Been in a really good mood now that I’ve seen the Lich King fall.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought it would take the rest of the summer to get to that point.\u00c2\u00a0 It does kinda suck that if it wasn’t for the 25% buff, it would have been a lot less of a sure thing.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Last night I got the invite to the 25-man Palidrons run again.\u00c2\u00a0 Which makes me wonder, do the other Palidrons resent the fact that myself and my guildmate are taking up slots in what is otherwise a pure Palidrons run?\u00c2\u00a0 My guildmate thinks we’ve earned our spots but considering that part of the reason you join a guild is that they help bring you along even if you haven’t “earned” that spot just yet.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
I really don’t know how it would be if our 10-man raid leader wasn’t the 25-man raid leader as well.\u00c2\u00a0 We’re known factors…to him.\u00c2\u00a0 Would we be first up if it was someone else leading the raid?\u00c2\u00a0 After all, dps is usually the easiest to pick up and that’s the only real role I can play.<\/p>\n
Of course, I could always point out that while I’m consistently in the top 10 in dps, I’m usually in the top 5 for total damage dealt in any given fight.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s part of the reason they bring me along on the 10-man’s, despite the non-“optimal” survival spec.\u00c2\u00a0 I know the fights, the strategies and can adjust on the fly well.\u00c2\u00a0 This allows me to be “up” longer than other specs which deal more damage on a per second basis.\u00c2\u00a0 If I’m up 60 seconds longer than them, my total damage done is higher right?\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Granted, skills only go so far.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m sure I’d be left by the wayside if I was only pulling 4k dps or something.\u00c2\u00a0 Heck, I’m surprised they still let me bring my Warrior on their alt runs, she does so poorly in the dps totals and not all of that can be accounted for by gear.\u00c2\u00a0 I just don’t know her as well and her output suffers.<\/p>\n
I do think it’s interesting to note that 4 out of the top 5 damage output people were people\u00c2\u00a0from our 10-man team.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I know our 10-man team is also further along in general.\u00c2\u00a0 I think that right there may\u00c2\u00a0be an indicator as to why.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anyway, that was a weird side-out.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, last week I managed to snag myself a Protector’s Mark of Sanctification<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Spent most of the week trying to figure out what piece to switch around.\u00c2\u00a0 I finally worked it out that upgrading my helm to the Sanctified Ahn’Kahar Blood Hunter’s Headpiece while switching out one of my ilvl264 items for a lesser ilvl251, tier piece was worth it.\u00c2\u00a0 My net gearscore was lower but the 4-piece tier bonus more than made up the dps.<\/p>\n Marrowgar, Deathwhisper and Gunship were all easy.\u00c2\u00a0 Saurfang, I once again found myself on the inner spot instead of the “wing” spot I’m used to.\u00c2\u00a0 Makes my “safe” spot much smaller and harder to find since I’m constantly running in to drop my Frost Trap<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 And since we only had three Hunters, it meant my traps were front and centered.\u00c2\u00a0 Fortunately, the healer in the front-center spot quickly got used to me dashing in front of him and then back out.<\/p>\n I did roll on the Deathbringer’s Will<\/a> trinket that dropped.\u00c2\u00a0 And even the Protector’s Mark of Sanctification that did as well.\u00c2\u00a0 But since it was a dkp run, I didn’t get either.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, the question was, would I get one at all?\u00c2\u00a0 I know some of the former Cats had been grumbling that it seems that none of them seem to get loot on these runs, and I wasn’t even a former Cat, I was a Cat-associate if anything.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n Since we actually started the raid on time for once, and we were making good time, it was decided to hit Plagueworks instead of Crimson Hall.\u00c2\u00a0 I know they prefer Crimson Hall when time is short with it’s two bosses, rather than hitting Plagueworks 3 bosses and 2 mini-bosses.\u00c2\u00a0 It was good to be going at a decent pace.<\/p>\n Rotface and Festergut were both cake, more or less.\u00c2\u00a0 Festergut had a few too many times when too many people got hit by the Vile Gas<\/a> then should have, telling me that people weren’t distancing themselves properly.\u00c2\u00a0 But there were no issues with the spores or with the oozes on Rotface, so things were generally smooth.<\/p>\n Then it was Putricide’s turn.\u00c2\u00a0 Because of our high dps output, we tried an alternative taking strategy.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead of tanking by the table, we tanked Volatile Ooze<\/a> would spawn, to maximize time on target with the melee dps.\u00c2\u00a0 For the most part it worked, it just made it a little hard to get around the person who was being rooted if they were a ranged person.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n