Results tagged “Magister's Terrace” from Bitter Roots

Me and some buddies went into Magister's Terrace last night, to do a quick run on normal and get a friend attuned to heroic.  We had a prot pally, a holy pally, an affliction warlock, a destruction/demo warlock and a combat rogue.  Once we worked out some kinks in the system, the run went nice and smoothly.  I discovered that using my felhunter and solo'ing any of the spellcasters is fun!  DoTs and drain life, wohoo.

The problem occured when we got to Kael'thas.  We were at the hell-pull before him, and we were using fear as a CC.  I've done it before, and none of them have ever run far enough to aggo Kael'thas.  Apparently, they can, they just hadn't before.

So the prince of the blood elves yells and comes running towards us.  Three of the group are in the corridor, so they book it.  Myself and Megawatt are stuck in his room, because the door has shut.  We die horribly.  (Of course, the pull mobs have no trouble getting through the door.)

We release.  We run back.  Smack into the closed door.

So after all that, we couldn't finish the instance.  Sigh.

I put in a ticket and the GM contacted me about two hours later.  She was very nice but I was OTing Karazhan at the time, so I couldn't talk to her properly.  She said they're aware of the issue and are working on it.  Bleh.  In the meantime, if it happens you should put in a ticket and stay in the instance, somebody should be there to fix it quickly.

Well, the patch has dropped!

I waited for the usual extra downtime, then hopped on good ol' Argent Dawn.  First thing I did was log onto Emelyn to see if I'd got enough honour for my new gloves.  I had, but what was waiting for me on my character sheet made me boggle.

I WISH I'd got that much in one day.  I actually got around 5k.  I hopped into AV later on with Nax before I went to bed, and the new instant honour thing is really nice.  So is the join as group feature.  Putting the Horde staring area a whole three feet further back hasn't changed a whole lot from what I could see, though.

After that I hopped on Aly and did the new daily fishing quest, which sent me to Stormwind.  Took me about 15 casts but I caught a baby crocolisk from the canals and handed it in for my reward, which was some gold, a grey, and some fishing lures.  Woot!

Then I pottered around a bit, fending off "come heal for me at Sunwell" requests until Mega got online.  We formed up a group consisting of Maxinos (warrior), Autumntail (rogue), Kertatha (mage), Raecrister (healing-type pally) and myself on Emelyn.

The new instance is fun!  We purposefully went in there without having read any strats.  Kertatha had done the first two bosses on test, so he kept quiet except for when we had some trouble.

The room above was a lot of fun.  The first couple of pulls involved me and Kert giggling madly as we AOE'd and then died horribly.

Kael'thas was a challenge, took us about five tries to get him down.  The next-to-last try was exciting, I was the only one alive when he got to about 13%.  Between my DoTs and life siphon/life drain, I managed to get him down to 1% when I misjudged one of the arcane spheres and died, with a howl of "NOOOOOOO!".  We got him down the time after that.

Then me and Mega did some of the dailys, then gave up on them because there were just toooooo many people.  It's all pretty good fun though, and I'm looking forward to trying all the rest of the new stuff.

I did make some brilliant glass on Eledith, and got a dawnstone out of it.  It's on a cooldown though.

I'm loving the new mana regen.  Intellect now gives you extra regen, the more int you have - the more regen you get per point of spirit.  That coupled with the mana-cost reduction of regrowth ... oh man.  I was in tree form, spamming regrowth on Mega to test it, and I felt like a paladin.  I think with full raid buffs, I'll be able to spam regrowth all day without my mana going down much at all.