Recent Accomplishment Thread

[Keria]

I got some naise new stuff for my new pally and managed to tank fester/rot without failing too badly

http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sh...Halls&n=Aphmau

what upgrades should i go for (specifically with frost badges and offset vs t10 vs accessory, bear in mind im unlikely to get any tier tokens cause my server's ic25 pugs stop after gunship)

i know i need to replace the def gem in my bracers it was temporary to maintain def cap

[Keria]

Oh and my other accomplishment is I got VOA mammoth ninjaed off me by a 2.5k dps mage... waiting to see if a gm will answer my ticket seeing as the guy clearly stated in raid "roll for mount" before looting it to himself, kek.

[Krye]

Whoever said all ICC trinkets are good missed this one. Unless your a pvp healer.

http://www.wowhead.com/item=50726

I've been trying to get this trinket for a couple months now...it's really gamebreaking in arena. I'm running Disc/Hpal/Arms and the paladin on my team has it and he's been getting me in on his guild's heroic blood queen fights but it won't fucking drop.

It's just another example of having to PVE to be able to succeed in PVP. They didn't even add new Battlemaster or WG trinkets this season.

[Falaras]

I've been trying to get this trinket for a couple months now...it's really gamebreaking in arena. I'm running Disc/Hpal/Arms and the paladin on my team has it and he's been getting me in on his guild's heroic blood queen fights but it won't fucking drop.

It's just another example of having to PVE to be able to succeed in PVP. They didn't even add new Battlemaster or WG trinkets this season.

Wat, I've never noticed you in one of those, damn I must not pay attention at all.

[Krye]

Wat, I've never noticed you in one of those, damn I must not pay attention at all.

Okay I missed a few because the GM didn't want me coming while you guys first learned progression and then he didn't know the name of the alt that I've been playing on recently but it doesn't matter because he said it hasn't dropped on any of the times I wasn't there.

[Falaras]

Okay I missed a few because the GM didn't want me coming while you guys first learned progression and then he didn't know the name of the alt that I've been playing on recently but it doesn't matter because he said it hasn't dropped on any of the times I wasn't there.

I think it did once while Starfun wasn't there, but hey I don't pay attention to things like that so who knows.

[Krye]

That might have been before I started coming along, he mentioned that somebody else got it before

[Norellicus]

I don't want to pay for something to expect disappointment from it. That just seems... counter-productive.

I certainly hope I wouldn't pay top dollar for a car expecting it to explode on a daily basis.

Shitty droprates can exist in a F2P MMO - they have to give you incentives to (read: force you to) check out the pay item shops. For a game with a monthly payment that frequently updates content, however, the droprates can be a bit more forgiving.

Well, saying "expect disappointment" is kind of a misnomer. I simply expect nothing at all, I guess would be more accurate; the (timely) acquisition of loot just isn't important to me. I take pleasure from the teamwork and the feeling of accomplishment (even when you've done it a hundred times, doing it faster or with less effort or whatever is also fun to observe and experience).

[Tricen]

Finally got my shaman unlocked from it being suspect for something, I dunno. Fucking 1hour+ phone waits =_=. Time to start raidin with it

[Lucavi]

Well, saying "expect disappointment" is kind of a misnomer. I simply expect nothing at all, I guess would be more accurate; the (timely) acquisition of loot just isn't important to me. I take pleasure from the teamwork and the feeling of accomplishment (even when you've done it a hundred times, doing it faster or with less effort or whatever is also fun to observe and experience).

That's all good and well, but I'm falling behind my guildmates, and I'm in a pretty competitive guild where we all love to rib on one another over the meters and whatnot. The fact that my gear has remained stagnant for some 3-4 weeks is starting to get to me, especially when others are starting to stretch into more and more heroic items.

I've always taken my fun from a combination of the lore of a game and the act of gaining strength in a game. Its why I really only focused on maxing out Drg in FFXI and its why I rarely focus on my alts now that I'm in a serious raiding guild. If I'm not getting better in some way constantly (be it through a new rotation, an upgrade in my spec, through knowledge of unfamiliar fights or through gear itself) I'm not happy.

[Gulkeeva]

Its not too bad, at least you got something to look forward too! For my guild since almost everyone has their full bis.. not really much "effort" is to showup after tuesday clearing of icc because... well humping lich king for 4 hours a day for 4 days apparently isn't fun for people (that and its hard fight as is ) ;/

[Tricen]

How can the fight still be that hard with all the information out on it. <_>

[Norellicus]

Heroic.

Shadow traps make it craaaaazy.

[Melena]

I've been using Last Laugh since pre-ulduar.

Why? Nothing else has dropped for me.

The only thing I've seen was the 232 sword in Pit of Saron and it isn't better, due to Orcs having the Axe racial.

Let's see..

0/4 XT hardmode
0/6+ Thorim hardmode 10man
0/15+ Anub'arak 10man (normal and hardmode)
0/10 Marrowgar 10 (normal/H)
0/6 Putricide 10 (normal/H)
0/9 Putricide 25 (yeah it sucks but I would wear it over LL)
0/3 LK 10

Good times.

I'll hide the fact that my alt prot warrior got the XT Hardmode mace on it's one run through Ulduar (which only happened cause a main tank dc'd and didn't come back).

[Tricen]

I can't find info on shadow traps, all I know is that you move them away from raid and don't touch them. Is that basically it? So it makes defile a little bit more difficult to position?

[Norellicus]

They're moderately sized, don't dissipate for a significant enough length of time that you have multiple of them on the ground at once and may need to move the raid around, and anyone caught is instantly dead.

I'm not clear if they're cast during p2/3 or not, even if they're not the phases are still scary because valks have 3x more health (though you only have to dps to 50% to save the people being carried, so that's effectively 1.5x normal I suppose) and defile expands crazyfast.

[[Cookies]]

Shadow traps blow anyone who stands in them off the platform (you also take anyone close to you with you so they're effectively an instant wipe, as are any other mistakes during the encounter). You can't move them away from the raid as they are instant unlike defile so the raid itself has to move and reposition around them while staying close enough to Shambling Horrors for necrotic plague and of course in range of the Lich King. Once they're cast you have a little while to move away from where the shadow trap is going to spawn they're really not that hard. Traps are only cast in phase 1.

What's hard about the fight is any mistake will wipe the raid and it is a pretty long fight. You can't even afford any deaths because of the tight enrage timer.

[Tricen]

So heroic LK is pretty much RNG Fight, fight?

[Slott]

So heroic LK is pretty much RNG Fight, fight?

Not really, its RNG in who gets targetted by valks or defiles I suppose, but other than that...not really?

It's just a bitch of a fight that requires instant reaction. One misplaced defile = raid gone.

[Gulkeeva]

Its massive healing/dps requirment fight.

as for shadow traps its like.. a slow moving black.. orbish.. thing that flys from Lk-> to target player (anyone) and sets a decent size void zone, anyone in it gets blown away about 200-300y (its an small aoe so it takes everyone near it also with them)

I posted a video of it in video thread before

its a great/fun "ok wipe it" mechanic!

Phase 2 is pretty much the hardest (or considered to be) because of infest (hits entire raid for like 15Kish? and deals a dot that starts at like 4K ticks and in 9 seconds is ticking for 10K+ on whoever its on still)

valks have like 250-280K hp each X3 (can pickup healers), they need to go to like 120-140K hp before they "stop", during this time infest can go out.. and then you also can have defile so healers need to move.. during infest.. while you might have 3 picked up, while LK hits the MT for like 40K's +extra damage whenever he gets his damage boost buff (Soul reaper) which gives LK 100% haste.. hitting the MT for 100K's, while other guy is taking 60K shadow damage.. while infest.. while valks are up + defile...

and there ya have it, clusterfuckomgwtf

oh and those raging spirits don't mess around, they can hit for 60K-100K+ apparently with some buff (maybe some form of enrage on them dunno)