So I log on at my normal time to suddenly see a patch being loaded.\u00c2\u00a0 Uh oh, that’s usually never a good thing.\u00c2\u00a0 Except it’s primarily a null-effect patch.\u00c2\u00a0 What do I mean?\u00c2\u00a0 The big thing it adds is the Ruby Sanctum, which isn’t available for North America!\u00c2\u00a0 The vote kick feature has been changed, but I rarely use it.\u00c2\u00a0 The chat frames are different, but I haven’t done anything with it.\u00c2\u00a0 And I can now add friends based off their battle.net accounts, which I don’t know.\u00c2\u00a0 So pretty much the patch did nothing to me except cause a few errors in several of my addons!<\/p>\n
Anyway, I had mainly logged on to do a quick set of dailies before going to play one of the new Xbox 360 games I picked up when I got an invite to the Palidrons 25-man raid.\u00c2\u00a0 I didn’t think they were short handed but what the heck, I don’t mind another set of raids.<\/p>\n
For the most part, the lower spire items were easy.\u00c2\u00a0 The main excitement happened when we pulled two groups and somehow activated two Deathbound Wards at the same time.\u00c2\u00a0 As one guy said “this was a gear check on your video card!”\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Marrowgar was simple, especially with practically everyone being ranged dps.\u00c2\u00a0 There were four of us Hunters and nobody stayed on a spike for long.\u00c2\u00a0 Deathwhisper was also pretty straightforward.\u00c2\u00a0 Melee on the left, ranged dps on the right and with additional dps on anyone coming from the back.\u00c2\u00a0 Gunship was also simple, and I sort of wonder why we didn’t attempt it on heroic.\u00c2\u00a0 I actually had gone to get a drink when they made assignments so I wasn’t sure if I was on the boarding part or not, but the gunship went down with no casualties, so it was all good.<\/p>\n
Saurfang was mainly notable in that for some reason, nobody would let me make room near the front of the room.\u00c2\u00a0 I was actually in the back row.\u00c2\u00a0 So when I had to place my Frost Trap<\/a>, I had to run all the way forward, drop the trap then use Disengage<\/a> to help me get back into position as quickly as possible.\u00c2\u00a0 Lots of running back and forth.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n And actually, there were a couple of drops that I could have rolled on but I didn’t because I wasn’t even sure I had DKP.\u00c2\u00a0 I know a couple of previous guilds I’ve run with refused to allocate DKP for non-guild members.\u00c2\u00a0 I shouldn’t have worried.\u00c2\u00a0 I checked the Palidrons DKP page and found I had DKP points.\u00c2\u00a0 Now I wished I had rolled on an item or two!<\/p>\n