UBRS Yours bizatch
James Reynolds | March 30, 2009
Gamer, Blogger, Student
James Reynolds
jamesr87[.at.]gmail.com
Good Morning and welcome to next week, the week that followed the previous week but is before the week after next. Oh yes, welcome. Today is going to be a particularly hard day, I told myself yesterday to make up for my truly lackluster performance on trying to catch up with Uni work that I would do a programming task every night this week. I will surely want to kill myself by the time the week is out but it is very much a necessary evil.
Most of my 2 (3?) readers will already know what I’ve been up to this week with WoW taking up an usual amount of time but predominantly the indomitable domineering title that is Call of Duty 4. Been blasting through my 2nd prestige and i’m up into the late 40s now with a Deagle in one hand and an RPD in the other.
I do love that Game and as much as I complain about some aspects it’s still amazing fun! For example, I love leveling up the weapons even if I’m using at utterly terrible one! There’s something innately rewarding about being given experience to punish yourself by running around Bloc with an Uzi but at the same time you can totally “click” with a bizarre gun on a bizarre map.
The number of times I’ve utterly mullered a group of people because my RPG with Deep Impact just decided to shred a squad into pieces is unbelievable and yet it happens with a degree of regularity. There have even been games where, as a sniper (and I’m an appalling sniper) I’ve got into the 20s for maybe 3 or 4 deaths, usually running out of sniper ammo in the process.
I did enjoy a rather glorious game of 28-1 on Downpour where I sprinted into the shed in the middle of the map and just held it. If you need help picturing what it was like, imagine a tin-foil shed with 3 windows and 2 doors and you can shoot through all the walls. 28-1.
I was bloody amazed.
After tiring (lol, tiring of COD …) of this Rob, Leslie and I rolled into WoW for another Retro levelling run, we went first to LBRS where I grabbed all four gems for my UBRS key (which I don’t think you need anymore, but still…) and it was fun although that place is a bloody maze! After that Rob and I decided … Why not? and rolled into UBRS where we enjoyed a relatively easy success. We failed by about 10 whelps to get the Leeeeroy achievement but we did incredibly well for a 71 Prot Pally and a 68 Feral Druid.
We blasted through everything with relative ease all the way up to Drakk. The Beast was a pain in the ass but not difficult and everyone else was relatively easy to crush under the combined weight of imba DPS and an utterly indescructible paladin.
But Drakkisath I knew was going to be hard. Standing tall at 95k Health with 2 25k Health friends he was going to be no push over. I knew what to expect, I’ve only ever seen him killed twice in my 3+ year WoW career so I was fully expecting to Wipe.
Remember, this is a boss where the standard tactic was to have a hunter kite him and run away until we had killed his guards! Serious business indeed. Conflag hits for 3k Damage and drops your aggro, so if you’ve only got two people prepare to share the pain.
In reality we needed a healer, we pulled and I did a decent job with threat and mitigation, but Conflag meant that Rob on his drood took a lot of punishment and ultimately with near zero-mana effeciency he went OOM in a matter of seconds into the fight.
At the same time I wonder if bringing a DPS with Rob in Bear form for the fight would work, say an Enh Shammy who could Maelstrom Chain Heal throughout the fight … Another tactic would be to give Rob Blessing of Sanctuary instead of Kings and have him Main tank with me Off Tanking, he soaks up a lot more damage than I do and with Sanct he’d have a much more stable amount of Rage to heal himself with.
Morale of the story, UBRS was fun. Made a tidy profit I know that much, saw no Pally set drops though :<
Next on the Agenda is trying to level, dinged 71 over the weekend and did another 20%~ XP questing but 80 seems like a long way away. I’m thinking the next 1000 gold I have saved up (I think I have about 700g right now) will go towards Dual Spec Resto/Prot and in the long run probably Ret/Prot. People need healers, I just cba with Respeccing to get groups.
I’m out of time, gotta work, question of the post is … errr … How do you eat them? ORLY?! YARLY.
I’m outtie,
James.
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