Ex-End: Can't get any worse can it

A friend showed me today the Wow Character of that slime that killed dozens in Norway.

Guess what ? His char was on Silvermoon EU, my server ! ARRGH !

And he was part of some guilds, one of them, a top guild.

This just shows how MMORPG are weird, you can be playing alongside a serial killer and never know.

This slime, I would personally kill myself, never mind about the Fylgies and other norwegian fairies. I hope someone does.

THE END (?)

I'm done with WoW.
Old friends gone or going.
Had no fun with Cata.
May be sometime in the future.
May be when the next expansion comes out.
May be never.

So, for me, casual LOTRO, SWTOR.

And Real Life gaming. Much better !

A nice raiding evening

A few more bosses down, on tonight's raid.

Funny how I'm so tired about WoW. I didn't even bother to read on the bosses lore, or to check on the entrances or even to remember the boss names As a result, it took me a while to figure out where BoT entrance was, after a wipe. But we killed Halfus for sure. Nuke each add, ignore whelps, nuke boss. Can't get much easier...but for sure this boss must be a healing check, with all the interrupts,knockbacks and the only-instant cast restrictions!

As to Blackwing Descent, we killed the first four bosses.
The first boss is easy with 3 ranged dps, last week was a breeze with lock,mage,hunter aoeing the lava parasites from the pillars. Tonight only a mage and warlock, so it was way messier, with adds all around. But we managed to 1-shot it.
The 2nd 4xbosses, 1-shot too, I forgot about the purple spots for dpsing, it costed me top dps ranking. But I didn't forget the oozes ;)
The 3rd boss... the vial one, was 1-shot last week, but this week was a bit messier and caused a few wipes, the last one because we had too much dps and got the boss to 20% before the 2nd green vial. But we did it after we paused dps at the right time ;)
Finally, the 4th/gong boss, last week we had a mage banging the gongs. This week I had to do it, and because of it I was chased and died (swiftness doesnt help when there's fire all around ;(), but was CR and we 1-shott'ed him.

All in all, a good raid, 5 bosses down, 2 of them new.
A very good raiding leader, good communication during the fight and tips.

Next Monday, the Valiona brothers.. and Nefarian is getting closer !

A legendary week. Well, not really

Last week I had some fun again raiding.
My near-latin guild decided to enter BWD to test ourselves. And we did. In two hours, we trashed 3 bosses, 3-shot,2-shot,1-shot. The last boss had only a few tries, it is very easy, and we got him to 5K HP ! Not bad, considering half the guild had never entered BWD.
Hopefully tonight we do a better job and we kill at least 4/6 BWD.
My performance was not bad, always on top or in the top two, and 1 mistake.. damn me. I died in the Toxitron fight... the damn ooze got me.

In the meantime, I've been soloing or dualboxing some instances, after having decided that it would be fun to see them again and most of all, to complete my Tiered equipment. Therefore I dualboxed Gruul's Lair, Karazhan, which is actually soloable with no effort for the most part. The chess is hard to solo, so I asked the help of my little girl and we both did it and ended up fighting against each other. And I lost !!!!! LOL
As for Machezzar, I kept dying because of the enfeeble (1 HP) until I remembered that the, obviously, the tank is not enfeebled so I drain tanked him as demo and it went just fine.
I also went for 6/6 im Mount Hyjal. I got to 4/6 easily. The 5th boss, Azgalor, is a pain to solo, but I found the way to do dualbox it during the 1st part of the battle until my mon-tank (healer) dies and summons a Doomguard. Then I drain-tanked (as affliction) the boss with Thrall's help, while the pet tank tanked the doomguard. Worked fine. There's a warlock solo video, which does what I do, and had enough patience to keep dying and keep killing trash waves after defeat until he did it.
Archimonde is also a pain to solo, and to dualbox I need a real person, because of fears and for the "omg falling panic button".



All in all, not a bad week, since today... Garr dropped my legendary bindings.

So.. YES !

I now have a legendary Thunderfury !

Job done

After 6 months of some fun leveling my alts, I finished the job. All 10 classes are at 85. Last one was my Hunter, and it was for sure the easiest thing I could do. It's so easy to outperform other classes even with lower levels it sucks. In total, I did about 20 pugs, the last 5 or so of them at 84, in 85 dungeons, chosen "specific" in LFG. I always came on top on dps trash, and nearly always came on top in boss dps. I don't understand what is going on, but it surely seems a huge lack of balance. May be it levels up at 85.

Anyway, it was fun. Now it's time to get back to some solo farming for the mats (namely Blood of Mountain) for legendaries, for the insane title, and some other crap.

This week I did daily ZA-mount timed runs. The first one we missed by 20 secs, but the next ones were ok. 2 more days or so and I will get my mount, as well as every guildie that wants them.

Bane of the Obsolete Expansion

Always liked the word Bane, it's a deity from the D&D Forgotten Realms novels, Lord Bane, the Black Hand. Last week I got to be Bane of the Fallen King, by downing Arthas in Heroic mode. It was nice and hard, even as 85. Our tank and a few dps died at the beginning of the Frostmourne phase, so we did the whole last phase with no offtank to soak the spirits damage. But we managed. It's a pity that our guild doesn't have enough people for a 10-run.

Having 11/12 ICC10 HC downed during WOTLK, it was a shame for me to miss this event. Well, now, no longer.

Meanwhile, I continue my near-solo WoW experience. Got all the gear and saw nearly everything I wanted from ZG/ZA, and I'm horrified to get into dungeons. I'm leveling the last characters to 85, DK, rogue and hunter. DK is so fun and easy to go as tank. I nearly always outdps even dps DKs, I keep the aggro with the blink of an eye, and even have fun doing mitigation all the time so that the healers have nothing to do except heal dpsers.

But I must say, Blizzard does a TERRIBLE and I mean TERRIBLE job in this dungeon business. From lvl 83 to lvl 85, two entire levels, the LFG system only selects Vortex Pinnacle and Stonecore. I know all the mob timers by now. It's so stupid, no RNG, nothing, everything looks dull. This game is really lacking creative development.

Today, I will become Master of Alterac Valley, 2 victories to go on the last achievement.

What else have I been doing ? Solo of course.. I've been completing the new Azeroth quests for the areas to understand e.g. why VanClef's daughter is the queen of Deadmines, etc. So far I completed Loch Modan, Westfall and Redridge. Going slow, no hurries here.




Last but not least... this week I soloed Molten Core (actually, dualboxed it with Tarithel but it's soloable for sure) and what did Ragnaros drop ???

Yes, the Eye of Sulfuras !!! So I will have not one, but TWO legendary weapons.
AH AH AH.

Legendary fun

Suspended WoW and tried to stick to LOTRO for a few weeks, just having fun with RL friends. It's fun, but we only play late night, and there's a problem with LOTRO. It's always the same thing we do. Kill mobs, click on stuff, und zu weiter. There are thousands of quests, and they always look the same. We don't go into dungeons, because most require 6 and we are only 3. So we advance in the fellowship epic quest chain, which covers all the areas in LOTRO. We are now finishing Mirkwood, and pretty soon we'll be out of things to do outside. There's Enedwaith, a area Turbine created to stall players, while waiting for a new expansion that'll be out.. Christmas ?

Anyway... Star Wars Old Republic is stalling too, Rift.. no thank you, and Star Wars Galaxies ... not yet.

So I decided to give it a go on solo wow (kind of), getting 10-day free on a second account and using it to pay 1 free month for my main account, and doing a few things differently.

Going solo achievements again, for cooking, fishing, PVP, Insane title, mount farming, rep. farming for the 3 reps. I'm not yet exalted and.. farming for Thunderfury ! Yes, that's right, a warrior weapon for my lock LOL !
I farmed Garr and Geddon during vanilla and never saw the bindings drop (think I saw it once, in a 40-raid in 2006-7). Well, bosses are now soloable easily, and Geddon dropped it for me last night!! I also bought 6 enchanted elementium bars, so all I need now is for Garr to be nice and 4 more elementiums, and I will get a *LEGENDARY WEAPON*. That will make (kind of) for the idiocy of not having the AQ40 feat of strength because the fuckers at Blizzard removed the Bang-A-Gong quest, and I'm stuck with the scepter and can't bang it anymore. FUCKERS !

In PVP, I'm at 1400 rating in 2v2, found a nice frost mage to play that is not a FFS kind of guy. I hope he'll stay around.

Raidwise.. everything is the same. Kind of. I lost guild runs for the skeleton flying mount from the ICC Raider Glory as I was too fed up with ICC to enter it again, a few months ago. But tomorrow I will kill the LK in HC and will get the "Bane" title. I know it's a sucky title as I only did 11/12 HC as lvl 80, but still... it was not my fault the bloody damn guild fell apart :(