{"id":2074,"date":"2011-10-13T11:51:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T15:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurn.apotheosis-now.com\/?p=2074"},"modified":"2011-10-13T11:51:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T15:51:50","slug":"pondering-the-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/pondering-the-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"Pondering the Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"

So how are people out there dealing with the possibility of getting the Glory of the Firelands Raider<\/a> achievement?<\/p>\n

Back in Wrath, the guild I was in hit 11\/12 25-man HM and then immediately did a full reset of achievement stuff. We did Neck-Deep in Vile<\/a> that week and then the next week, did Been Waiting a Long Time for This<\/a>, which resulted in getting Glory of the Icecrown Raider<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Tier 11, we got to 7\/13 HM before Firelands came out (Halfus, V&T, Magmaw, Maloriak, Chimaeron, Atramedes, Conclave), so Glory of the Cataclysm Raider<\/a> wasn’t even a possibility for us, as we were missing, you know, 5 heroic kills.<\/p>\n

Due to the nerfs, we will likely hit 5\/7 HM tonight or Sunday (Majordomo) and after a break for BlizzCon, we’ll tackle heroic Baleroc. (I think we would have hit 6\/7 HM without the nerfs, but it would have taken longer.)<\/p>\n

Since six of the achievements required for the meta will be already done (the six heroic bosses) and since we regularly do Share the Pain<\/a> and Only the Penitent…<\/a> is really easy to do and isn’t even part of the boss encounter… that leaves four achievements:<\/p>\n

Bucket List<\/a> – Shannox
\nNot an Ambi-Turner<\/a> – Rhyolith
\nDeath from Above<\/a> – Beth’tilac
\nDo a Barrel Roll<\/a> – Alysrazor<\/p>\n

To me, it’s a no-brainer to take a reset or two (to get everyone covered) and get these guys down on normal<\/em> to get the achievements. However, the fact remains that Shannox and Alysrazor drop heroic tier tokens and the other bosses drop valuable heroic loot (oh god, I want a heroic Ward of the Red Widow<\/a>!).<\/p>\n

Given that we don’t know when 4.3 will drop (although I’d be surprised if it’s before American Thanksgiving, in late November), we don’t know how many resets we have before the new raid opens up. It’s safe to say that we’ll move on to the new raid once it opens.<\/p>\n

Obviously, there is a finite amount of resets left between now and 4.3. Will using two (because, with a roster of ~34, we’ll NEED two) resets to get the meta achievement be worth two resets of heroic loot off those bosses? Better question: do we need to do all of them on normal? Shannox isn’t so hard on heroic, maybe we could get away with kiting him forever, but I know we could do it on normal.<\/p>\n

I’m not even going to talk about time spent on that versus heroic Ragnaros. That’s a whole other question in and of itself.<\/p>\n

So how are you fine people handling this in your guilds? Are you? Do you even care? I’ve got a poll up on the Apotheosis forums, asking the raiders what they think of the meta, but I’m curious to know how others are dealing with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So how are people out there dealing with the possibility of getting the Glory of the Firelands Raider achievement? Back in Wrath, the guild I was in hit 11\/12 25-man HM and then immediately did a full reset of achievement stuff. We did Neck-Deep in Vile that week and then the next week, did Been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,5,93,14,19,3,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-achievements","category-apotheosis","category-firelands","category-gear","category-raiding","category-ramblings","category-t12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}