Kevin's Watch

/bonk Tekki

Yeah, I went - and it was awesome, and I have PICS:


staging area, hordeside

moving out across the Barrens (I'm the BElf by the moonkin pet)

waiting for the boat in Rachet

how many toons can fit on one boat?

party in Booty Bay!

group pic


Garona's event is next month (either July 16 or July 17th) - will post info when I know more.

I'm feeling slightly stupid now - I was thinking about hard modes, and Gift of the Naaru, and I suddenly realised that Mardun has Stoneform - a damage reduction cooldown. That he's never used.

So I've been eating 2 or so electrocutes without a cooldown that I could've been popping Stoneform on, along with eating damage in a bunch of other fights that I could have reduced.

Latest word on the difficulty of Firelands bosses:
- Beth'tilac is the easiest boss, many guilds are 1 or 2-shotting her in Heroic gear and those in lower gear aren't having much trouble either.
- Rhyolith and Shannox are harder but not too bad.
- Alysrazor is hardest of the 4 opening bosses, with a tight dps requirement and a lot of responsibility on raiders moving and getting it right.
- Baleroc is generally considered pretty easy.

Murrin wrote:I'm feeling slightly stupid now - I was thinking about hard modes, and Gift of the Naaru, and I suddenly realised that Mardun has Stoneform - a damage reduction cooldown. That he's never used.

So I've been eating 2 or so electrocutes without a cooldown that I could've been popping Stoneform on, along with eating damage in a bunch of other fights that I could have reduced.

Typical DPS
Ah well it's only 10% right?

Murrin wrote:Latest word on the difficulty of Firelands bosses:
- Beth'tilac is the easiest boss, many guilds are 1 or 2-shotting her in Heroic gear and those in lower gear aren't having much trouble either.
- Rhyolith and Shannox are harder but not too bad.
- Alysrazor is hardest of the 4 opening bosses, with a tight dps requirement and a lot of responsibility on raiders moving and getting it right.
- Baleroc is generally considered pretty easy.

Is progression linear like ICC, or can you somewhat choose your boss order to an extent like Naxx/BWD?

You can choose to kill Shannox, Beth'tilac, Lord Rhyolith, and Alysrazor in any order. Once those are killed, you can progress through Baleroc, Majordomo Staghelm, and Ragnaros in fixed procession.

Most groups kills Shannox first because he a) patrols around the whole central area, and b) is linked to most of the trash, which is not trivial to have to clear every few hours. They've bumped the respawn up to 4 hours on his trash now because it was taking too long to clear to him.

I've started making note on things I've picked up about the fights on the guild forums again.

omg i LOVED the L2R guys (yeah ky, the ones you found irritating! LOL!)

beth'tilac looks awesomely fun and crazy!!

So, I figure I should let folks know what's going on with me and WoW.

A few weeks ago, I created an EU account and started a new character. I've joined a guild after an invite from someone on Maintankadin. My toon is levelling through the Cataclysm zones now, and will be 85 in a week or so.

I'm still not sure how things will work out playing on the new account, so I've not quit my original account on US side yet. The guild wants a healer with dps offspec, not a dps main, so I may not have a place on the EU side straight away. But it's likely that I'm going to find a raid group on my new toon, and I'll probably let my subscription on the US side expire.

This is nothing to do with the people in Legacy - I enjoy playing with you guys - and more to the fact that I enjoy raiding more than other parts of the game, and I'm just not getting to raid at all because of the US time zones and the current state of the guild roster. On the EU side I will have vastly increased options to find a raid group and get to see the parts of WoW I'm currently missing out on.

You will be missed. When does your US account expire?

I haven't decided yet. Like I said, I've not quit yet. And apparently the Battle.net site doesn't want to let me change to a one month subscription, and it's due in two days, so it'll probably go one for another 3 months. (I go through all the steps, into Paypal and everything, and the account type description just doesn't change.)

Well, then I for one am glad we'll have you for another three months at least!

Can you just cancel the subscription and then reactivate with a new one month subscription (though if you decide to stay on you will lose... what six bucks?)?

Sorry Kysen but I understand why your leaving or thinking about it. We are all just getting home from work when you need to go to bed so yes it does make raiding with us very difficult.

I can not pull the people either for Saturday that Tav did they really didn't want to do Saturday then but many did because well it was the schedule and never changed. I however asked when people wanted to go and even did a full week invites. Saturday just wasn't in the cards for more than 2-3.

I would prefer myself to be starting 2 hours earlier than we are but I am east coast and my west coasters are not even off work yet. So I have to bare late nights. 3 days of my work week I am sleeping 4 hours which is not ideal at all. So I know where your coming from.

I do not blame you for leaving personally if raiding was what I enjoyed the most I probably would have left a long time ago if in your shoes.

I do wonder though would real friend id allow you to 5 man with us on a EU realm?

Arg. Cancelling works but attempting to resub does the same thing as attempting to change. I suspect something between Battle.net and Paypal isn't working.

Edit: Changing to direct payment from my card works.

Ha. I just had a phone call from a very staticky robot to confirm that my transaction was genuine... apparently Blizz took a £1 payment to verify?

contact blizz to move your subscription to 1 month

I'd like to raid, but I'm basically never going to be home by 6 (PST) again.

Last weekend I got on, but we didn't have enough peeps for it

I would personally much rather raid on Sat than a worknight - and Ky, I agree with everything Kell said. I certainly don't want you to leave, but I do realize that the schedule really sucks for you especially now - and while the schedule probably will change again at some point in the future, you wouldn't want to wait that long to see Firelands.

Someone needs to win the lottery so we can buy an island and all be in the same timezone, or at least not have to work.

Sorus wrote:I would personally much rather raid on Sat than a worknight - and Ky, I agree with everything Kell said. I certainly don't want you to leave, but I do realize that the schedule really sucks for you especially now - and while the schedule probably will change again at some point in the future, you wouldn't want to wait that long to see Firelands.

Someone needs to win the lottery so we can buy an island and all be in the same timezone, or at least not have to work.

^^^^^ what she said.

From 4.3 patch notes:

Cross-realm raid finder, more bank space, gear customization...



Can I be greedy and ask for a Rift-style character customization screen?

Watch those pugs. Al Qaeda in Azeroth.

In their pursuit of terrorists, government intelligence agencies leave no digital rock unturned: telephone calls, emails, text messages, blogs, news sites – they monitor them all. Sometimes, as with social networks like Facebook, the companies behind these services gladly hand over data to governments to assist in this hunt. Yet there is still one place where terrorists can go, one place where they can talk to each other openly without fear of being detected: online video games. Hundreds of millions of people flock to massively multiplayer online role playing games like World of Warcraft, and revel in online virtual worlds like Second Life. …and somewhere in those millions are terrorists looking to plot the next big attack against Western civilization. That’s right, terrorism has been chased into using virtual reality as its staging grounds. The future is a strange, comical, and scary place to live when that Level 40 Night Elf looking for a group may be Al Qaeda in disguise.