So, It's your First Time, Baby?

I am not level 68 and the aldor elevator will never get me in its steely clutches of sinking doom ever again, mwuahahahahaha.

My favouritest bear in the whole world had a suprise for me last night as well, my regular pocket healer has switched mains to his rogue and when I logged on she sent me whisper to come meet her and after flying halfway across Terrokar (What? I'm hardly going to use one of those stupid land bound cat mounts) to the Auchenai area I found her stood by the summoning stone in all her tree-like glory! Woot, new pocket healer.

Anyway one thing led to another and I ended up in Sethekk Halls, now I've never been here before and this always throws me off a bit. My reactions are slower as it takes me a little longer to figure out what’s going on, I don’t know any of the mob abilities and I always pay less attention to my rotation and seem to screw it up, basically I just don’t grok it in the same way that I would a dungeon I’ve done 15 times already...like say Hellfire Ramparts.

This causes all sorts of problems obviously and having a new healer, someone not used to how tree healing works I had my work cut out for me and the best method really is to just take it slow.

This may seem obvious but I didn’t, made the stupid mistake of pulling with 0 rage when there was no need to with 5/5 furor and Enrage for the entire fight after that I was fighting to regain agro due to being low on agro at the start healer was over stretched and a couple of the party went down. So the rest of that instance I pulled a little slower, went over my rotation in my head before every pull whilst enrage was ticking up. Faerie Fire, Mangle, lacerate, lacerate, demo roar, Mangle, lacerate, lacerate, lacerate. It’s a great calming mantra, hehe.

All this is the reason that I always ask to be the one to mark and pull though. It lets me run the instance at a speed that is comfortable for me and forces me to think ahead of time how the fight is going to turn out. I made the mistake of asking the mage to sheep pull for a single fight and they then did it for the next three. I was completely thrown for the next two as both fights started before I was properly ready. I know in the future to ask “could you please do a sheep pull for just this fight, please?” assuming a general level of intelligence in the party, keeping your instructions clear should hopefully have good results.

I also went into Auchenai Crypts after that, first time again, and took the lessons I had learnt from SH with me, and it went smooth as silk (except for at the very start where I got Mind Controlled and proceeded to rip a hole in my party, oh and not realising the rogue was stood next to me and was the focus of attention)

Most importantly though don’t forget to have fun, and I did, the runs were fantastic (bet you don’t here that very often) and I got to see lots of new things which was great and my new healer did a fantastic job.

Aldor Elevator 0 – Flight Form 1