Ahune alive
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Ahune...ahem
This screenshot is for reference purposes only. The Elder attempted Ahune for our purple cloak goodness, only to be thumped comprehensively time and again. So here he is alive. For now...
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Neitzsche the Primal
Not to be outdone by Pax, Neitzsche too has stepped up to the 375 Tailoring plate and equipped himself with some purpz:
Hit Rating 0. But who needs it: +1103 Healing and a 10.84% Heal Crit chance means The Elder are bowing down and praying to Neit...
- Primal Mooncloth Shoulders
- Primal Mooncloth Robe
- Primal Mooncloth Belt
- Whitemend Hood
- Shattered Sun Pendant of Restoration
Hit Rating 0. But who needs it: +1103 Healing and a 10.84% Heal Crit chance means The Elder are bowing down and praying to Neit...
Monday, June 16, 2008
Paxmortis the Icelord
Tailoring is complete.
375. Eight purple items, socketed and ready to rock. All new Frozen Shadoweave Shoulders, a Frozen Shadoweave Robe
, a Belt of Blasting to hold up the Spellstrike Pants, and a pair of Frozen Shadoweave Boots. Combined with the Destruction Holo-gogs, a Seer's Signet, and of course the Gladiator's War Staff.
+654 Damage, +833 Frost Damage. 17.76% Crit chance, Hit Rating 135 (bring on the raid bosses)...
And -
Went from 3100g to 45g in one sitting!
But it's worth it. Denmother said something interesting... He said once you reach 70 WOW stops being about creating the perfect character and shifts to creating the perfect group. Pretty xool philosophy.
I'll miss Enchanting, but Tailoring is the best for the group and therefore Pax. Bring on the Heroics.
(In an epic display of Guild leadership, Paxmortis dropped super high Enchanting for Tailoring...and lived to tell this tale)
375. Eight purple items, socketed and ready to rock. All new Frozen Shadoweave Shoulders, a Frozen Shadoweave Robe
, a Belt of Blasting to hold up the Spellstrike Pants, and a pair of Frozen Shadoweave Boots. Combined with the Destruction Holo-gogs, a Seer's Signet, and of course the Gladiator's War Staff.
+654 Damage, +833 Frost Damage. 17.76% Crit chance, Hit Rating 135 (bring on the raid bosses)...
And -
Went from 3100g to 45g in one sitting!
But it's worth it. Denmother said something interesting... He said once you reach 70 WOW stops being about creating the perfect character and shifts to creating the perfect group. Pretty xool philosophy.
I'll miss Enchanting, but Tailoring is the best for the group and therefore Pax. Bring on the Heroics.
(In an epic display of Guild leadership, Paxmortis dropped super high Enchanting for Tailoring...and lived to tell this tale)
Dragonslaying
One of the quests in Shadowmoon Valley eventually grants you a nice headpiece - one for each class. But first you have to kill a dragon.
Neit was having connection issues, so Blackheathen, Fugg, and Stroeb set out on a suicide mission to take down Vhel'kur atop the spires of SMV.
Success! And the reward, for Stroeb at least, was a look of pure evil:
Neit was having connection issues, so Blackheathen, Fugg, and Stroeb set out on a suicide mission to take down Vhel'kur atop the spires of SMV.
Atop the mountain
Three musketeers
Incoming
Slain
Success! And the reward, for Stroeb at least, was a look of pure evil:
Evil incarnate
A Murmur of discontent
The Elder converged on Shadow Labyrinth Thursday last, eager to follow up the all time session we'd had the week prior. SLABs is home to the Shadow Council and it's nefarious ways, as well as four testing bosses. Some of the trash mobs step it up a gear too, the Fel Overseer in particular take a lot of killing.
Happily we worked our way very efficiently through the bottom dwellers, avoiding our customary trash wipe before arriving at the first boss, Ambassador Helmaw. He has a nasty fear effect that sends the DPS and tank scattering, but WotF and a ramp down of ranged DPS meant we tank and spanked him without too much trouble. And a nice pair of Jaedenfire Gloves made us optimistic about the drop to come...falsely, as it turned out!
Our next boss was Blackheart the Inciter, a dumb ogre with a heavy hit. This was (allegedly) the toughest boss in the instance, thanks to one particularly nasty debuff - Incite Chaos. This has the not so hilarious impact of "Full party mind control. The party will go free for all, and start randomly killing each other." As you can imagine, a Combat Swords Rogue unleashing on a hapless Neitzsche could pretty much wipe him instantly. So within 20 seconds of the fight starting, we all dumped every buff and cooldown we could, so that Blackheart couldn't turn them against us when we were controlled.
As it turned out, we made it through - partly due to luck (the DPS mostly ended up attacking each other each time we were controlled), and partly due to brilliant healing by Neit after the control wore off. After dropping some useless Druidic gloves, Blackheart ended up literally face down in the concrete.
Our penultimate foe was Grandmaster Vorpil, who has a habit of summoning a constant stream of Void Travelers to his side to assist in the fight.
This ended up being a little tricky, and we wiped once before working out a nice tactic of kiting him around the room, leaving him out of range of his travelling helpers. Down he went too, leaving behind a worthless pile of Pally plate. Our phantom Druid/Paladin is still the best geared on Barthilas.
Finally we came up against Murmur. And finally, we met our match. This guy is a nightmare. He has about three disasterous abilities, ranging from a Sonic Boom that smacks everyone in range for 70%-85% of total health, to Murmur's Touch that randomly targets then explodes it's victim, to Resonance that starts stacking 2000 nature damage on everyone if no-one is DPS range.
We tried and tried, but each time he wiped us pretty convincingly. If it wasn't Neit exploding, it was all the melee being Boomed, or Pax resonating into dust. We eventually had to retreat, soundly (heh) defeated.
Like Nazan before him, Murmur is right now being researched within an inch of his life, and can expect no mercy next time he meets the Children...
Happily we worked our way very efficiently through the bottom dwellers, avoiding our customary trash wipe before arriving at the first boss, Ambassador Helmaw. He has a nasty fear effect that sends the DPS and tank scattering, but WotF and a ramp down of ranged DPS meant we tank and spanked him without too much trouble. And a nice pair of Jaedenfire Gloves made us optimistic about the drop to come...falsely, as it turned out!
Hellmaw
Our next boss was Blackheart the Inciter, a dumb ogre with a heavy hit. This was (allegedly) the toughest boss in the instance, thanks to one particularly nasty debuff - Incite Chaos. This has the not so hilarious impact of "Full party mind control. The party will go free for all, and start randomly killing each other." As you can imagine, a Combat Swords Rogue unleashing on a hapless Neitzsche could pretty much wipe him instantly. So within 20 seconds of the fight starting, we all dumped every buff and cooldown we could, so that Blackheart couldn't turn them against us when we were controlled.
As it turned out, we made it through - partly due to luck (the DPS mostly ended up attacking each other each time we were controlled), and partly due to brilliant healing by Neit after the control wore off. After dropping some useless Druidic gloves, Blackheart ended up literally face down in the concrete.
Blackheart down
Our penultimate foe was Grandmaster Vorpil, who has a habit of summoning a constant stream of Void Travelers to his side to assist in the fight.
Vorpil
This ended up being a little tricky, and we wiped once before working out a nice tactic of kiting him around the room, leaving him out of range of his travelling helpers. Down he went too, leaving behind a worthless pile of Pally plate. Our phantom Druid/Paladin is still the best geared on Barthilas.
Finally we came up against Murmur. And finally, we met our match. This guy is a nightmare. He has about three disasterous abilities, ranging from a Sonic Boom that smacks everyone in range for 70%-85% of total health, to Murmur's Touch that randomly targets then explodes it's victim, to Resonance that starts stacking 2000 nature damage on everyone if no-one is DPS range.
Murmur
We tried and tried, but each time he wiped us pretty convincingly. If it wasn't Neit exploding, it was all the melee being Boomed, or Pax resonating into dust. We eventually had to retreat, soundly (heh) defeated.
Like Nazan before him, Murmur is right now being researched within an inch of his life, and can expect no mercy next time he meets the Children...
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Haxrot the Initiate
Midnight's Children has its first new initiate - Haxrot, Blood Elf Paladin, already making a name for himself and for the Children. Welcome, and may the Dark Lady watch over you!
Razorfen Kaos
After a too long hiatus, the Brood re-emerged from their hibernation to tackle Razorfen Kraul, that maze of thorns and quillboar.
We were expecting a tough night, after dominating the last couple of runs. And it started out that way - we cleared the a corridor, but as we rounded the first corner we managed to pull the nearest mobs and a patrol. A rapid retreat out of the Instance saved the wipe. Our second attempt ended the same - run away!
A bit of LTP analysis followed - Haelo's pet Clash was a little out of control, often persuing her prey to the far end of the zone and returning with more denizens on her tail. And Xantir made a fashion statement that distracted everyone all night long.
We eventually remembered how to play, and proceeded to romp around the Kraul in a pretty convincing fashion. Turns out the zone has been convincingly nerfed, so rather than the 33 elites we were expecting, we were facing down 28's. No problem for the Brood in full swing.
The only problem was calming Xantir down.
So we pretty much cleared it, though late on things fell apart when Dawn started attempting to take on the zone herself. Which led, in the end, to a wipe of sorts. So once again we're going to hold off on bestowingwarmaster on Denmother. Her time will come, but not just yet.
Off to Scarlet Monastery next - perhaps finally for a challenge!
Denmother and her Brood
We were expecting a tough night, after dominating the last couple of runs. And it started out that way - we cleared the a corridor, but as we rounded the first corner we managed to pull the nearest mobs and a patrol. A rapid retreat out of the Instance saved the wipe. Our second attempt ended the same - run away!
A bit of LTP analysis followed - Haelo's pet Clash was a little out of control, often persuing her prey to the far end of the zone and returning with more denizens on her tail. And Xantir made a fashion statement that distracted everyone all night long.
Xantir's wearing...shorts
We eventually remembered how to play, and proceeded to romp around the Kraul in a pretty convincing fashion. Turns out the zone has been convincingly nerfed, so rather than the 33 elites we were expecting, we were facing down 28's. No problem for the Brood in full swing.
The only problem was calming Xantir down.
Doing it for the ladies
So we pretty much cleared it, though late on things fell apart when Dawn started attempting to take on the zone herself. Which led, in the end, to a wipe of sorts. So once again we're going to hold off on bestowing
Off to Scarlet Monastery next - perhaps finally for a challenge!
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