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SiteAmani War Bear Spotted!
Yesterday evening, following yet another raid in Serpentshrine Cavern with no progression in my perky priestess’s raid, the Drunken Badgers headed into Zul’Aman for their weekly bear mount run. I’ve said before that I really enjoy Zul’Aman and the timed event is probably a huge portion of why I enjoy it; the challenge of going into an instance with nine of your buddies to work together as a finely oiled machine is very appealing, especially when we’re successful.
Can you see where this is going? Yep, the Drunken Badgers managed to snag our second Amani War Bear!
The group consisted of:
- Protection paladin,
- Feral druid,
- Combat rogue,
- Enhancement shaman,
- Beast Mastery hunter,
- Fire mage,
- Destruction warlock,
- Balance druid,
- Holy paladin, and
- Holy priest.
The Balance druid also served as our backup healer. If a situation arose where we needed a little more healing oomph as opposed to unadulterated fire power, she’d help by healing. The only time where we even considered this was when we fought Halazzi and that was mainly because we had a good eight minutes before the timer ran out and it was decided that being safe was much better than being sorry should something bad happen.
Things that we could have improved? Well, when heading for to Nalorak, we somehow ended up pulling the two Amani Bear Mounts standing guard over the entrance which is exceedingly odd because I know that our Balance druid cast Hibernate Soothe Animal on the one closest to the wall. I slipped by it with no problems1, but someone that followed behind me must have engaged them somehow. The only other notable time sink was when blogger and fellow guildie Jezreal of DPS: We Deliver kinda sorta accidentally sent her pet Snaggle into a patrol instead of the group of mobs we were fighting at the moment. She was suitably horrified, however, so I won’t make fun of her.
At least too much!
Oh, and we really need to work on banging that gong in the beginning. I think that it took some three attempts with everyone participating to get the event started. We were laughing so hard because we had just been saying how this looked like a damned good group for a bear mount run2 and everyone felt really good about our prospects, and then the gong decided to be contrarian and not open the blasted door no matter how hard we, ah, banged.
Congratulations, Steelshield, on getting your new mount!3
Holy is for Killing Blows!
– or at least a single Killing Blow.
Here’s a follow up on yesterday’s post “Holy is for Killing Blows?” in which I shared the story of an idiot mage who thought that my lack of Killing Blows as a Holy priestess indicated that I wasn’t effectively contributing in Arathi Basin. Following the Drunken Badgers’ week revelry after snagging our second bear mount, a bunch of us decided to queue up for some fights in the Battlegrounds and we had a blast doing it. The evening culminated in which our paltry little preform got set up against a number of people from Twisted By Design, considered by most of the Feathermoon US population to be the top Horde raiding guild on the server. It was painful, oh so very painful.
However, in an earlier match I did manage to get a Killing Blow!
I have learned! I am a new woman! No longer shall I enter Battlegrounds with the sole intent of healing my fellow fighters. I will instead seek to take the Killing Blows from warriors and rogue, druids and shamans, and even my fellow priests. This is the true, the just, the sole path that I can take.
