:::10 February 2006:::
Remember yesterday when I said the Judgement Crown was "damn sweet"?
Well, it just got a hell of a lot better. Doomcrusher lent me his Pally Voodoo Doll so I could complete my ZG enchant
quest. That enchant added 10 to Defense, 7 to Stamana, and 24 to healing which takes the +healing alone on that helm
to +56!!! I can get another of those enchants to my Judgement Leggins. Sweet.
ZG last night was fun. We started out with low numbers (I was actually there from the beginning) and we kicked
some butt. When we started we had three Pallies, Doomcrusher, Forgefire, and me. Doom left before we got to the
tiger boss, leaving me as the lone full member Paladin in the raid (Forge is still a trial member). Forge then had to
leave and we got Hama (another Trial member). It was nice being the "lead Paladin" on the end portion of the raid.
I think that I got to show a bit of what I can do when we got to Hakkar.
Hakkar has been tweaked by Blizzard. It is a much more involved fight. I am not going to go into all the
details other than to say you need to have at least two Hunters to make the event a bit easier.
Talking with a few of the guildies during and after the raid it looks like there is a good number of us that have been
in leadership roles or even guild leaders of guilds in other games. My "game leadership" history is from EQ where I
was Guild Leader of Ivory Order, I was elected to that role after serving as an officer for a while. I was also the
creator and guild leader of Thugs of Neriak before we merged with a larger guild. I was an Officer in Circle of Knowledge
during my early months in EQ. I was in CK until I left to join several friends in Colossus, a startup raiding guild.
Even though we were a tight group, advancing through a lot of content much faster than some of the elite raiding guilds that
were on the server, Colossus only lasted a few months when RL summoned the Guild Leader and his then soon-to-be wife away
from the game. It was at that time I joined IO. IO was a family/raiding guild I was there for many months until
it collapsed from growing pains. There were members that wanted to take it to a raiding guild and others that did not.
We fractured and a good portion of members left. It is sad to say that I was an officer and final guild leader when
this happened. I was helping to develop a raiding strategy (with fellow raid-centric officers) including a DKP system
and schedules. When the blow-up became inevitable and many of the "raid" people had left due to the non-raid people
not doing anything to help the guild I felt it was best for me to give the leadership to another officer (one that I knew
had the support and best interest of the guild at heart) and for me to leave without causing more drama. From there
I joined Second Covenant. Together with Mithril Web, Second Covenant did many things advancing into the Planes of Power
and Gates of Norrath. SC did have some strong personalities that pushed a lot of people out. Many of us left SC
to join the Mythic Legends. ML rocked. ML was my last home in EQ. I was in ML for over a year (I was in EQ for
nearly four years) It was with the Legend that I really learned how to raid. The MW/SC raids did have many positives,
but it was the overall team, working together for one goal, each class understanding its role and doing it with the efficiencies
that was required to maximize the raid, not the individual. I retired from EQ as a member of ML, whith Ghaani still
on the server (Lanys was merged with 7th Hammer) as a member of The Legend. Anyhow, that is my "history" I hope you
enjoyed that.
:::9 February 2006:::
Had a good night last night (once I was finally able to get in. No not
a queue issue just had a lot of things I had to do before I was able to log in). Wednesday is BWL night. I got
in just as we were taking down Razor. It looks like the changes to CTRaid really helped with my lag issues, as I was
not getting much raid lag at all (Very nice!).
Anyhow, I was not actually in the room as Razor went down so I didn't roll on anything. We went in to get Vael, and
well that encounter is tricky, and hard to do when you don't have a full raid. The First attempt the Paladins and Priests
were picking up BA in rapid succession. The second attempt, a hunter got BA and didn't move to the safezone quickly
enough and killed all the ranged DPS. The third attempt something happened and all the tanks went down in one blow.
We called the BWL raid at that time. We then went to take down Ony. We only had 29 people in the raid, where you
can take 40. We got in, got buffed and started our way to the Black Dragon. We took her down with ease, we just
lost two people and one was rezzed during the fight. Ony dropped a Judgement Helm! Since I was the only Pally there
that did not have it, I got it! YIPPEE!!! Also, we have an open roll on Ony's Head for all members. I rolled a
100 on the head and got it too! I was so jazzed. I did feel bad that one of our main off-tanks had been wanting
the head really bad as well (he rolled a 99). Oh well, I will be going to Ony as often as we do her knowing that I don't
need anything from her. The last time we did Ony we had 33 and had ZERO deaths! Put Ony on FARM status.
I did the turn in for Ony's head and decided on the ring. It has much better stats on it than the ring I had, plus,
it has +10 to Fire Resist, which my old ring didn't. If I had taken the trinket, it would have just been a net +5 to
FR and would have cut into my +Healing gear (which I feel is really important as long as Paladins are considered healers on
raids).
The Judgement Crown is DAMN SWEET! It has more AC than any other part of my gear except my Jedgement Leggings (not
counting my shields) It has great stats and looks a hell of a lot better than my crappy Lightforge Helm.
Here are the gear upgrades I want to get (not going to list Judgement):
Chest - Currently I have an Energized BP (blue
drop from DM) - Up would be Lawbringer
Shoulders - Currently I have Lightforge - Up would be Lawbringer (from MC)
Hands
- Currently I mainly use some +51 Healing mail gloves from DM - Up would be Lawbringer
Boots - Currently I have some blue
boots from SS - Up would be Lawbringer
I have Lawbringer Bracers and Belt, and Judgement Crown and Leggings.
I need to do create my list of the bosses that drop that gear so I will know what to expect.
