Starting to Get the Hang of it

I have been spending most nights in Ulduar either healing or tanking. We have been doing more 10 mans to get people acquainted with the fights. That endeavor has been going well and I hope that translates to a better 25 man Ulduar this weekend. Most of the fights are not technically that difficult but they all have a positioning requirements and area awareness. Once people get the hang of where they should be and when things seem to go pretty smoothly. Razorscale is one fight that has random unavoidable deaths when the same person is fireballed back to back and Hodir has a similar issue when you get two caves ins on the same person. The Cave ins are avoidable because there is a falling snow indication but it is sometimes very hard to tell where that snow is actually falling.

I am tanking 25 mans and healing 10 mans. I have been adjusting to the changes they did to priest healing but so far it feels like the changes were for the best. I am back to topping the healing charts. The 10 man raids are perfect for our new targetable POH (Prayer of Healing) so that we can quickly heal a whole group at a time. On XT-002 I use POH during the tantrums and it works perfect.

Do you have any hints or tips for priests in Ulduar?

Finished by Mimiron and Ready to Start Over

Well last week was exciting. We skipped Ignis and cleared all the way to Mimiron. Mimiron and his invisible landmines and nasty bombs kept us at bay. We got into phase 3 but that was our breaking point. I feel good about the week because we learned a lot strategies and made a ton of progress. I have to admit that by Friday I was tired of raiding would have been happier to do anything including fishing than my normal tanking or healing. I don't think I will never run 10 man Uld again because the gear was mediocre and I really don't need more badges. I will probably run 25 Uld (on my tank and healer) and dps Naxx 25 on my mage.

What were my favorite Changes this week?
The 10% quest experience increase from the heirloom shoulders... My shammy may actually see 80 some day.
Fishing Daily... It is helping me level fishing on all my characters and I have fished up some fun stuff.
Ulduar bosses... Deconstructor is awesome

What disapointed me this week?
The argent tournement... there should have been more or a variety of quests because I am dead bored of them after only 5 days.
Blizzard stating that Uld 10 would be puggable... Yeah good luck with that. The instance is way to hard for pug groups.

My thoughts on Priest changes...
I got a chance to break out my priest this week in Uld 10 and I must say I am very happy with the priest changes. I miss my out of combat mana regen but my in combat mana regen has gone up so I can't complain much. The new renew is very nice with that up front heal and when it crits I get a free heal. The speedy greater heals were awesome. I am looking forward to see how I do on some of the longer fights.

You can see our fights in Ulduar at http://www.wowmeteronline.com/browse/guild/16324

Ulduar... The Funnest Place on Earth

Our guild decided to try a couple 10 man Ulduar groups last night to help learn fights. We downed a few new bosses starting with Razorscale. Razorscale was fairly easy if you ignore the adds while the boss is attackable and just focus on him. We skipped Ignis due to him being highly bugged at the moment and when straight to XT-002. That was a fun fight just listening to the boss and we found that tanking the big adds and just focusing on dpsing the heart and dowing the little adds quickly worked beautifully. Don't kill the heart because that starts hard mode and you might not be ready for that. Then we got a scare walking into Kologarns room. Whoa is he a big fella. We just dpsed his right arm and him avoiding the eye lasors and that only took a couple attempts. The Iron Counsil was probably the biggest challenge yet but after we figure out all the buffs and debuffs we finally did it.

Looking forward to more bosses tonight!

Kicked out of Ulduar ... Again

This makes the second night in a row that my guild has been booted from Ulduar. I figured it would be spotty but this is a horrible tease. We downed one boss (flame leviathan) last night, even managed to get the heroic shutout achievement for him. After clearing a bit of trash we made our first attempt on Ignis (damn he hits hard) and then we were unable to get back in the instance. Tonight we were making progress on Razorscale but 3 attempts is all we got before we were unable to get back in.

I guess I will go level my shammy while we wait for things to get fixed.

The Long Wait...

Works done... done reading patch notes.... now what? I find myself musing over King Wrynn why he would hate the horde. The Horde had nothing to do with his incarceration or the death of his wife yet he seems to blame the Horde for everything. I think if anything Thrall is a bit of a fluffy bunny. He would happily sign a truce with the alliance make piece for all the lands. It is the Alliance that seems to feel that they must kill all the Horde before they can have peace. Having played both sides with much more time on the Horde side I can honestly say that the Horde is the more peaceful side.

That aside they need to hurry this maintenance up so we can get back to play!

Ulduar here we come!

I picked a bad time to have teeth pulled! The day before the 3.1 patch.... Why me? So When all this cool new stuff if available I will be in a semi-awake state wishing my face had never been born... I think that was the pain killers talking. Any way... I did do a little flask prep run last night and I had already been hording gems and enchanting mats so that when this happened I wouldn't have to go broke trying to deal with new gear. Who will it be Remy (tank) or Luna (heals) that will get to see Ulduar first? I am betting on Remy because good tanks will most likely be harder to find tonight than healers.

What am I looking forward to in 3.1?
Don't laugh.. Fishing anywhere I want to! I have high level fishing on two of my characters but I would love to level it on all of my characters and the only thing holding me back was the though of hanging out in TB or ORG for hours at a time with nothing else to do. Of course the new fishing daily is going to be cool also.
Argent Tournament is going to be big for Remy because she is a pet collector and they have some cool pets!
My first piece of T8!

See you all on the flip side!

Dude? Where's my Noblesgarden?

I am an avid reader and try to keep up to date with all the WoW news so I new at least week ago that they had postponed Noblesgarden to the 26th of April. My mom and other players I know had not seen this news so they thought they were just really sucking at finding eggs this morning. Finally I got a call... " Where did they move the Eggs to?".. I sadly had to inform them that they wouldn't be finding eggs until the new date but they were happy to know they hadn't missed it and that there would be more to do this year. I am personally looking forward to it because LunaFreya is on course to get her Violet Protodrake this fall when Octoberfest rolls around. I personally hope that Ulduar doesn't happen until after Noblesgarden so it doesn't interfere with my holiday fun.

Pre-Patch Boredom

I wish Blizzard would keep patches hidden from us and spring them on us like a surprise gift because as soon as people here there is a big patch coming they immediately stop caring about anything but that upcoming patch. We were tearing up Naxx 25, Maly and multiple drake Sarth and then the patch was announced and now we are lucky if I can get people interested in Naxx 10 or 25. Even I have lost interest because no one else cares at the moment.

It has gotten so bad that I am leveling alliance characters on a friends server. I love leveling but I have all my slots used on Twisting Nether and only 2 of those are low enough that I could make myself delete them so I could roll the newest cool thing that blizzard might give us. I wish they would give leveling addicts like myself some options for moving 80's to other servers when all your slots are filled so I can mostly stay on my favorite server.

Off to play with my new pally and shammy...

Twisting Nether Refugees

Northrend was down last night on Twisting Nether and there were a lot of us in Vent bored out of our skulls. So what did we do? Go roll alliance on another server. We often do this out of boredom when the servers are down. We once all rolled gnomes and I led a charge to Goldshire where we intended to kill Hogger. Funny how that would be so mundane for an alliance but new and fun for the horde. I decided to start a Draenai Shaman because my recent personal goal for WoW is to level a shaman. We were having so much fun we decided to start a guild, Twisting Nether Refugees. Now we all a place to go when our server or major pieces of our server are down.