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Tier 14 completed

Posted by Peter (Devee) on March 21, 2013
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Grand Empress Shek'zeer

We might be a little late, but we recently completed tier 14. In the screenshot above, we’re standing next to the body of Grand Empress Shek’zeer, our last t14 boss.

Previously we had finished Mogu’shan Vaults, gone 4/6 in Heart of Fear, and entered Terrace of Endless Spring a grand total of zero times. We started off our new adventure with Terrace of Endless Spring, skipping the end of Heart of Fear. Protectors of the Endless were pretty easy, and I didn’t even take any video or screenshots.

Tsulong

Tsulong was a fun fight, but maybe I’m biased being a healer. I’m glad to see Blizzard incorporate healing in odd ways. Hopefully these types of fights become a little more common than Valithria Dreamwak and Tsulong.

You can watch our kill above.

Lei Shi

Lei Shi is my least favorite boss of this tier. She’s so annoying! Does Blizzard want certain bosses to have terribly annoying voices? I don’t understand.

And here’s her kill video.

Sha of Fear

Here we killed what’s supposed to be the final raid boss of the tier, the Sha of Fear. It was a fairly simple fight, but I still enjoyed it. As an aside, it’s one of the more enjoyable LFR fights as well because there’s something to do.

Sha of Fear again

We actually posed in this one, but the body had already despawned. Oh well. I don’t have a video because I forgot to delete a large number of old videos, and my HDD filled. Whoops.

Amber-Shaper Un'sok

We moved on to Amber-Shaper Un’sok. This was a surprisingly difficult fight. I think the main problem is that everyone can’t practice at the same time. You might get the hang of being in the construct, but then you might not get put in it next time.

Once again, our kill video is here.

You can see our kill video for Grand Empress Shek’zeer here, and our kill shot is at the top of this post. This was a fun fight. This was going to be our final attempt whether successful or not. In fact, we had already called the raid but decided to give it one more try. I won the pants on a bonus roll, which I’ll only use once I break this tier set, and I won the mace, Kri’tak, Imperial Scepter of the Swarm, off the boss herself. Good bye, tier 14!

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!

Townlong Steppes and Dread Wastes

Posted by Peter (Devee) on November 5, 2012
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Mooglegem and I worked on Townlong Steppes and the Dread Wastes this weekend. Here we were looking for a yak in Townlong Steppes. This one was quite mean… and smelly, angry, and, dare I say, very bad. He was a cute too.

I loved this quest, The Terrible Truth. While investigating the Sha of Fear, this quest led me to some infested catacombs. When I saw my screen go red and my health drop to practically dead, I panicked. I felt the fear of dying, and I quickly used CDs and began to spam heals. When my health didn’t increase, I realized the truth. I, the player, had succumbed to the Sha of Fear just as my character had. I love it when games play with emotion, and this one of the best I’ve experienced.

We also found the missing Titanic Watcher, Huggalon! Of course there needed to be another watcher! He drops the B.F.F. Necklace, which lets you put a B.F.F. buff on someone. We waited for him to respawn so we could each get one, and then we gave each other the B.F.F. buffs (because we’re B.F.F.’s).

At Niuzao Temple we made sure to stop and play with Niuzao, the Black Yak. He’s cute too. He seems to spend his days running in circles around the temple.

After finishing Townlong Steppes, we ventured into the Dread Wastes where we met the Klaxxi. This was a very interesting zone. It’s not very often that we get such detailed lore about an enemy race.

When we were tasked with walking Dog the sea lion around the waters off the coast of the Dread Wastes, we had to take a picture. I want to take Dog with me everywhere!

And before you say that Dog wouldn’t like the dry land, look here! He’s totally hanging out on dry land with Mooglegem and looks very happy about it.

Not all of the Dread Wastes looked like a wasteland. Here’s a very lush, bright picture showing the other aspect of the zone. For a place called the Dread Wastes, the zone was actually quite beautiful. I think there’s a sense of elegance to the sha-twisted trees even.

With the completion of the Dread Wastes came Loremaster of Pandaria. I’ve never finished a loremaster achievement so early! It’s nice to see the story in the correct order.