blue pterodactyl!

Ju got me into a group for finishing up our Glory of the Thundering Raider achievement - needed the Overcharged Conduits part of Lei Shen on Knitours (Bouncing Bolts on Alter and Knitten)... and they already had tanks - so I got to be a failcat.  A few people didn't really know the strat (including the tanks), at least not in the roles they were in... but after a few tries and some coaching (and yelling... run for the post, run for the post run run run; here's a tip for dealing with his bump in P2; here's how you deal with the blue swirlies... etc), we managed to get him down. Yay!

Also, after failtanking the first couple pulls of Garrosh (I've killed him how many times now? (tonight was the 4th) and died to stupid stuff in P1? bah), we killed Garrosh with our regular PU guild, and we both got our heirlooms :) Woot.

moved

There was a character services sale on this week, so Knitutog and Infiknit made the move to Suramar to join the rest of the knitters.  Poor Gemi and Stitch and Pan and Machi.  No more 90s to support them.  OTOH, the idea is to play k2tog and Infi a bit more - make some progress on their legendary questline, some more gear, etc.  Infi did the Northern Barrens quests and Shou gave her the latent kor'kron hat, so she has a shiny new hat now \o/

Alter's done not too bad in the gear department.  Successfully healed Durumu and Primordius; we had some good tries on Dark Animus last night.

Oursie's up to 71 - almost 72 - now.  Got 4 out 8 pieces of the Nordrassil set this week when Wolfi and Ju rushed us through Tempest Keep and Serpentshrine (and Kara).  Yay :)

Almost back to the 200k mark after buying the Haunting Spirits to make Alter's fancy new hat and boots (I bought them between 7-8k each, they're down to around 6k now... heh).  Infi's prospecting is useful, but still a lot of it is from the leatherworking market.  Need to keep farming those harmonies... and I may consider planting enchanting materials on one of the farms cos while I don't have a big problem keeping ethereal shards and sha crystals in stock, the spirit dusts and mysterious essences are a bit more of a problem.

Read about a nerf to hunter Stampede - we'll see how that works out (make all pets called by Stampede do auto-attacks only - no special abilities.  Gah. Stupid PvP nerfs).

lootfest

Since our last post, Knitten went into ToT normal... and managed to acquire a TF cape off Horridon, a TF hat off Council, and bracers AND the bow off Tortos.  Not even a day to enjoy the new LFR weapons before disenchant.  T_T (though also :D).  iLvl 508 or 509 to 516 in one day. Not bad. :-)

We didn't have a sham or mage with us, and both crit and mastery buff needed to be hunter pets (Elu had his usual cat) so I ended up switching pets around for my core hound's heroism.  Was a little interesting to deal with that.  Mostly wasn't too bad, but a little stressful to have to remember to think about it.  Managed reasonably well though.  Jin'rokh and Horridon and I think Council down one try each; we wiped a few times on Tortos before taking him down too.  Meg we made it easily to the 5th and consistently to 6th head before wiping, I don't think we ever quite made it to the 7th.

Anyway.  \o/

Megaera down!

This afternoon, was reserves on both characters, so wasn't too stressed about raid.  Got tagged Knitten a bit before raid, so had to grab some gems to add to her new belt (the SPA rep belt that I got yesterday).  This boss is so much less stressful as DPS than heals XD.  Shou did a bit more heal, Chiantos about the same, and Bellze about what Alter did the other night - but Gichin tanked instead of Arglen, which means he was throwing heals out too, and I think that's what got us through the kill.  Did the G-R-G-R-G-R-G strat that we spent most of our time on the other night.

Wiped a bunch on Ji-Kun, I was on nests (specced SV, with Lynx Rush but really debating that choice given that it's only available every 2-3 nests), learned a bit how the feathers work, how to time the nest moves, etc... best try was around 8 or 9 nests and boss around 45%.  We didn't end up trying too hard to pick up the buffs from catching stuff in the air, but we may have to work on that more in the future.

Spent a fair bit of time yesterday with G and WoL trying to figure out what Alter could have done better to make Megaera more successful.  Shaman are not in the top ranks of healers-for-Megaera.  Looked at the top few shamans on Meg - turns out they're all on a crit build - so spent some time today reforging and regemming to try that vs a mastery build.  We'll see how this plays out - Meg LFR went fine - didn't try to preserve mana specifically, and still had mana left at the end of the fight - but LFR is a faster kill and less raid damage so... hard to say.  Not really well-critted though; most of my gear has a chunk of mastery on it (most of which got reforged to crit).  Will go through the bank to see if any of the in-reserve gear might have better itemization for a crit build, but I don't think so (did look at it a little today).

Yarnie made almost 10k in sales this morning, and Knit around 3-4k... which is nice cos Bebel upped his skinning today and I bought all his MoP leather (he may farm it for me :D), and Alter bought another Eye for her Kri'tak (combo of Kri'tak + Orb = more crit and more intel and I think more spirit than the Ji-Kun staff I was using on the heal spec).  Still debating the Jade Spirit... but probably not on the RF version of Kri'tak.  Maybe on Jin'ya for the DPS spec, esp since upgrades are coming soon...