A Night of Heroic Deeds

So as soon as I logged on with Ulushnar last night, a friend asks me to come to Steamvaults as their tank had just left. It turns out that they'd just cleared past the first boss, so I honestly couldn't refuse. Group turned out to be a Shaman and Warlock from Suprised Survivors and a Druid and Hunter from another guild. We just zerged the place easily and dropped the last two bosses. Ulu even scored the chestpiece of the Righteous Armor set.

After that, a quick call out on the Cd chat channel and I got a group going to Heroic Mechanar. It was Ulu, a Priest, a Warlock, a Mage and a DPS-specced Paladin. It mostly went relatively smoothly, except for the waves of mobs that spawn before the last boss. They always come in three waves: four humanoids, one superhard robot and three humaniods, and there's two of these waves, with a brief break before the boss. The problem is that the robot hits like a freaking truck! I've fought bosses on Heroic mode that were easier than this guy! Ultimately the DPs paladin relented, strapped on his healing gear and things went smoother. After about half-a-dozen wipes, we managed to get past the waves and kill him. Ulu was rewarded with the helm of the Righteous set, an amazing tanking sword and the last badge he needed to get the Libram of Repentance.

After that, with no time to rest, I went straight into a Heroic Slave Pens run. Group this time was a little eclectic: Healer Paladin, DPS Paladin, Ulu, a Rogue and a Mage. Still, we got through it suprisingly well. Mage was fire-specced and kept on dying to his own aggro, and out pulls were a little sloppy, but the instance wasn't significantly harder than a normal level 70 instance. I guess the main difference between heroics and normals is that a newly-geared level 70 couldn't do much good in a Heroic, but could hold his own in a regular instance. After you've run the regular instances enough to get geared, then Heroics offer the next challenge. there was no loot for ulu this time, but three badges got added to the fund for his next item.

And after last night, ulu completed the Righteous set, which looks pretty pimp:



Sadly the stats make it near-useless for raiding. Still, I fully intend to use it for soloing and for tanking regular instances, where's it's actually preferably to not outgear the instance too much.