Adventures of a Dwarf Priest

Hope everyone had a good patch day.  It was certainly a rough one starting out.  It took quite a long time before things were up and running all the way.  Even then when I logged in the server was a bit slow as is usual on patch day.  I couldn’t believe how many people were on though in Dalaran no less!  I was very happy to see my baby corehound in my mailbox when I logged in though I did have to wait for a bit before I could loot it   I went and snatched up the two new pets being sold in Dalaran as well.

Then I decided to try the new dungeon system and did my first random heroic with people from another server.  We ended up getting UP, and they were all very well geared, and all from other servers.  The guy who was tanking said he had just decided to be a tank but he seemed be doing a good job of it anyways. The dungeon system was very impressive I liked how it worked, it is going to be really neat!  I also didn’t realize that the regular dungeons were going to be giving Triumph badges now.

After that I decided I wanted to follow the quest line I just got into the new 5 mans.  So I used the new dungeon feature again to select a specific dungeon.  This time things didn’t quite go so well.  I got grouped with some people but none of us could get into the instance it just kept saying no instance found.  So we gave up and I tried again.  This time I got placed in a group and got in the instance.  I’m sure the instance servers were over whelmed.  Got a good group again, one of the DPS wasn’t great but everyone else made up for it.  We did the instance pretty quick, probably too quick for me because I wanted to see it more:)  I’m sure I’ll be seeing a lot of it however.

After we completed the quest and the instance they send you on to the next one, which you can reach from in this instance.  Of course our tank had left but everyone else wanted to go so we jumped back in the dungeon queue and got another tank.  Again this was pretty awesome, having the ability to select from many servers might help with tank shortages   So we went on to do Pit of Saron.  Was a pretty neat instance as well.  This time our quest had us saving some slaves and killing a big guy.  The trash mobs in both instances seemed to have some unique abilities, and the bosses certainly did.  In regular mode though you didn’t seem to have to care, but I imagine in heroic you do.  This shot is actually on the way up to the last boss.  It was pretty awesome  gauntlet run where stuff falls on your head and the like.

By the time we finished this run though it was almost 10:30pm and I had to get up early in the morning so I didn’t go for the last dungeon.  Tomorrow is another day after all   This patch is quite awesome though, one of the best in a long time, and certainly deserving as the final patch in this expansion!  If you haven’t watched the trailer yet do so, it is quite epic.  I found out while doing those instances too you get Explorer’s League and Frost and Frostborn faction!  I’ve been doing the single daily on Explorer’s league for a while, both had a single daily to raise them, and as a avid collector of exalted factions this was quite tedious for me

I’m excited to continue the quest line tomorrow, and hopefully can attempt some in heroic mode as well.  I’m very interested in picking up the hilt to start the quest chain for the nifty weapon too! ( as everyone else is I’m sure)  Despite the delays of getting the servers up totally, I’d say it wasn’t a bad patch day, and as far as everything else it is pretty awesome!