Good Golly Gosh, is Thorim a wacky fight.

Excellent.
Wednesday night, we head into Ulduar (with me along- yay!) and get down the first six bosses without much effort at all. I am pleased. I mean, for how much we have tarded out in the first couple weeks of this raid, I'm glad we finally are doing well.

Last night, we head in again. Get crazy cat lady (I can never remember her actual name) down in one shot, which I am REALLY pleased by, since that one Saturday two weeks ago we spent all of our raid time doing NOTHING but attempting to just get the pull right.

After that, we headed to Thorim. Golly Governor, is this fight a bitch. We tried it a few times last week after we first killed CCL late Thursday night, but due to crap attendance (AGAIN) we didn't go in on Friday or Saturday. So we got to Thorim at a decent hour this week.

So not only did I get to raid last night, but the other shadow priest in the guild (There's only two of us D: ) was finally finished with schoolwork and stuff so he was able to come along too.

Last night, the officers announced we have one new officer specifically for the healers, which is excellent because our GL is also our MT, three others are melee DPS (enh. shaman, rogue, DK,) two are tanks (paladin and DK,) and our last tank is on a bit of a WoW break since he and his wife just had their first baby (wow, we have a lot of officers. Is that normal?) Our second-in-command, and fiancee to our GL/MT, has a level 80 disc priest for PvP, but mains an enhancement shaman, and occasionally swaps specs and heals when needed. Now, I love her to death, but she can be a bit retarded at healing assignments. For example: putting holydins on raid heals, or just throwing me and the other spriest in with the group with other healers and then when DPS assignments come, forgetting to put us on anything cause we're in with the other holy and disc priests. And she seems to think that- even though she is a shaman healer for our raids- all healers can fade or PW:S themselves. So I am greatly pleased to see that our English professor by day resto shaman by night is now in charge of healers.

Anyway, the point of explaining all that was just to say that after all that, the other shadow priest and I declared ourselves co-presidents of all shadow priests in the guild.

The Thorim fight- which was supposed to be the main focus of this entry- was delicious for me and my shadow buddy. We were assigned to AOE on the little guys, while the other DPSers there were on the big elites. After the first couple tries, in which healers were tarded and stood next to the whirlwinders, My shadow buddy started to mind control the Warbringer adds. These give an aura that increases casting speed, which ended up being just plain silly fast. Like, constant bloodlust. Between him doing that, and my mind sear completely smashing everything, the arena held off really well in about 80% of our attempts. There were, of course, occasional problems, where a healer died, or a tank's taunt missed or he screwed up. But for the most part, it was tunnel that was taking their sweet ol' time in getting to Thorim. There's only so much we can handle before healers run out of mana, raid damage starts to build up, and more and more adds come in.

What I'd like to see is us with another shadow priest T_T If shadow buddy can Mind Control a warbringer for the haste buff, and then I could mind control a evoker to put up heals and that super bubble of theirs, and the other priest can mind sear.
Well, we might not even need another shadow. It could be a holy to MC, since they'd be using the mob's heals, which I've heard are really strong.
And who am I kidding anyway, I was in top 3 DPS on every attempt (even the ones where shadow buddy was mind searing too,) they need me on mind sear xD Save my mind controls for Razuvious (I love that fight.)

Some posts about SPriests in Thorim's Arena:
http://shadowpriest.com/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=21336
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=8864926726&sid=16



Also, that freakin PUG mage that stole my Gothik's Cowl at Naxx last week is a potential new recruit for our guild. Not sure how I feel about this.

getting there....

Guild is slowly regaining competence at difficult boss fights. Got Razorscale down Wednesday night, and got Deconstructor tonight. Had some really good attempts at Ignis, but had to stop attempts on him because we just didn't have enough tanks for the adds.
So we moved on to Kologarn, but by then it was late, and people were already pretty spent from the other fights. But this fight seems like it will be much easier than the other ones we've done so far. We got two good tries in before we had to call it for the night.

I freakin' hope we can drop Kologarn tomorrow night. LOOK WHAT HE DROPS- Robes of the Umbral Brute!! Those are the most beautiful freakin robes. They look AWESOME. Not that you'd ever see the detail if I wore them. They'd look all purple and see-through just like every other dress I wear.

Oh! I almost forgot to say something! I GOT MY TIER 8.5 PANTS OFFA THE NEW VoA BOSS :D Our other guild shadow priest wasn't there, so they pretty much got defaulted to me. Not that it would have mattered, I rolled a freakin 94. I NEVER roll that good on ANYTHING that counts. Hope I can pull a roll like that out again if/when those robes drop from Kolgarn.

Updates from Ulduar

FINALLY got Razorscale down. And we got through the Deconstructor's stupid lame-o trash.

About to take our first attempt on Deconstructor.


and 1.5 hrs later- got him down to around 15% three times. we'd best get him down tomorrow.

ugh

Our guild is tarding out in Ulduar.
We tried to go in Tuesday night, but no one had their addons they were used to, and 80% of the raid had latency up around 2k.

We came back Wednesday night, tore through the siege engine part and got Flame Leviathan down. This seemed to give us a false sense of security. Because when we went onto the Deconstructor, we failed horribly. People didn't attack the adds during the adds phase, they didn't run out of the group when they got gravity or light bomb.... we wiped maybe 10 times. We gave up and tried Razorscale instead.
Razorscale was just stupid. People standing in the flames was the hugest problem. We'd be 30 seconds into the fight and 5 people would be dead. I couldn't even DPS cause I throwing bubbles up on people to try to give them more time to move out of the fire. We gave up for the night, figuring we'd do better the next night when we were fresh to the fight and didn't already have nearly a dozen wipes fresh in our minds.

Thursday night, I was a bit pissy. I left anime club early so that I could help out on raiding. Only to find out that I didn't get invited. Who got a DPS spot instead? A DK that had gotten the Armageddon out of Naxx a few months back, started having "internet problems" that miraculously cleared up a week before Ulduar came out. SHE got invited along rather than me or either of our two DPS warriors, when the officers have been saying since news of 3.1 and Ulduar came out that invites to Ulduar will be based upon attendance to Maly, Naxx and Sarth.
But my disappointment didn't last long when I saw that they were trying that new boss in VoA.... for like an hour and a half. It was nearly 9:30 and they were STILL in VoA. It was a typical thing of ours, to go hit up VoA before Naxx and get the quick badges, and some gear for someone. BUT THEY WERE IN THERE FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF.
I eventually get a whisper from our guild second-in-command, asking if I wanna come to the raid. I hesitantly say yes. I get to VoA, and we try that new boss in there. We wipe after less than a minute. WTF is goign on?! Why are we sucking so bad?
At that point, we were about to lose Wintergrasp, so we leave and go to Ulduar. Same problems that night as the previous night. We kept losing the SAME people over and over. Like, really? is it THAT HARD to notice your character is in the fire? And DON'T tell me your computer can't handle having the graphics up enough to see the fire. If MY computer can handle it, ANY computer can. And my computer is held together with STRING AND ELECTRICAL TAPE.


Friday and Saturday? Didn't have enough DPS. Had to cancel raid.

RAAAAAGE

Good lord, I hope this week is better.

ULDUAR!

First impressions of Ulduar. Too tired to make actual thoughts go.

Well, this is laggy. We'll come back Wednesday night to do it.
Helloooo Ulduar!
This is kinda cool, we're in TANKS!
Yeah, first boss down! That was pretty easy. Maybe this won't be too bad.
Ouch!
OH GOD.
MY SPLEEN
WHERE'S MY DPS? Oh, right, I can't do any cause I'M DEAD
GET AWAY FROM ME YOU HAVE THE LIGHT BOMB
CRAP GET THE ADS!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Ok, see you again tomorrow night, Ulduar.