So there’s this instance called Icecrown Citadel. It’s cold which is unfortunate, but not unexpected in Northrend. At the very top is The Lich King. He needs no introduction I suppose. We killeded him. :D
RIP Vendetta
I dunno what it is, people act like they don’t know when OOB has accomplished things unless I put a screenshot here. Crazy people! Can you not just read my mind!?
So yeah, back on the 22 of December, we downed Algalon in 25 man. Here’s a killshot…kinda? Other people are all crowding into the picture. They’re just jealous. I’m just glad I got my title.
And since it’s a Tuesday and I can’t log onto my account in order to take a screenshot of my Algalon achievement I am now stuck waiting for the servers to come back up so I am going to ramble a bit. You may stop reading if you’re bored.
So right now there’s really nothing to work on with all the progression cleared until the servers come back up today. As such most of the guilds on the server have been going back to the old progression content, ie: Yogg+0.
Now I hate this fight, as is most “end boss of instance”’s wont, it’s an amazingly complex, innovative, and fun fight that 70% of the raid just can’t seem to get. Take away all the “buffs” and it’s just one big mess. But then since Blizzard has given us nothing else to do, we’re all facerolling through the tentacle monster. However, at least it’s something to do rather than canceling raids because we’ve already gotten our Ashen Verdict rep for the week. Told you I was going to ramble. Look forward to actual progression killshots in another two months after Arthas is finally unlocked.
Well some servers are back up, just not Kael’thas yet.
Win!
Get it…cause his name sounds like ‘a noob’? It’s punny!
So exciting week. Patch 3.3 came out, bringing with it the new Icecrown Citadel (ICC) instance and in a few months Arthas will be unlocked! People have been busy with the new LFG system which works fabulously, as well as the three new ICC 5-man heroics which bring some new lewt, rp!!!, and the chance at Quel-delar’s hilt (Yay 251 weapon for casuals! I want one!).
So we’ve been working on Anub for a long time…like a long long time. We’ve been consistently getting to p3 for a few weeks now. I admit the entire raid’s skill with kiting Anub’s spikes surpassed my expectations. I was expecting another repeat of Gorefiend and ‘that guy’.
That being said, the thin ice that is walked in p3 between healing the boss too much and people dying is ridiculous. I know all of the healers ended each night of attempts with progressively worse ticks. Koi is more stressed than I’ve ever seen him before and all around a fight that I enjoyed so much, and was so cleverly put together by Blizzard is now on the same level of hate with Archimonde. It’s a shame it’ll be January before we even have nearly enough of ICC out to keep us away from TotGC.
Oh! But we did manage to down him with 26 attempts still left, so we got that cool chest thing with the heroic tier gear inside and a nice spell power sword. It’s the little things sometimes.
Finally beyond the nightmare of ice, we headed over to ICC even though it was raid end time, and got a bunch of people friendly with the Ashen Verdict (after 10-man clears) and downed Lord Marrowgar and Lady Deathwhisper (No picture cause all that’s left of her is a stupid ball.). And at that point we called it for various reasons. Mostly so everyone will come back tomorrow for the really cool gunship fight!
So I’ve been calling all my horse posts ‘horsemanship’ for some odd reason even though I know it’s showmanship. Ah well, I will admit my mistake. Life goes on.
The past weekend we had a clinic at the barn. Two days of riding and showmanship. (Though I didn’t ride.) I learned a lot just by watching. Things to be tucked away until I do get to the point where I can use them. I hope that when Carol comes again in February, I’ll be enough of a rider to be worthy of her tutelage.
In showmanship I learned about backing up, which is rather hard all things considered. I also worked more on my turns and learned about moving when a judge inspects the horse.
I am also tapping in my ‘Near’ persona when working on showmanship. Thus I can set aside the part of me that kind of lounges along and lets the horse do whatever, and become a person who knows what she expects, and expects it out of the horse as well. I don’t have it exactly. I felt rather guilty after one session when I most fell into this persona.
Near is a character that developed from my WoW character. When I leveled her, I already had the plans laid out for her to be my main. When she reached 70 (max at the time) she had gear, rep, and a epic mount waiting for her. So she’s rather spoiled. Though she worked hard to get where she is, she’s not one to act modest. She knows what she wants and she takes it. She’s actually an evil character. The first I’ve created that was not meant to be a villain. But she is Lawful Evil. She makes her own set of rules and she follows them. And because of her collection of mounts in WoW, she, the character, is very knowledgeable about them. Though she does not treat them as companions, but as the mounts they are. Thus why she’s a good persona for when I need to be firm handed with horses.
(Fail not actually posting this once I wrote it.)
This fight was a pain and a half to learn, but I ended up still liking it by the end, which is saying something. Don’t know how I’ll feel after next week when we have to down it again to get to Anub, but one thing at a time.
We followed the standard strat of melee/healers in the middle and ranged around the outside making sure the wrong color ballz didn’t go into the middle and kill everyone. Once we got ranged to realize that picking up their ballz was more important than any dps they could do, we made much more progress.
And again there is no real kill shot, but here’s one I took of the bids for Death’s Verdict, heroic version. Alt ended up winning and has the non-heroic version as well.
