Rogue News/Latest Accomplishment ThreadFollow

Pretty simple idea.

Instead of everyone posting "hey guys check out xxx on my armory!" we're going to have this thread to post in.

You get a drop, respec, guild downs a new boss, post it here! We wanna hear about stuff like that!

Try not to rag on people in this thread for things they think are accomplishments; if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all (in this thread ).

Try not to spam this thread, but congratulations will be in order for some of the things posted, so that's acceptable. Stories are encouraged.

nice work, on a much smaller scale note I have been working hard on trying to get my resilience up for my pvp set. Last night I got my last honor piece putting me up to 350 resilience which is a benchmark I kinda set for myself about 2 weeks ago. Now to try and get that like 75k honor banked for 2.3

I really like the idea of this thread. I just got my first character to 70 and into Karazhan, which was a huge deal to me. Feel free to scroll to the next post if you don't care, but its a good story.

I got a spot in the guild pug run (6 guildies, me, a rogue, priest, and a warrior. Important later) and on the first night the Blade of the Unrequited dropped from Romeo and Juliet. A non-guild rogue, guild hunter, and myself all needed it and so the loot master had us roll. The non guild rogue rolled a 6, I rolled a 87...then the guild hunter rolled a 88. I was understandably crushed (I was using a 64 blue dagger), but the hunter said it would be a bigger upgrade for me, and let me have it. We ended the night at curator due to time issues (early morning work).

The next night we have enough for a full guild run and we convene at karazhan ready to go. We go to jump in the side door...and go straight through the portal. No zone in, no nothing. After a brief wtf moment, we looked down and saw "Transition Failed: Instance Full". After considerable attempts to zone, two of us finally get in...and come face to face with eight members of another guild. Not just any guild though. The pug warrior from the first night's guild. They had decided it was easier to ninja our raid then do their own. They had the curator down by the time we got there, but had gotten no further.

After considerable heated debate with the guild, nothing was resolved. A stalemate was established due to the fact that we weren't going anywhere and they couldn't 8 man anything. The other guildy and I sat down somewhere out of the way and hit the space bar every 5 minutes for the next several hours.

The next day apologies were issued by the other guild (who is remaining nameless because of the apparent sincerity of the apologies) and our raid was allowed to progress. We wiped several times on Aran (we kept getting adds, blizzard, polymorph, and arcane explosion chained. urg) but eventually made it to the prince. We promptly one-shotted him (is he disproportionately easy for a final boss or is it just me?) with the only complication being the last infernal came down on his corpse, killing our master looter (lmao).

He dropped the rogue t4 helm.

There was myself, another rogue, and a shaman that needed it. As I was typing "I understand, I'm the new guy" into raid chat, a miracle happened. The other rogue said, "I'm an alt, so..." and the shaman said "It's not a huge upgrade for me..". With the phrase "take it noob" it happened.

I had my t4 helm.

The satisfaction of that event was incredible. After godamned months of pure solo leveling while clueless, I had a tier item. It was awesome.

Thats my story, I apologize if you read it all and were disappointed. I had not realized it was going to be that insanely long. As I said in my previous posts, this ia all thanks in a large part to you guys. This forum is a gold mine of wonderful info.

I also thank my awesome guild, who, in spite of the fact that we're small and not nearly to the standards of the other guilds on these forums, is an awesome group of people with a great atmosphere.

Fin

Edit: I learned to spell

Edited, Oct 6th 2007 3:32am by ArundelvalEstar

grats to everyone trying their best in their worlds of warcraft!
keep the rogues goin strong!! ^_^

as for me?

8 badges from my bloodlust brooch :)

pvp set: 234 resil, 10.1k hp, 1301 ap, 33.50 crit, with only 1 BG epic <3

got live strat fully on farm now ^_^ thats a bonus... trying to get that epic offhand that summons a skeleton

and i can solo a few pulls in zul gurub :D woohoo, i can grind out my last like 5k of rep there 1 point at a time

so i guess im doin well for myself :)


edit, 3 posts from 1k... wonder where ill post that 1000th o.O

Edited, Oct 6th 2007 10:19am by mongoosexcore

Theo, this whole "nice" thing is a bit out of character. Did you get lucky last night or something?

he got "lucky" in a different sense of the word, I too am shocked :O


BTW theo, I like your interface, I need something to clean up my action bars, which UI is that?


and gratz arundel - prince is insanely easy if you get lucky on the infernals, but if you do not have the best of luck you can wipe on him with a full t6 raid really. [kind of a stupid encounter]. Also, nightbane is the final boss :D

I did.



Post your congratulations at your leisure.

zOMG me too!

/highfive

Got my rogue to 60 finally. Got a few nice upgrades of some Outlands greens and jumped headfirst into the Hellfire quests.

Next on the agenda is some farming of Ramparts to get the 3 dr5ops I need out of there and to get to level 61.5 hopefully. I seem to have hit a point in the Hellfire Horde side quests where i'm a level low to really do them without struggling.

Oh and congrats Demea and Teddy, add me to that list as well.

Double Post

Edited, Oct 6th 2007 9:39pm by ArundelvalEstar

Yeah, hunters are extremely dangerous to priests. Leaving them alone will get you a loss pretty easily.

In other news tonight, I finally got Edgewalkers. <3 Moroes.

I also got T4 helm, but I'm poor right now, so I'm going to have to wait on getting my new mask outfitted.

Kara cleared (every boss) in 4 hrs 40 mins. PuG run (mostly guild, but 3/10 were PuG members), too.

Today (well, I haven't gone to sleep yet, so it's still today to me) was a good day in WoW. I woke up, and about 15 minutes later, my friend called me to fill the last spot in a heroic Ramparts run. Well, that's the only heroic key I didn't have at the time, so I logged on, and the group ran through Shattered Halls up to and including the first boss so I could hit Revered real quick. Got my heroic key, and we spent the next couple of hours dying and learning (the hard way) what kinds of CC will and will not work on different mobs in Ramparts.

Unfortunately, the world server crashed while we were in there, and it bugged the final boss encounter. Basically, the two guards at the end of the bridge that agro the boss when they die kept respawning. We killed them for about 10 minutes for some easy rep, then called the run.

During that run, I got a whisper from the Kara 1 team leader asking if I was available to down Curator tonight. Of course, I said yes, and sure enough, invites went out right on time. Unfortunately, our MT got disconnected, and our backup took 20 minutes or so to get everything she needed. Then she got splattered on the first trash pull, so our OT became our MT, and did a fine job with it. We got to Curator and wiped twice because the DPS wasn't burning down the final flare fast enough, so we didn't do enough damage during Evocation.

The third try went swimmingly well, but unfortunately, the healers ran out of mana right when he hit 15% (one of the healers was a enhancement shaman who we coaxed into respeccing for the evening). We wiped at 3%. Three ******* percent. Still, it was my first time in Kara, and I was second on the damage charts overall, but only because of those mana wurms in the Curator room. Mages can AoE, and I can't, GG. However, I was number one for the boss encounter by far.

In short, I got my last heroic key, and finally stepped foot into Kara, doing fairly well for my first try (or so I think). A good day in WoW.

This is a little baby accomplishment compared to you guys but for me it's huge.

I hit the 1k AP unbuffed mark at level 61. Woo hoo!!!

Decided to transfer to a server that doesn't suck ***. Looking forward to a medium/high population with an economy that exists. Have a spot waiting for me in an SSC guild. Just need my MH arena weap, on a solid path to it as well iwth my new arena teams. Basically a reaosn to play again.

After going through a few guilds in the past few months, I joined one last night (after talking to leaders for about a week) that's comprised of basically all the old server-first raiders when TBC came out, who have recently come back to the game.

I was already saved to my last guild's kara, so I can't help the new guild finish tonight, and I missed Gruul's last night due to a bachelor party (not really sad about that ) that the new guild did with a few filler members of a fairly progressed guild on our server, but things are looking up =)

s2 fist offhand :D woots

Just hit 70 with my rogue. First toon to hit 70.

Now I get to try and get my stats and gear in order.

Another long one guys, but again worth it. Some of you will hate me though.

I was going to do a Heroic mana tombs pug, but after 2 wipes on the first boss our tank and healer bailed. I went into LookingForGroup to attempt to replace them (groups only happen if you do it yourself) and saw "need dps for pug gruul". I figured, "Ah, what the ****? At least I'll get to see Gruul's lair and get some experience raiding a 25 man for when my guild starts." So I pst the leader and got in on the raid.

Now, as a side note before I go on, kudos to anyone who ever ran effective 40 mans. I tried for the first 5 minutes to be tuned into the "bigger picture". I failed. Badly. By the time we got to High King, I realized that there was no way I could effectively do that. I ended up just putting my head in the game and just doing my rogue thing the best I could.

The high king was interesting, first shot we wiped (mainly because it was the first time for most of us) but finished with little incident the second try. He dropped the leather helm, and the other two (not rogue) legs. I roll on the helm and promptly got owned (I rolled a 7, a 100 roll won). We then proceeded on to Gruul. duh duh DUN

Most of us had never done it before, but the guild running it had us on vent and had a great leader issuing orders. The first attempt, we wiped at 56%. The second attempt got us to a mighty 37%, at which point the running guild were thrilled with their new best. The third attempt started great. We fought and fought and fought, and got him to 5%, at which point all, the tanks promptly died. The remaining raid got him to 3%, but the wipe was final. The forth attempt there was a miscommunication about the hunter's misdirects, so myself and three other dps were oneshotted in the first 10 seconds. Ouch

Attempt 5 was similar to attempt 1 and 2, eventually resulting in our demise. At this point many people have to go so they can go to work tomorrow. The remaining members decide that this is our last run of the night. After we get a bunch of replacements, we go time 6. It was a mighty and epic fight, worthy of legend in the oldest of scroll, retold from father to son for all of time.

We finally killed Gruul as a pug. Everyone I've talked to said this was impressive. He dropped some wrists, the pally legs.....and the rogue legs.

The rolls for the wrist came in, with me rolling a 1 (seriously, the first time I've ever even SEEN a 1) and lost them (d'uh). The rolls went for the pally legs, and then the rogue legs were up. All the rolls came in, mine a commanding lead of an 80. Then a 81 pops up.

My heart stopped. Completely.

Suddenly, another miracle occurred. The roller or the 81 said "jk, I'm a lock". I won the roll. I won the legs.

As I write this, I have just traded with the scryers for my legs. You guys have no idea how many times I've had to rewrite whole paragraphs of this because I keep hitting the wrong keys. My hands are shaking that much. I'm like a puppy at the pound, but I just got picked to go to a warm and loving home, with acres of green lawn. woot.

I also want to take another opportunity to thank everyone here. With all the knowledge I've gotten from reading these forums like a mad person, I wasn't even mildly unsure about exactly what I had to do.

So, in summary, this post marks roughly the moment where one week ago I dinged lvl 70. I have two peices of tier 4 armor. You guys all rock.

Great thread and gratz to all!

My Rogue accomplishment for this weekend is that(finally) got my medallion trinket. Two min cd and +Resilience ftw! As a casual player this has taken me a long time to get, and my Resilience is now at a lowly(but slowly climbing) 127!

It's making BG's much more fun, pretty much every fight now I can break out of a CC.

I dont have to do dailys anymore!!!! (unless i want to) Exalted with Netherwing and proud new owner of my Reins of the Onyx Netherwing Drake.

1938 2v2 team. Whoo!

My guild just downed Vashj. I was benchwarming at the time, but still a pretty major milestone in BC progression. Working on Astromaner in TK now.

Finally cracked 37% crit for my trash/5man gear today with the addition of the gloves off Mags:)

Edited, Oct 9th 2007 12:24am by mahlerite

MH Merc glad mace today... next tuesday, the OH

Picked up the Humbert's helm, got nethercleft put onto my leggings, and picked up a ring from sfk. Also got crusader and +15 agil put on my torturing poker, and + 9 stamina put on my barbaric bracers. Now all I gotta do is get to 29 and do the quests for my chestpiece, gloves, and Arena Battlemaster. :P

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Gnomeregan&n=Mallo

Edited, Oct 9th 2007 10:10am by baveux

T4 gloves yesterday :)