We downed Sindragosa last night! After 2 weeks of wiping we finally brought her down. I don't want to get into gory details but man...phase 3 sucks. Literally no one could screw up in phase 3. In the end it came down to 50% perfect coordination and 50% luck I think.
Some memorable things said during our 3 hours:
General chat: I got 99 problems but a lich ain't one
Tank: It's time for that stupid dragon to DIE!!
Me: Isn't she already dead? How do you kill that which has no life?
"Betrrraaaaayyyyyy yoooouuuuuuu!!!"
"Cold hand of death upon yooouurrrrr hhhhhrrrrrrttttrrrttttt!"
"None shall surviiiiivvvveeeee!"
Seriously that Sindragosa sounds like a big-time rage-aholic. Her screaming doesn't get old. At all. Especially not after 8 wipes.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Friday, June 25, 2010
Elitist jerks
I've been giving some serious thought about joining a new guild. I've been in several different guilds now, all of them more or less "casual" raiding guilds. Well, one of them was actually hardcore in the sense we raided ALL THE TIME, but the only problem was that we sucked. Hardcore.
The problem with most hardcore raiding guilds is that it does require a big time committment. The top guilds on the server all raid 4-5 nights a week, and start raids at 7-8pm servertime, which is inconvenient for me given that my time zone is 3 hours earlier than server time and I have a full-time job.
There is one guild that I've had my eye on. It's definitely one of the top guilds, and they start raids a little later so I can technically make the raid times. I've inspected the guild members and my gear seems to be comparable to theirs. I just switched my profession to enchanting so I can have even more of an edge in raids. I feel like if I were to apply, there is a pretty good chance I'll get in.
So why haven't I sent in an app yet?
I'm not sure if I really want to play with any of these people. I've been in pugs with hardcore raiding guilds and I must say, they're all assholes. Universally, without fail, they're elitist jerks. They openly bash other guilds, call people names and mercilessly kick anyone who makes one mistake. It's as if having the "kingslayer" title automatically entitles them to act like douchebags towards everyone.
It's pretty juvenile to act that way. I mean, have these people stepped out into the real world and tried to bully everyone on the basis that they've killed the lich king? Most people would stare at them blankly before punching them in the nads. I can understand partly why they would do that. Having good gear myself, I find it weary when players with inferior gear pester me or act like idiots. Like last night when I was trying to do the weekly and this one shaman kept saying, "If we're not doing full clear I'm leaving." Umm, yeah, it's not like we had 5 other shamans in the raid, not to mention you had a 5k GS with full pvps...strange thing was, even after multiple ppl said "no way I'm just here for weekly", this guy didn't leave. All bark and no bite, I see.
I have to admit I felt a stronge urge to type in caps "STFU about the full clear, no one wants to be here for 2 hours", but I didn't. Because it's important to be polite, even when you can't see someone face-to-face. Because I wouldn't have said anything to him had my gear been worse than his. Because some extra sparkly pixels and programming language doesn't give me license to bash others whos pixels and programming language are not as sparkly as mine.
Back to my original thought. I don't think I want to be playing this game with 24 assholes 4 nights a week. Sure, my current guild hasn't down LK yet, but they're so nice and polite to everyone! No one ever yells, no one bitches and moans, and they're all so friendly. I'd rather wipe on Sindragosa for 2 hours with those guys than earn my Kingslayer with a bunch of douchebags.
The problem with most hardcore raiding guilds is that it does require a big time committment. The top guilds on the server all raid 4-5 nights a week, and start raids at 7-8pm servertime, which is inconvenient for me given that my time zone is 3 hours earlier than server time and I have a full-time job.
There is one guild that I've had my eye on. It's definitely one of the top guilds, and they start raids a little later so I can technically make the raid times. I've inspected the guild members and my gear seems to be comparable to theirs. I just switched my profession to enchanting so I can have even more of an edge in raids. I feel like if I were to apply, there is a pretty good chance I'll get in.
So why haven't I sent in an app yet?
I'm not sure if I really want to play with any of these people. I've been in pugs with hardcore raiding guilds and I must say, they're all assholes. Universally, without fail, they're elitist jerks. They openly bash other guilds, call people names and mercilessly kick anyone who makes one mistake. It's as if having the "kingslayer" title automatically entitles them to act like douchebags towards everyone.
It's pretty juvenile to act that way. I mean, have these people stepped out into the real world and tried to bully everyone on the basis that they've killed the lich king? Most people would stare at them blankly before punching them in the nads. I can understand partly why they would do that. Having good gear myself, I find it weary when players with inferior gear pester me or act like idiots. Like last night when I was trying to do the weekly and this one shaman kept saying, "If we're not doing full clear I'm leaving." Umm, yeah, it's not like we had 5 other shamans in the raid, not to mention you had a 5k GS with full pvps...strange thing was, even after multiple ppl said "no way I'm just here for weekly", this guy didn't leave. All bark and no bite, I see.
I have to admit I felt a stronge urge to type in caps "STFU about the full clear, no one wants to be here for 2 hours", but I didn't. Because it's important to be polite, even when you can't see someone face-to-face. Because I wouldn't have said anything to him had my gear been worse than his. Because some extra sparkly pixels and programming language doesn't give me license to bash others whos pixels and programming language are not as sparkly as mine.
Back to my original thought. I don't think I want to be playing this game with 24 assholes 4 nights a week. Sure, my current guild hasn't down LK yet, but they're so nice and polite to everyone! No one ever yells, no one bitches and moans, and they're all so friendly. I'd rather wipe on Sindragosa for 2 hours with those guys than earn my Kingslayer with a bunch of douchebags.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Upgrades, upgrades, they make me happy
Haven't posted in a while due to some personal issues. I had a shitty couple weeks that made me lose interest in WoW, and I thought "maybe I'm growing tired of WoW". Silly me. After playing for a couple hours I was hooked again.
Anyways, I got into a 1337 (l33t, leet, however you wanna spell it, apparently means awesome in some nerd language) PuG for ICC25. Someone was spamming trade chat for more people and I checked and found he was in Vanquish, one of the few Kingslayer guilds on the server. I psted him, he asked me a few questions I normally don't get from puggers. I mean, normally they ask for GS, and if you give them a number above 5.3k or so usually no more questions and you're in. But he wanted to see my achievements, asked me if I knew the fights, asked what kind of numbers I can put out on single-target fights...I answered them honestly because there are few things more embarrassing than saying you've done a fight and then getting the achievement for doing it the first time.
Anyways I scored the invite and things went really smoothly. Up until Blood Queen there wasn't even a single wipe. Some nice gear dropped, although I had most of them. The Vanquisher's mark dropped twice but of course I didn't win it...sigh. A dagger dropped and I didn't win it (but it was a 1.80 speed and I already have the best-in-slot for my MH wep so no tears there). On the Blood prince council the +hit helmet dropped! I tied with another rogue and we re-rolled and I won! I've been looking EVERYWHERE for decent +hit gear (without resorting back to ToC gear...yuck!) and I finally had something! Now I could swap out all my +hit gear and replace with +expertise gear, which meant I could swap out my +hit gems and +expertise gems for +attack power gems! I know kids, WoW is complicated.
Anyways during the blood queen fight someone asked about the NBA game, and I mentioned my boyfriend was watching it. Teehee, I know it's silly but I love being a female wow player sometimes. The excitement you can incite in these boys ages 12-20...the raid leader begged me to say something sexy on vent or no loot! XD
Blood queen didn't go too well because of the chaos than ensues when 25 people try to spread out from each other in a tiny room. But I walked away with lots of badges and a sweet new helmet. I bought a belt upgrade, swapped out my gems and now my gear score is 5956! Almost to 6k!!!
Anyways, I got into a 1337 (l33t, leet, however you wanna spell it, apparently means awesome in some nerd language) PuG for ICC25. Someone was spamming trade chat for more people and I checked and found he was in Vanquish, one of the few Kingslayer guilds on the server. I psted him, he asked me a few questions I normally don't get from puggers. I mean, normally they ask for GS, and if you give them a number above 5.3k or so usually no more questions and you're in. But he wanted to see my achievements, asked me if I knew the fights, asked what kind of numbers I can put out on single-target fights...I answered them honestly because there are few things more embarrassing than saying you've done a fight and then getting the achievement for doing it the first time.
Anyways I scored the invite and things went really smoothly. Up until Blood Queen there wasn't even a single wipe. Some nice gear dropped, although I had most of them. The Vanquisher's mark dropped twice but of course I didn't win it...sigh. A dagger dropped and I didn't win it (but it was a 1.80 speed and I already have the best-in-slot for my MH wep so no tears there). On the Blood prince council the +hit helmet dropped! I tied with another rogue and we re-rolled and I won! I've been looking EVERYWHERE for decent +hit gear (without resorting back to ToC gear...yuck!) and I finally had something! Now I could swap out all my +hit gear and replace with +expertise gear, which meant I could swap out my +hit gems and +expertise gems for +attack power gems! I know kids, WoW is complicated.
Anyways during the blood queen fight someone asked about the NBA game, and I mentioned my boyfriend was watching it. Teehee, I know it's silly but I love being a female wow player sometimes. The excitement you can incite in these boys ages 12-20...the raid leader begged me to say something sexy on vent or no loot! XD
Blood queen didn't go too well because of the chaos than ensues when 25 people try to spread out from each other in a tiny room. But I walked away with lots of badges and a sweet new helmet. I bought a belt upgrade, swapped out my gems and now my gear score is 5956! Almost to 6k!!!
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Victory for the horde!
In my new guild, there are two raid groups. The "A" group has been stuck on the lich king for a while and the "B" group (that I used to be in) has failed to get past putricide repeatedly. There was a little bit of a gearscore discrepancy but overall the "B" group gear wasn't too bad. We had a great MT and a so-so OT, awesome healers and pretty nice DPS. Yet week after week we'd get stuck at putricide.
I think that's where the difficulty level hits a brick wall. The first four bosses are practically a joke for any 5k+ GS group these days. The strategy is simple, everyone's done it a million times, pretty straightforward stuff. Festergut is a little more stressful for healers and Rotface involves more movement, but after a few attempts people usually get the hang of it.
Putricide and onward is where the shit really hits the fan. The slimes that spawn on Professor is not the friendly, slow-moving slime like in Rotface. No, this sucker flies across the room and hits you for 10k or more. And it's not just the adds, professor himself starts slapping you silly in phase 3.
Blood council is a short fight but requires lots of movement and raid awareness, not to mention a decent 3rd tank. Again, another boss group B attempted but couldn't down. Dreamwalker is doable, but we didn't even attempt Sindragosa - I hear she's harder than LK himself.
Anyways, last night I ran with group A. I didn't notice anything really different up until the plague wing (except that perhaps I wasn't the top DPS in all the fights - definitely a good sign). But then festergut and rotface went down in the first attempts with absolutely no problem. Even when the MT went down in the last 30% of fester, we just kept spanking him and down he went. We had only 1 slime explosion before rotface ate it as well.
Then on Putricide, we wiped once. The second run, we burned him to phase 3 in a really well-controlled manner - people were doing what they were suppose to do and killing off the adds ASAP. When phase 3 started we burned all our CDs and not one raid member ate it before we brought him down. And my new dagger dropped too!!!
Blood council and Blood-queen took 2-3 tries but again, once the new people (myself included) saw how it was done and got the hang of it, they went down smoothly. We were all too sleepy to continue, but tonight is Sindragosa and possibly LK!!!
It got me thinking why group B was stumbling when group A did it all so easily. I suppose they have more experience but after a few attempts generally people get it. Was it the gear? In group B the off-tank usually hovered at 5k - 5.2k or so. Was that the problem? Was it the DPS? Was it that we couldn't burn the bosses down fast enough? Was it the heals? Were they struggling to keep everyone up throughout the difficult phases? Maybe it was a combination of all those. Maybe it was just the lack of experience. All I know is, it feels good to win.
I think that's where the difficulty level hits a brick wall. The first four bosses are practically a joke for any 5k+ GS group these days. The strategy is simple, everyone's done it a million times, pretty straightforward stuff. Festergut is a little more stressful for healers and Rotface involves more movement, but after a few attempts people usually get the hang of it.
Putricide and onward is where the shit really hits the fan. The slimes that spawn on Professor is not the friendly, slow-moving slime like in Rotface. No, this sucker flies across the room and hits you for 10k or more. And it's not just the adds, professor himself starts slapping you silly in phase 3.
Blood council is a short fight but requires lots of movement and raid awareness, not to mention a decent 3rd tank. Again, another boss group B attempted but couldn't down. Dreamwalker is doable, but we didn't even attempt Sindragosa - I hear she's harder than LK himself.
Anyways, last night I ran with group A. I didn't notice anything really different up until the plague wing (except that perhaps I wasn't the top DPS in all the fights - definitely a good sign). But then festergut and rotface went down in the first attempts with absolutely no problem. Even when the MT went down in the last 30% of fester, we just kept spanking him and down he went. We had only 1 slime explosion before rotface ate it as well.
Then on Putricide, we wiped once. The second run, we burned him to phase 3 in a really well-controlled manner - people were doing what they were suppose to do and killing off the adds ASAP. When phase 3 started we burned all our CDs and not one raid member ate it before we brought him down. And my new dagger dropped too!!!
Blood council and Blood-queen took 2-3 tries but again, once the new people (myself included) saw how it was done and got the hang of it, they went down smoothly. We were all too sleepy to continue, but tonight is Sindragosa and possibly LK!!!
It got me thinking why group B was stumbling when group A did it all so easily. I suppose they have more experience but after a few attempts generally people get it. Was it the gear? In group B the off-tank usually hovered at 5k - 5.2k or so. Was that the problem? Was it the DPS? Was it that we couldn't burn the bosses down fast enough? Was it the heals? Were they struggling to keep everyone up throughout the difficult phases? Maybe it was a combination of all those. Maybe it was just the lack of experience. All I know is, it feels good to win.
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