Raiding Siege - Week 11

I'm glad to say that we have killed both Nazgrim and Malkorok last Thursday! It was a great night, two progression bosses and I may or may not have distracted everyone by acting like my nutty self mid Malkorok pull...we wiped, but it was great. Looking forward to another great night this evening.

Blizzcon was this past weekend and there was a lot of information pouring out to those who didn't purchase the virtual ticket. My last post covers the majority of changes.

I'm not sure how I feel about a lot of the changes right now, I am glad that my character's race will be showcased by visiting one of their home worlds but I'm hoping everything else doesn't ruin that for me at this point. Will have to wait and see, they hope to have the expansion out before this coming summer so it won't be too long a wait before we get some more information.

Blizzcon Recap!

So Blizzcon was this weekend and here's my quicknotes:

Storyline (spoilers!)
- Garrosh escapes before his judgement and somehow manages to travel to an alternate dimension/timeline to go into the past without screwing up the present. 
- He finds his father (Grommash/Grom Hellscream) and tries to prevent the orcs from drinking the Blood of Mannoroth, thus stopping the chain of events that would lead up to current events. Garrosh uses future technology to create the "Iron Horde".
- Garrosh is not the main villan despite the fact that he started this expansion, his story will end one way or another.
- What are we doing? Entering the new version of the Dark Portal and stopping him and his allied Orc clans of course, at least in the beginning....*I don't really understand this, if it is indeed a parallel timeline like they are speaking of and it shouldn't effect our timeline, why not just let him go?  He must take all the purples with him*

Features:
- Improved models of every race up to Goblin/Worgen (they're hoping to have them finished in time).
- Level 100.
- New talents, you can view what they have planned for them currently here: http://www.wowdb.com/talent-calculator-wod
- The ability to boost one character up to level 90.
- 2 new raids, 7 new dungeons at launch including UBRS making a comeback.
- Change in raid makeup/difficulty (refer to Jungle's post). Raids will be able to be consisted of 10-25 people, like Flex is now except when it comes to what is now Heroic difficulty - renamed Mystic. That will be for 20 man groups only and will not adjust depending on the amount of people. Raid groups will need to progress through three difficulties instead of two, Normal (approx current Flex difficulty), Heroic (approx current Normal difficulty) and Mystic (approx current Heroic difficulty).
- New Arena ladder system that is supposed to help with queue times and finding exploiters.
- Adventure guide to help players identify what raids they are ready for and what content they should be doing.
- New bag features: Heirlooms, toys and possibly tabards using the same feature as mounts and pets. Quest items will no longer take up bag space (about time!). You can craft directly from your bank.
- Garrisons - Personal bases with followers, a mine and a fishing pool. Followers can be hired and sent on quests or raids (if you have enough) to collect things for you. WoW's version of housing.
- New zone, Draenor. Technically Outland prior to it being destroyed. The current area named Netherstorm will be added in a future patch. Alliance's main city will be at what is currently the Black Temple (Karabor). Horde are somewhere that I don't care..I mean at Bladespire Citadel in Frostfire Ridge.
- Removal of dodge, parry, hit, expertise, reforging, some gem slots, meta gems, and some enchanting slots will be removed (ex: all glove enchants).
- As mentioned here earlier, gear will change depending on your spec, say for example on my shaman the gear would switch between agility and intellect.
- Item squish, no more big numbers!
- Bonus valor for completing things with friends, aww <3
- 10 billion dailies each day is supposed to be a thing of the past!

A ton of information to look at, next up last weeks raid!

Raiding Siege, Week 10

Well, I've slacked off again, because you know..I never do that!

On week 10 on raiding Siege right now, downed 7 bosses thus far and keeping things together! We're working on #8 this evening, General Nazgrim and if we're able to get timing down for his 10% phase we'll be golden I think; crossing my fingers to see Malkorok tonight!

So, since Siege came out and I found out about the Dark Shaman transmogrification set for Shamans I've wanted it; that's one sexy set! Tuesday night on the last pull of the evening we killed the Dark Shamans for the third time and guess what dropped?! The chest with the Dark Shaman gear in it of course. I adore the set, I think it will be something my character will be wearing for a long time yet. Finally a helm I don't feel embarrassed wearing this expansion!


Honorary mention for Epicism's other team (named Anger Management) here, they're 13/14 and have been doing progression on Garrosh for the past few raid nights. Crossing my fingers they'll get their kill very soon! Currently I am not streaming my own raid until I get better equipment to do so (FPS drops too much while fighting), but they've been doing so at Bitingcold's stream:
http://www.twitch.tv/bitingcold. Linking for you know, that one person that looks at my blog! <3 my fan! Good music, I have the stream open for every raid.

Next time, hopefully I'll have General Nazgrim and Malkorok on my belt; cross your fingers for me!