After last night’s embarrassing fiasco, I felt compelled to armory every single 70 in our guild to make sure they meet the “recommended minimum requirements to enter Karazhan”, as per the following:

Tank: 490 Defense, 12k health/armor, ~40% D/P/B
Healers: +900 bonus healing, >100 mp5
Casters: +700 bonus spell damage, >100 mp5
Melee DPS: 1400 AP, ~75 Hit Rating
Ranged DPS: 1400 RAP, ~75 Hit Rating

Edit: Here's the current guild list,...

Last night was, by far, the worst experience I’ve encountered in Karazhan since the dungeon’s inception.

It’s a 100% guild run, and I was running about an hour late. I had some personal business to attend to IRL, so the group knew I would be behind. By the time I arrived, the raid was already assembled and they were just waiting for my arrival to start pulling.

It felt so great to know that, for once, I wouldn’t be spending an hour and a half hunting down people to...

I suppose I should begin with the continuance of the Karazhan run I began last blog.

Friday, January 18, 2008 – Night 3

A few new faces this time around, and a very different line-up. When pulling this group together, I really just had to go with what I could find at the time, and this is what we had.

1 Prot Warrior (Me)*
1 Prot Paladin OT*
1 Holy Priest*
1 Holy Paladin*
1 Resto Druid
1 Rogue*
2 Warlocks**...

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 – Night 1

This week started exceptionally late due to many factors of both mine and others’ behalf. We skipped Tuesday entirely, so I spent the afternoon in MS spec tearing horde apart in AV. Apparently with a 33/28 spec, I turn into a NE Lawnmower. It was fun to spec out of prot again (it’s been months since I did it last), but the fun didn’t last long. Even so, I still farmed out 4k honor in less than 2 hours.

A quick aside: THANK YOU...

Well, I had originally written a much more elaborate blog about our misadventures in Karazhan over the weekend, but unfortunately that file was lost (cause I always pre-write my material in Word to avoid losing it… ironic, eh?), so I’m just rewriting a summary. (I can never remember what I write once it’s in text, so all the detail I worked on is gone…)

Over the course of 3 nights (Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday), we grinded our asses off learning each of the fights, and I’m happy...