{"id":9,"date":"2008-04-22T17:26:10","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T21:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurn.apotheosis-now.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2008-04-22T17:26:10","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T21:26:10","slug":"so-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/so-close\/","title":{"rendered":"So close!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We brought Vashj down to 3% last night. I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll get her on this coming reset, but it&#8217;ll require some changes to our strategy I think. Apparently, my ranged isn&#8217;t doing what they&#8217;re supposed to be doing, although happy coincidences last night made it work out okay, more or less. Well, obviously, if we got her to 3%. Stupid poison got us, obviously. But it was really just us being silly and not moving her around enough.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, attunement. Obviously, I have the Vials of Eternity quest sitting happily in my log and now that we&#8217;ve downed Al&#8217;ar (on Sunday), a bunch of my guildies just need to go kill Rage Winterchill to be attuned to BT. Of course, I am not one of them. I need to talk to Seer Olum tonight in SSC, because I was stuck on the Arcatraz portion of that attunement quest forever, because I hate instances, specifically TK instances, with a passion. Well, I finally got it done and then the 5-man quest in SMV that follows it up just sat in my log.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon, I remembered &#8220;oh, right, need to talk to the dude in SSC tonight&#8221;, so I looked up the quest and was like&#8230; oh, right, this is why I haven&#8217;t done it. A 5-man quest. So I asked in guild chat if anyone wanted to do a quick 5-man quest in SMV so I could talk to the dude in SSC tonight.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;crickets chirp&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Which is what I&#8217;d expected. :P<\/p>\n<p>So I check out the quest on WoWHead: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowhead.com\/?quest=10707\" target=\"_blank\">Akama&#8217;s Promise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>People are saying they&#8217;ve soloed it. Mostly ranged classes, though. Hm.<\/p>\n<p>I gave it a shot. The summoners were easy &#8212; kill them, heal through archers, then jump off that platform. You eventually drop out of combat and can eat\/drink&#8230; and kill the other one. Rinse and repeat.<\/p>\n<p>Then Deathwail landed. I was a little scared of the fear, but it only caused trouble once. I had him to about 35% when someone randomly whispers me for an invite. OMG, it&#8217;s a shammy! A random shammy! So I invite them, they proceed to HEAL ME (hooray!) and then we go to town on Deathwail. BAM, down 30 seconds later.<\/p>\n<p>A productive WoW day even if I do nothing else, and I get to feel good about myself because, shammy or no shammy, Deathwail would have died. I, a holy paladin, essentially soloed a 5-man quest. Or could have soloed. That feels good, to be honest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We brought Vashj down to 3% last night. I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll get her on this coming reset, but it&#8217;ll require some changes to our strategy I think. Apparently, my ranged isn&#8217;t doing what they&#8217;re supposed to be doing, although happy coincidences last night made it work out okay, more or less. Well, obviously, if we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,20,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gear","category-paladins","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","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=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}