Yer, umm here’s my weekly weekend wrap up… which is normally up on a Tuesday or Wednesday, but with playtime starting for this weekend in 3 hours, I better knock out last week’s….
I didn’t get to play on Friday night, in part because I played for a little while on Thursday, but I did get a bit of play time on Saturday.
The good part about this was that I got to do a few heroics…
The bad bit as the 9 items my mates DE’d…
I am sure a couple of those had my name on them…
Dropped in on Azjol-The-Noob, 1st time in once again my 1st run through an encounter is a heroic… well, let’s face it, they all will be.
Topped the damage and DPS on all the bosses, doing 37% of the damage and 3,000 odd dps on Krik’thir. I don’t know how that compares to the average Gnome on the street… but I was pretty happy.
I think it was during this run that someone shot up the recount, showing me at the top. I messaged my mates on our private channel that I was surprised because I had myself in 2nd position. Turns out I made 2 mistakes.
- The party member was showing DPS numbers, not raw damage (where I was 2nd) , and I was on top.
- I didn’t send the message to my mates… rather to the party!
I got over my embarrassment pretty quickly… with an “/p obvious mt folks…” and got down to collecting the achievements.
Now… you see I NEED that… so I am going to roll… Okay?
Yep, it wasn’t that I needed the wand… it is just that I AM NEEDY!
Trotted into Heroic Utgarde Keep, just for something different… actually I had done this place on normal before… wonders never cease.
I did real good… topped the DPS meters for all “defeated” bosses
Somewhere along the line I picked up my 100th piece of worthless junk (I will come back to this).
Prince Keleseth dropped Wand of the San’layn which is going to be handy, because there is sure to be a day when I am not hit capped.
Then we charged in to take care of Ingvar the Plunderer… well they did, I just sort of froze… then dropped out…
I logged back in time to watch the corpse drop to the ground, and I just barely got that screenshot. Another Heroic under my boots… well, the party’s boots…. I killed him from the login screen.. maybe it was my Living Bomb dot that took him out… mmmm maybe not.
Further proof that I read quest text…
But of course I would read it when I am called good looking, then told that not only am I not the good looking one, but this green haired Gnome can’t match intellect with a green skinned Goblin…
I’ll tell you where he can shove his new improved land mines…
I am pretty sure I have passed comment on how being height disadvantaged has it’s.. ummm… disadvantages…
You see that lip on the “rectangle” everyone is standing on.. that is 2 inches of massive jump for this little Gnome. The reason I am standing on the right is it took me about 10 attempts to get out of that rectangle… so when I did, I wasn’t going back
Halls of Lightning… been there before, a few times… Thursday wasn’t the last time for the week, and I had to venture in twice on Saturday night.
Why you might ask….
Loken. Everything else is just so piss easy… I mean easy, do it with my eyes shut, then we get to Loken.
- We do the standing on his toes method… Gnome one shot…
- We do the running like a scared little Blood Elf method… Gnome one shot…
- We try, try again, really try hard.. Gnome even makes it through on explosion… one…
Now see I get a bit disheartened, especially after seeing this blue post yesterday:
Sangita writes:
Poor Loken ;-(
I did Hero HoL the other night, a guild run. Got to Loken and killed him so fast it was mind-boggling, a guildie even commented on how we were just short of some record for killing him. As we looted and sharded the crap off his dead body, I started thinking. . .What a waste of a good Villain, he would have had a good place as some ass kicking, wipe-fest boss in Ulduar.
Crygil replies:
Re: Poor Loken ;-(
In the end, Loken reaped what he sowed. I’ve no sympathy for him.
After banging my head against his Ankles with a pug on Saturday night, we chucked it in.
I went and did a quick run somewhere else with my mates, then it occurred to me that my mates would teach this Loken guy a few things… and he’s all that’s left right…
So we go in…. /sigh
clear all the trash
and He is just a big pile of mountain excrement on the ground by the time my mates are finished with him!
Ohhh, yeah.. so was I…
and no pants!
I jumped online for a little bit last night, thought I might get in a Voilet Hold run, or something… I was waiting for a while, then looked over at the fountain… thought, sure I can’t fish (fishing about 312), but hell, why not fish up a bit of junk.
Apart from a few coins, the only thing I really discovered is the reasons amateurs shouldn’t fish in fountains…
Yeah well, at least you now know would you do such a thing…
Then I saw a whole lot of yelling about WG and invites…
I put 2 & 2 together and worked out that they were yelling about WinterGrasp and raid invites… it was more chaotic that old time share trading…. but I managed to get a spot and headed off to my 1st WG (see, short code… cause I’m in the know 
).
I am happy to say that I performed as well in WG as I did on Loken….
Hang on, I am not happy about that, but whatever…
I am happy to say I picked up a couple more achievements… Yeah so… How awesome am I.. not just a WG victory on my 1st entry… but a fast one too!
Speaking of fast (yet maybe not so smart), I was so excited about completing WG, and a couple of the quests, that I promptly dropped raid so I could hand the quests in….
Then it dawned on me…
I was in a 25 man raid group…
One that was going on to VoA….
That VoA I keep begging my mates to take me to on normal 10 man mode…
Needless to say, no one hears a Gnomes cries for raid action in Wintergrasp 30 seconds after the fall of the keep…
No VoA for me… but that meant I got some time to check out the vendors.
One of my mates has been banging on about the head enchants from the WG vendors, so I thought I would go and check them out…
I mean I have lots of these Stone Keeper’s thingies….
Actually I still have a heap of them Stone Keepers rubbish…
What am I meant to spend them on?
Between them and the venture Coins I am collecting a whole lot of useless stats… luckily currency doesn’t take up bag space any more… but, what the?
The head enchant, Arcanum of Dominance, will give me 29 Spell Power, 20 Resilience, or I can just hand over 37.5 gold to the Kirin’Tor, and they will give me a Arcanum of Burning Mysteries which will give me 30 spell power and 20 critical strike. Now I know my human avatar is mathematically challenged (can’t even write mathematically 1/2 the time… or is that 1/3 third of the time… whatever), but the Kirin’Tor Arcanum shits (That’s a mathematical term for wipes arse!) all over the WG one.
Yes, yes I know… I can buy gems and gemcrafting recipes…
Mmmm shame I am not a gem crafter…
and they aren’t even gems I want….
no apparently I need to go fishing for that???
Ohhh look, I could buy a Mammoth… Bloody good idea… I am going to buy a herd of Mammoths!
I need some Mammoth meat to level my cooking…and maybe they will drop that Chilled Meat I keep running out of.
Gnomer and Out!
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Holy crap. You may have managed to have a more awesome day than me, and mine was pretty awesome.
Loken is a tricky fight. He’s completely unforgiving of lag or that slightest bit of inattention. What I’ve found to help is turning the camera away from him. That way when you need to rush, just mash both mouse buttons. It’s slightly faster than trying to turn, even using the mouse, and uses slightly fewer mental resources. When you’re running from mass death, you want to save as many brain cells as possible.
My favorite place for chilled meat is an alt who doesn’t need it and gets it from leveling. My second favorite place is the gorillas in Sholazar. Round up a half dozen and AoE them down.
Also with Loken, if you’re geared enough and have a deep Holy specced priest, you can just stay in during Lightning Nova and burn him down – although it’s impossible with any other healer.
That’s a pretty good weekend if I do say so myself! I still die on Loken… I really hate that fight, unless there is a good healer and you can just stand and dps like velinath said.
@velinath – It can be done with a resto shaman, too. Chain Heal + Blood Lust = 28 second kills, I kid you not.
You were mentioning your height issues. Ya know I could help with that. I have a comfortable rack you could lay out on for a good stretch:) My pleasure:P
Wow! There you go, that’s quite a list of achievements for a weekend. It’s kinda nice that they have this system now, it really gives a great way to keep track of all the things you’ve done.
Loken…I feel your woes. I’ve had dates with him that have been similar.
Blink is your best friend against lightning nova. Doesn’t even matter which direction, you should be able to approximate where he’ll run to after the blast, so start running back in that direction after you blink.
I am SO jealous. Our group has been trying on Loken for like, ever. I’m never gonna get those pants he drops 25% of the time. ~pouts~
Grats on the cheese, though! ^_^
Klepsacovic: I may have gotten a lot out of one or two nights.. but I am making up for a few lost months…
Yeah camera angle.. forgot that trick, same concept as back in Shadow Lab.
Why round up gorillas (Hunters would cry), when I can just buy Mammoths legitimately and slaughter them?
@Vel & Tunas: LFRealllyGoodPriest… I just figure that due to my size, he liked stomping on me.. but it’s the healers fault.. yay
@Troutwort: Dates with death…. The achievements are great in this sense… at least 1st time round. Do I mind I didn’t get my pants… bloody oath… but, that is tempered a little by that annoying achievement sound.
@Cathy: How much does this treatment cost.. is there any pain?
@krizzlybear: Blink… mm have that spell now? Must have left it with the sheep button.
@Sprink: He’s all yours.. take him.. enjoy him…
it’s a funny, when I mentioned to my mates that I was going in the 1st time, they responded with “ohhh that’s a hard one”… but I ind it really quite simple… until Loken…
@Everyone: I am so glad I am not the only Magetard, I mean that it is normal for Mages to deep sleep through the Loken encounter… I have been meaning to ice block… at least if I can get through one blast, I could double my measly damage.
But, The Teacher from Naxx left some school dacks behind last night… so I think Loken can rest easy knowing he wont be tickled by one Gnome again.
If I had more that 4 fingers on my pudgy Gnomish hands, I would show Loken my middle one.