Ulduar

In our attempts to get a latish weekly group together for "Razorscale must die!", we ended up with:
my paladin and our high-dpsing kitty as tanks,
one trusted shammy heal, one newlydinged priest and one drood with half his gear missing,
and some varying degrees of dps. One of the hunters had his Chef's Hat equipped.

I said to the kitty in Officer channel, if we pull this off, I owe you a big drink.

And now I owe him a big drink! We took towers down before Flame Leviathan, one player lost his chopper anbd had to go back for a new one, but all ok. We lost a few during Flame, but no wipes, and the druied got a new wep.

Razorscale went down like a log, was at 50% and grounded in no time, and the newly dinged priest got some fresh epics.

I bawled at Ignis but we went on and took XT down at least, so 3 out of 4 in Ulduar for my sadly neglected palagirl!

By then I was all steamed up and went for some randoms, did Trial of the champion and Culling of Stratholme and came out with Helm of the Crestfallen Challenger, Royal Crest of Lordaeron and the Reins of the Bronze Drake!

tanking macros

At first it felt as if I was cheating, since it became so simple to keep track only of 2 buttons on my action bar rather than 5 or 6, but yesterday when I off-tanked in Naxx it gave me a better chance to be aare of other stuff going on than just the boss, like the adds coming in on anub'arak and that last spider.
I use these:
Macro #1: 6 Second CD
#showtooltip
/startattack
/castsequence [mod:alt] Divine Plea; reset=5 Hammer of the Righteous, Shield of Righteousness
Macro #2: 9 Second CD
#showtooltip
/startattack
/castsequence [mod:alt] Consecration; reset=5 Holy Shield, Judgement of Wisdom, Consecration

Will keep on evaluating them for a bit.

Naxxramas pt 2

We were 7 when we did the trash between Noth and Heigan, I lost aggro on one or two of the bats but on the whole we managed. But I do feel I need to read up on aggro management and what I can do to make my aggro better. Or if it was just the imba dps we had with us, mostly its the hunters pets or the hunters that take aggro, what I can see.

Then there was the dancing. I have healed it loads of times and just done the dancing in the teleport phases, but it was a completely different thing to try to tank. I managed to stay between cracks for some parts but to keep aggro on Heigan, manage the dancing and at the same time keep track of distance to platform became too much for my little noob tank and we died pretty instantly.

Thankfully, one of the guilds MT's logged on at that time so we hi-jacked him.

Then we did Loatheb, and since the MTs dps is better than mine in offspec, I tanked him but it was one of the easier tanking jobs ever. and I got Spaulders of the Lost Conqueror to show for it as well!

Then we had a break, and continued in Military. Me and the other tank-in-training tackled the mind controlled understudys and it took 2 tries to learn to handle the bone armor and the taunting controls, but we got him on the third try.

Naxxramas pt 1

Guild went to Naxxramas last night and had a blast, arachnid, Gluth, Grobbulus and Notw went down. Several guildies got gear upgrades, I myself got Gauntlets of the Master, and also some healing gloves, Web Cocoon Grips, that nobody wanted, took them in case I want to spec Holy at a later time.

Rest of Naxx is coming down tonight! Or at least Heigan, we're going to teach Khriga to dance! ;-)

Ding 80!

I was in Crystalsong Forest killing mobs for a quest, counting down with each mob, finally sent out a *drumroll* in gchat and DING! :) It was sometime around 9pm server time. Then I had an expensive date with my trainer, respecced 0/53/18 (have to learn what talents i'v got now), then went to AH and bought almost all the Tempered Saronite stuff there was.

There are enough tanks and healers for the gear run in Naxx tonight so maybe I can tag along as retri. :)

Had to tell the rogue off from wanting to use master loot, we've never needed that in our guild.

It seems i managed to log out in retri spec but most of my tank gear so any gear profile tools online is pretty useless to look at from work today....

6.5 bars to 80

I took help from some guildies to finish the Amphitheatre in Zul'Drak, did a load of wyrmrest and Sons of Hodir dailies, some Argent tournament but when clock struck midnight I still had 6.5 bars left, and had to go to work this morning. So the big *DING* will take place tonight instead.
A guildie has set up a Naxx gearing run for tomorrow thursday but I guess i'll be along on that with Chaya, I will not have the time to gear up enough for that on Maïa.
But maybe the next run on Tuesday. :-)

the wow-related things you can do while at work

Read forums! Today I'm checking the Tanking for dummies thread:
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=10711122815&sid=1.
 A bit basic in places but useful advice none the less.

And a nice little guide to pre-raid gear:
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=7120153174&sid=1

Dinged 76 last night, so a bit left before heroics, but useful to know anyway!

I ran out of Wyrmrest quests last night and had to go to Wintergarde Keep, I wonder if i missed something or if the wrathgate quests pick up again after wintergarde? Have to check wowhead when I get home.

Levelling by tanking

Besides doing the horseman, I tanked VH twice, and Utgarde Keep once yesterday. Levelled almost half a level on it, but ofc 80k xp for the 2 UK quests helped.
First time in VH (guild run) I remembered about using the right spells, but I had positioned them oddly on my keyboard, so after switching them around a bit for the UK run I was much more comfortable.
The second VH was mostly pug and the hunter and his pet was taking a lot of aggro and doing so much damage that it was hard to get it back. But all lived and the knowitall guildie didnt even comment on my tanking. So I guess I was doing ok. The other runs, fulll guild runs, we had my guild main tanks in the group on their shammy and rogue alts and they thought i was doing good. :-)

Niiiiicee...

Horseman epics at 75!

Really nice that you can get to do the Horseman daily in SM as early as lvl 75. I didnt tank, we had a new 80 dk in the guild that wanted to come so he tanked and I dps'd, just have to remember not to taunt when I'm retri in a group!

I got the Magic broom, The Horseman's seal, Wicked Witch's Band and the Ring of Ghoulish Glee all in one day. Going to try for the The Horsemans Baleful Blade and the Horsemans Horrific Helm in coming days. Loads of free epics even before I'm 80!

i wish i was 2 ppl

My main Chaya was recently made guild master so suddenly there is not as much time to play Maïa. We got some raids scheduled, and Hallow's End is in full bloom, so Maïa tend to stand at a mailbox next to AH and vendor gems.
But I really want her to ding 80 before Hallows end finishes so I at least have a chance of getting the horseman on her...