The lineup: Owaru, Kathe, Boon, Janril, Orzag, Micromachine, Gobblez, Absitively, Kaggomi, Neshura. (paladin, druid, paladin, priest, priest, mage, rogue, warlock, shaman, hunter.)
The breakdown: Got timed chest from Nalorakk. Got timed chest from Akil'zon. Downed Jan'alai on the third attempt. One shot Halazzi.
That's right. 4 ZA bosses in 2 hours.
Hex Lord Malacrass is next. I think we're going to give him a shot tonight actually, though we don't usually go in a second time in ZA. We're going to try to get the same crew together and give him a go.
In terms of DPS, I think we have the required numbers. In terms of tanking, I'm confident there too. In terms of healing.. well, we have Boon.
What I think is going to get us is that he's a new boss, that requires a lot of fancy footwork. I think the learning curve is going to make him a good attempt, but not a downed ZA boss for KoU.
I hope I'm wrong because man, that would be awesome.
Showing posts with label za. Show all posts
Showing posts with label za. Show all posts
Monday, October 6, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
Casual Raiding: Progression
Yet another article in my 'Casual Raiding' line of misinformative blogs!
As you know, we've been hitting ZA for two hours on Sunday nights. We usually hit Nalorakk and Akil'zun and call it an evening.
Last night, we cleared to Nalorakk in record time... and then had a mage take an emergency phone call. We tried to bull through 9-manning it, and though we didn't actually wipe, we wound up losing out on the chest anyway because and I don't know how... we managed to pull Nalorakk along with the last mob that was sheeped.
We're special.
One wipe on Nalorakk due to bad luck in terms of his deafening roar and low health on the other tank.
We did the gauntlet without any wipes and killed Akil'zun without any wipes.
We had almost a half hour left of our allotted two hour time!
We decided to try our hand at Halazzi again, the Lynx boss.
I don't recall now if it was 2 or 3 attempts, but regardless... second to last attempt: 13%.
Last attempt: 4%. We'd have done it too, if it weren't for you kids!... er, if the rogue hadn't died at the first spirit split. Stupid Lynx.
Oh... and I tanked it. RAWR. And got the Charmed Amani Jewel put into my Tameless Breeches. Yay nummy stamina. Nom nom.
As you know, we've been hitting ZA for two hours on Sunday nights. We usually hit Nalorakk and Akil'zun and call it an evening.
Last night, we cleared to Nalorakk in record time... and then had a mage take an emergency phone call. We tried to bull through 9-manning it, and though we didn't actually wipe, we wound up losing out on the chest anyway because and I don't know how... we managed to pull Nalorakk along with the last mob that was sheeped.
We're special.
One wipe on Nalorakk due to bad luck in terms of his deafening roar and low health on the other tank.
We did the gauntlet without any wipes and killed Akil'zun without any wipes.
We had almost a half hour left of our allotted two hour time!
We decided to try our hand at Halazzi again, the Lynx boss.
I don't recall now if it was 2 or 3 attempts, but regardless... second to last attempt: 13%.
Last attempt: 4%. We'd have done it too, if it weren't for you kids!... er, if the rogue hadn't died at the first spirit split. Stupid Lynx.
Oh... and I tanked it. RAWR. And got the Charmed Amani Jewel put into my Tameless Breeches. Yay nummy stamina. Nom nom.
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Juicy Bear Burger and Buzzard Bites.. Supersized!
As you may (or may not!) know, KoU does ZA on the weekends. We limit it to 2 hours and we do our best. We take three healers, five DPS and two tanks. (math are hard)
We've been able to consistently down Nalorakk, though without getting the first chest. And we've consistently not been able to down Akil'zun.
All that has changed!
This last weekend we took down Nalorakk and got the chest AND we got Akil'zun down, I believe with only two wipes.
It's all described in much better editorial detail than I'm posting here.
In other news, Owaru introduced me to reader.google.com and it's... wow, makes reading my blogs so much easier. Basically because I don't have to go to each individual site and see if there's anything new! It's all just right there! It's great. Some webcomics can also be put in there (not all, but LFG can be, and that's all that matters, right?) and I'm sure lots of other things can too.
Anyway, I'm sure sometime soon I'll go into another one of my massively long, boring posts about something like leveling or instancing or who knows what, but until then, cheerio! (It isn't just a cereal, it's a way of saying goodbye in England! I think?)
We've been able to consistently down Nalorakk, though without getting the first chest. And we've consistently not been able to down Akil'zun.
All that has changed!
This last weekend we took down Nalorakk and got the chest AND we got Akil'zun down, I believe with only two wipes.
It's all described in much better editorial detail than I'm posting here.
In other news, Owaru introduced me to reader.google.com and it's... wow, makes reading my blogs so much easier. Basically because I don't have to go to each individual site and see if there's anything new! It's all just right there! It's great. Some webcomics can also be put in there (not all, but LFG can be, and that's all that matters, right?) and I'm sure lots of other things can too.
Anyway, I'm sure sometime soon I'll go into another one of my massively long, boring posts about something like leveling or instancing or who knows what, but until then, cheerio! (It isn't just a cereal, it's a way of saying goodbye in England! I think?)
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Mini-Rant and Other Things
Two of the blogs that I read recently discussed the PvP/Badge/PvE Tier gear question. Namely: Is it right that people can PvP or Heroic their way into T5 and T6 equivalent gear?
Neither said it was out and out wrong and people in "welfare epix" should be stoned on sight. Both posted their opinions on it and asked what other people thought (or implied that they ask, since it's a public open to comments blog).
One wasn't as happy with it and was recounting how in the past PvPers were crying how people in T2 armor were owning BG's and the dearth of people willing to do heroics for gear or badges since they can grind their way through some BG's and honor to get gear.
The other was kind of equivocal about it and said how he thinks progression gear needs to be fixed so that newcomers to level 70 don't have to PvP to "catch up quickly" to their raidmates for the high end raid encounters.
Both of them had people saying rather nasty things to (and in one case, about) them.
Now, one is BBB and I'm sure everyone who reads me reads him and knows all about the issue.
The other is a newer (to me) feral druid blog I've encountered. The blog was well written. It wasn't inflammatory. It basically outlined the blogger's point of view on the issue and WHY they had that point of view.
That's what a blog is for. Now, some blogs cater to the theorycrafters. Some cater to the ... not-theorycrafters. But in the end, a blog is a personal place unless it's something like WoWInsider, where you should expect a certain level of writing and a certain level of information (facts, not opinion). But a personal blog is just that. Personal.
We make it public because that's the type of people we, as a society, are. We want to say our thoughts outloud and in most cases, hear your opinions on it.
If the person posted his thoughts about why he thought TRB's opinion wasn't well thought out... that's one thing. This person however, said that the blog was boring, sounded like something off of trade-chat and that maybe the blogger should consider stopping blogging all together.
Now, maybe he does think it's boring. Maybe the trade chat he frequents is more high-brow than the trade chat that I'm used to reading. But his response was very rude and highly uncalled for, IMNSHO.
If you find someone's blog boring... you don't tell them to shut up. You stop reading their blog. Problem solved! Just because YOU find the blog boring, doesn't mean that other people do. Doesn't mean the person blogging does. So, just wander away and go be rude to someone else, plzkthx.
Now, onto other things. Non-WoW related. Go cry somewhere else if you're going to complain that my warlock blog is delving into bear tanks and real life briefly.
Wii Fit is ... addicting. And kind of embarassing to realize how out of shape I really am! I've unlocked everything so far. I typically spend most of my time on the Yoga and Strength training, with the advanced step aerobics and hula hoop exercises and a random assortment of two or three balance games each day.
Today.. I did the shoulder stand. I wasn't exactly STRAIGHT... but I did it. And damn does that feel good to accomplish!
I need to work on getting the wiimote to register right for the tricep extension exercise -- I'll do it but it won't register that I did it! And the push-up and side-plank exercise... sometimes won't register that I just grunted and groaned my way through a knee's down but complete push-up. Which makes me feel unappreciated!
Back to WoW!
I took my rogue into Kara last night. She got three drops - a something I can't remember (I want to say a ring, but I can't find it right now), a cloak and her gloves. Three drops. Out of the whole damn place. Everything that dropped was cloth healing gear or mail or plate! Hate. you. Karazhan.
She was 5th out of 6 DPS. She was pushing around 450-500 DPS. The people above me are all people who are in mostly epics, compared to my blue-geared rogue. I meet the "minimum" requirements that my guild requires, so I didn't feel too bad about coming in, but I was well aware that I wasn't as much of a help. I did however... live through Prince. The other rogue... did not. GO ME!
Boon wants to get his tank Fyzzgig up there, so expect more ret paladin stuff (yay, Kvasira!) to follow.
Plans for Kikidas are to try to figure out did I really DE my Spellstrike Hood, or is it just hiding from me? I can't find it anywhere, and I'm such an armor-hog (you should see my bank), I can't imagine that I DE'd it, but I can't find it anywhere! She's also going into ZA now so maybe I'll get something new and shiny! It's progression ZA, but ZA nontheless.
Hope everyone had a great 4th of July!
Neither said it was out and out wrong and people in "welfare epix" should be stoned on sight. Both posted their opinions on it and asked what other people thought (or implied that they ask, since it's a public open to comments blog).
One wasn't as happy with it and was recounting how in the past PvPers were crying how people in T2 armor were owning BG's and the dearth of people willing to do heroics for gear or badges since they can grind their way through some BG's and honor to get gear.
The other was kind of equivocal about it and said how he thinks progression gear needs to be fixed so that newcomers to level 70 don't have to PvP to "catch up quickly" to their raidmates for the high end raid encounters.
Both of them had people saying rather nasty things to (and in one case, about) them.
Now, one is BBB and I'm sure everyone who reads me reads him and knows all about the issue.
The other is a newer (to me) feral druid blog I've encountered. The blog was well written. It wasn't inflammatory. It basically outlined the blogger's point of view on the issue and WHY they had that point of view.
That's what a blog is for. Now, some blogs cater to the theorycrafters. Some cater to the ... not-theorycrafters. But in the end, a blog is a personal place unless it's something like WoWInsider, where you should expect a certain level of writing and a certain level of information (facts, not opinion). But a personal blog is just that. Personal.
We make it public because that's the type of people we, as a society, are. We want to say our thoughts outloud and in most cases, hear your opinions on it.
If the person posted his thoughts about why he thought TRB's opinion wasn't well thought out... that's one thing. This person however, said that the blog was boring, sounded like something off of trade-chat and that maybe the blogger should consider stopping blogging all together.
Now, maybe he does think it's boring. Maybe the trade chat he frequents is more high-brow than the trade chat that I'm used to reading. But his response was very rude and highly uncalled for, IMNSHO.
If you find someone's blog boring... you don't tell them to shut up. You stop reading their blog. Problem solved! Just because YOU find the blog boring, doesn't mean that other people do. Doesn't mean the person blogging does. So, just wander away and go be rude to someone else, plzkthx.
Now, onto other things. Non-WoW related. Go cry somewhere else if you're going to complain that my warlock blog is delving into bear tanks and real life briefly.
Wii Fit is ... addicting. And kind of embarassing to realize how out of shape I really am! I've unlocked everything so far. I typically spend most of my time on the Yoga and Strength training, with the advanced step aerobics and hula hoop exercises and a random assortment of two or three balance games each day.
Today.. I did the shoulder stand. I wasn't exactly STRAIGHT... but I did it. And damn does that feel good to accomplish!
I need to work on getting the wiimote to register right for the tricep extension exercise -- I'll do it but it won't register that I did it! And the push-up and side-plank exercise... sometimes won't register that I just grunted and groaned my way through a knee's down but complete push-up. Which makes me feel unappreciated!
Back to WoW!
I took my rogue into Kara last night. She got three drops - a something I can't remember (I want to say a ring, but I can't find it right now), a cloak and her gloves. Three drops. Out of the whole damn place. Everything that dropped was cloth healing gear or mail or plate! Hate. you. Karazhan.
She was 5th out of 6 DPS. She was pushing around 450-500 DPS. The people above me are all people who are in mostly epics, compared to my blue-geared rogue. I meet the "minimum" requirements that my guild requires, so I didn't feel too bad about coming in, but I was well aware that I wasn't as much of a help. I did however... live through Prince. The other rogue... did not. GO ME!
Boon wants to get his tank Fyzzgig up there, so expect more ret paladin stuff (yay, Kvasira!) to follow.
Plans for Kikidas are to try to figure out did I really DE my Spellstrike Hood, or is it just hiding from me? I can't find it anywhere, and I'm such an armor-hog (you should see my bank), I can't imagine that I DE'd it, but I can't find it anywhere! She's also going into ZA now so maybe I'll get something new and shiny! It's progression ZA, but ZA nontheless.
Hope everyone had a great 4th of July!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
