hehehe, greetings fellow wow’ers it’s time for yet another Achievement crawl, this time taking in the sites of Azeroth from all the major towns / cities, yes it’s Thanksgiving time, so time to partake in the Pilgrims achievement – now I wont go into loong lengths about thanksgiving, well mostly because I’m from England and my understanding is pretty poor – so instead I’ll refer you to Wikipedia, where you can get all the info about this time of year.

Things to note, this is an excellent time to level cooking from 1 – 340 without having to hunt for the materials – seriously what better chance are you gunna get to do it – I mean you can buy all the materials from the vendors scattered around the major cities, sure you’ll need to vist them multiple times, but it’s a breeze and will probably cost maximum 10g to get all the training and recipes – TOP TIP

I’m really not going to reproduce the achievement guide here because theres sites dedicated to achievements with alot more input from members who have done them, I recommend:

WTB Achievements or perhaps the Oracle (Wowwiki) both will guide you through, if you struggle with any part shout here and I’ll help yer.

Weekend raid – well we hit Ulduar last nght – not a particularly successful evening, we did 5 bosses (FL, Razorscale, XT, Ignis & Kolo) but it seemed to be a struggle rather than the usually smooth event our guild runs are. Still as always it was nice to get out with the guild for an evening – and I manged to snag a little more loot – Energy Siphon – from the Leviathan, I’m not a fan of the “use” items but it’s still a nice mp5 trinket.

Anything else new – well I managed to ding 20 on the priest, so now I can use a mount (big difference to the game, no longer waiting til 40 for a mount) that means it’s the highest priest I’ve ever had (yay me).

Anyways, thats me for today, cya guys later.

/Buel

Morning Gang, a new shiney achievement is whats new hehe – if you take a look to the left and then scroll down you’ll see that I am sporting a rather shiney, brand new achievement – Kel-Thuzad’s Defeat yes I’ve been in Naxx rather a few times over the last couple of weeks and finally I got to see the end content.

So thought’s about this from a healing perspective, I was asked to stand in a couple of times to help the guild raid, this naturally I jumped at (helping the guild and healing is a good excuse to see the content, and potentially earn some loot).

Firstly loot – chuff all to be honest, there was a couple of drops during the times I was there, but nothing could beat the kit I currently have, I found this really dissappointing that the Naxx kit dropping was worse than my crafted and heroic purples! Now I’m sure if other items had dropped that my blues would easily have been replaced it just wasn’t to be. The Hunter, Shammy, Warrior Helm dropped (seen waaayyyy to much of the hunter, shammy and warrior tokens in my last few trips!).

Secondly – Healing. This time around there was only 2 healers available myself and a Disc priest so I saw a different side to the healing, not quite so “laid back” as it is with three healers but still were capable of handling the situation (right till the last boss! which is a very different story). I’ve learned that swiftmend is a nice “get out of jail free card” and that along with natures swiftness you can get those heals out fast and make a difference. I found that rejuvenation is still a firm favourite even tho I’ve change my idol for another shiney item Idol of Lush Moss which boosts my Lifebloom (which I try to use as often as rejuvenation altho stacking it three times can sometimes interefere when healing a full raid in my limited experience but guessing that will become easier with practise), now my other firm favourite which I find extremely useful is Wild Growth – whilst it’s not a massive heal, it is certainly very effective when theres alot of AOE going on and the melee guys are beginning to take a hitting, instant cast one off on the MT and it ticks nicely onto the DPS guys, in fact I found alot of cases it was just as friendly dropping it on myself and letting it tick on the healers and other ranged casters around me.

So onto that last boss, the one that gives the achievement that sooooo many PUG’s want before they let you join (which is kinda strange if you ask me lol, I understand the need for knowing raids etc, but surely if they are kitted and can understand simple instructions like stand here, hit the boss type thing, surely thats a good start?)  not that I often do PUG’s not being a snob just limited time restricts that – there always seems to be a group going in the guild. SO the final boss – now I could list out the strategy but to be honest theres better strat guide sites out there, lets take a look at the healers potential pitfalls during the fight, phase ne isn’t really an issue for the healers, everyone stand in the center of the room, stopping those encroaching before they get too many in the middle and swarm over us all, phase two – this in my opinion is the tricky bit for the healers Kel’Thuzad come’s into the battle and start throwing his “ample” weight around (you should allready have an encounters add on like deadly boss mod if you haven’t seriously get one, makes it alot easier – google it to find the linkage) so many of the key spells and offensive attacks from him require you to be 10 yards away from the affected player, spell casters is relatively simple deadly boss mod tells you if someone is within 10 yards so just start 10 yards from others, the healers really need to be stood cloe to the centre of the room and the others spread out around so healing is made easier. In my humble opinion the killer ability of this guy is Frost Blast this basically affects the player taking 104% of your heal in 4 seconds, you need to stack these guys up fast, very fast, instant casts for the win, HoT’s dont seem to cut the mustard on this you need the big guns out, it’s exceptionally hard work to keep everyone upright, and with two healers a little bit too much to keep everyone upright, we found when one of the healers has this spell (he is stunned and cannot help) the other healer struggles to keep you alive and keep everything else together.

We finally put this guys down on the 4th attempt with a third healer brought onine to help heal throughout this boss, I’m sure it’s possible with two healers, but for both of us who hadn’t really dealt with the boss much before the third one in made the difference.

Anyways enough gabbling for now, cya all later.

L2Heal