Kara o_o

I'm back in Kara for the night. Interesting group (and a PUG). More detailed report after we're done, we have a "pee/beer" break, so I figured post this up to force myself into writing something more detailed

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So. Kara. Yea.

Did I ever mention that Kara is beautiful? It is beautiful. If I could get by and see all the mobs without them attacking me, I would live in Kara.

The place is gorgeous.

The group for the first half (up to Curator) was over powered. Seriously, the worst geared members were the tanks, and a 1 hunter >.>, and they had a scattering of token epics, a bit of Kara epics, and some blues. They weren’t bad off, but due to them being paladins, Nightbane seemed more risky then continuing up the tower and hitting on Prince.

If you want to know why, don’t ask me, I have no idea. :D I’ve only ever done Nightbane once, and Prince never.

Clearing to Attumen worried me. I didn’t need to heal anyone besides the t5 1200 spell damage shadow priest who was (like any good shadow priest) casting power word: death with any frequency. Attumen, even without the group bunching up on his butt, went down without me breaking a sweat. I didn’t pop consumables until right before Moroes, because I didn’t want to risk Mr. “Make everyone bleed and die if they aren’t healed enough because the only Paladin with the wits to bubble someone besides themselves can only do it once every 3 minutes”. And it turns out its good I did.

See, there is a reason why I said I was the only one with the wits to bubble anyone besides myself. BOTH tanks said “lol it’s good off tank tanks adds we kill them main tank tanks Moroes no worries no worries”. Now, it didn’t occur to me which fight we were on. I’d only ever done Moroes twice before (in fact, the only bosses in Kara I’ve done twice before this run are Attumen, Moroes, Maiden). But when he gouged the tank the first time, I saw what was happening, and remembered why no one ever tanks the adds on Moroes. For those of you who don’t know, Moroes does a gouge which incapacitates the tank, and then he goes and picks the person next highest on his aggro list. Of course, the group heals priest was 2nd, followed by all the DPS except the hunter, then the 2nd priest, who was really only focusing on the main tank, and then me, who was whistling away the time while spamming FoL on anyone below 80%. And oh did my finger get its exercise.

But, with 2 DPS left, the main tank, the off tank, and the main tank’s personal priest, they managed to down him. I was the last person to die, and that was due to the excessive amount of holy light crits I was pumping into the tank after he fell so low from…well…I’m not really sure, I just know he got to below 40% and didn’t want to come back up that well. I mean, when I have to cast 3 6k heals on you to get you to the comfort zone of 80% and up, I get disturbed.

So we rezzed up, and we moved on, and the healing all got called incredibly op due to saving the group from ridiculous amounts of damage from pulling 2-3 of those non-elite mob packs in the area around Moroes, and we got to Maiden, and took her down.

Now, if you’re following, we had 2 paladins as tanks. And Maiden silences. So you’re thinking “wow, that must have been a tough fight!”

Easiest. Fight. Ever.

I don’t even know why, but she went down REALLY fast with NO problems. I don’t even think the DPS had to let up on their damage that much.

So we went on to the Opera, and it’s the Crone. Now, I’ve never done ANY of the opera events (even though I wish I could. I want the trinket and the book :D.) and I had no clue what to expect.

Let me sum it up in one word; Chaos.

We didn’t have a mage to rust the tin man, and for whatever reason, I don’t think we tried to have the hunter rust him with frost traps. Does that even work? I really have no clue; I just heard that frost spells rust him. We had the chain fears at least, and searing pain on the scarecrow. Dorothy dropped fast both times, and while on the first try we did have 3 deaths, it didn’t seem all that bad. And yes, we did have 2 tries. He reset in the middle of the first attempt. Why? Don’t ask me, I have NO idea. I just stood at the edge of the mage and spammed heals again XP.

Then we wanted to go out and come back in through the back door for Curator. The main tank and DPS warrior didn’t hear this. I followed them, not really knowing where to go. Well, it ended up that the rest of the group had left the instance (duh, they wanted to reenter from the top) and the main tank wasn’t paying attention. Silly me had no clue where to go.

Then the main tank aggroed three mobs. Two elites and one non-elite I think. All I know is that they died. And that I healed and healed and healed and healed and healed. We then got the point; this was not where we needed to be. Went back down through the stage and BAM I got too close to the side, here comes a mob. Tank picks him up; the mob is doing massive damage, only got the DPS warrior DPSing, and only me on heals, but we can’t just let ourselves die. POW WAM BLAMO (I holy shocked at the end XP) the mob was dead. And I had next to no mana. So while I was manaing up (because if that happened again, we needed me to have mana) the tank kneeled before me and called me a god of a healer. Yes, yes, /flex-my-epeen.

At that point everyone was tired of waiting for us. Summoned us up, we were on our way again. Few minutes later, the Curator looms ahead of us. I’ve never done this fight, and about 2-3 others had either. That’s almost half the raid, and no one bothered to explain it. Let me just say, the healers broke the healing meters on that fight. We kept everyone up for about 5 minutes, and this was with chain lightning hitting rampantly, you know, cause people don’t have DBM and don’t realize they are too close to other people. Finally, one priest died, and the other one OOMed (I think, he sort of stopped healing at least o_o), and I was only able to sustain about another 30 seconds or so of keeping everyone else up.

Oh well, we got the point, stay away from each other, and beat on Curator when he’s evocating. And just a few minutes after everyone was back, Curator dropped me some fancy badges.

The whole night was a warlock night by the way. They seemed to be winning everything, and when their glove token dropped, no one was surprised one of the warlocks won it. But he needed it, so gratz were quickly spread.

At that point, the tank had to leave. Now, no one else was in DIRE need to leave, but the tank was leaving, and they didn’t want to wait around.

Within 2 minutes the raid was 4 out of 10. Well, those of us still there wanted to do more. So we did. Took us another half an hour to find more people, got 2 mages this time, a tree, a resto shaman, only one tank (I was told that’s all you need after Curator) and an enhancement shaman. Now, I was getting a bit tired, and figured, they’re PUGing it, they probably have gear as good as mine :D.

Oh. My. Goshles.

The tank was better geared than his predecessors. He was also a paladin. But he was a bit snarky, and I’d have rather have the two who left over him any day. But no matter, nothing I could do about that. We pushed on. Got up to shade with little hassle. As I said earlier, the healing meter was broken, so I didn’t bother to check up on the other two new healers, although I did find I was using a lot more mana (10%-15% for trash fights up to 20%-30%). I, however, chocked that up to more difficult fights, or at least more damaging fights. It didn’t occur to me I was the only one putting out sufficient amounts of healing power.

We get to Shade, not too many problems; we’re all buffed up, psyched and ready to go, because Shade is easysauce. And we wipe.

Not only did we wipe, but we got destroyed. The first thing Shade did was Flame wreath. One of the new shamans (I think the enhance one) wasn’t up next to Shade when this happened. And he wanted to be. So he wiped half the raid. I only survived due to my bubble. The resto shaman also managed to stay alive for a second (the druid died if someone sneezed wrong, seriously, 6k health in Kara? Thank you, please don’t come again.) Note how I said a second. He didn’t realize that those weird falling icicles from the sky kill you! Who would have guessed! Regardless, I kept myself, the tank, and I think a warlock, alive for long enough for Aran to drop down to about 70%. He then proceeded to pull us in to AE us, and the warlock didn’t move out. Oh well, a tank and a healer weren’t bringing him down, and I was told to run towards the door to get a DI. Of course, without my healing, the tank died before I could make the run across the room while avoiding the blizzard.

So much for that =\.

So the stupid shaman who ran during flame wreath got yelled at. Then he told us he needed to repair. /sigh took his time too. Took so long, two people dc’d; the tank and the DPS warrior. /sigh again. So I checked out some people’s armories, the healers specifically, because I wasn’t going to just give up, damn it I want to see Prince! Well, turns out both of the other healers had below +1000 +heal.

/boggle

I can barely remember when mine was that low. I was still running SV for the hat, and a few other places. I ended up getting enough AH pieces, a few mail and cloth pieces, and enchants to bump me up to about +1100 +heal. I THEN decided I could TRY Kara. And I did alright, on the first few bosses, and they bumped my healing up greatly. I since have done heroics, gotten a few things here and there, and now I feel ready for end of Kara, maybe some ZA, Gruul’s, possibly Maggy. I have a nice +heal of 1620 (unbuffed).

I don’t know, maybe my expectations are too high. But still, if you’re going to do a PUG of a raid instance, come in with better gear than you’d need to run it with a guild.

Anyways, I just sort of got disheartened after that. And the group was looking like it was going to die anyways, so I /hearthed

A bad end to a good night, even with some real life issues going on in the background; still I hope I can spend a bit more time in Kara, or ZA, or any of the raids, cause I had some mad fun. :D

4 pages (on MS word) later and I’m done! I need to learn how to condense some XP.