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25 man fun June 5, 2008

Posted by Sharny in : Gear, Instances, Paladin, World of Warcraft , trackback

And no, it was not a gay orgy.

So tonight I got to see 25 man bosses going down, for the first time ever.  We started out doing Magtheridon, which we managed to one shot and I managed to survive and keep those being healed by me alive despite absolutely crippling lag.  It got pretty tense approaching the cave in but we got through it.  One of the 3 tokens was the Paladin one, my last blue is my chest so I could really use it.  Unfortunately, due to it being my first 25 man raid kill I didn’t really understand the bidding system, nor did I actually know how much DKP I had anyway, so it went to a shaman.

My lag seemed to be improving at this point and we headed to Gruul’s lair.  Mualgar went down on the second try, I’m not entirely sure what happened the first go, I was happily healing my hunter duo when I was 2 shot by Mualgar himself.  Next try was much more textbook, except of course that I disconnected the very second the pull was made.  The mage tank stayed alive through my DC (I’m not sure how exactly, as it was my target and no one elses - I guess the others just picked him up) and we got him down.  He again dropped the paladin tokens, this time I bid but I was against 2 shaman this time and they seemed keener to lose their DKP, it wasn’t a huge upgrade for me so I let it go.

Gruul took a little more convincing to get down.  Since it was my first time fighting him (same with mualgar but that seemed much simpler for the healer) I was worried that I would mess up on the fight.  After quite a few wipes the raid leader took all the trial members out of the raid, people were dying on shatter and since they had 21 manned Gruul for a few weeks now it seemed worth taking people out in order to get him down. After this we wiped a couple more times and then did get him down.  Again, the paladin token dropped and this time I bid and won.  It wasn’t really a massive upgrade but I really wanted to get some Tier gear as I’ve not had any before.

There was also some fun drama loot, the Dragonspine Trophy dropped (for those who don’t know, its a very good trinket, it may be best or 2nd best in slot for a few classes, I know its the reason why guilds that outgear the encounter by far still come back and do it) and it seemed most of the physical dps wanted to get their hands on it.  These problems were fueled by the DKP manager saying that DKP was allowed to go as far into minus numbers as they liked, essentially the bidding war could feasibly continue forever.  It was eventually sorted by the guild leader cutting in and giving it to the person with the highest DKP. Really, there was nothing else that could be done and any other way would have just resulted in one person with a massive DKP debt and a whole load of disgruntled dps.

Once I got out I shelled out a good 320g to get a Golden Spellthread to put on my new legs. 30 DKP and 320g for about +25 heal upgrade and a little bit of mana and hp. I guess those kinds of gains means I really am into endgame.

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