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The sweet smell of progress April 29, 2008

Posted by Sharny in : Fun, Gaming, Instances, Paladin, World of Warcraft , add a comment

Today we hit ZA again going for timed on the first, maybe the second boss and aimed to give ago to the other two bosses.  We were going to go yesterday but we were lacking the people so a few of us went and had some fun beating up blood elves at Tranquillien.  Anyway, today we headed in, we had a new priest with us as well and he got on well.

We got to the first boss fine, unlike the past couple of times I was healing the main tank whilst the other two were on the off tank (sounds a bit weird but our paladin takes a lot of spiky damage during those fights before the bear dude so he needs the healing).  We proceeded to down him, despite the bear form tank accidentally getting the mangle debuff, it was very, very close but thanks to some holy light + greater heal + every HoT you like and swiftmend we pulled through it. Phewf.  He dropped the plate healing helm I already have which the paladin tank took and then… I’m not sure what the other drop was, nothing interesting for me though.

Trash leading up to the second boss all went fine, despite slight lag from me and from a couple of others.  We then proceeded to down the boss with many deaths including the tank right before we took him down.  Another timed completed, woot!  We got a healing staff and something else I forget.  Two bosses in the timed, that’s some pretty good progress right there. Where we currently stand I don’t think we could do the timed any further as we don’t have the DPS but if we farm the first two timed and then the next two for a while we’ll get there eventually I’m sure.

We proceeded to take down the next two bosses, not a lot of trouble on the dragonhawk but it took a couple goes but then we managed to one shot the lynx.  No paladin lewts for me but more badges is always good, I’ve got my eye on upgrading one of my two green (/shame) trinkets.

Overall I’m really pleased with Sapphiron’s progress and I hope to stick with them moving forward into twenty five mans before Wrath of the Lich King hits and maybe even carry on for a long time after that…!

Nice Surprises April 27, 2008

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I forgot to actually make the post about it but Sapphiron did actually manage to down the Lynx boss in ZA on Saturday. More than that, we did it in two proper attempts, first attempt was good and we got him to about 35%, then we had a messed up and the tank died straight away because us healers were moving and on the next try we got him. As such I’m very proud of us, looking at Be Imba for the healers that were there only one of the three are even in a position to perform well in ZA according to that and we’re 4/6 in there.

I probably should start to take a meter to see if I’m actually healing as expected although it probably won’t tell me much, the other paladin healer that the guild has is substantially better geared than me (probably has more experience aswell).

In other WoW news, my latencies at home are still unplayable and I seem to be able to do nothing about it. Given that it happens regardless of whether my connection is going via my router or not I don’t think it can be a port forwarding issue. I also don’t think it can be a firewall issue because if it were the game would simply have no connection, I’ve never known my firewall to just heavily block something. This kinda leaves me suspecting my ISP but my friend has the same ISP as me and although I’ve had a few strange disconnects on his computer my latencies are fine.

I’ve also canceled my subscription due to my upcoming exams, although I may have carried on playing if I could play at home as it’s nice to have the game to relax with, without it I can’t really reward myself for having done some good revision as I don’t really want to play any other games. It might be for the best though, given that these are exams are so important.

Hangin with trolls April 26, 2008

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Last night we made some progress in Zul’Aman, or at least, I think it was progress for the guild, it definitely was for me.  We took down the first three bosses (Bear, Eagle, Dragonhawk) with the Bear going down within the timed event. No lewts for me as it was mostly DPS cloth that dropped and a resto druid belt but I’m just pleased  that we got them down.  Be imba puts my performance level as only just inside the first 25 mans, not even able to do well in ZA but still me and the other healers who are of a similar level I think (it was two resto druids last night) got right through those bosses, actually one shotting the first two (if you don’t include a very quick fail and recovery on the bear, oopsies).

I think all in all this puts many of us in good stead to start the 25 mans all we really need is the numbers, it seems we don’t have enough for even two Kara groups going at the same time yet so the next level is a bit far away.  It’s healers that are mostly lacking I think which just puts a bit more pressure on me to be active.

I think we’re going into ZA again tonight although my internet connection is being very temperamental when it comes to WoW, I’m constantly experiencing 1000+ms latencies whilst the rest of the stuff I do on the internet is fine.  We’re gonna be trying out Halazzi the Lynx (again, gonna be a first for me) which, according to WoWWiki, is a gear check for both tanks and healers. With that in mind, I will be very surprised if we down him.