Hydross Down

Hydross is toast. What an interesting fight... I think we have it down now and it really is not too tough, just need lots of DPS it seems to beat the enrage timer. Here is the VIDEO.

Feral Druids tanking the adds in this encounter should manage the fight like this...

1. Go cat form and DPS hydross between tanking the adds... yes your gear sucks and is ugly but you still do more damage in kitty and every bit helps.
2. When the raid leader calls to stop all DoT's continue to Shred and Mangle Hydross only... no more rips.
3. When the raid leader calls to OT for position and transfer Hydross to the other state switch to bear (hopefully you have your points in Furor like a good Feral should) and hit enrage to make sure you are ready for add duty.
4. Stand right under Hydross with the raid pally and as soon as the adds are drawn in by concecrate hit Roar and start spam swiping while tabbing through the targets... do this 1-3 times and then mangle/taunt at least 1 add off the pally so he doesn't die... a second if there are only 2 tanks CCing the adds.
5. As soon as the adds go down shift back to kitty, mangle Hydross start spamming shred.
6. Repeat, Back to 1. with you.

Wed. night is Gruul... again... geesh I hope I get my T4 pants already... cheap only, I mean heck we are already in T5 content so there is really no point on blowing much DKP for these now...

After Gruul should be Mag's Lair and we are ready for our Champion of the Naaru title.

Gruul Down twice this week...

but still no T4 pants dropped... 4 pairs no Defender... ::sad panda::

On another note and leading into my tip of the day Midnight Legguards dropped on my first ever trip to SP Heroic.

My tip to you is to save your money on gems and an armor kit and keep using your Clefthoof Hide Leggings. The loss of expertise is noticeable while grinding and the DPS is only slightly better. I only spent the money to wear mine because I was just tired of the skirt look. What you should do is Arena for Vengeful Gladiator's Dragonhide Legguards or even better farm Netherspite for Skulker's Greaves. 75 badges can buy you Shallow-grave Trousers but you are going to miss the +Hit trust me. Regardless of what you buy for pure kitty DPS socket with all Delicate Living Ruby and forget about the socket bonus.

Doomwalker Dead!

We killed our first world boss last night.

After a unsuccessful first attempt let me give you my Druid tips for living through the last 20% of this boss while he enrages.

1. Have at least 5 really good healers over healing the living crap out of you.

2. Idol of Terror, Moroes' Lucky Pocket Watch, Badge of Tenacity when he hits 20% and you taunt him onto you if your Idol buff is not up pop 1 of the 2 trinkets... when that is up, again if Idol buff is not on pop the other one... when that runs out pray your Idol final proc'ed or you might be kissing your big bear butt goodbye... if another tank picks him up before you die be nice and pick him back up if you get back to full health and the Idol procs again.

3. Elixir of Major Agility, Elixir of Major Fortitude, Spicy Crawdad, and any scrolls you might have on you like +Armor or +Agility. I like Flask of Chromatic Wonder but it is way too expensive... once I level my Warlock alchemist alt I will most likely do what she needs to do to make these.

4. Every possible raid buff to increase your HP.

Gear wise I tried to balance mitigation and stamina for this fight... I think I was able to wear Necklace of the Deep with 2 Solid Star of Elune and still be uncrittable. I don't remember my exact gear makeup but I think I was at roughly 30K armor, 20K HP, and 47% dodge.

Congrats to BRK and his shiny new gun Barrel-Blade Longrifle and whoever ended up with the Anger-Spark Gloves... like most men I was too busy checking out the pretty gun in the character screen and completely missed who got the gloves.

Wildfury Greatstaff Dropped!... and other Epic Goodness

Wow, had a big Epic weekend.

First on Friday on my weekly Kara run that I am still doing for gear... see early posts of Kara hates me... I get 4 Epic drops.

Gilded Thorium Cloak
Mixed feelings about this one since I was eying Slikk's Cloak of Placation with that extra dodge... will probably upgrade to it once I hit the armor cap.

Drape of the Dark Reavers
This was a HUGE need for the +Hit

Gauntlets of Malorne
3 of 5 in T4 now... Pants off of Gruul and I will be rocking the 4 piece armor bonus... not sure really how this will compare to my current S3 gear setup though.

Forestlord Striders
For when that itch to heal arises (no one in the group could use or wanted).

But the big haul came Sunday evening in a Morogrim Tidewalker attempt. As we cleared trash Totem of the Maelstrom dropped then guess what dropped... nope, Totem of the Maelstrom dropped again... LOL. However, the last Epic drop of the evening was... Wildfury Greatstaff!

And as it turned out our other Feral druid raider and my Arena partner had missed that portion of the raid going AFK for some reason at the start... sorry Kele :( ... so the staff became mine.

So to sum up, all my bad WOW luck stopped for 1 weekend... YAY!

Lurker down... again

I really don't like this fight much. I absolutely hate attacking things while in the water... hate it. Must be my kitty nature coming out.

Anywho, I tested my new Idol of Terror and I guess I like it pretty well although I have to disagree with it's reported proc rate of 85% in kitty form.

Both Kelektra and I used the idol last night and from looking at the WWS stats it proc'ed about 65% of the time.

On another note, I really need some key gear from Kara still just to get my plus hit up to the cap. Using Romulo's Poison Vial just flat out sucks and I would like to get my CrystalForged trinket back into play.

On the next Lurker fight I will equip my Everbloom Idol to see what kind of a difference in DPS you can expect on a fight that is pretty chaotic for melee DPS.

Happy New Year

Hope everyone had a safe and happy new year.

Jace got presents under the tree in IF and some new gear...

Vengeful Gladiator's Dragonhide Tunic
Vengeful Gladiator's Dragonhide Gloves
Idol of Terror

Coming on the 8th when the faire arrives...
Darkmoon Card: Vengeance

I am very happy with the new gear and I am holding off on the S3 Mace for a little while as I upgrade my gear in both Bear and Kitty for higher survivability and DPS. No DPS gear addition even gets close to the S2 mace in added DPS but the other gear gives me much more in return so for now the mace waits.

Also, Ancestral Ring of Conquest dropped in SSC which was a nice little upgrade.

It's the Holiday's

Christmas time came early... I finally got my T4 shoulders. This is great and my DPS is looking really good, 2 T4 really is awesome for kitty DPS.

I bought the S1 mace while waiting for the needed points for the S2 version and spent my last honor on PvP shoulders for tanking.

Currently I think my DPS and tanking gear is good to go for a while with upgrades being in the nice to have section now instead of the must have... my next goal is to go back to the battle grounds and get a couple items to round out my healing set. I am thinking about re-speccing to resto just for some Heroic runs during our Christmas slow time with raiding.

In other news, I finally got to do a little Zul'Aman... OTed the bear boss and 1 shot him. Yes the belt fell, no I didn't win it... lost my usual roll to a rogue... LOL 94-6... not even close.

Oh yeah, I also got the Tree-Menders belt on a Heroic Ramps run... a nice surprise indeed.

Blizz hates me

So I have like 1700+ DKP now.

Curator snubbed me on my T4 gloves again.

High King said no to my T4 shoulders.

Gruul did drop my T4 pants but really our MT and raid leader needed them WAY more than I. Really T4 pants are just for Feral tanking and can be the last piece I get. That and we did Gruul without 1 tank death this Monday... it was sweet. I actually like OTing this fight, much easier than trying to get behind Gruul and DPS him.

DST dropped.... but I need my points for the shoulders... if and when.

Patch 2.3 hit... I really hope they don't nerf us again, I am going to enjoy DPSing in rogue range.

My Crusade card rocks even more now since with HotW I now cap at 132AP from the trinket instead of 120AP.

We tried Mag's lair after Gruul since we ran through his lair like we were farming cloth back in Westfall. It went pretty well for a first attempt. It was nice to hear from my healer that he had no problems keeping me alive tanking the 4th channeler... I was actually a little worried but I pride myself in being geared the best I can be at any point in our progression and do what I can to stay abreast of where I can make gear improvements through enchants, PvP, crafted, gems, trinkets, whatever.

I already have my Macro in place for using potions in bear form... this should be interesting to say the least.

My current gear wish list:

ARENA S2 MACE

Kara:

T4 gloves

Gruuls lair:

T4 Shoulders
T4 pants
DST

Magtheridon's Lair

T4 Chest

Zul'Aman:

Jan'alai - Shadowtooth Trollskin Cuirass
Hex Lord Malacrass - Primal Man-catcher
Timed event must kill each boss within 20 minutes - Signet of Primal Wrath
Zul'jin - Berserker's Call
Nalorakk - Bladeangel's Money Belt

A short update

Well, nothing really new here. Kara continues to be stingy, the hourglass hasn't fallen for me to even lose the roll as usual, I didn't have enough DKP for the T4 gloves of Curator the last time they dropped, I don't have the DKP for anything in Grull's just yet, but I am DPSing in the 600-700 range according to the new DMG meter addon.

Just continuing the raid grind for DKP and Arena for my S2 Maul.

Looking forward to the 2.3 patch with the Primal Man-catcher from the new Raid encounter and some leather for Heroic badges that is better than Kara drops.

I am very close to hitting exalted with Shat'ar and getting A'dal's Command which will give me a little boost from one ring slot.

I now have all my Heroic Keys which I would be more happy about but since in 2.3 it only takes honored to get them it lacks the wow factor for me.

I did get lucky in Shattered Halls and can now do the Savagery enchant.

GRUUL DOWN!

We finally took down Gruul last night in a frenzied final rush of mostly melee DPS at the last 1% with our tanks dead and players falling right and left (I got hit for 27K).

Killing Gruul with 6 healers, 6 Rogues, and a feral druid in the mix is a testament to our guilds determination and the ability to get everyone involved regardless of the fight. Just read on the strategy to this fight and you will see that it is recommended to go with 3 healers tops and very few melee DPS but we got it done!

Our rogues were able to hold off a wipe using evasion just long enough to get him down.

Grats to AC, Void Reaver is next.













I am a little behind in updating the blog, I now have my Stag-Helm of Malorne and the newly crafted Shadowprowler's Chestguard from the 2.2 patch. Both have made a significant difference in my DPS output. I can only imagine how nice it will be to get the 2 set bonus and the added energy on proc.

High King Maulgar DOWN!

Yes, last night myself and 24 of my online guild buddies took down the first boss in Gruul's Lair. It was our first visit there and everyone did a great job. Once we got the timing of the pull and assignments down it was actually pretty easy. Fortunately for us we have an awesome raid leader that gets us very well prepared in very little time and can call out changes in strategy in real time to ensure our success.

We had Druids respec to Resto which helped greatly, thanks to those that excelled in the new role and kept my bear arse alive.

We only wiped I think 3-4 times with one being a Leroy wipe with one toon getting just a little to close before we were ready.... that was exciting.

No loot for me although T4 shoulders for Druid did fall. With only 200 or so SWAP points it just wasn't happening but no worries, in Wow all good things come in time.

AC Downs the High King

Finally...

The Edgewalker Longboots finally dropped when I was at Kara and I was able to pick them up using our SWAPS system.

Also, I have changed out 1 Red gem to Purple and was able to activate my Helm of the Claw meta gem slot which has a Relentless Earthstorm Diamond. The 3% added Crit damage is sweet (Thanks to Fio our Guild GM to clearing up my Meta Gem confusion).

So now self buffed in Kitty form I am sitting at 2473AP and 35% Crit which I guess is pretty good along with 33.5% dodge.

Anyway, going to start grinding away at BG's for some Epic gear to improve my bear stats while trying to do whatever Heroics I can fit in to get those last few peices of Epic gear I want.