My Blood is Boiling!
Monday, July 21st, 2008 Posted in Bosses, Burning Crusade, Dungeons | 2 Comments »Gurtogg Bloodboil. Dead on the floor. Good raid tonight, it ended with Bloodboil dead on the floor and a first foray into the Reliquary of the Lost's domain. A 5% wipe, followed by a 1% and we had him! Congratulations to all ...
Mutual Assured Destruction
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 Posted in Bosses, Dungeons | 3 Comments »For the most part, when raiding, there is a hierarchy of responsibility when it comes to wipe prevention on boss attempts, and that is healers, then tanks, then DPS. If heals don't land on the tank, it will be a ...
Threat for Threat’s Sake
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Bosses, Dungeons | 2 Comments »Like most tanks at my level of progression (or so I'm given to understand), I tend to gear for threat over survivabilty, so my DPS can go that little bit further all-out and help to beat the enrage timer. It's ...
Viva la Renaissance!
Thursday, June 19th, 2008 Posted in Dungeons, General | No Comments »So the group with which I conquered Kara a few weeks ago decided to take on Zul'Aman. It was fun, despite not getting past the dragonhawk boss. There's a few edited highlights below. It might be a while before we can ...
Nobody Badduh dan us!
Sunday, May 25th, 2008 Posted in Burning Crusade, Dungeons | 2 Comments »Another week, another Zul'Aman Sunday. And the improvement was phenomenal. Taking more or less the same group as last week, we downed Nalorakk and Akil'zon on short order and with loads of time left on the clock. Nowhere near enough ...
Return to Zul’Aman
Sunday, May 18th, 2008 Posted in Dungeons | No Comments »I'll admit that my first experiences of Zul'Aman were less than complimentary. Like many people, I was on a raid into the place on the first night it came out and got no futher than the Bear Aspect, Nalorakk's trash. ...
We can be heroes…
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007 Posted in Burning Crusade, Dungeons | No Comments »The Slave Pens. How that instance caused us problems as we initially levelled up. The GIANT ENEMY CRAB - first real challenge of the expansion with his evil bleed effects back when we were in the low 60s - lived ...
Taking out the trash
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 Posted in Burning Crusade, Dungeons | 3 Comments »This curator is equipped for gallery protection... Yeah, right. Once you work out a strategy for the Curator he's really quite straightforward to take down. And then you enter the Great Library. Visually it's quite stunning. However it's the most badly-thought ...
A Study in Scarlet
Monday, April 30th, 2007 Posted in Dungeons, General | No Comments »No raiding recently; instead I've been busy helping others get geared up, that old favourite potion farming and playing on my alt, mostly pottering around the Scarlet Monastery as a tank to a somewhat... mismatched group. So, Montoya ventured into the ...
Karazhan!
Friday, April 13th, 2007 Posted in Burning Crusade, Dungeons | No Comments »So last night was the first foray into Karazhan. Things I have learnt from that: Attumen the Huntsman is very easy Moroes isn't Not such an issue, though - we learnt a lot about "how not to do it". I even walked away from ...