On the launcher today, there’s a new thing about watching a trailer of the Firelands, called the “Rage of the Firelands”. This will be the official name for the patch. I assume this is indicating said patch is just around the corner. And the trailer is awesome. It features Thrall, still trying to heal the Maelstrom. He says “This world is dying”, then gets a vision of Ragarnos, destroying everything (and screens of the Firelands raid and the Molten Front). Kinda makes me wonder what I’m doing in the PTR is worth it. I guess I’ll just die trying to stop Azeroth from going up in flames. The trailer could be the thing that the bronze dragon shows you of Azeroth burning to get the staff.
News update: Patch 4.2 coming June 28th
Also, Ghostcrawler, Lead Systems Designer for WoW, made a blog post about the player nerfs in the patch tonight, explaining the reason for them. Most I didn’t care about since they had to do with Arenas, PvPing, and Raiding (and Death Knights crying that they aren’t the OP class anymore). But when he mentions the reason for slightly nerfing Multi-Shot for Hunters… “Multi-Shot was doing too much damage in PvE given how simple it was to use.” The bastards took away Volley. For them to nerf Multi-Shot would lower my chance to solo dungeons (not by much, but…).
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Back in the live servers, I was in GS with a friend of mine. Suddenly someone starts asking others if they wanna do Sunwell Plateau. Seeing how this could be the first time I could do a full run, I agreed but telling them I got crappy gear. But they invited me anyway. Already it felt disorganized, with people leaving. It took like ten minutes until we had a half of a raid going and finally went there. During this, Cooleow was harassing me to help him in Northrend.
So I’m halfway there on Drago’s back, then I get summoned there. I accept, we wait to make sure everyone else is there and run in. Once in, I run over to where I was able to get the Blue Dragonhawk pet. Someone accidentally aggros one of the two groups, and nearly everyone dies. I suggest we run and we do, and I’m laughing at the fail in this raid (also when I notice this is a 25-man raid dungeon, and we have only 1/4 the people to do it).
I run back, and we managed to kill them all. Seems OK there. We get setup to make an attack, then one guy suddenly pulls a Leeroy Jenkins on a pat and the group we were planning to start attacking. Another wipe (I never died once in this raid). I’m still laughing here.
So we all run out with the leader trying to get more to join us. I stay behind with another to summon everyone back. We get a few more. This time it looks a bit more promising. We still don’t have 25 people, though. Go back in. People start leaving as we’re killing.
Then this one scene happens. Leader tells all of us to watch out for the group on the right. We hop the fence and go left, but a mob sees them and attacks, and one accidentally runs over to the group we were supposed to avoid.. lol. I felt like I was saving their asses there with one mob range-attacking me while I’m attacking the mob that started this.
FINALLY, what seemed like a half an hour… we get to the first boss, who happens to be Kalecgos. Leader never tells us what were supposed to do here, but you’re supposed to be attacking the corrupter inside of him to free Kalecgos. To get there involves entering a portal and DPSing the corrupter to death before he takes over Kalecgos’ mind. But it seems like everytime I ported, me and another person were the only ones there. Frustrated and with their gear breaking, half the raid left or logged off. Was pretty much over there. My laughter stopped since then and turned to frustration.
I told Cooleow that the raid was a fail since the start (since it was a PuR (Pick-up-Raid), and what happened. Comparing this to what I saw when I tried to do Black Temple when I was a Level 80, I say the BT run was better. At least we got past the second boss, and we had a much stronger, more disciplined raid.