New Is Not Always Better

First boss down in Dragon Soul!

Finally, patch 4.3 came out yesterday. Everyone flooded back online for the new content, new dungeons, and of course new raids. I was surprised come Wednesday there was no lag on the servers while Lords of Havoc did their weekly raid. As discussed in a meeting that was held days prior, we decided we were going to join the ranks of the 25 man raiding guilds starting for Dragon Soul. The raid itself went very well as we downed the first boss on our first attempt. However, the second boss after SEVERAL attempts gave us great issues. We called it a night on the second boss to pick up later in the week. 

Review on Patch 4.3

As many may know I have now three level 85 characters. (Priest, Mage and Paladin) My Priest walking into patch 4.3 was already very well geared. It made getting into the Random Raid Finder very easy and a breeze to get through. Really almost too easy, the group I had blew through the first four bosses like it was nothing, with not a single wipe. (I also did manage to get my Priest some very sexy loot, her teir 13 Head Piece.) My Mage who I hadn't played since the start of Firelands was sitting at an item level of 359. It only took a day to get her to item level 373. I was rather upset with how quick it took. I sat playing my Priest for months getting her finally to 370+ and in literally only a day my Mage was right there beside her. I feel like we were sent back to Wrath of the Lich King. Here, be able to take down all these bosses with no skill and effort at all. To be honest, I'm already bored of this patch. I've run the new dungeons to death already and maxed out my Valor Point on both my Priest and Mage in under two days. Now, the only fun I'm having is getting my Paladin geared up to be able to do the same thing. I'm sure this patch will give me a lot of time to work on my other toons or even find a new hobby in real life.

Haters Gotta Hate

I wonder if it so happens to be Razorwind on Something Awful. Hmmm?

Okay, so out of curiosity I decided to go through my dashboard and figure out where I was getting page views from. One of the top sites was 'Something Awful'. I was like 'Hmmm' and proceeded to click the link to the forum thread. I died of laughter for a good hour straight. Well apparently I must be doing something right because there are haters out there for this blogsite. All I got to say is -thumbs up- Thanks for the Page Views! ^^

Running with a P.U.G.

Downing Majordomo

Flasking up for some Rag attempts with Relic.

With the patch 4.3 quickly approaching I decided I wanted to finish out my Firelands lock. So what did I do? Spam trade chat, and boy did I hit the jackpot. I got in a guild run with an awesome guild by the name of Relic. We managed to get down Majordomo but sadly Ragnaros was a no go for the night. It was still very fun to hang out with such awesome people. (I learned that you can put a feast ontop of the points at Rag's platform. Which was amusing to see the goblins having to jump for it. Lol.)

Two Heads Are Better Than One

Well, it might not have been graceful but we got 25 Man Shannox down.

25 Man Baleroc Down.

Guild Update
H'okay, so here is the latest guild update. (This is to clear up any rumors or educate those without said knowledge.) So this week Lords of Havoc decided to play mad scientist and try an experiment. Well, it turned out different than hoped but still with good results. Lords of Havoc decided that they were going to play nice and merge with another guild named Mixed Nutz. And to figure out how well we would mesh, a 25 man was formed! In the end, the only two bosses we got down that night were Shannox and Baleroc. Even though there were many unhappy with the decision of 25 mans and a few whose computers couldn't even handle it. Its wasn't so bad after all. However, it seems 25 mans are a thing of the future. And the decision came down to running not one but two 10 man groups. Best of all, Lords of Havoc is very happy to have new guildies and great players to run along with. Welcome players of Mixed Nutz to Lords of Havoc! I hope you enjoy your stay~ ^^

Third times a charm

Woot Lasciel got to level 85!

Lasciel
Well after about a week my Paladin has finally hit level 85. Woooo! Yet, sadly now I'm faced with a problem. What do I spec her? I like the healing role in general but Holy Paladins have a HUGE skill curve with no good gear. Tanking isn't bad in dungeons but can I handle it raiding? What about Ret Paladins... do I want to be DPSing again? I just wish I could do all three. But I'm sure it would get crazy trying to manage the gear. So as of right now, I'm going with the easiest way to get gear. Fail DPSing through Heroic Dungeons. The worse that can happen is the mob takes extra time to get down. It's not like I'm killing anyone if I fail. ^^ -huge grin-

Another One Bites the Dust

Woot another Firelands Achievement!

Another group picture for Ragnaros

Raid tonight was very short due to the fact we only had to do two attempts before we downing Ragnaros tonight. So due to the amount of time we also did 25 man Obsidian Sanctum. Sadly Predator did not get his drake once again. -smallest violin- Lol.

The night of achievements. XD

The Final Countdown

So this is how we did tonight in raid... I think pictures speak louder than words. Maybe not louder than Tahnaya >> (Just Kidding!!! <3)

Downing Majordomo (Sadly not Heroic)

Downing Ragnaros makes it raid. XD

LORDS OF HAVOC FOR THE WIN!

OMG Naga.... RUN TOPI!!!

Also, tonight after the raid we decided to go down to Obsidian Sanctum to get the Twilight Drake on 25 Man. Guess who got it? Me :3! And it's my first Drake on Almirmiel.

On the Twilight Drake watching the Legendary Staff celebration. Congrats to Art of Ruin.

A Group Effort

"Evo, I think I'm falling for you." Said by Almir as she falls to her dead infront of Evo.

Lords of Havoc

So I decided that as much as I speak about my guild I have never really given it's proper introduction. I'm doing this for my fellow guildies that deserve the spotlight as well.

 My current raid group (Mon/Wed):

Of course, raids spots are always changing based on who is on at the time but for the most part the make up looks something like this. From the top left to bottom right:


Tanks - Deltour, Void
 DPS - Tahnaya, Bhain, Predator, Kormogon, Nozgoul
Healers - Topi, Arodoth, Almirmiel

UGH There Again

Ilvl of 309 already.

Lasciel
I don't know how many times I say this... but, I hate questing. >< With a burning fiery passion. And yet again, here we are. I would love to be able to go through Cataclysm and not have to worry about rep. But oh dear god is it sooooooo important for gearing up and enchants. So, as much as I bitch and cry about it, I have to do them. </3 I did however manage to get my Mining up to 525 AND Blacksmithing up to just under 500 in two days. I was able to gear myself up enough to get into the first Cataclysm Dungeons. From there I just kept winning all the tanking gear I could of ever wished for. Lol. I feel it already this character is going to be lucky.

Almirmiel
She will get two updates today, one now and then one after the raid this evening. -smiles- SO speaking of Raid, we will be working on Heroic Majordomo tonight. And for everyone curious (or in guild and has yet to see the link) this will be the strategy we will be trying tonight:

If anyone has a better strategy that you think works better than this one, please leave a comment to let me know or in-game mail me at Almirmiel - Suramar.

Avenging a Fallen Paladin

Woot, I'm now level 80!

Awe look at that crap armor, such a cute wanna-be Tankadin.

Lasciel
Well its offical I'm am now leveling a Tankadin. ^^ What's the main reason I do anything? I do it because people fail at doing it. I leveled my Healer because there was nothing but crappy healers. Now, I'm leveling a Tank so that there is another good tank out there. (Perhaps to replace Evo's fail tanking skills. XP) I doubt she will be to Almir's raid quality for quite sometime. But if nothing else, I will have another 85! Wooooot! Plus, with following in Remy's footsteps she will be a Miner and Jewelcrafter. And it's amusing both of our Paladin's are named after characters from within The Dresden Files books. I think our favorite ones at that too. <3

Almirmiel
Tonight was of course raid night with Lords of Havoc. It wasn't a half bad run tonight. Got Heroic Shannox down and got all the way up to Majordomo. We did a few attempts at Heroic Majordomo before calling it a night. However, I did get an off-spec trinket. It will greatly help to replace my healing-only trinket when running in Shadow Spec. Let alone with all valor I got tonight I will be able to buy a piece of DPS Tier 12. Yay, progress!