What spec?

And +1 to never doing LFR, I tried doing a couple bosses this weekend since I'm way behind on secrets and it was just a disaster..I think the only way I would do it is if it was a full guild group, but then if we had a full 25 people doing LFR why wouldn't we just use that time for progression instead

My raid just lost both of our tanks. One was a Druid that ran with us for about 4 weeks to gear up then left for a 6/12 ToT group. I think only me and one other person knew that he was leaving before he just didn't show up to raid last week. I wasn't online for it, but apparently he was still in our guild when he got the achievement for Tortos with his new group. That must have been awkward.

Our other Tank, a paladin, has been with us pretty much since I've been there. He's a good tank, and I think he would do a great job as Raid Leader if he were to try. But he's had some real life issues come up and let us know that he wouldn't be available for the next couple of months. I think we have one tank lined up but we're going to have to find a second one in order to make any kind of progress. The tank we do have lined up will have to be run through MSV once or twice in order to survive the rest of the way through HoF or the first couple of ToT bosses.

We also lost a healer with the Paladin but the Priest we pugged last night said she'd like to stay as a regular part of the group so that's pretty much a wash.

I think overall we're short 1 tank and 1 healer. Doesn't sound good but I've been impressed at this guild's ability to fill spots when needed.

Windwalker

And thats pretty much how I feel. I don't even need gear from it at this point, but I was behind on secrets so I tried to get some bosses done. Was AIDS. Like 2 hours to down 3 bosses, gtfo.

But then I realized it doesn't even matter, because I have to either kill heroic sha AND have the helm token drop for me, or I'll have to break T14 4pc to use the legendary gem.

Not played for 4-5 weeks, not done much if anythign at all in Thunder Isle. See Shadow Pan assault has nice VP gear now, i heard i can kill mobs to get Elder Charms etc

Just started doing the TI dailies on my Sham, no clue of the area other then that :f

Ran the first two parts of ToT LFR without a wipe on my Shaman. Apparently the middle of the night is the best time to run LFR

And on a completely unrelated note, I found a MLP name that was inactive and blizz released it for reuse for me

So I renamed my Shaman, Rarity. So now I can be like



And I can have this reaction for when we wipe to something and we don't know what to fix



But mostly because no one realized that the CDR in CDRHurricane stood for commander, and I got tired of being called C-D-R in raids.

Method's Ra'den video is up. Boss looks pretty underwhelming. P1 kill some adds, kill some of the red essences, have people switching off for whatever that debuff is, looks like it does something to the 2 people furthest away from each other. P2 stack and burn...

I guess they couldn't do anything too crazy with him because of the limited attempts, but the limited attempts were pretty clearly just a way to make the tier last more than a few days. I don't really think that's a good model, just artificially lengthening the tier. If you're gonna do that, why not just go back to gating.

On another note, while I'm not particularly happy with my guild right now, I also don't want it to suddenly die or anything, but I'm starting to worry that might happen..there are about 6-7 people in it that came from my old guild (the 25-man one), and it looks like one of them just gquit. Not sure if it's a legit gquit or not, he hasn't joined a new guild yet or transferred. But if it is then we'll obviously have to be at least a little worried about the others following. 2 of them are healers, and we have 7 healers right now including me, so that would be very bad.

Did they hotfix the Mogu Runes of Fate to only require 50 Lesser Charms, down from 90? I saw that in the 5.3 PTR patch notes, but it would be awesome if it made it to live today. I was actually bored enough to do dailies yesterday while Valor capped just to build up some spare Charms.

Then I came to my senses and got my Priest at least in to Hyjal. I don't think she's going to sit at 80 any longer just on the long shot that I get in to a Herald group. She was already OP at 165 ilvl (no weapon, etc. after I took off her heirlooms). You get 272's from the Hyjal quests so it would be tricky to gear up enough for a Herald run anyway. Healing dungeons is quick and easy. The only thing I'm having issues with is keeping all my click-binds straight through Vuhdo. I try to keep things similar, like Divine Light with Greater Heal, dispel is same button, PW:Shield is the same button as Holy Shock, etc.

I like what they did with Ra-den. I don't think it's Blizzard trying to extend their tier by a couple of days artificially. It took a couple of weeks for Heroic Lei Shen to die, which was the real race. I was hoping Ra-den would be a little more of a gear check, taking something like an average of 530 ilvl or something insane like that. And maybe he did, and the top guilds really are that insane.

I don't know anything about hardcore progression where you're spending hours and hours wiping on the same heroic boss over and over, but maybe it's nice to have a boss that you only get to wipe on 30 times. At least you're not spending 40 hours a week grinding until you eek out a kill. Put in your 30 attempts at whatever pace you feel is right, and if you don't get it then come back next week with a ton more gear and try again.

Your Shaman is trying to dance right out of her Armory page.

I have to admit, I had no idea how the old name was supposed to be pronounced, so in my head I was thinking C-D-R. I've been called "Smidgel" a number of times and I wince a little bit when I hear it.

Eerbody quittin WoW

Just had one of our tanks quit the game.

That would be amazing if they did because I think I only have about 70, and I really don't feel like doing dailies before raid tomorrow.

It was more than a couple days. World first Lei Shen on March 24th, Ra-Den April 11th, 2 and a half weeks later, 3 resets. And I highly doubt any of the seriously hardcore guilds considered Lei Shen to be the end of the race. Simply put, the race isn't over until all the bosses are dead.

It looks like it could be a pretty big gear check though, at least as far as healing goes, so maybe it would have taken just as long without limited attempts. Method and Blood Legion both 5-healed it as far as I can tell. The burn in the last phase is absolutely ridiculous from a healing perspective. It's hitting everyone for over 100k every 2 seconds. That's 50k damage taken per second per player, 25 players means 1.25 million damage per second. And that's a pretty severe underestimation, I assume the damage ramps up somehow related to those orbs or just time, if you look around 8 minutes into Blood Legion's video the lock is getting hit for over 170k each tick, and towards the end over 200k. So let's just call it 150k per tick average for the last phase, that's 75k per player per second, 1.875 million damage taken per second for the raid. Phase 2 looks like it lasts about 3 minutes, so that's 5 healers needing to sustain 375k hps each for 3 minutes. Obviously DR cooldowns and other cooldowns/passive heals from non-healers helps, so maybe we can call it as low as 300k hps each for those 3 minutes. That's still insane. Even Iron Qon last phase, where there's a pretty insane amount of raid damage going out, the 2 top ranked players (25 heroic, both monks) don't even PEAK at 300k. #3 (holy pally) peaks right at 300k for a second. So unless there's something I'm overlooking or some kind of mechanic, the healing involved in that is just absolutely insane, and I'm sure they need to only 5-heal it in order to beat an enrage, soft or hard, so it's not like they can just 8 heal it like I think a lot of guilds did for 25-man heroic Grand Empress. This all sounds really contradictory to my last post, since I'm basically saying "he looks easy no wait he looks hard", but all I meant with my last post was that there didn't seem to be much to the boss, not that he wasn't hard. Mechanically though, there really isn't that much. I think Jin'rokh has more mechanics than Ra-den..

As far as the not spending hours just grinding it out, let's also not overlook that I'm sure they spent a ton of time outside of pulls coming up with/tweaking a strat. With limited attempts, you can't just rush in and keep pulling over and over to see if something works, you need to really think it through first. While they weren't spending hours and hours bashing their head against the wall wiping, I doubt they really cut down at all on their raiding hours, just less of those hours were spent on actual attempts and more were spent coming up with strats. If something doesn't work, you don't come up with something new on the run back and quickly pull again to see if that works: you talk it out and figure out if it's going to work, what you need to change, make absolutely sure EVERY SINGLE PERSON knows what they are doing, etc. There's a huge difference between being limited to 30 pulls on a boss, and just pulling a boss 30 times.

tl;dr-I need to go to bed.

I joined an guild that was an offshoot of a guild I raided with in Cata as MT. We suck.

After three weeks of raiding 10M Normal ToT, we finally got Jin'rokh down, and I got myself a sweet thunderforged axe, which is awesome, but I don't know if we will make any real progress.

Our mage constantly complains that he has a glitch that sends him back to Jin'rokh when he's kiting the balls, so basically we constantly have massive issues with the sparks being in the wrong place, causing massive raid damage. I'm 90% sure he just isn't using blink properly.

My server is pretty terrible for raiding, so it's not like we have recruits lined up to replace him, but I feel like we'd already be 3 or 4/12 if we didn't have to deal with this terribad mage, but I can't really server transfer either because I don't have the resources to move all my toons to a new server.

Yeah, your mage is def doing it wrong

Also, if you strugged on Jin'rokh (and it wasn't gear related issues), you're gonna have a very hard time on horridon.

There's probably 5 people including myself that are capable of being part of a decent raid, and another 5 that are either terrible or just want to be able to randomly drop in and raid whenever they feel like it.

I think the group will probably fall apart over the next couple weeks.

It was fairly gear related. I think the average ilvl of the group was probably somewhere around 490-495, since pretty much everyone skipped the earlier tiers.

So, apparently, you have to reinstall windows after you put it a new motherboard and CPU.

A project that I thought would take an hour, tops, turned in a 10 hour escapade -.-

Took me about 30 minutes to get it physically in.
Two hours of googleing and troubleshooting to figure out why certain things weren't working (CPU fan wasn't spinning, had no video, other stupid simple things)
Then figuring out why the computer won't boot (and subsequently finding out that you have to reinstall windows)
Reconnecting my other MB to back up my important files (and then finding out after the fact that windows does that for you automatically lol)
Burning a CD for Windows 7 Professional, completely installing everything, then finding out that my CD key had been used too many times and that Microsoft wouldn't give or sell me another.
Then burning a CD for Windows Home Edition and using the key from my laptop.
Complete reinstall and update everything.
Go around and get all my programs back.

It was AIDS.

My girlfriend has been using my old laptop for the last few years and it finally died for good last week. Convinced her to get a MacBook Air since it will make my troubleshooting much easier. I've been through the whole re-activate windows thing (and any number of other issues) too many times.

LFR makes me want to cry

I've queued for the pinnacle of storms a couple times now. Got straight to Lei Shen each time. I've been part of 3 pulls but I wouldn't say he was ever in danger of dying.

Yeah, I constantly was getting Lei Shen over and over.

First time I killed him, I queued back up and it was a 28 min healer queue. I'm like gtfo

Had one group I was in couldn't kill him till 7 determination stacks -.-

Also, my shaman is only 16 ilvls behind my pally, and the shaman only has 1 boss kill in ToT (vs, you know, 6+ weeks on my paladin)

Relevant to my interests:

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Also, FINALLY got my last secret last night. Gonna do Nalak tomorrow and get my gem. I got a 522 helm ready to go, but I'm gonna have to go back to T14 legs, with doesn't have spirit -.-

I like it when we get later in to tiers and sometimes you can clear LFR in less time than the DPS queue takes.

I've been trying to find something to replace my 489 chespiece for quite some time now. It's my lowest ilvl piece aside from my LFR headpiece (which keeps my tier bonus). It never occurred to me to look at Blood Spirits post 5.2. After raid last night, we did an open roll for 6 Blood Spirits that we'd gotten from DE'ing loot. I came in 3rd but the first two passed so they went to me. Robe of Eternal Rule costs 8 Blood Spirits and 6 Imperial Silk. I was 2 Blood Spirits short.

It was in that moment that the previous disconnect between being able to craft a 496 and knowing that I can just buy Blood Spirits latched in. I went to the Auction House to get the last 2 and found out that there's 20+ of them there for 200 instead of thousands apice!

I was mucking around on Isle of Thunder this weekend and looted an egg. Yesterday it hatched in to a Green Primal Raptor mount. Score.

http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/r...?s=4238&e=4606

padding healing meters is fun

Only 99th, gtfo l2play