Gruul’s on Friday
Perhaps setting ourselves up for dismal failure, the StormSeekers hope to venture into Gruul’s Lair this Friday at 8 P.M. Eastern time.
With the incredibly large amount of guilds further progressed and the ease with which quality raiding equipment can be obtained, taking down the tier 4 raid bosses should be a snap! But it won’t be.
The first hurdle we have to clear is getting 25 people. Recently, we haven’t been able to run Karazhan without three to five non-guild members. Often, these PuG members are beneficial to our raid and I have no problem bringing them in (except as tanks. I don’t want to pug a tank). A lot of people say they want to run Kara and raid, but few bother to show up at raid time. Consequently, we have a couple of tanks and healers and dpsers basically ready to hit tier 5. But only a half-dozen or so. The rest of our membership flits in to WoW from time-to-time, expects to raid, doesn’t put in the effort and goes away for a while. The perils of the casual guild, I suppose.
Even if we had 25 people, we’re going to have a time of it trying to get 25 of the right people. I don’t know if we have a mage with the right gear to mage-tank. I don’t think we have any hunters with an NR set, nor a panzerkin. I don’t know if we can scrounge up 7-8 healers.
On top of that, the guild leader hasn’t been playing much (real-life commitments and all) and I haven’t been party to any discussions of strategy and composition if there have been any. We don’t have any sign-ups for this event. We haven’t had any active discussion of this event. It isn’t going to happen because no one has put in the work to push it forward. Even if it does, we will mostly have people undergeared who haven’t read the strategies or watched videos and it will be a long and painful night of wipes.
On the off chance that we do go, I have some things I need to get done before:
- Get a Belt of Natural Power crafted. I picked up the vortexes and need to farm about 5 primal life then track down a crafter. Short of the t6 belt, this will be the best I can get (not that I can get the t6 belt).
- Crank out seven more badges and pick up the new badge chest (Embrace of Everlasting Prowess). It’s such a huge upgrade from my current Heavy Clefthoof Vest it’s unreal.
- Hit up dailies on some of my characters: I need the gold to regem a bunch of gear.
- Try and work up fishing so I can do fishing dailies. Not because I care about fishing, but because the gem (Eye of the Sea) would be nice in at least one slot.
After that, I need to start hitting the battlegrounds hard again. With Arena Season 4 starting next Tuesday, I’ll be able to pick up a couple pieces of the Season 2 gear (spaulders and helm which replace the season 1 spaulders and helm I currently use) and pick up the Merciless Gladiator’s Maul for my DPS set. I’ll need thirty Arathi Basin tokens, twenty Alterac Valley tokens and 29K honor over what I have.
Anyone playing on Argent Dawn that wants to hit up Gruul’s Lair and enjoy a night of frustration and probably screaming on vent, let me know!
A note: I hope the wowhead links work. I finally got around to editing the header.php file but I’m at work, so none of this loads for me.
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