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Black Ice

September 3, 2012February 17, 2009 by Garwulf

The bad news is our Naxxramas 10-man scheduled for last night didn’t happen. I was all dressed up with nowhere to go because we couldn’t assemble a full group. There were a couple last minute sign-up removals and our Fury Warrior, who’s a huge portion of our DPS, couldn’t miss his Monday night episodes of Wife Swap and Super Nanny. …

New Shinies

July 6, 2011February 16, 2009 by Garwulf

Now that I’m hooked on running Heroics, I managed to get a couple new items over the past few nights. First was the Incisor Fragment from King Dred in Heroic Drak’Tharon Keep, and the second item was Pendant of the Outcast Hero which I purchased with the Emblems of Heroism I’d amassed in the past week. The new neck was …

Naxxramas

July 6, 2011February 13, 2009 by Garwulf

My first venture into 10 man Naxx was a success. During our 2 1/2 hours in there we cleared the Arachnid Quarter and Plague Quarter. Heigan the Unclean gave me his Tunic of the Lost Pack and our tank got his T7 shoulders. T’was a good night.

Most of the fights went well, despite our tank disconnecting a few times. We one-shotted Grand Widow Faerling and Noth the Plaguebringer, but the highlight of the evening was the 19+ minute fight vs. Heigan the Unclean.

We were hoping for The Safety Dance achievement, but that didn’t happen. Not even close. He was at about 60% with only 6 of us still standing. Our Holy Paladin died with him at about 30%, leaving our Tank, Shadow Priest, Demo Lock, and two resto Druids. One of the Druids died with him at 231K , but the remaining four pulled off the win. 🙂

My First Heroic in WotLK and Now Naxxramas Tonight!

July 6, 2011February 12, 2009 by Garwulf

Last night I completed my first ever Heroic Dungeon in Wrath of the Lich King. In fact, the only new instances I’ve been in are The Nexus, Utgarde Pinnacle, Gundrak and one time I joined a Malygos 10 man. I don’t do too many dungeons these days as you can see, because most of my guild is ready to log by the time I can begin an instance, which is around 11pm-12am server time.

I typically only like to PuG if the group consists of at least 2 of my guildies. I’ve had some excellent random groups in the past, but I’ve had some equally miserable ones as well. So, I’ve left the instances alone and have just been mainly queueing for battlegrounds & some casual arena, taming & leveling pets, helping my wife level her 76 Rogue, and doing the occasional daily on Garwulf.

Last night I received a tell from one of my guildies asking if I wanted to come finish Heroic Utgarde Pinnacle. 9 times out of 10 I would have turned it down, but she caught me in the right mood, plus she’s a sweetie and I couldn’t refuse. We sailed through the last 2 bosses and I had a blast. I ended up continuing with the group into Heroic Gundrak for the daily. I ended the night with 9 Emblems of Heroism and 2 new pieces of gear.

I won the Meteroite Whetstone from King Ymiron and Helmet of the Shrine (I know… expertise, wtf? It’s for my melee set… yeah, that’s it) from Eck the Ferociuos. The helmet is actually the best PvE helm I have at the moment, even with the useless expertise on it. I’m just wondering if pet’s expertise scales at all with a Hunter’s. I’m thinking no, but that’d make it almost useful if it did. Regardless, I slapped an Arcanum of Torment on it and threw in a Chaotic Skyflare Diamond and Rigid Autumn’s Glow. Having the gem slots in that helm helps me a lot. My hit rating needs some love for sure.