WoW BHA Monday Night Crew - Ruby Sanctum Tonight 12/6! Farewell to WotLK

ELewis17 wrote:

Edit: This week's thread title brought to you by:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymEf0...

Did you, uh...miss the part where he made fun of Tankadins? I was enjoying it until then, though.

Oh I caught it, but the line "I take them crits they they're Grilscout cookies" completely redeems the song.

Well, you can eat your crit thin mints -- I'll be over here shooting dudes in the face from safety, since I'm a Hunter.

(It was made back in 3.2 so the kill list is sadly out of date at the moment, but it's still an amusing production.)

The ending is priceless.
Since we're sharing random WoW videos, and we're on the topic of hunters, this is the coolest thing I've ever seen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-jv1...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy3KX...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJUow...

Did my post get deleted?

I am glad you liked the video hehe

I hit 77 the night before last and am hopeing for a minimum of 78 this weekend!

Hey All, Not sure the plan for tonight. I did hit 79 before logging last night. Which if you wanted to do instances tonight. Strat UP and HoL all have quests which would be like double xp for me /hint hint wink wink nudge nudge

I am hoping to make a large dent towards 80 tonighit. (if REALLY ambitious hit 80 tonight)

Cheeto1016 wrote:

Hey All, Not sure the plan for tonight. I did hit 79 before logging last night. Which if you wanted to do instances tonight. Strat UP and HoL all have quests which would be like double xp for me /hint hint wink wink nudge nudge

I am hoping to make a large dent towards 80 tonighit. (if REALLY ambitious hit 80 tonight)

It'd be nice to get both you slackers to hit 80 tonight ;). I'll be running whatever you guys want, so make a list and lets tackle it.

Yeah, I have the HoL quests too -- we should definitely do that at the very least.

As I was saying to Lewis last night, although there are a ton of group quests in Icecrown they are mostly at the end of very long chains, and even after questing there for a few hours yesterday I still didn't reach any of them (although I'm close to a few I think). So yeah, probably won't be able to do any of those tonight. Definitely a lot else we could do, though. Do they let you queue for the ToC 5 man when you are 79? Good loot to be had there.

There's also the Fos-PoS-HoR line of quests that are available at 78. These need to be done to add the ICC 5s to your random finder I believe. Fantastical loot there, plus one of my favorite WotLK 5-man fights: Ick Also about 130k XP and six Frost badges.

ELewis17 wrote:

There's also the Fos-PoS-HoR line of quests that are available at 78. These need to be done to add the ICC 5s to your random finder I believe. Fantastical loot there, plus one of my favorite WotLK 5-man fights: Ick Also about 130k XP and six Frost badges.

Just be aware, those instances are no joke. They make every other 5-man in WotLK seem like a cakewalk by comparison. They'll test your mettle to be sure.

Oh, cool. Yeah, I was assuming that those would be locked to 80s only since they are a step up in difficulty even from the ToC 5 man, but if they can be run, we should definitely try them.

Serengeti wrote:

They'll test your mettle to be sure.

This is precisely what I like about them.

They are considered level 80 instances in the dungeon finder (even the regular version). I am assuming you could still get the quest and walk into them. However, that means we would need to con another dps from the guild to come help us. Considering you still get badges, I think we could probably track someone down to help. Zero and I are the only 2 79s. I will be 79 where it matters (dps) Zero healing at 79 should be okay. The tank and Cayle are both 80 so they are okay. We cna just spam instances.

Zero the HoL qsts are hodir (you said you had). The strat and UP ones are both inside the instance...so we can queue up and just grab them when you get there...so we have A LOT of instance qsts available to us, I would think enough to get us to 80. With your 20 percent you will get it without a doubt.

Yeah, I'm actually sitting at like 91% or 92%, so I'll be hitting 80 no matter what we do.

Hey guys, I am up for tonight with Darken. As long as zero keeps his butt out of my view hahahaha. That was funny my camera angle was a little off lol. Anyway see you all tonight and its looking like you two will get to 80 also which will be fun. I would also like to see if I could get that trinket for Cayle if it is not soulbound that you were talking about Zero, we will see what transpires.

I'm pretty sure you can run the instances and do the quests on normal mode, which ramps the difficulty down considerable from what most folks think. They're still really well done instances, though. Also I love running them.

Well I know I was the slowest (such a narb) however we are all now 80!! Grats to all of us!!!

Indeed!

Now, though, comes the hard decision of how much time/energy to invest in the character before Cataclysm. It would definitely be fun to heal a few raids, but I'm not sure I'm up for gearing an alt when my main is so much more useful for the raiding we want to get done with the guild before Cataclysm (especially given my limited raiding availability).

Hmm...

I know, I kinda feel the same way. I would LOVE to raid with teh guild, but I hate coming in with gimp crap and bringing everyone down, yet I do not have enough free time to gear up the character fast.

I am not sure what to do.

Thanks guys for last night, it was lots of fun even though I messed up on a couple of draws to Law :(. Perhaps we can all get together as a group on new toons when Cat hits, may be fun. But in the mean time if your running anything else just holla. you know..... being a girl.... I can interrupt haha.

gaiacal wrote:

you know..... being a girl.... I can interrupt haha.

This made me laugh so dang hard last night!

Since there clearly isn't enough time for everyone to get geared enough to get in ICC before Cat drops, maybe we should focus on some of the older raids like Naxx, OS, EoE and Uld. I want to see Ulduar so badly.

ELewis17 wrote:
gaiacal wrote:

you know..... being a girl.... I can interrupt haha.

This made me laugh so dang hard last night!

Since there clearly isn't enough time for everyone to get geared enough to get in ICC before Cat drops, maybe we should focus on some of the older raids like Naxx, OS, EoE and Uld. I want to see Ulduar so badly.

Any time you guys want to run an older raid, holler. I'd say pretty much all of you are more than well enough off for Naxx as is though.

ELewis17 wrote:

Since there clearly isn't enough time for everyone to get geared enough to get in ICC before Cat drops, maybe we should focus on some of the older raids like Naxx, OS, EoE and Uld. I want to see Ulduar so badly.

If you have everyone relatively geared(say 2/5 T9), jump straight into ICC. With the 30% buff, it's easier than ToC or Hard mode Ulduar. Plus, since it's ICC, you can draw on some of the more geared people in the guild to run it(or have people on their mains help), which is always nice.

Our alt raid went from mostly T9 to Kingslayer in about 6 weeks, raiding once a week for 4 hours. Admittedly, we all knew the fights, and some people had ICC gear to start with, but we had a few people still in greens when we started.

Yeah, GWJ Alliance is already doing essentially that for some of our newer members (Lewis included). My problem is that my main is one of those highly geared toons that's been helping in the runs we've already been putting together, and I probably don't have the time to keep doing that AND to get my new 80 properly geared (ie, even 2 piece T9).

Lewis, we definitely should do what we can to at least let you tank a few of those instances. Assuming we are successful in finishing the U10 achievements as scheduled this week, I think the plan is to maybe try again with a different roster so we can get as many people free 310% flight as possible. Seeing as you are now probably better geared than most tanks were when they were doing those achievements originally, I'd say you should mention your interest in next week's raid scheduling thread.

As for what to do on Monday nights though, well, maybe a week of heroic farming and then maybe we can see about getting a few others to come along for an easy Naxx run or something. Cheeto, you said you hadn't seen much past the 3.2 content, right? Perhaps if we can at least manage to get you a few pieces of T9 we can get you into a few of the newer raids before Cataclysm as well. As Cube was saying (and Lewis can attest from last week's raid) these days its really not a big deal to bring in one or two fresh toons to an ICC10 run as long as the rest of the raid is properly geared, and there really is no better way to get a new character decked out in the good stuff.

Tentative game plan:
10/3: badge farming- Should be able to get ~20 badges in one night if we run heroics from 7-9:30ish. Well as long as they go better than Zero and I's late night run did yesterday : /

10/10: Enlist the help of a few guildies to run Naxx/OS/Uld/EoE/ToC. I know Yew's pally is interested in tanking ToC, and it shouldn't take too much pleading to get some help from some of the others in guild, or on server.

Side note: I'm going to PUG the weekly (OS) tonight around 7:30ish, so if you're interested in some extra badges, and have the time, jump on.

I have a little free time this weekend. I think will be on friday evening probably for awhile, if anyone wants to heroic farm with me. I am going to try as much to run as much as I can.

As for the raids and things, I will go anytime I can and I will output as much DPS as my gear allows. I do know how to play and feel I am a strong asset (not horn tooting...just sayin). I would love to get into some stuff in the next month or 2 before it drops. We shall see!!!!

Cheeto1016 wrote:

I do know how to play and feel I am a strong asset (not horn tooting...just sayin).

Install a threat meter and pay attention to it, and then we can discuss just how much of an asset you are.

Spoiler:

I kid! I kid!

Whore.

I think I'm going to make a macro and bind it to my F key: /tar Openminded; /cast Righteous Defense; /say whore!
Then on raid nights I'll just substitute 'ZeroKFE' for 'Openminded'.

Edit: Just to clarify, I'm just joshin' yas.

I am pretty sure, now that we are 80 and heading into heroics, I will not be pulling aggro anymore until I get some better stuff.

Make a macro to HoP him instead; then it's like you're putting him in time-out.

btw if our 70s are 80 in time, I would LOVE to run Naxx with y'all. Great raid.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

Make a macro to HoP him instead; then it's like you're putting him in time-out.

btw if our 70s are 80 in time, I would LOVE to run Naxx with y'all. Great raid.

Good call X2!