Karrock

Just a reminder Thursday is my last raid day. It has been a blast and I definitely benefited from having met all of you. I'm not sure what I want to do with my account-maybe just put it on hold til cat comes out Just wanted to say good luck and thanks. K

A useful piece of info from this is that when Arthas is close to phase transition, we can just focus dps on him rather than trying to kill valks. K

GJ on Sind. LK: I saw a lot of people standing in the P3 cloud...not sure if everyone understands this mechanic...additional clarification may help. As for the Valk's, it looks like we are having a similar problem as the spikes during the marrowgar fight-people aren't switching fast enough or melee has to run too far to get to the group. If we treat this phase like Marrowgar spikes, it may help our positioning. Any way we can introduce a "spread and collapse" technique to deal with the clouds and valk's? But I guess that is the overall theme to this instance-pieces of the early boss/trash abilities to be used as "practice" for aspects of future boss fights. Although moving out of bad ###### is nothing new....and neither is the majority of the raid dying to it. K

Hey guys- It looks like it is time for me to say goodbye to WoW for an indefinite period of time. I will absolutely not leave you guys immediately, unless you want me to that is , and can hang around and raid until the end of June. Hopefully by then you can find a suitable replacement-and I'd be happy to sit out any raid in between for the tryout period, if needed. K

Cough cough Eigun "That item with agility, attack power and critical strike rating is for my tanking set...." Which I think is fair because Zu charged him dkp for loot out of naxx last week... K

I updated the calender Wednesday, accepting the invitations for raids starting the first full week of April. If that wasn't clear enough, I am stating here that I will be back raiding starting the first full week in April. But maybe I didn't. I can't remember ###### nowadays. I guess it could be worse, I could "D/C" right before the last attempt of the night every week. K

Yours will be truely big shoes to fill. We'll need to palce an ad on the forums that is something like this. WTB- Huntard with sub-standard DPS, Feigns Death at the first sign of trouble, complains alot, and does not play well with others. p.s. please provide us with the names of at least 8 players that have you on ignore. Sorry douche...just couldn't resist. Epic. Well done Elrikk. I don't know how we will go on without his witty humor and off hand remarks. 2-shay....I am crying on the inside... I would provide the list of 8, but since the first 7 are kadi why bother? K

Hey douches- I am going to take a few weeks off of raiding-just need to take a break at this point and see how it goes...which is a bit better than where I was at Thursday with a complete resignation from the run. Time to think and all that I guess... Not saying this is a permanent vacation, but in the same breath I cannot guarantee my return. Do what you need to do including replacing me permanently; I do not expect you to hold my spot. I will be on here and there and could pop on if you guys are in a tight spot. Just let Eigun know and he can get in touch with me. Good luck. K

And if I can add a tip for the ranged folks.... After each slime is dead, position yourself ready to start dpsing the next slime immediately when it spawns. They just need to die faster, no two ways around it. K

Hey guys- Gonna be traveling Thursday so I am not going to make it-I will update the calendar tonight. K

Hey guys- Don't buy the arrow pattern until you guys talk to me tonight... K

Oh my god I cannot believe how wrong I was. We are full of fail. And I will fix my mic as soon as you people stop being douchebags. K

RE: Sitting folks I'm not sure if this is already done, but I would suggest waiting to sit folks until right before the raid. This will all but prevent folks from planning other activities in advance. The new rotface strat looked good-I would be surprised if we don't down him in the next couple attempts...barring any lag issues, naturally. K

A couple rumors about Rotface: The slime spray he does is in a random direction, not on a random player. The sooner the mutilated injection is dispelled, the sooner the next one is applied. He doesn't hit hard so it is recommended to have 1 healer on MT and the rest OT/raid. I am not sure what is true/false, but I just wanted to put it out there for thought. It would also help if the warlock pads were put on the same side of rotface just 10 or so yards apart (e.g. one behind each leg). Obviously it depends alot on positioning the boss after the slime explosions-which seems to be a pita. K

Looking at the run last night, our dps is full of fail. We need to have rotface killed before folks start dropping, no way around it. It is a hard fight to monkey-proof so people just have to do better.... K

It was a tankspot thread, they were talking about the OT kiting (as stated above) not stand and tanking, it was 25 man, and the OT's were druids probably for the reasons tyr said. We can try it with the shortbus (aka orcala) if we want to guarantee failure or we can try the hunter kite method again. Thinking about it some more, we can put an xtra hunter in a stationary spot outside of the inner ring, moving around the room infrequently as needed to get to the other side when the kiting hunter gets close. Hunters should also be md'ing the big blobs to the kiting hunter whenever possible to help with threat. The less turn and fire is done, the higher chance of a successful kite. K

Thanks Douche Bad storms over in the UK so I will keep an eye on travel. The trip may be postponed...if it is, most likely I will be available Tues but not Thurs. As I know more I will update here and/or the calendar. K

Quick post about last night's run. I think we did well-although I wish this wing didn't remind me of naxx so much. The Rot encounter seemed to go south when 1) people panicked and/or 2) big blob kiter died. People got the hang of the spray, just remember it is only a 1/4 turn (90 degrees) in order to avoid the spray. 1) Essentially people cannot panic when they get the debuff. They need to find the kiter and bring the small blob to the small/big blob being kited, not to the kiter himself. The key is the small blobs combining, and dont worry about being close to the big blob because the big blob should be aggro'd on the kiter. I have read that cleansing the blob saves healing/dps time as well, but premature cleansing will result in bad things-when in doubt wait a few secs. Also, do not dump aggro on the little blobs-if you fd or ice block or whatever, the blob will pick a random target and the target will not be notified the blob is on them-the notification only comes when you get the "mutilated injection". 2) They recommend tank kiting for him-mostly due to the dps loss of one of our hunters and the fact that a tank may survive more than one hit by a big blob. I was hoping there was a pattern to the ooze pools on the outside, but the only thing I could find is that it is a 4 pt rotation in which no sector is repeated (until the entire room is reset). After reset-it does not resume the same pattern and could be a different rotation. So there is an aspect of luck involved. To mitigate the risk, a strat we can try is having a hunter ready to distracting shot the big blob across the room when the kiter is pinned. This will require TS communication-there is too much going on for raid chat to be effective. My experience with this seems to have me needing a small window (3 sec "reprieve") in order to have the kiting back on track. Thoughts? K

I will be in Portugal for work early next week and will not be able to make the Tuesday run. I will update the calendar tonight. And no, they are not opening a dairy queen in europe. K

I'd have to agree with Markenfail's assessment. Foro being 100% dps in every situation gives him the edge for my vote over Tyr. Ascoli bailed on the raid for asking him to flask so I say his loyalty is in question. Foro has seniority over Maalick and is superior in that melee dps role. Foro has contributed with mats and crap and will absolutely put the time into getting the extra ###### needed. Plus Foro makes the raid all the time. K

Yay! Sent over my updated loot list. 1 trink left in TOC, the rest is ICC/badge stuff. K

@ Zu: Mother? Bah! I was forged in the fires of mount doom...to rule them all! bwahaha! K

I *HATE* when people immediately assume that we aren't raiding due to server issues. We will attempt to start in ICC, if we encounter issues then we'll try ToC. If problems persist then we'll call it. I'm not going to throw in the towel before we even try! I'm sorry, was I being too realistic for you douches? Ok, let's forget the fact that we have yet to be able to run on a patch day, and we can dismiss the fact that all of the instances are on the same server...instead we should be ultra-optimistic and get our hopes up thinking we are gonna be able to raid! yay! unicorns and rainbows for everyone! Tiz break out your pink bunnies its happy time! Look theres mickey and minnie and that goofy ######! Of course everyone will be there-its the first time we will have a totally full roster with no one volunteering to sit....cept me of course Douche Edit: bass terd? you cant say bass terd on here (spelled properly)? Lame K

Can we assume that there will be no raid tonight due to the regular server crap? Would we try to start in ICC? K

I agree about Zenita he's done really well on the damage meters despite his "######ty gear". Want me to post it next raid?? Instead of worrying about posting dps meters, worry about not sucking. K