Well, I’m back to raiding. I took Sunday night and Monday night off, then showed up on Wednesday and was feeling okay, if a little worn out. I was feeling much better on Thursday when the raid began, though. We raided for 3 full hours, killing the blood princes and then cleared to Dreamwalker (killing a sort of a miniboss in there? I got an extra Emblem of Frost from some damn mob).<\/p>\n
I was both totally prepared and not remotely prepared for the Valithria Dreamwalker fight.<\/p>\n
Under the Totally Prepared<\/strong> umbrella, we have:<\/p>\n – Glyph of Seal of Light<\/a> (instead of my typical Glyph of Seal of Wisdom<\/a> – although I brought an extra one of those, too, obviously, to reglyph back to my regularly scheduled awesomeness)<\/p>\n – Libram of Tolerance<\/a> (instead of my typical Libram of Renewal<\/a>, although I’m thinking of picking up the ilvl 226 Libram of the Resolute<\/a>)<\/p>\n Under the Totally NOT Prepared<\/strong> umbrella, we have:<\/p>\n – no spellpower flasks or elixirs<\/p>\n – bad flying coordination inside the portals to stack the buff effectively<\/p>\n – bad timing inside the portals to ensure the buff wouldn’t fall off between portals<\/p>\n – had no idea how freaking often the damn portals SPAWN<\/p>\n – had no idea what the best way to TARGET the stupid dragon was<\/p>\n I realized on my first attempt (the guild has already done Dreamwalker on both 10\/25, but I missed out on the 25 due to being sick and the 10 by virtue of being sick and hating 10s) that targetting the dragon was going to be a problem.<\/p>\n “… target the dragon with your mouse, Kurn, then spam Holy Light. WTF.”<\/em><\/p>\n I know. I did that for my first attempt. It was very poor. I was trying to judge mobs to keep Judgements of the Pure up (ahahahaha, forget THAT nonsense in the freaking chaos) and all the time I lost in switching targets and also in switching targets back to Dreamwalker meant I was getting frustrated as crap.<\/p>\n “So… use a focus, Kurn. Geez, this isn’t rocket science.”<\/em><\/p>\n Well, that’s exactly what I did on my second attempt. (We had 9 wipes before getting her down… up?? on the 10th.) Except that HEY, focus targets that you’re focused on in one phased area VANISH if they’re not targettable in another phase!<\/p>\n So not only is Dreamwalker not sitting there on my Grid, but the focus mechanic is basically useless to me, right?<\/p>\n Third attempt, I made a macro.<\/p>\n \/focus Valithria Dreamwalker<\/p>\n