Lo-Quality WoW

Well as expected, I didn’t get to raid because the guys I normally raid with all joined on to the Palidrons’ 25-man ICC raid and they didn’t have any spaces available.  Of course that leaves me free to join this other 25-man raid I keep getting invited to.  We’ll just have to see which ones will pick me up.

Although oddly enough, the guild leader from the Agency contacted me saying they were planning on run the next day.  Considering I hadn’t heard from him since the guys from Schrödinger’s Cats split off, I’m assuming he heard about their merger and knew that would free some of us up.  Plus, the Agency had moved their raids to an earlier time I couldn’t make, but I guess several members still preferred the late night raids so that’s what they’ll try and do for awhile again. 

So, being at loose ends again, I worked on my Warrior once more.   It took a few tries but I soon found myself on a Ahn’kahet: The Old Kingdom run.  Which I was pretty sure was one of the few I hadn’t done so far.  Fortunately, I have done it enough times as my Hunter to still vaguely remember what to do for each boss.

Elder Nadox was cake, even having to briefly switch to hitting his Guardian.  And even then, we only had one Guardian spawn.  For Prince Taldaram, we just powered through with the healer keeping us all up.  And to be honest, the flame sphere were actually good for me since it kept my rage meter up.

We then went straight to Herald Volazj so that we could do the All Things in Good Time quest.  Fortunately, our group makeup was one of those that didn’t cause us excess issues during the insanity phase.  In fact, I was able to gather up the clones, do a whirlwind, and I was out from under the debuff almost immediately. 

Since Volazj was down and that was all you technically needed to satisfy the random instance requirement, one of our dps left the group.  Fortunately, the tank, healer and other dps were all in the same guild and had apparently decided to do a full run, even with a man short.  Which made me a bit happy since who knows if I’d ever get a chance for a full clear in that place without begging help from guildmates.

So next we took on Jedoga Shadowseeker.  The tank said not to hit the adds so that we could go for the Volunteer Work achievement.  Which wasn’t bad until the tank forgot about Shadowseeker’s knockback attack.  It knocked him off the dias we were on and caused Shadowseeker to reset.  We laughed about it and then tried it again.  This time we had no problems and  I got the achievement.

And along with the Volunteer Work achievement, I also managed to pick up the Ahn’kahet: The Old Kingdom and Northrend Dungeonmaster achievements.  And again, this was a point most other groups might have stopped, mainly because quite a few people (even myself the first few times) didn’t realize there was an extra boss in the Old Kingdom in heroic mode.

So we hunted down Amanitar.  I had to be careful with my aoe attacks since I didn’t want to be killing the healthy mushrooms near me too soon.  Even then I had to search a little bit to find a healthy mushroom to use.  But soon enough, Amanitar died and I gained my Northrend Dungeon Hero and Heroic: Ahn’kahet: The Old Kingdom achievements. 

So I gleefully thanked the group and left at that point.  As a side note, if you’re ever in a group with me and I don’t thank you at the end, it means I was pissed off about the run and more then likely pissed at someone as well.  I knew that the Northrend Dungeonmaster achievement also gives you a new tailoring pattern so I went immediately back to Dalaran and learned how to make a Wispcloak. 

Which had me a little excited until I realized it was a caster cloak.  Considering my mage is the only one that can actually use it, I think I should have checked to see what the pattern made before getting all that excited about it.  It was a bit of a let down because of that.

I also noticed I had made it to Revered reputation with Wyrmrest Accord.  That also allowed me to pick up the Pattern: Mysterious Bag, which was a bit more useful to me than the cloak.  All this time and I hadn’t realized there was a bigger enchantment bag than the one I had been using.  Feels a little silly now.

In retrospect, I wish I had taken my Warrior on the ICC-10 run yesterday instead of my Hunter.  The Warrior needs the emblems more than the Hunter does.  Not that my Warrior has any business being in ICC anyway.  But hopefully in a couple of weeks, her gear will be at acceptable gear levels.  I’ll just have to have patience until then.