A night at the circus: The Baloon Man

Some time has passed since my last topic. Not much progress has been done in ICC.
Well, a little.

In ICC25, we are pwning the first 4 bosses, but can't get past Festergut and its dps race. I'm usually in the top 3, but there are still ppl doing below 6K dps, and that leaves Festergut enraging at 15%. Tactics are fine, everyone now runs to the spores, my portal helps me get back and I nearly don't loose dps except when... a mage by my side activates the mirror images. I'd swear every time they become active, I start to vomit due to getting too close to the bloody images.

We also tried the blood princes in ICC25, I was the baloon man, but oh man, it's hard to move around fetching baloons, when ppl steal them from me, and when the damn knock back occurs 5 secs before keleseth activating, giving me no more time to fetch baloons before I get killed by a 25K Empowered Shadow Lance.

In ICC10, we're easily clearing Festergut, then Rotface.. it's a bit harder, a few wipes, damn oozes and the green sh*t that suddenly pops on the floor when we're right on top of it are damn hard. But we manage.

This week, we did the Blood Princes in ICC10, and again, I was the baloon man. It is so much easier, I managed to get it fine, both staying alive and aggroing with searing pain, so that dps can kill it. Now I have to learn how to also dps while I'm aggroing and pulling baloons. I've been using a few tricks, like a 0/43/28 spec, with soul link and the nether protection, plus a voidwalker for the sacrifice shield and also shadow ward. To pull baloons I'm using rank 1 Curse of Agony, which worked great in ICC and lasts 24 secs. To keep aggro, searing pain, ofc, but some ppl say that decimate works just fine during the 1HP phase.

We also tried Valkyria Dreamwalker, the boss where the healers have to heal the boss while we kill add waves... we healed her up to 77%, so next week she'll come down for sure. I think one missing trick was our hunter using Nature resistance aura. I told it in chat, but I guess it wasn't loud enough :)

So, all in all: 7/12 ICC10 and 4/12 ICC25

Ah, last but not least, we've been trying TOGC25, and... omg it's hard !!! The enraging timer for Icehowl is a pain, we got him to 1% (<300K to go) but it's damn hard.


On a different note, I've now stopped playing Dungeons and Dragons Online, since although it's free to play, our group of 3 (me as bard, and 2 melee friends) has run out of dungeons to do at lvl 6.

So, the last week we've been trying Lord of the Rings Online, and this time, I'm actually liking it. Of course, we will have to pay for it, and tbh, having 3 subscriptions (2 WOW and 1 LOTRO) is overkill for my free time.

I also tried Guild Wars to check, but the game is ugly, looks like an old AION (same company NCBS, actually).

And... I also tried WAR, now that is's also free to play. I bought the game in 2008 and played it for 1 month, but quit because it was too sluggish and with slow fps.

Now I've got an ATI 5770 and I can play at 50FPS with maximum detail, both LOTRO and WAR.

As to Warcraft, it's still a bit of a pain in 25-raids, I have to decrease some things to be able to get 20-30 fps, but it becomes playable then.

Enough talking. Let's play !