Veterans Run
Friday night saw yet another Karazhan run for us Void-ies, but a little differently this time. Instead of going with our usual group makeup that consists of Group 2 having alot of the people who need gear from Kara and only a few who don’t, we decided to run one scheduled group of all ‘Kara Vets’: people who know the place, know the fights.
There’s nothing more annoying than running from one fight to another and having people demanding warlock summons because they are lost. We have asked everyone to go in after a full clear and get to know the place. Most of the running around that you do for the quests in there will have you finding out how to get to point B from point A, so I don’t understand why people still don’t know which way to turn once they get out from behind the bookcase that leads to Illhoof, or after Aran.
So we made our “Veterans” group, some of whom I hadn’t run with in awhile, but who’s skills and abilities I didn’t question one bit. First pull was on time (for once) at 7:30pm, and we were off!
No Paladins at all, so we didn’t have Blessing of Salvation at all. Bummer, must remember to watch the aggro carefully. As it turned out, that aspect wasn’t a problem at all, since our tanks are totally awesome and can build up enough threat to let us DPSers let loose.
Bam! Bam! Bam! Bosses fell left, right and center. We got Curator down totally before he finished his first Evocation, which we were all excited about. An accidental pull of Aran before we were all ready saw a wipe, but we regrouped and knocked that sucka down! And at 11:30pm, a mere 3 hours4 hours (thanks Moz) after our first pull, we saw Nightbane hit the dust and yield up his loot. All bosses down (we don’t count the animal bosses), spirits high!
If it wasn’t for the fact that we had a scheduled run of Zul Aman on Saturday night, we would have powered on through that. But it was all good. Someone suggested Heroic MgT, and when I confessed that I hadn’t finished that instance on Normal, we powered through that, too! We ran out of time to do it on Heroic, but no matter; I finally got that quest finished and attuned.
Saturday night, I had bought my flasks/consumables/etc and was ready to go, but was skipped over in favour of the organiser’s friends who wanted to come along. I was, to put it midly, pissed off. I ended up doing my dailies and them bumming around on my shaman and rogue while I calmed down.
Seriously thinking of respeccing to Felguard and not letting myself spec back to Aff for a few weeks. Everytime I give him a go, I get bored, he feels clunky, so I go back to Aff. Depending on what kind of mood I’m in this evening, I think I might end up bringing Haaghun out from retirement.
Funny note: I have made myself a Runecloth Robe, that suits my SSO Tabard really well. I saw out that my robe (minus Tabard) matches the Clerics in the Chess event exactly, and all I am missing to look just like them is a white chapeau. Any ideas on where I can pick on of those up? (The one from SM is red *cry*)
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July 21st, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Shas!!!!!!!! I think the math is a little off. 7:30 -> 11:30 ain’t 3 hours sorry to say. Lord knows I wish it was 3 hours.
Totally agreed re: comments about knowing your way around in there and the wait times between bosses.
Nothing pisses me more that a 2 minute wait + a 2 minute wait + a 5 minute wait… grrr. I know it’s confusing up there (Aran way) but there’s no excuse. I didn’t know my way around, nor the fights (especially Aran) and I took it upon myself to *learn* /shock.
This is a ten (10) person raid. 10 people, people! This is the start of some serious sh!t. This is the 1st place you see uber epic gear! This is the start of it ALL. This is also the major farming location for Badges of Justice. Karazhan is to be treated with respect, and the raid should be treated as one too. When your raiding the rules of engagement change. No dicking around, install Ventrillo if you don’t have it, sit down and shut the f*&k up ’cause the big boys are playing now.
Just think about it, you “brb” and while you /r a mate, now think about that 20 seconds you just took. Now multiply that a couple of times let say you waste only 5 minutes of raid time. That’s not really 5 minutes you just wasted. That’s effecting 9 other people, so the calculation is not 5 * 9 = 45 minutes wasted human time.
So I think you see what irritates me more than anything in WoW. Now on to another irritation…
As for ZA, mate! I’d be totally pissed too, I didn’t realise that you were sidelined. I don’t know the rhymes or the reasons but I find that a dirty practice. If you’re in a GCal and it’s confirmed I believe that should = a lock in for sho’ no matter what’s going down. The only time I see when people need to be shuffled is if theres a requirement on a class ie Need tanks. (Dirty filty tanks). Apart from that, no excuse.
July 21st, 2008 at 10:52 pm
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=7720#same-model-as
Sadly most are quests that you may have already done. =/
Unless you can farm Naxx for the Glacial Headdress ><
July 22nd, 2008 at 3:29 am
D’oh! Thanks Moz for pointing that out, my maths skills seem to have wilted since leaving formal education. Maybe I thought it was only 3 hours because it was that fast
Thanks for that link, Hydra, I didn’t know wowhead had that functionality. Methinks I will try and get a guild run through Naxx, it looks like it would perfect
I’ll post a screenshot of myself sans hat when I remember to get them off my computer…