05-09-2005, 09:06 PM
Sometimes in World of Warcraft you have battles that are too memorable not to share. I'm still kicking myself for not taking a video of some of the fights we had in Blackfathom Deeps yesterday.
Drake's priest and his dad's warlock were looking to complete some quests in Blackfathom Deeps, and were looking for help. I volunteered the services of my priest Tidecaller (level 33). Drake and his dad were already partied up with a warlock, and Kedj's warlock also needed to complete quests there so he joined the party as well.
So you have our party: 2 priests, 3 warlocks. Blackfathom Deeps is one of the more warlock friendly instances, but you can never find one to join a group in Ashenvale since the only people questing there are usually Night Elves. Apart from Tidecaller, all the members of the party were between 25 and 27.
The first half of the instance went fairly smoothly. We used void walkers to tank and they were pretty durable with Renew on them. Then Drake's dad had to leave just as we were hitting the Moonshrine ruins.
This is where the Deeps gets tough because you start facing linked groups of 3 or 4.
In order to compensate for our lack of tanks I started doing Mind Control pulls, with Drake's priest taking over as primary healer. In some battles it worked incredibly well. In other battles it broke early, or I pushed "1" to attack instead of using the icon on the petbar. But we were doing okay for the first part - waiting for patrols, and keeping the adds to the minimum.
Then we turned the corner on "T" and headed up the stairs. I think a 2 creature group was ahead of us. I mind controlled one and used him to attack the other. Then naturally I hit "1" by mistake again and the control broke. That wouldn't have been so bad, but suddenly a runner got away from us, and returned with a group we had previously left.
Suddenly we're battling what must be at least 5 mobs with two void walkers, two squishy warlocks, and two priests to keep everyone alive.
What followed was one of the craziest battles I've ever been in. Everyone was attacking different mobs. Everyone was *getting* attacked by different mobs. First it was Renews. Then Flash Heals. Then Shields followed by Flash Heals. To keep track of other party member's pets you have to hover or click on them - they don't show up in the party display. So that was another complication.
The battle is stretching on, the mana is draining fast, and I'm desperately trying to keep everyone alive long enough to stabalize the battle. When I see the mobs getting low on health I have to break healbot mode to use a Mind Blast or Mind Flay to kill them before they can run away.
There goes "Desperate Prayer" my once-every-half-hour zero-mana-cost instant-cast 500 health self-heal.
There goes the mana potion.
By this stage I'm casting "Prayer of Healing" (the priests' group heal spell) and counting the seconds of its 3 second cast time (longer with attack interuptions), and crossing my fingers that it will finish casting before I die. There were at least 2 or 3 of those moments.
By now I am completely out of mana, and the health is dropping rapidly through the red zone. I'm bashing the Twilight Hammer guy in front of me with my staff knowing that I have used every trick in my book, and I am completely out of options. Dying so I can use a Soulstone rez is looking like a very attractive option since I know I'd come back with more health and some mana.
And then Drake manages to hit me with a Flash Heal.
I'm still out of mana, but my life bar is a health green and suddenly there are only two mobs left. I keep bashing my guy with my staff while the others finish off their mob and help me with mine.
We have killed them all. And everyone lived.
As if that wasn't enough we had a similar battle a couple of minutes later when Kedg fell in the water and got aggroed by another group of 4 or so. He died before we could reach him, so we suddenly had another barely controlled 3 on 4 battle. With another healthy dose of cross healing we managed to win the battle and rez Kedj.
A little bit later, Ketura the druid managed to make it inside the instance so we can summon him. We finally had a tank, and the rest of the instance went pretty smoothly. (Mind controlling Twilight Elementalists was fun - they had shaman-Shock spells in their arsenal).
Playing a priest can be quite the rush!
Chris
Drake's priest and his dad's warlock were looking to complete some quests in Blackfathom Deeps, and were looking for help. I volunteered the services of my priest Tidecaller (level 33). Drake and his dad were already partied up with a warlock, and Kedj's warlock also needed to complete quests there so he joined the party as well.
So you have our party: 2 priests, 3 warlocks. Blackfathom Deeps is one of the more warlock friendly instances, but you can never find one to join a group in Ashenvale since the only people questing there are usually Night Elves. Apart from Tidecaller, all the members of the party were between 25 and 27.
The first half of the instance went fairly smoothly. We used void walkers to tank and they were pretty durable with Renew on them. Then Drake's dad had to leave just as we were hitting the Moonshrine ruins.
This is where the Deeps gets tough because you start facing linked groups of 3 or 4.
In order to compensate for our lack of tanks I started doing Mind Control pulls, with Drake's priest taking over as primary healer. In some battles it worked incredibly well. In other battles it broke early, or I pushed "1" to attack instead of using the icon on the petbar. But we were doing okay for the first part - waiting for patrols, and keeping the adds to the minimum.
Then we turned the corner on "T" and headed up the stairs. I think a 2 creature group was ahead of us. I mind controlled one and used him to attack the other. Then naturally I hit "1" by mistake again and the control broke. That wouldn't have been so bad, but suddenly a runner got away from us, and returned with a group we had previously left.
Suddenly we're battling what must be at least 5 mobs with two void walkers, two squishy warlocks, and two priests to keep everyone alive.
What followed was one of the craziest battles I've ever been in. Everyone was attacking different mobs. Everyone was *getting* attacked by different mobs. First it was Renews. Then Flash Heals. Then Shields followed by Flash Heals. To keep track of other party member's pets you have to hover or click on them - they don't show up in the party display. So that was another complication.
The battle is stretching on, the mana is draining fast, and I'm desperately trying to keep everyone alive long enough to stabalize the battle. When I see the mobs getting low on health I have to break healbot mode to use a Mind Blast or Mind Flay to kill them before they can run away.
There goes "Desperate Prayer" my once-every-half-hour zero-mana-cost instant-cast 500 health self-heal.
There goes the mana potion.
By this stage I'm casting "Prayer of Healing" (the priests' group heal spell) and counting the seconds of its 3 second cast time (longer with attack interuptions), and crossing my fingers that it will finish casting before I die. There were at least 2 or 3 of those moments.
By now I am completely out of mana, and the health is dropping rapidly through the red zone. I'm bashing the Twilight Hammer guy in front of me with my staff knowing that I have used every trick in my book, and I am completely out of options. Dying so I can use a Soulstone rez is looking like a very attractive option since I know I'd come back with more health and some mana.
And then Drake manages to hit me with a Flash Heal.
I'm still out of mana, but my life bar is a health green and suddenly there are only two mobs left. I keep bashing my guy with my staff while the others finish off their mob and help me with mine.
We have killed them all. And everyone lived.
As if that wasn't enough we had a similar battle a couple of minutes later when Kedg fell in the water and got aggroed by another group of 4 or so. He died before we could reach him, so we suddenly had another barely controlled 3 on 4 battle. With another healthy dose of cross healing we managed to win the battle and rez Kedj.
A little bit later, Ketura the druid managed to make it inside the instance so we can summon him. We finally had a tank, and the rest of the instance went pretty smoothly. (Mind controlling Twilight Elementalists was fun - they had shaman-Shock spells in their arsenal).
Playing a priest can be quite the rush!
Chris