Archive for June, 2006

C’Thun, are you a squid?

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Last night we went into Ahn’Qiraj with the purpose of clearing up the trash and practice C’Thun. Guess what? We [Ex Umbra] were able to successfully go to Phase 2, and we got there like two or three times ^_^ It was such a blast.

Here is a bit of theory (copied from the link provided before), for those that don’t know about the encounter.

Phase 1

The initial phase of the C’thun encounter, characterized by an alternation between the Eye shooting Eye Beams for 50 seconds followed by 35 seconds of Dark Glare (detailed below) as well as periodic spawning of mind flay eyes and claw tentacles.

When first entering combat, the best strategy is to allow a tank (one with a good amount of NR preferably) to be shielded and enter alone. When he is struck with the first eye beam, it is safe for 3 seconds to enter and spread out the rest of the raid. In early C’thun attempts where the raid entered together, half the raid could be killed with the first eye beam.

Phase 2

Begins immediately upon bringing the Eye of C’Thun to 0%. If no tentacle is alive, players are taken out of combat and are encouraged to drink during the transistion. During this phase, C’thun has a shield which drastically reduces all damage to almost nothing. In order to bring the shield down and damage him, players must engage the stomach from inside.

In my opinion, once you get the grip in Phase 1, it’s fairly easy (and when we used to get to Phase 2, we had very, very few people dead).

Inside the stomach (Phase 2) there’s some really nasty dot, lol. I died a couple of seconds later I took the screenshot; we were able to kill those tentacles, but I didn’t notice what I had was a DoT, for some reason I always thought that you don’t get damage inside unless you were in the green water.

It may be too early to say, but we will probably take down C’Thun next week (or the week after the next one) ^_^

Just as an additional info, at this time, only three guilds in Mal’Ganis have been able to take down C’Thun, since it was introduced into the server. Two of these three guilds are horde (Elitist Jerks and Aeternus), while only one is alliance (Validus). With this being said, up to now, there are also six guilds working on C’Thun: three alliance (Ex Umbra, LoH, Advent) and three horde (Extreme, Sword of Storms, Shining Force). This info is taken from this thread, it may not be 100% accurate.

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The taller they all, the harder they fall ^_^

The clever brothers Vek’nilash and Vek’lor are known as the Twin Emperors. They rule over the Qiraji from the sanctuary of their temple.

In this area, Qiraji Scarabs and Qiraji Scorpions are scattered all around the floor and if killed they constantly respawn throughout the fight. They are initially neutral (yellow), but turn hostile when hit by any sort of area effect, or when mutated by Emperor Vek’nilash.


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[item]Vek’lor’s Gloves of Devastation[/item] — Emperor Vek’lor
[item]Vek’lor’s Diadem[/item] — Emperor Vek’lor
[item]Amulet of Vek’nilash[/item] — Emperor Vek’nilash
[item]Vek’nilash’s Circlet[/item] — Emperor Vek’nilash

The Twin Emperors kissed the dirt last night! It’s the third time that Ex Umbra has been able to take them down! For some reason the fight seemed really easy, or maybe the people knew what they were doing, lol

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It was the first time for me on that fight, woo woo! (I haven’t been able to get into AQ40 raids T_T) Everything went smooooth, it was really, really impressive ^_^ In boss line, after Twin Emps the next one is C’Thun :D

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I was also finally able to get an AQ40 Mount xD xD

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And the nice thing is that it was one of the colors I wanted, lol (IMO blue and red are the best!).

To finish, for some reason I thought that this picture would be great for some kind of postcard ;)

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7-man Onyxia

[item]Sapphiron Drape[/item] — Onyxia
[item]Helm of Wrath[/item] — Onyxia
[item]Helm of Wrath[/item] — Onyxia

27 souls in an Onyxia run, on stage two, after my now-famous “MORR DOTS, MORR DOTS”, we got a Deep Breathe (haven’t seen one in months), lol, it was slightly chaotic, on phase three we only had like 14 up, and those 14 up could work all the way down, on the last percents only 7 were standing, and those 7 took the last two percent, lol.

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That happened last night, but before Onyxia, we went to Blackwing Lair and, as usual, we made a full clear on a single night (and in a couple of hours).

[item]Bindings of Transcendence[/item] — Razorgore
[item]Netherwind Bindings[/item] — Razorgore
[item]The Black Book[/item] — Razorgore
[item]Judgement Belt[/item] — Vael
[item]Judgement Belt[/item] — Vael
[item]Pendant of the Fallen Dragon[/item] — Vael
[item]Venomous Totem[/item] — Broodlord
[item]Boots of Transcendence[/item] — Broodlord
[item]Netherwind Boots[/item] — Broodlord
[item]Gauntlets of Wrath[/item] — Firemaw
[item]Scrolls of Blinding Light[/item] — Firemaw
[item]Draconic Avenger[/item] — Trash mob
[item]Drake Talon Cleaver[/item] — Ebonroc
[item]Ebony Flame Gloves[/item] — Ebonroc
[item]Handguards of Transcendence[/item] — Flamegor
[item]Circle of Applied Force[/item] — Flamegor
[item]Judgement Spaulders[/item] — Chromaggus
[item]Dragonstalker’s Spaulders[/item] — Chromaggus
[item]Taut Dragonhide Shoulderpads[/item] — Chromaggus
[item]Elementium Threaded Cloak[/item] — Chromaggus
[item]Breastplate of Wrath[/item] — Nefarian
[item]Netherwind Robes[/item] — Nefarian
[item]Prestor’s Talisman of Connivery[/item] — Nefarian
[item]Pure Elementium Band[/item] — Nefarian

It’s the second [item]Pure Elementium Band[/item] I see dropping. Someday I’ll get one of those, but right now I’m not really interested: it’s not much of an upgrade for the rings I currently use (dual-[item]Cauterizing Band[/item]), compared to something I could really use, like maybe [item]Stormrage Chestguard[/item] ;) . I think a couple of people could finish their Tier 2 set as well, which is pretty nice ^_^ Haven’t seen Stormrage drop for a couple of raids :( No druid love!

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During the run we noticed a nasty spam T_T I believe it happened whenever a mob was killed…

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After I opened a ticket and spoke with a GM, this response just made me go -> o_O <- rofl rofl

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Obviously I took out the name of the GM ;)

Last weekend we made an AB PvP Group, but sadly I couldn’t participate as I wished… I’m experiencing a “bug” with the client, my game freezes in Battlegrounds, which is frustrating, I have to shut down the computer because nothing works, and then get back. I went to two games, both got me bugged :( A couple of threads would be this one or this other one.

A couple of days ago I got into a brief Zul’Gurub run, we only downed a couple of bosses

[item]Primal Hakkari Idol[/item] — Jin’do
[item]Animist’s Boots[/item] — Jin’do
[item]Bloodstained Legplates[/item] — Jin’do
[item]Primal Hakkari Idol[/item] — Bloodlord
[item]Bloodtinged Kilt[/item] — Bloodlord
[item]Primalist’s Seal[/item] — Bloodlord
[item]Nat Pagle’s Broken Reel[/item] — Fish Boss
[item]Might of the Tribe[/item] — Snake
[item]Zulian Tigerhide Cloak[/item] — Snake

It would seem that the [item]Primal Hakkari Idol[/item]‘s drop rate isn’t as rare as I thought… and I bought my last [item]Libram of Protection[/item] for 500g thinking it would be uber rare (and more because of the reports, people sayiing that on Test Servers they were like 0.5% drop rate). I’m not sure when I’ll get [item]Heart of Hakkar[/item], for the healing trinklet, but after the slight nerf, I’ll probably don’t get it and wait for something like maybe a [item]Rejuvenating Gem[/item], but it will take a while for me to grab that one :P

Last, but not least, for some reason lately I’ve started playing my alt warlock again (Rihal). I could finish the Felhunter quest :) He’s level 32 or so right now. Maybe I’ll only play him while he’s rested, so that shouldn’t be too frequent. My original plans were to leave him at level 29 for battlegrounds, but getting the felhunter at level 30 was just too tempting :P

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