This weekend had its ups and downs. One of the ups was I finally hit 80 on my mage and went on to pew pew very poorly in some regular dungeons. I got lucky in several of my groups. As soon as I zoned in I told them that I had just dinged 80 a few hours ago and might not be geared for the runs (the new 5 mans on reg). Each group told me I was fine and let me stay. One of them was REALLY nice and kept giving me good support. I didn’t have the heart to tell them that this was my 3rd 80. On Saturday I managed to snag the robes that drop off Loken in regular HoL. I already had the ebonweave gloves in the bank, so imagine my surprise when I ended up with 2 more pairs of gloves on Sunday. Of all of the gear that could drop, I got 2 sets of gloves. One from ToC and one from Heroic Nexus. I did manage to get a really nice ring from FoS. The healer needed it as well but he let me have it because it was a better upgrade for me. Even though it has MP5 on it, it was far and away a huge upgrade over the quest reward rings I had on. So thank you again Tree healer I ran with on Sunday!
One of the downs was we called our TotC run after a little over an hour and several wipes on the beasts. I don’t know why we have so much trouble on this fight. We usually can breeze through Gormock but when the worms come out everything falls to shit. We do somewhat ok until the worm enrages when we kill the first one. Then people just drop like flies. It doesn’t matter how much healing is being thrown out. No one can stay alive. When we finally get the damn worm killed there are usually 4 people left alive. One tank, one dps and two healers. Or some variation of that.
The highlight of the raid was when we got past the worms and had like 6 people alive. Mis was tanking, Andrew was on his rogue, I was still alive healing along with Vel and Zakk was dpsing on his ele shammy. Suddenly Mis went down. Over vent you hear Andrew say “It’s ok guys. I’m a rogue.” He then proceeded to try to tank Icehowl. Vel and I overloaded heals on him just to see him go splat. I think I was laughing too hard to really keep the heals up. I then ran to the door and shadowmelded. I of course lived while everyone else died. Shadowmeld saved me 3 corpse runs 
. Zakk was rather pissy about it each time I did it . I of course bragged about it. What else would you expect me to do?
Our other tank, Ness, had to leave for work and the PuG dps we picked up dropped group so instead of replacing them, as I wanted to, everyone else said they wanted to call it. So I was sad that my raiding for the week was ended. Everyone said to just move it to the next day (Sunday) and we would go from there. From past experience I knew that this would end up with us not doing ToC for the week. Sunday raids with our guild never seem to work. I, of course, was proven right when Dily and Zakk had to call off because of a RL thing that came up. Several other people who were in the raid the night before didn’t come online until around an hour after when we said we wanted to start. Needless to say, we didn’t go back into the raid.
Andrew and I ended having dinner together on Sunday and talking about the run brought up the “I’m a rogue” comment and I just about choked on my food. I seriously wish I could take a picture of the faces he makes when he says these things. I’m laughing now while I write this just thinking about it.
He brought up that we should start farming the trash in ICC to get our rep up. Since we have already set up a weekly raid daily day, we might as well add ICC trash farming afterwards. The people who I have mentioned this to have been on board for it and think it is a great idea. So here’s hoping we actually can pull it off.
In the meantime I will be plugging away on my mage getting her geared so that she wont be a total embarrassment to mages everywhere. Also, she needs to start bringing in the dough to pay for her epic flying. She already has the Valiance Expedition rep to exalted but needs to get her gold up. I am a little over half way there and she still hasn’t finished the chain to unlock the Sons of Hodir. I am having way too much fun in IC atm to go back over there.
So if you are on the Ruin battle-group and get stuck with a mage named Calieah from Echo of Fate, be nice, my noob mage will thank you for it and give you strudel .
Dec 22, 2009 @ 08:58:20
You running ToCr on 10 or 25? Normal or Heroic?
If you do the trash farming thing in ICC – bring a rogue and a load of flares. There are these HUGE traps that need to be marked with flares. You do want to trigger them, but only after the rest of the mobs in the room are dead.
The traps summon these huge bone guys from alcoves in the wall where you thought they were just statutes. They are worth a lot of rep so you want to kill them, but they hit like a truck and are usually too much to handle if your group was not expecting to trigger them. They also do a roar or something that acts like a spell lock. And the traps reset if you take too long…
Gratz on getting the mage to 801 FYI – fire is a hard spec to play in 5 mans. Nothing lives long enough to really let you get going.
Dec 22, 2009 @ 09:15:47
TotC 10 man, and we just started raiding there so it is regular.
Thanks for the grats, although after reading Dark’s comments I feel like I should just hide her away and never play her again. Good lord is he always that serious?
Thanks for the advice on ICC trash. As you can see from the title, we do have a rogue lol. I will have to make sure I stock up on flares too.
Dec 22, 2009 @ 10:40:05
Don’t take Dark serious, I must have pissed in his Cheerios this morning. He’s a really awesome player and sometimes he forgets that the rest of us don’t have the same knack for it that he does. I’m pretty sure I wasn’t hitting 2k when I was a fresh 80. Unfortunately, I didn’t start getting screen caps of my damage until I had already been 80 for a couple months. at the 4 month mark I was doing 2200-2400 in heroics.
Of course, back in those days arcane was a red-headed step child and gear was almost hard to get. If you’ll excuse me I have to go yell at some kids to get off my lawn. And clams didn’t stack!
Dec 22, 2009 @ 10:45:55
Oh yeah, back to ToCr…
It all goes to shit when the worms come out? Does that mean that one of your tanks pretty much bites it right off the bat?
Gormok leaves the debuff on the tank and that tanks needs extra heals to survive picking up a worm. If you have a paladin, they can cast Blessing of Protection on the affected tank to remove the debuff. The tank then has to immediately find the BoP buff and right-click it off so he can pick up the worm.
Dec 22, 2009 @ 11:12:43
No one of the tanks dies usually right before the last worm dies.
We have been talking about it and we think that all of our placement is wrong. Too many people are standing too close together and the tanks are too far away from the people who have the debuffs. I know that I blew up trying to run to the tank who had the poison while I was on fire.
Note to self – you cannot heal when you are running >.<
Dec 22, 2009 @ 11:44:28
>>”I know that I blew up trying to run to the tank who had the poison while I was on fire.”
Yep, just another day at the office.
Dec 22, 2009 @ 11:49:52
Yeah I can’t let it ruffle my leaves
Dec 22, 2009 @ 09:36:14
Traps? In my ICC?
It’s cool guys. I got this.
I’M A ROGUE.
Actually the Weekly heroic is Lord Marrowgar, which ought to make it pretty convenient to rake trash in that place. Though we’ll have to not kill the boss till the end, I’m thinking.
Dec 22, 2009 @ 09:39:00
We could certainly try. I don’t think we will pull it off, but we can sure as hell try!
Dec 22, 2009 @ 10:41:09
Correct on not killing the boss.
Just kill all the trash up to Marrowgar.
Everyone out of the pool.
Raid leader does a reset.
Rinse.
Repeat.
Dec 22, 2009 @ 10:02:38
Bullshit.
We are awesome, and we will ruin his ass with the sheer, unmitigated force of said awesomeness.
Dec 22, 2009 @ 10:04:06
Win to the power of awesome!