People have been asking for a video of Lich King heroic for a while. So I recorded yesterdays kill and strapped on some awesome music – enjoy!
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Throughout the beta, I’ve tried my best to avoid getting any spoilers on the content ingame. Of course, I have read up on moonkin information and general class changes – I mean, how would I otherwise run a blog if I didn’t? But since Blizzard didn’t give a beta invite to the Best Moonkin in the World, I decided to avoid lore like a pest, and wait for the awesome experience in December.
But after watching the news streaming out from Blizzcon this weekend, I started thinking back to the dungeons of old. There are a lot of neat ones coming out with Cataclysm, but we have had some pearls over the past six years. I decided to make a list of my favorite – and least favorite – dungeons in World of Warcraft.
There are three types of players in my world. These are the good players being good – you generally don’t notice these because they are doing what they should be doing. They are avoiding the ghosts on Deathwhisper, they catch that add running toward the healers and so on.
The second group is the bad players being bad. They get a lot of attention during raids, either for their lack of damage, their odd gear and spec choices, and their failure to move out of fire and their uncanny knack at catching Icehowl dead in the face.
And the last group, the most precious and rare group of all, are the Good Players being Bad. The GPB’s are usually excellent players, the ones that do what they are supposed to. Players who you can rely on to be a good addition to the group. But they will shock an entire raid group as they inevitably, once in a while, will be really, really bad.
I consider myself an expert on Lich King heroic. Sure, I’ve only killed him once, but I have wiped on this fight more than any other in the game. After 200+ wipes, you pick up a few things here and there, and I’d like to share that with you guys.
This is not an easy encounter, and as you wipe and try again over and over, you’ll tweak your rotation, your movement and your general style on the fight.
I am going to assume that you know the general tactics for this fight – there is no need for me to go through them cause, after all, the main way to be useful on Lich King is to know what the hell you’re doing!
It has taken us probably, what, 2-3 months of hard work, sweat, blood and tears. Mostly tears. And a lot of gold. Also, we spent a lot of hours that we could have used on putting our genetals into other peoples genetals. But it wasn’t all for nothing!
Tonight, after another four hours of wiping, on our very last try for the night, Arthas Menethil, The Lich King, died on heroic 25 man. This week, we finally had several phase three wipes, and after some agonising 20% wipes to the enrage timers, he fell down and took a mouthful of ice to the face!
If you want to see the log from the fight, you can find it here! It should go to show that moonkins aren’t really that useless *wink*
Our guild is the 424th guild to kill him, and our world rank is now 397! That’s not bad, considering we were around rank 398 when we were at 11/12 HC. In any case, we are all very happy about getting him down.
Oh, by the way, regarding Invincible’s Reins…
If you are a moonkin, chances are that you are here to read my blog. And thanks a lot for that. Unfortunately, this post isn’t for you! That’s not to say that you can’t read it, but it’s just not meant for your eyes. Instead, go look at the moonkin guide at the top if you are hungering for moonkin information.
If you are a raid leader or class leader of a guild, chances are that you have been given this link by someone who thinks you would benefit to get up to speed when it comes to moonkins. Or maybe you are out searcing for information yourself, to help a fellow guildie to improve his performance. In any case, kudos to you, this is excactly where you need to be.
I am beginning to lose count of how many times I have been contacted by chickens in distress. “My guild sais I’m doing too little damage”, “they say my gear is bad”, “Tya want’s to sacrifice me to the Gods of the Kill”. They ask for help, and many times it is not nessecarely the moonkin that is the problem. The major cause for this is that, with so few moonkins around, its not always easy for other classes to understand how we function. Its easier in guilds where you have three rogues and a handful of mages that can keep each other up to date – most guilds only emply one, maybe two, moonkins, and it is not always certain that these moonkins has the tools they need. Except for guilds that has a caster class master who has actually played moonkins, I get the feeling that very few guilds have any real sort of knowledge about moonkins. I opt to change that!
If you have been following my Twitter, you will probably have noticed my occasional spam for my guildie’s Justin.tv channel, where you can see us raiding. I decided I wanted to give it a go myself, for the fun of it, and to offer an alternative to the melee point of view on Stoke’s channel.
So I made a stream. I had it up during our Ruby Sanctum/ICC run tonight, and reached the staggering numbers of 30 viewers online at the same time. 30! Uhh. I guess it’s not bad for a first night of streaming. I will be putting it up whenever I feel like there is something worth showing – our raids, most likely, or if I am forumwhoring or making a blog post, and I want to give you a bit of insight to my “creative” writing process.
At the moment, the quality of the stream is “okay”. For a graphics whore like myself, “okay” is not good enough. Sure, it’s watchable, but its not nearly as good as I want it to be, but I need to figure out how to send in a higher quality without dropping too many frames. If anybody is a streaming wiz, let me know, I could use a hand to tweak the line.
Anyways, I hope you will stop by. 25 man raids are happening on thursdays, sundays and thuesdays, with the occasional 10 man raid on wednesdays, always between 20.00-00.00 CET (that’s Europe, guys!). I will post on Twitter if I am streaming outside of these times – like, when I’m blogging – and alternatively, you can follow my channel if you are often using Justin.tv. You can also see past broadcasts, so if you *really* want to see tonights Ruby Sanctum and ICC HC raid, you can find them in the archive.
Cheers! Check out my stream on justin.tv/Qieth!
