A Most Epic Encounter

So the Midsummer Fire Festival began yesterday. I was up early that day so I was able to take advantage of being one of the first people to take down the new summer boss, Lord Ahune, the imposing frost elemental pictured above.

We entered Slave Pens with a party consisting of my hunter, a mage, a druid, a paladin, and a rogue. Our first crack at him went horrifically wrong. We only barely made it to the second wave. The basic idea of the fight is to have the tank hold aggro on a big ice elemental while the DPS attack the smaller ones that attempt to kill the healer. Meanwhile Ahune is laughing in the background and causing icicles to jut out of the ground that pop you up into the air.

Getting back to that encounter, now we're on our fourth try. We've been getting progressively better at fighting him. Every time the big ice elemental minion is down for awhile, his core is exposed. It happens a few times during the fight and you have to burn him down as much as possible. Because Lord Ahune can't be tanked, it's okay to blow everything you have on him. Unfortunately we weren't able to kill him. We were close to leaving when we found out we still had one more chance. The healer was able to summon him once more so everyone prepared for the fight. A few people needed repairs and some enterprising players brought potions and I brought food consumables and Mana Oils.

We were ready.

My job this time was to kill all the little elementals while everyone attacked the bigger one. Once the core was exposed we burned him down about 35%! On the second wave of elementals, we knew that I couldn't handle them alone so now the mage assists me in protecting the druid. At this point we understood our roles and it was just a matter of doing it. The core is exposed again and chip off another solid block of his health. The third wave has the same results but he has a little too much health left to kill at this wave. We leverage our full might but at 10% we can see that Lord Ahune will surface once again. 3%...2%...1%...0! Lord Ahune is destroyed and Azeroth is safe once again.

Well not quite because it seems we were so close to the fourth wave that Lord Ahune actually summoned another big ice elemental to kill us. One of my party members remarked that it was "One for the road" and we all took that to heart and killed him together. While I may not have gotten anything other than a new tabard, I had alot of fun. It was a great feeling being able to be the one who explain the fight to someone who's like "WTF just happened?!" and experiencing new content before anyone else.

P.S. Crypt is doing fine. He even joined in on the festivities.

All For One And One For All

My guildmates and I tried out some 3v3 arena. I've been curious about it for awhile now. We lost just about every game we played, not that we thought we could win anyway. The biggest problem our team is facing is gear discrepancy.

That aside, we don't have enough experience working as a team yet. We don't have any strategies like that sacrificial warlock that ran in dotting everyone. Healers are hard to shut down and end up enabling others to crush our team.

It was defintely a learning experience for me and I can't wait to try it again.

What is this i don't even...

Why so mad?

Some people take this game way too seriously. Sure we were down 700 points in Eye of the Storm, but you didn't have to lash out at everyone playing the damn game. If we lost it's because you didn't bother contributing because the Alliance built up a sizable lead on us. I don't understand the mentality of people demanding that we just bend over and lose the game. I've never seen that happen and I highly doubt it will ever happen anyway. Players are way more likely to rally than to just give up.

Of course we lost, but that didn't stop the guy from mouthing off about how he is right and how everyone else was a loser. Man, fuck that guy.

Polymorph: Turtle!

So yesterday we tried to kill a boss in Zul'Gurub in order to get the Polymorph: Turtle book for my mage. While we failed to actually kill the boss, we did get first hand experience with what the boss does and what we need to actually kill him. After it resets, I hope to try again with the priest who egged me on for level 70 and the usual Kung Fu Scientists crew.

Not Again!

It's the bane of my existence. Because I have a sub-par connection, I am no stranger to this screen. It's a real pain when you have people who're waiting on you to log back on so we can continue what we were doing. One day it was down for an extended period and I felt bad because my guild mate waited for about fifteen minutes for me to try to log back on. I hate it and wish it would go away.