The Daily Quest: Pro raiding
by Anne Stickney 
May 23rd 2011 at 3:00PM
WoW Insider's on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative, and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere.
I love Valiona and Theralion on heroic mode. While everyone else runs around screaming, my rogue buddies and I get to run around willy-nilly in the Twilight Realm, dodging bullets and randomly smacking around dragons. I don't really know how the rest of the raid feels about it, but I'm guessing from the instructions and play-by-play our raid leader calls out, it's much safer where I happen to be. Much, much safer. Like Kargath.
Today, we've got a few posts from around the blogosphere that partake in discussion about various aspects of raiding.
Is there a story out there we ought to link or a blog we should be following? Just leave us a comment, and you may see it here tomorrow! Be sure to check out our WoW Resources Guide for more WoW-related sites.
Today, we've got a few posts from around the blogosphere that partake in discussion about various aspects of raiding.
- Kiss My Alas has a guest post that talks about the relationship between real life and raiding.
- Holy Troll ponders the pros and cons of the Dungeon Journal being added in patch 4.2.
- Raid Trauma thinks that heroic modes are way less fun than longer, harder instances.
- Mana Obscura ponders the definition of hardcore raiding.
Is there a story out there we ought to link or a blog we should be following? Just leave us a comment, and you may see it here tomorrow! Be sure to check out our WoW Resources Guide for more WoW-related sites.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Necromann May 23rd 2011 3:26PM
I find this definition of hardcore vs casual to be good.
Casuals plan game time around their life, Hardcores plan their life around game time.
Tomaj May 23rd 2011 3:35PM
o.o Holy crap, I never expected to see my blog end up here!
Anne Stickney May 23rd 2011 4:03PM
I'm sneaky like that.
Tomaj May 23rd 2011 4:07PM
Well, I certainly appreciate it. Thank you. :)
kimerats May 23rd 2011 4:34PM
Thank you Anne, is nice to see one of our videos around the net =)
jfofla May 23rd 2011 4:34PM
My 25 man raid is midway through Heroic content, and frankly I miss the days of farming normal mode.
Diatenium May 23rd 2011 4:44PM
We do 10 man H V/T and I haaate it. Hate it, hate it, HATE IT.
I have to go into both of our twilight runs (Since I'm a pally and I can bubble off the damage increase debuff). And having to dodge all the crap in there while trying to heal DPS who somehow after all this time STILL manage to plant their face in the orbs.
And the portals, screw those portals, they always spawn the furthest they can possibly be away from me, in like the deepest corner of who-knows-where. One time I was just about to go through a portal when it disappeared, then had to weave my way to the opposite side, avoiding dazzling destructions left and right, finally reach the portal, immediately get a meteor, and end up dieing a tick's hair away from the melee stack, HAAAATE.
Diatenium May 23rd 2011 4:57PM
This video is just weird when I actually watch it, how the heck is that rogue able to stay in there so long with what appears to be no healer? I can see he's cloaking off the debuff but it's surprising to see him survive in there for as long as he did, even after taking a couple orbs to the face.
Naina May 23rd 2011 5:08PM
Awww, Heroic V/T is my favorite fight of the whole tier! Their fight is a beautiful shifting dance with no surprises or ambiguity of where you should be standing or what you should be doing (I'm looking at you, Heroic Omnotron and Conclave of the Wind).
Anne Stickney May 23rd 2011 5:25PM
Here's how you stay in there as a rogue:
#1: Spec Subtlety
#2: Keep Recuperate and Feint up at all times
#3: Cloak at ~25 stacks or so
#4: ???
#5: Profit
It is...stupid easy.
kimerats May 23rd 2011 5:50PM
Ok I'm the Rogue in the video, and and is just as Anne just mentioned, we can stay on the twilight realm forever if we want, as you can see I only left to finish the boss, the puny damage or the Twilight realm just tickles.
The raid leader don't even need to worry about sending other dps to the Twilight, we have 3 Rogues and that is all we need for the job, since we can just stay there and kill stuff, we leave when the boss is around 20%, finish them, profit.
Ulubai May 23rd 2011 7:55PM
Kim i loved the ss Goku energy bar meter and your HuD range indicator, what addons did you use?
kimerats May 23rd 2011 8:49PM
Thank you Ulubai, not many people notice the work on the UI =)
The HuD range is build in Bigwigs boss mods you can download that from cursegaming. About the Triforce combo points, the Zelda hearths life and the Goku energy bar well I'm sorry but here is no actual mod for those, I made them using KGpanels, I had to create my own textures for that, and writhe the scripts.
Sorry
kuri May 23rd 2011 11:45PM
I also did a little post on raiding, but it pertains more to the time commitment required to *actually* raid Heroic mode content successfully.
https://prayerofknives.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/just-9-hours-per-week/ - "Just 9 Hours Per Week!"
Ulubai May 24th 2011 12:07AM
thats OK i've heard of KGpanels but i didn't realize there was so much personal interactivity involved, thanks for the reply i'm definatly going to be getting bigwigs i've been looking for a hud map like that for a while now. last but not least nice kill on the video.
Corath May 24th 2011 11:27PM
I miss raiding. Since my wife got her job, I've gone only a handful of times... hopefully I'll be able to raid again come 4.2.
Newest post up at Corath's Blog (http://corath.wordpress.com) is a bit of an expansion on my previous post which was so kindly linked last time. I kind of wish I had this post up instead of that one, but we can't change that now!
http://corath.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/what-is-premium/
Enjoy!