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On 4/19/2013 9:20 AM, Cryptoengineer wrote:
> On Apr 17, 11:16 am, Cryptoengineer <pete...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Apr 17, 10:45 am, Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk>
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>>> On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:05:29 -0400, IYM <nor...@whitehouse.gov>
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>>>> Been pretty quiet in here... :)
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>>> Yeah, I've been meaning to say something but first I had to *do*
>>> something worth posting about lol. All I've done this week is farm
>>> rares on IoT for valor: 5.5k at the reset, so I'll finally finish
>>> Wrathion's test this week and be onto looking for a group for Change
>>> of Command... wonder how long that one will take lol :-P
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>>> Only other thing of note to mention for me is a new low in character
>>> naming that I saw last night... "Dieniggerdie", is surely not
>>> acceptable in anyone's mind, so I'm hoping that players gets a ban in
>>> addition to the rename they're pretty safe to receive very soon (I
>>> reported him and I'd be surprised if I was alone...)
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>>>> So the 4th and last raid of the Thunder King opened up for LFR yesterday
>>>> and I got the chance to run it last night on "opening night"   I really
>>>> was not in the mood to do so as opening day generally is a wipefest and
>>>> wanted to blow through the 1st two sections for valor and perhaps gear
>>>> drop, but my healing buddy talking / dragged me into it and at least I
>>>> didn't have a queue.
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>>>> I had a guildie who got out of his run right before we entered who got
>>>> the completion achieve, and he had been in there for hours, and was
>>>> relieved that his lfr group (which I'm sure had changed over many times)
>>>> finally downed the thunder king....after 20 attempts and a 50% loser buff.
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>>> Omg, 20 attempts, eek. Makes me glad I'm still slacking and not even
>>> done the 2nd one yet :-P Intending to get to it this week, we'll see,
>>> problem for me is, because groups are usually rubbish at the end of a
>>> week, if I don't get it done the first few days it has to wait till he
>>> next reset, and usually I'm busy on other stuff the first few days,
>>> hopefully I'll get round to it this time.
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>>>> We had no wipes on the 1st two bosses (nor did anyone else I talked to)
>>>> and got the last boss on attempt 8, hence a re-balance of the 1st two to
>>>> make them harder (this is the last raid, after all - your killing the
>>>> Thunder King here - come on).
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>>>> Considering the later attempts all were int he 15 minute range of time,
>>>> plus having to explain to every new person who came in then watch them
>>>> die as they experience it for the first time,  and you can understand
>>>> why it took almost 2-1/2 hours to complete...
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>>> Yikes, sounds a bit offbalance then, two too easy and one probably a
>>> bit too hard, oh well. At least you got him in the end! Hopefully by
>>> the time I get around to it it'll be much faster but I'll make sure to
>>> set aside a big chunk of time...
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>> I'm up for a Change of Command run :-).
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>> I got home late last night, and had to drop out after the first two
>> bosses to go to bed. Sounds like I made the right decision. I agree -
>> they were easier than I expected. I'll have to watch some videos of
>> the final boss before I go back.
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>> At the moment, I'm mainly trying to max Valor each week, and max Shado-
>> Pan Assault rep; these are somewhat at odds, because I could get VP
>> faster in the 5.1 raids. The ilvl 502 items I'm getting from LFR are
>> only occasionally  interesting - I can purchase a lot of 522 gear at
>> honored, and will get more at revered. While I've got some of the
>> latest tier tokens, I'm not going to use them until I can get a 4
>> piece bonus at least - the previous tier gives a 4 second Holy Light
>> cooldown, which is very valuable, and not lightly tossed aside.
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> Finally got the final boss down last night; I lucked into an LFR group
> that was already there, with 4 stacks of failbuff. We got him down at
> 6 stacks; frankly, in LFR this isn't too hard an encounter if everyone
> understands the mechanics. It was a lot harder to train people to the
> Durumu (eyeball boss) encounter.
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True, that once it's understood, it's like "oh!".   Like I said, this 
(and yes, the eyeball boss!) the first night or two were nightmares. 
The fight was explained at least 6 times as every wipe some people left, 
and were replaced, and it never ceased to amaze me watch a shadow priest 
who was there from the 3rd wipe, attack the boss and then proceed to 
stand in the center of the lightning...*every* time.  She was dead 5 
more times within 30 seconds of the start of the fight every 
time....healer finally lost it after the last time and started screaming 
at them in chat...."Seriously - are you F-ing kidding me <insert toon 
name>?!?!?!?  Luckily for the priest, we downed him that attempt.

My guildie with 20 stacks was on Tuesday (1st day) within 2 hours of it 
becoming available....Mine was 8 stacks at midnight of opening day, you 
got in on night 3, with 6 stacks so it sounds like it's improving.  :)

I might be running it again on my healer alt tonight so I'll see if it's 
any better, as I maxed valors and ran all 4 parts of ToTK on my mage 
this week.

Side note:  I'm at 15 secrets of the empire for the legendary quest 
line...5 more to go before I get to go start up the forge on the Island 
of Thunder.  I had stuck my head in that building when I was exploring 
the island and was wondering what it was for.  It's the building/doorway 
on the right, near the lightning boss that's part of your dailies I 
believe.  I'm hoping I can get 5 secrets from the 4 raids next week....