Things I should have blogged about, but didn’t

Posted by Tepisor in Uncategorized | 3 comments

As a per­son, I have a very big flaw: I for­get eas­ily. So that leads to me think­ing about what I should blog about, but for­get to actu­ally do it. Good thing is I remem­ber later, but I like to blog about recent stuff, not some­thing that hap­pened days or weeks ago. So here is a list of things I should have blogged about, but didn’t:

• I finally got Exalted with The Consortium;
• I expe­ri­enced my first 25-man raids and got some good loot: Jus­ticar Shoul­der­guards;
• I devel­oped a plan to get my epic fly­ing mount in a months time. Sur­pris­ing or not, I actu­ally man­aged to stick to it so far;

Exalted with The Consortium

Got me a nice Jew­el­craft­ing design: Design: Relent­less Earth­storm Dia­mond;

25-man expe­ri­ence

It was really some­thing else. We went Gruul and prac­ti­cally stormed through. I was just told briefly what to do, can’t even remem­ber which add I tanked dur­ing the High King Maul­gar fight. Only thing I remem­ber is run­ning from peo­ple, judg­ing and fight­ing with SoL and get­ting the shoul­der token.

After Gruul we went TK, where we killed Void Reaver in two tries. The first failed because some peo­ple (like me) we’re new to the fight. Any­way, I was briefly informed about the tac­tics and right away I said to myself that I’m going to have a hard time stay­ing top of the aggro list because I will run out of mana fast. So I started with the usual rota­tion (SoR->Judge->Conc->SoR blablabla) and switched to SoW->SoV later on, at half mana. For most of the fight, I was strug­gling to stay top 3, because I was afraid to OOM, so I was just putting out enough to stay on top of the DPSers. But I noticed some­thing weid. I wasn’t OOM­ing. I was actu­ally almost at all times full on mana. Appar­ently he does an AoE so that meant mana back to me from heal­ing. Went all out, rock­eted to top of the aggro list, where I stayed until the end, despite his knock­backs. Les­son learned for me: long boss fights = SoC/SoV combo, no ques­tion about it.

After Void Reaver, went for A’lar. I was assigned to take the adds (did you think dif­fer­ent?) and I did my job very good. But we didn’t man­age to kill him because of some LoS issues (or so I under­stood). Thing is, being new to the encounter, it was soooo much info in a short period of time. “You have to take the add, move to the wall, hunter will MD you. After he’s dead, move to the other side and pick the other add up fast. Be care­ful in phase 2 to.. ” kind of jab­ber­ing con­fused me, but I man­aged to keep my cool.

I enjoyed 25-man raid­ing. It’s some­thing spe­cial about the very well coor­di­nated dance every­one has to make in order to kill a boss and wip­ing is just a big dance rehearsal.

Epic fly­ing plan

I was just fool­ing around in Shat­trath with my friends when I noticed I was the only one with­out epic fly­ing. It was a bit sad to see that so I decided to get myself one within a months time (31 days). So I quickly opened Win­dows Cal­cu­la­tor and divided 5200g by 31, which led me to con­clude that I’ll need exactly 167.75g/day to suc­ceed. I made this deci­sion on the 26th of Feb­ru­ary. So that’s 21 days ago. I now have a bit more than 4000g, which, after a small cal­cu­lus, means an aver­age of 190g/day. I’m amazed I man­aged to keep an aver­age gold/day ratio above the tar­geted one because there were some days when I sim­ply didn’t play WoW at all. I’m look­ing for­ward to the next 10 days. Hope to keep the same aver­age num­bers coming.

There are prob­a­bly more things I for­got but wanted to blog about. When I’ll remem­ber them, I’ll write them down. So be sure to come back from time to time.

In the end, I have two questions:

1. How did you get your epic fly­ing mount? Did you plan ahead, like me? Or just woke up one morn­ing with 5200g to spare and bought it?
2. How was your first 25-man expe­ri­ence? I know I was pretty excited and kind of con­fused from so many peo­ple mov­ing around. What about you?

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