Purple Rain
Wow.
Just wow.
If last night in ZG was an evening when we were off our game, then tonight was the polar opposite. The A game was certainly brought by the PodPwnage crew tonight. To a point, Vespasian and Eloy had mentioned in whispers that NO one handles the trash mobs like we did. Not their first time in, at any rate. Perhaps the beautiful thing is that we didn't know any better. The Pod Tank Column knows what our job is. Our healers are as pro as they come, and the DPS is furious. I heard it said once that people that say that things cannot be done are often interrupted by the people actually doing it. That certainly seems to be the case. We downed Lucifron on the first attempt. Nevermind the fact that we've never encountered him before. Let's not even get into the issue of most of us never having even been to Molten Core, either. Add to all of the inadmissable evidence the tiny detail that we lost 5 of our 6 tanks and a solid half of the raid before Luci got to 50% health, and you have some righteous pwnage to talk about. Ves was the last tank standing, and the healing on him was unbelievable. Don't ask me how, but we did it. The deaths during that encounter were the only ones we'd suffered, save one sporadic bad pull from one of our hunters. (We entirely expected him to pop back up, but alas, it wasn't to be. He was really, most sincerly dead). :(
There had been a bit of "drama" on the guild boards about the fact that Thayala, (in spite of months of running ZG, and even having won a few rolls, but deferring the gear to some other team member who came in 2nd, usually) has yet to leave ZG with one of his Hakkari epics, or any of the epics that drop there, otherwise. We had come to the conclusion that we aren't going to roll on anything else till he wins something. Words fall short of describing how on the money his raid leadership has been, all this time, and it would be nice to see him come away with something for himself, for the simple fact that he's earned it. Well, first off Lucifron dropped the Cenarion Boots. These are the first Tier 1 epics in the guild. Everyone insisted that Thay take them, but he got legitimately upset at this notion, and flatly refused to roll until all the other Druids did. And so they obeyed, and then Thay /rolled. And sucker hit a 100. Vent exploded. More than when we were standing around, giddy with nerves, waiting to get started. And because of the folks in this guild, there was more of an outpouring of legitmate excitement that one of the most deserving members of our officer corps, and someone that has been our fearless leader for many, many incursions into the ruins and temples across Azeroth had at long last been rewarded for his unflagging devotion. Thay's 100 goes down as one of punctuation marks of what makes our guild so awesome. Every guild fights over loot in MC, but only our guild fights over who really should take it.
We burned through the Core Hound packs, since Magmadar was 3 pulls away. We were pretty much riding on a high from clobbering Lucifron, so a good, old-fashioned Pod wipe wasn't about to dampen our spirits, at this point. There was a false start when we got ready to do Maggie, and I don't think our hunters and healers were all on the same page. (Maybe there was a flag on the play; if there was, I didn't see it. It was likely underneath one of the 40 bodies that littered Magmadar's nook of the Core). There's something in this fight that has to do with hitting him with Tranquilizing Shot when he enrages. At any rate, you're supposed to do him with at least 3 Marksman spec hunters who set up a rotation so that somebody's always ready out of the cooldown for it. We had 2. And we took him down, as well. What an amazing evening. 3 epics off Magmadar. It was a great night to be a Pod.
Our priest arm of the pro healing team was rewarded with the Pants of Prophecy, their Tier 1 leggings. Immaculata got those, and as a measure of commentary, she is coming along to be quite nicely geared. Ironically enough, probably the only roll in the history of the guild that will forevermore be as famous as Thay's roll tonight was when we took down the Spider priestess in ZG for the first time, and Flowing Ritual Robes dropped. Imma and her husband Zayd were relatively new 60s, having just dinged together (fitting- as they leveled together the entire time on this server), and when the casters rolled, she was first up. And rolled a 6. There was a flurry of activity from the other casters as they all passed. She was floored, and rightfully so. Tonight's Tier 1 legs were the 3rd piece of epic armor that I've been present to her winning, and it's great to see one of my healers rewarded for being so leet. As a warrior, I've got a very special affinity for our healers, particularly our priests. We have a very special symbiotic relationship. If I don't do my job, they can't do theirs. And if they don't do theirs, I don't live long enough to have one. :D
Ves got an uber-sweet tanking necklace, Medallion of Steadfast Might, and Akando took home a sweet 2H mace Earthshaker. In the interest of full disclosure, I am pleased to say that I also left MC with a goodie of my own. It is my obligation to report that the Gauntlets of Might are now in my possession. This is my first piece of Tier 1 armor, and rounds out the 3 that are now in the guild. Given the fact that we hope to be dropping these 2 punks on a regular basis, I might not necessarily be reporting MC/ZG/AQ20 drop-by-drop, because I hope that we begin to see much, much more of this. So much, in fact, that I anticipate that it will become problematic to chronicle it all. That's a good problem to have, by the way.
We carved a path across Kalimdor afterward, razing in turn, Astranaar, Auberdine, and Darnassus for those of us who were too excited to do anything else with our time, afterward. (Well, maybe not so much Darnassus).
Thay has all the gory details and the ultra smoove PS skills with our boss trophy shots, too. Do it. Do it now.
Just wow.
If last night in ZG was an evening when we were off our game, then tonight was the polar opposite. The A game was certainly brought by the PodPwnage crew tonight. To a point, Vespasian and Eloy had mentioned in whispers that NO one handles the trash mobs like we did. Not their first time in, at any rate. Perhaps the beautiful thing is that we didn't know any better. The Pod Tank Column knows what our job is. Our healers are as pro as they come, and the DPS is furious. I heard it said once that people that say that things cannot be done are often interrupted by the people actually doing it. That certainly seems to be the case. We downed Lucifron on the first attempt. Nevermind the fact that we've never encountered him before. Let's not even get into the issue of most of us never having even been to Molten Core, either. Add to all of the inadmissable evidence the tiny detail that we lost 5 of our 6 tanks and a solid half of the raid before Luci got to 50% health, and you have some righteous pwnage to talk about. Ves was the last tank standing, and the healing on him was unbelievable. Don't ask me how, but we did it. The deaths during that encounter were the only ones we'd suffered, save one sporadic bad pull from one of our hunters. (We entirely expected him to pop back up, but alas, it wasn't to be. He was really, most sincerly dead). :(
There had been a bit of "drama" on the guild boards about the fact that Thayala, (in spite of months of running ZG, and even having won a few rolls, but deferring the gear to some other team member who came in 2nd, usually) has yet to leave ZG with one of his Hakkari epics, or any of the epics that drop there, otherwise. We had come to the conclusion that we aren't going to roll on anything else till he wins something. Words fall short of describing how on the money his raid leadership has been, all this time, and it would be nice to see him come away with something for himself, for the simple fact that he's earned it. Well, first off Lucifron dropped the Cenarion Boots. These are the first Tier 1 epics in the guild. Everyone insisted that Thay take them, but he got legitimately upset at this notion, and flatly refused to roll until all the other Druids did. And so they obeyed, and then Thay /rolled. And sucker hit a 100. Vent exploded. More than when we were standing around, giddy with nerves, waiting to get started. And because of the folks in this guild, there was more of an outpouring of legitmate excitement that one of the most deserving members of our officer corps, and someone that has been our fearless leader for many, many incursions into the ruins and temples across Azeroth had at long last been rewarded for his unflagging devotion. Thay's 100 goes down as one of punctuation marks of what makes our guild so awesome. Every guild fights over loot in MC, but only our guild fights over who really should take it.
We burned through the Core Hound packs, since Magmadar was 3 pulls away. We were pretty much riding on a high from clobbering Lucifron, so a good, old-fashioned Pod wipe wasn't about to dampen our spirits, at this point. There was a false start when we got ready to do Maggie, and I don't think our hunters and healers were all on the same page. (Maybe there was a flag on the play; if there was, I didn't see it. It was likely underneath one of the 40 bodies that littered Magmadar's nook of the Core). There's something in this fight that has to do with hitting him with Tranquilizing Shot when he enrages. At any rate, you're supposed to do him with at least 3 Marksman spec hunters who set up a rotation so that somebody's always ready out of the cooldown for it. We had 2. And we took him down, as well. What an amazing evening. 3 epics off Magmadar. It was a great night to be a Pod.
Our priest arm of the pro healing team was rewarded with the Pants of Prophecy, their Tier 1 leggings. Immaculata got those, and as a measure of commentary, she is coming along to be quite nicely geared. Ironically enough, probably the only roll in the history of the guild that will forevermore be as famous as Thay's roll tonight was when we took down the Spider priestess in ZG for the first time, and Flowing Ritual Robes dropped. Imma and her husband Zayd were relatively new 60s, having just dinged together (fitting- as they leveled together the entire time on this server), and when the casters rolled, she was first up. And rolled a 6. There was a flurry of activity from the other casters as they all passed. She was floored, and rightfully so. Tonight's Tier 1 legs were the 3rd piece of epic armor that I've been present to her winning, and it's great to see one of my healers rewarded for being so leet. As a warrior, I've got a very special affinity for our healers, particularly our priests. We have a very special symbiotic relationship. If I don't do my job, they can't do theirs. And if they don't do theirs, I don't live long enough to have one. :D
Ves got an uber-sweet tanking necklace, Medallion of Steadfast Might, and Akando took home a sweet 2H mace Earthshaker. In the interest of full disclosure, I am pleased to say that I also left MC with a goodie of my own. It is my obligation to report that the Gauntlets of Might are now in my possession. This is my first piece of Tier 1 armor, and rounds out the 3 that are now in the guild. Given the fact that we hope to be dropping these 2 punks on a regular basis, I might not necessarily be reporting MC/ZG/AQ20 drop-by-drop, because I hope that we begin to see much, much more of this. So much, in fact, that I anticipate that it will become problematic to chronicle it all. That's a good problem to have, by the way.
We carved a path across Kalimdor afterward, razing in turn, Astranaar, Auberdine, and Darnassus for those of us who were too excited to do anything else with our time, afterward. (Well, maybe not so much Darnassus).
Thay has all the gory details and the ultra smoove PS skills with our boss trophy shots, too. Do it. Do it now.
posted by Voice by Ben at 2:16 AM
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Very nice write-up, E.
-Z
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