I Hate The Lich King

 

Seriously, I hate him.  It's an easy fight, for the most part, just a few things to remember, timing to get right, people to coordinate, and mechanics to cross your fingers on.  Like the Sindragosa fight, it seems to be slightly reliant on your internet connection as well.  I mean, if you're lagging on Sindy, you risk iceblocking your entire raid, or not being able to run out of that crazy vacuum thing she does.  For Mr. Menethil, you gotta book it for defile and hope you don't DC, and you've got to pray to the internet gods that you won't lag when there's a Valk'yr.  

We're kind of slow to get our guild past ICC 10, yes, but it's because we've been having to switch up our core raiding team for the last few months, lots of IRL stuff for different people, etc.  I slept in, so I'm missing their attempts at LK right now... :( Being on a different time zone really messes with my playing time.  It's Monday for me, but Sunday for the rest of them. 

My druid's gear is coming along fairly nicely, as well as my hunter's... I'll do some more updates on them later, but I've gotta head out for the day.  Siiiigh.

-Mandaconda-

Freshly Dinged 80 Druid + ICC 25 =

Awesome new chest piece!  And, I'm nearly Friendly with Ashen Verdict, so I'll get a new ring soon too.

I was doing dungeons with Fiancee a little bit when suddenly one of our guild leaders whispered me and was like, "Leave fast, come to ICC 25" and I was like, WUTNOWAI, but I came, and I was surprised at how little crap I was given haha.  Got a few people saying "3300 GS Resto druid??" and stuff like that, and even got another druid crying because he lost the roll for mah new chestpiece, but overall, I was extremely pleased that I got to go.

1900 heals per second wut wut? Haha. Oh god, I'm so embarassed.

The best part was the trinkets I was sporting while healing.  It was that, plus a "Requires Level 60" trinket.  I finally upgraded to one of the 245 ones from the vendor in Dalaran, but Ohhhh man. I would have been so pissed if I were one of the other druids there, inspecting the 3300 GS druid that just joined.  "Wtf is this, Requires level 60!?  THIS IS MADNESS!"

I feel bad for being carried, but it gave me that boost of confidence I needed for healing.  I barely outhealed the shadow priests, but now I'm excited about gearing my dear Thadea up for healing more... Even if Cata is coming out "Soon".  :)

DROOD!

Well I did it. I finally levelled my druid to 80, and she has since then been working on her healing gear, as well as her feral kitty gear (Though, I'm not doing too well with that spec, dps has gone down the toilet since I dinged).

I ended up missing ICC with my guild on Friday because I logged on 10 mins late on accident, and they filled my spot sadly despite my signing up before most people.  I was kinda bummed, because I lost track of time (and trying to synch Server Time and my time zone down here in Australia sucks), and then my wand ended up dropping. FFS.

Life as a lvl 80 druid has been pretty interesting... Mostly it has been spent cursing at my computer screen.

Fiancee and I leveled our latest toons to 80 at the same time (he made a Shadow Priest with a Disc healing offspec).  We have been switching off and on with healing and DPS, which keeps it exciting for us.

The best part, though, is the amount of complete asshats we have been getting in our random heroic dungeon queues.   Oh wait, did I say best? I meant absolute WORST.

DING. :)

It's awful!

I can't count how many DK tanks we've gotten that are wearing DPS gear.  When asked if they have any tanking gear, they reply that they ARE wearing it.  I understand that if you want to gear up you should be doing heroics--I  mean, I'm doing the exact same thing.  But when you take the e-lives of four other people (and their gold for repairs!) into your hands, we all expect you to be able to take a few hits without dying. Because when you die, we all die, and that's not fun.

I swear, if  I hear one more excuse, "I queued as tank because it's faster" or some variant, my head will explode.  Just because you CAN doesn't mean you SHOULD.

We ran into a fury warrior (It's always a fury warrior, isn't it?) that rolled need on a +Agility dagger that dropped.  He refused to give it back, saying it was an upgrade.  We asked why.  He replied, "Armor pen and item level."

People.

PEOPLE.

I have never seen a warrior wielding a dagger.  It's just laughable.  Why in your right mind would you even possibly think for a second that a warrior with a dagger is a good idea?  There's nothing intimidating about a warrior wielding a dagger. It's pathetic.

We wiped a few times because the (really nice, but way undergeared/wearing DPS gear) DK tank couldn't take hits as well as we'd like, and we came upon another problem: The Fury Warrior couldn't find his way back into the instance.

What is with people STILL not knowing their ways back to the ICC 5-man instances. Really, people? I mean, I know it's complicated, but it's no worse than running back to BRD or ST. Hell, it's a shorter travel from the spirit guide to the dungeon entrance than ZF.

Needless to say, I did not tell him how to get back in, and only rezzed him after he told me he would give the dagger to me.  I know, I know, it makes me come across as a super huge bitch, but he had no reason to be needing on that weapon anyway, and I think it was an even trade.  A dagger for your soul? :)

If this keeps on happening... Yes... there WILL be blood.

We started (jokingly) teasing the warrior as we continued our way on to the last boss in Pit of Saron, and he ended up dropping group after declaring that he hated us.  I felt kind of bad at that point, because maybe he was a young kid and didn't understand that we were just joking around... :( So Ramil, if you're out there, I'm sorry if we came across as douches, we were just joking around.

We ended up finishing the instance, nice upgrades dropped for the tank, and we all bid each other farewell.  Special thanks go out to the rogue who joined us and had to endure a few wipes, (We ended up two-healing the final boss because the tank was taking hits too hard).

That's been the general gist of what the last week or so has been like.  It's been frustrating but exciting at the same time, both in game and out.  Woooooo....

<3Mandaconda

Sincerely, Your DPS

Let me say this clearly to all those self-entitled, center-of-the-world, you-would-be-nowhere-without-me-and-you-know-it tanks and healers out there:

Just because you are the most in demand parts of a group does not make you somehow 'above' the rest of us.

DPS is important too.  Without us, sure, you could MAYBE get through a few pulls, but in the end your mana pool would drain and your tank would crumple into teeny tiny little pieces and have to dish out tons of gold to repair his precious armor.

Opening a dungeon with: "We are here for achievements, if you screw it up for us both the tank and I (healer) are leaving."  isn't exactly what we want to hear.  Sure, we went along with your achievement run, but treating us like we're somehow less than you is not right.

See the above picture.  Let me paint the entire picture for you.

• Tank and Healer enter instance, demand that achievements be done right and threaten to leave if failed (even if it were an accident).  
• DPS has no choice but to comply, for the sake of not having to wait for another set of healer/tank combinations.  
• Without even thinking about what other people may want, they completely ignore other bosses in the instance.
• When asked if those bosses could be done, they force the group to go through what THEY want first. Selfishly still holding over their head that the DPS wouldn't be able to finish the other bosses unless THEY get what THEY want.  

In the end, I played nice and didn't wipe them (only because I can't STAND when people do that... but I would have if I were a jerk).  They got their achievements they worked so hard to step all over other people for.  The other bosses did get downed.  But it left a bad taste in my mouth, clearly.

Invisible readers, what do you think? Have you ever had anything like this happen before? Is this something you would do to other people?