Of Course We’re Proud!
“BRK, you’d be proud, well at least sorta… I’m a level 51 Draenei hunter and I’ve finally chain trapped for the first time. Yeah, that’s a bit embarrassing, but I’ve never needed it before.
“Searing Gorge, in the Slag pit, need to get The Overseer’s head. The general trash is easy enough to clear … with a level 48 druid guildie helping out. We try [The Overseer] the first time, and wipe. We get a rogue to join in the second time and wipe, but the overseer dies. We go back and clear the other two elites and get [The Oversear's] head. But wait, only one [person] at a time can get The Map quest item! Arrggh!
“The map resets once before they respawn and we die again. So we go back again, the druid pulls aggro [because he was] not attacking my marked target and we die again, but one elite goes down.
“One final rez and I start channeling a little BRK. I take charge and instruct the druid to do nothing but heal. I send my pet on an overseer, tag and trap the other elite, we DPS the overseer, trap the other mob again, DPS some more, trap a third time… and the overseer goes down. We get the map and all is well.
“It was a trial by fire but it worked well, and best of all, I dinged 51 on the overseer kill, putting the point in The Beast Within. Thanks for all the lessons, they eventually pay off! Fearstalker and FlameClaw”
Do we all remember the Slag Pit? We hope so. That Overseer Maltorius is a PITA and basically impossible without crowd control, so grats for putting your chain-trapping skills to good use.
These letters are the reason we continue this blog. Hearing that you’re learning, trying to put into practice the skills we talk about, makes the whole deal worthwhile. Not every post or comment here needs to be about Karazhan or epic gear. The level of the accomplishment doesn’t matter as much to BRK as the satisfaction you get from the achievement does.
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I should mention that the rogue left after she got the map, so the druid and I were alone on the last two rounds. The chain trapping did wonders.
But that got me thinking just now.. can a druid chain-root?…
If we had to do all three of those elites at once, having the druid chain-root the other would seem to make sense, if they can do that…
I remember smashing/melting face in there with another Hunter and a Warlock… I remember it mostly because the Warlock could *not* jump down from the lip of the crater onto that balcony at the back of the overseer’s cave.
First time he really did jump - instead of just stepping off - and fell clear out into the Cauldron and died.
Second attempt he stepped off, missed, and ended up back in the same place with a small sliver of health left… which of course meant he got ganked by one of the patrols or a spider or something on his way back up.
Third attempt he stepped off in totally the wrong place and ended up back at the bottom, again with most of his health gone.
Fourth attempt he finally got it… but hadn’t bothered to regain health from the previous attempt, so he landed at our feet on the balcony and promptly died.
I don’t think I’ve laughed so much at anything WoW-related before or since. Ahh the memories.
Yes, a druid can chain-root, but only outside.
now the next one in there is Obsidian.. I never did finish that one with my pally, will need to try to do it with the hunter. CC will certainly help on those casters…
But a big thanks to BRK for the lessons! They do eventually get used!
When do you need to chain root outside?.. pfftt…
I guess that’s why the druid wasn’t using it…
I never did Searing Gorge, so I don’t remember Overseer. That being said, Felwood was a giant pain in the ass simply due to scale, so for my Hunter, I may just do that instead.
51?!
You can’t be as embarrassed as me who learned to chain trap at 70.
Thanks largely to being in a regular group where my trap was the only reusable CC.
Speaking of learning from BRK, I was taking my 21 Hunter out to do the Blackrock quests (started with the lower-level one, then got an offer of help from a 29 Mage for the second one), and managed to keep myself alive during the escort quest after the Mage got slaughtered with Mend Pet, Frost Trap, Wing Clip/Concussive Shot kiting (does Disengage even work?), and a bit of good luck (as opposed to earlier, when a Giant Goretusk stepped in my trap by accident; that incident ended in my demise). I was running on the ragged edge of OOM the whole time, popping pots at every opportunity, but we survived long enough for the Mage to rez, by which point the quest was mostly done. Very proud day there.
When I was a nerdy little kid in high school I was on the chess team. I was the second best player on the team and not because I was actually any good, or knew what I was doing.. but because I knew just a couple of tricks to beat people.
I would feel real good about my uber pwnage and share my victory stories with my friends.
Then one day my brother joined the team. Him being two years my junior, I taught him all the tricks I knew. He then set out and destroyed his opponents with all the ferocity I taught him.
He would then come back to me and share his tales of victory. You would think I would be amused by these stories, follow every move.. bishop trades bishop for the knight to end up forking the queen and king… and all such talk.
But to be honest.. for as much a player I was… His stories bore me. It wasn’t nearly as much fun to visualize the board and scenario which he was telling me about (something I had been doing to my friends) as much as it was to actually just play it.
-guy
Which is one of the great things about the Internet; if someone or something bores ya, you can just scroll further up or down the page, or carry on reading your RSS.
I suppose in the real world you can get up and walk off, but for some reason rudeness tends to rub people the wrong way.
Guy,
And do you suppose the rest of us are in awe at the glory of you escapades, hoping that a glimmer of your preeminent aura would fall upon us, and then we could someday tell our children that we read a post by Guy, and that they would be spellbound?..
Get over it… you’re a schmuck in front of a computer, just like the rest of us…
Or are you just bored because you can’t argue with BRK about gear?..
sheesh…
Karl,
It’s more of the later.
-guy
no no.. I take it back.
I am a schmuck.
i mean…
WHAT!
Can’t a guy tell a story without getting flamed?!?!
Gawd!
maybe that’s all it was.. just a story. why you guys gotta be all deep and shit?
deep and shit… put the two together, and….