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><channel><title>Myrddin @ MMO-Game.EU! &#187; instance</title> <atom:link href="http://www.myrddin.de/tag/instance/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.myrddin.de</link> <description>Just another MMO Games site</description> <lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:10:11 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>Love is in the Air Farming (Lovely Charm)</title><link>http://www.myrddin.de/love-is-in-the-air-farming-lovely-charm/</link> <comments>http://www.myrddin.de/love-is-in-the-air-farming-lovely-charm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:24:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Myrddin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Instance farming]]></category> <category><![CDATA[achievement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[farming]]></category> <category><![CDATA[instance]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.myrddin.de/?p=3740</guid> <description><![CDATA[The holiday event &#8220;Love is in the Air&#8221; started last night. You can now complete Achievements and purchase old and newly added items. Those however require a sh.. big load of Love token. There are a couple of of ways to get these. The event boss will drop 6-10 Love Token once a day, then [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img
class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3746" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;" title="Love is in the air vendor, charm bracelet, love token" src="http://www.myrddin.de/files/Love_is_in_the_air_vendor.jpg?386d1e" alt="" width="400" height="225" /><p>The holiday event &#8220;Love is in the Air&#8221; started last night. You can now complete Achievements and purchase old and newly added items. Those however require a <del
datetime="2012-02-05T05:34:59+00:00">sh..</del> big load of Love token. There are a couple of of ways to get these. The event boss will drop 6-10 Love Token once a day, then there is the usual daily quest grind and you can purchase love token with Charm Bracelets. These can be farmed!</p><p> <span
id="more-3740"></span></p><h2 style="margin-top:120px;">Lovely Charm farming</h2><p>Before you start make sure you have a &#8220;<strong>Lovely Charm Collector&#8217;s Kit</strong>&#8220;. With this item in Inventory you have a chance to get a Lovely Charm, when you kill a Monster of appropriate Level (green+). If you have 10 Lovely Charms you can convert these into a Charm Bracelet, which can be used to purchase a Love token.<br
/> The Big Question is &#8220;Where is the best Spot to farm Lovely Charms?&#8221;</p><h3>Icecrown</h3><p>West of Ymirheim and south of the Shadow Vault (around 40.0|50.0) is an area where Converted Heroes spawn quite fast in packs of ~8 Mobs. If you have the luxury of having a feral druid with PvP Set you can gather Lovely Charms quite fast. Instant Flight Form, snare removal via shifting and swipe are amazing tools.</p><p
style="text-align: center;"><a
href="http://www.myrddin.de/files/Icecrown_Converted_Heroes_lovely_charm_farming.jpg?386d1e"><img
class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3744" style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;" title="Icecrown Converted Heroes lovely charm farming" src="http://www.myrddin.de/files/Icecrown_Converted_Heroes_lovely_charm_farming-800x424.jpg?386d1e" alt="" width="800" height="424" /></a></p><h2>Throne of the Tides</h2><p>You can use the normal version of the instance and need to clear up to the last boss &#8211; basically you need to kill Lady Naz&#8217;jar to get access. The tunnel that leads to Ozumat is the home of Tainted Sentries and Unstable Corruptions. You clear the 2 first 2 Tainted Sentries, but keep the last 2 ones alive. Now an unlimited number of Unstable Corruptions will spawn, roughly 15 each 15-20 seconds.</p><p
style="text-align: center;"><img
class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3741" style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;" title="throne of the tides lovely charm farming" src="http://www.myrddin.de/files/throne_of_the_tides_lovely_charm_farming_01.jpg?386d1e" alt="" width="800" height="424" /></p><p>Killing these will reward you with Lovely Charms. This spot is good for 700-800 Lovely Charms per hour. As you can see I was able to get 6&#215;40 ~ 240 charms in 20 minutes.</p><p
style="text-align: center;"><a
href="http://www.myrddin.de/files/throne_of_the_tides_lovely_charm_farming_02.jpg?386d1e"><img
class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3742" style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;" title="throne of the tides lovely charm farming" src="http://www.myrddin.de/files/throne_of_the_tides_lovely_charm_farming_02-800x424.jpg?386d1e" alt="" width="800" height="424" /></a></p><h3>Video</h3><p><p><a
href="http://www.myrddin.de/love-is-in-the-air-farming-lovely-charm/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p><br
/> But even with these tips it will take a while until you receive the 270 Charm Bracelets for the mount. Good luck farming!</p><h4>Farming Tips!</h4><ul><li>wait for all mobs to repspawn after you cleared the 2 elite roamers</li><li>gather the Unstable Corruptions in 2 groups</li><li>the ones at the entrance &#038; at the pool of water in the center as first group</li><li>the remaining ones that gather towards the boss as second group</li></ul><p>Mobs will respawn in relation to when they have been killed. By seperating them you will get them to gather more convenient and faster, kill them faster and thus last but not least respawn faster overall.<br
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.myrddin.de/?p=3681</guid> <description><![CDATA[Videogamer.com has interviewed Lead Quest Designer Dave Kosak about the 2012 timeline in World of Warcraft. Interview You can find the whole Interview here, I&#8217;ll just mention a few highlights. Blizzard is happy with Looking for Raid (LFR) and Transmogfrification Raid Finder is the most successful part of 4.3 Players have enough content to chew [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img
src="http://www.myrddin.de/files/Videogamer_Interview_Mop_timeline.jpg?386d1e" alt="" title="Videogamer_Interview_Mop_timeline" width="400" height="225" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; width: 400px; height: 225px;" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3689" /><a
title="Interview with Lead Quest Designer Dave Kosak" href="http://www.videogamer.com/pc/wowt_cataclysm/news/how_world_of_warcraft_will_take_on_2012.html" target="_blank">Videogamer.com</a> has interviewed Lead Quest Designer Dave Kosak about the 2012 timeline in World of Warcraft.<p/> <span
id="more-3681"></span></p><h2 style="margin-top:200px;">Interview</h2><p>You can find the <a
href="http://www.videogamer.com/pc/wowt_cataclysm/news/how_world_of_warcraft_will_take_on_2012.html" target="_blank">whole Interview here</a>, I&#8217;ll just mention a few highlights.</p><ul><li>Blizzard is happy with Looking for Raid (LFR) and Transmogfrification</li><li>Raid Finder is the most successful part of 4.3</li><li>Players have enough content to chew on until MoP comes</li><li>We try to bring content faster</li></ul><p>Oh well, what can I say? The Patch has been out a good month and the excitement is ebbing down a bit. The Deathwing fight has a shallow taste since we do not actually fight Deathwing, just some tentacles and crap &#8230; and in Dragon Soul you simply chop him down from 20% and he does not even fight back.<br
/> Of course we haven&#8217;t beaten all on heroic, but we have seen it all and while it is still fun I am not sure that will hold &#8220;a couple of months more&#8221;.<br
/> The exact wording is &#8220;<em>the three excellent dungeons we have, the new raid, and Raid Finder that should give people something to sink their teeth into for a few months</em>&#8220;.</p><h3>Mists of Pandaria</h3><p>All expansions so far were at least a 3-4 months on beta. MoP is not even in Alpha stage, yet. This means we still have at least 4 (more likely 5-7 months) before it goes live. Wonder if they can really afford to not bring new content up to then.</p><h2>Bring new Content faster</h2><p>If you have read blue posts and dev blogs you have heard that one before. In fact it was one of the goals Blizzard had in mind for Cataclysm. But we had never had in any expansion this little content updates before. WotLK and Catyclysm were roughly released at the same time of the year, but now one year later we have less contentupdates than before.</p><h4>Wrath of the Lich King</h4><ul><li>Obsidian Sanctum, Eye of Eternity, Naxxramas</li><li>Ulduar</li><li>Trial of the Crusader</li><li>The Brood Mother Returns: Onyxia</li><li>Icecrown Citadel</li><li>Ruby Sanctum</li></ul><h4>Cataclysm</h4><ul><li>Blackwing Descent, Bastion of Twilight, Throne of the Four Winds</li><li>Firelands</li><li>Dragonsoul</li></ul><p>The locations in Dragonsoul are simply recycled content. Path of the Titans, Wyrmrest Temple, Maw of Go&#8217;rath, Maw of Shu&#8217;ma, Airship and the Maelstrom with a few Bosses added. Also the Models do not have any new look, just a bit customized, recycled models.<br
/> Basically we payed ~72€ on monthly fees to get it.<br
/> Recycling old content seems to be the biggest thing in Cataclysm. Shadowfang Keep, Deadmines, Zul&#8217;Aman, Zul&#8217;Gurub.<br
/> <img
src="http://www.myrddin.de/files/end_time_random_5_man_hc.jpg?386d1e" alt="" title="end_time_random_5_man_hc" width="800" height="400" style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px; width: 800px; height: 400px;" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3697" /></p><h3>Random Heroics</h3><p>Speaking about these last two instances. The current System for heroics is also a major step back and is part of the daily (weekly) heroic instances System. In Wrath of the Lich King you did get a random heroic daily, but not just from the last 2 published batch. This made the system a lot less boring than the current system. I mean we ran Zul&#8217;Gurub and Zul&#8217;Aman for 7 months, just these 2 instances, 7 times a week &#8230; roughly 210 times &#8230; and now we will run End Time, Well of Eternity and Hour of Twilight equally often &#8211; yay! I think this is what Dave Kosak referred to &#8220;something to sink their teeth into&#8221;.</p><h3>what would I do</h3><p>To improve the current game I would:</p><ul><li>Fix the Looking for raid Loot System</li><li>Exclude non soulbound items from calculating Item Level</li><li>Introduce a separate PvP Item Level</li><li>Merge all 5 man heroic instances into &#8220;Random Cataclysmic Heroic&#8221;</li><li>Prepare a new Sanctum at Wyrmrest Temple, in case MoP is still more than 4 months out</li></ul><p>And please Blizzard bring content faster! It doesn&#8217;t always have to be a new raid or new instances, or a ton of features at once. Sometimes little things help to cover time much better than a whole bunch of content.<br
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.myrddin.de/?p=3663</guid> <description><![CDATA[Borked has stopped raiding late 4.2 and at first I&#8217;d like to thank Group Therapy on EU-Ravencrest for letting me raid with them! The past weeks, especially after the heroic Madness of Deathwing with an Enhancement Shaman topping DPS I got quite a few whispers asking me how Enhancement AoE exactly works. Having this covered [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img
src="http://www.myrddin.de/files/myrddin_vs_yorsahj_the_unsleeping.jpg?386d1e" alt="" title="myrddin_vs_yor&#039;sahj_the_unsleeping" width="400" height="225" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3667" /><p>Borked has stopped raiding late 4.2 and at first I&#8217;d like to thank <a
href="http://www.gt-guild.com/" title="Group Therapy Website" target="_blank">Group Therapy on EU-Ravencrest</a> for letting me raid with them! The past weeks, especially after the heroic Madness of Deathwing with an Enhancement Shaman topping DPS I got quite a few whispers asking me how Enhancement AoE exactly works. Having this covered in a previous post I thought it would be nice to demonstrate how the AOE looks from an Enhancement Shaman point of view.<br
/> Yors&#8217;sahj the Unsleeping in 25 man heroic Version seems like a perfect encounter.</p><p> <span
id="more-3663"></span></p><h2 style="margin-top:60px;">Things to Consider</h2><p>Before you complain about tunneling the boss, I didn&#8217;t! Enhancement DPS suffers a lot from target switching and I was on boss most of the time, except if blobs were about to reach the boss or if the Mana Void needed some beating.</p><p>Even if I was able to get to get a top 20 ranking for this fight my gear is still pretty bad, mostly Tier 12 and some raid finder drops. Also I ruined the initial AoE on 2 transitions. With hat in mind there is huge room for improvement!</p><h3>Tips for the Fight</h3><ul><li>Glyph of Flameshock<br
/> Increases the duration of your Flame Shock by 50%.</li><li>Glyp of Fire Nova<br
/> Increases the radius of your Fire Nova spell by 5 yards.</li></ul><p>These 2 Glyphs are very important to max your AoE, but single target DPS will suffer.</p><h3>Video</h3><p><a
href="http://www.myrddin.de/myrddin-vs-yorsahj-the-unsleeping-25m-heroic/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p><h3>Damage Breakdowns</h3><p><a
href="http://www.myrddin.de/files/damagebreakdowns_yorsahj_the_unsleeping.jpg?386d1e"><img
src="http://www.myrddin.de/files/damagebreakdowns_yorsahj_the_unsleeping-722x450.jpg?386d1e" alt="" title="damagebreakdowns_yor&#039;sahj_the_unsleeping" width="722" height="450" style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3672" /></a></p><h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts</h3><ul
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.myrddin.de/?p=3620</guid> <description><![CDATA[Patch 4.3 introduced the perfect way to raid for your alts, looking for raid &#8211; lfr. Personally I enjoy having the possibility to raid a bit with my alts, even with low experience or bad gear. You don&#8217;t need to be in a guild, there is no pressure with consumables or people raging on vt [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img
class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3635" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;" title="looking_for_raid" src="http://www.myrddin.de/files/looking_for_raid.jpg?386d1e" alt="" width="400" height="225" />Patch 4.3 introduced the perfect way to raid for your alts, looking for raid &#8211; lfr. Personally I enjoy having the possibility to raid a bit with my alts, even with low experience or bad gear. You don&#8217;t need to be in a guild, there is no pressure with consumables or people raging on vt &#8211; just plain simple and kind of fun raiding. It helped me improve my skills and motivated me enough to level up 2 of my alts I haven&#8217;t touched since vanilla. But how do we use the LFR system to our advantage?</p><p><span
id="more-3620"></span></p><h2 style="margin-top: 100px;">Eliminate the Competition!</h2><p>If the Raid Finder pops up and shows that 1/8, 2/8, 3/8 of the bosses are killed you can join and check the raid without penalty in case tehre is too much competition, you can leave right and queue right away again. Only on 0/8 you get 30 min deserter debuff. With Deserter debuff I log another char and test my luck again.</p><p>As soon as joining the raid you should check the competition. For example if you are looking for tier token, then leave the raid as soon as there are 5 or more (6 for vanquisher) rollers for it. Even with 5 rollers it is unlikely that you actually win something. You have the whole week to complete the runs, there is no disadvantage leaving raids and hoping for better chances next raid.</p><p>Usually I divide raids into tier and weapon/trinket gathering. I am not that picky when it comes to tier, but as soon as spine and madness is up I will immediately leave if the chances are bad.</p><p>One thing you should keep in mind, there is a role bonus for loot but overall the system is really stupid. A balance druid is classified, as a feral druid as dps. This means both would get a role bonus when rolling on the agility staff, or int trinket.</p><p>Use this system to your advantage. As enhancement shaman it is not difficult at all to find a raid where you are the only dps shaman and there is no rogue. Should the axe drop you&#8217;d be the only roller with role bonus.</p><h3>What can you do about competition?</h3><p>At first, vote kick your competition. You will often notice that many people have already 2-3 votes on them, since people already do that en masse. It is better to get the competition out than actually being kicked.</p><p>They are afk? Play like crap? Missing enchants? Whine about it in raid chat. Whining sucks, everyone hates whiners, but they hate slackers even more! You&#8217;d be surprised how many people like to vote kick people for no reason, especially once the window pops up.</p><h3>NEED!</h3><p>The system does not reward you for being nice, there is only drawbacks. I know it sucks, personally I prefer to pass loot to people who need it more, but LFR is different. Everyone needs on everything they can and you can&#8217;t expect this kindness. LFR means that once a week you will be able to roll on loot per boss. It does not matter, if you pass, greed, need.</p><p>Even if you do not need and item, you can try to use it to get an item someone else won. For example I won two leg token on my shaman and was able to trade one of it into a glove token that a warrior won to get 4 piece bonus.</p><p>If you don&#8217;t want to be an ass you can, at the end of the raid when it is clear that you won&#8217;t be able to trade your won items for anything useful, give out the surplus loot to other players.</p><p
style="text-align: center;"><a
href="http://www.myrddin.de/files/LFR-role-bonus-no-competition.jpg?386d1e"><img
class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3637" style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;" title="LFR-role-bonus-no-competition" src="http://www.myrddin.de/files/LFR-role-bonus-no-competition.jpg?386d1e" alt="" width="553" height="252" /></a></p><h3>Arrange Rolls</h3><p>Of course it is always a risk, but you can try to arrange rolls with other people. Ask if they need the item you are after (and also risk to make them even aware of it, since some of them will roll on it, just to piss you off) or simply inspect them. If they have the item already it may be possible that they are not interested &#8211; apart from vendor value &#8211; to roll again.</p><p>Other than that you could maybe convice a &#8211; as enh shaman &#8211; elemental shaman, that you roll for him on int gear, while he rolls for you on Agi gear and then hope the player holds the deal.</p><h3>Friends</h3><p>Bring friends, it makes all of the above easier! It is always good to have people you can trust. You can focus your vote kicks, get a higher chance to win rolls and manually trade loot.</p><h2>Weapons</h2><ul><li><em>Blade of the Unmaker</em> <strong>-</strong> Rogue</li><li><em>Electrowing Dagger</em> <strong>-</strong> Rogue</li><li><em>Finger of Zon&#8217;ozz</em> <strong>-</strong> Mage, Priest, Warlock</li><li><em>Gurthalak</em> <strong>-</strong> Death Knight, Paladin, Warrior</li><li><em>Kiril</em> <strong>-</strong> Druid , Hunter</li><li><em>Maw of the Dragonlord</em> <strong>-</strong> Druid , Paladin, Priest, Shaman</li><li><em>No&#8217;Kaled</em> <strong>-</strong> Shaman, Rogue</li><li><em>Rathrak</em> <strong>-</strong> Druid , Mage, Priest, Shaman, Warlock</li><li><em>Razor Saronite Chip</em> <strong>-</strong> Rogue</li><li><em>Souldrinker</em> <strong>-</strong> Death Knight, Paladin, Warrior</li><li><em>Titahk</em> <strong>-</strong> Druid , Mage, Priest, Shaman, Warlock</li><li><em>Vishanka, Jaws of the Earth</em> <strong>-</strong> Hunter</li></ul><h2>Trinkets</h2><ul><li><em>Bone-Link Fetish</em> <strong>-</strong> Death Knight, Paladin, Warrior</li><li><em>Crech of the Final Dragon</em> <strong>-</strong> Death Knight, Paladin, Warrior</li><li><em>Cunning of the Cruel</em> <strong>-</strong> Druid, Mage, Priest, Shaman, Warlock</li><li><em>Eye of Unmaking</em> <strong>-</strong> Death Knight, Paladin, Warrior</li><li><em>Heart of Unliving</em> <strong>-</strong> Druid, Paladin, Priest, Shaman</li><li><em>Indomitable Pride</em> <strong>-</strong> Death Knight, Druid, Paladin, Warrior</li><li><em>Insignia of the Corrupted Mind</em> <strong>-</strong> Druid, Mage, Priest, Shaman, Warlock</li><li><em>Resolve of Undying</em> <strong>-</strong> Death Knight, Druid, Paladin, Warrior</li><li><em>Seal of the Seven Signs</em> <strong>-</strong> Druid, Paladin, Priest, Shaman</li><li><em>Soulshifter Vortex</em> <strong>-</strong> Death Knight, Druid, Paladin, Warrior</li><li><em>Starcatcher Compass</em> <strong>-</strong> Druid, Hunter, Shaman, Rogue</li><li><em>Vial of Shadows</em> <strong>-</strong> Druid, Hunter, Shaman, Rogue</li><li><em>Will of Unbinding</em> <strong>-</strong> Druid, Mage, Priest, Shaman, Warlock</li><li><em>Windward Heart</em> <strong>-</strong> Druid, Paladin, Priest, Shaman</li><li><em>Wrath of Unchaining</em> <strong>-</strong> Druid, Hunter, Shaman, Rogue</li></ul><h2>Tier 13 Token</h2><ul><li><em>Corrupted Conqueror</em> <strong>-</strong> Paladin, Priest, Warlock</li><li><em>Corrupted Protector</em> <strong>-</strong> Hunter, Shaman, Warrior</li><li><em>Corrupted Vanquisher</em> <strong>-</strong> Death Knight, Druid, Mage, Rogue</li></ul><p>This tactic has worked out well for me, below is most of the loot i got this way (alone) over the past 2 weeks:</p><h4>Myrddin:</h4><ul><li>Obtained <strong>Rathrak, the Poisonous Mind</strong>.</li><li>Obtained <strong>No&#8217;Kaled, the Elements of Death</strong>.</li><li>Obtained <strong>No&#8217;Kaled, the Elements of Death</strong>.</li><li>Obtained <strong>Wrath of Unchaining</strong>.</li></ul><h4>Katya:</h4><ul><li>Obtained <strong>Kiril, Fury of Beasts</strong>.</li><li>Obtained Wyrmstalker&#8217;s Tunic.</li><li>Obtained Starcatcher Compass.</li><li>Obtained Wyrmstalker&#8217;s Legguards.</li><li>Obtained Sporebeard Gauntlets.</li><li>Obtained Bracers of Looming Darkness.</li></ul><h4>Pathfinder:</h4><ul><li>Obtained Deep Earth Grips.</li><li>Obtained Girdle of the Grotesque.</li><li>Obtained Treads of Sordid Screams.</li><li>Obtained <strong>Kiril, Fury of Beasts</strong>.</li><li>Obtained Deep Earth Headpiece.</li><li>Obtained Deep Earth Spaulders.</li><li>Obtained <strong>Will of Unbinding</strong>.</li><li>Obtained Molten Blood Footpads.</li><li>Obtained Mycosynth Wristguards.</li><li>Obtained Mycosynth Wristguards.</li></ul><h4>Stormfront:</h4><ul><li>Obtained Spiritwalker&#8217;s Grips.</li><li>Obtained Petrified Fungal Heart.</li><li>Obtained Spiritwalker&#8217;s Cuirass.</li><li>Obtained Spiritwalker&#8217;s Legguards.</li><li>Obtained Spiritwalker&#8217;s Spaulders.</li><li>Obtained Dragoncarver Belt.</li><li>Obtained Imperfect Specimens 27 and 28.</li></ul><h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts</h3><ul
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.myrddin.de/?p=3646</guid> <description><![CDATA[Countless kills were needed, but finally Ashes of Al&#8217;ar dropped! We have been duoing TK with FS for quite some time when we finally got lucky &#8211; me a bit more than FS In all the years since TBC it was only the second mount that dropped for us. First one went to Nhiha, on [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a
href="http://www.myrddin.de/files/Myrddin_Ashes_of_Alar.jpg?386d1e"><img
class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3648" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;" title="Myrddin_Ashes_of_Al'ar" src="http://www.myrddin.de/files/Myrddin_Ashes_of_Alar-400x225.jpg?386d1e" alt="" width="400" height="225" /></a><p
style="margin-bottom: 135px;">Countless kills were needed, but finally Ashes of Al&#8217;ar dropped! We have been <a
title="Tempest Keep, Kaelt Thas Sunstrider Duo" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYeoGJkqL58" target="_blank">duoing TK with FS</a> for quite some time when we finally got lucky &#8211; me a bit more than FS <img
src="http://www.myrddin.de/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif?386d1e" alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> In all the years since TBC it was only the second mount that dropped for us. First one went to Nhiha, on his first and only run since TBC <img
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.myrddin.de/?p=3555</guid> <description><![CDATA[Just a quick heads up on the LFR Loot Rolls. I was going for a second round as I passed on my first one and noticed I was not allowed to roll on loot. Hence I asked a GM if it was bugged. GM conversation Eilrethane whispers: Greetings Myrddin, I am Game Master Eilrethane. I [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img
class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3556" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;" title="not_allowed_to_roll_lfr_wow" src="http://www.myrddin.de/files/not_allowed_to_roll_lfr_wow.jpg?386d1e" alt="" width="400" height="225" />Just a quick heads up on the LFR Loot Rolls. I was going for a second round as I passed on my first one and noticed I was not allowed to roll on loot. Hence I asked a GM if it was bugged.</p><p><span
id="more-3555"></span></p><h2 style="margin-top:175px;">GM conversation</h2><blockquote><ul><li><em>Eilrethane</em> whispers: Greetings Myrddin, I am Game Master Eilrethane. I am sorry for interrupting your gaming, but can you spare a moment to discuss your issue regarding loot?</li><li><em>To Eilrethane</em>: hiya, sure</li><li><em>To Eilrethane</em>: I find the previous reply unclear</li><li><em>To Eilrethane</em>: sorry for bothering again</li><li><em>To Eilrethane</em>: but I am not allowed to even roll greed, as it counts like a NEED roll, which I can only do once per boss per week?</li><li><em>Eilrethane</em> whispers: <strong>The raid finder allows players to be eligible for loot only once per week. This does unfortunately not take into regard if you need, greed or win an item</strong>.</li><li><em>To Eilrethane</em>: so I have to pass in order to go and try again?</li><li><em>Eilrethane</em> whispers: Actually, not even then.</li><li><em>To Eilrethane</em>: so I can only go once a week no matter what?</li><li><em>To Eilrethane</em>: (and be eligible to loot)</li><li><em>Eilrethane</em> whispers: Yeah, unfortunately. :/</li><li><em>Eilrethane</em> whispers: Once per boss.</li><li><em>To Eilrethane</em>: pretty silly system</li><li><em>To Eilrethane</em>: I can understand the receive 1 item per reset limit</li><li><em>To Eilrethane</em>: but everything beyond that is pretty silly</li><li><em>Eilrethane</em> whispers: Well, it is a casual alternative to keep people from farming full set of gear from raids for a full raid. :p</li><li><em>To Eilrethane</em>: but thanks for clearing it up</li><li><em>Eilrethane</em> whispers: <strong>Well, in theory, you can get up to 6 items per boss each week, assuming you can roll need on all the loot that drops</strong>. :p</li><li><em>To Eilrethane</em>: well by getting 1 item per week, sub item level is hardly what you can call “farming full set of gear”</li><li><em>To Eilrethane</em>: so it is silly to pass on anythign for worse geared people, since it doesn’t matter at all  good good</li><li><em>Eilrethane</em> whispers: Exactly. :p</li><li><em>Eilrethane</em> whispers: Go crazy, shamans are the new hunters.</li><li><em>To Eilrethane</em>: I hope you can pass that on, this is a real flaw in the system</li><li><em>To Eilrethane</em>: yeah, I was awesome already before, but this patch really improved it for us</li><li><em>Eilrethane</em> whispers: I believe this is something that is already being watched and the feedback will be coming up on the forums quite soon as well.</li><li><em>To Eilrethane</em>: for once we are top … guess we will be nerfed soon</li><li><em>Eilrethane</em> whispers: Pfft, let’s hope not. ^^</li><li><em>Eilrethane</em> whispers: Awh.</li><li><em>To Eilrethane</em>: well thanks for clearing things up</li><li><em>Eilrethane</em> whispers: No worries. ^^</li><li><em>Eilrethane</em> whispers: Apart from that, are there any other issues that I may assist you with, Myrddin?</li><li><em>To Eilrethane</em>: no thanks, not like I needed stuff from the lfr</li><li><em>To Eilrethane</em>: was just wondering why I was not allowed to roll</li><li><em>To Eilrethane</em>: I think LFR is a real fun way to play</li><li><em>To Eilrethane</em>: I was in doubt about it, but after trying it was realyl amazing</li><li><em>Eilrethane</em> whispers: Hehe, indeed.</li><li><em>Eilrethane</em> whispers: If there is nothing else that I can help you with. Farewell then, Myrddin. Hear the tales of the Ancestors, let them inspire and guide you on your journey.</li></ul></blockquote><h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts</h3><ul
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.myrddin.de/?p=3521</guid> <description><![CDATA[There have been quite a number of suggestions where I should try to solo High King Maulgar and Gruul in Gruul&#8217;s Lair, Blades Edge Mountains. Yes, I am aware it has been done before and it is not the biggest challenge, but it isn&#8217;t super easy either. I think I tried last winter but failed [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img
class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3522" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;" title="Gruuls Lair" src="http://www.myrddin.de/files/Gruuls_Lair_ft.jpg?386d1e" alt="" width="400" height="225" />There have been quite a number of suggestions where I should try to solo High King Maulgar and Gruul in Gruul&#8217;s Lair, Blades Edge Mountains. Yes, I am aware it has been done before and it is not the biggest challenge, but it isn&#8217;t super easy either. I think I tried last winter but failed and did not have much motivation to develop a strategy for it, when there were so many more interesting encounters to do <img
src="http://www.myrddin.de/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif?386d1e" alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> Current gear level makes this encounter rather easy though.</p><p><span
id="more-3521"></span></p><h2 style="margin-top: 80px;">Tactics</h2><p>The adds have roughly 250k hp, and hit for less than the average level 85 mob, but the amount of mobs and their abilities can still make this fight a little challenge. Basically the encounter features a moonkin, a healer, the boss, a warlock + felhunter and a mage.</p><p>At first I&#8217;d go for the priest &#8220;Blindeye the Seer&#8221; and interrupt his heal, his heal can heal up quite a chunk of health and thus slow the remaining kills down. As second I&#8217;d go for the warlock &#8220;Olm the Summoner&#8221; and his pet, since he casts a nasty death coil every few seconds.</p><p>The third add I&#8217;d put to rest is Krosh Firehand, he casts nasty fire balls and has a spellshield which reduced magical damage taken. You used to have a mage tanking him, who had to spellsteal the buff to be able to take the huge hits (they hurt at level 70 when you had like 12k hp). So don&#8217;t forget to purge his shield.</p><p>The remaining add and Maulgar himself are pretty straightforward and easy. Just kill them, don&#8217;t forget to use Tremor Totem to get out of Maulgar&#8217;s Fear.</p><p>If you look at the video I tried to have Grounding totem up, but with all the casters it is just gone to fast to be useful, you are probably better off using windfury.</p><p><a
href="http://www.myrddin.de/enhancement-shaman-solos-gruul%e2%80%99s-lair/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p><p>Gruul is kind of easy, you can kill him way before his Hurtful Strike becomes a problem and the other major killer ability is his shatter, but with no one else around not even that will become an issue.</p><p>Good Luck!<br
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id="more-3514"></span></p><h2 style="margin-top: 160px;">Shannox, Firelands</h2><p>Shannox is probably the easiest 10 man heroic mode in Firelands. This is an Enhancement Shamans PoV and yep our Owl got trapped (rumors say it is not the first time, ha ha)<br
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href="http://www.myrddin.de/new-videos-firelands-and-ptr/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p></p><h2>Beth&#8217;tilac</h2><p>Beth&#8217;tilac is probably the hardest 10 man heroic mode after Ragnaros in Firelands. This is an Enhancement Shamans PoV and yep I know I fell down <img
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.myrddin.de/?p=3350</guid> <description><![CDATA[Soloing the Plaguewing in Naxxramas (level 80 raid instance) was another idea by one of my readers. Actually I thought Anub&#8217;Arak would have been the easier kill, but he appeared pretty tough and I kind of stopped trying Naxx at all witht eh experience at hand. But it turned out to be quite easy. &#160; [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img
class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3351" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;" title="Myrddin Enhancement Shaman solos Plaguewing Naxxramas Loatheb" src="http://www.myrddin.de/files/Myrddin_Enhancement_Shaman_solos_Plaguewing_Naxxramas_Loatheb.jpg?386d1e" alt="" width="400" height="225" />Soloing the Plaguewing in Naxxramas (level 80 raid instance) was another idea by one of my readers. Actually I thought Anub&#8217;Arak would have been the easier kill, but he appeared pretty tough and I kind of stopped trying Naxx at all witht eh experience at hand. But it turned out to be quite easy.</p><p><span
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style="margin-top: 60px; margin-bottom: 60px; text-align: left;">&nbsp;</p><h2>Plague Quarter</h2><p>The Plaguewing is one of 5 wings inside the level 80 raid Instance Naxxramas and harbours 3 Bosses, Noth the Plaguebringer, Heigan the Unclean and Loatheb. The most famous one is probably Heigan with erupting poison waves in his room, that require precise movement, the Heigan Dance! The videos all show first kills, so the tactic at the start of each fight isn&#8217;t perfect, read below for some tips!</p><h3>Noth the Plaguebringer</h3><p>Let&#8217;s start with Noth, as he is the first encounter in the Plague Quarter. From time to time he spawns some adds, throws some curses, cripples your attack speed and teleports to the balcony to spawn more adds. As you can see I haven&#8217;t been there in a while and the fraps was my first attempt. As shaman make sure to dispell the curse and kill adds asap, you can save shamanistic rage &#8211; glyphed &#8211; to remove the cripple as it will hamper gaining MSW stacks. Should have thought about that before rushing in like a cowboy <img
src="http://www.myrddin.de/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif?386d1e" alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /></p><p><a
href="http://www.myrddin.de/enhancement-shaman-solos-loatheb-noth-heigan/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p><p>It appears Noth the Plaguebringer drops a good 170ish gold and 2 epics.</p><h3>Heigan the Unclean</h3><p>Back in wotlk, the Unclean was my weekly reminder to brush my teeth and take a shower, but what he was really famous for is erupting poison over the room. The eruptions follow a pattern, the Heigan Dance. Fortunately you do not have to pay attention too much about it solo. In raids you put the casters on the platform and have melee dance across the room. Heigan casts a 300% casting speed debuff which made this tactic kind of necessary. But since you are always melee with him and get the debuff all the time you can basically stay on the platform all the time until p2 begins, then you need to do the dance.</p><p><a
href="http://www.myrddin.de/enhancement-shaman-solos-loatheb-noth-heigan/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p><p>Heigan also drops 170ish gold and 2 epics.</p><h3>Loatheb</h3><p>Loatheb is the last boss inside the Plague Quarter. He has a nasty ability, blocking all healing for like 15 seconds, then giving you a few seconds only to heal up. Every few sec he will spawn a spore which causes you to do 0 threat, don&#8217;t take it too fast or he might kill your totems, and at the same time the spore will increase your critical strike chance by like 50%. Backpeddling on spore spawn might make it possible to have your wolves get the buff aswell. Other than that it is pretty simple, Heigan doesn&#8217;t hit hard and you might want to save Maelstrom Weapon Procs for the fading of the healing block.</p><p><p><a
href="http://www.myrddin.de/enhancement-shaman-solos-loatheb-noth-heigan/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p><br
/> Loatheb drops 170ish gold, a tier 7 shoulder token and 1 epic.<br
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.myrddin.de/?p=3331</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kapténx commented on the Enhancement Soloable Bosses Post that Sapphironw as missing on the list and indeed, I hadn&#8217;t even tried him, forgot about being able to port up to him before killing any other boss now. I gave it a try today! &#160; Magical Damage Since there is a lot of magical damage, frost [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img
class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3332" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;" title="enhancement shaman solos sapphiron" src="http://www.myrddin.de/files/enhancement_shaman_solos_sapphiron.jpg?386d1e" alt="" width="400" height="225" />Kapténx commented on the <a
href="http://www.myrddin.de/enhancement-shaman-soloable-bosses/">Enhancement Soloable Bosses</a> Post that Sapphironw as missing on the list and indeed, I hadn&#8217;t even tried him, forgot about being able to port up to him before killing any other boss now. I gave it a try today!</p><p><span
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style="margin-top: 75px; margin-bottom: 75px; text-align: left;">&nbsp;</p><h2>Magical Damage</h2><p>Since there is a lot of magical damage, frost and shadow, it makes sense to have Drums of Kings and Prismatic Elixir as buff, it will help a lot staying alive. Other than that I had the typical PvE DPS spec.</p><h2>Avoid Blizzard</h2><p>As you can see I ran in with no plan and just dps&#8217;d him down, at first I stood inside the blizzard, while it is smarter to circle around sapphiron. This way you can basically avoid the blizzard damage completely and just have the frost dot, dragon and drain life to deal with. You can also drop drain life with glyphed shamanistic rage, but I did not do that in the video.</p><p>Anyway here is the video</p><p><a
href="http://www.myrddin.de/enhancement-shaman-soloes-sapphiron/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p><p>Sapphiron will drop ~170g and also 2 epics and the key to 10 man malygos, Key to the Focusing Iris.</p><p>Thanks Kapténx for the hint!<br
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.myrddin.de/?p=3166</guid> <description><![CDATA[My fans (rawr yeah!) on YouTube got the request to fraps more soloing and I thought this would be an interesting Boss to show. The issue with Void Reaver, the 3rd Boss in Tempest Keep The Eye, is that he fires big balls of electrity that do a large radius AoE silence. While being in [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img
class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3169" style="margin-right: 10px;margin-top: 5px;margin-bottom: 5px" src="http://www.myrddin.de/files/Soloing_Void_Reaver.jpg?386d1e" alt="" width="400" height="210" />My fans (rawr yeah!) on YouTube got the request to fraps more soloing and I thought this would be an interesting Boss to show. The issue with Void Reaver, the 3rd Boss in Tempest Keep The Eye, is that he fires big balls of electrity that do a large radius AoE silence. While being in a 25 man raid it won&#8217;t matter that much, however soloing you will be targeted each and every time ending up more or less chain silenced.</p><p><span
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style="margin-top: 50px;margin-bottom: 50px;text-align: left">&nbsp;</p><h3>Positioning</h3><p>Once in a while Void Reaver pushes the player with the highest threat back and starts hitting the second highest one. So the idea is to fight void reaver at a slope in his room sp he can kock you a bit further away than normally, out of reach of the sliencing orbs, then you can cast 1-2 Spells before being silenced again.</p><p>Since we can&#8217;t use spells my choice of Weapon Imbues is earth living on mainhand and flame tongue on offhand, to get the most out of lava lash. You should check your previous parses, if your windfury or lava lash damage is higher and maybe go with wf / earthliving instead.</p><h3>Imbues and Glyphs</h3><p>Unleashing earthliving can be done while silenced and it does heal a good 5k and it can proc earthliving weapon for some more healing &#8230; and it gives + 30% to your next instant heal. This makes it really nice in this fight.</p><p>My pvp spec is enhancement resto, but it seems that too much defense is a bit counter productive there, it is easier to get him down faster.</p><p>The only 2 changes to my normal PvE loadout is the above mentiones Earthliving and Glyph of Stoneclaw Totem. This glyph places a weak shield on you for a few seconds but it is strong enough combined with unleash earthliving to keep you above 50% hp.</p><p>Once in a while you will not be silenced then cast a heal, feral spirit or shamanistic rage. You can for example use feral spirit + spirit walk to get further away from the next impact, etc.</p><h3>Video</h3><p>Enough of the talking, here is the video</p><p><a
href="http://www.myrddin.de/enhancement-shaman-soloes-void-reaver/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p><p>Void Reaver drops 3 pairs of T5-Shoulder Token and a level 70 epic in addition to 250 gold.<br
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.myrddin.de/?p=2572</guid> <description><![CDATA[Blizzard announced a few days ago that they wanted to decrease the amount of gold that certain raid bosses would drop. This made me head to PTR and check out how bad the situation has become. Unfortunately Doomwalker/Kazzak weren&#8217;t up, but I was able to kill Magtheridon. Since he drops the same amount of Gold [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img
class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2573" style="margin-right: 10px;margin-top: 5px;margin-bottom: 5px" src="http://www.myrddin.de/files/magtheridon_ptr_almost_dead.jpg?386d1e" alt="" width="366" height="200" />Blizzard announced a few days ago that they wanted to decrease the amount of gold that certain raid bosses would drop. This made me head to PTR and check out how bad the situation has become. Unfortunately Doomwalker/Kazzak weren&#8217;t up, but I was able to kill Magtheridon. Since he drops the same amount of Gold as Kazzak/Doomwalker on live realms you can conclude that their gold is in the same range.</p><p><span
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style="margin-top: 50px;margin-bottom: 50px;text-align: left">&nbsp;</p><h3>Announcement</h3><p>The original announcement, which you can look at <a
href="http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2356431">here</a>, Blizzard mentions only a few bosses. At the moment it is unclear if other Bosses, for example in Black Temple, Tempest Keep, Serpent Shrine Cavern, Doomwalker, etc are nerfed aswell.</p><blockquote><p>The gold amounts on the following encounters have been substantially reduced: Flame Leviathan, Magtheridon, Gruul the Dragonkiller, Doom Lord Kazzak, and all encounters in Karazhan.</p></blockquote><p>The first thing that struck me, when engaging Magtheridon, was that the Channelers no longer helped each other, they simply stood still channeling and only aggroed targets would fight back.</p><p
style="text-align: center"><img
class="size-full wp-image-2574 aligncenter" style="margin-top: 30px;margin-bottom: 30px" src="http://www.myrddin.de/files/Magtheridon_Channelers.jpg?386d1e" alt="" width="732" height="400" /></p><p>This should make the fight soloable for most classes now, except maybe mages.</p><h3>How much Gold is left?</h3><p>After a short while the Pit Lord lay dead in front of my feet, erm hooves &#8230; Now do not kill the messenger for the following horror news. While he still drops the same amount of items his gold was reduced by 90%. It seems they dropped his gold from ~500g to ~50g,  which is a bit harsh, but on the other hand would explain the nerfs mentioned above.</p><p>Guessing wildy, I&#8217;d say this 90% nerf goes for Kazzak/Doomwalker aswell &#8230; not sure if the 250g raid bosses (Gruul, etc &#8230; ) are reduced to 50 gold aswell or &#8211; which is more likely imo &#8211; to 25 gold average.</p><p>You better make the rest out of the remaining resets if you are still working on &#8220;Got my Mind on my Money&#8221; (100k gold looted) Achievement. At the moment I can get about 6500g per reset, which indeed looks like a lot <img
src="http://www.myrddin.de/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif?386d1e" alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /></p><p
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