Break For Now

I am taking a break in playing my warrior which explains why I haven't been posting. AC has stopped raiding as you guys are all aware now and without raiding I just see no point of playing WOW. I don't know at this point if I will come back to play my warrior when Wrath hits.

In the meantime, I have been raiding casually with my Shadow Priest on a different guild and it has been so much fun. It is so different from tanking.

I am also looking forward in trying Warhammer Online. So I might just take a break from WOW itself and go play Warhammer.

Wednesday BT Night

After last week's Black Temple visit, AC was feeling good and rolling. Wednesday night was no different. Nanjen'tus went down in 1 shot. Everything went smoothly and everybody was working together. Spines was being taken care of and people were communicating. I felt that we were at our best that night.

Since we had time, we went ahead and took several serious tries against Supremus. We did very well and got him down to 14% at one point. His end is very near. I think I am going to go as full protection on our next BT run. The nature of the fight calls for movements and it is possible that the MT will go down. I need to be ready to pick him up in case that happens.

4/5 Mt Hyajl

Az went down in 1 shot. I won the t6 token.

Edit: 4/5 Mt Hyjal. It was late and I was just so happy I didn't even notice it is 4/5 and not 5/6.

AC = Black Temple Raiding Guild

AC went back to Black Temple tonight and killed our 1st boss. High Warlord Nan'jentus dropped on our 4th try. He dropped the Eternium Shell Bracers which was picked up by our MT.

We then proceeded to Supremus' room to take a peek at him since we had time. We haven't really been there so it took a little time learning the trash pulls. It was a learning experience indeed and hopefully next time we should not have a problem.

Here is a screenshot of the big demon himself. We tried him 1 time just to see what the fight has to offer without any expectations. I was assigned to take hateful strikes, and boy they do hurt. It is doing at least 10k each time it hits me.

I went into tonight's raid with my same Mt Hyjal raid spec of 33/0/28. I wonder how much difference would the hateful strike be in my 8/5/48 protection spec.

I am considering going back to protection on our next BT visit. But since we really do not have 2 regular raiding rogue, my MS build helps on fights like Anetheron and Nan'jentus. DPS wise, I am helping and buffing the whole raid's physical damage up by 4%. I am doing around 200 more dps compared to when I dual wield devastate spam.

Another thing that I need to mention is that I really do not have any good weapons for dual wielding. I haven't been lucky. Do you believe that I haven't seen the Decapitator drop ever in my whole time in Kara? That is how unlucky I am when it comes to one hand dps weapon.

Hybrid?!

I finally took the plunge and changed my spec. I tried and stayed 33/0/28 for our 2 nights in Mt Hyjal. I went deep in the arms tree to get MS and Blood Frenzy but also took some essential points in the protection tree.

This spec is purely for off-tanking and providing some dps and utility to the raid. With my gear level, tanking trash is not a problem. Looking at my tps, I am generating 600-700 which is low compared to my protection spec tps. But since we bring a bunch of tanks my target is usually the 2nd or 3rd amongs the kill order so threat wasn't be an issue. The priest who was healing me whispered me and told me that he didn't have any issues healing me on this spec which is always a good sign.

When it comes to dps, it really increased. I was able to do 600+ on the 1st boss and 800+ on the 2nd boss but I had WF so that might have bumped it up alittle bit.

All in all, I think the spec worked and I would be staying that way all of Mt Hyjal and possibly all of Black Temple too.

Kaz'rogal Down

After last night's painful wipes on Anetheron, AC went in to one-shot him with almost everyone in the raid alive tonight. AC then proceeded to one-shot Kaz'rogal with no problems. It has been long overdue but tonight's raid was one good one after couple of weeks of wiping.

No notable drops as far as tanking gear goes but hopefully next week will be better! I am due for a big upgrade on my shield. I need it badly.

Mt. Hyjal

I hate to say this but it just seems we are stuck with the 2nd boss of Mt. Hyjal Anetheron. We can blast through the 1st boss with no problem but the closest we have been with the 2nd boss was a 1% wipe on our 1st ever try. We haven't come close in any of our succeeding tries. People are either getting killed by infernal drops or the infernal tank is biting the dust.

It has been frustrating. We haven't really seen alot of progression in the past couple of weeks. BUT I know as a guild we can pull through. We have to continue to work together and since we have alot of new members, continue to gear them up and get them more experience.