| Alliance |
| 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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| Gruul's Lair - Round Two |
| Monday, June 16, 2008 |
Pallanen went with the Guildies on a Raid of Gruul's Lair Friday. It was her second time there. This time I was looking forward to it a lot more since she is now Fury specced. I was hoping to see a marked improvement in how much damage she can do to the bad guys.
While we were setting up for the first attack someone got too close and accidentally pulled the King and his cronies. No one was ready for that. Our first wipe came before we actually started. I only mentioned that because the first trip Pally made to Gruul's the same thing happened. At least we are consistant. lol
We got going at a slow pace but once the action started I was feeling pretty good about it. I was in the group assigned to kill Blindeye. Just like my first visit to Gruul's things were going well when all of a sudden nobody was around. Blindeye was down to about 2% health and then he took off. It turns out he was chasing the Guildies out of the place. I guess something elsewhere had broken down because everyone was running. The ones still alive that is. :)
I tried to get out too since I was (as usual) the last left behind. Let's chalk that up to being too focused on the fight, K? It has nothing to do with slow reactions. ;)
Naturally I didn't make good on the escape. They got me before I could exit.
After being rezzed and regrouping we went at it again. This time we didn't get Blindeye down as far when the group broke and ran. At least I managed to take off quicker but in the end they got me trying to escape. Right beside the exit too.
This scenario happened a few times before things changed. We killed Blindeye once and then got wiped somehow and then things got better. We killed Blindeye on the next attack and I got to go to the secondary target. I think it was a Warlock. It was some guy in purple anyway. But we killed him too and then I got to attack the High King. The Guildies had already killed the other 2 stooges.
Pallanen jumped right in and to help with the King. He wasn't all that bad without all his buds. He did do this whirlwind thing that did serious damage but as long as we stayed clear of it It wasn't so bad. We kept at it and killed the King and suddenly there was silence. The whole place was empty of bad guys. Then the celebration started. Part one was complete. We were all psyched.
That King guy dropped some good stuff. Quite a bit of good stuff to be sure. The only thing that Pallanen could have used was a nice set of shoulder armor but she wasn't allowed to roll for it. The main tank needed them and so did one of the regular raiders. They rolled and the Tank got them. But Pally did get 2 Badges of Justice.
So we regrouped and headed toward Gruul himself. Killing the trash mobs there was no biggie but they were tougher than I expected. Being new to raids, whadda I know anyways, eh? lol Then we were face to face with Gruul himself. After killing a lot of his sons I was looking forward to this fight.
The group set up all around Gruul. We were told that being too close together was a bad idea. The Tank went in and got the aggro and then I charged and was using every trick Pally had. But Gruul did something that hurt a lot. He would ground slam and throw Pally about a mile away. Then suddenly she would be frozen in place and something else happened where a lot of her health would go away. I looked it up. Its called "Shatter". If you are near someone else the damage is way worse. If you are near enough to 5 people when he does his Shatter then the damage all 5 of you receive is 5 times greater. Sneaky little weapon old Gruul has there. Anyway, that part of Gruul sucked. He does get bigger and bigger but it was that tossing everyone around and shattering that made for the most headaches. We wiped that first time.
Then we wiped the second time too. lol
The third time we did better. We were getting the hang of avoiding the major damage during Gruul's slams and shatters. The Tank was doing an awesome job of holding his aggro. We were doing really well but his health was going down slowly. It was annoying. I remember thinking that last time once he was below 50% that we might actually win. But it didn't happen. I'm not sure what happened but things went bad fast. Gruul started running around a bit. I guess someone important had died and it broke our rythmn. The Tank was still up so I'm not sure. But that fight ended up with us wiped and Gruul at 46% (maybe it was 47%?). Either way we didn't win.
That was the last try for the evening. It was very late by then and a lot of the Guildies had to get going. Myself included. We made some serious progress during this raid. But we still need to get the timing down for killing Gruul. My friend at work tells me that killing the High King is much harder than killing Gruul. All we need to do is get the knack of avoiding his big weapons and he's an easy kill.
Uh huh. lol
So here are the things I liked about this raid. I liked the groups ability to work together. I liked the great loot even though I didn't get any. Someday I will. I liked the challenge af such an epic fight.
Things I didn't like were the 45 gold in repairs. I didn't like the wasted time in between fights. For whatever reason it took anywhere from 15 30 minutes to regroup and get started between wipes. (I was getting really frustrated by that.) I also was very disappointed to see that Pallanen didn't as much damage that the others in the DPS group did.
Pally's low damage was seriously annoying. The top 4-5 damage dealers were Hunters. I'm used to that. But out of 10 in my group, Pallanen was last. The totals were something like 335,000 damage for Pally and the next one was 345,000. The top was over 400,000. I was brainstorming with my work friend. His Warrior is always top 4-5 in his Guild. He hooked me up with a good site for detailing the gear and spec and gems and all that to make Pallanen better. She did OK. If you divide the damage by the 10 wipes she isn't all that far off from the group. But she needs to be better. I will make her better.
So thats the second trip to Gruul's Lair. I'll probably go back for another round. It wasn't too bad. If we could just get the gaps between fighting down to a decent minimum it would be really fun. I will if for nothing else, to test out how Pallanen's build is progressing. But I also really want to kill that ugly Gruul.
I really, really want to kill him. :) |
posted by Jen @ 7:27 AM  |
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That's so great that you guys downed the HK. I know every guild is different but we always let even a guy who has been in the guild a day roll on something if it is better then what they got. We treat everyone as a family and spread the wealth equally. I think that way there is little jealousy, I mean whats the point of spending 2 hours helping someone else get gear and you can't roll.
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hey Jen its Blue we did good that night well do better next time . If u need any gems for armor let me know im just strting to make blues better good stuff. see u friday night. good luck.
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That's so great that you guys downed the HK. I know every guild is different but we always let even a guy who has been in the guild a day roll on something if it is better then what they got. We treat everyone as a family and spread the wealth equally. I think that way there is little jealousy, I mean whats the point of spending 2 hours helping someone else get gear and you can't roll.