Dead Nefarian!

Woot! Finally Nefarian is dead!





It took way longer to kill him than it should have based on how easily he went down last night. LOL, isn’t that the way it always goes? In the end it was determined that what killed us the most were the following things:


Information Overload: Waaaaaaaaaaay too many strategies out there and everyone’s friend has a piece of advice. We changed the strategy too many times to try different things and should have just stuck with what was working from the beginning. (Unfortunately, we didn’t realize it would for…oh, say, a couple of weeks.) Really, people, we love you and appreciate your advice but now please go fishing or something.


Bad Group Dynamic: The team wasn’t really feeling like a team lately. We finally had to let go of one of our healers and replace him. He just didn’t fit in and folks were not happy raiders. The new shammie is a vast improvement in sooooo many ways but most importantly he just seems to fit.


Mood: We remembered we are here to have fun while killing big things and that it’s GOOD to laugh at the stupid that happens. (See BGD above LOL)

In the end we did it this way: 1 Paladin tank (Me!) on Nef 1 DK tank on Ony then adds (yes, I know what everyone says about pallys being the ones that should be kiting them but frankly he’s a better add tank than I am. I admit. So bite me.) 2 Resto Druids, one on me and one on raid 1 Resto Shaman on the DK tank A mage, warlock, warrior, hunter, and rogue as DPS


We pushed two crackles in P1, none in P2 and then blew him to bits in P3


During P1 Nef and Ony were on opposite sides of the room with their heads towards the 2 pillars in the back. The adds were kited but the hunter with frosty novas and rings when in place by the mage. We put them on Nef’s ass by the pillar closest to the door.


For P3 I kept Nef in the middle of the room and just spun him as needed to make sure our DK didn’t get tail swiped. There was also a degree of hyperventilating starting when he got to 12% but I’m pretty sure that’s optional.


So, that was that. We have our weird looking ghosty birds now! Yay! On to serious hard mode work!

Nefarian

Phase 1:

Electric crap!

Tail Lash!

Crackle!

Shit the Turtle is down again.

Rinse and Repeat



Phase 2:

OMGOMGOMGOMGWEAREALLGOINGTODIEINTERRUPT!



Phase 3:

Yeah, uh huh, THAT's why all the adds have to be in one spot.

Let's try it again....


/tar Nefarian

/cast Headdesk

Pandora's Box

I’ve finally opened Pandora’s Box. Yes, yes I did it. I made the decision to extend the lockout on Nefarian.

To be fair, I sent my raiders mail and asked their thoughts, I talked with them in vent, I listened to every concern and viewpoint. But, frankly, the best night of the week to take on anything really challenging us is Tuesday. That’s the one night I know I have everyone I need there with the flexibility to move raiders in and out as we need to. Other nights I know our paladin healer works or our hunter may have a conflict or real life crap may come up but Tuesday is obligation free for my team.

While I understand there is still loot to be had we’ve had crap luck with drops for the things we really need and wind up sharding a pretty big chunk of it. Valor points really shouldn’t be an issue for all but one of them given how long we’ve been at this. And, honestly, I’m bored as hell running the same farm content over and over when we should be tackling heroic modes by now.

The plan is this: go in Tuesday with fresh minds and go right to Nefarian without stopping anywhere else. If, IF, it turns out that it really is a gear issue (which I sooooooooooooooo do not believe) then we can stop, drop raid, and do it again with the farm bosses. I think we just need to go in and have our best all on at one time with no distractions.

Wish us luck!

Revenge is Mine

For the first few years I never really PVPed much on Lark unless I had to for some specific trinket, mount or to regain a loot piñata boss. Being a prot pally in a BG means it takes a lot to kill me but OMG it takes a long time to kill them too. (Makes me a great flag carrier though!) PVP was a means to an end and something to do because I had to. I didn’t understand what all the fuss was about until I started doing PVP on several of my alts…then I was hooked.

I always hated playing melee classes and having to run around chasing whatever I wanted to kill. (Probably another reason Lark goes holy in BGs now.) My casters are fun to PVP with but what I really love is healing in BGs. 3 priests (YES! I DO need 3 priests dammit!), a shaman, 2 driuds and a different pally (because one pally is just not enough) who has never been anything but holy for more than 5 minutes all healed their way through countless hours of PVP and many levels of experience. I feel content whenever I get an alt to level 10 and head to the AH to buy whatever I can to prolong their doomed little lives and queue them up for the first time.

But then, one day, on my resto druid I got pissed. Really pissed. I was singled out as a healer within a minute of every BG I was in that day and spent most of my time waiting to rez. Over and over and over my little Rockett tried to live through 5, 6, 7 players beating her face. And the worst were the rogues. The rogues have always been the worst…always….

So I started a rogue.

For revenge.

With no intention of questing or doing anything other than being AS ANNOYING AS HUMANLY FUCKING POSSIBLE IN BGS!

She’s now a level 44 worgen so she has the racial sprint as well as the rogue sprint and is geared to the teeth in PVP gear, dungeon drops (I <3 my guildes for run-throughs!), and BOA gear. I giggle maniacally every time I kill a healer…or just repeated sap them for fun. Every heal I interrupt makes me giddy. Every BG we win because the healers can’t heal gives me a warm feeling in my cold little rogue heart.

I love my rogue. Revenge is mine.