| 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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| Pallanen’s 3rd Trip Into Kara |
| Tuesday, July 8, 2008 |
Pallanen's 3rd trip into Kara was a much better excursion than the first 2. This time around I actually had time to go a long way since it was a holiday weekend. Normally I don't sign up because the raids start too late in the evening and I'd have to quit after maybe 2 hours. Not this time.
I had signed up for the raid with a note that said I'd go as either a Tank or DPS. I would have respecced Pally for the raid should she need to Tank and then gone back to DPS spec after. But the Raid Leader told me he wanted me to Tank with the DPS spec. Specifically for the Moroes fight. His idea was to have me Tank the ads and when it was time to kill Moroes switch back to DPS. I sorta liked that idea. :)
So we went into Kara and buffed up. The Tanks started pulling the ads on the big set of steps near the entrance. That was fun for me. I could use Pallanen's Sweeping Strikes all the time along with Whirlwind and hit a bunch of ghosties at once. We handled all those mobs fairly easily. Once the early stuff was done we went into where Moroes and his groupies were hanging.
This was a place I wanted to come back to. The 2nd trip Pallanen took to Kara the group never killed Moroes so I really wanted this to work out. I geared Pally up with the Tank stuff and got ready to go. (One thing I was reminded of when wearing Tank gear was how much her tanking sword sucks now in the high levels. I really need to upgrade that somehow.) The first fight went OK. I was busily hacking away at the ads but it was obvious that Pallanen's spec was lacking. I couldn't hold the aggro and had to keep chasing my targets around to re-establish. Using Taunt helped on everyone but the female caster. She still just ignored me. We ended up wiping that first time.
Now, I'm not real clear on which wipe it was (we wiped 3 times I believe ???) but I had another of those Duh! moments with Pallanen. I was busily tanking away again and suddenly I noticed that everyone was gone. I was alone in the room with the bad guys. I guess I didn't notice that the group had run for it. That has happened to me so many times. lol I guess having Vent would help. Probably they all ran by a verbal warning.
Whatever. Something happened and I didn't know. So I took off for the stairs and never encountered any problems until I hit the bottom. Then the ads that had been chasing the group were returning. That was unpleasant. I hit the bottom of the stairs and all I saw was a large group of Elites coming right at me. There was nowhere to hide for poor Pallanen. Within a few seconds it was all over. :(
Anyway, on the last fight we managed to pretty easily clear the room of Moroes and his gang. Before starting the last time, I went ahead and switched Pallanen's Crystalblade of the Dranei for her slower Gladiator's Slicer. It isn't a Tank sword but the Crystalblade just wasn't doing it. Using the Gladiator's Sword made a huge difference. Pallanen was able to hold the aggro of whatever mob she was Tanking. Then when all the secondary mobs were done for I attacked Morose himself. I switched gear as we fought and went at him full Fury DPS style. That was fun!
I liked that guy. It was kind of cool the way he would talk in his smooth style. He kept saying something like "Where am I?" and then he would disappear. Then he would say "Oh, here I am" and he would reappear close by. That was funny. But in the end he was done for.
He didn't really drop too much great stuff. I was surprised. I was even more surprised when the Raid Leader offered me a nice Dagger that no one else wanted. Its nothing super special and Pally really doesn't need it badly. But no one wanted it so I took it to use for Pallanen's off-hand. It does a bit more damage than her original off-hand sword.
We then went back the way we had come and headed upstairs. It was a rather longish run with a few fights in between. I thought we were going for that really big woman that has all the hookers around her. (I forget her name. Maiden maybe???) But we didn't. We ended up at "The Opera". It was a funny Opera in that the story line was basically The Wizard of Oz. Dorothy and all her gang were there. Even the Wicked Witch eventually showed up. What a hoot. The Witch turned out to be the real target. She was the big boss in this fight.
The Leader told us the kill order and when the curtain rose we went after the baddies. It was basically an uneventful fight for Pallanen. I was Fury DPS for the rest of the night so it was a ton of fun going at the mobs with the intent to do as much damage as possible. I made one mistake late into the fight where I finished up on a baddie and saw that the Tin Man ad was on two of our group. So I rushed in and started helping. But I was out of order. I was supposed to kill the Cat guy first and the Raid Leader let me know it. lol I broke off and helped kill the Cat while the others finished off the Tin Man. Then the Witch showed up.
I kinda thought she would be tougher than she was but that fight turned out to be anti-climactic. We wiped her up fairly easily. Again, the loot wasn't all that great. Maybe there was something nice for others none for a Warrior, no matter what spec.
Next we went around and around the place (it seemed like it anyway, I was totally lost) until we came to this place with a bunch of elementals. I thought that was odd in that there wasn't a reason for an Elemental to be inside a huge building like that. We cleared the area and went into this huge hallway. Then I saw this giant mechanical guy strolling around. He looked like one of the mechanical guards in Silvermoon City or on The Isle of Kel'Danas. He was called The Curator and he did look bad-ass. Turns out he is kind of Bad-ass. :P
We cleared all the lower mobs and then the 2 Tanks grabbed the Curator's attention. I was not really sure what to do until I saw that the Curator started shooting off these electrical balls at us. We had to run fast and kill the balls before they all linked and blasted us with lightning. Apparently they chain together and the shocks get worse. Pallanen was running constantly chopping up those things. Then there were moments where the Curator weakened and everyone could jump on him. We did that a few times. I thought we were doing OK but I was wrong. That first time we wiped.
I believe we wiped twice on Curator. Maybe. Hmmm......
At any rate, the last time was pretty cool. The group worked out the kinks and we managed to kill all those lightning balls early while the Tanks held Curator in place. I loved using the Intercept when Curator was weakened to charge in and do some damage. Whatever mod or add-on our Raid Leader uses let us know just when to get away again. Eventually we had whittled him down to where he was weakened and didn't spit out any more lightning balls. That's when we all got to attack with everything we had. The Curator dropped shortly after.
I believe the drops were pretty good from Curator. I don't remember them well because once again they weren't Warrior type stuff. But there was quite a bit of rolling for the stuff so I'm sure someone was happy.
That's when I had to quit. It was after midnight and I was falling asleep. There was a Guildie who really wanted to take my place so we replaced me and I went to bed. I found out later that the group killed 2 more bosses. They did something concerning a Chess Game and also killed a Prince. I sure wish I could have kept going. But all in all it was a decent night of raiding for Pallanen.
*Note: I started this long post last week and never got it done until now. Now being the 14th. lol |
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Name: Jen
Home: Pennsylvania, United States
About Me: I started playing WoW after my best friend bugged me to play. I soon learned that I really liked it. Now 2 years later I still play and have 20 characters. LOL I am no gaming expert. I am no WoW expert. A lot of the terms and "how to do's" elude me still. But I love to play. All you will find here are the adventures of Pallanen and her sisters. I love them all and they really kick butt. So stay tuned and maybe we can learn stuff from each other that we never knew. xoxo
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