Yes dear. Would you like a back rub while you play?Originally Posted by Sacrifyse
(A wife who plays wow is a double edged sword)
Yes dear. Would you like a back rub while you play?
(A wife who plays wow is a double edged sword)
That sucks.Your Wife?!?! How???????????
My wife hates WoW with a passion! I've tried so many times to get her to play...
The main reason we play wow together is there were times in the last few years we were living paycheck to paycheck. 30 dollars a month for pretty much all of our entertainment was a hell of a good way to save money. Cable television? What for, we play wow. Goto the bar and drop 100 bucks for a single night? What for, we play wow. Goto the movie for 40 bucks? What for, we play wow.
Obviously things have changed....as we now pay 90 bucks a month for 6 accounts and are seriously considering adding 4. But since we still don't watch television, and we still dont like paying 100 bucks to goto the bar, and the movie theatre is uncomfortable anyway....it's still cheaper than most of that anyway.
Hit her with that angle
I love hearing that excitement in your post!
lol - I remember doing this a few times.
My second team just hit 80 and I'm feeling the drag. Its prolly just me but I feel like the way they have gear setup is just giving me the blahs. I'm thinking I'll take a break for awhile and try to capture that excitement again after another patch.
Can't wait for cataclysm.
I can remember a few times thinking to myself "Is this thing on normal?". Then scrolling back and checking that I did indeed loot badges. Good times.
Guilds: Spirit of St Louis/Saint Louis
US- Trollbane/Zuljin Horde and Alliance
lol - yeah, I can do HGrundrak now in 30mins - the mobs blow up so quickly I have to check to see if I'm on normal. I went to H halls of stone and got a wake up call though, the mobs there hit really hard - ouch. Finally did HUP a couple of nights ago - got a real sense of achievement as that place was always a killer for me and I'd been avoiding it, but 3 magma totems and chain lightning sorted out the gauntlet nicely. I might start farming it for the sword.
What really helped early on was food/flasks/potions with +stam +hit +spell +haste +crit whatever etc - they really made the difference, expensive but if you shop around you can get some bargains. I keyed up health pots on key number 5 and would tap that to save mana/time/dps for a LHW. What's nice now is the new insciption recipe that gives you a massive stam buff, combine that with some pots and it's a massive increase. Also the first bits of gear I went for was in WG, really nice +hit items with loads of +stam. More stam = less healing = more dps. My shammies run with 20+k stam now and can stand in poison and yawn.
Last edited by Simulacra : 10-04-2009 at 12:18 AM
I tried H Gundrak 3 times last night, and got my butt stomped, hard - the snake boss and Moorabi 3-4 shotted my pally each time, and the snake packs do too much damage to the pally, too - dps is averaging 1200-1400 on everyone but the pally and the priest. I had'nt planned on going in, but I'm finishing up quests there for loremaster, what the heck.
Gah. Whack whack whack whack. Dead.
So, I had another "doh" moment, and realized my defense rating is still way too low, so I went broke gemming and enchanting her, and still only got to 532 - a couple of days of dailies and normal instance runs should get me the last couple of epic gems to get that 535, then I'll try again. Oh, and I need revered Argent Crusade for the head enchant, so it's a while of Slave to Saronite and Pa'troll to get it (I'm finished with all of the quests but two in Icecrown, if you can believe that - the phasing for all 5 is really messed up somehow, and they can't see each other in the area where the quests are)
The only option after this is to PUG/PVP the pally, which I'm not looking forward to, I really want to avoid that.
You should do ok with 532 defense. Make sure you have every passive defense ability up. Sacred shield before fight, keep up holy shield and spam that flash heal. On Moorabi, if you can't interupt his transform then be ready for large group heals, like a mini Loken. Once you have 535 defense you can try the first 2 bosses in HoL or do trollgore ( skip novas and king dred) and take out thoranja in dtk.
Guilds: Spirit of St Louis/Saint Louis
US- Trollbane/Zuljin Horde and Alliance
Poked my head into H-Gundrak last night; was my team’s first heroic encounter as well.
/shrug – snake boss went down toot sweet, every one but Pally got the achievement. Moorabi got smoked too; couldn’t coordinate stopping him from transforming so we missed the achievement; he hits pretty hard but nothing that my Shaman couldn’t handle.
Gave the Elemental a shot, but wiped; I need to work on movement for this fight.
For gearing up I strongly suggest spending time in ToC normal; my Paladin sports just over 28k hp now unbuffed.
She is sitting right on the Crit Immune threshold; the two piece set of Deadly Gladiator gear with 50 resilience bonus helped get her over the tipping point.
The balance of the team is between 12-1500 spell power; my Resto Shaman gets priority on the drops.
I still lack the tanking belt and gloves from ToC normal; Paletres has not been kind to me nor has the BK; we keep getting the same drops.
When I look at the amount of healing done, I am amazed at how much my Shadow Priest adds; she is like having a druid tossing HoT’s on my Tank all throughout the fight, and allows my Shaman to focus on the Tank as the other members get a continual feed of HP through both the Spriest and the Shaman totem. For me personally I plan to continue working on dailies for gold; I don’t want to PuG for gear since the whole reason I started this m-box gig was to see if I could do it.
With my entry into Heroics over the weekend, I know this is possible; it will just take time and patience.
8/7/09 Level 1 – Pally (Tank); Priest (Shadow); Shaman (Resto); Mage (Frost); Druid (Balance)
8/19/09 Level 62 – Pally (Tank); Priest (Shadow); Shaman (Resto); Mage (Frost); Druid (Balance)
8/29/09 Level 68 – Pally (Tank); Priest (Shadow); Shaman (Resto); DK (Blood); Druid (Balance)
9/5/09 Level 72 – Pally (Tank); Priest (Shadow); Shaman (Resto); DK (Blood); Druid (Balance)
9/19/09 Level 80 – Pally (Tank); Priest (Shadow); Shaman (Resto); Hunter (BM)); Druid (Balance)
Our toons had okay gear by the time we tried our first heroic, simply because we ran instances all the way to 80th and did very little questing. And the whole time I was keeping in mind my 535 defense goal. So we would farm an instance for a certain piece of defense gear until it dropped.
We wiped 3 times on the snake boss before we figured him out. Since then we've done him 3 more times with minimal difficulty. The drakkari colossus was our frustration point in Gundrak. We wiped 5 times on him our first try. Last night was our first time downing him without at least one death. Oddly enough, the final boss we have 1 shotted every time even the first. He's the easiest boss in Gundrak from our perspective. I really think the key for us was having at least CLOSE to 535 defense for heroics on our tank. And of course having a dedicated healer helps immensely
In our first couple days of running heroics, we killed several bosses with only the paladin standing (yay bubble and lay on hands). Every heroic run has made every encounter that much easier. In one weekend of nonstop playing (cuz we couldn't stop) .. we've managed to go from 23k hit points buffed on our paladin tank, to 31k hit points buffed. He's a jewelcrafter so was able to throw a couple 51 stamina gems in sockets. (Beamer on Runetotem if you want to see where we're at comparison wise). And I can tell you what quests and stuff we did on the side to get a defense item here and there. If a green "of the champion" piece of gear dropped that had more defense than what I had equipped, even if it had 2x the stamina and was blue gear, I equipped it.
I could see that happening easily on a 2nd group. We started our 2nd group of dps. We included a druid simply because we're tired of seeing all the leather drops. We've now run entire heroics and gotten nothing but leather drops. We have an 80 paladin tank and 80 priest on hold (our prior mains before we started 5 boxing) to group up as a paladin/priest/warlock/druid/shaman team.
Then we might move team 2 to new accounts and try 10 boxing naxxramas.... and hopefully that'll recapture the excitement of accomplishing something new for us.
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