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was perpetually four quests short i was reading on thottbot and i finally found what i d been missing a four quest chain that starts in shadowmoon valley hot damn i was up early this morning so i figured i d get on wow and knock those four out before work the quest chain is the finding of the mold and the forging of the key for heroic hellfire citadel and the last quest in the chain was to go and kill a fel reaver to use the thing s innards for the key crap i d watched an 80th level pally die trying to kill one of those things so i knew this wasn t going to be fun well i thought let s do this i don t feel like waiting around for help i went out found a fel reaver took a deep breath and went after it surprise surprise the thing went down with my only needing to pop a bubble once early on as i flew back to complete the quest and the achievement the only thing i could think of was if it was that easy to kill a fel reaver as an 80 ret spec just what did that other pally do wrong was he using holy spec or something posted by redbeard at 7 29 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday january 26 2010 rinse and repeat i d logged in this past evening with the intention of knocking out a couple of quests nothing special or anything just wanted to get a bit more gold back after depleting my funds to get artisan riding anyway murtaugh and another guild member were on and after a few minutes of chatting they asked me if i wanted to do a quick random dungeon sure i said after a quick consultation with the boss i ve noticed that if i don t check in on the non designated wow night she tends to get testy when i spend all evening in front of the computer can t say i blame her much for that what shows up halls of stone oh joy i thought a blast from the past you see this dungeon was the first really bad pug experience i had the only other time i ran this dungeon i did not do well at first we had a dps and a pally both acting like the tank and i had trouble keeping them both healed then while i was trying to drink to replenish all of my mana the pally the true designated tank kept running on ahead and getting himself into trouble there s one thing about the tank running on ahead when they can do that see murtaugh s kriegtrommel for an example but quite another when the pally isn t that overpowered then after the second set of trash mobs the pally turns on me and asks me if i can heal this instance or not after i replied that i have to keep drinking he points out arcane torrent and divine plea and that i should use them well duh except that i m replenishing 80 of my mana not 20 after the first boss the giant who turns you to stone he runs on ahead before even letting me get a chance to get unstoned one trash mob later and he just up and disappears leaving the rest of the party in the lurch damn that sucked yeah i could have done some stuff better i tried to make liberal use of beacon of light to keep him up and running while keeping the others going but that was the first time i felt overwhelmed in trying to keep everyone afloat i ve had it easy keeping our regular group healed krieg as the tank was overpowered compared to just about anything else and this was a real test with people who didn t have the epic gear and might not have known all the angles so this return to the scene of the crime was going to be interesting one difference was that this time i was going as dps i didn t bother switching to holy spec and running as the healer and that i d known enough as the healer to help my dps work the simple things like let the stinking tank get all the mobs to aggro on him before you start using your judgements are incredibly important a healer doesn t want to have to heal every little mistake since it takes mana away from the tank anyway this run went well i ended up biting it at the very end quite literally the very end but that was okay an aoe got me i think about 3 4 of the way through i asked murtaugh how many more bosses we had and he said one i think he thought i was keeping an eye on the clock but really i had no idea i d never finished this damn thing before and here i was going through it the first time on heroic mode but hey it all worked for the best i ended up with a nice belt for my holy spec and a good 2h sword for ret spec um my skill level for 2h swords needs work but other than that thanks for the run gang and thank goodness you guys helped me put that bad experience to rest posted by redbeard at 12 18 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday january 23 2010 real life ungoro cave i just thought this was amazing posted by deftig at 1 12 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday january 21 2010 amusing post on the official forums http forums worldofwarcraft com thread html topicid 21971497420 sid 1 somebody got the idea of following the popular tv show who s line is it anyway suggestions are given in the thread and participants try to act or emote out the given suggestion in a random pug group isn t anonymity great posted by deftig at 1 00 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday january 20 2010 an open letter to blizzard dear blizzard when your character is going through the storm peaks questline that ends up with a warbear either show the entire picture of the brunnhildar warrior maiden disguise or your regular character in the armory picture putting the warrior maiden and then covering her up in armor is a mite bit disconcerting since it looks like quint had a sex change operation signed the management posted by redbeard at 1 58 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday january 18 2010 how long is too long to set the stage for this question 3 3 is released and the battered hilt item is available i was excited to learn that you can actually get a great weapon with out having to do raids plus i remember warriors from my first raiding guild taking great lengths to farm up for the book drop that started the quest for the quel sarrar it was a pretty cool quest line that gave a unique item that just looked cool i was always disappointed that rogues my main back then never got a similar quest line anyhow 3 3 is released and the drop rate for the battered hilt that starts the quest for this sword is bugged and blizzard had erroneously set the drop rate at 10 they quickly adjusted it in time for my gear to get good enough to run the new heroics though and it s back down to 1 so back on topic i have now killed scourgelord tyrannus 30 times and the last boss in the forge of souls roughly the equal amount of times just slightly less i know these instance well enough to describe every pull in vivid detail in fact i d say on the average run through the pit of saron there is roughly 36 trash mobs i have to clear that actually have a chance of dropping the hilt give or take a few depending if people are doing the quest in there on their first run through and the average forge of souls run you clear roughly 31 trash mobs that could possibly drop the hilt on my combined runs thus far i have killed roughly 2 010 mobs that have a chance at dropping the hilt and i have seen two hilts drop but lost the rolls as per my usual stacked dice they re just stacked against me so i ask how long is too long how many more times can i throw myself at the mercy of tanking for random pugs hoping that a hilt drops and i actually win which by the way my chance of getting a hilt and actually winning would be 02 how depressing is that not as depressing as the thought of subjecting myself to further torture by means of pug posted by deftig at 6 42 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday january 17 2010 a short ponderable is quintalan going to hell for working with both the dehta and hemet nesingway posted by redbeard at 10 46 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday january 16 2010 care to find out what we ve been up to just check out the new rss character achievement feeds blizzard implemented this feature to armory recently along with a 3d model viewer which is now integrated into bottom of the page now i just need to get the layout right so that the 3d viewers are next to each other that would be nice cool stuff edit got the layout right as well as a new background picture on the title looking good posted by deftig at 8 41 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday january 11 2010 hmmm to get some of the quest achievements for northrend you have to have completed a certain number of quests in each area now i know that i left quite a few quests on the table when i moved to dragonblight from borean tundra but i figured i was finished with howling fjord when i moved away from there looking over the number of quests left to reach the achievement for howling fjord however i see that i must be wrong where the heck are those extra 20 quests anyway inquiring minds want to know posted by redbeard at 6 20 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday january 6 2010 wow earlier today way earlier don t ask i finished the wrathgate questline which included the cutscene and it s subsequent follow up powerful stuff i like the complexity and depth of the characters portrayed not necessarily in the cutscene which is pretty standard but in the events following the cutscene i was already predisposed to like thrall but his pathos after the confrontation with varian wynn and jaina s intervention is very cutting his discussion with saurfang about the dashing of his hopes and dreams for his people reveals more layers underneath him than what you d expect and you can see now why he rules from the valley of wisdom in orgrimmar by comparison sylvanas is motivated by hatred grief and the desire for vengeance those blind spots enabled her to be unwittingly manipulated by varimathras and instead of learning wisdom this experience seems to have fueled her desires further varian wynn and jaina are the most stereotypical of the four main characters not counting varimathras with varian s overt racism providing the kindling for the destruction of the tentative collaboration between horde and alliance in northrend the push in northrend now seems to take a more desperate tone as arthas proved in the cutscene he is still the master of all only the blight is the potential game changer that the alliance and horde can use and that has been taken from them by the betrayal of the apothecaries i m now really curious how the subsequent quests will play out given all that has happened in the interim posted by redbeard at 6 25 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday january 5 2010 beacon schmeacon ever since i ve begun to pay attention to beacon of light in the holy spec bag of tricks i ve discovered an annoying side effect spam healing ideally you slap beacon of light on a tank just before a big fight so that you can heal not only everybody else but the tank as well it s great in theory but when you re running through an instance without a clue as to what s up ahead you end up healing the tank when it s not necessary the trash mobs may or may not do a lot of damage and unless you know the instance and the tank pretty well odds are good you re going to misjudge when you need beacon of light result spam heals on the tank side result healer looks like he s wasting mana part of being a good healing paladin is actually anticipating when someone is going to need healing so that you can start the flash of light holy light spells just before they re going to get thwacked if you don t know the instance you run a greater chance of misjudging when to start the healing a short example the first time we went through drak tharon keep i was juggling everybody and keeping bodies up in the air we survived pretty well all the way up until we reached king dred and then the debuffs he threw down simply overwhelmed my ability to keep up being too close to dred when he unleashed bellowing roar didn t help either and the party ended up wiping the next time i ran through the keep i anticipated what was ahead and not only kept out of range but was ready and casting the healing spells slightly before dred unleashed his attacks that kind of ties in with something that i ve noticed about the new dungeon finder tool if there s a drawback to the tool it s that the random selector will throw the noob for a loop for the noob every instance is new and with the instant gratification of the tool there s no time to strategize beforehand with your group before you re off and running of course that sort of issue will crop up in regular old pickup groups as well but you can minimize that by getting a feel for the people and the instance you ll be going through beforehand while the healadin s tools are great there s no substitute for experience and advice posted by redbeard at 12 53 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest newer posts older posts home subscribe to comments atom pages home about parallel context about redbeard contact us azeroth after dark a parallel context companion site mmo podcasts blizzard watch diablo 4 lord of hatred waiting room 2 days ago podcasts massively overpowered massively op podcast episode 563 in the name of the windrose 4 days ago twisted nether blogcast moving to youtube episodes 346 348 3 months ago battle bards the final refrain 1 year ago ootinicast a star wars the old republic swtor podcast ootinicast episode 503 1 year ago mmo blogroll massively overpowered why i play there s something special about lord of the rings online 2 hours ago the ancient gaming noob tagn fantasy 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