Well, 25-man raiding is slow and… not really fun, to be quite honest. I’ve had a chat with an officer about my dissatisfaction raiding on Mingle, and have decided to take a couple of weeks (while I continue to raid) to think about what I want to do next. (I’ll be passing on loot in Ulduar as well, as it wouldn’t be right to take loot that other people can use if there’s a chance I may be not raiding on that character)
Unfortunately there’s no openings for another tank, with one of our old guildmates returning his gnome warrior to the game. (He’s a far better tank than I am, and a nice guy, so I’m not complaining about it) I’m trying to come up with ways I can get raid time (in some capacity, probably outside of the guild) on my warrior, but options are pretty limited. I might have to go raid-hunting, and see if there are any guilds who’d be willing to take a tank from outside their guild, and who raid on nights I’m not raiding on Mingle. Possibly a bit of a reach, but I’ll see what I can find.
Speaking of Dingle, she has ventured into 10-man Ulduar again, and has another boss kill under her belt. Most of the raid members are from another guild, and we managed to kill FL, Razorscale and XT-002, but Ignis and the Iron Council proved too much for us. Sadly, Dingle has no shiny tank loot to show for it (although she did pick up a dps helm that would otherwise have been sharded – I really need to gem and enchant it at some stage).
My tanking inexperience showed itself with two bosses during the raid, both bosses we couldn’t get past. First was Ignis, where I finally realised my taunts were ineffective if I hadn’t first damaged the target – I was on construct duty, and at the start had trouble keeping aggro on the constructs long enough to get them into the scorches. I also caused one wipe when I wasn’t tanking the construct far enough into the scorch, so it wasn’t picking up the debuff that turned it molten. By the end, though, I’d worked out what I had to do (and was doing it correctly, as best I can tell).
With both of these issues worked out (to my satisfaction, at least), we were left with issues with dps (we only had one character capable of enough burst damage to kill the molten constructs, who was unfortunately very attractive to Ignis, and kept getting hot-pocketed) and main-tanking (a DK who was having problems getting positioned correctly, and kept getting the scorches positioned either too far from the pools needed when killing the constructs, or positioned too close to the healers/dps who died pretty rapidly when accidentally scorched). Eventually the raidleader threw his hands up in despair and we moved on to XT (who we one-shot).
I had a brief positioning issue with the Iron Council, where I was tasked with tanking Steelbreaker at the start, and didn’t pull him out of his damage-amplifying rune quick enough on one attempt, but in general the group just didn’t perform well enough get any further (although it was getting pretty late at that stage).
Other than that, I’ve been putting some time (and gold) into leveling Kringle over the last few days. He’s currently about a third of the way through 79, and should be 80 today if I don’t get distracted (which is pretty likely).
Some time fishing on Kringle yesterday means he’s now officially a fisherman – which by my standards means he has the 200 points of fishing skill required to equip and use his Fishing Pole. That gives me 6 characters I can do the fishing daily on, which is about the only daily I’m doing regularly currently (apart from the cooking daily for Fingle and Kringle, who are both working towards the 100 Dalaran Cooking Awards achievement – they’ve both passed the 50 awards part, and are on the home stretch now).
But before I get back to my leveling, here’s a meme that caught my eye. (Snagged from Mend Pet)
The instructions:
- Go to “wikipedia.” Hit “random… Read More”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band. - Go to “Random quotations”
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album. - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover. - Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.
And what did I end up with?
The first album from BNS Turag. Brought to you by random wikipedia links, a quote from Socrates, and a photo that felt surprisingly appropriate (well, to me it did). I’m not going to do the ‘name people to continue this meme’ thing, as I’m just not really into that, but if anyone reading this wants to give it a try, put a link to your results in the comments. (I’d love to see what other people come up with)
Time’s passing, so I guess I should log on and get Kringle to 80. (That Nesingwary 4000 he has in the bank is waiting to get brought out and equipped)
/wave
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