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Be Careful on the Roads in Outlands

February 5, 2007 By Gitr 4 Comments

Has anyone else noticed that the roads are no longer safe? It used to be a very odd mob that would make your life miserable by sticking to the roads. I can recall Stitches in Duskwood, the Runners in Winterfall, and Rexxar wiping out Alliance people on the roads in Northern Feralas and Desolace.

I found it to be a much different case in Outlands. There are not only mobs that aggro like crazy to like-level toons running about their business on the roads, but they daze you, causing you to fight them. Is anyone else as bugged by this?

Hellfire Ramparts Is my New Deadmines

February 5, 2007 By Gitr 3 Comments

I can’t count how many times I have run Deadmines with my various Alliance toons, and I am getting the sense that Hellfire Ramparts will soon be that kind of instance. To make such a statement is in no way a slam, as I still find Deadmines to be an incredibly fun instance. The boss fights are varied, creative in their abilites, and for the level, the loot is pretty darn good. You’re not going to find a better ring or wand from questing at that level.

Yet Ramparts is not quite as varied as Deadmines. So it is curious that I am enjoying it so much. I like the constant multiple pulls, mana conservation as a healer, and the boss fights are the best I’ve personally seen outside of ZG and MC. Granted, I was not a hardcore raider with Gitr, but I would expect that many many players taking a liking to Ramparts are not, either.

Let’s do a quick rundown of the bosses for Ramparts:

Deadr Goes to Blood Furnace

February 3, 2007 By Gitr Leave a Comment

I went on a guild run of BF last night, with 2 70s. That was pretty easy going. It really brought down my XP, but I was there because I really wanted to see it and had 2 quests to complete. After that, we ran Ramparts to go for more loot. Let me just say, running with a druid bear tank with 12k HP is awesome.

The run only lasted 30 minutes, so I’d imagine I will be doing it often in the next week or two. I got a great boss drop and the quest rewards were nice. I’m at work today, so I should stick to that. Here are the links of all the gear from yesterday in total and some pics of the run as I find some time:

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Droods Can Deal Damage, Right?

February 2, 2007 By Gitr 2 Comments

I had installed DamageMeters this week to get some idea of what my dps is now. It was purely for informational purposes, as I’m not really interested in healing % or damage dealt in 5-man runs. I was flipping through the stats this morning from our run through Hellfire Ramparts and noticed something SUPER odd.

I had done less than half of the healing, but it was because our druid was healing right behind me an awful lot. In fact, he had something on the order of 78% overheal. My overheal was around 24% because I couldn’t aways stop the heal fast enough because of my slow framerate. The heal was over before I could move after seeing that the drood was healing.

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Deadr ….::::60::::….

February 1, 2007 By Gitr 11 Comments

Deadr dinged 60 at 10:55pm EST tonight after a run in Hellfire Ramparts with a playtime of 11days 21hours 37minutes.

I logged on an immediately called out to Aeigelus for a Ramparts run, but there was some miscommunication, probably on my part, that I was wanting to run on Friday. So I put out a call for others to join and immediately got 2 takers, Slickv and Ninjamaster. We started heading there and had Gorelord join us as a 62 warrior. He made it known that I was too low to be main healer and I was removed from the group…that I started.

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My Second 60 Is on the Horizon

February 1, 2007 By Gitr 2 Comments

I’m coming up fast on level 60…just a matter of another 2-3 hours of playing until I get the great ding before the ding of all dings. It will come one week to the day short of one year after Gitr hit 60, only I’m smashing his time played.

Here is a little archive-digging for old memories’ sake. I can’t believe I spent a week or two in WP/EP getting killed over and over and running forever back to my body from those stupid graveyard sites. I really love the graveyard in Outlands. Not a cool thing to like, but helpful, nonetheless.
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