Heroic Sartharion 3D, NOW IN TECHNICOLOR!

So last night we walked into Sartharion's Lair, the Obsidian Sanctum to work on Sarth 3D.

To be honest, I didn't really feel like coming home to more work when I'm overloaded at work as it is. That being said, even though I wasn't very excited to make progression I still went along and gave it my all.

It felt like we were back in our training wheel days of learning Sartharion 2D. Everyone was attempting to give it their all, but we ran into a few snags. Some healers continued to die over and over again, some missed seeing the voids on the ground, some literally jumped into the voids attempting to dodge the drake's breath as the tank was moving him.... etc.

My girlfriend and I couldn't help but feel some frustration after seeing continual wipes due to the same problems and we expressed our utmost "concern" to each other of what was occurring before our very eyes. The dps were okay for the most part as long as they continued to watch for fissures and kept a keen eye on our drake tank (he was adjusting to having to move the 1st drake into the 2nd drake's landing position, so we had to adjust our own running paths to avoid getting blasted in the face by a breath).

We had one promising run where we had downed the 2nd drake, but had instantaneously lost our Main Tank and Add Tank. Other than that we lost focus and had to call it an early night. We do have some members who lack in a decent internet connection / PC to play the game when we're attempting a difficult event like Sartharion 3D. Most attempts had followed through with a tank DCing or 1 or 2 Healers DCing all at the same time.

Some people thought we had made no progress, but with the surprise DCs .. what do you expect.

We will be headed back in there again Thursday.

Sartharion 2D Moar AoE preez.

Just when you thought that Sartharion was a cake walk... He'll take a few of his buddies with him to wreak havoc!

So we walked into Sartharion for some more progression work on Sartharion 2D last night. Since the 3.0.8 patch they gave guilds benefit to going into the portals when they spawn for each drake. So what did we try to do? Zerg Sarth and his 2 buddies and said screw the portals. Did we succeed? Lets continue..

To be curt, no. We failed with brilliant shades of red as the blood of our bandwidth inclined guild members dropped like flys to big red circles of death. What caught most people is that these void zones are HUGE. You literally have to run away from it as soon as it spawns on the ground or you'll die. I'll admit I got burned once by it, but did I do it after that? Not once. These fights really require everyone to pay attention and have a decent computer and a good internet connection.

So after 2.5 hours of attempts, we said screw it, took down a 2nd drake and one shot Sarth + 1D. At least I took home that achievement with my 60g+ repair bill :P.

I guess something to write home about was that both me and my girlfriend came out #1 and 2 on dps for the kill haha. Besides that it was a pretty uneventful night.

Oh yeah, we did happen to run 10 Maly and Sarth 1D on Sunday, and I picked up the shield off of Malygos for an off set piece :D. Pretty cool shield that one is.

I think we're headed back into Naxx tonight, so keep an eye out for a post of fun, slight boredom and possibly new lewts (zomg, NightKnight might get something new?) .

Give Me Some Achievements Baby!

Well, the past few days have been pretty eventful. Since the last post, I cleared 25 Naxx, 10 Malygos and 10 Sartharion + 1 Drake for the first time with my new guild.

When I wasn't raiding, I went on some runs to finish off my Northrend Dungeon Master and Champion of the Frozen Wastes (clear all heroic dungeons and 10 or 25 sarth, maly and Naxx).

Woot! Longest title ever haha. Thanks to my sweetie for pushing me along and helping me get those last dreadful heroics over with ;).

Even though I miss my old guild terribly, I have to say that the new guild is a nice change of pace. Almost everyone in the guild is friendly and helpful (maybe because I'm one of their top dps? lol just kidding!!). I'm back under a DKP system again which I don't mind and it's pretty fair overall. I tend to be on doing nothing during raid times / days anyways so I end up getting in and making my way through and getting my fair share of the DKP.

So now I've officially gone through all of the content except for Sartharion 2D and 3D (we're going in tonight for 2D 25man). I don't see an issue with getting geared up for Ulduar at this pace with a running head start :).

I guess its back to the grind again.. just needed to take a break and spout off on something before I freak out with my current work on my plate.

Heroic Malygos down, 1/2 Heroic Naxx last night

Hey all!

Last night I was invited by the new guild to help them out in Heroic: Eye of the Eternity and to my surprise to do some of Heroic Naxxramas as well.

I walked in knowing the fight for Malygos having done it on normal (but never succesfully lol) and we 3 shot him last night. We had a few people not ready and we ran into an issue with one of the bugs people have been experiencing in the instance. It really is a straight forward encounter and not very difficult as long as you stick together :).

So we headed then to Naxxramas. I was pleasently surprised to find out that I'm still able to top damage having only changed out 2 pieces of gear (t7 legs and loatheb's shadow) since the last time I ran with these guys around 2 months ago. They had boasted about their one ret paladin that supposedly "replaced" me when I didnt join them back when I was running 10 mans with them and they were right, he is a pretty good ret paladin :D. I had to show him up when I walked in though, so I brought my A-game and kept up with their top 5 dps: 2 mages, 1 Hunter, 1 Rogue and the other Ret pally (I ended up #1-3 on boss fights). Surprisingly there was one rogue that was able to keep up with me in dps, though he definitely out geared me lol.

I saw the one ring I've had an eye on for a long while (Ruthlessness) drop and I couldn't bid on it :(. Ah well, I was just glad I got to get in for a random run with them and spend some time with the gf. Everyone seemed happy to have me come with them though they of course had to give me crap about not joining earlier (even though I joined just to be with my girl :D).

As a side note of hilarity... One of the main tanks got "Tanked" last night and was giving some interesting input on Ventrillo last night lol. Lets just say he couldn't seem to get his mouth moving as fast as his brain wanted to talk :P.