Thursday (31 mar) - Maraudon and Back Again

Thursday (31 mar) - Maraudon and Back Again

Java found himself inside Maraudon twice more on Thursday. I think that makes four trips into that dungeon in the past couple of days. Since Java was practically living in there I spent the time to look it up on Wowhead to see where Java has been. I had to laugh when the description of the areas in Maraudon did not match the list of areas posted right next to that description. No wonder Wild family heads explode whenever we attempt to comprehend dungeon makeups. So, according to the description, there are three wings in Maraudon: Purple, Orange, and Inner. According to the list of wings, however, there are four: Orange, Purple, Inner, and Poison Falls. I do happen to know that Poison Falls is a special area that is the culmination of a quest chain - so I guess it's status as a "wing" is somewhat in question. Anyway, Java has killed his way through both the Purple and Inner wings, but has yet to see Orange. The luck of the random dungeon finder, I guess. Well, Java did sorta get to see Orange.

Java's latest run (Inner wing) of Maraudon was entertaining, primarily because the tank went the wrong way. These dungeon runs are fast and all most players care about it getting to the end boss. Any boss we can avoid we usually do. Well, we were supposed to be doing the Inner wing, but somehow ended up in Orange and killing the first boss there, Noxxion. Nobody could figure out how we did that, or how to find the end boss of Inner that we were after, Princess Theradras. We finally backtracked to our starting point - we even passed through Poison falls - to pick up the right path. Nobody got mad and we had a pretty good time. The tank was a pleasant fellow who commented toward the end of the run how wonderful it was that he had a DPSer who could actually out-DPS him. That was Java, who topped the DPS charts on that run.

Java has to admit his secret on getting that bump up in DPS. It was Divine Storm, the spell that Java refused to use in his first few dungeon runs because it conflicted with the cooldown on another regularly used spell, Crusader Strike. Java claims Mea Culpa on that decision even before I start getting yelled at. Divine Storm is AWESOME! Not only does it rock as an AoE spell, the spell graphics are truly cool. Plus, there is a proc in there somewhere that speeds up the cooldown when using it, trimming the dead space Java was complaining about. Java is deeply in love with Divine Storm. He's thinking about asking Chaitee to change her name to DivineStorm. Umm, maybe not.

In between dungeon runs Java quested and mined in Stranglethorn Vale. Java is now level 39.