Why oh why ???

Lay on Hands can no
longer be cast on yourself.

Short quote from the newly released Patch notes on the PTR. I love this spell, I use it for so many things. And it is one of our only buttons we can choose the use of, when we want. A key we can use when we self think it is the best. Welcome to one less button to push..... sigh...

I dont want to say more. Besides im sad, a sad sad panda..... /Cry

2 guys 40% dmg in Toc 10 man

Ran a Toc 10 normal pug last night, actually my first pug to that place. I remember it to be so much harder.

They where looking for one last dps, which I responded to. When I came into the group, it showed they had wiped on the Beast's already and was recovering from the ppl who left. So I was not thrilled by the look of it, but hey might as well give it a shot.

We took on the beast's, and it went well. A few deaths, but down they went. Same with the rest of the instance, no wipes.... Woot... Not a awfull pug.
Now to the fun part, when I looked at the damage meter after the run I saw that a fury warrior, Lunatick and me had made 40% of the overall damage during the run. Wtf... ! 2 ppl doing almost half the damage, of all the dps. What did the rest do ?

Well, one thing is sure, they got all the loot. As me and the warrior got, hold on to your hat. 1 piece of loot, I got the plate legs from Anub. Rest did go to the other dps. Ohh, well they sure needed it... hehe...

But nevermind that, it was a fun run. And one of the only times I have made Toc10 as dps, usually I have been tank in there. Nice change.

Aion... and ohh yeah more achivements done.

I dont know if the title tells you anything. But it actually do between the lines. Im back from vacation, back into wow.... and well got some more achivements down. 5-6 in Ulduar 10 hardmodes and a few more. I have not tryed Onyxia yet, but what matters the most. I was raiding last night, and most of the time I was bored. I had my mind set somewhere else, a place where I had used most of the day already. A place where I logged out minutes before raid time, because I had signed for the nights raid. Not because I wanted.

Yeah, you problaly have guessed it already. That place was a game called, Aion. I found out when I was in France that the game had released. So when I got back home, I went online bought it and started to download it. First time I logged into the game, and selected a server. I was meet with a queue screen on 2 hours and 40 minutes. Long time since I have seen one of those. Despite seeing that a few times since as well, I am eager to get into the queue, to be able to join my characters in the world.

I was very sceptic in the start, another MMO, another one in the thrash after a week. But this dosent seem to be one of them, I have not had this feeling since I started on wow 5 years ago. I feel drawn to the game, I feel drawn to the story, the places. I feel drawn to the nice fighting system. I really enjoy playing the game. I have not played long, and ofc the endgame question is lurky somewhere in the future. But to be honest, I dont care atm. I just use all my energy to enjoy the trip I have become a part of. The journey into the unknown, into the well made world of Aion.

So far I have only explorer the class warrior, which you get to choose a path on, on level 10. I have choosen the Templar way. Or in wow terms the tank way. I have made it to level 11 so far.
Im planning to atleast try the Ranger class before moving on, to see which I will make the long journey with to start with. I have ofc been reading alot on the interweb about it, and it seems like at around level 15, the real fun begins. With grouping to kill elite's and bosses in open area's. Yeap you read right, no instance. Open world with great mobs you need a group to conquer, Im really looking forward to that. Seems very appealing to me, and a good change from the wow instances.

As you may can feel. Im very excited about Aion now. If I will in the future, time will tell. But I think I may have a game I will and want to play in the future.

If any wonder im playing Elyos on the Castor server. Impadin is my templars name... :) The ranger will problaly be named Neldon. (My first wow char ever was named Neldon, a dwarf hunter... hehe )

EuroDisney

Its time for me to get on a plane and head to paris, and hang out with mickey and his gang. Yeap, im going on a trip to disneyland with my family.

Will be gone in a weeks time, so when I get back I will have a damn hectic time getting the brewfest achivement done... hehe....

Ohh, well. Im really looking forward to some time off work and all. See you when I get back.

Retribution smashed Koloran

I was a trip into Vault of Archavon today. Just a pug visit, to see if I would be lucky to get a bit of loot. We dont have VoA on the raidplanner as a guild event. Sometimes we get a bunch togheter and fill the rest with randoms. But its different from week to week.
Back to the story, we buffed up and made us ready to face Koloran as the first competant. Here is how it went dps wise :

5448,8 dps, as the most done damage dealer.
I got fight to the end by the DeathKnight, but good use of cooldowns, I pulled ahead.

Im pretty pleased with that, considering my gear. Still wielding a good deal of Naxx items, Betrayer, 2xTier 7.5 and other items. But after some time being dps under the new rules of Retribution (Patch 3.2), im getting the hang of it. How to maintain my stacks up and so. Kologan is a pretty straight forward fight, I admit that. Only thing that should hold you away from full stacks from start to end, would be if you position yourself very badly and some fire comes. But if you do that, you know what to work on.
Only small advice I can give is, pop wings as soon as you get the 5 stacks on him. So you are able to use it again with a Heroism (If you get that in a pug) or when you get to use your hammer. (Sub 30%)
And than follow the priority system. CS > Seal > HS >conc > Exo.
And ofc have loads of fun when doing it, with a warface on.