The general population – yeah, there are a LOT of bad players, including some with fancy titles and guilds.

Grats on your new pet – I’ve run Ahune the past few days on my warrior, and have yet to see anything but the cloak drop.

Seriously. I’m wet from the sudden downpour here in Manila, and it’s a rather fail Monday, but after reading your post (my Guildmaster linked it to us via Plurk), I, was, like… “omg. How can so much win be in one blog post?”

Thank you so much ^_^

In fairness, we wiped that first try, on the very first day of Midsummer. Because we did the DPS burn route. Stupid of us, I know, I know. After the wipe, me and the GM decide to do it our usual way and “play this smart and safe.” Also, I’m coming off a two-month WoW-less period so I actually forgot where I put Lay On Hands and I’m rusty with my emergency Retadin healing acrobatics. Poor undergeared Shammy healer friend T_T I know, its not an excuse, but it took me a while to get the old rhythms back.

Yes, this Ahune is good. Very good.

Really? A Kingslayer?

*stops self from giving an indecorous reaction*

Got the scythe/staff thing, would be awesome on my tree if I had not got the battered hilt healing mace a couple of weeks ago.

Oh no.

Yep, no icy touch, no howling blast.
Just me, my taunts, and my dnd..
It’s actually kind of fun, but that first 15 seconds of adaptation was scary. :)

I have yet to have a healer stand in the consecrate. When I’m healing, I am standing with the tank.

If you are having problems with the adds, and you aren’t a hunter, run to the tank. Their AOE should more or less solve your problem.

I have yet to wipe (*knocks on wood*) on any of my toons. That said, the number of times people have either a: dps’d the boss while the adds are spawning or b: stopped dps when the boss retreated makes me want to pull my hair out.

On the other hand, my tank has all the cloaks, simply through winning greed rolls until my tank cloak dropped.

Of course, last night I had to be proved wrong. I was pally healing for a group with two warriors and two DKs. They ignored the adds half the time, and everyone ran in to take a swing at the boss, only to be knocked back. Unfazed, they kept charging in…over and over. One died, ran back, and kept charging in…

I’ve run it since on each toon with guild groups and have had absolutely zero problems. And I got the staff. For my paladin. Ah well, the festival runs for another week or so, right?

plowed through that, then some guildies said hey, want to come tank ahune? I’m immediately thinking, OMG they want me to tank a boss I’ve never even seen bethree.. err before. (deflationary language.. sorry) They said it was just a matter of controlling adds, I decided, i can do that.. so away we went. downed him first try.