Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Running Death is dead

Nothing more to say now.

I wish all remaining active players good look to find a new home.

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Running Death has problems

We are now too few raiders for perodical raiding. Therefore every member should make some minds, how you imagine your wow future.
Do you want to join an other raiding guild? or do you want to stay with us? or are you burned out from wow now?
Have you enough time the next 2-3 months to raid?
How far / long would you stay with the guild if we can't succeed?
Would you server transfer if necessary?
Do you want help the guild? Have you the time and skills to take some tasks from the guild lead?

Think about this questsions. I want talk about it on 24.9.2011 after I'm back from Ibiza.


What are the possiblities for our raiding group?
1. We recruit new people on Frostwhisper.
2. We recruit new people on another server.
3. We join together another guild (25men raid).
4. Everyone goes his own way or maybe join in small groups other guilds.


If we want to recruit new people, we need following roles (if our core raiders stay in the guild) to get a group from 15 people.
2 tanks (paladin, druid, preferred)
1 healer (priest, paladin preferred)
1 melee dd (rogue preferred)
2 ranged dd (moonkin, shadow, hunter preferred)

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Running Death *** Guild Level 20 ***


Now with lev 20:

The heirloom head item (10% more experience from lev 1-85) are available for 1500 Gold, but you must be honored with the guild.
There is no longer a daily guild experience cap.
New perk: Increases the number of flask which provide a flask cauldron from 7 to 10.


The next guild levels also provide some nice and helpful perks:

lev 21 - Have Group, Will Travel - Mass Summon
lev 22 - Chug-A-Lug (Rank 2) - Flask from flask cauldron last for 2 hours (4 hours for alchemists).
lev 23 - Bountiful Bags - Increases the quantity of materials gained from Mining, Skinning, Herbalism, and Disenchanting.
lev 24 - Bartering - reduce the gold prices from all vendors by 10%.
lev 25 - Mass Resurrection

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Beth'tilac down - 2/7 Firelands now!

(Aefona, Andori, Failean, Ferumbras, Gloomzor, Gorbi, Kewina, Mhar, Myneki, Terrora)

At 2nd time coming to phase 2 at this evening (we wiped many times in phase1) only one small Spiderling reached her during the phase transition and healed her to 89%, but that wasn't enough to stop us to kill the red widow spider.

Then we worked on Lord Rhyolith Phase 1. Next Monday we kill him!

With 2/7 we are realm rank 25 from 35 guilds, which killed bosses in Firelands.
Alliance side we are place 7 from 9.

We need 1-2 more ranged damage dealer which is now ready for Firelands!

Friday, July 8, 2011

Farm / Alt Raid


We will organise as often as possible a Farm / Alt Raid at weekends.
All (mainchars, trials and alts) can participate.
Raid leader is Terrora (or another offiziers in the guild). He organizes and leads the raid and  will set up the group.



Aims for Farm / Alt Raid  
a) The core raid team should get the last pieces, which never or rarely dropped.
b) New players should get some raiding experience and gear.
c) You should have some fun and another view of the bossfight with your alt.

For the beginning only blackwing descent will be raided except Nefarian, but this can be changed in the future.


Rules for the Farm / Alt Raid
1. Prepare for all bosses if you don't know the encounter.
2. Have your own flask ready in your bag if it's necessary.
3. You should know how to play your character in a raid.
4. Healers must bring some mana potions.
5. Get Teamspeak 3 and follow the instructions of the raid leader.
6. Don't disturb the raid in teamspeak, because you have killed the boss many times ago and you are imaptient and bored. There are players which will raid there first time in cataclysm.


Loot Rule for the Farm / Alt Raid
1. mainchars of the core raiding team for mainrole and secondrole, if it's a good upgrade and not only a sidegrade. (you can find the core raiding team here)
2. rest (members, trials, alts) roll for the loot, but the raid leader can overrule this, if aplayer is for the first time in an farm / alt raid or you get negative attention.

Comment to loot rule:
There are only very few pieces which will be needed from some few mainchars.
If you are not in the core raiding team and you would like change this, speak with me (Kewina). In the most cases you lack of raid experience in cataclysm and not the gear, which you can get very easy with justice points.

Good luck and have fun and some nice drops!!!  :-)

Halfus heroic killed

(Aefona, Andori, Failean, Ferumbras, Gloomzor, Gorbi, Kewina, Mhar, Myneki, Terrora)

Nothing more to say to this kill!


new fishing contract with Failean:
until 8.8.2011
2g per fish or for achievment 15.000g
starting with 4.300 fishes

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Shannox killed

Nothing more to say, first boss in firelands is down for us. I hope we can kill Beth'tilac very soon.
Improve your gear if you can, cause we need all damage, mana and hitpoints in firelands.

(Aefona, Andori, Failean, Ferumbras, Gloomzor, Gorbi, Kewina, Mhar, Terrora, Violencia)


Monday, July 4, 2011

Al'akir and Nefarian normal after patch down:-)

On Sunday afternoon we could start a spontaneous raid and killed Al'akir and Nefarian. It didn't take a long time to kill them after patch. Next bosses to kill Shannox, Beth'tilac and Halfus heroic.




(Aefona, Andori, Failean, Ferumbras, Gloomzor, Gorbi, Jisira, Kewina, Mhar, Terrora)

If we get enough good applications we consider to switch to a 25 raiding guild, but the guild need some backup and support from other people. Whoever wants to help the guild and have some time and the right skills for it, we have some jobs todo for you, like

applicant officer
guild event officer
farm raid leader

Friday, July 1, 2011

Firelands - Shannox 10 normal

First boss we want to start in Firelands!

Fight Overview
Shannox has two dogs Riplimb and Rageface
Shannox and Riplimb are taunt immune
Rageface cannot be tanked
avoid molten erruptions
2 kind of traps - Immolation Trap, Crystal Prison Trap - players must avoid it, if a player get trapped from crystal prison trap he must be freed - traps arms after 2 seconds
debuff dot Jagged Tear from Shannox and Riplimb to tanks - whole fight is about to let the debuff run out


Group Setup
2 Tanks - 3 Healers -5 Damage Dealer

Raid Position
Shannox tank on left side
Riplimb tank on right side like 70y away
Raid stands in middle

Hurl Spear
Shannox hurls his spear at a location near Riplimb.
Raid take fire damage and must move away from impact point.
Riplimb bring back spear to Shannox.

Shannox tank
if Riplimb come back to fast back with spear to Shannox tank must try to kite him to let Jagged Tear debuff fall of

Riplimb tank
must let fall of Jagged Tear debuff during time Riplimb is brinning Spear back to Shannox, position yourself so that Riplimb run through Crystal Prison Trap

DD
avoid traps!
kill Rageface, if he get trapped in Crystal Prison damage Shannox
split damage as assigned - bring Shannox to 35% and Riplimb to 5%
wait to let tanks reset their debuff
kill Riplimb
kill Shannox as fast as possible with heroism (time wrap) - burn phase

Healers
1 Healer for tank Shannox
1 Healer for tank Riplimb
1 Healer for random damage from Rageface after Rageface is dead, heal tank Shannox
assigned healers heal raid after Hurl Spear

after Riplimb is dead aoe heal raid after Magma Rupture and later use raid cooldowns (auramastery, spirit link totem, ...)
tank Shannox need more heal because of 2nd frenzy

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Protection Warrior

Following post should help our warriors to improve their threat and damage.

Talent & Glyphs
If you want to know why I choose this talents and glyphs I will explain you in private ts lesson.

Spell Priority for fast single target threat
Shield Slam
Heroic Strike with Incite Buff
Revenge
Devastate
Heroic Strike

Spell Priority for 2-3 targets for max damage
Revenge
Cleave
Shield Slam
1x rend then thunderclap every 12 sec
Shockwave
Devastate

Spell Priority for >3  targets for max inital aggro
1. Thunderclap
2. Shockwave
3. Cleave
4. Rend 1 Target

then

Thunderclap
Shockwave
Cleave
Revenge

Demoshout and Thunderclap Debuff
These both debuffs and similar debuffs from other tank classes should be on your target all the time.
For any encounter with more then one tank, arrange with the other tanks who applies which debuff.

Stat Priority
1. Block (Mastery) + Dodge + Parry > 72,41%
2. Stamina

Use two stamina trinkets and only for special encounter other trinkets like Mirror of Broken Images
No need for hit or expertise, reforge it or get other item without these two stats.

Gem Tips
Blue Gem - Stamina
Violet Gem (red socket) - Parry + Stamina
Green Gem (yellow socket) - Mastery + Stamina

Only use violet or green gem if the socket bonus is more then 20 stamina, 30 mastery, 30 parry, 30 dodge.
If there are 2 red or yellow socket or 1 red 1 yelloow use blue stamina gems.

Why maximazing stamina?
The difference between maximazing stamina and avoidance stats is very small. If you have current content gear it doesnt really matter which you priorize for normal encounters, but for heroic encounters it can make the difference. My experience as healer and tanking shows me, that it's easier and more mana saving to heal a tank with more hp. - This is my opinion, but following links show a discussion about this topic.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

New Boss in Baradin Hold - Occu'thar

We kill Occu'thar during raid time on Wednesday, therefore you must save your id for Wednesday. If we don't kill it during Wednesday raid, you can kill him on other days alone in pug.

If you have a well geared alt and pass on t12 items if some other main char is in raid, it would be nice to help the raid to form two guild groups to kill occu'thar two times and so every main char has a chance to get t12 items.

Cho'gall down before Patch!


Next time we do a screenshot with all raidmembers, if I dont forget again!

Nefarian and Al'akir will follow after Patch very soon and then we concentrate on heroic fights and fireland raid.

Before we go Fireland raids some player must improve there gear. Now it's easy you can get all old valor point items with justice points.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Help the mage!

This special post is to help our mage!

I try to collect all important informations, which you need for the start for single target damage.
Try to improve your damage trainings dummy.

Fire Mage

Basics
Intellect is the strongest stat by far.
1742 hit = 17%
Reforge Master to hit, crit or haste.

Molten Armor

Fire Mobility - Never stop casting! Fire can use every spell in its arsenal while moving except for Fireball. While moving continue casting as normal, but use Scorch in place of any Fireball casts.

Mana Management - After Patch 4.06 - there isn't much 'Mana Management' required to playing the Fire spec anymore. However, make sure you have enough mana to cast Fireball during Molten Fury range (-35% Health), Boss weakened phases and during powerful trinket on-use or passive proc periods.


Talents & Glyphs



 
Addon
RoguePowerBars (or similar addon for better tracking of own buffs and debuffs on your target)

Which skills to use? (Rotation) - Single Target

Pyroblast (with Hot Streak Buff)
Living Bomb (recast after every explosion)
Flame Orb (use it on cooldown)
cast Fireball or Scorch (while moving, save mana or to reaply critcial mass debuff)
use Combustion in the right moment (don't use it without ignite present)

Friday, June 17, 2011

Patch 4.2 and other news

Patch 4.2 come on June 28th
prepare for it
there will come many new dailys with very good faction rewards
Fireland raid is coming

Patch 4.2 - Baradin Hold
There is a new boss "Occu'thar" coming in Baradin Hold, which drops T12 set items.
We are killing him together during raid times, don't do him alone with a pug, only if announced from raidleader that there is no time for him.

Patch 4.2 - Raiding
All normal encounters in BoT, TotfW and BWD get nerfed very hard, so it should be easy for us to kill now all endbosses. Cho'gall, Al'akir, Nefarian - Prepare for all three!
If the first bosses on Fireland Raids are easy we kill them first, if not we kill first endbosses from this instances and then work on heroic encounters and / or fireland bosses.

Patch 4.2 Valor Points, Justice Points
With the patch all Valor Points will be converted into Justice Points, your old Justice Points remain.
max. 4000 JP if you would have more you get some gold for them.
You can buy old T11 gear for Justice Points, so if you need some items for main specc or 2nd specc, try to max out your justice points before patch.

Legendary Caster Staff - Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest
To complete this weapon the player need some special boss drops and a ragnaros drop.
The guild leaders decided that Terrora get the first staff.

Trinket - Mirror of Broken Images
Every raider (tanks, healer, damage dealer) should get this trinket from Baradin Warden with mastery and use effect 400 resistance for 10 sec. It could be very useful on some heroic encounters. If you don't have it already, try to get it before patch 4.2, because then maybe you don't have the time to do the old dailies and the new one.

Improve your Character, if you have time
long term improvement, get 2 good raiding professions and no gathering, some are easier to level then others, if you need advice ask me!
If you don't want loose your gathering professions you should play an alt.

How to make money?
Use your brain and your professions or ask other guild members how to make money.

Contract with Failean
She is fishing for the guild and get some nice amount of money for this afford.
Running Death want the achievement "That's a lot of Bait" for the Seafood Magnifique Feast.
After we got this achievement the guild is buying
1000 Highland Guppy
1000 Lavascale Catfish
1000 Fathom Eel

next Raids
Monday 20.6  - Cho'gall
Wednesday 22.6 - ***no raid***  - next day is a public holiday and some core raiders don't have time
Monday 27.6 - Cho'gall and farmbosses
Wednesday 29.6 - farmbosses or take a look into Fireland Raid - Patchday, but we try to raid

Trials
Xuma lev 85 priest - from Turkey - currently not very active
Phoenixlight lev 85 paladin -  from Netherlands - no active account now
Krayazele lev 21 druid - from England - hope he plays more in the next weeks
Starless lev 85 shaman - from Norway - with high probability he will join with 2 more friends

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

9 / 12 Ascendant Council down, guild achievement 'Mix Master'

First time into phase 3 and the Ascendant Council is down.

With one low geared dd, one offspecc healer and one twink healer we were doing very good and fast progress with a famous victory over the Ascendant Council with 2 people alive. :-)

Our next aim is Cho'gall. Tactical post will follow until next monday.



Furthermore Running Death created 1.000 flask and get the guild achievement Mix Master.
I spent all the money from the guild and some more to get this achievment, but it pays off.

From now one our raids are supported with flasks through cauldron of battle.
They are soulbound and can only be created by alchemists, but this should be no problem for our raid.
They work like a refreshment table from a mage and have 7 charges. (3 players get there flasks directly from the raidleader, so don't klick the cauldron if you are an assigned player.)

If you klick the cauldron, you get a flask of battle.
It grants the effect of a flask based on your class and talents.  It's an unique and conjured item. You only can have one and if you log out for more then 15 min it disappears.


Following guild perks improve theses flasks. (We are currently lev 13.)

lev 10 - Chug a Lug Rank 1 (The duration of buffs from all guild cauldrons is increased by 50%.)
1,5h (for alchemists 3h)

lev 20 - Happy Hour (Increases the number of flasks gained from using a flask cauldron by 50%.)
10 charges

lev 22 - Chug a Lug Rank 2 (The duration of buffs from all guild cauldrons is increased by 100%.)
2h (for alchemists 4h)


Our next guild aim is following achievment That's A Lot of Bait
We must catch 10.000 fishes from fishing pools. This time we need the support from every guild member to achieve it, but I think we want organize a fishing event to have some fun together.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Ascendant Council (Elementium Monstrosity) - 10 normal

in Bastion of Twilight 3rd Boss



Fight Overview
3 Phase encounter
Phase 1 Feludius (water ascendant), Ignacious (fire ascendant)
Phase 2 Arion (air ascendant), Terrastra (earth ascendant)
Phase 3 all 4 merge into Elementium Monstrosity
Phase 1 & 2 end when on of the ascendants reaches 25% health.
the health of the Elementium Monstrosity is the combined health of all four ascendants, so we want to bring all four to about 25%


Group Setup
2 tanks - 3 healers - 5 damage dealer





Phase 1 (Feludius - water ascendant, Ignacious - fire ascendant)

all
* If you get debuff waterlogged, remove it asap by walking through the fire trail
* don't stand near Feludius during Glaciate cast
* don't stand in fire

tank 1
* tank Feludius
* interrupt Hydro Lance
* run away at Glaciate cast, charge back to interrupt next Hydro Lance

tank 2
* tank Ignacious
* face him away from raid during
* reposition him again after inferno rush
* use minor cooldowns for Flame Torrent as often as possible
* interrupt Risng Flames after his shield 'Aegis of Flame' is broken

 healer
* dispell Heart of Ice and Burning Blood
* during Rising Flames heal the raid

 melee dd and assigned ranged dd for Ignacious
* attack Ignacious
* dont stand in front of him
* move out of fire
* interrupt Risng Flames after his shield 'Aegis of Flame' is broken
* damage stop at 27%

assigned ranged dd for Feludius
* attack Feludius
* interrupt Hydro Lance after Glaciate cast
*switch to Ignacious 2 seconds before he put up his shield 'Aegis of Flame' - after shield is broken switch back
* damage stop at 27%


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Phase 2 (Arion - air ascendant, Terrastra - earth ascendant)

all
* much movement, spread out dont stay together
* if you get debuff Lightning Rod move far away from raid, after you get chain lightning move back to raid
* don't stand in Eruption (rock spikes from ground from Terrastra)
* get the right debuff at the right time
* run through tornado to get Swirling Winds debuff
* run through gravity Well to get Grounded debuff
* you need swirling winds debuff befor Quake
* you need grounded debuff before Thundershock
* Quake is alway the first ultimate cast in p2 then it is alternating, so run through tornado first in p2


tank 1
* tank Arion
* after teleport, charge back and interrupt Lightning Blast
* if Lightning Blast don't get interrupted use your cooldowns

tank 2
* tank Terrastra
* move out of Eruption
* don't interrupt Harden Skin
* use cooldowns for Harden Skin

healer
-

damage dealer

* attack Arion
* interrupt Lightning Blast
* switch 5 secs before Harden Skin to Terrastra
* after shield is broken switch back
* stop damage to Arion at 28%
* stop damate to Terrastra at 28% and wait for next Harden Skin and then go full damage, but don't use your damage increasing cooldowns


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Phase 3 (Elementium Monstrosity )

all

* this is a burn phase, max damage (heroism, damage increasing cooldowns)
* ranged healers stay in middle
* avoid lava seed (fire balls from air)

tank
* only one tank needed, 2nd tank dps and taunt if tank 1 get very low
* at start of p3 move boss out of  middle but not too far away
* move boss out of Liquid Ice

healer
* heal  gravity crush player
* heal raid
* heal tank
* use healing cooldowns

damage dealer
* max damage
   

8 / 12 Chimaeron down, Raidtime changes and more...

After some wipes and getting experience with 3 healers, we used the easier way and killed Chimaeron with 4 Healers. This is a healer fight, so all healers should know their spells, mana management and try to improve their skills and reaction time for this boss.

Raid Time Changes
Wednesday 19:30 - 23:00
Monday 19:30 - 23:00

We want also doing some rated battleground for the weekly Challenges during raid time.

Next Boss - Ascendant Council (Elementium Monstrosity) in Bastion of Twilight
get some basic information about this encounter or read my next post until next Monday


Recruiting
We have a good raid squad, but I would like to have a motivated restoration shaman who know his class, can heal, have time to raid and are old enough to fit into our guild. If you know someone or you would like to do some advertisement in trade chat or forums, contact me. Guild leading can need any support.

Thursday, May 5, 2011

7 / 12 - Atramedes down

After killing our farm bosses in Blackwing Descent and some connection issues and 3 tries we could zerg down the blind dragon Atramedes.

Our next aims are Chimaeron and then finishing Bastion of Twillight (Ascendant Council and Cho'gall).

Until now we couldn't find any healer, who like to join us, if you know or meet some pve oriented healer let me know. If you want to switch your mainchar to an other heal charakter don't hestiate get some gear and join the raid. We need some recruitments to keep up our raids.

Next Raid: Monday 9.5.2011 - 19:00
come an let us kill Conclave of Wind, Halfus, Valiona and Chimaeron

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Guild bank is buying herbs and volatile life

We want following guild achievement:
Mix Master (create 1000 flask) to get Cauldron of Battle for raid support.


We are now at 206 / 1000 flasks, so the guild bank is buying herbs and volatile life from you.


  • 3200 Azshara's Veil (20 = 15g)
  • 3200 Whiptail (20 = 25g)
  • 3200 Cinderbloom (20= 15g)
  • 3200 Twilight Jasmin (20 = 50g)
  • 6400 Volatile life (1  = 1g)
  • 1280 Stormvine (20 = 15g)
(We only need Stormvine for the cauldron, that's why we only buy 1280 Stormvine, later if we got all other herbs we want buy more Stormvine.)

Prizes and amount will be updated.

Send your full stacks per cod to rdmoney.

In the next weeks there will be some guild events to get some money for the guild bank and all participant want get some nice prices.

If you have any questions, ask Kewina.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Farmbosses dead in 4hour

Wednesday Raid from 19:30 - 23:30, we killed all 6 farmbosses with 2 random healers and could get some experience at Atramedes. I'm convinced that Atramedes will die soon and Chimaeron want follow him.

But we are searching for 2 healers to join our guild, they should be pve interested and have time at Wednesday and Monday. If you know or meet one let me know.

Next Raid is on Monday, but maybe we must cancel it, because of Easterholiday.

Some information about loot distribution changes
Raidleader decision, if he can't or won't decide he let roll
boe items for mainchars 1000g fee, for twinks 2000g - 8000g

Our guild bank need some money to organise some events and more, do you have any good idea how the guild can earn some money?

Furthermore the guild bank want buy many many herbs (azshara'veil, whiptail, cinderbloom, twilight jasmin, stormvine) and volatile life. We will pay 60-80% from the market prize. Further information and prizes want follow the next days. So if you are bored and don't know what to do, farm twilight jasmin or some other herbs.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

18. 4. 2011 - Maloriak, Conclave of Wind, Valiona dead

This wasn't expected that we could kill 3 more bosses at one evening. At the start of the raid there were only 5 members from Running Death in the raid, but...

Last Wednesday Ferumbras and Aefona raided with us and also come yesterday with Failean to our raid.
Ferumbras could hiring a paladin healer and I found a random paladin tank from trade chat.

and after 2 new dead bosses Ferumbras, Aefona and Failean were convinced to join Running Death. Welcome!

More explaination then wipes lead us to three fast and easy boss kills. I hope we can kill them next week with the same easiness.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Welcome!

Welcome to Running Death!

We are an old / new guild which startet with Cataclysm again. Many real life friends or old Running Death members which played 10 years ago together. We were from Germany and Austria and since yesterday we get 3 new members from Netherlands, but we are looking for further mature player indepandant from where you are.

We are playing on Alliance side on the European Server Frostwhisper.

This blog should be an easy way to communicate, to inform and to discuss outside of wow.

Enjoy and use it.