It may be an expansion late but who cares … we got mounts.
Arv attempted to have a lineup shot. It went about as well as our regular kill shots. We did get a few dragons in one spot though.
Nice rear, Slice.
And of course my usual solo shot to show her off.
Not sure I’m a fan of the Alexstrasza-like horns, but at least it’s unique, sharing a model only with the mount dropped off of Deathwing.
A couple of small changes, and we got Tortos worked out. No, those changes did not include the Special Tricks used by the holy pally in Leit’s raid. They were more along the lines of having the melee spread out for the falling crap and having someone other than Adoe kick the turtles so he could concentrate solely on burning them down.
You may notice that I am missing a food buff in that shot. Yeah, I managed to die halfway through the fight. It was almost like Zarm was anticipating it, though, because I swear the brez hit my screen before my body hit the floor. We recovered, obviously … although a later bubble saved me from a second death. You can see I still have the debuff from it.
Left to right: Fat panda Wok, fat panda Sorak, that’s our cool new rogue Psynite in front of him, Arvash, Zugzuug, Adoe, Liyhe, Shadeey, and Zarm. Wait, who am I missing? Oh. Yeah. Vanicus. You know which one I am by now, right? I’m between Zug and Adoe. /facepalm
We did pulls on Megeara and it went pretty well. We were getting to the sixth head and then losing a tank, usually when a healer had Cinders and had to move. Once we get that worked out and refine the cooldown rotation, she should go down too.
Finally.
I queued for randoms in Wrath endlessly, hoping to get a Blue Drake in my Oculus goody bag. I watched others get them. Hell, I watched others get them who already *had* it and couldn’t even use it.
I queued for randoms in Cata whenever Call To Arms was up for healers, hoping for … well, anything in the way of mounts or pets. I did get some pets that I needed, but no mounts. Other people got Blue Protodrakes and the Baron’s Deathcharger … two mounts that I am still missing even after countless hours of farming.
Then, the BMAH appeared! I’ve gotten some small things from it that I had farmed for previously, like the Giant Sewer Rat. But mounts eluded me, going for far more than I could afford. Arvash paid 60k for his Blue Drake. I knew if I was patient though, eventually there would be no competition left.
Ha! Take that, Arv!
Now if only that Deathcharger would show up again.
Finally. The Council of Elders is defeated. This one took almost as many pulls as Horridon. We just couldn’t find a strat that would work for us. Then yesterday, Leit posted about his group downing them and the strat that they used. Stack ‘em up, burn ‘em down. That sounded like the kind of strat we excel at, so I linked the post to Slice and Adoe and we made plans to try it.
Raid time approaches, however, and there are issues. Adoe’s computer was misbehaving and Sorak and Wok were not online. Sorak was just running late, but Wok wasn’t going to make it. Adoe commandeered Shadeey’s computer, but of course, that left us without her. Ok, no problem, we have backups. Zug goes tank and we bring in Bocat and our shiny new rogue Psynite. It’s almost working, but we’re lacking just a bit more dps.
How do you get even moar brute force out of a brute force tactic?
We don’t need two tanks. Zug, cleave all of teh things plz.
But wait, doesn’t the tank get stunned for 15s repeatedly throughout the fight? Meh. You have CDs bitch, use them.
And, since Arv is Batman ….
Yes, it actually worked with him solo tanking it.
AND everyone lined up nicely and got in the picture.
Left to Right.
Back row is Zarm and then Sorak and Zugzuug on their birdies.
Front row is Liyhe, Psynite, Vanicus, Arvash, Bocat, Lyssianna, and Adoe.
Here’s what Lei Shen really thinks of the Zandalari.
We dropped down into the Depths, played in the waterspouts and died to some bats.
Some of us have very different reactions to the loot we receive from the trash, though.
Bo, I really don’t know what to say. :p
