Friday, June 26, 2009

General Vezax (Zoidberg)... More Like General KilledbySubterfuge.


General died last night in 3 attempts. Pretty easy fight once everybody starts paying attention. Spent an hour working on Yogg-Saron but could only get him into phase 2 twice, and only for a few seconds before we all died. Going to try again on Sunday it seems.
Hunter week continued as Brakthor came away with Lotrafen, the pole-arm equivalent to Twisted Visage. It's powerful, but kind of plain-looking. Physx was disappointed, but I'm quite sure we'll have no problems downing this guy again next week.

Screenshot from exactly one year ago:

Lilt has come a long way.

Also, made a video of our last Mimiron fight. We have him down with no problems these days.


Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Lootz

We never managed to bring Vezax below 50% last week. So begins a new week of raiding. I arrived late last night, but it would seem to be Hunter week in Ulduar. I came away with a new tier 8.5 chest and the Twisted Visage staff, Physx got himself the Wrathstone, and Brakthorn got a new pair of gloves.
When going through my screenshot repository lately, I've enjoyed comparing screenshots that are approximately a year apart. It's interesting to see the progress I've made.

Friday, June 12, 2009

Dynatherms Connected! Megathrusters are Go!


Most satisfying win I've had in a long time. Click the pic to get a better look.
Took us 90 minutes of wipes, but when we all got on task, we got our first win against Mimiron and his V-07-tr-ON force. Only 3 dead in the end as well. We were all cheering at our keyboards. No hunter loot, as usual, but I've come to expect that from Ulduar.
Only the General stands between us and the Death God now.

The fight is very frustrating for me as a hunter. So much depends on the healers. In most fights, my survival greatly depends on my situational awareness and my ability to avoid shiny crap that kills me. But phase 2 of this fight is such a clusterfrak that there is very little I can do besides pray to the Earthmother that the healers are on point and keep me alive. I was getting a little upset after the first hour of wipes, but in the end, Subterfuge's magnificent healers came through. Grats to all.

Oh and yes, I did bring an underleveled pet to raid. At first I was using my giant wasp for DPS, but this fight is so brutal on hunter pets that I just decided I wouldn't have him fight anymore. At that point I decided it was better just to bring in my underleveled cunning pet for Roar of Recovery. It helps me hit full mana between each phase of the fight. As a reward for helping us down Mimiron, I went out and leveled him to 77. Good old Freewind II.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

I Hate Shamans



Lost out on another t8.5 helm last night to another healer Shaman. /sigh
Still had a lot of fun. Downed Ignis, Iron Council, and Thorim. Then we wiped few times on Mimiron before calling it a night. Our new hunter is still struggling to keep up with Physx and I, but that's okay. He's still learning to cope with Survival spec.
We're going to put a few hours in tonight to try to finally get our first Mimiron win. Might even spend some time leveling my new pet parrot as well.
Still hoping to get a new piece of t8.5 to allow me to use my Wrathstone trinket. At this point, I would lose way too much hit rating.

Mimiron dies tonight. Wish us luck.