EQ2: Solo Healing Raids

Well if there is one way to stop me dpsing its to shove me in a group as the solo healer.  Oh sure for some easier stuff ill still shove my spade on and go to town with massive flurry crits but last night was a little different.

It all started when I got given the mage group to heal which isn’t surprising for me as an Inquisitor.  What was surprising was I was left to solo heal it all night…. Even when the “scout group” only had 4 members (2 being healers) I was still plugging away myself.

So how did it go then?  Well we started off on the mob in the hole who levels up when he kills someone.  We have been trying him for the last couple of weeks to get a feel for it.  We got him to 39% best try yesterday before he had levelled up too much.  We came to the conclusion that our dps was too low.

My findings from the fight are:  I cant dps this and keep the mages alive at the same time, with the amount of focus I need to give to curing curses and keeping reactives up.

It didn’t help that two of the mages in my group are either new or just returned to raiding and as such their gear lacked either resists, crit mit or HP which tended to make them explode when stood at max range unless I had single target reactives AND group reactives up at the same time on them.  This led me to just do zero dps (apart from some debuffs and maybe a quick burst on the pull) and just keep singles on everyone and group up whenever the charges hit under 5 (<3 13 Charge Malevolent Diatribe!)

In the end we realised we probably didn’t have the current dps in raid to pull this off, we were averaging 300k raid dps over the course of the fight.

We then went on to try the next fight which is 3 bosses by some pillars, we got some idea of what to do now but the execution was off.

We then went into our partially cleared Labs and finished off Perah Celsis before resetting the dungeon and going through it again.  I bought some Chain boots for my assassin which is awesome and stuck in the Fatal Followup red adorn.

We didn’t manage to drop Perah for the 2^nd time as for some reason we just could not stop the deaths, again the two mages in my group were esploding (as I called it) and in the end told one of them not to revive.  After a 19 min fight we wiped, perah had healed over 100 million damage and was top healer!  I came in 3^rd, WAAAAY above the MT templar. Yay for squishy groups.

My aim for tonight is probably to grind some AA on the Assassin, I still haven’t heard if im allowed to main change yet but any progress on him is good.  I need to get to 200 AA soon so I get most of the toys I want to raid with.  That’s the thing with the Assassin, every AA feels like an upgrade to damage.

However Mrs B will for a fact want to play WoW so may dabble on that for some time too.

Reroll Attempt 3!

Harpers are looking for certain classes again, one of which I have as a level 90 alt.  Therefore im attempting to reroll again.  Assassin is my choice this time, which is nice as it was the first ever char I rolled when I first started EQ2.

Its all in the hands of our GM, if he says no, then ill do what ive been planning for a while.  Grind AA like a mofo, buy gear then see where we go from there the thing to think about is that there are a few guilds out there recruiting Assassins at the moment, and with my latest healer burnout on my Inq maybe its time to jump ship?

EQ2: Contested down! Server 3rd!

Last night I logged on a little earlier to EQ2 as I wanted to get some AA on my Assassin (prior to enquiring about a main change you see) and headed off to Stonebrunt to grind some quests (as I didn’t have time to mass exp like normal).  I hear over our private voice chan that Oxdaxius is up, which generally means we are going to have a go.

Now a little history, we had one pull on this before where we didn’t know WHAT was going on and managed to get it to 85% through brute forcing it whilst the top guild on the server watched.

After we wiped they pulled it and killed it on easy just to stop us as was said by their members “Harpers will kill that if they get another pull”

Well a full half an hour before the raid was due to start, invites went out. We were going for it!

I logged over to my Inquis (BOO!) and got formed up, for some reason I got shafted with the scrub group (as I call it lol) which at the time consisted of myself and two dirges.  In the end the group filled out and we got to pulling.
In my haste to get online I didn’t run my parse so I couldn’t investigate the pull to see what happens and pick apart my own performance, but lets just say that we got him, and its not even hard….

So there we go then, serverwide 3^rd on a contested which is normally perma camped by Xanadu, go us!

The rest of the raid night was a mess of wipes inside the Hole.  I hope we gave a good impression to our new members…. Serverwide 1^st as a guild for deaths, hell yeah!

My First Mistake…….. hahahahahahaha

Ive been looking at upgrades for my warriors tank gear lately (as its easier to queue as tank and get insta pops than as DPS) and spotted the quest chain for the Occulus which gives a good ring as the first step, then some defence plate for the last step.

So I got the quest and queued myself.  Insta pops are great.  I was soon inside the instance with a group of all 80s, which I thought was good as the Occulus isn’t all that hard but with all 80s it should go fine.

Well the whelps at the start caused some issues as the healer died once when I could AE tank them all at once but I soon got into the groove.  I really don’t like that people don’t assist the tank in WoW, they need a targeting system like EQ2 where you fight THROUGH the tank, ah well.

We progressed through the instance and got to the final boss.  This is where it got weird.  First off, the boss went into his little portal plane thing and summoned the orbs…. Which was off, I didn’t remember him doing that before,  but remember reading about it.

Then he died…. And I got the achievement for Occulus and Heroic Occulus….. yes that’s right I did a Heroic!  I wasn’t even defence capped and nowhere near ready for it (in my eyes) but I did it! I apologised profusely to the group after I realised, they just laughed.  In my excitement I forgot to stay in the instance for the end of the loot roll and left after rolling need on some Defence Plate and didn’t get it as I had left.. doh!

Still im coming along nicely now, im about ready to hit heroics properly, there is still a piece of loot I want from regular Champions Colliseum, (Plate belt which I lost to a DPS DK last night fucksake) and then ill start with the easier heroics.

Tonight is a raid night on EQ2, we are starting to struggle with numbers at the moment, now requiring extra healers, chanters and even now dps.  Im considering asking to main change to my Assassin, for added punch.  Ive made it abundantly clear that im unhappy on the inquisitor so all I can do is ask and be told no.

World of Warcraft: Mum Friendly!

My mum has recently decided to start playing World of Warcraft which is not in itself a bad thing.  

Way back when I got my mum into online gaming I steered her away from Warcraft due to the bad taste I had in my mouth from it when I stopped playing last and got her hooked onto EQ2 anyway.

However I have noticed her interest waning in EQ2 a little lately, and so I popped over and got her a WoW trial downloaded.  Now she is hooked on there, so much so she has got herself a 6 month subscription!

My only regret was not using her as a recruit a friend but we shall live.

So now my mum has a level 11 Night Elf Hunter which she is happily playing and enjoying the world.  Good for her, I have recently resubbed WoW myself and am enjoying the content as I see it.  Im still narked ill probably never experience Naxx but maybe in a few expansions and level raises I can come back and poke my head in to see what it was like.

Tonight is a raid night in EQ2, so I shall be doing that anyway, fingers crossed mum is ok, im sure she will be as long as she ignore all of the immature fucktards in chat.

I tanked something!!!

Been a while since I posted but I simply HAD to get this down.  Last night was a little poor turnout on our raid with both of our plate tanks being off which meant our Brawler was MT.  Not a problem at all for us however we were clearing palance….

Which means sisters…

Anyhoo we downed Maluus and I get a whisper from one of the officers to swap onto my Berserker.  THANK FUCKING CHRIST, AT LAST!  This was my crowning moment, the time for me to enjoy myself, and that I did.

I was tasked with my sister (Honestly I cant remember the name) which was the warrior one, which meant mine was not only going to be the last killed, but I had to interrupt the hardmode too!

Well someone obviously wanted me to tank for a little longer as we had a couple of wipes due to slow flashpotting, but in the end everything was dead and I was victorious,  sure I was a little spiky at times, but my gear IS good enough to tank raids, apart from my legs.

I then swapped back to the Inq and we killed Roehn Theer 2 runes again.  We then heard the shout that Oxdaxius was up and we legged it over there.  As usual Xanadu were already there and attempting the hard mode… AND WIPED!

We buffed up and pulled it not knowing anything at all.  Well adds spawned which couldn’t be hit, we could hit Ox though.

We eventually wiped, after offtanking a shit load of adds and dropping Ox to 88%.

Xanadu then pulled the easy mode and killed it, which is a big bonus for us since that meant they thought we would kill it if they wiped again.  Which may be true since we figured out how to damage the adds and would get it next time.

Maybe next time