Monday (20 Sep) - Bruiserbabe Fun

Monday (20 Sep) - Bruiserbabe Fun

It was after 7pm when Wild logged in, and the Mf raid was already in progress. They were in BWD, not Firelands. Wild also noted who was NOT in that raid, which included many of Lady Hunter's more or less regulars. Although few had signed up for her raid, it appeared there would be a good core of raiders available for Tuesday night. Wild signed up.

BB got in some battlegrounds work as well. The random BG finder was a little quirky and twice BB had to log out and log back in to clear the Finder so it would let BB queue. BB got to see a lot of different BGs, starting with Arathi Basin and moving through Eye of the Storm, Warsong gulch, and then Eye of the Storm again. BB's alliance team lost three of the four matches and they weren't really that close. BB isn't very good at one on one pvp and she had her clock cleaned over and over. She did better harrassing the healers, and staying in the faces of a priest and a druid in the final Eye match helped alliance win that one match. BB has just over 1800 honor now and is 64% of the way to level 64.

Tuesday - Nerf Day

There was a long maintenance period on Tuesday (3am - 11am), but nothing that required resetting the TOA or re-checking the "Allow Expired Addons" in the addons. It will be interesting to see if our raid group can even tell that the Boss encounters have been nerfed or not. However, per the notes on wowhead the following has changed:

Firelands: Shannox, Beth'tilac, Lord Rhyolith - health and damage reduced by 15%; Other bosses - health and damage reduced by 25%. All of the trash mobs/adds are nerfed by about the same amount and things will tend to do less damage and move slower than before.

The three new five man dungeons coming in Patch 4.3 has been fully unveiled. They are called Endtime, Well of Eternity, and Hour of Twilight. The three dungeons will be required to move into the eventual 10/25 man raid, simialr to how Lich King worked, I suspect. Instead of the Lich King, we'll be chasing Deathwing. Here is the summary of the three dungeons:

The first instance is called "Endtime" and it sends players into the future to see what Deathwing's victory means. "And so you go into this grim vision of the future," says Chilton, "and essentially demonstrate to Nozdormu that this is what's going to happen if you don't send us back to the Well of Eternity after the Demon Soul to be able to have a chance against Deathwing."

The second instance is called "Well of Eternity," where players go back in time to see Thrall grab an item called the Demon Soul in order to use it against Deathwing himself. "You [will] fight bosses like Azshara and Mannoroth." (Source: Eurogamer)

The third and final instance is called "Hour of Twilight," where players escort Thrall to Wyrmrest Temple and the battle begins. "So at that point, you get to Wyrmrest Temple, and that's where the raid essentially starts. You take on six different bosses, they're all Deathwing's minions, and eventually, you take on Deathwing himself."

From there, the battle changes drastically--to a format World of Warcraft has never since seen. Players chase Deathwing across the world and end up landing on his back.

Sounds like fun!

Tuesday Night - So much for raiding Firelands after the nerf. Mf's second day raid stayed in BWD. Lady Hunter's first day raid never got off the ground. At least we knew relatively early that several raiders were going to be out. We had four raiders, and called it off at 6:45pm, just 15 minutes after the raid start time. We "think" Lady Tala will have enough raiders to run on Wednesday night. We'll see.