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We raid 19:30 till midnight server/Paris time, which is one hour ahead of London. Some of us are online much later than that sometimes, but we don't raid that late. Delinja wouldn't be able to make that since he's effectively 2 hours ahead of Britain.

Half of us are still graveyard types though, with me, Mazra, Rio, Kali and to some extend Bever playing until far into the night.

Moral support?

You should've written down "fietspomp"
At least that's what I did for questions I didn't know the answer for.

Close. It's the tiny things that make energy out of thin air!

Also, 99.993% of them (or something like that) are effectively female.

Cool, solve the energy crisis, then exterminate the men.

I knew you girls were evil deep down.

Edited, Jun 8th 2010 4:13pm by Mazra

So, we cleared up to Sindragosa on our last run. Three-shot BPC after almost going crazy because we couldn't figure out what we were doing wrong, and after much guild drama (as much as you can get in a 5-man guild, really) where people were demoted and re-promoted. Fun times.

Then we one-shot Blood-Queen, but I was the last DPS to get the debuff, so I wasn't top DPS on that fight, which made me sad considering it's pretty much a DPS race fight.

Oxheart dropped as the only upgrade for me, but Rawr put it only vaguely above my current item, so I let Rio (our tank who is gearing up Fury) keep it, because I'm trying to trick karma into letting the polearm drop next time.

Edit: Oh yeah, my DPS has improved. I was pushing 9-10k DPS at one point during Saurfang. Then I got cocky and tried to do a Ferocious Bite of 28k deliciousness, but ended up firing it too late, getting a 8k hit of failure and dropping both SR and Rip at the same time. D'oh.

Edited, Jun 9th 2010 4:30pm by Mazra

Seriously, BPC was designed for 25 people, not 10. Way too large area, meaning people get spread out too far from the healers. With one healer being on the Keleseth tank's *** constantly, and having to move around with him when he goes to pick up nuclei, you end up with two healers having to heal two tanks and the raid.

Add some barely noticeable swirly spots on the ground that send you flying through the air like Superman, balls of fire that make people panicky and gravity bombs that are great fun if not dealt with.

Doable on 10-man, yes, but horribly awkward. And the constant target switching made me angry like... like... this guy!

We've been doing 10man Blood Princes in hard modes the last few weeks and it is one of the harder fights (not counting Putricide, Sindgragosa & LK :) ). I've finally managed to start noticing the swirling shock vortexes on the ground and getting out of the way before getting hit. Unfortunately, many others in the group still don't see them - including tanks.

It is such a chaotic fight with so many things to watch out for. Regular, you can often be sloppy and with the 20% buff you can get through. In hard mode, everything hits harder and you have to get it right or pay the price.

For those that don't know the hard mode - everything hits harder but you also get a dot on you every time you move. The longer you are moving, the higher the dot stacks and the more damage it does. As soon as you stop moving, the damage stops, but you have to stay stationary for 10 secs for the stacks to reset. You really have to be continually be aware of how many stacks you have and make sure you only move when needed. It certainly is an interesting mechanic to come to terms with.

Are you guys serious!?
How on earth can you not see the tauren sized white swirly shock vortexes?
They're so incredibly obvious.

My graphics are all the way down for everything and I can still see the shock vortexes. Now D&D on LDW is a different matter, but that's easy enough to navigate blindly.

It's visible, it's just really hard to see.

Maybe I'm more prone to ignoring green tones because I banned them from my UI. No offence, Druid heals are lovely. Probably the prettiest heals in the game.