Last night, by the time I finally quit the game, I was happy to be rid of it. I’m not sure I’ll be able to make myself log in today. It was just too much time playing too intensely.
Leafie’s raid went overtime, which I hate, because I think people’s playing skills start degrading after about 3 hours of high-focus play. We did Blackwing Descent and attempted to clear all the heroic modes we’ve killed before. We couldn’t manage to get Maloriak down in the time we wanted to spend, but otherwise we killed H-Magmaw, H-Chimaeron, and H-Atramedes. We splattered Maloriak on normal after spending an hour on heroic unsuccessfully while frustrations rose, then had a messy clump of Nefarian wipes and then a kill that was our rockiest. Our first kill was cleaner!
I made vids for all three of the heroic kills and for the Nef kill. I’ll do something with them when I have the stomach for WOW stuff later this weekend.
After that I went off to tank for friends & family. Late. Which upset me. A new friend has joined the gang recently, who for some reason wanted to power-level a feral druid on a new server and play with us. I’ve played some board games with him and he’s lots of fun. He’s also a very, very good player whom I’d probably recruit like mad if he weren’t on west coast time like the rest of us. (I, as a semi-retired burnt out programmer, slack off and play with my east-coast-time raiding guild.) I might hang up Praet’s tanking shield and let him do it. Bears are rare but generally when somebody bothers to play them, they’re great tanks.
He went kitty last night, though, I tanked, and we randomed into Praet’s first ZG. And, sans benefit of the LotD buff, we cleared it. The usual wipes on Venoxis happened as people learned what the maze was and what we meant by “green blobs chasing you”. We had one wipe on the panther boss, then tried the alcove + shelter from wave technique to lighten the avoidance burden. We one-shot everything else. And, as pictured, Praetorian got the Kermit achievement while tanking, so that was nice.
Then I fell asleep instantly because it was nearly 11, and was awakened at 4:30 by a hungry cat pouncing on my toes.
