Terenas Friday Nov. 4

[bonemage]

A bit of a recap from last night, for the other group:

We had trouble rescuing Commander Gor'shak, didn't get it right until the 3rd try. This chewed up considerable time, but we needed it done, so we kept resetting the instance until we succeeded.

We went through the 5 elite pulls having much fun, as our CC allowed us to have one mob in play at a time, and Necrali got to have a pet in every fight. The Mind Controlled medics are great healer/DPS pets. We stormed our way to Bael'Gar, but forgot to wrap up his bits in a blanket. All the work, no quest credit...

After the second KoS quest, there is an external escort quest that takes place in the Burning Steppes and is a prereq to getting the quest to kill Angerforge. On the first attempt, some player's fingers were too fast and only 2 party members got to accept the quest. So, we went back for a second attempt so all party members could get it. On this attempt, it went much smoother, but poor Yuri got too far away from the escortee and failed the quest. So, that warranted a 3rd time. With that done successfully, it was now the time that the Taurens + one orc wrapped it up. Alram (another who lives in the Central time zone) headed to bed, so we took Conc to put us back to 5. He needed the escort quest done, so we did it a 4th time, and then headed back into BRD (obviously reset).

We proceeded smoothly to the bar, killed Ribbly, who humorously gouged Conc so many times that he was last on the damage taken in that fight, which really is NOT where you want a warrior to be. Durambar was not gouged a single time and was able to cover tanking duties while Conc played the part of a statue. We chewed through the bar patrons (Go! Go! Mage and Warlock DPS!) and prepared to take on Phalanx. It was a hairy fight, but being able to banish the firelord until he's last helped things out, as well as aggro juggling by the tanks so bandages could be applied when the Priest went OOM. I think we had TOO much CC (banish, seduce, sheep) and that hurt our DPS, which caused the fight to go as long as it did. We got the best possible drop from Phalanx, the Golem Skull Helm. (Praise the RNG!) Conc and Durambar squared off on the need roll, and Conc's pathetic 39 easily trounced Durambar's 29. (Curse the RNG!) Also, three Black Diamonds dropped in the bar, and Octord won all 3, but gave one to Durambar, as he is working on getting the Lesser Arcanum of Constitution. (Thanks, it's good to have the pity of friends when your luck with the RNG is crap!)

Somewhere in there we encountered Ambassador Flamelash, and Durambar won the Molten Fists that he dropped. They're mail, but my only +fire resist item, and the proc isn't bad.

We mowed down the Seven, and the chest offered up the Impervious Giant and Wraith Scythe. Conc and Durambar again squared off for the Impervious Giant, with the RNG again going Conc's way. Durambar got the leftover Wraith Scythe, but it's inferior to Thrash Blade and was vendored later. Conc offered up an Essence of Fire that he won earlier to Durambar, who gratefully took it, and then later transmuted it into an Essence of Earth, putting him 4 Essences of Earth shy of all the mats needed for his Enchanted Thorium Helm, making it much more than a consolation prize, as it's a helm I don't see me replacing until the expansion, as I'll probably never see MC.

We then made our way to the room with the 60 sec timer on mobs, and were able to light one brazier, pick up the second torch, and then wiped. Surrounded by mobs, the existance of a soulstone meant nothing. The early parts of the instance had respawned, and we then called it a night.