Some nights, I just really don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have any plans. So I log on and figure I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll do some dailies to build up my gold reserves. And for the heck of it, I put myself in Looking For Group, because you just never know when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get to go somewhere interesting. Well, it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t interesting, but I did get an invite to a Heroic Utgarde Pinnacle.<\/p>\n
Oddly enough, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been to UP 4 times, but this was only my second time in Heroic. And slowly and steadily we wind our way through the instance. And have no problems until we get to Skadi. (Although Gortok did seem to have something against my cat and me, since we got impaled twice.) On the first try, we decide to do the normal gauntlet, and I was assigned to get the harpoons. And boy was it ugly. By the time I had gathered and shot enough harpoons to knock Skadi down, I was almost out of mana and our other dps being squishy, they went down fast. So did I when Skadi caught me in a whirlwind against a harpoon launcher. So the second time we do the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153gather first\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. This goes better except I must have had some lag because I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t able to get him in one pass and it was enough to get us overwhelmed.<\/p>\n
So we sit and think about it for a sec and our tank, who was a death knight, decides he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll pop his Army of the Dead<\/a>. Again, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m unable to get Skadi in one pass but the extra ghouls give us enough breathing room that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re actually in good shape when Skadi comes down. Right until he kills the other two dps again. Oddly enough, this doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bother me because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done numerous BC instances where it ends up being myself, the tank and the healer. (My emphasis on armor and stamina tends to allow that.) Then it becomes a funny game of me at range blazing away, the tank hold aggro and the healer trying to keep us both alive. For some reason, when Skadi would whirlwind, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d target me. Being so far away, it was easy to see him coming, timing my Feign Death<\/a> just before he reached me, allowing the tank to grab the aggro and we reset to our positions. It only takes a couple of times at this before Skadi goes down and we go on.<\/p>\n For some reason, I keep forgetting that some of the mobs at this point can fear and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bad fear that gets us when the tank gets feared out of LoS of the healer. We wipe but on the next go around, we make sure to pull quite a distance into the room before hitting them. Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on to Ymiron, which actually ends up being pretty straightforward, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re done. Nice PUG group for once, we had some missteps but for the most part everyone kept their humor about them and there was no finger pointing.<\/p>\n Again I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m goofing off, having a nice beer, when my guild decides they want to hit Gundrak. In this case, for the elder. Unfortunately, except for our other hunter in the group, the rest haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even done normal Gundrak, much less heroic. And we wipe on Slad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ran when our healer gets piled on. We rez on the other side and go for Moorabi instead when we wipe again when we accidentally pull the three mobs from the other balcony area. But we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a guild and pretty demented about such things, and we go in and take out Moorabi. Then I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m surprised when suddenly I see a couple of Emblem of Heroism<\/a> achievement notifications pop up. I shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have been, most of the group with us this evening tend to focus on general quests and pvp, whereas I have more of an instance focus.<\/p>\n We then go and face of against Eck. Fortunately, it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go badly and two of our people get their Elders of the Dungeons<\/a> and To Honor One\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Elders<\/a> achievements. (I also suddenly notice that we all have different titles up. Not important, just an odd observation.) Well since it was the first time for three of the others, we decide to continue instead of calling it.<\/p>\n Now by this time, the rest of the team knows I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever so slightly drunk. So I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure why the other hunter decides to let me describe the fights. Oh well. We wipe twice on the Drakkari Colossus, mainly because he was getting caught in one of the pool of mojo attacks mid-cast. But we manage to barrel through and we go against Slad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ran again. This time, we set up in the entrance area to give myself and the other hunter a chance to try and intercept the snake adds. And we fail. Well, our priest, who had been healing, goes to respec holy at this point. (Last I had checked, he was holy but he had gone to discipline at some point and I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know.) While he did that, the other hunter grabbed his tenacity pet to see if we could handle the snakes. It goes better but not enough and we wipe again.<\/p>\n Oh well, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a bit pig-headed so we still go for it. I think we wipe one more time before we try something slightly different. This time, our ret pally and the other hunter work on the adds while I focus on Slad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ran. This actually works better since I could put out more dps and with it focused on the boss instead of the adds, it brought him down and our ret pally, the other hunter and the healer even manage to get their Snakes. Why\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d It Have to Be Snakes?<\/a> achievement.<\/p>\n Gal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122darah comes up next and we actually make it in one go, which was amazing to me since by this time I was pretty drunk and wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t making complete sense when I was trying to describe the fight. But he goes down and suddenly a bunch of Heroic: Gundrak<\/a> achievement notifications. We loot and our other hunter manages to get his Superior<\/a> achievement. While there was a lot of wiping, it was a fairly productive guild run.<\/p>\n Again, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m off getting drunker when again a guild activity pops up. This time we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re off to fight Omen. At this point, our MT has logged off (it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rather late for him) so it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s up to either my warrior or one of paladin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s setup for protection. We decide to let the pally tank since that frees up my hunter for dps, and at the moment my hunter is the most effective dps we have. So we gather, about 7 of us, and decide to go for it. And naturally we get our butts kicked. Unfortunately, between myself and the other hunter, we pull aggro way too easily. We try a few more times, even picking up a warlock who happened by, but we get smashed. At this point, I figure I need to switch to my warrior since if we can at least keep aggro on the tank, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll just be a very long, very annoying, fight. So my hunter retires for the night and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my warrior the rest of the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some nights, I just really don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have any plans. So I log on and figure I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll do some dailies to build up my gold reserves. And for the heck of it, I put myself in Looking For Group, because you just never know when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get to go somewhere interesting. 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