Adventures of a Dwarf Priest

I had a lot of fun tonight being a terrible dps moocher.  No epic gear for him yet, but I have picked up a few more blues!

Finally got to a make another attempt at ICC but not how I wanted.  I ended up joining some guys 25 man PUG.  I really despise 25 man raids because I just don’t feel like I contribute enough.  Plus getting 25 people to do the right thing is a lot harder than getting 10 people to do so

We did fine on the trash leading up to the boss.  The traps were well dealt with and we didn’t have any deaths.  The DPS was good overall but we had a few people that were pretty under geared.  Like the Hunter wearing greens and a few blues and then the tier 9 pieces

Eventually we started on the boss.  Lost a few times then people start leaving, we wait around and replace them.  Loose a few more times, then more people leave and we replace them.  I think we did 3 or 4 rounds on this.  They kept blaming the healers in the end.  We had 3 tanks, but only two tank healers, a Pally and Me.  Then we had 3 druids and a Shaman.  People kept throwing up healing meters, I was like 4th of course, but I’m a Disc priest   Only the raid leader seemed to understand that everyone kept talking crap about me too.  I never bothered to point out that the tank I was assigned to heal was the last one alive EVERY time.  Actually the tank I was assigned too stuck up for me as well as he kept saying he was fine.  It was a DK I was healing too.

Eventually we gave up and split up the group.  After that I went and did my random for the day and went to bed.

So I finally get logged in tonight and what do I see, but the Stormwind croc fishing daily!  What did I get even though there is a 70% chance for a croc supposedly, I got rusty metal…  What is up with that!

Anyways after doing that and betting on a pet in the AH I went to get in the random queue and got a group instantly.  Unfortunately my luck for really fast dungeon runs finally ran out and I got HoS.  The tank was great, and we had a Mage that did 46% of the damage.  Between the Pally tank and the Mage they were doing almost 70% of the damage, so you can imagine how stellar the other two dps were   It was a bad rogue, and one of those terrible DK alts everyone has.  I think we were rolling up to the second boss when Snookered was talking about how time consuming it was to solo Heroic Underbog and I told him I’d join him when we were done.

I wanted to join him because Heroic Underbog was all I needed to finish the BC Dungeons achievement.  We finally finished and I join him just as we were coming up onto the 3rd boss.  Of course then I get a call from work that some disaster was happening so I go afk and try to figure it out and eventually come back to help while he is killing the 3rd boss.  Not long after that we get to the final boss, I get held in the air almost the whole time but I have enough stuff to smack him with + my dots that we got him down pretty damn fast.  Then I got my achievements!

So as far as the title of this post is concerned, the sad part was I just realized it was my first Achievement of the year   Almost two weeks exactly into 2010!  I should do some achievement runs this weekend too.  What I really need to finish is my loremaster, and of course get in some damn raiding!

You know, the time, the energy?   I was totally wiped out today again, by the time I can login the energy level isn’t there.  Maybe I need to be a two Monster a day kind of guy instead of just one

I found out something interesting today reading the WoW magazine, that the Alligator pets only come from the quest that sends you to stormwind to fish one!  That means I don’t have to do it every day just when that quest is up.  I also found out I’m TERRIBLY unlucky, as it says you’ll get one of the pets 70% of the time!  I have got 2!  No more no less, and it isn’t that I haven’t been trying   More on the WoW Magazine later.

So I checked my fishing quest, went and made some cloth then headed into the random queue to at least get my frost badges for the day.  With no raiding I got to do something for progression…  So I got my random nearly instantly and ended up in the Nexus.  Not a bad one, pretty quick anyways.  Ended up in someones guild run from another server.  It went smoothly everyone was pro thank goodness because I didn’t have the energy for anything else.

I got to find some time to do some raiding though.  I noticed the weekly raid was the first boss in ICC again.  I haven’t stepped back into ICC raid since the very first time I went with the Texas Mercenaries way back last year before I went on vacation!  If I can’t actually get in an attempt I’d at least like to get in one of those faction farming runs…  I guess such is life for a Network Systems Admin of a metropolitan newspaper company with a wife and a son.

I got on hoping to get the Weekly Raid done before it resets tomorrow but it didn’t look good.  There seemed to be very few people trying to do any raids at the moment.  Inien was on attempting to do the same thing.  I put myself in LFR then went and did the fishing daily and then afs (away from screen) looking at some forums checking back fro tells.  Sure enough I got a tell from someone and joined up and got the last position.  It was a 10 man group and we end in and did it in about 15-17 minutes or so.

That went so well I decided I might as well stay on long enough for a random dungeon daily as well.  Of course Inien was still looking for his weekly raid group and was cursing me that I beat him!  He was wishing a long painful instance with crappy dps!  I laughed because I got Azjol-Nerub!  Certainly one of the fastest to run.  We had a Elemental Shaman pulling about 4500 DPS that made up for the other two sub 2k DPS we had.  The run went smoothly and I managed to log out with time left on my food, no deaths, under and hour

This was great because I was so worn out but still enjoyed my time.  I have been swapping back and forth trying to decide if I liked my Ephemeral Snowflake more than my other regen trinket.  I think I sit around in regular instances so much I get a lot more mana back from the 54mp5 than I do from the 11mana per heal.  While I was in Naxx I think it was useful.  In a raid situation where you are constantly casting the whole time I think it makes more sense.

I need to take some time to finish up my loremaster here soon too.  I’ve got quite a few quests completed in my log to go turn in right now actually.  I’m not that far away from completing my goal anyways.  Then I intend to farm goblin rep to complete my 40 exalteds

My day had been long but I wanted to get on and do a Random dungeon for my badges real fast.  I ended up in a CoS which is fine I like this run.  The tank was a bear and a little crazy there towards then end trying to get the last boss because we were a bit slow.  Mostly because two of the party members kept going afk and we were doing it with 3 people.  I laughed at the end because the rouge that was barely there at all wanted to see the damage meters.  The tank did nearly all the damage

Anyways when we were doing the last boss I noticed this attack in the above screenshot.  I don’t recall ever seeing that.  So either the animation never worked on the Mac and they fixed it or they gave him some new ability.  Kind of reminded me of the ice thing some of those new enemies in ICC have the way it shoots out.

Even though I should have gone to bed I still stopped to do my fishing in outlands as well.  Still no croc pet! ARG!  I wonder if I will ever get them all?  Will I still be complaining about this 2 expansions from now? hehe

Need to try to get the Weekly raid in, I hope someone is doing it tomorrow.  I need those badges!  I will be keeping an eye out for some faction grinding sessions in ICC too.

I got on this evening just before 8 hoping to hook up with the guys from Texas Mercenaries for some raiding.  I hadn’t heard anything so went and did my outlands fishing daily, along with the Nothrend and made my cloth runs.  Haven’t done that in a while.  I am my wife and my son have been sick this week so I haven’t played really since I got back from up north.

While I was finishing up and starting some dailies Inien got on and I still hadn’t heard anything so we decided to go off and run the new instances.  I still had quite a few things I wanted to get from them so we decided to do that and then do a random for a hopeful 4th chance at a hilt dropping.  About half way through unfortunately Barb asks if I want to join them.  I kind of have this rule though about bailing on people though.  I think I’ve only bailed on a few REALLY terrible groups in my whole life, I usually try to stick it out.  So I ended up not raiding tonight as I usually would.  It was a bit of a disappointment for me but I’ll have to figure out a new raiding situation anyways since texas mercenaries will eventually find a guild member to heal for them.

I did have a good time with Inien on the runs though.  Half of Reflection was a bit painful as we had an undergeared, unexperience tank, a druid apparently who normally heals.  I think after 4 wipes we finally got through the waves.  What was nice though is I got the Ephemeral Snowflake which I was eager to try out.  They did eventually nerf it putting an internal cooldown on it but it is suppose to provide about 138MP5 which is pretty sweet.  The haste proc on it is scary, my flash heals go off in .8 seconds, Penance in 1.2 seconds.

Oh the best part of the runs was during Forge of Souls, and Pit of Saron I accidentally had my Shadow Gear on.  I wondered why it seemed harder than before and why I had mana problems LOL.  I noticed just before we did the last boss on Pit of Saron.  At least I realized before Halls of Reflection

We finished off the evening running a UP random run and the tanks kept dropping out for some reason. Eventually one stayed.  That went well enough and ended off the evening.  Going to have to try and find a run for the weekly raid this weekend now to get that done.  Need to get back on track of picking up my frost badges.

I hope to find some ICC Rep Runs too, that ring looks pretty damn sweet at exalted

Still off on vacation in the frozen north!  Looking forward to going back to San Diego though Plenty of things left to do in 3.3, and still have my Lore Master to finish   I hope everyone had a good holiday and cotinues too.  You might also notice that I switch Laneer back into Shadows.  It was a bit too quiet in Texas Mercenaries for me.  I enjoy raiding with them, and all of them are awesome but most of the time I was on either by myself or maybe 1 person and for an MMO I was a bit lonely LOL.  So I told Barb I was going to go back to Shadows and if they still wanted me to raid with them that would be great.  I joined up because it was the only way to get a more firmed up spot raiding but that isn’t the only reason I play.  All’s well that ends well, no hard feelings between anyone involved anyways.

I’ve been super busy and playing when I can but that’s why posts have been sparse lately.  I was cleaning up getting ready for my trip when I decided I better get in and at least do my random dungeon.

I got a instance almost immediately, and almost as soon as I loaded the group leader, a warrior named Jerrard says something like “Do you have a website?”.  I thought wow, Yes I do.  He was certainly the first random person to recognize my name from my site.  Even more interesting I noticed they were from Deathwing, my old server.  We started up the fight and then I realized they were all Costa!  I remember that guild from the OOOOLLLLDDDD days.  In fact I was a member of them very briefly.  I don’t remember why I left but I ended up in Witch Hunters right after that.  I looked them up and Fate is still the leader and everything.  That has got to be some kind of record for a Deathwing guild I think every guild I was ever in on Deathwing ended up dissolving at some point.

I mean talk about all the luck though, I know deathwing is in our battle group but I have only grouped with 1 Deathwing person since the system.  To run into someone that knew the site, a guild I recognized, that was just a trip

I’ve got a lot of interesting things done yesterday.  If you check you my achievements you’ll see I finished off my eastern kingdoms lore master, AND finally got that 49 faction with Brood of Nozdormu I have needed for like a year.  Inien, Kymer and I did ALL the bosses in AQ20, it was actually pretty fun   Especially the last guy which we really had to work for hehe

Just been doing instances picking up stuff for my Worgen warrior, questing for Loremaster and working on some factions.  Right now I’m getting the laptop ready with classic WoW so I’ll be able to pick up presents since I won’t be back in time to do it.

What a week!

It has been a while since I posted for some reason.  This time not that I haven’t been playing just so much other stuff going on I never made it back to posting.

In the past week I’ve made use of the new Dungeon system quite a bit, and done plenty of the new 5 man.  I think I’ve not missed a single Frost Emblem yet!  Last week we tried out hand at ICC after we did ToC.  We had a few crazy issues with setting off some traps that made getting through the trash difficult for a while.

We had some good attempts on the 1st boss.  We got him down to just past 50% but we were all so tired at that point we didn’t finish it.  I’m guessing that we’ll get it tonight because we were planning on doing the raid weekly and going straight for it.

I managed to get my Perky PUG after a lot of Pugging this week.  He is so cute   One of my favorite parts was the mail message he came with.  I thought I’d share this in case you haven’t seen it yet

Looking forward to the raid tonight, will be my last one for  week because I’m going on vacation with the wife to the in-laws for Christmas.