Wild's druid healing partner in Bd's Wed/Thurs raid has mogged her outfit into quite the sexy troll with a [Wicked Leather Headband] and [Raptor Hide Harness]. She shows she means business with a mogged [Staff of the Plaguehound]. Wild needs to get crackin' on his own set, and spent part of the day setting up his own mogged gear, but still has some work to do on it.
Wild wasn't sure if we could rustle together enough raiders to make a run into Dragon Soul, and waited anxiously for the raid to fill. We had eight sign up, but that doesn't mean much. While we waited I made some small but significant adjustments to my user interface (UI). I've been using an addon called Class Timer to monitor some of Wild's buff cooldowns, but over time those reminders got buried behind other things. It hasn't mattered much with the LFR or the Twilight Heroics, but in a real ten man raid they are very important. I've been testing an alternate addon to Class Timer called Needtoknow, and I liked it enough to retire Class Timer. Wild specifically monitors his Lifebloom stacks, Harmony, and Replenishment, all of which have to be refreshed regularly in order to maximize healing throughput and, even more importantly, mana regen for the whole raid. Needtoknow provides that in a simple and easy to read way, and Wild has it positioned directly under his raid screen so that it's always at hand.
We had an afternoon movie to go to today, "Warhorse," but made it back in time for Wild to jump into the 3pm guild planned DS LFR. Well, it was Wild's intention to get into that raid, but it had already been canceled when Wild logged in.
At the 6:30pm raid start time we had a pretty good group ... however, both of our raid leaders were detained and could not make the raid. One raid leader was our main tank, and our off tank never showed. We tried until close to 7:30pm to get a raid going, but it didn't happen. Frustrated with his guild, Wild jumped into a random DS LFR to get the first four bosses done for the week. On the first boss, Morchok, Wild won the roll on the i384 [Petrified Fungal Heart]. This necklace retires an i365 necklace, and with that gone Wild's gear is all i378 or higher. Overall, Wild is now at i384 gear level. I might have gotten a second piece - the Tier 13 gloves - but we had another one of those loot glitches. The gloves token was never awarded to anyone. Someone in the raid had a theory that seemed to make sense. What he said was happening is that loot winners must stand near the slain boss until the loot is passed. Leaving the area early mucks things up. Sometimes you can go back to a boss where loot failed to be awarded, and still win it if not a lot of time had gone by. I suspect Wild won the gloves, left too soon, and then it was too late once I had a chance to slip back and check. The boss that "would" have given me the loot was Warlord Zon'ozz:
Here Lies the Murdered Warlord
Wild also got a one on one shot of the last boss of the Siege, Hagara the Stormbinder, and got his picture, too:
Here Lies the Slain Hagara
I didn't get pics of the other two as their corpses were gone when I checked on them. It was actually kind of cool wandering through the portals to all the bosses after everyone else in the raid had already left. Wish Wild had gotten those tier gloves, though.
Hunter Fortress has been on vacation for a good bit, but hopefully we will all be able to get together after the New Year.
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