The Violet Hold...Heroic Style

My first post as a WoW Blogger...Yay! Okay now that that's out of the way...on to the good stuff!

As of late, five guild-mates and personal friends have been taking nightly romps through dungeons. Our crew consists of myself, Ahtabat, Kroffjr, my rogue dps machine and other half, Juliettah, my disc priest healer and personal friend, Mirroden, another personal friend and death knight noob, and a guildmate Floppie, better known as Floptimus prime the Warlock. The past couple of days we've ventured into heroics. Last night's undertaking...The Violet Hold. This was after our warm-up in the Keep, which is basically on farm status now. However, Ahtabat did see two nice upgrades from the keep which included Bindings of the Tunneler and Enraged Feral Staff boosting my life up to 31k buffed and armor to 25k. It might have been three good upgrades for the Aht, but alas, I allowed my other half, Kroffjr to get his waist since I received two upgrades to his one.

In any case, The Violet Hold. I will say this one is rather easy mode once you know how the bosses work. Our first boss was Xevozz. He proved to be a bit of headache at first. Three wipes and I finally wizened up and looked up some tips on him. The trick for this one is to kite him around the balcony from where he emerges from his cell. I'm not sure what he does in normal as this was my first time fighting him, but in heroic he summons two arcane orbs that follow the highest threat holder (ideally the tank) around and arcane blast as they go. The orbs have too much life to be killed before they kill the attacker, so you have to keep your distance from them. This worked pretty well for us once we figured out what the heck to do. I grabbed him when he emerged and backed my big butt up the rubble that leads to the upper balcony. From there we moved slowly around the upper balcony and started down the stairs and back towards his cell. By time time he was about half life or so and he did a teleport to the center of the room. We immediately spread out and I watched to see where the orbs were that he was going to summon. They ended up being right next to his cell so I hit reverse and started back up the stairs in the direction that we came. We finished him off and claimed our reward, celebrating our victory after a few failed attempts. Our reward was less than thrilling as no mail wearers accompany our merry group. Yay shard for me!

Our next boss was Moragg, the larger than life floating eye ball. I have fought him numerous times in normal mode and really wasn't worried about heroic. Thankfully, my non-worrying proved correct and we one shotted him like the wuss he was. We gathered our loot and moved on. Ah Cyanigosa...again, cake. We one shotted her as well. One note on her, my healer sometimes has a habit of standing behind me in case I have to start kitting. She likes to keep a lead on me for heals, hey, I'm not complaining. A live druid is better than a dead druid... However, in this fight, the tank needs to be the only one that Cyanigosa is facing. She does a nasty cone of cold that hit's like a mac truck. My fragile Jules got it on her right off the bat and I thought I was going to lose her. She finally got the dot off her and we marched on to victory. That is the only major concern for this fight. Stay out of the blizzards...no, snow fall no fun in this fight, heal through the dots, and keep her faced away from the group. Tank her sorry dragon butt down and gather great loots for everyone!

All in all it was a very productive night for our little group. We received several upgrades overall plus completed the heroic daily and reaped up lots of rep and badges. Kroff's goal was three heroics last night, but our wipes on the prick of a arcane thief set us behind and we finished with two heroics down. Still...I'm not complaining.

This is Ahtabat...until tonight!