The newest members of the alliance team made their first major foray since they arrived around the same time of the great cataclysm. Two members of the new race of worgen (level 13 priest Maiy and level 16 druid Sista) were joined by level 14 paladin dwarf Kiren. The plan was to rock the pvp world for a couple of hours. But there was already a problem. Sista spent a lot of time out picking flowers and working on her skinning skills and failed to remember that the new pvp brackets were only five levels each: 10-14 and 15-19. Sista was too old for the 10-14 bracket that Kiren and Maiy qualified for. Sista apologized for the screw up and offered a solution. Her sister Rakta, a hunter, was level 13. Rakta was pretty bored at Booty Bay, where all she did was work the alliance half of the neutral auction house business. She was anxious to see some real action. Chaitee even let her borrow her heirloom bow.
The three hooked up and joined in their first battle together against the Horde in Warsong Gulch. That first battle was a great victory for the alliance as we swept the horde 3-0. Rakta surprised herself with 8 killing blows, third best on the alliance team of ten, and almost beat out Kiren in total damage (7695, #1), coming in second (7645). A very auspicious start for the new team. Maiy led all alliance healers and did a fantastic job keeping both Kiren and Rakta alive.
We then moved on to Arathi Basin. Rakta tried to get a picture of the threesome, but she is not much good with a camera. She captured herself and Kiren, but all she got of Maiy was the tip of her staff. Sorry about that, said Rakta.
None of us were sorry about the results of the match, though, as we powered our way through the horde and took the victory. Kiren totally embarrassed the horde, stomping them with an awesome 10,289 damage (#1) while Maiy again led in healing. Rakta? Well, she contributed in 65 honorable kills, good for third best among the alliance.
Back to Warsong Gulch, Kiren accomplished another milestone by winning the Ironman achievement when he captured and capped all three flags in another 3-0 victory! There were 95 killing blows for the alliance. The team of Kiren, Maiy and Rakta accounted for 23 of them while one other unbelievable hunter got 52 KBs all by himself. The remaining six players contributed the other 20 KBs.
There was a third WSG, but who wants to end on a down note. The new team was 2-1 in WSG battles and 1-0 in AB for a 3-1 record overall.
The focus then shifted to random dungeons. Rakta reluctantly retired for the evening. She had gotten close to level 14 and may get some time to reach that level. She did make a trip to Stormwind to find the hunter trainer, but that is another story.
The big story was the assault on Ragefire Chasm. Maiy had also retired for the evening, so the team was Kiren, Sista, and three more from the dungeon finder. The level 15-16 dungeon has four bosses and is basically the starter dungeon for horde since it is located within the city walls of Orgrimmar. With the dungeon finder, though, the team of five alliance was teleported directly into RFC.
We got off to a rough start. Even though Sista was a druid, she was specced for feral and had signed up as a DPS melee (cat form). The hunter in our group was the highest level at 17 and thought he could tank as well as DPS. The hunter kept pulling targets, ignoring Kiren's marks and the assignments he made as the tank. We muddled through some of the trash mobs without any deaths, but it was clear something was wrong - even more wrong than the overly aggressive hunter. No one was healing except Kiren, who was trying to both tank and keep himself alive without any help.
Kiren asked if Sista would heal, and she gave it her best shot. Sista was able to keep Kiren alive, but every fight would drain her mana down to almost zero. At that pace, with constant pausing to drink to restore mana, we'd be there all night. The supposed healer was not answering our questions and we booted him. The new healer we got a short time later was good and once we engaged again things moved pretty fast.
As many times as Wild, Happy, and others have been in RFC, you'd think we'd know how to find all the bosses. We killed Taragamen, then hunted around to find Jergosh and Bazzalan, but we forgot about Ogglefint, who hides in a dark room at the end of a dead end passage. Not a big deal, though, as we got credit for completing the dungeon anyway and Oggleflint doesn't even drop any loot. Kiren and Sista led in dealing damage, and no one was ever remotely close to dying. We could probably three man it, although it would take longer.
Kiren asked if the group wanted to run another dungeon. One player left, but the rest stayed and we added a fifth. As expected, we were sent to the Deadmines next. The Deadmines is a level 15-16 dungeon that is the defacto starter dungeon for the alliance. Pre-Cata this dungeon could also be done by horde as it was protected only by low level mobs that could be killed or avoided. Post-Cata there is now a level 85 heroic version of the Deadmines, and the area is protected by heavy duty alliance elites that will keep most horde away from the Deadmines except through the dungeon finder.
There are five bosses in the Deadmines. I've done Deadmines a few times, but it had been awhile. It seemed to me that there are fewer mobs now, and again we had little problem pushing through the instance. The bosses required some time to kill, and some of the mechanics have changed (for the better, I think), but were not difficult. Again, we could probably three man it. It was pretty fun to do as well. If I recall I believe that there are four quests that you get in the Deadmines. We picked up the first one at the entrance and then were given new ones as we killed each boss. I think Kiren broke his quest chain after the first boss and didn't get any of those quests.
As for loot, I saw a LOT of weapons drop. Maybe that's because Sista has an heirloom dagger and no need of another weapon, so it bugged her every time one dropped. Sista also had a blue cape she'd won in a quest, and ended the evening with three more blue capes, only one of which she rolled on. She now has a healing and a feral cape, which is good, and vendored the other two. I think Kiren had better luck with his gear, though. Kiren and Sista finished #1 and #2 in damage again. Kiren reached level 17 and Sista level 18.
I thought it would be nice to record the damage data for our first two dungeons. Overall, Kiren led with 50.7 DPS and 39.4% of all damage. Sista was 2nd with 39.5 DPS and 23.4%.
Sista's Damage breakdown (the percentage is the percent of damage done by that ability, the (#) is the count of the times that ability was used):
Melee - 43.3% (1045)
Rake (DoT) - 18.5% (178)
Ferocious Bite - 17.1% (111)
Claw - 11.1% (182)
Sista's basic attack rotation was Claw - Rake - Ferocious bite (which is a finishing move); melee was automatically used in between while waiting on cooldowns.
Kiren's damage breakdown:
Avenging Shield - 29.9% (210)
Melee - 28% (615)
Crusader Strike - 20% (389)
Judgement of Righteousness - 9.8% (175)
Seal of Righteousness - 8.1% (856)
Thorns - 4.3% (104)
Thorns was interesting, since that is cast on the tank by a druid (usually the healer). That's pretty good damage for a spell that only lasts 15 seconds, has to be re-applied, and has a fairly high mana cost.
No comments:
Post a Comment