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Black Temple Cleared!

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:04:00 +0000

Well I never got round to saying we downed the Illidari Council (the day after we killed Mother Shahraz) and then Wednesday/Thursday re-cleared up to Illidan again. Sunday we spent pretty much all day wiping on him learning the fight — our best attempt was 8%. Monday one of our fire resistance tanks didn’t show, but Tuesday we had another geared up and after a few more hours of wipes we killed him! Black Temple cleared! Only 6 bosses left in the game that I’ve never killed! We’re not geared for Sunwell yet but in a few weeks we’ll be going and giving it a go. I’m well pleased with our progress — it took the guild about 2 months to clear MH and BT!

Side note: during our Illidan kill attempt, around 32%, my keyboard batteries died. When Maiev showed up I ran to get another to plug in. Thankfully while I was away I didn’t wipe the raid. Also had someone banging on the door while all this was going on — didn’t answer it, still no idea who it was! Even with all that I still managed to come second on the healing meters. Go me!

Illidari Council defeated 12/08/08

Illidan Stormrage slain 19/08/08

Drops:

Black Bow of the Betrayer
Zhar’doom, Greatstaff of the Devourer
Chestguard of the Forgotten Conqueror (x2)
Chestguard of the Forgotten Protector

Illidari Council defeated 12/08/08

Illidan Stormrage slain 19/08/08

Your mother!

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:12:00 +0000

Well it’s been a good week for Antihero! Tonight we killed Mother Shahraz! We only killed RoS yesterday so I’m pretty surprised that we made it so quickly. We didn’t have masses of Hearts of Darkness so could only spare enough to get everyone 3 parts of their shadow resist gear, which meant we were slightly gimped. I had around 254 buffed and there were some people who were a lot less. We wiped a fair bit because of the lack of resist and people failing on getting Fatal Attraction. Illidari Council here we come!

Mother Shahraz defeated 11/08/08

Loots:

3x Pauldrons of the Forgotten Protector
Leggings of Devastation

RoS down! Plus a nice upgrade

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:56:00 +0000

Today I finally got an upgrade for my Red Riding Hood’s Cloak from Karazhan. Gurtogg Bloodboil finally dropped some healing loot! Shroud of Forgiveness is way better looking than my old cape — for one thing — but it also gave me 36 more healing, 120 health and about 1.2 more mana regen! I guess those are the kind of upgrades you get when you go from Tier 4 to Tier 6! Best priest cloak until the twins in Sunwell.

Oh and while writing this post we had 2 tries on RoS and downed him on the second try of the day! That’s 6/9 BT! Time to go farm for Hearts of Darkness! Then it’s Mother Shahraz!

My new cloak — Shroud of Forgiveness

Reliquary of Souls defeated 10/08/08

What's been keeping me busy

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:49:00 +0000

Well my first two weeks of being back on WOW have been fairly eventful! I haven’t had much time to blog however as I’ve also started a new job as a web developer for a company in Stockton called TeesWeb!

So here’s a bit of an update of my recent goings on in WOW:

Loot: My Badge Loot Comparison post came in handy — I’ve managed to save up 100 badges and bought my Adorned Supernal Legwraps. When fully buffed this pushes my healing to over 2000 which is a pretty big margin! The best bit of loot I got though was my new Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat from the fishing daily quest — I really do love this thing! The next day I got an Eye of the Sea which sold for a very respectable 350g!

Guild: The guild I applied for a few weeks ago — Khaos Dragons — was a bit of a disappointment. During my 2 weeks of belonging to the guild I only got to see one 25 man progression raid, which really wasn’t what I was expecting. So I’ve left and joined the guild Megiddo who are at about the same level of progression (if not a bit further) and raiding 4 nights a week without any attendance troubles.

Downings: There was a new first for me this week — downing Rage Winterchill for my first time! The fight was fairly easy once we managed to get the waves of trash under control. Managed to reach Friendly with The Scale of the Sands — not a lot of use to me until I get my (now optional) attunement quest done though. The one progression raid I was in with Khaos Dragons was actually very successful, getting two first kills for the guild in one night — we killed The Lurker Below and Morogrim Tidewalker without too many problems. Shame that after that there were no more 25 man progression raids.

Exploration: I decided to get back into a bit of Azeroth exploration this week as dailies were getting boring. I managed to beat the fatigue debuff for long enough to reach the edge of the world and stay there for a bit until I went out of mana. Also took a look at what’s behind the mountain range south of Tanaris, Un’Goro and Silithus. Checked out Ironforge airport and the farm that sits in the mountains in southern Wetlands. I’m thinking up some posts for my WOW exploration discoveries — even if they’re not really breaking news, exploring is still one of my most favourite things to do in WOW.

Reputation: I finally made it to Exalted with Thrallmar and Lower City after doing a string of heroics! Not much useful loot there for me but it’s another few exalteds to add to my collection! My Shattered Sun Offensive reputation is about halfway through Revered at the moment but has slowed down a bit these past few days due to daily boredom and exploring fun!

Others: I finally reached 375 fishing — the new daily quests really gave me more of a reason to get into fishing again and it’s a new way to relax after a hard night’s wiping. I also got my first PvE title: Mattous, Champion of the Naaru — and completed my Black Temple attunement (not that it’s needed anymore), getting my Medallion of Karabor.

On another note, a lot of my long-term friends on my current server Bladefist have been moving to different servers due to a lack of hardcore raiding opportunities. When I say a lot I really mean it — practically all of them have left now and they were pretty much the only reason for me sticking with this realm. I’m strongly considering moving server, but there will be a full post about that sometime soon!

Me in my new Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat

Rage Winterchill defeated

The edge of the World

In the mountains south of Silithus

Badge Loot Comparison

Sat, 17 May 2008 11:37:00 +0000

This post looks at the new healing badge gear available for me to buy. As I’ve been away since before patch 2.4 hit I never really thought about what badges to get. So when I logged yesterday the vendor was already unlocked and I had 165 badges burning a hole in my Traveler’s Backpack. Here’s the comparison of what gear I currently have versus the badge loot:

Boots of the Incorrupt vs Slippers of Dutiful Mending

+4 Stamina, +1 Intellect, +11 Spirit
+1 red socket, +2 Spirit socket bonus
+29 Healing, -8 mp5
Cost: 65 Badges

Trousers of the Incarnate vs Adorned Supernal Legwraps

-12 Stamina, +3 Intellect, +6 Spirit
+1 Blue socket, +1 Red socket, +4 Stamina socket bonus
+26 Healing
Cost: 100 Badges

Robes of Heavenly Purpose vs Gown of Spiritual Wonder

+15 Stamina, +12 Intellect, -5 Spirit
+1 Red Socket, +2 Spirit Socket Bonus, -1 Yellow Socket, -2 Blue Sockets
-9 Healing Socket Bonus, +17 Healing
Cost: 100 Badges

Vindicator’s Band of Salvation vs Anveena’s Touch

-7 Stamina, -1 Intellect, -22 Resilience
+15 Healing, +5 mp5
Cost: 60 Badges

Ethereum Life-Staff (+ Talisman of the Sun King) vs Gavel of Naaru Blessings

+17 Stamina, +10 Intellect, -62 Spirit
+108 Healing, +6 mp5
Cost: 150 Badges

I decided to go with buying the boots first, which are possibly the biggest upgrade I can afford (the legs are better but I have limited funds for an enchant and gems). I also bought the ring because it gives me a nice boost to my mp5 which I lost on the boots and a bit more healing. I’ll be working my way through getting all of these except maybe the Gavel of Naaru Blessings because of the huge spirit nerf that I would take. I have 20 badges left so it’ll be a while before I can afford the next item!

My return to WOW last night went well — I’ve got loads of screenshots that I’ll share in a later post.

My return to WOW — first stop, an old enemy