WTFlux

It’s official, my 2v2 rating is now 1337. I pleaded with the general public loitering in Nagrand to join me for 10 2v2 arena matches. My pally buddy was not on. He did not answer his cell phone.

A guy - dotdottab, told me his resilience wasn’t really that great but he would join up if I wanted. I sent him an invite. We joined up and started in without many expectations. Game 1 - we win. Huh, pretty cool. Game 2 - two rogues, loss. Game 3 win. Game 4 win. Game 5 win.

Woah. This is officially fun.

Game 6 - Hunter/healer? - loss. We tried killing the healer first, and it didn’t work very well. I got killed pretty quick and that was pretty much it. The next game - we had the same team, killed the hunter - controlled the healer, we win.

Game 7 - Warrior/shaman - loss. Tried killing the warrior, never saw the healer. Warrior killed my lock. Game 8 - same team. We found, killed the healer - controlled the warrior. The warrior killed my lock again, but I was still alive and had trap cooldowns up and kept him at distance, killing him to win.

We ended up 7-3, giving me my leet rating. That was VERY fun.

WE WON 2 MATCHES!!!!! WOOOHOOO!!!!

Ahem…sry about that.  Yes, we did win 2 of our 10 matches.  Yes, they were against real live people.  We beat 2 warlocks (lol?) in the Ruins, then beat a priest/warrior combo in the Circle of Blood.  The warlocks went down smooth, kind of like A & W creme soda.  I think I heard Lexy purring after the match.  Our first ever legit Arena win! 

Then we came up against some rogue teams which we definitely seem to have a problem with.  I think everyone kinda has problems with Rogue teams though, so I don’t feel to horrible about that. 

Our second win was decided about 20 seconds into the match.  We saw a priest and took off right after him.  Bestial Wrath, Intimidation and some crazy shield stunning thing and the poor priest never had a chance.  We had him down in like 15-20 seconds, took a breath and started after the warrior.  This is about where the video started - I’m retarded and didn’t catch the whole thing. 

Anyway we had a blast and went 2-8. We ran up against the same Priest/Hunter team 2-3 times and couldn’t really deal with them that great.  Dark just needs better gear, respec to Ret, and to do more dps.  We could get the priest down, but by then the hunter would have me almost dead.  The priest would die, and get one last greater heal in and the hunter would kill me, then prance around the arena kiting poor Dark everywhere while King Bangladash was taking bite sized chunks out of my wee little dwarven pally.  lolz.  At least we had a good time, eh?

Bobo’s Magtheridon try number 2:

We owned all the summoners in very quick fashion - with Mag being released inbetween the 2nd to last and last summoner. Plenty of time to get him picked up and against the wall, ready to click on the cubes and interrupt the Blast Nova.

-> enter wiping from 10pm server to 1am

AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGG.

I honestly don’t know why we kept wiping. I’ve never been a cubie clicker, I’m pretty sure all you have to do is click on the cube and be still, not casting anything when Mag starts his Blast Nova cast. We just couldn’t coordinate this for some reason. Either a clicker would somehow die, or forget which cube to click, then they would click early and try to click again only to have exhaustion and be locked out. It was pretty frustrating. Our guild leadership and raid leader was wonderful, calmly trying to figure out the problem, calmly adding suggestions to help. At the end of the night, I had to remember this was (including me) most folks SECOND TIME they have ever seen Mag.

We can chalk it up to experience, and keep trying I suppose. I really think once we get Mag and start on Gruul, we might really start to get some progression going. WE JUST NEED TO CLICK BETTER!

/wrists

OK!  Here we go.  ARENA TIME BABAY!  Darkmatteroz and myself jump into the 2v2 arena.  Our SOLE goal is to get 1000 arena points.  Let’s see how we do.

Match 1 - Loss (no kills)
Match 2 - Loss (no kills)
Match 3 - Loss (no kills)
Match 4 - Loss (no kills)
Match 5 - Loss (I killed a pet)
Match 6 - Loss (no kills)
Match 7 - Loss (it was 2 vs 1)
Match 8 - Loss (no kills)
Match 9 - Loss (no kills)
Match 10 - WIN!  (they quit)
Match 11 - Loss (no kills)
Match 12 - Loss (no kills)

So there you go.  No I am not kidding about Match 7.  Rohh the rogue beat both of us, pretty badly.  ALL BY HIMSELF.  mmmmkay.  Time to go back to regular BG’s.

I’ve never been to Magtheridon.  It reminded me a lot of Ony with just a few pulls to the boss.  The fight doesn’t seem that complicated.  Handle the summoners, drag Mag away from raid, click on cubes when he is about to nova. 

Except that about 85% of our raid had never set foot into the place.  As a matter of fact, it’s one of the first few Bobo’s House of Gank 25-man raids we’ve ever done.  We wiped a few times trying to handle the elementals (we only had 1 lock) from the summoners and finally had a run where we burned all the summoners down really fast and didn’t loose ANYONE.  Mag was pulled right up to a corner, everyone was settling in for some DPS.  Everything was going great, we felt like we had things under control. 

Then we had a 15-20 second lag spike.  This of course ruined this chance at a kill, and wiped the raid.

At the time, we just thought- “hey bad luck, lets rez and do this again”.  We felt really good about everything that was happening and people were doing great.  The next 3 attempts were plagued with a really perplexing issue of aggro.  Our main tank (a paladin) would throw his shield to start the fight, and the mob would immediately take off towards a warrior on the other side of the room.  Then once somehow 3 summoners aggroed at once to the initial summoner and roflpwned us.  The behaivor of the summoners was vastly different than the first 3-4 tries we did.

It is possible that it was just late and the tanks weren’t as sharp picking up their assignments as they were at the start of the night, but it didn’t really seem that way.  It honestly seemed bugged.

Oh well, I probably would have lost a roll for something and been pissed, but it was fun doing new content and getting close on the first night of attempts!

Something really cool happened last weekend.  I was doing some quests when an officer notified me via whisper:

Hey - they are talking about you in officer chat 

Oh great, thanks for that.  Did I do something wrong?  Offend someone?  WHO DOES THAT?  Then after a bit of agonizing silence, the GM whispers me and says:

Congratulations, we are going to promote you to officer of Bobo’s House of Gank! 

WHOA.  That was unexpected, but really really cool.  It’s nice to have people you don’t know in real life acknowledge your helpfulness, and value to a group of people.

And I dinged 70 with Carterpants.  BUT I’M AN OFFICER IN MY GUILD NOW!  WOOHOO!

Earlier that night I got the quests for Shadow Labs and started looking for a group.  A few guildies wanted in, and all I needed was a healer.  One replied in LFG channel and off we went.  A real life buddy was tanking so I wanted to inspect the priest to see if he was up to the challenge.  One look at him and I started giggling like a girl. 

Nearly full T6 holy priest.

We get into the instance and the priest says- “Just have the tank AoE tank everything, don’t worry about traps or CC just FF”.  Basically the pally tank would aggro everything and we would just zerg them all.  The freaking priest healed BOTH the pets and the entire group without any problems, zero wipes.  My first time fighting Murmur with Carterpants and this dropped for me: Sonic Spear.

So to recap in 1 night I did the following:
Got promoted to Officer in my guild
Got Sonic Spear
Dinged 70
Got my Flying Mount

…then my guild needed my shadow priest for Kara and I got 6 badges.  What a night.

( photo credit: Thomas Hawk)

BRK is a wonderful writer. He’s knows hunters forwards and backwards, and he’s done a ton of research on them. He’s also very funny, and can tell wonderful stories. To top ALL that off, the dude works at NASA.

Having said all that about him, I honestly think the best post he’s ever written was today - titled “We Love Lists“. He explains 10 things you should do when you hit level 70. I was skeptical at first, but after reading them and his explanations, dang…he’s right on target.

So. Go- read, and learn.

I thought Beast Master hunters were supposed to just do some massive quantities of sustained, ranged, dps? I crit an aimed shot yesterday for 2340 - at level 68, followed by a white damage autoshot crit of 1140.

I had about 30-40 stacks of knothide scraps and leather clogging up my bank. A guildie turned them into heavy knothide for me. I have 55 heavy knothide now. Should I keep them? Save them? I think I’m going to need to save them for the leg enchants or something. I guess that means I need some cobra scales now.

My Mage is still really fun.  I kinda still suck with them, but it’s fun to get my +fire damage gear on and watch big numbers crit all over the place.

I don’t miss crafting professions.

Blizzard needs to make more quivers and ammo pouches from level 40-70.

I love the fact that you have to take Halaa to get the special Halaa ammo.

I hate it when I run out of Halaa ammo.

I really want a flying dragon.  I’m really not excited about grinding 5k more gold.

Happy patch day.