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The one in which Maleficia takes down a dragon…

The downside, it can take an age to get OS25 up and running, I think this one took something like an hour to really get moving.  Tedium doesn’t even come close.  On the plus side Unferth didn’t even shed a leaf trying to heal it, I reckon we could have dropped a healer or two and pulled in more dps.  On the bigger upside Maleficia, fresh from her excursion into Naxx25, popped in to pew pew some dragon hide.  So that’s more Valour emblems, and we now have a fresh lockout to try and get her built up to 25 for the first piece of upgrade gear.

The weekend

On the productive side of things I finally got round to sealing the holes in the new petrol cap (stupid thing came with three small vent holes meaning it pissed petrol all over the place).  the grass and nettles are now significantly shorter making it easier to chase the ducks around the garden.

In warcrack news only got a single raid in (though did get DKP for sitting standby for Friday), a new shiny dropped for the offspec (breastplate token) which is moving the DPS spec closer to something viable for a mid-raid shift if necessary.

We one-shotted the general (that was a good feeling), got through p1 & p2 on Yoggie on the first run and then proceeded to slam our faces into him for a couple of hours, best was 10% (this is a damm good improvement).

So… how is the trial going?  Pretty well it seems, Ted had a word after the Saturday raid, everything seems to be good, he’s happy.  He was watching over his other half’s shoulder for the U10 run last week where Scribe and Unferth dual healed the hardmode stuff which is normally done with three.  So, another weekend of raiding and then I should find out their judgement on the healing tree.

(For reference the hardmode run stats are on worldoflogs)

How Shit Happens:

In the beginning, there was the plan.
And then came the assumptions.
And the assumptions were without form.
And the plan was completely without substance.
The employees told their supervisors:
“It’s a crock of shit and it stinks!”
The supervisors then told the department heads:
“It’s a pail of dung, and none may abide by the odor.”
The department heads then told the managers:
“It’s a container of excrement, and it is very strong such that none may smell it.”
The managers then told the director:
“It is a vessel of fertilizer, and none may abide by its strength.”
The director then told the VP:
“It contains that which aids plant growth, and it is very strong.”
The VP told the Executive-VP:
“It promotes growth, and it is very powerful.”
The Executive-VP told the President:
“It is very strong and will promote growth and efficiency of the system.”
And the President reviewed the plan, and said:
“This is good.”
And the plan became policy.
And this is how shit happens.

(As swiped from a skype session in the office)

Laser chicken? Where’s the bear?

All lined up in the bank and as soon I drop talented back onto the box it’ll be saved as well, I’ll just have to get used to eating the 50g respec (+glyphs) bill.

So, “why” I hear you ask, simple enough it’s a raid driven decision based on watching what tends to happen as things are shuffled around during some of the boss fights.  There are fights where the healing need is lower (the General was an example on Sunday) and therefore it makes sense to ask one or more of the healers to dps (it’s rare extra tanks are needed).

“Why laser chicken?”, at least initially it’s down to allowing me to use the same kit until I build up a second set rather than trying to sort out a feral kitty set of Ulduar quality.  As things stand (according to imba) he’s ready for Ulduar with the healing kit, though he’s well down on hit which would be a problem.  So the priority will be to get some dps specific drops which can be enchanted for extra hit.

“Don’t laser chickens look silly and unrealistic?”, no more than blue humanoids with squids on their faces.

“What do you wish for?”, a wardrobe to stick all these damm pieces of equipment in to free up bank slots.

The weekend

DIY
On the productive side of things the networking has been re-routed so cables aren’t draping all over the place following the BT engineer’s decision to replace the master socket faceplate with one which includes a microfilter.  Power and network now route under the stairs, just need to mount the power strip on the wall and find somewhere more sensible for the router than the bottom stair.

Ulduar (Fri)
Bosses died, Thorim gave us lots of grief largely due to experience issues I suspect and some team shakeups, however we got him nailed in the end.  This meant we didn’t get to Freya.

I’m learning to hate crazy cat woman.

Ulduar (Sat)
Was spent in the car and at A&E in Plymouth, you know where else to look for more details on that fun and games (in short he’s fine).

Ulduar (Sun)
The Iron council (not too much trouble), the General (took four attempts, the first was one of those WTF moments when we wiped at > 9k health left…) and then… Yoggie.  He’s going to be a fun fight, EO hasn’t got him down yet and given that the team was heavy on the inexperienced (ie never seen it before) I think we didn’t do too badly.

Levelling
The decision has been made to get Lakayla to 70 before the patch hits, so plenty of levelling time for her and Tootsy, both dinged 64 last night.

Laser Chicken… more on this soon

Can’t see the tank…

“..for the trees”, also known as “Ulduar 10, the team weevil run”.

Not a bad run, as before in the U25 things got lumpy at Hodir, memo to self, keep moving (like the Nexus), stand on the big piles of snow for flash freeze and make sure that you pop instaHoTs while running and spam heal the tank (and anyone else during flash freeze [I’m not moving anyway] and Frozen Blows).

New kit was good, two tier tokens and enough Emblems of Valour for the healing ring.

Three trees healing isn’t an ideal mix, but we managed it, though the MT did die far too many times simply because we couldn’t collectively get the big heals in quickly enough (need more haste).