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Standard advertisement: Wreck List is the Daily Kos World of Warcraft guild. We are Horde-side on the Garrosh server. To join, read this diary ,visit the Guild web site, roll up a character on Garrosh and when you log in type
/who wreck list
and contact (via in-game mail or /whisper) any of our members - who can direct you to someone with /ginvite privileges and get you a guild invite. Yes, you have to be Horde. No, you don't have to be hardcore - casuals, PvPers, and people that just want to hang out on guild chat are all welcome.
More below the fold:
For those of you that follow such things, you can get a preview of the upcoming Paqtch 4.3 on the Player Test Realm.
For those people, like me, who would shake their Christmas presents before opening them, Wowhead has a list of changes here. Surprise! Crap-ton of changes for Death Knights ahead. Again.
On a completely unrelated note, and just as an aside, you may want to keep an eye on WoW Insider. Just sayin'.
[Edit by Tay]: Raiding update: RAG IS DEAD
Well, it only took two days to kill the nerfed Firelord, Ragnaros. Despite the nerf, Ragnaros is still tricky on 10 man. There are three main phases, with two mini-transition phases. This fight is different than many boss encounters in that the transition phases are more difficult that the "main" phases. Each transition phase involves quickly killing adds called "Sons of Flame." They move very quickly toward Ragnaros' hammer, and if they reach hammer, you are almost guaranteed to wipe. They are immune to slows, but can be stunned and knocked back. Their speed drops with their health, so it is important to quickly get the add down to about 50% or so. For some reason there are eight adds on both 10-man and 25-man difficulty. (Yeah, nice, right?) Anyway, once we got those transition phases figured out (and it is a difficult balance, deciding whether to two or three heal, and where to position everyone) we were able to kill him. Much thanks to Tindalos, who filled in on short notice and just happened to be the top dps. Thank you so much! :)
Here's the Tab Eight Report from Mahuae, who is going on vacation and won't be reporting next week.
Tab 8 Report:
Alicite Pendant of the Earthfall, lvl 79
Binding Promise, lvl 81 trinket
Blazewing's Furious Kilt, lvl 85 leather (two of these)
Bloodied Wyrmhide Helm, lvl 85 leather
Bloodthirsty Charscale Boots, lvl 85 mail
Bloodthirsty Fireweave Belt, lvl 85 cloth (two of these)
Bloodthirsty Fireweave Gloves, lvl 85 cloth
Bloodthirsty Fur Cloak, lvl 85
Bloodthirsty Wyrmhide Gloves, lvl 85 leather (two of these)
Chestguard of the Caring Ursine, lvl 84 leather
Cloak of Beasts, lvl 83
Cloak of War, lvl 83 (two of these)
Curse-Tainted Leggings, lvl 83 cloth
Glowworm Cavern Bindings, lvl 73 mail
Greaves of the Outcast Knight, lvl 81 plate
Helm of Holy Visions, lvl 83 plate
Jasper Ring of the Fireflash, lvl 79
Knotted Handwraps, lvl 85 leather (two of these)
Mindbender Bloom, lvl 82 relic
Nightrend Choker, lvl 85
Ornate Pyrium Shoulders, lvl 85 plate
Rainsong, lvl 81 trinket
Ravenholdt Bindings of the Zephyr, lvl 84 leather
Ravenholdt Hood of the Undertow, lvl 84 leather
Reanimator's Cloak, lvl 80
Revenant's Treads, lvl 80 mail
Roffle's Ruffly Gloves, lvl 85 cloth
Runed Dragonscale, lvl 81 relic
Safecracker's Gloves, lvl 84 leather
Skin of Stone, lvl 81 cloak
Spiritguard Drape, lvl 85
Stormforged Legguards, lvl 82 plate
Thartuk's Inimitable Gauntlets, lvl 84 leather
The Perforator, lvl 83 fist
Tol'vir Hereditary Girdle, lvl 82 mail
Triple-Loop Belt, lvl 85 cloth
Waistguard of New Days, lvl 800 plate