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<3 Gruul. [added 20/6] Spent 19 DKP on it though. Ouch!

i’ve finally stumbled into the world of Heroic instances.

first of was an invitation by Slayerii (from one of the more better PUGs i’ve been with) to do Heroic Arcatraz. it was a guild run but they didn’t have an extra healer, so it sux being the odd one out. it was also tough cuz i haven’t done arcatraz in a while, and caused 1 or 2 wipes. i would always imagine them making fun of me in guild chat. didn’t help that one of the more vocal members was very sarcastic, on top of asking me to pass on nether so that he can make his goodies.

never again. but surprisingly the last boss was easy to heal through. at least i got one of my trial of naaru quests out of the way.

then it was Heroic Slave Pens with guildies. quite uneventful.

then it was Heroic Mechanar with guildies again. not a bad run. got myself a healing mace, but it lacked +stamina so I’m still stuck with my staff. found myself dying a lot on this run. found an interesting way to do the 2nd boss, which is now a trade secret among the 5 of us. 😛

it’s funny how some people constantly pester you to level up your trade skills but don’t really care about the time and money needed to do it. screw it, i’m just going to take my time. there’s no way i’m going to spend gold on the void crystals and primals needed for the required enchanting rod. i’ve been steadily losing gold trying to upgrade my gear, so all these other things that OTHER people need must not put a further dent in my finances.

ironically, my finances IRL have been pretty good.

dropped gruul last night. forgot to loot a quest item for SSC attunement. GG.

been taking my time to level up cooking and fishing as well. it’s really nice to take a break from progression once in a while.

[item]28578[/item] from Julienne,
[item]22559[/item] from Moroes, I think,
a random [item]22545[/item] drop,
and 14x[item]22450[/item] for the guild bank.

Without much headache too. We were owning the bosses, but had some bad luck on the trash mobs. 😛 Nightbane was also pretty tough due to huge spikes on the MT (had to spam-cancel max-rank Greater Heals), but we managed to pull through on the 2nd or 3rd try.

But not for me >_< Grats to WDK for first-time-killing Magtheridon! 2 resets and countless times after our initial try! 2x[item]29755[/item] (grats Jud & Ken), [item]28782[/item] (grats Kellee), [item]28778[/item] (grats ???) and [item]32386[/item] (grats JJ). Don't trust the tooltips.. Allakhazam hasn't updated these items since the 2.1 epic buffs. Sadly, I wasn't there with them to finish the job, as I had to leave the raid early to pick up my bro from class. So no DKP for FTK, or for downing the boss. Probably just +2 for being on time and being on standby. *shrug* It's somewhat depressing when the whole guild rejoices but it was not really something you contributed to. At least I helped take the PvP objectives for the buff. >_< Come to think of it, I probably won't be able to do Mag properly until my bro's exams are over. Damn, Wednesdays suck. Tuesdays don't look so bad after all now. With the raid starting at 8.30, it only gives me at most 1hr 15mins to down him with the others. And that's if we start on time. But I suppose this schedule change will let me focus more on Karazhan though. And it's about time I started on Heroics. I just need to get the keys for Thrallmar and Sha'tar and I should be fully keyed for 'em. Sigh, Serpentshrine Cavern seems so distant.

maiden of virtue – [item]28511[/item]
crone – [item]28588[/item]
moroes – [item]28525[/item]

also did the chess event. yippie, fun stuff!

guild did our first run to Magtheridon’s Lair last night. it’s really quite exciting for the entire guild, trying to work out the kill. You can also sense a different level of expectation: on farming raids we’re expected to down the boss, but on first time runs there’s like no hope at all. but i was feeling optimistic as always, always trying to persuade the raid leader to explain all 3 phases of the fight.

yet, we only managed to get into the early stages of phase 2.

anyways, now that i need properly gear up more, i’ll be respeccing back to holy as a healer. hopefully this’ll see me in more Kara runs.

moved to a page.

sylinfel ninjas:
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the notoriety grows. 😛

[added 18/5/2007]

but yea, we were doing well.. then i had to leave to pick up the bro from class and only got back into the group later towards the night. then we tried to down curator but we couldn’t due to lack of dps. yeah, too many of us newbs in the group.

and at the trash group before that, someone mentioned (typed) run towards stairs if we get a debuff. and yea, i did get that Overload debuff a few times, but i didn’t know it was that particular debuff that was our concern. a lil added explanation would’ve helped, but i supposed everyone was sleepy. i should prolly read up on kara as well..