If You Fail...

Downing Warlord Zon'ozz with our 10 man core group.

Downing Yor'sahj the Unsleeping with out 10 man core group.

Instead of 'if you fail, try, try again.' its more like 'if you fail, switch to 10 man'. Tonight we tried again to down the second boss in Dragon Soul on 25 man. But again, it didn't work. With everyone getting frustrated they decided to call it a night... however, the night wasn't over, by far. Two 10 man groups decided to try to take down that in which they couldn't. And did.

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.

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.)

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.

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!

-Melts-

I am offically a Raider for Lords of Havoc!

Almirmiel
Woot woot! -does happy dance- I can't believe it, I finally have a 'Raider' position in a guild. Before I always just raided for them, I never got a nifty title or awesome perks. (Which I will probably never use cause I will forget to. That and I don't feel right taking other people's things when I can just go get my own.) -sooooo happy right now- And to make it better I even had raid in 15 mins, it's only BoT and BWD but its a chance for some Upgrades! As well as delicious Valor Points.

A few Screen shots from our Raid tonight.

We unfortunately did not get Nef down this week. I did however get to run with one of my old guild leaders, Voe from University of Suramar. It was an interesting surprise, good none the less. Hopefully next week we are going to start on Heroics. -smiles- Time to do homework and read up on the game mechanics.And I can't believe that I am already Valor Capped for this week and it's only Wedneday. ><

The Bigger They Are The Harder They Fall

Lord Rhyolith down.

Almirmiel
This little healer here is on the right track. Just got done doing her first Firelands' Raid. After about a handful of attempts Lords of Havoc was able to take down Lord Rhyolith. Oh, I guess I should have mentioned. Almirmiel is now is Lords of Havoc. -waves a small banner- This is a guild that I had almost joined months and months ago on Ignasia when University of Suramar was considering a merger. This is a very well rounded group, very patient and self organized raiders. And most importantly, absolutely no immature kids! Right now my most important project is to work on upping my Healing. With being able to pull 12k Heal Per Second in ZA/ZG I was very disappointed to find myself low on the healing charts and only capping at about 8-9k Heals Per Second. I can't wait for the Valor to reset tomorrow. I will be getting my second piece of Tier 12. (My pants, none the less.) After that I can start working on getting my wand and other accessories. I also became Friendly with the Avengers of Hyjal, which enabled me to get my healing Back Piece tonight as well. As for dailies I'm trying for my second set of 150 Tokens and am currently sitting on just less than 80.

Ignasia
Tonight as well this Fire Mage was able to get into a pug group who were able to take down Shannox. (Forgot to get a screen shot.)

A Place of My Own

You know that warm tingly feeling when you hug someone you love, get a holiday card from your parents, or even take a massive dump in a freshly clean toilet. Yeah finally having a place in a raid group is that feeling exactly. I finally found a place of my own. Now granted, the group has yet to raid... and is working out the kinks in trying to get together. My name is still on that list, or well my character's name is on that list. Screw technicalities.

Unfortunately, I have to work that night. But also unfortunately, it doesn't look like many can show up as is. However, there is always Thursday. I have found that drive I needed to continue to log into the World of Warcraft.

Almirmiel
She is so not ready for Firelands. Tier 11 stuff is hardly an issue... however ZA/ZG is still kicking my ass healing wise. >< I need to get with a few groups that can help me grind out Valor Points so that I can start working on my Tier 12 things. So speaking of I'm going to jump online and do some Normal Heroics.

Holy Craptastic Raiding, Batman!

Downing Atramedes

Okay so I just went through the best raid experience EVER. Raided for 7 hours straight.

Progress:
- Blackwing Descent: Got to Nef (However did not attempt)
- Bastion of Twilight: Attempted Cho'gall (Got to Phase 2 and under 20%)
And keep in mind we blew through some of the bosses. More than half we 1 shot. This was all done in one run. Thank you Sanctum for such an awesome run!

Last attempt on Cho'gall

*By the way: In the previous post I mentioned about updating later cause I was getting into a raid. THIS was that raid!!