Guild Achievement Hunting

Yesterday I ran several Wrath raids with my new guild. They were looking to pick up the guild achievements so really wanted to make sure they had eight people and were running the ten-mans even though we could have done the twenty-fives easily.

We started the night by doing a quick 3 drake Obsidian Sanctum and since we were nearby grabbed a heroic Ruby Sanctum run as well. Then we headed to the Eye of Eternity to kill Malygos real quick. Tyledres got an achievement for killing adds while on a disc and that finished up the achievements I needed to get the 10 man Wrath Raids Achievement. Than the raid headed to Onxyia where we ran into our first hurdle. We had entered too many instances and were locked out. So the raid leader called a half hour break and then we went back to slaughtering dragons.

Having finished with the dragons the raid then went to Ulduar. We had a little trouble with 4 tower Flame Leviathan so we went back and killed two of the towers then went and demolished the Leviathan. The rest of Ulduar went quickly but we had a bit of trouble with Yogg. Since we needed to kill him with no keepers to get the guild achievement it wasn't an easy fight. There was a bit of trouble with portals and insanity because most of the raid hadn't seen the fight before. Second time went better but it still wasn't smooth sailing. In the end we did get alone in the darkness and I realized that I was very much alone. I was the last woman standing! And I was fairly low on the sanity as well.

The last stop the raid made was Naxx. Since I had already gone though there on Tyledres I switched to my pally Hortis. Naxx was a breeze and there was several members of the raid afk on autofollow which was pretty funny but the guild still managed to tear the place apart quickly. We saw a bone spider pet drop and one of my new guildies won it. Hopefully it's a sign that I'll start seeing something other than fungal abominations dropping from Naxx.

Most of my guildies were pretty much raided out by this point so the leader called it a night. I logged off and then checked my email for the billionth time to see if I had gotten any new about who my furtive winter veil blogger was. I'm really excited about it! I'm also really nervous. I think I have a really good idea for what I'm doing but my stomach is in knots about if I'll accomplish what I want to get done and if the other person will like it. I'm also so excited to see who has my name and what they'll come up with. I can't wait to start seeing what other people are doing. And then I can stop trying to keep stuff a secret. When things make me this excited I'm the worst secret keeper ever. I don't think I've ever given a gift where the recipient hasn't managed to pry exactly what it is from me. So I should probably stop right there or I'm going to spill the beans.

And a fruitless week of hunting

I really want Mr. Bigglesworth. It's a cat, 'nough said. But I also really want to get the other pets too. So I put in another week of trying to get them and I've got zip. Zilch. Nada.

I started in Naxx, went to BWL where Razorgore kicked my butt a few times before I got sweet revenge, and than finished up at AQ40. I didn't go to Molten Core because I had gotten all 3 from there and Tyledres doesn't get much gear for transmogs from Molten Core. Anyway, I hit up all 3 places and they were dry. Nothing. Not even a pet we already had. I than tried to think about what alts I could take though since there's no point in having alts unless you can make them work for you. But all I could really think to do was to take my Shaman Mnementh though AQ40. I don't need the pet from the first boss but from the slime and the twins. I figured Mnem could kill the slime and we could try twins but I didn't expect her to be able to get twins down solo. It pretty much went as expected and no pets for her either. I don't think I can get the twins down on any of my toons other than Ty and while I know there are things you can do to get the frost damage  on classes that don't have frost damage I'm not feeling in the mood to go try. I don't think I have another toon that I want to take though Naxx and I'm not feeling up to trying Razorgore on another yet either. Which just means I have to sit quietly for a week and try again next one.

It wasn't a total bust this week though. Tyledres got Legplates of the Blazing Light as a drop. Now I just have to see if I can put together a transmog set from them.

More Raids and pets

I might be soloing but I'm never alone

Last week I attempted to work though the four raids that drop the new pets and managed to get Naxx and Molten core but got stopped at Blackwing Lair. I did put an attempt on AQ40 but the twins kicked my butt and the previous bosses didn't drop a pet. Still I ended the week with 3 of the pets which seemed like a good start.

This week I again started with Naxx. Tyledres managed to get though the place with ease and even Gluth didn't present much trouble. Unfortunately the only pet to drop was the Fungal Abomination which is what I had gotten last week.

Molten Core went quickly and I got the Ashcore pet from there. 3/3 of the Molten Core pets found.

So than I went back to BWL. I've done some more research on this fight and put in several more attempts. Ten of them. On the eleventh one things were going really well. So well that I finally managed to destroy all the eggs! But I didn't get any new pets from BWL.

So I headed to my last stop AQ40. I got a Mindflayer off the first boss and I was pretty excited about continuing my pet hunt. Viscidus died pretty quickly but as a frost dk it's not a difficult fight. Then it was time to attempt the twins. This time I knew which twin was the physical damage one so I was attacking the correct one and I summoned my army and my ghoul and things seemed to be going well. I had him over half-way there when my army started dying and then I noticed that I just couldn't seem to do much damage on him. I wasn't taking enough damage that I worried about dying but I also wasn't doing enough damage to overcome his healing. In fact he was back to full health. Then it hit me. Frost damage. I was a frost death knight and he was ignoring my frost damage. I needed to be using pure physical damage with no magic. And I realized I wouldn't be able to do this fight as frost. So I let myself die and so I could start the fight over as blood. I kept myself in dps gear but did change my weapon. It worked out really well. It wasn't a rapidly quick fight but I was steadly able to burn the boss down. I didn't get a pet but I was still pretty happy at being able to kill the twins.

So at the end of two weeks I've got 5/12 of the new pets and I now know the I can hunt for these pets completely on my own. Although I don't think I'll have any easy time with BWL anytime soon.

Old Raids and New Pets

One of my favorite parts about the new patch is the ability to enter raids even if you're just by yourself. No more trying to wrangle guildies into a raid group or messing with a free trial account but instead you can just waltz right into a raid instance. One of my other favorite parts is the introduction of new pets to old raid bosses. I just had to start farming for them right away.

The first place I went to was Naxx. I love Naxx but I think part of that is nostalgia for my first raid. But it's still an amazing place with some really unique bosses. I went to the Construct quarter first because the boss I thought I would have the most trouble with was Gluth. Patch and Grobbulus and Gluth did give me a bit of trouble. I attempted to kill him as frost because I wasn't sure I could do more dps as blood than Gluth healed  but it also meant my survivability wasn't as strong. My first two attempts I didn't kill him but I got close enough I decided to shift a few points in my talents to see if I could get just a little more survivability and dps. It managed to be just enough and was a pretty close fight. The rest of Naxx went fairly well and I got some 'shrooms to drop. A pet 'shroom anyway.

After Naxx I thought I'd take things easy and went to the Molten Core. It went fairly quickly and I managed to gain a Blazing Rune and a Mark of Flames. I was pleasantly surprised to get two pets from one raid and I'm really glad I didn't stop after getting the first pet.

I figured since I was close I'd give Blackwing Lair a try. I wasn't sure if the first boss was possible to solo or not. I've heard it was impossible but that Blizzard had made some nerfs to make it easier to solo so I figured it was worth a try. I headed to the orb and realized I wasn't attuned. So I needed a quick trip to Upper Spire and you can't go to Upper Spire without killing 50 Whelps.

Atunement accomplished I headed into Blackwing Lair and made my first attempt at the first fight.

And than tried again.

And again.

And just once again.

I decided to call it quits for the night. But overall it had been a pretty good run. 3 pets, several achievements, and a nice haul of transmog gear from Naxx.