Two more heroics down.

As the title says, I managed to do two more new heroics today, fearsome ones too – Halls of Lightning and Caverns of Time: Stratholme.

HoL – This instance is awesome with stellar dps. Loken is something else though . Half the time I couldn’t really time my getting out of holy novas very well so I had to binding heal a  fair amount. The pulls with the exploding elementals also gave me a bit of a heart attack. I also managed to get a few off-spec gear pieces, which is always nice.

Strat – I went with the stellar dps group and it was fast-paced and actually quite fun. I don’t recall anyone really dying and we managed to get a drake to drop. Now that I actually know that a drake drops here, I want to run it many many times. >.> Of all the drake models in game, the Caverns of Time drakes are my favorite. I remember flying over to Black Morass once and remarking that I would love to have a mount just like the one I was flying. I guess Blizzard listened. A new goal is born. >.>

We also did a quick Violet Hold run (oh Icharon or whatever your name is, I hate you so much, you are a headache and a half) and gathered several achievements – 100 emblems of heroism (woo), and the Got Money on My Mind acheivement.

It was unfortunate that I had to go to work afterwards (curse you, grocery store job of fail) but being able to do ‘hard’ heroics without too much trouble makes me feel happy.

And a quick shout-out again to Kadomi who is celebrating her birthday. =D Heroic UP WILL drop your sword >.> And a mount.

I still don’t get it.

So I did some instancing after my failed runs and a heroic Nexus run on Thursday night. I didn’t lag at all. I’m wondering if there’s some weird kind of lag I get during peak hours because I usually never get to play during the peak hours. If so, this is disconcerting because if it’s a chronic thing, I’ll only have to settle for late night/early afternoon pugs. On the other hand, I researched for similar issues on WoW’s technical support forums and found that there were quite a few threads about bad latency and lag in instances and Northrend in general.

Another reason that living in the Northeast United States (not on Comcast though, I’m at least somewhat lucky) is fail. On the plus, my boss told me that I’ll likely not have to close so much soon (crosses fingers) but my new slightly earlier schedule probably still won’t mesh with my guild’s times. Woe is me. I’m still job hunting. And still sick! Okay, I’ll stop complaining now. Here’s a link to tide you over for now.