Mage Addons, Ui, and Outland Dungeonmaster
Insomnia hit me again last night so I thought it was obviously the best time to work on my undead mage's UI. Since I picked up playing Cynz again, I had been using the same basic set-up as my DK and through RDF I learned it was a set up that seriously wasn't working for me. I forgot to actually take a picture of the new set-up, but let's just say that it took a lot of time and when my pugs were failing I had random addon options windows open to do some tweaking between pull and before corpse runs. Another thing that sparked this UI overhaul was the discovery of the Mage Nuggets addon and a desire to get all the portal and teleport spells the hell off my bars. Luckily Mage Nuggets took care of all of that (though I didn't figure that out until after I dled several different portal addons that all sucked, at least for my taste).
In addition to overhauling my UI, I also wanted to get the last 3 Outlands Dungeons behind me. I had Shadow Labs, Magister's Terrace, and Arcatraz left. Unfortunately everytime I managed to get into any of these three dungeons it was always a horrible wipefest. Take last night. I finally got into Shadow Labs after a horrendous long wait (as usual, though this time we were missing a tank instead of a healer). The tank was wearing mail, and leather, and CLOTH. What tank wears cloth?! And the lock... while he was no where as bad as the tank, he was still stacking all the wrong stats. But we soldiered on. I figured after the long wait, a crap slow dungeon was better than none at all, and maybe I would be pleasantly surprised. Apparently I am on crack in the wee hours of the morning. We must have wiped about 3 times before we even hit the second boss. After the second, the healer whispers me about the failness of the tank. She must have realized I was semicompetent when everyone but the two of use ran down the wrong hallway and ignored us when we told them to come back. As we continued on to the next boss, we are thanking each other for being the only two competent ones in the run, stating the 2.5/5 wasn't all bad (the dk dps wasn't on our shit list like the other two, but he wasn't stellar either). We both say we will drop group after the next wipe, and as I am about to run into the instance I read "DONT DROP!" Apparently the failtank had dropped after rezzing. Sometimes wishes are granted. The faillock ended up dropping after the priest and I started questioning his taste in gear. The DK started chatting with us about their failness and we all decided to requeue. Sadly, 25 min later there was still no tank and we had to call it since it was already 4:15 AM.
This morning I decided to try out the new UI while being slightly more awake, and managed to actually get through not only Shadow Labs, but also Arcatraz! I thought I was pushing it as I queued for MT, but figured, what the hell... I want my achievement. I took a zeppeling to Howling Fjord, starting doing some questing and got into 2 fail MT pugs. Apparently 3rd times a charm. Zoned into the instance and saw a warrior, a shaman, and 2 other mages. We kicked the SHIT out of that instance. Three mages spamming blizzard, with three water elementals out, and a warrior that could keep aggro? No freaking contest. It was freaking awesome. I was an idiot and forgot to complete the quest for Heroic MT, mainly cause we were going through it so fast.
After that I was on a high and thought I would try for a random WotLK dungeon with the hour I had left before work. Some more questing, loving seeing the other side of Howling Fjord, and I get put into UK, which I already have one of the quests for so yay! I was all excited to leave the crap of BC behind when lo and behold we wipe on the first boss.... 4 times. I am not kidding. How hard is it to hit the frost tombs? I am a frost mage... my frost spells dont work on them and I still managed to break most of them (mainly cause no one else was trying). At one point the healer freaked and was all "when he casts FT everyone drop what you are doing, run over and hit the shit out of it." This after I am practically the only one even attempting to break any. I snarkily asked if they would prefer if I ran over and hit them with my staff or should i keep casting fireball. The next wipe, after breaking all the tombs myself, I rezzed, dropped group and ran to get dressed for work. I wish I had better pug luck. They hurt my head so much.
In addition to overhauling my UI, I also wanted to get the last 3 Outlands Dungeons behind me. I had Shadow Labs, Magister's Terrace, and Arcatraz left. Unfortunately everytime I managed to get into any of these three dungeons it was always a horrible wipefest. Take last night. I finally got into Shadow Labs after a horrendous long wait (as usual, though this time we were missing a tank instead of a healer). The tank was wearing mail, and leather, and CLOTH. What tank wears cloth?! And the lock... while he was no where as bad as the tank, he was still stacking all the wrong stats. But we soldiered on. I figured after the long wait, a crap slow dungeon was better than none at all, and maybe I would be pleasantly surprised. Apparently I am on crack in the wee hours of the morning. We must have wiped about 3 times before we even hit the second boss. After the second, the healer whispers me about the failness of the tank. She must have realized I was semicompetent when everyone but the two of use ran down the wrong hallway and ignored us when we told them to come back. As we continued on to the next boss, we are thanking each other for being the only two competent ones in the run, stating the 2.5/5 wasn't all bad (the dk dps wasn't on our shit list like the other two, but he wasn't stellar either). We both say we will drop group after the next wipe, and as I am about to run into the instance I read "DONT DROP!" Apparently the failtank had dropped after rezzing. Sometimes wishes are granted. The faillock ended up dropping after the priest and I started questioning his taste in gear. The DK started chatting with us about their failness and we all decided to requeue. Sadly, 25 min later there was still no tank and we had to call it since it was already 4:15 AM.
This morning I decided to try out the new UI while being slightly more awake, and managed to actually get through not only Shadow Labs, but also Arcatraz! I thought I was pushing it as I queued for MT, but figured, what the hell... I want my achievement. I took a zeppeling to Howling Fjord, starting doing some questing and got into 2 fail MT pugs. Apparently 3rd times a charm. Zoned into the instance and saw a warrior, a shaman, and 2 other mages. We kicked the SHIT out of that instance. Three mages spamming blizzard, with three water elementals out, and a warrior that could keep aggro? No freaking contest. It was freaking awesome. I was an idiot and forgot to complete the quest for Heroic MT, mainly cause we were going through it so fast.
After that I was on a high and thought I would try for a random WotLK dungeon with the hour I had left before work. Some more questing, loving seeing the other side of Howling Fjord, and I get put into UK, which I already have one of the quests for so yay! I was all excited to leave the crap of BC behind when lo and behold we wipe on the first boss.... 4 times. I am not kidding. How hard is it to hit the frost tombs? I am a frost mage... my frost spells dont work on them and I still managed to break most of them (mainly cause no one else was trying). At one point the healer freaked and was all "when he casts FT everyone drop what you are doing, run over and hit the shit out of it." This after I am practically the only one even attempting to break any. I snarkily asked if they would prefer if I ran over and hit them with my staff or should i keep casting fireball. The next wipe, after breaking all the tombs myself, I rezzed, dropped group and ran to get dressed for work. I wish I had better pug luck. They hurt my head so much.