Chain ‘Roics!

Ah, another weekend has passed. So what was I up to? Plenty of shenanigans, for sure.

Elgar wanted to work on his Outland reputations on Saturday and wanted to run a string of old heroics. I was ready for a break from the frantic leveling, so Kalyon went along, figuring he could use the practice tanking.

But first, as we were getting ready to go, the guild’s awesome bear tank decided to have some fun with chum in the fountain at The Eventide. That’s always good for drawing a crowd.

After that we picked up a couple more guildys and headed to Hellfire. Two of us didn’t have enough rep to get heroic keys for any of the other dungeons. We figured we could faceroll our way through them, so the pally stayed ret even though he was tanking. I guess we underestimated things a bit. And yes, the chat on the screenshot says we’re not telling anyone, but they should know by now that I screenshot *everything*. Bwahahahah!

Four dead … four dead … four dead in Hellfire

 

The rest of Hellfire went well. Elgar even had the key for Shattered Halls, so we got to do all three. Unfortunately, he ended up just short of exalted, so we’ll have to go back later.

From there, we were out of dungeons that people had enough rep to do on Heroic. So .. we went to Magister’s Terrace, and did that twice .. once on regular to unlock heroic, and then again on heroic. Good times.

A short break and some toon swapping, along with me turning in some unidentified plant parts to get honored with Cenarion (thanks Elgey!), and we were on our way again. Kaly got to tank these three. I had a screenshot of the achievement at the end of Steamvaults, but apparently I left it at home. Darnit. Owell. This section was more successful on the rep getting, as Elgar left there exalted, and went and bought himself a tabard and a Cenarion War Hippogryph.

Heroics done, we decided to do the last couple dungeons that our hunter needed for Outland Dungeonmaster. So we hit up … um … brb armory … well, looks like we did both Mana Tombs and Crypts. Wow, we were busy! Since those were on regular and not heroic, Kaly had a lot of fun loltanking them.

Elgar went shadow for the rest of the day and had some fun with mind  controlling mobs. Heck, even when he was disc healing I think he was casting mind sear more than any heals. Gotta admit, he looks pretty awesome in shadowform though … especially on my horse!

After that there was just one more dungeon the hunter needed. The two others along with us needed to log, so Kris took a break from his mad run to 80 and came and tanked The Arcatraz, letting me get some dps’ing time in.

Kris did make it to 80 late Saturday night … ok, early Sunday morning. Kaly is still behind, hitting 78 Saturday and 79 yesterday. But that’s ok … he’ll get there soon. Sometimes you just have to do fun things instead of grinding out quests and xp. Like this …

I squee every time Lil KT frostbolts a Lake Frog. It’s so awesome! Shoosh Kris, KT is waaaay better than that silly monk. =P

 

Move Over, Thrall

I’m taking over here. Everyone bow down before Kalyon, the new leader of the Horde.

Kalyon and Kris went to help the Horde take back the Undercity. Kaly just figured while they were there, they should take more than that.

Back in Northrend and with the assistance of a Scrying Orb, they observed Arthas’ discovery of Frostmourne. Naturally, Kaly tried to take that, too, but since it was just a vision it was a no go. Kris said it was too big for him anyway.

The night before, our two heroes cleared Azjol-Nerub and Ahn’kahet of Nerubians, Scourge, and Cultists. This time Kris tanked, so Kaly got to show off his leet dps skills.

They’re both 76 now, although thanks to 90 minutes spent raiding on Karius last night, Kaly is a full half level behind in xp.

Link Love For Del

I get Delerius whenever you’re near

Lose all self control baby just can’t steer

Wheels get locked in place

Stupid look on my face

Go there. Now. Del is a big soft cuddly bear who needs more readers. If you don’t, Arioch and Karius will both unleash a shatter combo on you at once. You wouldn’t want that now, would you?

I Choose You

So, last night we headed back into Ulduar for the weekly 10 man. This time we *did* have an extended ID from last week, so we went in with only a few bosses left.

We started on Iron Council, who we had tried a couple of IDs ago and given up on after wiping continuously. However, we had learned some things that time, and it only took a few tries before we got it right. Well, before most of us got it right at least. Just… ignore that message on the screenshot there about releasing, would ya? Thanks.

Hmm..wow, yeah … ignore all the skeletons on the floor too. Although, those are nothing compared to what Freya did to us. Hoo, boy. I don’t know how many attempts we made on her. I gave up on counting. We spent a good two hours wiping on her. Finally, the raid leader announces that this will be our last try. You know, I’ve read on other people’s blogs how they’ll keep wiping over and over and then one time, everything just works. Now I know what they mean.  I understand, too, that feeling of getting a boss down after so many defeats. It’s pretty exciting.

She dropped a pretty nice staff, although it’s still not as awesome as that HToC dagger that still eludes me. It has a buttload of hit … yay hit….not! I’m 40 points over the hit rating NOW. I’m going to be waaaay over it with this…and it’s all on my gear, none of it is gems or enchants. Yeah, what a terrible thing to have to complain about, right? Ok, I could whine about it being ugly, too, but I won’t. How about if I complain about how much it’s going to cost to enchant it? Yeah, there we go!

We cleared the trash leading up to Mimiron. I even got to jump in one of the Arachnopod Destroyers. Wewt! Totally cool. Then we got to Frogger 2.0 and the raid leader misdirected a bomb onto the resto shammy. Hilarious! Unfortunately, the raid leader and his better half got disconnected before we could get one try in on Mimiron, so after 10 minutes the raid assist called it there.

So, for those of you keeping score, we have 2 keepers left, plus Ignis, Vezax and Yoggy. It’s probably old scene to a lot of you, but for me … it’s pretty exciting. We’re extending for one more week in an attempt to at least get to see the whole thing. We have one or two spots that change each week but for the most part, we have a real core group, mostly all seeing this stuff for the first time.

BTW, there’s still a debate going on in the comments of my last post on what tank spec I should use for my DK. Feel free to add your own 2 cents, nothing has been decided yet, other than the fact that DW dps is teh fun.