Yes.. The second Kara run of the week started last night. Fhuun was invited to help out and although he didn’t get anything useful (still could use that cloak from the Prince) so far, it was fun.

We had a Tankadin in the group as the off-tank (not our usual one, Traebear, though) and a Warrior MT. Group had 2 pallies in it (1 Holy, 1 Prot), 1 Shadow Priest, 1 Rogue, 2 Mages, 1 Shaman, 1 Hunter, 1 Warrior, and’a me (Holy Priest). We one shot all the bosses and while the Moroes fight took longer than any I can remember, it finally ended with him in a heap on the floor. Most of the raid had died, but he was dead too and it didn’t matter!

We got through Attumen, Moroes, Maiden, Opera (Big Bad Wolf), and Curator while we were there. Most of the loot was needed by the rogue that was with us, but we freerolled on a couple of things nobody could use. A couple of things that Fyra could have used dropped and I cried a little.

After the Curator, we called the raid and then 5 of us went into Heroic Slave Pens. This was the daily heroic so 5 Badges and the Boots of Blasphemy later, it was time to call it a night. We wiped only once in the instance and that was on a trash pull.

I got a few ore prospected and my boots enchanted and that was all she wrote. Tonight is an off night.  We used to raid Gruul’s on Fridays, but that is over for now. Might finish up the Kara run from last night or maybe we’ll do Friday Heroics.  :)  Who knows.

Mythos, the guild, is recruiting for 25 man raiding, but I am not sure what we are looking for right now.  If you have a Kara geared 70 on Draenor (US) (or are interested in switching servers), we are looking for experienced raiders (kara experience only is fine) who appreciate a casual atmosphere.  I have a post about my guild if you want to look into it. If you are interested, go ahead and send me email to Fimlys at gmail.com or create a little alt on Draenor and whisper Fimlys/Fhuun/Fyra when I am on and we’ll see what we can do. I’ll try to post what we are looking for here if I can.  I know we could use a Holy Priest and some ranged DPS.

Okay… I got a tip from Auzara of ChickGM about this great site: Loot Rank for WoW. All I have to say is… Thank you..

I spent some time perusing the gear.  Making changes to my “ranking” of stats and then made a wishlist for my Boomkin.  You can see that below.. Some of this might change since if I get all of the +spellhit stuff, I go over the hitcap.  I don’t even need to gem up for +spellhit with this stuff..

Enjoy!

Shroud of the Lore`nial  - 100 Badges (Shat)

Antlers of Malorne - T4 Helm

Brooch of Unquenchable Fury - Moroes (For extra hit)?
Adornment of Stolen Souls - Prince (have, but is crit+)

Pauldrons of Tribal Fury - 60 Badges (Shat)

Ruby Drape of the Mysticant - Prince

Armwraps of the Kaldorei Protector - 35 Badges (Shat)

Barbed Gloves of the Sage - 75 Badges (IoQD) [Have T4 Gloves, might keep]

Starfire Waistband - 60 Badges (Shat)

Corrupted Soulcloth Pantaloons - 100 Badges (Shat) or
Crystalwind Leggings (more spirit, less crit) - 100 Badges (Shat)

Boots of Incantations - 75 Badges (Shat) or
Moon-walkers - 75 Badges (Shat)
replacing Boots of Blasphemy

Fused Nethergon Band - Badges (Shat)

The Lightning Capacitor - Illhoof or
Icon of the Silver Crescent - 41 Badges (Shat) or
Timbal’s Focusing Crystal - Delrissa (MrT)

Scryer’s Blade of Focus - OMG! 150 Badges (IoQD) or
Nathrezim Mindblade - Prince

Talisman of Nightbane - Nightbane or
Fetish of the Primal Gods - 35 Badges (Shat)

Aggro.. I think I am Aggrophobic.. Last night ran hot/cold. The magic number for the night (TOTAL!) was 15… 15!!!!!  Yeah that is deaths. Some point before next Tuesday, someone remind me to re-spec and move points from IFF to Subtlety.. I’m hoping the extra 2 points makes a difference.

So, um, yeah. Kara. It seemed to start out pretty well. Fyra logged in early and I did a bunch of quests in Netherstorm that I hadn’t done on the way to 70.  Since I am farming up for my Epic Flying Skill, I need all the moola I can wrangle. When 6pm server came around, I was invited into the raid and eventually (after topping off on reagents) caught a port to Kara.

Things went well to begin with.  We “ran” up to the Shade and proceeded to one-shot him.  I didn’t even die! (I might have died a couple of times on the way UP to the shade, but he didn’t kill me) Off we went to Chess. Not too bad either, maybe another couple of deaths on the way there… As I gear up, I seem to pull aggro more and more… I wonder why… Oh, and I think someone first called us BOOMkin because of the sound we make as we hit the floor, dead.

Nothing much in the way of drops (especially for da boomkin). We maneuvered our way out and up to the Prince where we proceeded to get slaughtered.  Over and over and over and over and over and over again.  The only saving grace was that it was so quickly that we never got re-spawns. Eventually we made a small change to the line-up to bring in an extra healer for the tank and used our new Bear tankid to hold the Prince.

After one failed attempt at that (he lost aggro for a sec… NO it wasn’t me), we finally downed him. The “This is my last attempt guys…” strategy worked, again!  It has been a very long time since we wiped that many times on ANY boss in Kara. It was very frustrating because we really weren’t sure what was going wrong.  I think we just forget that this is a difficult fight and need to treat it that way. I did get Adornment of Stolen Souls from him at least..

Of course during all this, Lady Jess and Breana (of GLDC) were lurking on our vent channel laughing at us… (thanks guys!) All in all, I died 12 times on that raid… That just hurt..

We called the Kara run after that and while it was late and I really should have been going to bed, I was told I was going to Heroic Mechanar which was the daily heroic.  After forgetting to pick up the quest before getting on the bird, then logging out and back in to cut the flight short, I made my way to Netherstorm and the instance I know better than the back of my hand.

Mech was pretty easy. I still was having issues with my aggro, but only died 3 more times fighting the good fight. I did pick up the Boots of the Pious though (MORE HEALING STUFF, ARGHHH!). Total for the evening was 15 deaths.. Been a while since I died that much..

Tonight is the first night of the second Kara run.  (That is a mouthful…) Usually Fhuun is called upon to aid in their raiding.  If so, I’ll be in there. If not, I’ll be farming moola on ‘da Drood (and the others). Got any stories about a boss you though you had on “Farm” but had one night that nothing seemed to go right with it?  Let me know in the comments.. Also, I am sorry there was no new poll this week, I’ll work hard to think of something for next week.  The podcast has taken over my life…

Later dayz.