Hydraxian Waterlords.
There's something mildly liberating about going to do food-shopping at 12:35am. Although there are some rather shady people that go into the 24hr Asda near where I live.
Today, I spent the majority of the day on WoW. strike_freedom1 was right; it seems that, now that I'm home, WoW has become my only social outlet XD I probably shouldn't be as amused at that as I appear to be... this probably shows just how sad I am XD
People that I know, who used to play WoW - yes, you: Please come back. There are too many young-sounding foreign boys on Ventrilo. And they all bandy about the phrase "free love" far too often for my liking. Come back. Please.
As a polite service announcement: The rest of this post is largely WoW-related. Those who have no interest in reading about WoW can skip to the next post on their f-lists... uh, that is unless you want to see Utada Hikaru humiliate some guy at Tetris on live Japanese television. In which case, skip to the end of the lj-cut.
So, I ran Molten Core with 39 other people today. Yep, that's right. Molten Core - The Instance Formerly Known As THE End-Game Instance. The whole thing lasted a good 5 hours.
First of all, I'd just like to say that the problem with big raids (for me at least), is that you can't see what the fuck is going on most of the time. If it weren't for the fact that I know where my character is in relation to the HUD, I don't think I'd be able to find my own character either. I think I'm one of the people who's burning. I think I'm on fire. Anyway, I just kinda target what the Raid Leader (RL) tells me to target and run around spamming Sinister Strike till I find that I'm hitting something. Normally, the target is hidden under a sea of players, all trying to beat the same thing. It's kinda amusing,if terribly confusing.
It didn't actually occur to me to take screenshots till sometime between downing the 2nd boss and reaching the 3rd boss. So, apologies, I don't have pictures of the 1st boss 'Lucifron'. Thoguh I can tell you he looks like a re-colour of later bosses 'Gehennas' and 'Shazzrah', the latter of which I have pictures of.
The raid started off smoothly enough. We downed the first two bosses with relative ease. I'm that they don't normally go this well. Although, I did die during one of the fights against the Lava Giants at the beginning of the instance XD Actually, I think I died at practically every boss. There are some interesting little quirks with the monsters in this dungeon. The most notable of which are the Molten Core Hound packs. See, the trick here is to try and get all the Hounds in the pack to die at relatively the same time. If you don't, the dead ones resurrect with the same HP as whichever one out of the pack has the most health at the time. This normally happens within about 3-5 seconds. As you might imagine, this can be tricky and terribly annoying. Well, things were indeed tricky, and things started to go awry. In the business, we call that a wipe.
We did eventually get to 'Magmadar', the 3rd (I think) boss of Molten Core. He's essentially a fucking huge Core Hound (yes, that is me lying there in the centre of the shot). It took some doing but we were able to kill it without a wipe.
The next one on the list was 'Garr', a giant rock elemental. This guy had a number of smaller version of himself which needed to be dealt with seperately, while someone distracted Garr. The littler ones also explode when they die, sending everyone around them flying up and away. It's fun the first few times, but it got annoying. This was actually quite a fun fight, as the warlocks and hunters had to try and banish/tank the little'uns so we could manage them one or two at a time (while some unlucky sod got lumped with the task of distracting Garr). It was a little less straightforward than the previous boss fights and required a certain amount of preperation beforehand. Eventually, Garr went down (and I didn't die!).
'Baron Geddon' was next (he's the big fire-thing a midways into the distance). Now this was a fun battle. The quirk here is that, every couple of seconds, he turns a random person into a living time bomb. that person then has a limited amount of time to realise his predicament and get the fuck away from everyone else in the raid group and explode somewhere safe. I would've taken a picture of myself as the bomb, but I was too busy sprinting away saying "shitshitshitshitshit". You don't actually die from exploding, oddly enough. You just take a lot of damage. This was mostly a ranged fight, with the only person in melee range being the main tank of the group. Everyone else shot/casted at him. Sufficed to say, it didn't go exactly according to plan. It was terribly close, this one, but we managed to make it with what must've been 5 or 6 people left alive.
The next fight, the RL assured us, was supposed to be the easiest and most straightforward fight here in Molten Core. Y'know, it didn't quite feel like it after the 2nd wipe. We decided to leave it here 'cos it'd been 5+ hours already.
Oh, yeah. Gehennas. We killed him too. Easy. Don't think I died on him either.
We did die a lot but, all in all, it was a pretty interesting and entertaining outing. I'll likely sign up for more end-game instances during the summer, what with me not having much to do and all. I thin kthe highlight of the trip was when someone's mother spoke out onto Teamspeak, saying that so-and-so (I didn't catch the name) couldn't play anymore because he was going to bed XD
And, as promised, here's Utada Hikaru; looking very cute in glasses, and looking rather deadly at Tetris.
And I'm sorry for the overuse of the f-word.
Goodnight!
Today, I spent the majority of the day on WoW. strike_freedom1 was right; it seems that, now that I'm home, WoW has become my only social outlet XD I probably shouldn't be as amused at that as I appear to be... this probably shows just how sad I am XD
People that I know, who used to play WoW - yes, you: Please come back. There are too many young-sounding foreign boys on Ventrilo. And they all bandy about the phrase "free love" far too often for my liking. Come back. Please.
As a polite service announcement: The rest of this post is largely WoW-related. Those who have no interest in reading about WoW can skip to the next post on their f-lists... uh, that is unless you want to see Utada Hikaru humiliate some guy at Tetris on live Japanese television. In which case, skip to the end of the lj-cut.
So, I ran Molten Core with 39 other people today. Yep, that's right. Molten Core - The Instance Formerly Known As THE End-Game Instance. The whole thing lasted a good 5 hours.
First of all, I'd just like to say that the problem with big raids (for me at least), is that you can't see what the fuck is going on most of the time. If it weren't for the fact that I know where my character is in relation to the HUD, I don't think I'd be able to find my own character either. I think I'm one of the people who's burning. I think I'm on fire. Anyway, I just kinda target what the Raid Leader (RL) tells me to target and run around spamming Sinister Strike till I find that I'm hitting something. Normally, the target is hidden under a sea of players, all trying to beat the same thing. It's kinda amusing,if terribly confusing.
It didn't actually occur to me to take screenshots till sometime between downing the 2nd boss and reaching the 3rd boss. So, apologies, I don't have pictures of the 1st boss 'Lucifron'. Thoguh I can tell you he looks like a re-colour of later bosses 'Gehennas' and 'Shazzrah', the latter of which I have pictures of.
The raid started off smoothly enough. We downed the first two bosses with relative ease. I'm that they don't normally go this well. Although, I did die during one of the fights against the Lava Giants at the beginning of the instance XD Actually, I think I died at practically every boss. There are some interesting little quirks with the monsters in this dungeon. The most notable of which are the Molten Core Hound packs. See, the trick here is to try and get all the Hounds in the pack to die at relatively the same time. If you don't, the dead ones resurrect with the same HP as whichever one out of the pack has the most health at the time. This normally happens within about 3-5 seconds. As you might imagine, this can be tricky and terribly annoying. Well, things were indeed tricky, and things started to go awry. In the business, we call that a wipe.
We did eventually get to 'Magmadar', the 3rd (I think) boss of Molten Core. He's essentially a fucking huge Core Hound (yes, that is me lying there in the centre of the shot). It took some doing but we were able to kill it without a wipe.
The next one on the list was 'Garr', a giant rock elemental. This guy had a number of smaller version of himself which needed to be dealt with seperately, while someone distracted Garr. The littler ones also explode when they die, sending everyone around them flying up and away. It's fun the first few times, but it got annoying. This was actually quite a fun fight, as the warlocks and hunters had to try and banish/tank the little'uns so we could manage them one or two at a time (while some unlucky sod got lumped with the task of distracting Garr). It was a little less straightforward than the previous boss fights and required a certain amount of preperation beforehand. Eventually, Garr went down (and I didn't die!).
'Baron Geddon' was next (he's the big fire-thing a midways into the distance). Now this was a fun battle. The quirk here is that, every couple of seconds, he turns a random person into a living time bomb. that person then has a limited amount of time to realise his predicament and get the fuck away from everyone else in the raid group and explode somewhere safe. I would've taken a picture of myself as the bomb, but I was too busy sprinting away saying "shitshitshitshitshit". You don't actually die from exploding, oddly enough. You just take a lot of damage. This was mostly a ranged fight, with the only person in melee range being the main tank of the group. Everyone else shot/casted at him. Sufficed to say, it didn't go exactly according to plan. It was terribly close, this one, but we managed to make it with what must've been 5 or 6 people left alive.
The next fight, the RL assured us, was supposed to be the easiest and most straightforward fight here in Molten Core. Y'know, it didn't quite feel like it after the 2nd wipe. We decided to leave it here 'cos it'd been 5+ hours already.
Oh, yeah. Gehennas. We killed him too. Easy. Don't think I died on him either.
We did die a lot but, all in all, it was a pretty interesting and entertaining outing. I'll likely sign up for more end-game instances during the summer, what with me not having much to do and all. I thin kthe highlight of the trip was when someone's mother spoke out onto Teamspeak, saying that so-and-so (I didn't catch the name) couldn't play anymore because he was going to bed XD
And, as promised, here's Utada Hikaru; looking very cute in glasses, and looking rather deadly at Tetris.
And I'm sorry for the overuse of the f-word.
Goodnight!