We ran ICC on Sunday night with the ganking guild, (which means we are a pee vee pee guild at heart for those of you who don’t know). We cleared the lower wing with ease, although we wiped once on heroic gunship when we all forgot to equip our jetpacks before the fight, (NOOOOOBBSSS!!!), and once on Saurfang because we didn’t set our handling of the adds properly.
Then we moved into the next section of the raid where I had never been before, which entailed me quickly flicking back to my saved pages of rogue tactics online. It said that the next boss was Festergut who was a simple rogue fight apart from giving people a buff when you got it, so I thought cool baby and up we went. We took down the nasty Valkyrie trash and the two big doggies and then we began fighting the boss. Perhaps I should have paid closer attention to his name because within a very short space of time I worked out that this was not a simple rogue fight, what with slimes everywhere and this guy spinning around on me so I was facing his front all of a sudden. This was not the fight that I had just read up on. This was Rotface. I managed to stay up until the wipe and then got clobbered to death. We picked ourselves up and after I read the correct fight details, we did it again. And we got him down, which was a marvelous feeling.
At that point we had to call it due to people leaving, but still it was a good run. Particularly because I finally got a weapon upgrade for my PvE spec when the Bone Wardens Splitter dropped off Marrowgar. I have been using the Kenetic Ripper which is a ilvl219 weapon for too long now so this was a huge upgrade for me. Only one problem; there was another rogue in the raid who wanted it just as much as I did. I am pretty calm when it comes to loot. I don’t get worked up, I don’t get all upset when a hunter rolls on my leather, (like fuck I don’t). But when a major weapon upgrade drops I am all over that baby like a rash.
This was a GDKP run and the first big one that I had been on. The bidding started at 100g, which my rogue friend duely began. I hit it up to 500g because I didn’t want to fuck around. He hit it up to 1000g because he didn’t want to fuck around either. And up we went to 1600g when he suddenly dropped out. I thought that it was going to have to go much higher but in the end I got off lightly. The best bids were for the ilvl264 heroic drops off the gunship – some plate and a shield, which got up around the 4000g mark for each. At the end of the run there was over 10K to divide up between everyone, so I got just over 1K back from my one and only bid. I love this syetm, I really do because everyone gets something, whether it be gold or loots or both. And the best part is that the loots go to those that really, really want them. It’s all too easy to press roll and take something away, but when you have to cough up the cold hard cash you start to understand who really wants something or not. A death knight who had only joined the guild a few days before and who had only just hit 80 scored the heroic plate armor, which looked amusing offset with all his blues.
Gevlon was raid leading and his method of getting us to pick up our game was to calmly inform us that he had cleared these very same bosses the night before with his blue geared project and their average dps was around 3500, which is a great motivator to put your head down and do the job. Now all I have to do is get my head down and make some more gold before we go in again tonight. Or maybe I’ll just sit back and let people bid like crazy and get my gold that way!
May 25, 2010 at 8:51 am
I hope you’ve noticed how much your posts have changed, emotion-wise, since you’ve started raiding ICC.
Postive, enjoying yourself, even the “lol JC noob” was more about your amusement than then the typical “let me tell you all the things wrong with WoW, the players, the system, etc using this example.”
All that negativity straight out the window. Nice to see. Even Gevlon hasn’t used the word “Socialist” lately. (“socials”, yes, naturally… but he’
s not preaching about real-world politics, Liberalism, and how it effects his online gaming).
Keep enjoying yourself.
May 25, 2010 at 8:55 am
Horde-side in Frostmourne – US regularly holds GDKP raids. For some reason, they are quite rich as well. 1.6k for your axe is a huge bargain.
– Dislodged Foreign Object (caster trinket from Rotface) can fetch 30k. The price will probably go down a little since GDKP’s are now regularly hitting 6/12 with the 15% buff (previously, it was 4/12).
– Deathbringer’s Will (Saurfang) will easily go for 15k+.
– Tokens can fetch over 5k+ gold.
GDKP was probably invented by the Koreans and is one of the best systems. Blizzard supports this type of raids; so much so that they will intervene if the raid leader ninjas the pot.
May 25, 2010 at 10:12 am
@Adam: RotFACE, not Rotgut. Also you were lucky because my GF had a nice mood and did not bid against rogues against my best advice.
I’m glad you’re enjoying the GDKP, don’t miss tomorrow’s post, it’s about the fixing of the largest flaw of GDKP.
@Karadan: if you think I’m pink and shiny, don’t miss the post Thursday. It’s really nasty stuff.
May 25, 2010 at 11:27 am
Rotface, rotgut, hard to keep up with all these names, but thanks. Also your lovely GF was probably keeping in mind that we did not roll on her bow drop the week before.
And considering rogues live and die by their weapons, why would you encourage other players to bid against them? Yes, you may have a short term gain in the amount of gold but you will have a long term loss in the productivity of rogues in this case for raids and the like.
May 25, 2010 at 12:38 pm
Her argument was very similar: “my DPS increase a bit by the axe and by huge if the rogues get that fckn warrior off my head”
May 25, 2010 at 1:21 pm
She is a wise woman.
May 25, 2010 at 1:08 pm
Mixed feelings about you having a good time. From the social perspective I’m glad you’re enjoying yourself. From a selfish perspective it’s much funnier when you’re having a “fuck” rage at someone or something that’s pissed you off.
Sad reflection on me really that I want something to hack you off so I can have a good laugh… It’s nothing personal, honest π
May 25, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Take no notice of Karadans comment above, my friend. You know in your heart that I’ll find some way to rant in the short goodness of time. After all, it’s what I do best.
May 25, 2010 at 3:01 pm
I don’t think I could manage on a GDKP I am just to CHEAP. (K, I prefer thrifty but lets call it what it is.)
I am glad to see that the system works so well for you guys and that like has been mentioned you seem to once again be enjoying WoW and the people you are running with. Keep it up!
May 25, 2010 at 8:51 pm
I don’t get why people beat themselves up over a gunship fail, hell shit happens. We aren’t perfect by any means and sometimes we forget our jet packs π Sometimes we get drunk and do stupid stuff, we’re only human!
May 26, 2010 at 1:06 pm
In the GDKP run on my server items go from anywhere between 10k-50k. The main rule for joining, aside from don’t be a retard, is to be “rich”. The lower your gold supply, the better your gear needs to be. So yeah I’ve never joined :p I have enough gold but I’d like to make a bit more rather than throw it away on things I can get for free in another run. If the prices where a lot lower I might have considered, but I’m just not into paying 30k for a Mark of Sanctification.