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I don’t normally do much of this sort of thing, but time to break with tradition. Congratulations Highborne on downing Lich King in 10 man!
I take back my comments about people pugging the Lich King anytime soon. There is just too many things in this fight that even 30% extra health, DPS and healing can’t paper over. Stuff like Val’kyrs, Necrotic Plague expiring and Defile are still going to require some skill and coordination to overcome.
For us it took us about six nights of attempts to down him. We had about 18 different raiders participate which slowed things down a little. We also probably didn’t focus as keenly as we should have wasting a lot of attempts. Much of the earlier 10 man raiding content can be blasted through in 25 man gear, where brute DPS, healing power, tank health pools can help over come many of the smaller challenges in the fights (kinda like the increasing 5% nerf will). Players are getting their first kill of the Blood Councils, for example, with one eye on the TV and the other on the game. Lich King is a bit different in that you need to focus for quite a long fight and you need to be well coordinated.
Six nights raiding probably sounds like a fair few these days, but it was worth it. Lich King 10 is the only fight, except perhaps Professor Putricide 25, which we have defeated and the players have been pumped and excited. After downing him players were cheering in vent and excited announcing it in guild chat, etc. It ment something to us. We’d accomplished something. Most of the rest of the progression fights have been a case of good work, what’s next kinda thing.
I dunno about the rest of you, but I play this game for challenge. The progression kills we get on the second night of attempts don’t really provide the same enjoyment as the harder ones. I can understand Blizzards position of making most of the content available to most people. It’s in their, and most players, best interest. But as one of the players who is above average (and i’m far from a cutting-edge hard core raider) the dumbing down of content actually slightly decreases my enjoyment of the game.
Swings and roundabouts I guess.
Gobble gobble.
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Saw a Cataclysm trailer the other day. It actually looked good. How are they going to work 5 levels of content into two entire old world continents? Will levels 80-85 be the slowest grind seen in WoW for a long time?
Just noticed I got linked from Wow.Com and their Daily Quest. Not hugely proud of it as it was really just me having a whine.
To those that want the ICC buff to see the content but have less time top play… *puts tongue in cheek* watch the videos?
I should probably explain this. I play this game for challenge. If the challenge is reduced i’ll probably finish what I started, but I will have less incentive to take up new challenges in-game knowing that they will be artificially reduced. Hmm, maybe I am just being an elitist prick 
I survived the removal of the loot incentive in raiding so i guess i’ll survive this 
There is probably a deep and meaningful post somewhere in these random thoughts.
Oh its optional?
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I must have been cranky yesterday. Still not happy about it, but meh, whatever. Might break 15k DPS on my shadow priest by the end of T10
Turkelife mourns the death of normal mode Ice Crown Citadel content.
Must…move…on….
Slightly more interesting are the changes to priest T10 gear on the public test realm. 5% more PW:S and Renew? Still a yawn, but you never know where it will end up.
Roll the dice? Get yourself a chance at a T10 set bonus as over-powered as some of the other classes (Rogues, prot wars, bears, for example)? Maybe…
Gobble gobble.
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Nothing constructive to read sorry. Not much makes me want to swear on my blog, but this is it.
Fuck off with the ICC nerfs already!!
We’re in a great place with 35+ raiders enjoying their raiding. We’ve just downed Prof Putricide and VD in 25 man and started on Blood Queen. 10 man we’ve just started on the Lich King. People are excited and we have huge raid turn outs.
Next progression kill the second thing on everyone’s minds (after yay we did it), will be along the lines of, “did we push ourselves enough to do it, or did they just nerf it down to our level?”
Only one horde guild on our server has started on hard modes and they are nerfing already? Sad day 
Gobble gobble
PS Yes I know some people will be rejoicing. Sorry, but i’m not one.
PPS Yes this might make me sound like an elitist prick, well so be it.
PPPS What do you mean Blizzard don’t manage this game just for me?
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