We attempted on General hard mode...The range not including the healers were to stand all together right....and had animus down to 2% on our best try...sadly....we din down generals hard mode we were that close...in the end we just downed him the simple way...
guess everyone is so tired...I actually fell asleep in front of my desk and didn't realise that arn had initiated a ready check before the Yogs fight...I actually thought to close my eyes for a little while while waiting for the switch of people...had a long day today...can't imagine that I had woke up since 6.30am...
bye bye Ulduar...today will be the last day we will be doing 25 men Ulduar....
Too sleepy to do my dailies....gotta do it tomorrow sigh....
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Saturday, August 29, 2009
First try on Fjola Lightbane & Eydis Darkbane
We did 25 men Ulduar after getting kolagan down...Went to do colosium after tat...
The fragment actually drop when nanny is around!! How can that be?? "SEE it DROPS..." he pst me....at first I thought I see wrongly and I thought I had to take back the "gratz" I send to nanny...LOL another instance of blurness...He must be thinking I am going crazy healing...in my own world again...
This time our fight at Faction Champions our raid lead realized that last week we were focusing too much on CC and too little DPS was due to the NPCs...so this week, CC was minimal...and we actually did the fight at first try. =)
I got a Trophy of the Crusade this week and it give me more reason to get my daily Heroics done...
At Fjola Lightbane & Eydis Darkbane, a very fast encounter...when you first start the the fight, 4 portals pop up, 2 dark and 2 light. Click the portal of color to get a debuff of the color. Dark debuff will let you damage the Lightbane and Light debuff will let you damage Darkbane, we were separated into 2 sides....It is important to know which vortex is being cast and taking which debuff...
It was so fun running after white balls...our 3 healers at right side, were all white (while our right DPS took the black portal) and had to run around and "walk" through the white balls to get rid of it and raise stacks of powering up to get empowered....It was quite fun to chase after the balls and heal at the same time...we've gotta try to get the color that matches our debuff, the opposite color ball will damage you...I saw oak running after like a couple of the balls but they were so fast that he actually ran into black ones at the same time...quite scary when u look at the dmg done...our main concerns are having the Twins being touched by too many balls and thus powering up too much, or losing too much DPS to Vortex and being unable to stop the Twin's Pact heal.
I copied the below wholesale from wowwiki, quite interesting cos it explains why our raid leader had gotten us to split into 2 groups:
The fragment actually drop when nanny is around!! How can that be?? "SEE it DROPS..." he pst me....at first I thought I see wrongly and I thought I had to take back the "gratz" I send to nanny...LOL another instance of blurness...He must be thinking I am going crazy healing...in my own world again...
This time our fight at Faction Champions our raid lead realized that last week we were focusing too much on CC and too little DPS was due to the NPCs...so this week, CC was minimal...and we actually did the fight at first try. =)
I got a Trophy of the Crusade this week and it give me more reason to get my daily Heroics done...
At Fjola Lightbane & Eydis Darkbane, a very fast encounter...when you first start the the fight, 4 portals pop up, 2 dark and 2 light. Click the portal of color to get a debuff of the color. Dark debuff will let you damage the Lightbane and Light debuff will let you damage Darkbane, we were separated into 2 sides....It is important to know which vortex is being cast and taking which debuff...
It was so fun running after white balls...our 3 healers at right side, were all white (while our right DPS took the black portal) and had to run around and "walk" through the white balls to get rid of it and raise stacks of powering up to get empowered....It was quite fun to chase after the balls and heal at the same time...we've gotta try to get the color that matches our debuff, the opposite color ball will damage you...I saw oak running after like a couple of the balls but they were so fast that he actually ran into black ones at the same time...quite scary when u look at the dmg done...our main concerns are having the Twins being touched by too many balls and thus powering up too much, or losing too much DPS to Vortex and being unable to stop the Twin's Pact heal.
I copied the below wholesale from wowwiki, quite interesting cos it explains why our raid leader had gotten us to split into 2 groups:
For Twin's Pact, one of the Twins will shield herself, and then begin casting a 15 second heal for 20% of their maximum HP. The half of the raid not currently attacking her will need to switch colours and DPS her until the shield is down, and then interrupt her heal. After the heal is over, switch your colour back to what you were assigned at the beginning of the encounter.
For the Vortex ability, one of the Twins will begin an 8 second cast. The half of the raid of the opposite colour will need to switch their colour to match the vortex. Failure to switch colors will cause 30,000 damage. The other half of the raid can safely ignore this ability. For example, when Darkbane begins casting Dark Vortex, the Light half of the raid will need to switch to Dark. After the Vortex is finished, the effected players should switch back to their original colors.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Another try on discipline priest
Did Ulduar 10 men...at Flame Levithan...its been some time since I am the passenger for the demolisher...You see erectos carrying and bringing the pyrite to the demolisher using his chopper...making it so convenient when the pyrite is out of range...so cute!! Never know they can do that....
Had another try with discipline priest...this time not only for one boss...did fine today...we downed Ignis, XT, Kologarn, Auriaya, and called it a day at Hodir...I am constantly shielding the tank and the raid...mostly doing mending and then penance (mostly on tank since I am the MT healer) and some flash heals...but sadly our druid died @ XT cos he was OOR...
After the fight I had a "Nanny session" again....nanny's wondering why @Auriaya I am still full mana...LOL...but I double checked with bunny after the fight whether its fine or not....she seems fine with my healing as a discipline priest....same thing...constantly shielding everyone in raid of cos my priority is the MT...penance and also mending is always on MT...
I was very happy to tell nanny about learning from mao mao about the tricks about Divine Hymn...but he laughed at me and said "lol it heals the lowest HP raid memeber...how hard to use? its a SMART heal...cute leh you" He say I CUTE leh!!! (OMG in my own world again LOL...missing his point LOL...) CUTE!! I must tell Dawyn that nanny say me cute =) ha ha....
The combination of casting the Inner Focus then Divine Hymn is still a very smart thing to do...mao mao so smart to think of such thingy...love it especially when I like the animation of the spell so much...
Had another try with discipline priest...this time not only for one boss...did fine today...we downed Ignis, XT, Kologarn, Auriaya, and called it a day at Hodir...I am constantly shielding the tank and the raid...mostly doing mending and then penance (mostly on tank since I am the MT healer) and some flash heals...but sadly our druid died @ XT cos he was OOR...
After the fight I had a "Nanny session" again....nanny's wondering why @Auriaya I am still full mana...LOL...but I double checked with bunny after the fight whether its fine or not....she seems fine with my healing as a discipline priest....same thing...constantly shielding everyone in raid of cos my priority is the MT...penance and also mending is always on MT...
I was very happy to tell nanny about learning from mao mao about the tricks about Divine Hymn...but he laughed at me and said "lol it heals the lowest HP raid memeber...how hard to use? its a SMART heal...cute leh you" He say I CUTE leh!!! (OMG in my own world again LOL...missing his point LOL...) CUTE!! I must tell Dawyn that nanny say me cute =) ha ha....
The combination of casting the Inner Focus then Divine Hymn is still a very smart thing to do...mao mao so smart to think of such thingy...love it especially when I like the animation of the spell so much...
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Tried out the "WOW Latency Reducer"
Got the below wholesale from Oak's post in guild forum (I got his permission to post it) =)
To get low pings with 2 simple registry hacks do the following (you need to do both settings for the maximum effect)
1 - TcpAckFrequency - NOTE if you are running Windows Vista this setting may not have any effect - a hotfix is needed which i'm tracking down (can anyone point me the right way?). This works fine under Windows XP
Type "regedit" in windows "run.." dialog to bring up registry menu
Then find:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\
There will be multiple NIC interfaces listed in there, find the one you use to connect to the internet, there will be several interfaces listed (they have long names like {7DBA6DCA-FFE8-4002-A28F-4D2B57AE8383}. Click each one, the right one will have lots of settings in it and you will see your machines IP address listed there somewhere. Right-click in the right hand pane and add a new DWORD value, name it TcpAckFrequency, then right click the entry and click Modify and assign a value of 1.
you can change it back to 2 (default) at a later stage if it affects your other TCP application performance. it tells windows how many TCP packets to wait before sending ACK. if the value is 1, windows will send ACK every time it receives a TCP package.
2 - TCPNoDelay
This one is pretty simple
info here: Microsoft Corporation
Type "regedit" in windows "run.." dialog to bring up registry menu
Then find:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ\Paramet ers
Right-click in the right hand pane and add a new DWORD value, name it TCPNoDelay, then right click the entry and click Modify and assign a value of 1.
[EDIT] Some people it seems don't have a MSMQ entry in their registry. You will need to add it, to do this the simplest way is to copy/paste the below code into a empty text file, and save it as a .reg file (just call it msmq.reg). Once done right click the file and select MERGE and click yes to the box that follows.
******snip below******
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ\Paramet ers]
"TCPNoDelay"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ\Paramet ers\OCMsetup]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ\Paramet ers\Security]
"SecureDSCommunication"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ\Paramet ers\setup]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ\Setup]
******snip above******
Click Ok and close the registry editor, then reboot your PC.
In fact, I did not have MSMQ entry in my registry, was very scared to add it...but if you just follow the instructions above, its done easily =)
My wow latency went down to 350 plus from the normal 500 plus in dalaran!! cool!!
To get low pings with 2 simple registry hacks do the following (you need to do both settings for the maximum effect)
1 - TcpAckFrequency - NOTE if you are running Windows Vista this setting may not have any effect - a hotfix is needed which i'm tracking down (can anyone point me the right way?). This works fine under Windows XP
Type "regedit" in windows "run.." dialog to bring up registry menu
Then find:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\
There will be multiple NIC interfaces listed in there, find the one you use to connect to the internet, there will be several interfaces listed (they have long names like {7DBA6DCA-FFE8-4002-A28F-4D2B57AE8383}. Click each one, the right one will have lots of settings in it and you will see your machines IP address listed there somewhere. Right-click in the right hand pane and add a new DWORD value, name it TcpAckFrequency, then right click the entry and click Modify and assign a value of 1.
you can change it back to 2 (default) at a later stage if it affects your other TCP application performance. it tells windows how many TCP packets to wait before sending ACK. if the value is 1, windows will send ACK every time it receives a TCP package.
2 - TCPNoDelay
This one is pretty simple
info here: Microsoft Corporation
Type "regedit" in windows "run.." dialog to bring up registry menu
Then find:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ\Paramet ers
Right-click in the right hand pane and add a new DWORD value, name it TCPNoDelay, then right click the entry and click Modify and assign a value of 1.
[EDIT] Some people it seems don't have a MSMQ entry in their registry. You will need to add it, to do this the simplest way is to copy/paste the below code into a empty text file, and save it as a .reg file (just call it msmq.reg). Once done right click the file and select MERGE and click yes to the box that follows.
******snip below******
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ\Paramet ers]
"TCPNoDelay"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ\Paramet ers\OCMsetup]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ\Paramet ers\Security]
"SecureDSCommunication"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ\Paramet ers\setup]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ\Setup]
******snip above******
Click Ok and close the registry editor, then reboot your PC.
In fact, I did not have MSMQ entry in my registry, was very scared to add it...but if you just follow the instructions above, its done easily =)
My wow latency went down to 350 plus from the normal 500 plus in dalaran!! cool!!
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Attempts on Hard mode Freya and Generals
while clearing mobs to Hodir...arn was pulling lots of mobs...hee...actually makes it faster to go to the boss...more fun then just clearing normally...mao mao was trying to heal in shadow!!! And he wondering Y his flash heal is taking forever to heal...
we attempted 2 elder up for Fraya...but finally downed her with 1 elder up only...hhmmmm....took a very nice screen shot before the fight....
mao mao reminded me that he had to dispell for me today...in fact I was thinking that the heart shaped debuff appearing on my grid looks very pretty and wondering what debuff it was... =P got scolded and started dispelling the debuff...oophs it was too cute leh...
We were attempting general hard mode and we keep dying to "missing on intterrupt" sigh...mao mao commented that we are not testing the healers so far...and I already told nanny that I am getting cold feeted each try we doing...
Ended the day with a dailies H UP...still thinking of watching Blizz Con on-line...so envious that Oak has bought the ticket to watch on-line life....drool...
OMG I didn't do H ToC today! sigh...Have to do it tomorrow then...
we attempted 2 elder up for Fraya...but finally downed her with 1 elder up only...hhmmmm....took a very nice screen shot before the fight....
mao mao reminded me that he had to dispell for me today...in fact I was thinking that the heart shaped debuff appearing on my grid looks very pretty and wondering what debuff it was... =P got scolded and started dispelling the debuff...oophs it was too cute leh...
We were attempting general hard mode and we keep dying to "missing on intterrupt" sigh...mao mao commented that we are not testing the healers so far...and I already told nanny that I am getting cold feeted each try we doing...
Ended the day with a dailies H UP...still thinking of watching Blizz Con on-line...so envious that Oak has bought the ticket to watch on-line life....drool...
OMG I didn't do H ToC today! sigh...Have to do it tomorrow then...
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Downed 25 Men Faction Champions & Assembly of Iron
Downed 25 Men ToC...Faction Champions
NPCs are as follows:
Malithas Brightblade - Paladin (Retribution)
Caiphus the Stern - Priest (Heal)
Vivienne Blackwhisper - Priest (Shadow)
Thrakgar - Shaman (Heal/Caster)
Ruj'kah - Hunter
Ginselle Blightslinger - Mage
Erin Misthoof - Druid (Heal)
Shadowcleave - Death knight
Maz'dinah - Rogue
Narrhok Steelbreaker - Warrior
Wow...imagine we had to deal with 10 of the NPCs...OMG...
Did Assembly of Iron hard mode...killing the big one last... =) positioning is the same as what I have previously mentioned...just that we have added soaker Elyss (shadow priest, and of cos he had to stand away from everyone)
Our MT really best lor after the boss die...he came after the raid and more then half the raid exploded...Heard from dawyn that everyone saw this in tankspot and started doing it LOL...
TankSpot's Guide to Iron Council Hard Mode:
NPCs are as follows:
Malithas Brightblade - Paladin (Retribution)
Caiphus the Stern - Priest (Heal)
Vivienne Blackwhisper - Priest (Shadow)
Thrakgar - Shaman (Heal/Caster)
Ruj'kah - Hunter
Ginselle Blightslinger - Mage
Erin Misthoof - Druid (Heal)
Shadowcleave - Death knight
Maz'dinah - Rogue
Narrhok Steelbreaker - Warrior
Wow...imagine we had to deal with 10 of the NPCs...OMG...
Did Assembly of Iron hard mode...killing the big one last... =) positioning is the same as what I have previously mentioned...just that we have added soaker Elyss (shadow priest, and of cos he had to stand away from everyone)
Our MT really best lor after the boss die...he came after the raid and more then half the raid exploded...Heard from dawyn that everyone saw this in tankspot and started doing it LOL...
TankSpot's Guide to Iron Council Hard Mode:
Friday, August 21, 2009
10 Men Trail of the Crusader
If I am not wrong this is my first 10 men Trail of the Crusader...
Totally love the Faction Champions (even though we wiped like 12 times....), combination of the following NPCs
Thrakgar: Shaman (Healer/Caster)
Narrhok Steelbreaker: Warrior - Can narrhok Steelbreaker be MCed? Nope...its seems that he can't be...Elyss tried but he's immune...
Gorgrim Shadowcleave: Death knight
Ginselle Blightslinger: Mage
Ruj'kah and her lioness: Hunter - monkey keeps coming after me...I mean...stupid lioness keeps hitting me...I had to fear her away whenever I have the chance...
Liandra Suncaller: Paladin (Healer)
Gotta dispell lots of things (e.g gotta dispell sheep) and so much things to handle, must fade (at least this works so that the warrior/any of the NPCs don't come after me), must fear (already mentioned, any mob that come after me, sometimes both the lioness and a NPC will come after me together and that is the best time to fear)....
There was one try that both elyss and I was being CCed...Elyss is being silence while i was being sheeped! Then I died....cos no heals and then Elyss died...WIPED!!!! LOL so funny!!! I laugh till jaw drop...
After wiping for sometime...Mao Mao asked what we are doing and we found out from him that the strategy is to deal with the 2 healers, shammy and pally. Kill the shammy and chain CC pally...must kill the healing totem of cos...Minor thing to deal with: kill pet too as it has got low HP and will not be resummoned back...
After that everything fall into place and all the rest was down easily...hee...
Sigh...feels that I am healing funny at the hard mode Thorim today...Have done the 10 men hard mode with Bunny healing with me before....And successfully completed it before...Not sure what I am doing wrong...
Totally love the Faction Champions (even though we wiped like 12 times....), combination of the following NPCs
Thrakgar: Shaman (Healer/Caster)
Narrhok Steelbreaker: Warrior - Can narrhok Steelbreaker be MCed? Nope...its seems that he can't be...Elyss tried but he's immune...
Gorgrim Shadowcleave: Death knight
Ginselle Blightslinger: Mage
Ruj'kah and her lioness: Hunter - monkey keeps coming after me...I mean...stupid lioness keeps hitting me...I had to fear her away whenever I have the chance...
Liandra Suncaller: Paladin (Healer)
Gotta dispell lots of things (e.g gotta dispell sheep) and so much things to handle, must fade (at least this works so that the warrior/any of the NPCs don't come after me), must fear (already mentioned, any mob that come after me, sometimes both the lioness and a NPC will come after me together and that is the best time to fear)....
There was one try that both elyss and I was being CCed...Elyss is being silence while i was being sheeped! Then I died....cos no heals and then Elyss died...WIPED!!!! LOL so funny!!! I laugh till jaw drop...
After wiping for sometime...Mao Mao asked what we are doing and we found out from him that the strategy is to deal with the 2 healers, shammy and pally. Kill the shammy and chain CC pally...must kill the healing totem of cos...Minor thing to deal with: kill pet too as it has got low HP and will not be resummoned back...
After that everything fall into place and all the rest was down easily...hee...
Sigh...feels that I am healing funny at the hard mode Thorim today...Have done the 10 men hard mode with Bunny healing with me before....And successfully completed it before...Not sure what I am doing wrong...
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