After about 6 months or so, I have realized I never told anyone I was going on a break. I did go on break and still currently on one from the game. That however doesn't stop me from checking into the game from time to time.

I believe that soon I will be returning, Fyurae and I talk about it almost everyday and it seems that I will be returning. Once I return, this place will start getting some attention. As I am sure most of you are now asking yourself something along the lines of, " OHHH Great bear of knowledge when will you return to us? PS you are the best thing since sliced break." First thank you very much, I believe, and will check with fyurae for the exact date, But I will be out of town the 23 to 28th of may, have a few bills to pay, I am thinking the 4th or 5th. No later than the 12th of june for sure.

I know I am doing this in reverse, But I just did this one and its fresh on my mind.

This is hands down the toughest 5 man I have ever done. The trash in 232 to 245 gear is no joke. I had some good dps with me, and it wasn't fun. 5 pulls them the boss, 5 pulls then another boss. Then you have, a mob with a kinda shadow ability. Then you have to go through about 5 or 6 ice blocks, being chased by the lich king. As Jayna tries to save your sorry asses. It is quite frankly a pain in the butt.

First you will need 3 very good dps, range is awesome, and a DK is wonderful if you can get on vent with them. Death grip to me in this place is amazing to get some of those casters pulled to you. Counter-spell, silencing shot. Everything to get a caster come close for you to swipe, you will need it. I can't stress enough how amazing your healer needs to be. If your healer isn't over geared or talented, don't try it.



Part 1

It is my opinon the first 5 pulls go from easy to hard, on the last one use Whatever you need to stay alive, as early as you can. You want it up for the boss fight. Try FFF the casters, doing as I said up there, getting things pulled close to you. We use the hole straight across from where you enter, works for me. Do as much as you can, Never come off swipe, Use beserk on the 5th wave. Innervate the healer between 5th wave and boss, and whenever else you can. If anyone dies, kill quite a bit of guys, tell the healer to over heal you, tap barkskin and then battle rez. Remember to try and tap every guy you can with something, get them close, lots of swiping, and don't let them get behind you where you can't dodge. You can do it. This first boss after the 5 pulls fears. He is a pain but pretty easy. (Note: Currently Fear ward does nothing on this boss) Just take your fears like a bear. Pop barkskin around the times you get feared, preferably with lower health. Use your cool downs when you need too. The next 5 waves don't feel as hard and you should do well on. The last boss is fairly easily, long as you get out of the purple things below your feet. You will know them when you see them. You won't need to be quite as intense as the first 5 waves and boss.

Run in kill the guy, swipe first soon as the mirror images come out. While you fight, your swipe should almost kill the healer, and take him, then you, them some dps. Very easy fight.

Part 2

The last section, first Pray, second flask, third eat a feast. Then dps the hell out of the mobs as you run up the hill with jayna, its very straight forward. If you are too slow killing stuff, the lich king kills you. First you get some ghouls dont worry about them, just swipe and kill. But the Abombs and such suck. Around the last one 5 or 6 in. You can tell from placement on the hill, blow beserk. Your whole group needs tons of dps on this. Shamans are nice for heroism and dks for army. If you have the dps, and you spam swipe, you will get it done.

And thats the secret to HOR. Sounds alot easier than it really is.

Good luck, more guides coming.

Sanford

We are fine. A little more armor wouldn't hurt your set, even if you have to drop a stam trinket if your dueling them( like say the tri badge 1700 armor trinket) but we are fine. Just sit back, relax and know that it will be ok.

Everything I have read and Everyone have I have talked to say bears are fine, Still awesome to have tank for them.

The bear has awoken...

I have returned for more fun filled thoughts and strategies, I know I didnt post for a while there. Same with fyurae. We both have been very busy.

More strategy guides to come for the new stuff. Tanking for sure, maybe healing if I can get alittle gear.

For now I leave you with a thought.

Why do people quit the guild in the middle of the night and not say a word? Most of the time its not people we have played with too long, but just a week to a month. No warning and they just decide that they can leave, thats fine. But at least tell the guild leaders what the issue was, maybe they don't feel like we have the right to know why? Maybe I have wronged them in some way. But I really doubt it, its more like people being embarrassed because we aren't what they thought we were going to be.

Many growing pains going on in my guild, Especially with all the new raids and dungeons and badges. I'll give an update on the guild and what we are doing to stay strong.

For now my friends, its good to see you again.

Fuzz man

I hate Tuesdays, mostly for the fact that wow is down. But really because it reminds me of the life I don't have. I sit here reading articles on the wow forums that I answered months ago, I read news articles from wow and not from wow. Today I was so bored I was reading an article about how quickly juice vitimins leave your system, when fyurae said I should blog about juice. So I shall. Ok, mostly not, but alittle bit.

I think that blizzard should take into account that they have the servers down for quite a bit of Tuesdays, and maybe offer us some kind of entertainment. I could be just cranky and enjoy complaining but it doesn't seem so horrible if maybe they could finally do something with their pod casts and such. By on Tuesdays before the server going down they give us something to read or watch or just anything. A gesture to say, well we know the server goes down on Tuesdays, and a lot of you can only play that day, or have time to play, or whatever, and you can't. But here is a token of our appreciation.

Maybe I am dreaming, but it doesn't seem that hard to just give us a blog to read or anything. It is also completely possible they already do this, but I seriously doubt it.

Could someone get a tow truck. Please? How long have we been stuck here?

Heroic halls of lightning tends to be, what are these kids calling it these days... ohh right, A bitch. Tanking this instance you have almost every single hard thing in it, except fire(please blizzard, I am not saying you need to add fire, the instance is good on its own, don't touch it.) Now very simply put this instance is very tank-able, but make sure your gear isn't all blues or polar items. And having a great healer helps.

Lots of aoe damage, don't be discouraged if a member of your group dies or if you wipe once or twice, especially around the beserkers, I don't care how geared you are, it happens.

First boss, clear to the right don't engage him till you have cleared most of the mobs on one side. He is easy other than that, spam swipe, If you lose aggro use your aoe taunt, Might want to use demor roar right off the bat if your lower geared(or if you feel like it). Remember in this entire instance to keep moving and don't let the mobs hit behind you.

During the elementals, I am crazy but ill just bring them all to me, beat the hell out of them, before they die,I pop Survival Inst and barkskin and let them blow. Never failed me yet.


Clear more mobs,at the fork in the road, go left. Clear left, there is no reason to clear the right, unless you are with people who don't listen. Boss fight, the forge guy is pretty easy, just pull him back to you, dps him. He will run up to his forge, soon as hes done taunt him. He will be dead quickly. Adds will come out, get everyone to come to you, aoe taunt, or swipe to get hate. And your done.

Next boss, Ionar, Is a very straight foward fight. Just stay away from the shocker things, blow cool downs as needed, I tend to face him away from the group just out of habit, but it works. Always watch your healer in this fight, and have battle rez waiting if they don't move fast enough.

The next room after this if you have a lot of melee, just be careful, kill runeshapers first, and the beserkers will charge almost killing someone, taunt them quick. Its not really an aggro wipe, but maybe its in my head but they come back to me faster if I taunt them. Take this slow, mark your targets and make sure people work with you. When they begin to whirl wind or wind whirl(whatever it is, Fyurae has made fun of me in the past because I can't remember which one it is). I can't stress enough, that people would rather you go slow, than wipe the raid, Do not be pressured into moving faster than you are comfortable.

Last boss, Tank him where he stands, YOU don't move, If you move it can throw off everything. Tank him where he is, toss up lacerate, attack pretty hard, use CDS and relax. A lot of people hate this instance, I had a really hard time the first few times, but once your used to it, and have a good healer its not too bad.

Signing off for now,
Fuzz