The Grasp of Wrath
Ugh.
With all of the preparations to be made for the guild's month-long foray into Molten Core, I've been farming the daylights out of what Fire Resist gear I can get my hands on. Progressing nicely, however, as I believe I'm at 92 FR, unbuffed. Since Blackrock Spire is home to lots of great drops of that ilk, I've been spending a lot of time there. In addition to the FR equipment, I've also been on the heretofore-fruitless search since level 55 for the Spaulders of Valor. At long last, on lucky UBRS run #13, they finally dropped off Rend Blackhand. Once I get the Helm from Darkmaster Gandling in Scholomance, I'll have completed the entire Battlegear of Valor set, and have successfully converted the first 3 pieces to Heroism, and am in position to start working on the 45 minute Baron Rivendare run, in Undead Stratholme to convert spaulders, boots and leggings. As a result of the tireless UBRS runs, of late, I was also fortunate enough to get together with some close friends in the guild and work on our Onyxia key quest, which I am pleased to report, I have finished on my first character.
Last week in Zul' Gurub was a collection of some of the highest points in Pod raid history, and arguably one of the lowest. I understand that our widely-inclusive nature, lack of DKP, and general, long-haired hippy "Love and beer- but mostly love" approach means that we're not a hardcore raiding guild. That said, that doesn't mean that when we do raid, that we don't want to win. And Thursday and Friday, win we did. We tackled Thekal and Arlokk Thursday night, in an effort to get them out of the way. In a moment of guild history, we one-shot Tiger. Like buttah. No resets, no wipes, no nothing but a dead cat in the middle of the jungle. And left in his wake was nothing less than Thekal's Grasp.
OMFG.
I'd rolled a 78, Sam passed, and Loch came up way short on his. (Afterward, when he found out that this set was the object of my heart's desire in ZG, Loch apologized for having rolled on it at all. I didn't blame him, because he and I don't play together outside of the large raids, so there's no way of his knowing what a big deal to me it was). With 3 of the 4 warriors present having rolled on the item, the last left was one of our junior tanks who has recently dinged 60, and is trying very hard to make a good showing of his participation in our raids, and for that he should be commended. He's a good kid, and puts a lot into his game. He happened to ask over Vent, "Echuta, would you mind if I rolled on that?," to which I responded quite tersely, "As a matter of fact, I would." His next statement was, "Okay. Fine. You know what? Take it." As I have publicly and privately mentioned, after the fact, this was a terribly noble thing for him to do, and I appreciate his forgoing a shot at what is, truly, an unbelievable item. With a 78, I was doing pretty well for myself, but he didn't roll, and I thanked him for it. We've since worked together in a number of instances, and things are fine. Short story shorter, I now have half of the Primal Blessing, and just need the off-hand drop from Arlokk to complete the set.
Nevermind that virtually no one in the guild even knew of this thing's existence, save my incessant pleadings to back the hell off of Bat, Snake, and Spider and please, please, please let's do Tiger and Panther. No one ever gives fist weapons a second glance, anyway. (Hunter weapon!) I had previously made mention among my circle of friends, since respec at 53 that as a Fury warrior, that pair was the only thing I truly wanted from ZG, save the two tank weapons, and anybody that has any desire to MT/OT should be gunning for those. (By the way, Lochzar got the Bloodlord's Defender, Saturday, when we one-shot Mandokir. It was my first time getting to MT Bloodlord, and was Loch right- is he ever slippery!). Here's where I get controverisal. The part of that exchange that I took offense to was the tone of voice and the impudence in his verbal statement, "Okay. Fine. You know what? Take it." Like it was his to bestow upon me. Yes, it was a marked improvement from the weapon he was using. Here's the rub- we're talking about upgrading a 1H from LBRS. There are lots of better weaps from other instances that drop on a regular basis- you have to go to see them, though. Scholo, Dire Maul, UBRS, either Strat. Run any of them, and you're going to find a more suitable 1H for tanking, so he's hardly hurting from lack of prospects. Like I said, things are more than fine now, and there's no harbored resentment on my part. There wasn't any then, either. It's just that I've been running Zul' Gurub since most of our new 60s were in Uldaman. I'm hardly going to consider myself at anyone's mercy for much of anything until I see significant evidence that it is earned.
And that is nothing less than I expect of anyone else, when it comes to dealing with me, either.
Besides, Hakkar taught our up and coming raiders- blinded by visions of 3-4 epic drops, and partaking in the glory of showing up for their first big raid or two and killing this bastard- everything they NEVER wanted to learn about set pieces and gearing runs, Saturday night. He's a rather convincing Set piece salesman, it seems....
With all of the preparations to be made for the guild's month-long foray into Molten Core, I've been farming the daylights out of what Fire Resist gear I can get my hands on. Progressing nicely, however, as I believe I'm at 92 FR, unbuffed. Since Blackrock Spire is home to lots of great drops of that ilk, I've been spending a lot of time there. In addition to the FR equipment, I've also been on the heretofore-fruitless search since level 55 for the Spaulders of Valor. At long last, on lucky UBRS run #13, they finally dropped off Rend Blackhand. Once I get the Helm from Darkmaster Gandling in Scholomance, I'll have completed the entire Battlegear of Valor set, and have successfully converted the first 3 pieces to Heroism, and am in position to start working on the 45 minute Baron Rivendare run, in Undead Stratholme to convert spaulders, boots and leggings. As a result of the tireless UBRS runs, of late, I was also fortunate enough to get together with some close friends in the guild and work on our Onyxia key quest, which I am pleased to report, I have finished on my first character.
Last week in Zul' Gurub was a collection of some of the highest points in Pod raid history, and arguably one of the lowest. I understand that our widely-inclusive nature, lack of DKP, and general, long-haired hippy "Love and beer- but mostly love" approach means that we're not a hardcore raiding guild. That said, that doesn't mean that when we do raid, that we don't want to win. And Thursday and Friday, win we did. We tackled Thekal and Arlokk Thursday night, in an effort to get them out of the way. In a moment of guild history, we one-shot Tiger. Like buttah. No resets, no wipes, no nothing but a dead cat in the middle of the jungle. And left in his wake was nothing less than Thekal's Grasp.
OMFG.
I'd rolled a 78, Sam passed, and Loch came up way short on his. (Afterward, when he found out that this set was the object of my heart's desire in ZG, Loch apologized for having rolled on it at all. I didn't blame him, because he and I don't play together outside of the large raids, so there's no way of his knowing what a big deal to me it was). With 3 of the 4 warriors present having rolled on the item, the last left was one of our junior tanks who has recently dinged 60, and is trying very hard to make a good showing of his participation in our raids, and for that he should be commended. He's a good kid, and puts a lot into his game. He happened to ask over Vent, "Echuta, would you mind if I rolled on that?," to which I responded quite tersely, "As a matter of fact, I would." His next statement was, "Okay. Fine. You know what? Take it." As I have publicly and privately mentioned, after the fact, this was a terribly noble thing for him to do, and I appreciate his forgoing a shot at what is, truly, an unbelievable item. With a 78, I was doing pretty well for myself, but he didn't roll, and I thanked him for it. We've since worked together in a number of instances, and things are fine. Short story shorter, I now have half of the Primal Blessing, and just need the off-hand drop from Arlokk to complete the set.
Nevermind that virtually no one in the guild even knew of this thing's existence, save my incessant pleadings to back the hell off of Bat, Snake, and Spider and please, please, please let's do Tiger and Panther. No one ever gives fist weapons a second glance, anyway. (Hunter weapon!) I had previously made mention among my circle of friends, since respec at 53 that as a Fury warrior, that pair was the only thing I truly wanted from ZG, save the two tank weapons, and anybody that has any desire to MT/OT should be gunning for those. (By the way, Lochzar got the Bloodlord's Defender, Saturday, when we one-shot Mandokir. It was my first time getting to MT Bloodlord, and was Loch right- is he ever slippery!). Here's where I get controverisal. The part of that exchange that I took offense to was the tone of voice and the impudence in his verbal statement, "Okay. Fine. You know what? Take it." Like it was his to bestow upon me. Yes, it was a marked improvement from the weapon he was using. Here's the rub- we're talking about upgrading a 1H from LBRS. There are lots of better weaps from other instances that drop on a regular basis- you have to go to see them, though. Scholo, Dire Maul, UBRS, either Strat. Run any of them, and you're going to find a more suitable 1H for tanking, so he's hardly hurting from lack of prospects. Like I said, things are more than fine now, and there's no harbored resentment on my part. There wasn't any then, either. It's just that I've been running Zul' Gurub since most of our new 60s were in Uldaman. I'm hardly going to consider myself at anyone's mercy for much of anything until I see significant evidence that it is earned.
And that is nothing less than I expect of anyone else, when it comes to dealing with me, either.
Besides, Hakkar taught our up and coming raiders- blinded by visions of 3-4 epic drops, and partaking in the glory of showing up for their first big raid or two and killing this bastard- everything they NEVER wanted to learn about set pieces and gearing runs, Saturday night. He's a rather convincing Set piece salesman, it seems....
posted by Voice by Ben at 2:43 PM
1 Comments:
Well written Echuta. I think a lot of people saw exactly why we wiped against the big snake and are working to correct it through gear runs. My concern is for the people who don't understand why we failed. I'm guessing it'll be those same people who ranked between the healers and the protection warriors on damage meters (yet play neither healers nor tanks) who will continue to cause us to fail in 20 man raids.
-Zach
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