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Ahead of the Curve: Lei Shen

Posted by Peter (Devee) on August 9, 2013
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Lei Shen

We did it! Two weeks after first having killed the Twin Consorts, we attempted Lei Shen for the first time. After seventeen wipes, we managed to kill him! I’m very excited and extremely relieved. I still want to repeat it for the people who weren’t there, get more gear, and maybe push some heroic bosses for gear, but this was the big moment. Especially considering that there’s no way we’re going to finish heroic mode by the next patch, this was the big “end game” goal for us for this tier.

It’s also special for me. I’ve been raiding this tier with the guild, Carpe Flux Capacitor, since the beginning, and now it’s completed. During tier 14, we finished Mogu’shan Vaults, but we didn’t complete the other two raids. In tier 13, we raided Dragon Soul, but we stopped raiding long before the end. I did manage to complete the raid before Mists of Pandaria was released, but it wasn’t with the guild.

I was taking a break from WoW for much of tier 12. In my first time in the Firelands, I joined a PUG at the request of a guildie. They needed a healer for Ragnaros. I pointed out that not only had I never killed him, I had never entered the raid. They discussed it and let me join. I pulled him by accident before we were all ready. They didn’t kick me. We killed him, and I won loot. The next week, we finished Firelands as a guild. At the time, the guild hadn’t yet killed Ragnaros. When we killed the previous boss, my achievement suddenly popped for finishing the raid. While I completed the raid, I didn’t work for it all tier.

In tier 11 I was with a different guild, Playground Brigade, made of friends I knew from out of WoW just for that tier. We fell apart in the middle of the tier. We were 5/6 Blackwing Descent, 2/4 Bastion of Twilight, and 1/2 Throne of the Four Winds.

Tier 10 was my first current-tier raid. I had just hit level 80 and joined Carpe Flux Capacitor. I was an alternate, and my first boss was Deathbringer Saurfang. Maybe I wasn’t there from the absolute very beginning, but we pushed the entire tier, and yes, we finished the raid (as well as Ruby Sanctum).

I mention all this because it means this is only the second raid tier for which I worked the entire tier with my guild and still completed. Carpe, thanks for being a great guild (and taking me back after my one-tier stint with another guild). Here’s hoping next tier goes smoothly well. Let’s take back Orgrimmar!

 

Troves of the Treasure King

Posted by Peter (Devee) on March 11, 2013
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I managed to find a Key to the Palace of Lei Shen recently, which allowed me to access the Troves of the Thunder King. I like Blizzard’s use of the scenario mechanic here. Going forward, I think it’ll be a cool system.

The idea behind the Troves of the Thunder King is a good one. You have a limited amount of time to open as many chests as possible. It’s a simple enough concept. You’ll see in my video that I had a bit of a problem. Since 5.2, when I receive currency my game locks up for a few seconds. This wouldn’t be a huge problem, but the Troves of the Thunder King is timed. I lost a significant amount of time due to this bug. I need to do some troubleshooting to learn what’s causing this.

Despite that problem, I’d consider my plundering successfully. I got a decent handful of Elder Charms of Good Fortune, which were what I was really after. I plan on running Terrace of Endless Spring LFR repeatedly using my charms on Lei Shi and Sha of Fear so I can finish my tier set. I might need to do the same on Will of the Emperor in Mogu’shan Vaults LFR for my trinket. Additionally, it’d be nice to be able to use a charm on every 5.0 raid boss kill that has poor I need. I’ll be happy when I don’t need to worry about any of this old gear!

Ahead of the Curve

Posted by Peter (Devee) on March 6, 2013
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aheadOfTheCurve

I knew that we were getting Feats of Strength for completing 5.0 raids before 5.2 hit, but I was under the impression it was run Feat of Strength for completing the entire tier on normal and a second for completing the entire tier on heroic. I was quite surprised to find this Feat of Strength when I played last night.

When you earned an achievement is, in many cases, as important as whether or not you earned it at all. In my personal tracking here on Kor’kron 501st, I always note what patch I downed a boss. I’ve been hoping for a while that Blizzard would add the patch at the time of earning the achievement next to the date, but they don’t seem to think it’s important. Giving a Feat of Strength for completing a raid when it’s current fulfills the same role (at least for raids).

I hope Blizzard will continue to award this type of Feat of Strength. I wouldn’t mind seeing similar Feats of Strength for the Glory of the Raider achievements and Loremaster achievements at the end of each expansion.

 

Carpe’s Off-Raid Day

Posted by Peter (Devee) on February 13, 2013
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On Saturday we decided to raid Mogu’shan Vaults because our normal raid nights are now only Heart of Fear. When we got to Elegon, we decided to try to earn “And… It’s Good!” for flying through the rings. We got it, and now you can share in our joy by watching the above video!

Afterward we went to complete “A Change of Command,” a quest for the second chapter of Wrathion’s quests. If you’re worried, the video doesn’t have any spoilers. It’s just a fight, but it does take a group of people. We did it with 10. It was a pretty fun fight especially considering it’s a mob out in the world!

First kills of Will of the Emperor and Imperial Vizier Zor’lok

Posted by Peter (Devee) on January 31, 2013
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Will of the Emperors Kill

Last night was the second time we saw the Will of the Emperor in normal mode. It was a pretty easy fight, and we downed it quickly! No gear from this, although last night while clearing through Elegon I got a raid world drop trinket, Jade Magistrate Figurine (replacing a Coren Direbrew DPS trinket, actually), and necklace, Zian’s Choker of Coalesced Shadow from The Spirit Kings.

You can watch our kill above! I hope we didn’t chatter too much or say anything stupid.

Imperial Vizier Zor'lok

Last night was then our first time entering Heart of Fear (not counting Raid Finder). On our first attempt of Imperial Vizier Zor’lok, he glitched and didn’t despawn after our wipe. We ended up resetting the raid, which means we had to clear trash again. Bad news, right? Wrong! I got a raid world drop, Gleaming Moth Cuffs. They replaced rare quality wrists, so this was a huge upgrade.

The fight wasn’t too bad at all! Again, you can see our kill video above. I apologize again if we say anything stupid… such as me thinking my raid leader gave me loot when it was actually from the Elder Charm of Good Fortune I stupidly used. But I did win Gloves of Grasping Claws! I also used valor to upgrade my Kri’tak, Imperial Scepter of the Swarm (raid finder) once. Lots of good upgrades this week.

You can see our World of Logs report here.

Elegon is eleGONE!

Posted by Peter (Devee) on January 25, 2013
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Elegon dead

What a fantastic raid week! We had cleared up to Elegon on Tuesday, giving us Wednesday to work on Elegon. We had to work out some changes to our raid team due to scheduling, but we found a solution and proceeded with the celestial dragon slaying. It took us a number of attempts, but this is the kind of raiding that I love. It was challenging, but we got better with each attempt. We learned, changed our strategies, and eventually killed him!

Elegon was probably the most fun boss I’ve done yet this expansion, but maybe I’m just still happy we killed him. It was also one of the first times in a while in which I stopped casting altogether so save mana. Now we just have one more boss to go in Mogu’shan Vaults!

 

Spirit Kings are spirits for good now

Posted by Peter (Devee) on January 18, 2013
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Spirit Kings

Hot on the heels of Tuesday’s first kill of Gara’jal the Spiritbinder, we one shot the Spirit Kings! We had never even attempted this boss before ever (because we had just killed Gara’jal for the first time). It was definitely a good night! No loot dropped for me, but I’m happy anyways!

After our one shot, we went to try Elegon. We wiped twice on the trash. Apparently trash is more difficult than bosses. We got one attempt in on Elegon before we had to call it, but next week should be great!

Mooglegem and I were late to the raid because she had to work overtime. We didn’t make it online until 8:05 or so even though the raid was supposed to start at 7:00. On top of that, one member had to leave at 9:00. That means our normal 3 hours was cut down to 55 minutes. I’m amazed we still made some progress!

 

Gara’jal the Dead Troll

Posted by Peter (Devee) on January 16, 2013
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Gara'jal

Tonight (or last night by the time this gets posted) we killed Gara’jal the Spiritbinder for the first time. Yes, yes, I know it’s late in the tier, but I’m still very happy! We didn’t really have problems with him either. We had a few delays, including an hour break in the middle of the raid, and we still downed him fairly early. I’m confident that we can get through the first three bosses in a single night in the future.

Gara’jal didn’t drop loot for me, but my Elder Charm actually came through for me! I received Sandals of the Severed Soul! Not only was it an upgrade, but it was better than five other possible upgrades! Woo! Tomorrow (or today) I get to see a new boss!

 

Feng down

Posted by Peter (Devee) on December 19, 2012
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Feng

Last night we managed to kill Feng the Accursed! He went down without too much trouble, and we had time to spare! One person had to leave, and we didn’t have someone to fill the spot, so he switched to LFR. We played a different sort of game there. Once we recognized that dying was best because it meant you didn’t have to do anything, I just spammed heals on guildies to keep them alive despite their best efforts.

Fun night.

 

Raid night

Posted by Peter (Devee) on December 12, 2012
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Last night went decently. We downed the Stone Guard very quickly, which was only our second kill. It was also the first for which Mooglegem was present, so I’m glad she got some personal progression. We put in some good attempts on Feng the Accursed, but we couldn’t kill him. We got him under 20% but didn’t have time to kill him. I’m confident that we will very soon though. Assuming the same people show up for our raid Thursday, I think we’ll get him then.

Our problems mostly came from learning the fight – determining when to use CDs and how to place abilities. For example, we had issues with the fires being too close, barrier placement, usage of CDs during the fires, and Feng running through fires on the transition to phase three. However, we worked through most of them.

After the raid, we killed the Sha of Anger. Unfortunately, neither Mooglegem nor I received loot, but a guildie did. This was also the first time Mooglegem got to fight the Sha of Anger, so I’d say it was a good night for her.

Here’s to Thursday!

LFR Progression

Posted by Peter (Devee) on December 5, 2012
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Last night we didn’t have enough DPS to raid, so we decided to do LFR as a group. After clearing Guardians of Mogu’shan and the Vault of Mysteries like I have the past few weeks, I would have had to stop because my ilvl wasn’t quite 470. However, my guild leader purchased the Inscribed Red Fan off-hand for me. It’s a huge jump, so I was able to continue doing LFR. We completed the Dread Approach, which was fun, and then moved on to Nightmare of Shek’zeer. While working on Amber-Shaper Un’sok, we all disconnected. After not being able to get back into the game for a few minutes, I decided it was time to sleep.

It was fun getting to see the new raid and downing four new bosses. Tonight I’ll finish it up and move on to the Terrace of Endless Spring!

Mogu’shan Vaults LFR

Posted by Peter (Devee) on November 14, 2012
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After obtaining Loremaster, doing all the dungeons, and gearing, Mooglegem and I were finally able to enter Mogu’shan Vaults. It was an enjoyable raid, although I’d probably need to run it a few more times to fully form an opinion.

When Mooglegem died, I took it upon myself to cremate my body. Don’t worry; no trolls were hurt in the recording of this picture.

We wiped a couple times on The Spirit Kings due to some bugs. We couldn’t get everyone in the room at the start of the fight. That’s fine except that when you get the boss down to 0% and people are locked out of the room, it counts as a wipe. I took the time to transform the entire raid using Hallow’s End wands. I almost got through all my wands!

When all was said and done, I managed to score two items from LFR. I’d call that a success!