Last night we were doing Shade of Aran and I was, as usual, in berserker stance to pummel his spell casts. I don’t normally pay much attention to my damage but for some reason I did last night, and I came up with a new entry for my list of wishes.
After running the daily heroic (Ramps) the other night me (as Muriel, holy priest) and a few of my guildies (Atania the combat rogue, Imdestiny the shadow priest, Veloreynn the fire mage, and Wutan the protection paladin) caught a show in World’s End Tavern in Lower City in Shattrath. I think someone went home with the bassist but I won’t say who.
So I was flipping through this week’s issue of The New Yorker and I came across this cartoon. I stared at it for a long time. Not only was I unable to find it funny, I was unable to even understand it. Eventually I realized that I was reading “cc” as “crowd control” instead of “carbon copy.”
We’ve been raiding Karazhan since March. We aren’t clearing the place in one night, Nightbane still gives us trouble, and we haven’t downed Netherspite yet (never had the time to really work on him), but it’s now routine for us and isn’t considered progression raiding anymore. Not only are we much better at raiding Karazhan, we are also considerably less careful. My good friend Wutan the protection paladin and I like to sometimes see how quickly we can clear through trash. Once upon a time we took as few mobs as possible — often double-tanking a single mob. Now it’s as many as we can reach. This drives Atania the threat-conscious rogue crazy. “Uh, who is MT?” Our response: “Whoever has aggro.” Also we have adopted the following rule:
Adds that don’t result in a wipe or the death of significant raid members (i.e., tanks and healers) are not adds. It’s called chain pulling.
We also have set I think a our own little pre-WotLK achievement goal for Karazhan:
Karazhan Facepull Champions: Kill every boss in Karazhan after a facepull.
Our latest facepull was last night. I was going to off-tank Maiden. Everyone was in position and I was getting ready to run in after Wutan had aggro. I figured I wasn’t close enough to provoke Maiden since Atania was closer. Of course it didn’t occur to me then that Atania was stealthed.
Karazhan was once quite stressful for us. Well it was for me. Last night Keredria was teasing me about how I used to freak out when the ghostly stewards would make me drunk. “I’m going down!” I would scream. Now when I say I’m going to die she simply says “no you’re not” with a her “you big baby” tone of voice.
I think the silly mistakes actually make a farming raid more fun whether they be facepulls, falling to your death in the library section, or accidentally shooting the audience during the Opera event.
Well, some forums are ok — perhaps I am just lazy. Anyway I have a macro problem. I am trying to create a mouseover devastate macro. I’ve toyed with these in the past. Now I think that at one point I had come up with a version of the macro where if I my mouse was over a mob that was out of range it would devastate my current target rather than trying to devastate the mouseover target only to tell me that it is out of range. I find this very appealing because sometimes I lose track of my mouse when tanking and I don’t want to have it tell me “out of range” when really want to devastate my current target. Another reason why I want this functionality is that I want to use the same button for both “normal” devastate as well as “mouseover” devastate. I’m not sure if that is a great idea, but I want to experiment with it.
On the side I’ve been leveling an elemental shaman after being inspired to try a dps hybrid class with the potential to heal. Until 60 it was relatively easy going once I got to about 40. Now in the past I hadn’t paid my attention to experience. Of course I knew that the amount of experience to level increases with level, and that the amount of experience rewarded from quests was increased recently for levels 20-60, and I knew that the amount of experience necessary to level from 60-70 was quite a bit more, relatively, but I had no idea just how much more until I dinged 60. Until I recently updated my interface with Trinity Bars I just had that experience bar at the bottom of my screen and usually only considered experience-to-next-level in terms of a percentage or the number of “bubbles.” But that bar is gone now with my new interface so I enabled a bar with the X-Perl Unitframes add-on to display the amount of experience gained at a given level and the amount of experience necessary to level. OMFG! Almost 500K experience to 61?!?!!!!! A simple graph from WoW Wiki makes it all too clear.
I am not sure how I managed to level three other toons to 70 and not realize how significant the change was from levels 1-60 to levels 60-70. Perhaps it was because I was leveling toons for distinct roles that I wanted to try (tank, dps, and healer). I am not sure what I am going to do with my shaman. I already have a dps caster. Enhancement doesn’t appeal to me. And I’m quite happy healing with my holy priest. Maybe Makawee will need to take a little vacation at Honor Hold until I get inspired again or find some novel role for her. PvP perhaps?
Prince Malchezaar saved my life Saturday night. We had a pattern of infernal drops during the third phase that put me too far away from the raid but also penned me in. I started to move across the infernals’ blast radius while popping all my cooldowns to get in range of the healers, but it was clear that I wasn’t going to make it. But then Prince did his knock-back thing and tossed me over the infernals and to precisely where I needed to be relative to the raid. Nice.
Incidentally, I have yet to see the warrior/priest/druid Tier 4 token drop from Prince. 
Like most of you I did my time grinding Shattered Sun Offensive reputation. It isn’t much fun for a protection warrior, even in DPS gear. I heard that if you are really leet you’d just run Magister’s Terrace over and over again for reputation, ideally on heroic mode for the extra reputation, badges, and loot. So I wrote a little parody about it. Here’s a link to the video for the original song. This isn’t my first Dire Straits song parody.
Badges for Nothing
Now look at them raiders
That’s the way you do it
You get your rep running MGT
That ain’t grinding
That’s the way you do it
Badges for nothin and the loot’s for free
Now that ain’t grinding
That’s the way you do it
Lemme tell ya them guys are leet
Maybe get an upgrade for your mainhand weapon
Maybe get an upgrade for your feetWe gotta kill these Dawnblade Blood Elfs
Grinding nagas to get their keys
We gotta bomb these Legion forces
We gotta bomb for these NPCsSee the hardcore raider with the epics and the title
Yeah buddy, he runs for fun
That hardcore raider got his own hawkstrider
That hardcore raider he’s “…of the Shattered Sun”We gotta kill these Dawnblade Blood Elfs
Grinding nagas to get their keys
We gotta bomb the Legion forces
We gotta bomb for these NPCsI shoulda learned to make mooncloth
I shoulda learned how to mine some rocks
Look at that healer, she’s got it going in the portal
Man we could have some HoTs
And I’m out here…what’s that? Karazhan raiding?
But I’m out killing naga and freeing murloc slaves
Oh that ain’t grinding
That’s the way you do it
Get your badges for nothing and the loot’s for freeWe gotta kill these Dawnblade Blood Elfs
Grinding nags to get their keys
We gotta bomb the Legion forces
We gotta bomb for these NPCsNow that ain’t grinding
You get your rep running MGT
That ain’t grinding
That’s the way you do it
Badges for nothin and the loot’s for free
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