Comments on: Weekend Adventures

By: admin

admin — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:32:54 +0000

Thanks for the nice words. It sometimes feels so silly to blog about old content, but I am hoping to be part of the 10-man progression curve in WotLK and not lag behind so much.

By: Blat

Blat — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:15:33 +0000

Hello there popped over from tankspot

Nice blog gona look around

By: Cochana

Cochana — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:41:26 +0000

Was a good read and will bookmark for further tails (thanks to tankspot for the link). I enjoyed it reminded me of when I was starting out in Gruuls, and Mags.

As #1 pointed out delegation is the key to sanity in a 25 man raid instance. I cut my raid leading teeth in SSC/TK, and I tried to control everything. After awhile there is just to much to micro-manage and you have to assign people to help out.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:01:07 +0000

Haha, my co-worker told me of the horrors of Teron Gorefiend today, as he got the debuff to fight the constructs seven times in a row and always failed.

And I am looking forward to post-patch ZA, to rock the Eagle gauntlet and the dragonhawks. I am all for making the tank classes all equally strong!

By: admin

admin — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:59:41 +0000

You did great on healing, Dusk. I hope you will tell your guys for me that you rocked. We really couldn’t do stuff like this without you great people from SHP. Much <3

By: ARA

ARA — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:45:55 +0000

Great to hear your stories; I look forward to monday’s news. Yeah I have tremendous admiration for our raid leaders; I think it just takes a ton of skill and practice over a long time. I’m sure they get all that stuff happening you mention; but as a mere raider who shows up, I hear none of it. Things go quiet, we all take an afk, they sort it out and back we go. I’m sure its very hard work.

Bloody t4 shoulders – yeah I still use mine all the time. I hope you get yours soon.

Well, we killed a new boss in BT this w/e – teron gorefiend, which was very satisfying. First new boss for a while. Looks likes people’s enthusiasm is up again to keep progressing right up till wrath, which is fantastic. We may see illidan yet.

Personally, I’m looking forward to aoe tanking, and the removal of crushing blows more than anything. Teron crushed me (druid) twice in a row last week for 9k each. I died right after. Needless to say, our warrior doesnt get crushed nearly as often. I think the core of our guild is looking forward to the days when any tank will do for any fight… what a relief.

Lol, tried to get a ZA run going too, and once again spent ~1hour looking for prot pally with 9 people waiting, checking gear, having the pally show up. then finding out that he’s already saved, the damn noob I dont really do ZA anymore because of prot pallies (the lack thereof).

By: duskhawk

duskhawk — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:42:43 +0000

The past couple times that we went in to Mags with mostly us and not as many of you ladies, we had a lot of people doing newer roles – some new healers, some new tanks, and some dps that hadn’t raided much yet. So it just stacked against us. I’m glad my being on cold meds this Saturday didn’t hurt my healing too much.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:56:07 +0000

@Yakra: Nah, I didn’t solo it, I don’t think anyone could. I picked someone for healing assignments, I assigned hunter MDs to tanks, and had a melee DPSer run the cube clicking show on Magtheridon. I am not that uber. I am very much enamored by our healers, we have fantastic ones. All but two of the healers were from my guild.

By: Yakra

Yakra — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:42:54 +0000

The trick to leading 25 Mans, is to delegate. One person for healers, one for physical dps, one for ranged, and one for tanks (which could be yourself). Have them get in touch with their base, and you manage them. However, it sounds like you did a great Job solo-ing both raids =D Yakra´s last blog post..Illidan Kill Two, and Return to SSC