The Luxes Step into the Twilight Zone!!

BOTH: We dare you to do the same!!

HER: Yesterday we tried OS 3D 25 (Obsidian Sanctum with 25 people, going for the Twilight Zone (25 player) achievement) since someone was looking for more. We logged our mains, joined the group, and a few minutes later, the leader bounced leadership to someone else. Then that person bounced it to a hunter who seemed to be most interested in this achievement. Unfortunately Luxe was talking too much too and leadership ended up on him. Or fortunately, unlike the other unwilling leaders, Luxe took the role up and organized a group together while I went to take a shower.

The first run with the initial group of people was one of the best for that group. We got Sartharion down to about 20%. In later runs, too many died from Flame Walls, including us once in the same try, and thus we couldn't DPS him down fast enough. We even tried having another hunter kite Tenebron and that may have helped, but in the end we decided to scrap that and just have everyone nuke the boss.

Basically, after buffs and ready check, I went in as bait to aggro Sartharion, Feign Death, and reset so we could get into position. I guess the positive side to this role is that when someone else pulls to try to wipe the raid, which happened twice for us and started the disbanding of our initial group, I have no aggro and don't have to worry about trying to make it out without dying. (Though I was stupid enough to get up the first time since I thought we'd stay and fight, but I made it out.) Therefore, we paused and found better DPS.

But still we were failing and we decided we lacked the DPS, so another round of weeding occurred along with some people going for the night. Someone even relogged so we could have a fury warrior.

Finally, after at least 13 wipes, as noted by Luxe's add-on, we were able to get the achievement. Thank god one gets the achievement as soon as Sartharion dies and not after he and the three other drakes die, since of course we didn't manage to kill the extra drakes. XD.

The highlight of this encounter was the Drake mount, Reins of the Twilight Drake, especially since no one really cared for the gear that dropped. So all those interested rolled, basically meaning everyone, and while I was rolling, I thought I saw a 100 around my roll and was thinking, "I can't beat that." So I scrolled up to see who won, and was so ecstatic it was me that I gave such a "Yay!," it made my throat slightly hoarse. And of course I replied to the offers that they couldn't offer me enough gold. After all, items that can't be bought with gold from a vendor or easily farmed are priceless. Plus, gold is too easy to get. :3.

Also, this was my first hard mode raid! I don't think I'll be going for more anytime soon. :D.

HIM: So yesterday we did OS+3D 25 man. And I had heard from a friend Pontifex that with the new gear levels from TotC 25 man, it's really easy to do OS+3D 25 man zerg strategy. And so with that in mind I suggested to Luxuran we try it as most people are now overgeared and we should have a reasonable easy time doing the achievement. But as it turns out the raid leader left and the raid nearly fell apart. Though I decided to take up the mantle of leadership and piece the raid together. In the meantime Luxuran took a shower. And boy what a sight to behold that was. *grins*

We used 1 tank and 3 healers (2 tank healers and 1 raid healer). Normally the zerg strat is done with 2 healers only. But since we started with 5, I had as many healers as we could switch to DPS. So we ended up with 3. Mainly because I don't like to kick anyone. Sadly by the end of the raid I had to kick 4 or so DSP to make the raid go more smoothly. They weren't putting out satisfactory DPS so they were replaced with better ones. (Happens a lot if you do not perform satisfactory, unless of course you know the raidleader. *wink wink*) We wiped about 16 times including some fail resets of Sartharion and some close calls for Luxuran on the resets. *shake shake* (I probable lost years of my life watching her go through that danger: one miss step and she would have been shishkebab.) But I knew we could down Sartharion. In the first few pulls I did notice we were lacking a bit of dps and in avoiding the flame walls. (Remember a dead DPS is no DPS.) Because we seemed to have struck a wall, couldn't bring Sartharion down more then 20%. Once I replaced some of the DPS and fake DCs we were doing much better. On those pulls we managed to bring him down to 3% - 5%. Where the tank would die at around 8% or so. And with a bit of luck we could now definitely see his downfall coming. And that's exactly what we did.

As the masterlooter I elected to get the mount out of the way first since that's what everyone was most interested in anyways. So I elected to have the mount rolled for instead of being raid rolled, I find that much fairer. At least that way what you rolled was your own damn fault. As it turns out I rolled a 95. Seeing that, I was elated to find I had rolled the higest so far. A second later my hope was dashed when I saw a 100 roll come up. And by god or fate it was from Luxuran. So on that note congratulations Luxuran on managing to down your first HM and getting the title as well as the mount in one "fabulous" swoop. =] (Yes I watch Sex and the City with her.)

Hallow's End

HER: The beginning of Hallow's End signals the beginning of the PvP battle in front of SM, if you're on a PvP server. We visited the Headless Horseman the day Hallow's End started (a few hours before the dailies were about to reset) and since he was resetting soon, there were many hordes just waiting around. In walks our group and 25 horde kills and a few deaths later, we gave up fighting our way through and tried out best to run into SM Graveyard instead. On a brighter note, we both won the broom mount, Magic Broom.

Altaera's tip: Loot everything as it all adds up. Today the Lux pair reached the 1000G looted achievement. And if you can, try to have as free an inventory as possible and keep the junk until you can vendor or AH it.

HIM: When doing the Headless Horsemen (aka HH) event remember to eat your G.N.E.R.D candy for the achievement [G.N.E.R.D Rage]. Expect to be ganked a lot by hordes as SM is the perfect place to farm HK to complete this achievement. It's best to bring your PvP trinket to trinket out of stuns, fears, etc. Sadly I learned this the hard way. On a better note, by the time we managed to get past the huge horde blockade we had 25 HK out of the required 50 for the achievement. =3

Luxuren's tip: Any PvP battle is about CC and damage reduction so as a discipline priest be ready to dispel and dispel and dispel while keeping everyone's HP up and bubbled. Make sure to have your mass dispel ready for the occasional paladin bubble and mage iceblocks which was mentioned in Paladin's Bane. Most importantly, go in as a group: Solo players are easy pickings for the horde. Above all, have fun while you gank and kite the bastards to hell. =]

Paladin's Bane

HER: Today, Luxuren discovered that his Priest's Mass Dispel can take away a Paladin's bubble. My responses was hehe, because that is something a lot of jerk Paladins do. Luckier still, or unlucky for the Paladin, he was able to apply it to a Horde Paladin. I wasn't there to watch it but I could just envision the "Oh, shit" look on the Paladin after he realized his go-to move just wasn't going to work today... And more or less, that's exactly how Luxuren described it.

On a different note, now that I'm 80, the Hordes don't dare attack when I'm herbing. Jerks. Or maybe because it's Luxuren's there and they won't want to take on the Lux pair... :D. And I love getting a Frost Lotus! We finally have more than one stack... And Crystallized Life just isn't that hard to find anymore...

Update (11:48): And I found King Krush! But he bit me! :(. I'll definitely have to teach him to be a good pet. And stupid Luxuren took forever to come back and help me. D:. And even had the balls to ask, "Why do you need my help?" Because a hunter can only tame a pet when she doesn't have one so I need someone to watch Rexie while I go back to Dalaran to put up Spikie! (Though I quickly forgave him since he did kill a Warrior who started attacking King Krush.) Five tries later, I still wasn't able to get him and he got attacked by the Nesingwary Game Wardens! DX. Consolation Prize, a King's Eyesocket of the Marksman and an Abandoned Adventurer's Satchel with 22G 84S 72C, a stack of Frostweave Cloth, and 5 Crystallized Earth (which I gave to Luxuren :3).

HIM: FYI, most Hunters use a combination of Frost and Freeze Traps to buy themselves as much time as possible to tame the said beast. However some can be immune to those CC effects. Though a Freeze Trap can never be resisted unless said beast has frost resistance. =/