ToC. It wasn't a very bad group, friendly enough and this toon is a tad on the lower gear side, just barely able to do ICC heroics. Its a different challenge for sure. I'm used to pulling at a different pace on my main and this toon can't take that damage.
The ToC was going ok, kinda buggy like....well ToC is at times. We did the pull after Jousting and it bugged. The second time I noticed that the dps seemed low. I looked and they were all around 3k which is ok for ToC. But Stuff wasn't dying. After the 1st boss died loot took forever but I got Mark of the Relentless from ToC. After the third boss the Shammy the group, had the away tag above his head I asked the group if they knew what was going on? At that time, he comes back and says and I quote " I haven't done Sh!t and there isn't anything you guys can do about it, you guys lose!" and I'm walking away with my badges and loot too. He got a few comments thrown at him but WOW. That is kind of despicable. This is the reason that LFG gets a bad name, well this and other things. I guess its our fault for not seeing him do nothing sooner.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Tanking adventures 8-13
Things are progressing nicely with both these toons. I do notice how incredibly easy it is to make gold now compared to when I leveled my first toon.
DK- I did two of them. AN and UK
AN was a bugger, it was in fact bugged or probably was. On the watchers before the 1st boss, 2 groups would pull at once. It wiped us twice, the healer left and we got a new one almost right away. The rest of the run went smooth. I pulled in a different order which seemed to fix the error. I got a tanking ring too.
UK *sigh* again...lol I zoned right have first boss. Run went ok, there was a hunter in T4/T5 and badge gear from TBC and that was cool to see. He did good dps. The run was good aside from 2nd boss where the guy runs and charges everyone. I said before the pull, stand on me and he won't charge. No one listens, cause...well no one ever does on that fight.
I find the DK easier to tank with as I get to know the toon more. I'm crittable. I'm trying to fix that but its kinda hard to find the gear. I have the cobalt set but with my CD's its not to bad.
Lil Pally
I'm noticing a trend here. I seem to zone in alot mid pull or mid instance with this toon. I also see that players at this level are kind of unfriendly. Not alot of hello's and people tend to leave mid pull alot. I have been doing Diremaul and well, I hate it. I zoned in one time, the group fell apart so I was stuck waiting to que again.
I did hop in a group w/a priest/mage/warrior (he was prot spec'd and had a shield but que'd as DPS) druid. Group did well, we cleard the whole instace of BRD. Yes, I said we totally cleared BRD. I kinda liked that place. Its big. At the end a really nice cloak fell. It was AGI/Stam and the mage rolled and one. He didn't leave the instance and wanted me and the warrior to roll off and ask him if we could have it. The warrior left so I won by default.
All in all, I'm still enjoying this toon. I'm now level 56 and I've entered 40 instances, so with me not being able to que til level 14 I've almost done one a level.
DK- I did two of them. AN and UK
AN was a bugger, it was in fact bugged or probably was. On the watchers before the 1st boss, 2 groups would pull at once. It wiped us twice, the healer left and we got a new one almost right away. The rest of the run went smooth. I pulled in a different order which seemed to fix the error. I got a tanking ring too.
UK *sigh* again...lol I zoned right have first boss. Run went ok, there was a hunter in T4/T5 and badge gear from TBC and that was cool to see. He did good dps. The run was good aside from 2nd boss where the guy runs and charges everyone. I said before the pull, stand on me and he won't charge. No one listens, cause...well no one ever does on that fight.
I find the DK easier to tank with as I get to know the toon more. I'm crittable. I'm trying to fix that but its kinda hard to find the gear. I have the cobalt set but with my CD's its not to bad.
Lil Pally
I'm noticing a trend here. I seem to zone in alot mid pull or mid instance with this toon. I also see that players at this level are kind of unfriendly. Not alot of hello's and people tend to leave mid pull alot. I have been doing Diremaul and well, I hate it. I zoned in one time, the group fell apart so I was stuck waiting to que again.
I did hop in a group w/a priest/mage/warrior (he was prot spec'd and had a shield but que'd as DPS) druid. Group did well, we cleard the whole instace of BRD. Yes, I said we totally cleared BRD. I kinda liked that place. Its big. At the end a really nice cloak fell. It was AGI/Stam and the mage rolled and one. He didn't leave the instance and wanted me and the warrior to roll off and ask him if we could have it. The warrior left so I won by default.
All in all, I'm still enjoying this toon. I'm now level 56 and I've entered 40 instances, so with me not being able to que til level 14 I've almost done one a level.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Tanking adventures... Aug 12th
Well, RL gets in the way sometimes. I will try to keep this up to date as much as possible.
DK-
Hit level 72 tonite. I've only tanked a few instaces lately with the DK. I'm really tired of UK and Nexx. I do have to say, the DPS is really really low. I think I mentioned this before, but TBC 70's did alot better dps with worse talents. I had a lock tonite do 238dps! So after the daily random today, I quested a bit and hit 72. The last few days I just went to SB and farmed ore.
Lil Pally-
I'm having fun on this toon big time. I think I've done about 40% instace 60% quests. I have SA now and holy shield. I take no damage get mana back too. 99% of the poeple I've met/ran with are easy to deal with, play well and enjoy leveling a new toon. I did tonite have a hunter in the midst of a pull, decied to grab a back of 6 which ran right to the healer. I hate that corpse run in BRD...lol
I will say that leveling two toons at the same time is tiring and hard. Neither gets the attention you want to give them.
DK-
Hit level 72 tonite. I've only tanked a few instaces lately with the DK. I'm really tired of UK and Nexx. I do have to say, the DPS is really really low. I think I mentioned this before, but TBC 70's did alot better dps with worse talents. I had a lock tonite do 238dps! So after the daily random today, I quested a bit and hit 72. The last few days I just went to SB and farmed ore.
Lil Pally-
I'm having fun on this toon big time. I think I've done about 40% instace 60% quests. I have SA now and holy shield. I take no damage get mana back too. 99% of the poeple I've met/ran with are easy to deal with, play well and enjoy leveling a new toon. I did tonite have a hunter in the midst of a pull, decied to grab a back of 6 which ran right to the healer. I hate that corpse run in BRD...lol
I will say that leveling two toons at the same time is tiring and hard. Neither gets the attention you want to give them.
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