Shasmo’s RL Avatar: So I keep promising and promising to provide screenshots, and never do. Here are a few I grabbed before I raced to work this morning (spent alot of time figuring out the new KDE window manager). Hope you enjoy.
We are nearly a forest!
My first 25-man in Wrath!
Sarth down, and some Recount e-peeing. This is where I got my Figurine, too.
Everyone’s favourite grumpy old bear, BBB, has put out a call to everyone who might not have seen his posts for awhile. Apparently, his RSS feed application hasn’t been working, and he’s wanting people who miss him terribly to update their feed settings, so he can entertain us all.
On a scale of 1 to 10 on a graph of awesomeness, BBB tends to rate over 9000! (sorry for the official wow forum spillover there) 
Despite not having downed a boss personally in Naxxramas so far, I can boast a 2-0 with Sartharion in the Obsidion Sanctum. Yay!
I keep getting to the Naxx raids late (this week we had a hospital emergency) and my spot gets filled, which is no matter. I generally hang out in Wintergrasp in case they need me. I got pulled into a 25-man VoA run, but the tanks ragequit after a wipe. Like, ONE WIPE. In a PUG. *sigh*
We went into OS and wiped twice on the first drake. What was happening was:
We switched to me healing the OT/raid and the Other healer healing the MT and this worked better. We kept this way up for the rest of the raid, and I’m pleased to say that no other deaths were recorded at all during our time in there. Not even to the lava thingy.
I did a /love on the big dragon body when I won the roll on … Majestic Dragon Figurine which is one of the top three trinkets for raiding Resto Druids, I believe. YAY!
Doing a H VH run on Sunday (after winning Wintergrasp yet again (currently about 23K Honor with only 386 HKS *sigh*)) I didn’t get any loot, but I did get the last Emblem of Honor which meant I was able to go and buy … The Egg of Mortal Essence. This sounds like it came out of Sunken Temple, but it’s pretty cool. 505 haste rating, coupled with my piddly little 43, helps out alot.
Now all I have to do is run Heroic Nexus over and over again for that blasted helm …
Happy (belated) Australia Day from my RL Avatar! (he was a little too inebriated to post yesterday)
I am now, officially, broke again.
The past week or two, I’ve been trying to play the market in Glyphs and Herbs and basic AH bargain hunting. My RL Avatar is no good at it in his Realm, but I haven’t been doing too bad. In the first week I started with 1100G and ended up (just before the patch) with just under 3000G.
Then the patch hit.
Suddenly, my Nobles cards, which were going out the door at 900-1000G each, were getting undercut to about 400-500G each. Silly Jessica lady-who-sells-Inks-for-pratically-nothing. I’ve decided to just keep making them when I can, and post up the completed Decks on the Auction House, since they seem to be holding their value.
With some of my gains, I purchased an 8-piece PVP crafted caster set, for 600G all up, his mats (a bargain, I believe). It’s funny, but since getting these, I haven’t been in a Battleground (lol). This week, though, I’ll put it to the test. I lose alot of Spellpower, but get a fair bit of resilience, so I will be trying out the PVP spec (0/37/34) that’s been floating around the Druid forums with this gear, and see how I go.
I also was able to purchase a [Titansteel Guardian], which looks SO COOL! I put a +50 spellpower enchant on it, because a) the +63 was too expensive (1100G vs 150G) and b) the +spirit one no-one admitted to having available for me to buy. It’s freaking sweet, and I had just the book to pair with it …
[Faces of Doom] I have been keeping an eye on this on the AH, and haven’t seen anything significant to say ’sell it!’. One guy has had one up for 2 weeks now, starting at 1100G and now he’s got it at 999G buyout. I’ve tried flogging it on /trade for 950G, but have had no takers, so when I was able to pick up the Guardian for a total cost to me of 800G, I thought ’stuff it, I’ll use it’.
I have made a bank alt just for my glyphs, and with an initial investment of 10G, she has so far made 700G just by selling off glyphs that Auctioneer hasn’t seen up there in great quantities. Some of them are only going for 70 Silver, but there are some that have sold quickly for 50G, and when I go to search for them, there are none, so BAM! she posts 3 at a time, for 5G higher than last time. Sometimes I get beaten at my own game, and people post just after me with a 5-10G undercut, but it works often enough to make it worthwhile.
The herb market is flooded at the moment, so I’m stockpiling my herbs and using just enough to be able to craft Cards and glyphs as needed. I have a large stockpile of Ink of the Sea’s from before the patch, so one of my bankers is stashing all my Icethorn and Lichbloom for when I get low. Frost Lotus’ are the only thing that I’m able to sell, and because I have so many (started out selling with 140 of them), I can undercut by a substantial amount and put them up in stacks of 5 (generally around the 35G mark). While yes, I could be making more off them, if I put my prices up to the 50G or so that everyone else has, they won’t sell as reliably. Sure, some people might be buying them to sell at 50G, and making a 15G profit or thereabouts, but to me, having a guaranteed 35G in my pocket, versus an iffy 50G, wins out everytime. Maybe the herb market will change, who knows. I just /kiss my Auctioneer mod and keep an eye on things.
Last night, the noobs in the guild wanted to run Gruuls and Mags, for some silly reason. I didn’t want to go, because it seems that with the legacy raids, people try deliberately to wipe the raids, assuming that, because they have some level 80s along, they are safe from dying.
Case in point was the retarded balance druid who keeps running ahead of the tanks in Karazhan, and when he pulls aggro, shadowmelds, spams his macro saying “Heal me!” and runs back to the group. Or dies when SM doesn’t work. Of course, if that happens then it’s the healers fault. (“Why didn’t you heal me? You suck as a healer!” “Well, buddy, with that attitude, you are guaranteed to not see a heal come from me to you.”)
I logged on to farm some herbs and check the AH to see if I had sold anything, and some of the level 80s were trying to get an Obsidian Sanctum run going. Since they have only downed 2 bosses in Naxx atm, I predicted our chances of success at zero, so I didn’t take up the call.
I did end up going, though. Sepai whispered me and said they needed only one more healer, so I shrugged and said ‘why not’.
I am so glad we did, because we mopped that place good and proper.
We had 3 healers, which might have been overkill, but I didn’t notice our DPS suffering because of it. We had 2 tanks, a DK and the Awesome-Sauce Sepai. I asked for healing assignments and was met with silence, so i said to myself “Fuck them, I’ll heal the Main Tank, Sepai”. We headed to our left, and took out all the drakes, one by one, no problems at all.
Well, one of the healers didn’t go into the portal with the rest of them, and didn’t even chuck a heal on Sepai while he tanked the drake. I stayed out, as all strategies suggest (one tank and one healer stay out, everyone goes in) but this person was just standing there, probably dumbstruck at why they couldn’t heal the party members without going through the portal. This happened on every drake.
We get to Sarth, and we wipe, because most people got caught in the flames, not knowing to look for the gaps.
Next try: we wipe at 35%, because some of the DPS stayed in the line of the fire in their excitement. No biggie, we’re still getting used to the fight. I remind myself again and again to not stand at her tail, or else put up with the stuns
Next try: downed! OMG we forgot to take a friggin’ photo! The fist weapon loot dropped, as well as the DK/Druid/etc token, which our DK Tank got. I nabbed the 22 slot bag, and decided to not roll on the Spoils bag, since I didn’t want to be a loot whore.
With the ease that we took her down, as well as her minions, I can safely say that we will be farming this boss. My idea (although I no longer hold any authority in the desicion making process) is to spend 4 resets getting used to her with no drakes, then progress to having one drake up, then two, then three. From what I can see, the only reason to have 3 drakes up is the achievement and the mount: the loot levels are the same with 2 drakes and 3 drakes. Wrong?
I don’t like meter spam in /raid, so I said to everyone that if they wanted to see meters, to join /frostmeters and I’d spam them. A few people joined and I told Recount to start spamming. I was surprised to see myself on the top of the healing meters, and not by a small amount either. Knowing Sepai as I do, I was able to keep him above 80% the entire fight (except for the 2 wipes of course) without running out of mana, but I left my raid healing to a few Wild Growths on the tank (to spread to the melee) or myself (the ranged guys). I think next time we might be able to try it with 2 healers, will have to see what happens. Can it be done with only 2 healers? Whatever the makeup, we will definately be sorting out healing assignments prior to pulling next time.
Afterwards, I got suckered into coming to Gruuls and Mags: fights I haven’t done yet on Shasmo. Mags was fine, but people were too cocky, and left 2 channelers up for too long when Mags appeared. I saw the DPS go for the boss and the channelers following them and did a /facepalm IRL. At least they got the clicking down in the end, the first blast got through (lowbie deaths, nothing to worry about).
Gruuls was much the same, Sep took HKM and I healed him, everyone else did some bullshit with the rest of the adds, and they went down faster than ball bearings in water. Gruuls was a pushover, although we had marked up the healers so people would stay away from us in a Shatter, but for some reason, they ran towards us. Luckily, I had a shitload of HP and was able to absorb the damage abit. The other healers weren’t so lucky 
And why oh why do people not follow instructions? What part of ‘Rez the dead before looting’ don’t people understand? They see it spammed in /raidchat three times by the Raid Leader, then they go and loot the boss anyway. I called him out afterwards and he was like ‘I didn’t loot!’, yet when the roll window popped up on the screen, his was the first to receive his Badge of Justice.
It’s things like that, people not listening, people repeatedly asking stupid questions in /gchat, people not wanting to learn, just wanting to be carried, that is turning me off this guild. Their only redeeming factor is that /gchat can be fun, and that’s the only reason I’m still there.
