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| Pallanen |
Dual Spec.: Arms/Protection Guild: Club de Jolie Filles Profession #1: Grand Master Blacksmith/Weaponsmith/Master Swordsmith 450/450 Profession #2: Mining 450/450
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| Sairalinde |
 Guild: Club de Jolies Filles Profession #1: Leatherworking 275/375 Profession #2: Skinning 450/450
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| Jaelle |
 Guild: Club de Jolies Filles Profession #1: Alchemy 290/300 Profession #2: Herbalism 291/300
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| Merenwen |
Guild: Club de Jolies Filles Profession #1: Enchanting 352/375 Profession #2: Tailoring 350/375
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| Miriel |
 Guild: Club de Jolies Filles Profession #1: Mining 316/375 Profession #2: Engineering 100/150
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| Earanel |
 Guild: Club de Jolies Filles Profession #1: Leatherworking 67/75 Profession #2: Skinning 133/150
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| Granuaile |
 Guild: Club de Jolies Filles Profession #1: Blacksmith 300/300 Profession #2: Mining 289/300
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| Horde |
Rubacuori |
 Guild: Club de Joiles Filles Profession #1: Herbalism 111/150 Profession #2: Alchemy 93/150
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| Ki'Leanna |
 Guild: Club de Joiles Filles Profession #1: Mining 450/450 Profession #2: Enchanting 340/375
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| Karazhan Revisited |
| Thursday, April 17, 2008 |
Pallanen made it into Kara for the second time on Monday. I was asked to go as soon as I logged on. The Guild needed an Off Tank again. I agreed and this time I had time to respec Pally as a Protection Warrior before going.
We went in and headed straight to the Ballroom area this time. I eventually would find out that the target was Moroes (sp???) that night. I immediately knew right away this night would be different from before. We were standing on the steps up to the Ballroom when suddenly about a thousand ghosties ran down on us. :P We were fighting away for a long time before we finally got those all taken care of. Half the group was wiped. Someone had accidentally aggroed a bunch of bad guys. Omen of things to come? Yep.
We regrouped and the main tank (the same Druid tank as Pally's first trip) started pulling the ads we wanted out of the way one at a time. The process was pretty well done and we quickly got into the room where Moroes was. We pulled one small group at a time inside that room until only the Boss and his cronies were left. Then we got our assignments from the Raid Leader and got ready. Pallanen had the pretty girl on the left (the right of Moroes). She was to Tank her and hold indefinitely.
The fight started well enough. Pally established aggro on the girl and held on. She did run around a lot but I always could get her attention back fairly easily. I guess the others killed one or 2 of their assigned bad guys because suddenly there were a few people helping with my girl. We got her down to very little life and then she kept healing herself. For what seemed like forever we beat on her but then suddenly I noticed that Pallanen was being attacked from behind. Then the heals stopped. Not long after that Pally was wiped. The group was wiped too. Bummer.
The group had wiped for some reason. It's funny how in the middle of a fight you get so focused that you only know your target. That wasn't the first time a wipe happened and I didn't know until too late. This particular evening, it wasn't the last either.
We regrouped and tried again. The second time went almost the same way. Except this time we killed the caster girl Pallanen was assigned to. When I turned to go for the next target I saw a Guild friend yelling "Run Pally!" I turned to see that Pallanen, a Priest and a Rogue were the only ones left in the room with 3 bad guys. We didn't last long.
So we rezzed and regrouped again. This time we changed up and Pallanen and a Rogue were assigned to the guy farthest right (left side of Moroes). The fight started and things went very well. That guy used a big hammer/mallet thing that hardly phased Pallanen much at all. Between Pally and the Rogue we killed his ass pretty fast. So I went to my secondary target. The Leader had told me he would be kiting him in the back of the room. So I went back and grabbed his attention. Then we proceeded to kill that guy too.
I turned to go for the 3rd target and when I did Moroes attacked me. So I defended. The Main Tank then took his aggro and I went and helped kill the original target Pally had. That one died and then everything went silent. I looked around and saw no one else in the room. Then I saw the same call from my Guild friend, "Run Pally!" It had come a short time before I killed that last guy. But nothing else was after me so I got to the back of the room and ate some grapes to heal up. Pallanen was truely the "Last Standing" at the end of that fight. At least the last left in the room. lol
So while we were once again regrouping I asked the Raid Leader if this was always so hard. He said it usually wasn't but that this was not the usual group either. The next several fights went about the same way. We did manage to kill everything in the room but Moroes twice but we never managed to kill him. Soon people were ready to stop trying. Then after a while, in between trys suddenly the whole room respawned and we were all surrounded by the ads we had killed first thing. We obviously wiped then.
Thats when the Raid should have stopped. Several people left but we decided to try and kill Attumen as a consolation so the night wasn't a total loss. We started that out easy enough. Killed the first couple elites. Then when we were staged and ready to take out the first grouping, suddenly we were surrounded by elites and 70's fighting with us. They came from out of nowhere. Everyone was confused and you could see people calling "wtf?" Where they came from no one ever knew. There were none behind us. It was a wall. But come they did. What made it worse was that the Tank didn't see it until too late. He had already pulled the first ad (and that group with him) so now we had the mystery group on us along with the targeted group. It wasn't pretty.
I could not get aggro on anything for a while. Then I saw that our people were dropping fast so I ran into the middle of the fight and used Pally's Challenging Shout. Now all the bad guys were on Pallanen. Her health started dropping very fast. But the Healers were now free so the heals came fast and furious. I ended up using Pally's Second Wind and a healing potion too before things started to even out. The others started to get the bad guys off Pally and eventually we actually managed to kill them all. When we looked around afterward, over half the group was dead. Pallanen had just a sliver of health left. It was a very close fight.
Thats when we called it quits. It obviously wasn't our night in Kara.
My impressions so far of Raiding Karazhan are these:
A Druid Tank is an awesome thing. They take a ton of damage and can hold aggro very well.
Respeccing Pallanen didn't seem to make any difference. Pally did well before and after speccing as Protection. I'm not sure I will do it again.
The loot is great in Kara but not a lot of it is worth much to a Warrior. Two things have dropped so far that Pallanen could use. One went to the main Tank (rightfully) and one went to the Tank in the other Raid group.
It is expensive to run Kara. This particular evening cost Pally 40ish gold all together between respeccing and the high cost of repairing the epic plate armor.
One last thing.... even though things are much better than before Kara, I still don't care for groups. The Raid Groups are awesome and for the most part, it is fun. But being grouped isn't my thing. I find it worse Tanking for a group. When Pallanen is asked to DPS, it's much more fun. Tanking is a little harder. I can see me helping out with raids and all that but I will never be a regular raider (unless Pally can DPS a lot (which would be a rare thing for a Warrior). Basically it is fun but other things in the game are way more fun for me. :) |
posted by Jen @ 7:27 AM  |
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Well thats kinda sad you had a much smoother time then last time. Moroes is the first real gear check of karazan. You can take Moroes/Maiden with 7 people paying attention. Moroes requires about 9 lol. Its possible you were not explaining the fight right or you just got focused on your task but the strategy seems flawed. Both tanks have to be on Moroes...2 Tanks have to stay 1 and 2 on his aggro range. He is a rogue so he blinds and gouges the main tank then goes to the second person. If its not the other tank then someone is going to die. He will vanish every 40 seconds and garrotes someone but he will come back to the tanks after and it continues like that.
Just some advice the best way to handle his 4 buddies is to CC them as much as you have. Priests are the best as they can shackle. Stick with DPS if thats what you enjoy I think :)
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Well thats kinda sad you had a much smoother time then last time. Moroes is the first real gear check of karazan. You can take Moroes/Maiden with 7 people paying attention. Moroes requires about 9 lol. Its possible you were not explaining the fight right or you just got focused on your task but the strategy seems flawed. Both tanks have to be on Moroes...2 Tanks have to stay 1 and 2 on his aggro range. He is a rogue so he blinds and gouges the main tank then goes to the second person. If its not the other tank then someone is going to die. He will vanish every 40 seconds and garrotes someone but he will come back to the tanks after and it continues like that.
Just some advice the best way to handle his 4 buddies is to CC them as much as you have. Priests are the best as they can shackle. Stick with DPS if thats what you enjoy I think :)