Limited Warranty is going to take our first stab at Kara on Friday! Oh my god am I excited to go!
Hmm... can I get that last 3k in honor for my PVP boots? I'd need to get it by Thursday so that I'd have the honor to spend on Friday. My guess is no, since I need to farm gold to buy some potions, farm mats for food and... holy crap.
/dance!
Showing posts with label Guild. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guild. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Oh, oh.
So, I sent an email to Scott Andrews who writes Officer's Quarters for WoW Insider and he just emailed me to tell me that he's using it for his next column.
Of the one person who reads this blog, you won't be surprised by what you read, it's all been written about here. I didn't bad mouth anyone (directly), but I'm a little worried about how he (you) will react. Maybe I'm just borrowing trouble. Maybe we'll get some good advice. Maybe I need to keep my fricken mouth shut.
Of the one person who reads this blog, you won't be surprised by what you read, it's all been written about here. I didn't bad mouth anyone (directly), but I'm a little worried about how he (you) will react. Maybe I'm just borrowing trouble. Maybe we'll get some good advice. Maybe I need to keep my fricken mouth shut.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Shattered Halls, how I love thee. And hate thee, too
On Friday Limited Warranty (LW) ran Shattered Halls with the help of a very awesome mage from Turbo Sunshine Friends.
I ran it before on Amantara as a bear tank about four or five times, but this was the first time as a hunter. Our main tank hadn't run it before (or the rogue, I don't think), the healer only a couple times I think and the mage said he'd been trying to farm it for a recipe of some sort.
It wasn't the smoothest of runs. In my defense it was Friday night after a very long week at work and we didn't get started until semi-late for me. Ok- a list of what I learned from my screw-ups:
Skyfire Hawk-Bow did not drop. I did not get a primal nether (and I'm very glad that it went to the TSF mage).
I ran it before on Amantara as a bear tank about four or five times, but this was the first time as a hunter. Our main tank hadn't run it before (or the rogue, I don't think), the healer only a couple times I think and the mage said he'd been trying to farm it for a recipe of some sort.
It wasn't the smoothest of runs. In my defense it was Friday night after a very long week at work and we didn't get started until semi-late for me. Ok- a list of what I learned from my screw-ups:
- When you're critting like a mofo, slow down! Don't try to rely only on feign death to control your aggro. I was seduced into the joy of seeing the big giant flashing huge numbers of doom I was inflicting on my enemies.
- Don't trap near the tank! Thunderclap + Ice trap = panicked hunter trying to make sure the blue square is aggroed him and not the tree.
- When aggroed- run to the tank and away from the healer. Told you, I'm a noob.
- Keep your fricken targets straight. Don't shoot the sheep. Just... please... don't.
Skyfire Hawk-Bow did not drop. I did not get a primal nether (and I'm very glad that it went to the TSF mage).
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Claz the Leatherworker
Ok, so I soloed the Fel Reaver right into Thrallmar and let the guards do my dirty work for me. I now am a proud owner of the Shattered Halls key- at the very least the Marksman's Bow will be in my grasp, and maybe the Blackened Spear, depending on if I get something better than that in my instance running.
Speaking of that, I now have the second Kara key fragment. I did a couple runs of Steamvaults with a pug (wasn't too bad) but our main tank went with (that awesome guy who gave me the Valanos' Longbowq) to get his key fragment, too. Alas, no second piece of Beast Lord.
During this run I whispered Ariki and asked him if he would mind if I practiced my Misdirection pulls with him. He said, "Of course! I forgot you had it." So, when there was no trapping needed for crowd control, the Misdirection pull went really well. When the cooldown was up, the trapping went really well. But, when I had to do both... mixed results. See, I forgot the little bit about Misdirection where it says that the next three attacks transfer the aggro to the person you cast it on. So, hunters, don't do what I did! See if you see my mistake:
Gah. That's right, I heaped massive amounts of aggro onto the tank from the target I was supposed to trap. Ooops. But, lesson learned and with future guild runs in the making (we're all wanting to get keyed to Kara), hopefully I'll have opportunity for more practice.
Speaking of the guild: Limited Warranty is getting very motivated to start progressing towards raids. Not only did Ariki and I run SV for the key fragment, five other guildies (or was it three?) ran it themselves to get their own fragments. Nice! Guild chat was fun to read as the people who are working towards 70 were asking questions about what they need to be doing, how they can get keyed, what sort of gear they'll need. Looks like Bumwaller and Ariki have a true still-in-the-egg progression guild on their hands. It was fun.
Now, I worked on Leatherworking and got it up to 364. I've started crafting the Felstalker Armor set (just need five more Primal Airs and I'll complete the Chestpiece and be done with it) (by the way, that elemental plateau in Nagrand is an amazing place to farm these. in about three hours of farming I was able to get 5 or 6). Mr. BRK himself gave me some advice on what to craft and I'll be following it. But, the Felstalker set is a slight upgrade (less slight when I get the gems slotted) than my current gear and it also gives me some very needed skill upgrades. Besides, the Netherscale Armor requires three Primal Nethers, which means I need to do heroics, which means I need to gear myself up a bit more and practice, practice, practice. Not only can I craft the Felstalker stuff, but now I can do a Riding Crop (only 7g on the AH for the pattern!) and various drums that may or may not be that good because I'm not paying attention to them yet because they won't skill me up. Also, I did the Dragonscale specialty quest.
All in all, a very productive day for my favorite Hunter. Oh, by the way, I got rid of snookims and have been using whiskers exclusively. You can see us in Limited Warranty's gallery in front of the fel reaver that I socheaply cunningly killed on my own.
Alas, work tomorrow, so maybe no time to run anything. But I'll get those last Primal Airs for the Fel Stalker chestpiece and run a couple dailies for more gold. By the way, when you hit 70, the gold pours like it's raining soup- bring a bucket!
(P.S. For some reason, Bum's made me the Hunter class leader. Um... /panicmodeon! I need to do more research and start playing other specs at least a little so that if anyone has questions other than about BM hunters I'll at least know what I'm talking about. Or else, I'll point them over to BRK's forums.)
Speaking of that, I now have the second Kara key fragment. I did a couple runs of Steamvaults with a pug (wasn't too bad) but our main tank went with (that awesome guy who gave me the Valanos' Longbowq) to get his key fragment, too. Alas, no second piece of Beast Lord.
During this run I whispered Ariki and asked him if he would mind if I practiced my Misdirection pulls with him. He said, "Of course! I forgot you had it." So, when there was no trapping needed for crowd control, the Misdirection pull went really well. When the cooldown was up, the trapping went really well. But, when I had to do both... mixed results. See, I forgot the little bit about Misdirection where it says that the next three attacks transfer the aggro to the person you cast it on. So, hunters, don't do what I did! See if you see my mistake:
- Lay down ice trap
- Cast Misdirection on tank
- Shoot skull with Aimed shot
- switch target to blue square
- Shoot Distracting shot
- turn off autoshoot
- Scratch head
- Panic
Gah. That's right, I heaped massive amounts of aggro onto the tank from the target I was supposed to trap. Ooops. But, lesson learned and with future guild runs in the making (we're all wanting to get keyed to Kara), hopefully I'll have opportunity for more practice.
Speaking of the guild: Limited Warranty is getting very motivated to start progressing towards raids. Not only did Ariki and I run SV for the key fragment, five other guildies (or was it three?) ran it themselves to get their own fragments. Nice! Guild chat was fun to read as the people who are working towards 70 were asking questions about what they need to be doing, how they can get keyed, what sort of gear they'll need. Looks like Bumwaller and Ariki have a true still-in-the-egg progression guild on their hands. It was fun.
Now, I worked on Leatherworking and got it up to 364. I've started crafting the Felstalker Armor set (just need five more Primal Airs and I'll complete the Chestpiece and be done with it) (by the way, that elemental plateau in Nagrand is an amazing place to farm these. in about three hours of farming I was able to get 5 or 6). Mr. BRK himself gave me some advice on what to craft and I'll be following it. But, the Felstalker set is a slight upgrade (less slight when I get the gems slotted) than my current gear and it also gives me some very needed skill upgrades. Besides, the Netherscale Armor requires three Primal Nethers, which means I need to do heroics, which means I need to gear myself up a bit more and practice, practice, practice. Not only can I craft the Felstalker stuff, but now I can do a Riding Crop (only 7g on the AH for the pattern!) and various drums that may or may not be that good because I'm not paying attention to them yet because they won't skill me up. Also, I did the Dragonscale specialty quest.
All in all, a very productive day for my favorite Hunter. Oh, by the way, I got rid of snookims and have been using whiskers exclusively. You can see us in Limited Warranty's gallery in front of the fel reaver that I so
Alas, work tomorrow, so maybe no time to run anything. But I'll get those last Primal Airs for the Fel Stalker chestpiece and run a couple dailies for more gold. By the way, when you hit 70, the gold pours like it's raining soup- bring a bucket!
(P.S. For some reason, Bum's made me the Hunter class leader. Um... /panicmodeon! I need to do more research and start playing other specs at least a little so that if anyone has questions other than about BM hunters I'll at least know what I'm talking about. Or else, I'll point them over to BRK's forums.)
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