Mining Etiquette & Flak Fire

So the other day I was doing my daily quests out in Blade's Edge Mountains, minding my own business. I am trying to banish my demons just like everyone else when out of nowhere comes some dwarf paladin on his epic mount bouncing on top of me. 2 seconds later he flies off and I am like well that was weird. Then I hear the Flak Fire charges go off all around me and one eventually hits me. He continued to do this over and over again until I got good enough to avoid being hit by the Flak Fire.

Then I think it was yesterday I am just heading out to do a bit of Aether Ray Wranglin' when I see a mineral vein pop up on my map. I head on over there and sure enough it is being guarded by 2 of those flayer type mobs. I pull and go stand next to the node while I fight them, and sure enough a Night Elf Warrior comes flying in and starts mining my node! I /rude to him he finishes up the /laughs at me.

Now these are the times I wish I played on a PvP server. But I am not on a PvP server I have to make due with what is available to me. Namely passive aggressive behavior. Turns out our Flak Fire friend did his bombing run prior to doing his banish demons daily. And I hadn't... So I proceeded to do the very same thing back to him... over and over and over again.

The second guy.. the vein stealer? He hadn't wrangled his aether rays just yet. And as it turns out all of the Aether Rays he tried to wrangle died before he got the chance to do so. Maybe it was me executing them... /shrug

They say two wrongs don;t make a right, but hey it sure made me smile on the inside. Maybe next time they will think before they grief someone.



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Back to Tanking

After a long hiatus from tanking I am now back to Protection spec. Now that my wife's Priest is 70 it makes it much easier to get 5-mans together when all we need is 3 DPS. And I think it will benefit the guild more in the long run.

After my first few raids / heroics it feels like coming home. Always loved tanking, and while I had a great time DPSing with my Warrior I think Tanking is more of a challenge and it pushes me harder to get better gear.

Nightbane Down!

My guild over on Vek'Nilash threw together an impromptu Karazhan raid to make our first attempts at Nightbane last night. After a great first attempt and a few wipes *cough* tank in zerker stance *cough* we brought him down. Not bad considering none of us had ever done it before.

Fury Warrior Karazhan Tips (Part 2)

Last night we did from Curator up to Chess with a quick attempt on the Prince but it was late so we didn't try more than once. So with everything fresh in my mind and a cup of coffee to help I figured I would bang out the second part of my Fury Warrior guide to Karazhan which covers Shade, Illhoof, Chess, and the Prince.

Once again it's a long read so hang in there!



Trash up to Shade

Your typical trash here, just realize that a lot of the mobs are stunnable so take advantage of it to help save the squishy people. DPS Away an if a tank or a CCer goes down on some of the larger pulls you should be able to switch to defensive and tank away without too much trouble. A lot of magic damage up there so the Armor and Defense doesn't do you much good anyways.

Shade of Aran

I love this fight. It keeps the whole group on its toes while basically being an all out DPS fest. Stay close to Shade the whole fight unless you are running to the walls to avoid an Arcane Explosion. Make sure you coordinate with the other melee on who is interrupting Fire and who is Interrupting Ice spells. Let the Arcane Missles go unless they are going to kill someone.

When the Elementals spawn you should be assisting the Main Assist (or if you are the Main Assist get a target quickly) and burn them down. One of the things I am learning on Shade is that if Shade is casting Blizzard when the Elementals are up get in behind the Blizzad as it goes around the room and take down the first elemental you can get to.

Remember to save your Healthstones until right after you get hit with the Pyroblast. If the Pyroblast didn't kill anyone I hit Recklessness right away to burn him down as fast as possible. If a few people dies I might hold off on it until I see how the DPS is lookin'.

Illhoof

This fight is a lot of fun for a Fury Warrior I think. The only one who out damages me on this fight consistently is the Warlock and the Seed of Corruption for obvious reasons. During this fight I heavily recommend using Sweeping Strikes -> Whirlwind/Cleave as often as Rage allows for. You will get killing blows on the imps constantly and you will be spamming Victory Rush on the Boss every few seconds. If for some reason Victory Rush isn't up throw a Heroic Strike or two in there.

Make sure you create a macro for /target Demon which will allow you to get on the Demon Chains as fast as possible to try and save whoever is being sacrificed.

Trash up to Chess

This is probably some of the easiest trash in the dungeon IMO. As long as you have a Priest or two and a Pally or Hunter to Fear / Trap, you can plow through the larger pulls relatively quickly. Once through the larger pulls you have a decent amount of single pulls to clear to the Chess Event.

Chess

Not really much to say here just make sure you learn what each piece does and how to use their abilities. Be aware that the move and face commands are on a painfully slow timer. So moving next to an enemy piece is likely to get you pounded on without you doing anything until you can turn your piece to face the correct direction. This is really a very easy challenge. I've only seen it failed once.

Prince Malchezaar

While this fight favors the Ranged classes a Fury Warrior can still stay in the top 3 DPS easily on this fight. Run out when you get Enfeebled then Intercept back in. Your Intecept timer should be up every time. If the Enfeeble doesn't hit you pop Berserker Rage, position yourself with your back against the wall as best as you can and eat the Shadow Nova for a full Rage bar. During Phase 2 I usually pop a health potion when this happens just so healers don't have to worry about me.

Phase 2 is pull out all of the stops time. Use all of your cooldowns (if you are confident in your group throw Recklessness now as well) you want to burn him down through Phase 2 as fast as possible. In Phase 3 switch to two fast weapons and bring on the Executes. If you get the flying Axes hitting you switch to Battle Stance quickly so you aren't taking extra damage. Other that the Infernals dropping from the sky its actually a decent fight.



Well I hope this guide has been useful to someone! I had fun putting it together and once I get some experience in taking down Netherspite and Nightbane I'll put together some tips for them as well.

Spending time with my Druid

I decided to hold off on Part 2 of the Karazhan Tips article until after another good run through there so I have it fresh in my mind. So today I thought I would just post a little about my new favorite ALT. Now I am not really an ALT person, I like to spend the majority of my time on a single character and really maximize their potential with the best gear possible with what is available to me. My Druid however has sparked real interest in me.

I have a lvl 29 twink Feral Druid over on Durotan (Hendarg) that I love to PvP with. I never thought I would have the ambition to level another character to 70 but lately the constant respeccing with Swath has been bugging me and I'd love to have a tank or healer I could play on the side for 5-mans or to bring on Raids when we needed an Off Tank or healer. Overall I've been very impressed with the Druid class so far (as of this writing I am level 30) and I am really looking forward to leveling with him. If I stay focused I estimate another 2 months to 70 (yes I level slowly).

I guess my plan is to raid with Swath and gear up my Druid on the side until he is a viable option to bring as well. That way I'll be able to be more flexible as to what the guild needs for our runs.