My Guild's ProgressionFollow

For those who care...
Just thought I'd post a little note here that after 9 months of goofing around in the Outlands and leveling alts, my guild is finally picking up and has managed to get people keyed and showing up for a Karazhan run.
Last Sunday we took 7 guildies + 2 people off my friends list into Karazhan.
We had previously stepped in and killed a few ponies, but this time we cleared up to Attumen and one-shotted him.
Sadly, our borrowed warrior tank had to leave, but we continued up to Moroes and cleared trash (yes, with a single druid tank and only 8 people wearing misc blues and greens). We made a decent first attempt at Moroes and got him to 65% before death and respawns overcame us and we called it a night.
Nice first run!
Oh, and I have to say...
Even without a full raid, Attumen was easy. I anticipate much farming of him in the future.
Rawk.

Drops from Attumen included Harbinger Bands which one of our warlocks picked up and a lovely Worgen Claw Necklace which I snagged.

Our guild has been suffering from Casualitis with a few attacks of Altitis. It's nice to see some fresh up and coming faces in the guild to replace some of the old schoolers who are pretty much bored with the game and have stopped playing.

-T.

GG,kara is easy and all about the scripts of the bosses. youll have to reclear to moroes btw

You need to spend more time in Shatt! I like to dismount way up in the air and see if I can suicide-gnome-bomb anyone I know. I'm running out of targets!

*rofl*
I'm usually within the safety of the bank or up by the Scryers recall point.
I am not so sure I want to step out just to become a target...

Thanks for the tip, Ebonspine. I have heard that as well from our druid tank who originally was forced to pick up the healing ring by his last guild.
Luckily, rogues get pretty much one choice...can't really ***** that one up. :/

Reading comprehension FTW.

-T.

Well...
Last Sunday we had a full raid (and all Guildies, too!).
Took out Attumen with ease.
Went after Moroes twice (first time to 15%, second time to DEAD).
Went after beast boss and killed the Spider that spawned.
After that, too much time had passed (3 or 4 hours - we spent a lot of time waiting for respawns in front of Moroes when somebody had to leave and didn't hearth/drop group first) and so 5 of us stuck around to farm some additional rep.

Freakin' awesome!

I'm hoping next week to get an even faster run and clear Attumen and Moroes in half the time, and then head over to Maiden.

-T.

Edited, Oct 15th 2007 3:48pm by Tepetkhet

Really? Hm. I didn't think it was that rough once we got everybody there and coordinated.

You think we should do Maiden next, or something else like the Opera event?

-T.

Grats, at that level I found Moroes a tougher fight then many others. With the right group makeup I find Maiden much easier. Animal bosses (spider) aren't worth the time imo, very pathetic loot tables, far too much trash you need to clear. I'd go Attumen, Moroes, Maiden, Opera, Chess, then see how you're doing on time after that.

Nice, Kara really is how much time you spend in there and if you keep a consistant group coming you'll have most of it down in no time.

Good luck with the rest of it!

Well, that was fun! We had a different group this time which was unfortunately slightly melee heavy, and our paladin had to bail after Moroes.
Attumen's practically on farm now.
Moroes took us a couple tries before we got the shackle / kill add rhythm down.
We went ahead and went after Maiden.
Being melee-heavy sort of hurt us...that, and we had 2 prot warriors along. The fight went a little smoother when I had the Thunderfury-wielder go DPS and had the other prot warrior tank. We also had to play with kiting and positioning since we didn't have a paladin to help break the stuns.

The Maiden of Virtue seemed to have a suspicious bulge in her skirt and we thought she might actually not be as virtuous as she may seem. After we downed her (3rd try, I think), one of our cat durids dove in and confirmed that she is in fact female and the bulges were just her phat lewtz.

We didn't have time to hit Opera, alas.
We'll have to go a little faster next time, or find a way to pull extra healers out our butt who will be available during the week for a second raid night.

Kinda funny how we got a lot of applicants as soon as we started downing bosses in there...just added another warlock, a mage + warrior + rogue, and a level 61 shaman who's willing to spec healy for us when he hits level 70 and gets keyed.

Sweet.

-T.

You'll find it quite ironic that, after progressingly more difficult fights in terms of coordination and the amount of damage versus dps you need to put out, the "end" boss in Karazhan (the Prince) is more about luck than anything. You can be covered in BT epics and still wipe on him all day if you get bad infernals repeatedly on you, your tank, and in places that cut of the melee from a safe-route to the ranged classes.

If you have a paladin maiden should be cake. Just have him put up blessing of sacrifice and he won't be stunned during repentance. Also have everyone in the raid get a boss mods. The other healers will learn to run into the the concecration seconds before repentance.

Will take a little learn, but since you got moroes so easily, sounds like you guys will take her down quickly.

Bah.
And leave just as fast when you stumble and they find they actually have to work at it.
I'm really unhappy lately with the guild as a whole not putting much effort into things. Moroes at first seemed so easy, and now we have a hard time getting people coordinated enough to kill him.
One of the tanks and his ret paladin buddy left.
A healer left because we weren't farming Maiden.
Our other healer moved and is busy getting settled in and hasn't logged in.
It's another slump...I just hope we can get over it and get back to killing stuff soon.
On the plus side, my paladin is level 57. I hope to get her into the Outlands tonight and start gearing her up with healing gear so I can respec her from Prot to Holy. If I can figure out how to play a holy paladin, it will be nice to have a non-melee DPS to swap in and finish encounters.

-T.