Monday, May 31, 2010
Fall of The Lich King!
Tonight Fusion and I ventured into Icecrown Citadel to finish off the last few bosses we had left on this very last raid night of this reset. We were missing Bloodqueen Lanathel, Sindragosa and Lich King.
This time I could just relax and enjoy the graphics and mechanics within the instance, cus now I feel confident enough as hunter to allow myself to do so.
Before I got to think about it, we had downed BQ and Sindy and were now facing LK. Buffs went off, fingers positioned and Misdirection was clicked. A few tries later and I became Kingslayer as hunter, which Im very very pleased about :)
Before we managed to get LK down, we had to replace one of our mages and invite the main characters of GM and his fiancee. Until this point we had been wiping on P3 most of the tries, and now had all phases in our heads, so all we basically needed was a little more dps and ofc the infamous Bloodlust (the only correct name for the buff, period.), and just as we thought, LK was down at 10,5% health when GM screamed "dont die, dont die!" and I answered "we got him" - just as I said that, we all died and "congrats" was spammed in raidchat.
Few moments later, while the rest of the raid watched the movie, Co GM and I were talking about the loot, she linked it and if it wasnt cus of my strong need of a loo visit, I would be dancing!
Here's what I won from this amazing night of raiding with Fusion:
Tainted Twig of Nordrassil
Thanks alot Fusion for the staff and the nice kill!
Raihn
This time I could just relax and enjoy the graphics and mechanics within the instance, cus now I feel confident enough as hunter to allow myself to do so.
Before I got to think about it, we had downed BQ and Sindy and were now facing LK. Buffs went off, fingers positioned and Misdirection was clicked. A few tries later and I became Kingslayer as hunter, which Im very very pleased about :)
Before we managed to get LK down, we had to replace one of our mages and invite the main characters of GM and his fiancee. Until this point we had been wiping on P3 most of the tries, and now had all phases in our heads, so all we basically needed was a little more dps and ofc the infamous Bloodlust (the only correct name for the buff, period.), and just as we thought, LK was down at 10,5% health when GM screamed "dont die, dont die!" and I answered "we got him" - just as I said that, we all died and "congrats" was spammed in raidchat.
Few moments later, while the rest of the raid watched the movie, Co GM and I were talking about the loot, she linked it and if it wasnt cus of my strong need of a loo visit, I would be dancing!
Here's what I won from this amazing night of raiding with Fusion:
Tainted Twig of Nordrassil
Thanks alot Fusion for the staff and the nice kill!
Raihn
Monday, May 24, 2010
Im ready, promotion, bla bada!
Alright, the headline was taken from Spongebob the Movie, its a happy song he sings from his home to the place he works at cus he's hoping for a promotion :P
Anyway, lets get to the meat of this post!
I've been doing alot of stuff now as hunter and I feel alot more confident when it comes to raiding as a ranged class and everything that follows with it - Misdirecting to the correct tank whenever needed, Feign Death when I have high threat (very important to FD before you gain aggro so the tank will mentain his amount rather than having to rebuild it), healing my pet which is harder than it seems when focusing on the last 20% health of a boss.
I gotta say I have got to love hunters alot more than I ever thought possible. They are so great at whatever they are assigned to do.. Want me to kite? Sure I just pop a trap here to slow mobs down while I throw Volley at them and Disengage when they are getting too close. Want me to tank? Sure, let me use my Beastmaster pet tank spec and let healers focus on my pet.
They can do anything as it is now, and their dps is great, especially as Marksmanship (my favorite by far).
I've tested all 3 specs in raids, and so far I've come to the solution that MM is by far the spec i prefer.
With BM I will have to refresh Serpent Sting whenever its about to fall off, and I always will be behind the 2 other specs - As SRV I still have to refresh Serpent Sting, but Explosive Shot deals alot of damage, especially if you can manage to spread the proc effect on multiple targets alot with Piercing Shots, then nobody will get near you on recount, however I keep messing up the socalled Prio List so my dps drops - As MM I never have to refresh Serpent Sting when I've applied it to my target, and the Prio List is really easy, the only thing which differs is that I need to use Multi Shot when I have multiple targets and when Im under Bloodlust or whatever else haste buffs I've got available, I have time to do 1 more Steady Shot than usual before Chimera shot is ready again.
MM is an easy spec to play when you have got the correct amount of ArP to make it shine, and the fact that you are ranged with physical attacks is just great, and I can get my mana back easily by changing to AotV and adding a Rapid Fire into it, less than 5seconds and Im at 100% again.
You thought this was the meat, but nono, the best is yet to come.
The leaders of my guild has decided to promote me to Recruitment Officer, which means Im in charge of everything related to applicants - I need to decide if they are granted a trial or not, but before that I need to cross check everything about them, how many guilds they have been in, their spec and stats, their achievements etc. This means a great deal to me and Im very serious about it.
The guild respects me and have given me a large amount of responsibility, so I better show them that Im the right man for the job.
Im completely out of time now, so I will cya later for the next post!
Niahna
Anyway, lets get to the meat of this post!
I've been doing alot of stuff now as hunter and I feel alot more confident when it comes to raiding as a ranged class and everything that follows with it - Misdirecting to the correct tank whenever needed, Feign Death when I have high threat (very important to FD before you gain aggro so the tank will mentain his amount rather than having to rebuild it), healing my pet which is harder than it seems when focusing on the last 20% health of a boss.
I gotta say I have got to love hunters alot more than I ever thought possible. They are so great at whatever they are assigned to do.. Want me to kite? Sure I just pop a trap here to slow mobs down while I throw Volley at them and Disengage when they are getting too close. Want me to tank? Sure, let me use my Beastmaster pet tank spec and let healers focus on my pet.
They can do anything as it is now, and their dps is great, especially as Marksmanship (my favorite by far).
I've tested all 3 specs in raids, and so far I've come to the solution that MM is by far the spec i prefer.
With BM I will have to refresh Serpent Sting whenever its about to fall off, and I always will be behind the 2 other specs - As SRV I still have to refresh Serpent Sting, but Explosive Shot deals alot of damage, especially if you can manage to spread the proc effect on multiple targets alot with Piercing Shots, then nobody will get near you on recount, however I keep messing up the socalled Prio List so my dps drops - As MM I never have to refresh Serpent Sting when I've applied it to my target, and the Prio List is really easy, the only thing which differs is that I need to use Multi Shot when I have multiple targets and when Im under Bloodlust or whatever else haste buffs I've got available, I have time to do 1 more Steady Shot than usual before Chimera shot is ready again.
MM is an easy spec to play when you have got the correct amount of ArP to make it shine, and the fact that you are ranged with physical attacks is just great, and I can get my mana back easily by changing to AotV and adding a Rapid Fire into it, less than 5seconds and Im at 100% again.
You thought this was the meat, but nono, the best is yet to come.
The leaders of my guild has decided to promote me to Recruitment Officer, which means Im in charge of everything related to applicants - I need to decide if they are granted a trial or not, but before that I need to cross check everything about them, how many guilds they have been in, their spec and stats, their achievements etc. This means a great deal to me and Im very serious about it.
The guild respects me and have given me a large amount of responsibility, so I better show them that Im the right man for the job.
Im completely out of time now, so I will cya later for the next post!
Niahna
Friday, May 14, 2010
Nice raiding!
Last night the guild and I did Icc10, and it was great!
We nearly oneshotted every boss up till dreamwalker, only had a few bosses which caused a wipe or 2.
Some of us was far from geared for this stuff, but by the end of the evening we only had Sindragosa and LK left to kill, which in my eyes is pretty nice when looking at the group setup and the gear on some of us.
We had some of the same players for BloodQueen as we had on 25man last wednesday, but this time it went alot more smooth cus we chilled out before the fight and explained what needed to be done during the different things in the fight.
For example we explained that everyone had to clear their range box when she was in air (8 yard range), and when you had Pact of the Darkfallen you were supposed to run to the center of the room to meet your linked mate and get rid of it. Something so simple was some of the flaws that kept us from downing her on 25man, but I guess it will be better now after the practice.
As said before, we downed alot of bosses on this run, and ofc I won some loot!
Here are a links to the stuff I won which didnt only get me a higher gearscore but also gave me a nice bit of extra dps (which is heavily needed lol):
Blood-Drinker's Girdle
Seal of the Twilight Queen
Njorndar Bone Bow
Ashen Band of Vengeance from getting friendly with Ashen Verdict
Rock-Steady Treads crafted by a friend before the raid, thanks alot m8 /hugs
Thats all for now, I will return with more raid stuff next time!
Cheers, Niahna
We nearly oneshotted every boss up till dreamwalker, only had a few bosses which caused a wipe or 2.
Some of us was far from geared for this stuff, but by the end of the evening we only had Sindragosa and LK left to kill, which in my eyes is pretty nice when looking at the group setup and the gear on some of us.
We had some of the same players for BloodQueen as we had on 25man last wednesday, but this time it went alot more smooth cus we chilled out before the fight and explained what needed to be done during the different things in the fight.
For example we explained that everyone had to clear their range box when she was in air (8 yard range), and when you had Pact of the Darkfallen you were supposed to run to the center of the room to meet your linked mate and get rid of it. Something so simple was some of the flaws that kept us from downing her on 25man, but I guess it will be better now after the practice.
As said before, we downed alot of bosses on this run, and ofc I won some loot!
Here are a links to the stuff I won which didnt only get me a higher gearscore but also gave me a nice bit of extra dps (which is heavily needed lol):
Blood-Drinker's Girdle
Seal of the Twilight Queen
Njorndar Bone Bow
Ashen Band of Vengeance from getting friendly with Ashen Verdict
Rock-Steady Treads crafted by a friend before the raid, thanks alot m8 /hugs
Thats all for now, I will return with more raid stuff next time!
Cheers, Niahna
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Progressing
Tonight I was late for raid with my guild cus of work, but when I came online I had a near instant invite for Icc25.
They had been raiding for about 2 hours at this point so they were ofc at Putricide. Everything went smoothly and I found this fight alot easier as hunter rather than enhancement shaman. As hunter you have all opportunities for damaging the boss and the oozes spawning from each side of the room, without having to replace totems all the time and wasting mana, time and dps.
After sharing the loot we continued to Blood Princes which required some work. We failed a little till hunters in the raid were told to only focus on the volleyball kinda looking things and prevent them from touching ground.
Here we shared loot again and went on to Blood Queen which was going real good until a certain point in the fight where specific ppl didnt gather up on Pact of the Darkfallen, they didnt move away from fire on the ground around boss (melee mainly), they stood too close to eachother during air phase so that we had a few wipes on that ticket.
Despite the bad tries and the several mistakes, I enjoyed the raid cus I got the chance to test out my hunter and see what I can do when being forced to watch my cooldowns, the boss, timers, cast timers, my feet and my teammates.. Actually I had the record on Pact of the Darkfallen for being the fastest person in the raid to get rid of the debuff :P Hehe, that makes me a little proud, apparently AnE's education worked out pretty well.
Well, Im out of time for tonight, talk to ya soon!
Cheers, Niahna
They had been raiding for about 2 hours at this point so they were ofc at Putricide. Everything went smoothly and I found this fight alot easier as hunter rather than enhancement shaman. As hunter you have all opportunities for damaging the boss and the oozes spawning from each side of the room, without having to replace totems all the time and wasting mana, time and dps.
After sharing the loot we continued to Blood Princes which required some work. We failed a little till hunters in the raid were told to only focus on the volleyball kinda looking things and prevent them from touching ground.
Here we shared loot again and went on to Blood Queen which was going real good until a certain point in the fight where specific ppl didnt gather up on Pact of the Darkfallen, they didnt move away from fire on the ground around boss (melee mainly), they stood too close to eachother during air phase so that we had a few wipes on that ticket.
Despite the bad tries and the several mistakes, I enjoyed the raid cus I got the chance to test out my hunter and see what I can do when being forced to watch my cooldowns, the boss, timers, cast timers, my feet and my teammates.. Actually I had the record on Pact of the Darkfallen for being the fastest person in the raid to get rid of the debuff :P Hehe, that makes me a little proud, apparently AnE's education worked out pretty well.
Well, Im out of time for tonight, talk to ya soon!
Cheers, Niahna
Monday, May 10, 2010
First try in Icc
Last night I was picked for Lich King 10man in my guild, and it went kinda good.
We got inthere and we started buffing and everything, and then the readycheck comes. I prepare my fingers for the cooldowns and throws Misdirection on tank, and here he comes. My numbers are looking quite good comparing my gear to this instance level, actually its around 7500dps before first transition.
This goes pretty well but I get the duty of killing the Ice Sphere things cus my dps isnt too good yet compared to the other hunter who was in the group.
We get into Phase 2 and get the King down to about 50% or so when things starts to go wrong - people dying to Infest and failing on Defile.
However, all in all I think I had some nice tries on the boss, it went alot better than I had imagined, but ofc compared to the rest of the group, I still need practice and gear.
After the next reset, my guildmaster will put together a group to gear me up so I can make a differense when Caia (main hunter) isnt attending.
Cheers, Niahna
We got inthere and we started buffing and everything, and then the readycheck comes. I prepare my fingers for the cooldowns and throws Misdirection on tank, and here he comes. My numbers are looking quite good comparing my gear to this instance level, actually its around 7500dps before first transition.
This goes pretty well but I get the duty of killing the Ice Sphere things cus my dps isnt too good yet compared to the other hunter who was in the group.
We get into Phase 2 and get the King down to about 50% or so when things starts to go wrong - people dying to Infest and failing on Defile.
However, all in all I think I had some nice tries on the boss, it went alot better than I had imagined, but ofc compared to the rest of the group, I still need practice and gear.
After the next reset, my guildmaster will put together a group to gear me up so I can make a differense when Caia (main hunter) isnt attending.
Cheers, Niahna
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Waiting
Alright, my pc decided to die on me >_< After exactly 2 years of intense gaming, my motherboard and gfxcard burns out and gives me bluescreen.
I've sent the poor machine to a friend who's running an IT firm. As soon as its done (around wednesday next week) Im ready for some real raiding with Fusion as a Hunter.
I cant possibly descrive how excited I am to test my new character, and skills, in a serious raid, and comparing myself to players who havent changed main since Ulduar. Its gonna be tough, but I love the challenge and the adrenaline of competing with other great players.
This was just a short one, but thats all for now =)
Cheers, Niahna
I've sent the poor machine to a friend who's running an IT firm. As soon as its done (around wednesday next week) Im ready for some real raiding with Fusion as a Hunter.
I cant possibly descrive how excited I am to test my new character, and skills, in a serious raid, and comparing myself to players who havent changed main since Ulduar. Its gonna be tough, but I love the challenge and the adrenaline of competing with other great players.
This was just a short one, but thats all for now =)
Cheers, Niahna
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