Random Friday

Went through my screen shot folder, trying to clean it out, and came across a few randoms from the past couple days.

This one is noteworthy because we did it as a guild. There happened to be 8 of us on and in the proper proportion of tanks/heals/DPS.

It did take a couple tries. The first 2 attempts on Sarth we let the pally tank him and the DK picked up the adds. There were two problems. The rogue could pull aggro just by looking at Sarth and the pally never quite got the hang of positioning Sarth in such a fashion as to keep his tail out of the raid.

Switch and have the DK on Sarth and the pally on the adds. This eventually worked, but it got scary. Twice we think the pally taunted Sarth. He swears he didn’t (and I didn’t get the combat parse, bad me), but there is no way in hell that Sarth just randomly decides twice to face the OT (in the middle of the raid of course) and let loose an attack. Not when said pally tank can only keep aggro on a single target by everyone holding back.

The pally went down at some point and the warlock can’t dodge flame walls to save her life (literally) so it was more like we 6-manned it.

Anyway, as the achievement shows, we got it eventually.

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There was the screen shot with me triumphantly proclaiming “I DIDN’T DIE” at the end of a 10-man Gothik fight.

Why is that a reason to be proud?

We were doing it the “fun” way, where everone stays on one side of the gate. You kill the “live” side mobs until the gate opens and then your tank (hopefully) picks up all the “dead” side stuff as it comes pouring over. We were doing OK… and then it got really messy really fast. I just remember pulling out every defensive trick I had until everything red was dead. With a deep breath, I looked at the raid frames.

Holy shit.

Still standing: the pally tank, the DPS warrior, a hunter, and me.

Apparently everyone else had dropped pretty fast after the gate opened so we effectively 4-manned the boss. Who needs healers?

In the same run, we had a similar occurence with Heigan.

Tank went down and thankfully so did Heigan as he turned to rush the platform. We were down to a hunter, resto shaman, and me.

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There was also a little clip of local chat from Naxx:

- – - + – - Thad + + + + + +
……. ^ Don’t be this guy

That cracked me up.

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I know I’ve mentioned it at least twice with a promise to follow up, so here it is…

That would be the Belt of Extreme Awesomesauce, commonly referred to as the Sash of Ancient Power and now also the Boots of Hasted Ass Kicking, or Spellslinger’s Slippers; both of which I have the patterns for.

And of course, just overall sexiness. /flex

Sash of Ancient Power Binds when equipped Waist Cloth 177 Armor +63 Stamina +64 Intellect Blue Socket Red Socket Socket Bonus: +7 Spell Power Durability 35 / 35 Requires Level 80

Equip: Improves hit rating by 43 (1.64% @ L80). Equip: Improves haste rating by 49 (1.49% @ L80). Equip: Increases spell power by 81.

Spellslinger’s Slippers Binds when equipped Feet Cloth 216 Armor +63 Stamina +64 Intellect +41 Spirit Blue Socket Red Socket Socket Bonus: +7 Spell Power Durability 50 / 50 Requires Level 80

Equip: Improves haste rating by 56 (1.71% @ L80). Equip: Increases spell power by 81.

My Arcane Blast casts in 2.09 seconds now.

/drool

I did drop some hit switching to the new boots. This meant I actually had to gem for a bit of hit and I am 4 points (0.14%) under arcane cap. But the increase in haste and spellpower should make up for that, not to mention the presence of a boomkin or spriest will completely negate the risk. At least I’m not 23 OVER cap anymore.

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I’m looking forward to a 25 Naxx this weekend with some orc and his guild. I got to invite my guildies to fill out the roster so we’ll see how this goes.