ICC - Pit of Saron

The Forge of Souls must be completed before a player can access the Pit of Saron...I must be crazy enough first try for both instance I tried in heroic mode...

Since I have done so many times The Forge of Souls...I made it a point to practice on Pit of Saron...

So first thing I do today....using the very well loved looking for group system that Blizzard has done for us...I managed to go for a run for Pit of Saron...There is one more boss as compared to The Forge of Souls...

Forgemaster Garfrost

Garfrost looks like a giant piece of patch work...ugly to the core...has only a few abilities you need to look out for:

Forgemaster Garfrost throws a massive saronite boulder at ranged...so you gotta run when he emote...its really cute to see him throwing a big piece of ice at you...I tried to run but was still hit by it and got knocked back...sigh...I did run out of the shadow IRONY!!! LOL...This thrown stupid ice will deal lots of dmg to anyone stupid enough ehhhhhmmmmph...or slow enough to stand in its shadow..... =(

Other then running away from "flying ice" or what they call it saronite rocks fight is easy to heal. He has a party-wide aura that cause Frost dmg and applies a debuff that increases Frost dmg taken....PITA...The debuff is applied every 3 seconds and stacks.

DPS/healers should hide behind the thrown saronite boulders if their permafrost stack gets too high....healers gotta be quick about healing this part...I still remeber I just monkey see and monkey do whatever the rest of the group is doing the first time I tried this boss...Not sure why everyone was hidding and thought that the boss is gonna do some massive AOE LOL....but none was due....

When Forgemaster Garfrost yells: "Axe too weak. Garfrost make better and CRUSH YOU!"

Garfrost jumps over to one of the two forges in his room and reforges his weapon to increase his frost damage dealt by 100% in Heroic mode...While Garfrost runs off to one of his corner (forges) to grab a weapon the tank should let the debuff wear off by using the boulders.

Once everyone's debuff has worn off and is healed up, we continued the fight by going to the boss. Garfrost does not lose aggro on the phase transitions.

When Garfrost yells: "Garfrost tired of puny mortals. Now your bones will freeze!" He will cast Deep Freeze which reduces the movement speed of a random target by 50%, and causes 6k Frost dmg after the spell expires...So I had to make sure the player (fact is I can't remember who) is at full health (and shielded just in case...a bit KS)...

In phase two Garfrost casts Chilling Waves in front of him. The tank (and only the tank) should be getting hit by the Chilling Waves....So you must be careful to avoid that....

Krick and Ick - Krick is a leper gnome that rides on the back of Ick, a large ghoul/abomination. Krick issues spoken commands to Ick. Ick will drop plagues areas and we are suppose to avoid those, he will also drop a series of bombs that looks like purple domes and we are suppose to avoid them too...else it will be hard on the healers.

After killing the first two bosses, Tyrannus, who has been flying around the Pit on his frostwyrm, summons a series of mob groups along the path, each of which include a caster and several melee mobs. As the group approaches the tunnel, Tyrannus commands his frostwyrm to collapse the tunnel, so the party must run through the tunnel, killing mobs and avoiding falling ice blocks, you gotta avoid the round circles on the ground, its something like what Hodir does, dropping icicle on to grounds that was marked with circles...

Scourgelord Tyrannus, the last boss of Pit of Saron is a human Death Knight mounted upon the mighty frost wyrm Rimefang...one thing to take note of while healing this boss is that I need to make sure that the tank gets lots of love after the boss jumps from his mount...cos he does hit hard...if you are not careful, the tank might just die seconds after the boss lands...

Abilities that you need to take note of for this boss:

Forceful Smash, which is heavy dmg and knocks the tank back, this the ability that might cause the tank to die very fast after he dismount.

Overlord's Brand, which marks a target and transfers all of the dmg done by that target to Tyrannus' main target, generally the tank. DPS that is being branded should stop attacking until the brand is removed.

Unholy Power, which increases Tyrannus' dmg, but greatly reduces his movement speed.

ICC 25 Man

Have been trying to do random instance everyday...but was back home late from work and needs to join the guild on raiding....hmmmm....normally we only raid on Fridays and Saturday...since its gonna be New Year's Eve and New Years day...Our guild decided to raid on a Wednesday....

We completed our ICC 25 man run...same things like always and I made some silly mistakes on the way...(I was having dinner and playing at the same time, lucky today my dad already had dinner hence the house rule to have dinner at the dinner table does not apply and I can play WOW and eat at the same time)

This time round I did not die for the first boss, Lord Marrowgar... =) I learnt how to see who to heal for bones spike...

While walking to Lady Deathwhisper, there were some mobs can chain cleave and of cos causing some of our melees to die cos they were standing lined up one after another LOL...

I died at Gunship Battle cos our super heal died...not sure why and I had to fly over to the other ship...after super heal was being battle rez....I wanted to go back to the main ship but was silly or rather stupid enough to stand at where the tank is tanking the High Overlord Saurfang and since the boss was cleaving and I took lots of dmg...next sec I know I was dead...I was just trying to look for the jump button to go back to the main ship sob sob....

First try on Deathbringer Saurfang, I had mark of the fallen champion...aiyo got marked...very stressful...You gotta heal yourself like mad...end up I can only heal myself and also the tank at the same time...one of our new shaman "ankh" up and healed the boss for 10%...OMG...after some of the DPS died the raid leader decided that we wipe and try again....since the fight was dragged like longer I ran out of mana and sigh of cos died...no mana no love...

For this boss we are not suppose to battle rez or use SS and of cos as already mentioned no ankh!

Second try we got him down and sadly our legendary heal, nanny got the mark and I did not heal him on time...he died before he can react to it also...Something new I learnt....got the mark no matter what happen...must heal like mad to keep myself up...I cannot imagine I did not get the mark for the past few tries!

ICC - Forge of Souls - Bronjahm & Devourer Of Souls

I have been so busy trying out the new instances that I did not realise that I have not blogged about my experience with the new instance...OMG...

After my random instance of the day Pit of Saron (I guess I was too concentrated to remember what I did I guess I will have to write down what I do in this instance another day)...I went for a specific instance ICC - The Forge of Souls...

Really like the new way of looking for group...you can either choose to go for random instance or just go to specific dungeons...really cool...
The Forge of Souls...."skulls" are really painful...I gotta heal constantly while getting from one location to another...There are 2 bosses here...

Bronjahm has two phases...Phase 1 you just have to make sure that the affected player by the Soul Fragment moves far away from the boss...else these fragments heals the boss...Healing is easy...

Phase 2 is interesting...first time I do it I was not sure what the hell was happening when the boss cast a vortex something like what malygos had..just that this boss does it a little differently...he does not spins the pple around...he will just sort of "bounce" some one out into the vortex and this person has to be healed all the way...of cos also have to run back in as your healer is healing you...This time round I am being "bounced" out again...I was being told to run back to the center but I still couldn't do it when he cast the vortex....so end up I had to shield myself and heal while I am inside the vortex LOL...maybe I din run fast enough...

Devourer of Souls

This boss reminds me of ROS LOL...The basics are to quickly move your characters out of the purple void areas it will do a significant amount of damage.

Boss will cast "Mirrored Soul" Whenever Mirror Soul is active, any damage done to the Devourer will be mirrored to whoever has the debuff. Therefore it is crucial to stop DPS while it is up....Hate it when our DPS just go ahead and DPS like no body business...sigh...

When Devourer of Souls cast a Wailing Souls......According to wowhead.com, This is a 90 degree sweep of the room (either clockwise or counterclockwise) starting from a position selected at random. The wail starts about 3 seconds after casting it and will wail for 15 seconds. Anyone caught in the wail will take a very high amount of damage that ticks every 0.4 seconds.

She does Shadow dmg like 4,875 to 5,125 to anyone infront of her(her cheek face)...and of cos dmg to the tank...this is when I have to heal like mad...Safest place to stand is opposite where the tank is standing...what Dawyn will tell me is the "butt cheek" of the boss LOL...it does looks like that...

Unleashed Souls - The Devourer of Souls is releasing tormented souls periodically...The best time to max dps is during unleashed souls, a bunch of untargetable but killable adds spawn...

Well Of Souls - The Devourer of Souls leaps towards a target, slamming the ground creating a Well of Souls. Inflicts 2925 to 3075 Shadow Damage.

Phantom Blast - does like 11,700 to 12,300 Shadow damage

Trick is when DPS see Mirror Soul - stop DPS and when she does wail of souls, healer heals tank like mad, DPS to the max during this part which is usually Unleashed or Wailting souls...

darn I dunno Y in the last few sec we downed the boss I died...OMG....lucky got pally to rez me...ALAMAK forgot to print screen!!! Fainted...will do it next time....wanted to take the "butt cheek" of Devourer of Souls...how can I ever forget to do that??!!! She turns too fast for my liking...

During the run I rolled and won a Battered Hilt Hee...Not bad...let me see if I can sell it off...Dawyn says dun sell it at AH end up I am selling it at trade chat...so boring...

Icecrown Citadel (25 man) - 2nd Try

Before going for raid I went and updated all the mods that I am using...most importantly the Grid, GridIndicatorSideIcons, GridStatusRaidDebuff and also FuBar...not sure why Omen is not updated.

This is the 1st time I did the Lord Marrowgar with the guild...I was the first to die....best part no one knows why I died....cos my death was not logged in death log...I could only see myself being impaled by bone Spike...sadly no one destroyed the spike....sob sob and no one healed me...Nanny was joking that I did not bribe him to heal me....Aiya!! Why me so unlucky??

For Lady Deathwhisper, I had the same problem as last week...I was having cold hands when we finished the fight....strangely for the first try our tanks died...I was wondering why...

Especially for phase 2....then I remembered about the blue ghost....Nanny said blue (vengeful spirit, I call them ghost) and green (death and decay on the ground) is bad...of cos they are...in fact there are times when the ghost spawns, you just have to make sure you don't stand too near to those areas and run away from them quickly...you will see some blue lines and hear a sound when they are spawned...

3rd boss, Gunship Battle, Nanny was asked to be attack team...LOL he say he might not be able to come back to the main ship....Lucky I already got my jet pack ready and equip...when mao mao as me to go as attack team I was prepared....in fact I will suggest that every get one of these for the fight in case you have to go over....My first try jumping over...the range of these packs were quite far in fact...

For Deathbringer Saurfang, since we have to spread out 12 yards to avoid mark from verzak I was being asked to stack with our super heal...while the 2 big fat chicken sneeze adds away...ready to go when the instance server was being scheduled to restart in 15mins and we had to rush through the fight...sadly due to some technical or strategic positioning problem, we wiped and had to wait for the instance to restart before we can go for the 2nd try....

Nanny's telling me its suppose to be an easy fight...I agree...but some were standing too near to each other and the "blood boil" actually got spreaded to another group...but we did quite well for the 2nd try...we even achieve the "I've Gone and Made a Mess (25 player)" - by eefeating the Deathbringer before Mark of the Fallen Champion is cast five times in 25-player mode....heee....consider a guild progression?

We went back to doing ToGC and I got myself a trophy to get a new gear...For Twins (which is our last boss for 25 man raid), mao mao keeps telling me I was healing badly...Told him "cos I too old liao"....our super heals say "I am even older" OMG how to compare stamina with super heal...I play till late I CMI already...can talk can laugh...but concentration need to train since I din play for some time....

New instance v3.3 - Heroic The Forge of Souls

Tried a random Heroic and the instance I joined was The Forge of Souls, my first try on random instance...LOL...

I did only 2 bosses, Bronjahm and Devourer of Souls

Bronjahm, there are 2 phases for this boss.

In phase 1 players will have to weaken him and destroy the Corrupted Soul Fragments that Bronjahm separates from players... These Soul Fragments hover towards Bronjahm and heal himso the player whom Bronjahm is channeling the spell on should try to move as far from Bronjahm in order to maximize travel time of the Fragments.

Phase 1 will ends at around 30% with Bronjahm teleporting to the center of the room. In the center, Bronjahm will cast a constant vortex that hurts anyone on touching or even crossing the boundaries. I read from wowhead.com that players will have to stay near the inside of the room to avoid being hit....a player will be feared through the vortex, so healers will need to be sure to keep players topped off and be attentive of which player is feared....First try I've got for this? I was the one being feared and I could easily healed myself through it...since it is first try I have no idea what the hell was going on when I was being feared away...just went ahead and healed myself through....

Devourer of Souls, definitely look like ROS and the fight is similar to ROS...kek...You gotta make sure you dun hit when it has Mirrored Soul, pain really damn pain LOL cos the dmg inflicted, a percentage will be mirrored to you if you do any dmg to the best at this time...always stand away from the face that is "awake"...I just have to run around avoiding ghost and then heal the tank and the rest of the group...

First try on Devourer of Souls, we wiped and I had so much difficulty getting back into the system...sigh....had no clue how to fly back in...till no choice Da went and download from youTube.com What a route idiot....I am very glad that the group actually walked out to get me in the end...so embarrassing...



We completed the 2 bosses with only 4 in the group as our rogue got DCed on the last boss and we did not continue to the next instance...sadly...

Icecrown Citadel (25 man)

Our guild was doing Icecrown Citadel, Lord Marrowgar while I just logged in. I gotta say that the boss looks really cool...he looks like "Death" himself. One big axe, 4 skulls....

LOL I talked like I was in raid...sadly was watching Da's screen as the guild is doing the fight and learning the fight at the same time...real fun and learn about the fight...can't wait to be able to join the raid....Da says that our internet connection is getting better these days...

Writing down the abilities of the boss in normal mod so that I can remember it =) they are:-

Bone Storm - its a physical damage AOE, looks like he is doing a whirlwind...Lord Marrowgar will announce the ability before he uses it, so your melee will want to get out of the way so they don't get hit by bleed...


Saber Lash - An incredibly powerful melee strike that splits its damage across three targets on 25 man, have to make sure all of tanks are standing together so that they don't get one shot.

Coldflame - A line of (cold) fire spawns, and you must not stand in it, cause 8k dmg per sec to anyone caught by the moving line of frost. Hhhmmm....I wonder how to avoid this one....really shouldn't stand in it...Da says its very easy to avoid....see it coming just move left or right...

Bone Spike Graveyard - Lord Marrowgar throws a bone spike at a random player, impaling all players between the boss and the target on Bone Spikes, inflicting 9,000 direct Physical damage, and additional 10% health as damage every 1 second until the spike is destroyed. Meaning anybody directly in the line of fire will be impaled. The rest of the raid will need to DPS down the spike to free impaled players. It can be avoided, and it will not hit targets being hit with Saber Lash.

Anyway yay!!! The guild downed the first boss liao =) easy...

Keeps hearing Mao mao telling the raid that he's not able to see when his shackle breaks...Its too to have the shackle macro when you doing the thrash:-

/clearfocus [button:2]
/stopmacro [button:2]
/focus [target=focus, noexists]; [target=focus, dead]
/cast [target=focus,exists,nodead] Shackle Undead

very easy to use...when the shackle break you just have to click on the button and recast...to set the target, you just have to right click on the button to clear the focus....

I have upgraded all my mods...so hopefully if they ask me to go in I will be doing fine....

Not very sure what the rest of the boss looks like since I was asked to join in for the 2nd boss...Lady Deathwhisper, my hands are all cold by the time we down her =) Long time never raid feeling worried...DBM lua errors keeps poping up till I had no choice but to disable the reporting...

We were divided into left and right side...first few tries I died very quickly to ghost...OMG and had to be brez...on the last try we downed her like with most of the people alife...Cult Adherents (spells dmg) and Cult Fanatics (melee dmg) will spawn from 3 from left and right side and the center...I have to make sure I dun aggro when any of the new adds spawn...some times I have to fade make sure to make sure adds dun come to me...and I try and move across the center circle till the adds are picked up...but when you do that you gotta be careful of the Cult Fanatics cos they cleave...One of the PITA is Curse of Torpor - Increases a player's spell cooldowns by 15 seconds...its a curse that must be decursed asap cast by Cult Adherents...

Phase 2, you must make sure you spread out (easier to see the 'ghost') and make sure you are not killed by ghost (vengeful spirit), stay away from them...green stuff on the ground you gotta avoid too (death and decay)...

Tankspot.com really had a great explanation about the fight:


3rd boss, Gunship Battle, the most embarrassing for me...cos mao mao asked me to be the attack team and I have no idea where the stupid goblin is to get the jet pack to jump over...LOL...so embarrassing...yes get your jet pack from the green thing! LOL... >.< Deathbringer Saurfang, spread out 12 yards to avoid mark from verzak (this gotta heal with lots of love LOL)...we have 2 boomkin sneezing on them...at first I couldn't understand what mao mao wants them to do until I ask kemeko...LOL...knock back the adds away...if the adds really comes to you...you gotta do some kiting till they're being "taken down" =)...it was fine enough to heal through...

Patch v3.3 - Downloader stopped at 99%

Sigh...first thing I came home I tried to download the patch for my wow...Waited extremely long and finally it was downloaded irritatingly it stop running at 99%. Sigh...was extremely worried that I have to wait and download the whole patch again.

Since I am using Vista, the next thing I thought of is to run the launcher as administrator.

Lucky I did not have to wait too long =) Phew...very scary...

Its only when I logged into WOW that I realise that its Tuesday today....Server down...sob sob =(

A try for achievement for 25 Man Mimiron

I joined a "fire figter" fight...and died in Rocket strike....

OMG! How can anyone fail to a rocket strike? There is plenty of time to run out of it!! Fainted. I definitely see the red circle on the ground and also I definitely moved out of the space...but I still died after running out of the stupid circle...

Sadly when I say a try it really means a try....we only joined in when they were going for the last time...and sadly...I died =( so end of story...sob sob...

After the which nanny borrowed his dad's car and went for supper....ha ha...a small group outing of 6...

So a group which consist of Lugo, Da, Irony, Nanny and Mao mao...(shaman, rogue, "tanky", pally, priest respectively...are they a good combination? aiya if really get them to do instance no kick la....)

First day after a long break

Have been having internet connection problem and afraid to play WOW....Got my high speed ISP paying tons and tons of money just so that I can play without lagging...its WOW first not ISP first if you wanna talk about chicken and egg issue...LOL...

And guess what my ISP says that they are still checking on why the whole of country is having the same problem...according to them a sudden slowness in the network...I got a 1/2 price for my bill for that...

Was just telling Midgetation that the Heroics no kick and his reply is "your are over geared"...but but...but I am considered under geared in the guild!! LOL...

As usual I did Heroic TOC to test skill and still very bad at the first fight...But other then that the rest of the bosses sigh...no kick...the tank I played with today are pretty good...

Did Heroic VH since its the dailies today...with one less group mate cos our pally went off line in the middle of the fight....never came back till the end of the last boss...I wonder whether the pally completed the dailies or not...anyway we went through the fights very easily and quickly even with 4 in the grp...

Asked mao mao whether I can raid this friday and he suggested I log in and see how...Friday is guild progression...we are aiming for Heroic Anub'arak....

Guess I will not only need to get used to healing rotations (timing of POM and CoH has to be practiced again), but also revise on the fights....Went to wowhead.com and there is a very nice blog on heroic version of all the boss fights...Time to study hard...

Kept bugging Dawn regarding the strategy website that I used to go to OMG!!! How can I forget about Bosskillers.com? Yep need to go there and do some reading as well...

Hope I still go some time to do some BGs...I always like to go there to get use to my healing rotations...can die and come back to worries...call it the training ground =)