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still not dead… At least not to our raid group. Our 10 man run has, at least, made it that far. We’ve spent a week and a half (yes, we extended the lockout) banging our heads against the big LK. We’ve gotten pretty good at the first phase and we seem to have the transition phase down. The biggest issue right now is both surviving phase 2 and actually doing damage to the boss so we can progress to the next transition and phase 3. I think we have saved someone from the Val’kyr .. um… once.. We’ve also wiped plenty of times by someone getting caught in the “big black pool”. If you’re “soaking in it” then you will be dead soon and probably end up wiping the rest of the raid too.
Besides that, I’ve been running around on my rogue and warlock some more. Working on leveling them up in Northrend. I’ve gotten into a few random dungeons on them and getting more comfortable with my ability to play them (kinda). Freez (the rogue) is up to 73 and Fellmara (the warlock) is up to 71. With rested XP and the 2 Heirloom armor pieces, instances seem to be the fastest place for leveling up. I still should be doing dailies on my mage and paladin and even the priest, but.. eh.. i dunno.
I think we are planning on letting ICC reset today so we can pick up more emblems and also get some more possibilities of decent loot dropping (we’re disenchanting more than we are giving out now  ). We’ll power through it and hopefully get a few more cracks at the LK.
Also, check out the latest TNB. We had another of our round tables! This was episode 80.. Wow.. Can’t’ believe we dinged 80.. Invite us to raid! (props to anyone who gets the reference I was trying to imply with the title.. )
Again, I was farming. Well, actually, the last 2 nights we ran iCC-25. I brought the Druid and finally hit Exalted and got my “super-ring”. Other than that, nothing interesting dropped. We had pretty good luck with everything we tried other than the Lag Boss on the ship. First try on the ship we failed with what amounted to about 1% or less. This was all based on the lag getting onto and off of the ship, etc. For the second try, we did something a little different. Less people went over to the ship and the gunners just stayed where they were. Thus, when the canons came unblocked, they were able to continue immediately without having to wait to jump back over and get back in the guns. This strategy worked like a charm. Not only did we win despite the lag, we bested in them in record time!
Rotface and Festergut went down nice and easy too. You’d think we actually, finally knew what we were doing (oh, and the 5% buff probably helped). We moved on to the Blood Princes after dropping by the 1-badge mini-boss (skipping Putricide for now, we weren’t ready). We tried and failed a few times. We had a hunter trying to hold the Shadow DMG dealing Vamp but he was getting hit for 79k or whatever.. Think that one-shot him? Then our illustrious leader swapped over to his DK and did the tanking of that boss. We once again easily got past it. After that the raid was called, but all-in-all it was a successful run.
So, what’s with the title? I’m getting there.. Patience…
After the raid, I figured I would get back on Fellmara and finish up getting her to 375/375 so she was well prepared for Northrend. The Herbalism score was getting there, but I needed a lot of help with the Mining. I flew around and around and around Hellfire Peninsula and got most of my points there.. When Fel Iron got to the point when I wasn’t getting skillup from the more often than I was, I moved her over to Blades Edge and then Netherstorm to pick up Adamantite. Took quite a bit of time, but I finally did it.
As an aside again, selling all the ore and herbs picked up from this adventure netted me a very tidy sum. I’m generally pleased with the outcome of this experiment.
Ok. What’s this title all about? Well, I remembered, just before I was planning on logging out, that I could pick up the cold weather flying manual and send it to Fellmara. Ooops.. I could have done the first few quests I had, etc, much easier if I could fly (slowly, but it’s still flying). So I went and picked up the book and sent it away. She is now the happy owner of the ability to fly in Northrend which should make this whole leveling process much, much, much easier.
Tonight is the 10man ICC run. More rep for Fimlys and hopefully something good dropping. I might have to see if I can swap them out at some point and pull the druid into 10 and hunter into 25. Later all!
The last couple of days I have been doing something somewhat “mindless” in the game.. Running in circles. Well, running in circles and leveling Herbalism and Mining. I figured, when I created the Warlock, that since I already had one of each profession (at least) I would give Fellmara herbalism and mining so she could pick stuff up while leveling, etc. Well, given the RAF bonus, she never really had a chance to keep caught up while leveling. So, after hitting level 69, I took her a-roaming.
Her herb and mining skills were somewhere around 100 each. They are now 276 Herbalism and 246 Mining.. I have to admit the mining fell behind by a LONG way at first, but then I spent a lot of time (and gold) in Ironforge smelting to level it up closer to the Herb score. I am hoping to hit 300 tonight before the raid so she can head into Hellfire and just run around finishing up the run to Northrend level. Then I’ll go back and level her while mining/herbing where I find ‘em.
I learned one thing with all this “low” level mining and herbing.. People are willing to spend an insane amount of gold on lower level mats. Some of the herbs, like Goldthorn, are like gold mines in and of themselves. I almost made enough back to cover the money I spent on ore to smelt. Also, all that ore I smelted.. The bars sell better than the ore did (for some of them). For Iron I had to make it into steel, but it’s a profit after that. Of course, this is all on Draenor.. Your mileage may vary.
Other than that? I got the T10 headpiece for my Hunter. It was a nice upgrade from what I had. Some dailies, etc. Normal stuff. Raids didn’t happen Sunday or Monday due to poor turnout (sad for a 10man, eh?) . Don’t know whether we are extending our lockout again this week or just going to re-clear. The 5% buff goes into effect as of now, so I suppose that will make things go a little faster all over.
That’s it! Game Over Man! 
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