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I managed to get into another Kara this afternoon. There is one other girl in my guild (that I know of, and besides Lutzi's wife who has a low level priest called Leokadia) whose main is a priest called Konstantine. She's very well respected in the guild and as far as I know is the best priest besides Lutzi. She has a druid who just dinged 70 (Bahedrin), so she organised a Kara run. As soon as I saw Lutzi was in, I was keen to go (although I think I have gotten much better with my heals, I know he can easily hold the entire raid) so I convinced Yuge to go (his tankage is always wanted :P). He was handed raid leader, and I kinda snuck into the raid.
I'm painfully aware that my gear is still pitiful and not really good enough for Kara at all. So it didn't help when we were standing around at the beginning and someone made a snide remark about my gear. Looting was different at first than the first time I'd been to Kara (when Lutzi allocated everything) so I think I made a minor faux pas with greeding some purple gloves that I thought would be better than my blue ones, but weren't apparently. Later on Lutzi allocated loot to my relief (though nothing dropped that I wanted anyway).. I am such a noob with trying to figure out if things are better than what I already have. I normally try on different items and compare how they affect my stats. :P
At Moroes, I thought I did reasonably well with keeping my allocated target shackled, but we wiped on our first attempt (I think it was due to failure to keep aggro off Lutzi). There were still remarks made about undergeared noobs though and I felt crappy. But I thought I did well for what was literally my second ever attempt at shackling. :(
On Maiden I died early on, was ressed by a pally, died soon afterwards, was ressed by the druid Bahedrin, died immediately. Yeah. Yay for Spirit of Redemption form. :P I don't really understand that fight. I should probably read up on it.
A bit further on I think somebody pulled too quickly and Lutzi died, but I healed furiously and we mostly stayed alive. Probably others were helping to heal also, but I thought I did alright under pressure.
Shortly after this point, both Yuge and I had to go afk. And then we had to leave the raid.. Lutzi called it because everyone was doing Mount Hyjal soon anyway. By the time I got back to my computer I was logged out. I felt kinda bad for just kinda abandoning without saying anything to anyone. :-/
Anyways.. so this Kara run wasn't quite so successful. I got rep and a few badges out of it though I guess. :) I'm just a little depressed because I feel so useless compared to the rest of my guild. It's different when I'm running an instance with Yuge, I actually feel like I am doing something important for the group. We did the Mechanar today (my first time there) and I really enjoyed it. I got my Arcatraz key fragment out of it too. :) Botanica next..
I'm painfully aware that my gear is still pitiful and not really good enough for Kara at all. So it didn't help when we were standing around at the beginning and someone made a snide remark about my gear. Looting was different at first than the first time I'd been to Kara (when Lutzi allocated everything) so I think I made a minor faux pas with greeding some purple gloves that I thought would be better than my blue ones, but weren't apparently. Later on Lutzi allocated loot to my relief (though nothing dropped that I wanted anyway).. I am such a noob with trying to figure out if things are better than what I already have. I normally try on different items and compare how they affect my stats. :P
At Moroes, I thought I did reasonably well with keeping my allocated target shackled, but we wiped on our first attempt (I think it was due to failure to keep aggro off Lutzi). There were still remarks made about undergeared noobs though and I felt crappy. But I thought I did well for what was literally my second ever attempt at shackling. :(
On Maiden I died early on, was ressed by a pally, died soon afterwards, was ressed by the druid Bahedrin, died immediately. Yeah. Yay for Spirit of Redemption form. :P I don't really understand that fight. I should probably read up on it.
A bit further on I think somebody pulled too quickly and Lutzi died, but I healed furiously and we mostly stayed alive. Probably others were helping to heal also, but I thought I did alright under pressure.
Shortly after this point, both Yuge and I had to go afk. And then we had to leave the raid.. Lutzi called it because everyone was doing Mount Hyjal soon anyway. By the time I got back to my computer I was logged out. I felt kinda bad for just kinda abandoning without saying anything to anyone. :-/
Anyways.. so this Kara run wasn't quite so successful. I got rep and a few badges out of it though I guess. :) I'm just a little depressed because I feel so useless compared to the rest of my guild. It's different when I'm running an instance with Yuge, I actually feel like I am doing something important for the group. We did the Mechanar today (my first time there) and I really enjoyed it. I got my Arcatraz key fragment out of it too. :) Botanica next..