Me in my Teir 1, Giantstalker gear! This was taken after we downed Nefarian for the first and last time before BC was released.

Since my freshman year of high school, the number six has always had a special meaning for me. It started when I chose the number as my soccer jersey. Later I found out that six was my grandpa’s favorite number. Six is also half of my husband’s lucky/soccer number, 12. Needless to say, if it’s six I have a good feeling – except on Friday.

I was in a ICC 10 pug and we were doing alright. It took us 3 wipes on Saurfang before we sucessfully finished him. As luck would have it he dropped, Saurfang’s Cold-Forged Band, a slight upgrade for me with nice Armor Pen. I random /100 and roll a 6. My head almost hits the keyboard. The bear tank passes on the ring a long with the DK. Wow.. I won it! THEN, for some strange reason the raid leader has a brainfart, goes onto the next item from the loot chest and doesn’t hand the ring over. He awards the DK with the plate item and says, “roll again for…” and re-links the ring. I think to myself that perhaps I can redeem my roll. Nope, I roll a 6 again!! One other rolled against my 6 and obviously beats me. But the group spoke up and told the raid leader that technically Wulf won the first roll. My prize was handed over to me.

I thank the group and say over vent, “What are the chances that I roll back-to-back sixes?” Then it was pointed out by another raider, “and you won the ring both time with those sixes.”

Lucky number six!

On Saturday, my guild had a second 10 man Ulduar run for the “Starcaller” Title. For the longest time, I think there was only 1 person with the key to Algalon’s room. Many raid sign up posts have been made in the past, but no one seemed interested and the sign ups were always short.

Until two weeks ago, our first group of 10 guildies successfully defeated Algalon on their last attempt of the one hour timer. Their victory must have sent a surge of excitement through everyone because now there was more interest in taking Algalon on and the sign ups were flowing .  Not to be outdone, there was a followed up defeat  for Yogg +1 the next day.  This time, I had been called to help and the 2nd wipe and a mind control of yours truly, 5 guild members in finally had their Rusted Proto-Drake mount. This achievement also put me 4  Hard Modes away from my Rusted Proto, but I still didn’t think I would complete the requirements in time.

Since excitement was high for Algalon, we had another go this past Saturday.

Our night began with Hard Mode Flame Leviathan. A few of us went down, but those who remained fought kept on battling and sealed the victory. Next was Ignis for a speed kill and then off to XT . We blew through him as if we all had one had tied behind our back. Through the portal and up the stairs, the raid cleared out the  trash and a quick turn to the right just before the stairs to Kologarn lies Algalon’s room. I felt very lucky just to be inside, the surrounding atmosphere is amazing. I didn’t have a lot of time to take everything in before we began the battle which is on a 1 hour timer. Being the good raider, I made sure I read up on the encounter before hand, but experiencing it is another. Fortunately we had some Starcallers from the last run and they were able to help us rookies get up to speed. With 5 to 6 attempts under our belt, we defeated Algalon with 10 minutes left on our timer.

But there was no time to celebrate our victory and watch the in-game cinematic play out in Dalaran, there were other bosses in Ulduar that we had to contend with. One by one we battled our way through – Hard Mode Iron Council, Hard Mode Kologarn, Hard Mode Auriaya,  Hard Mode Thorim and Hard Mode Hodir. All went down in one shot. When we reached Freya I was slightly nervous due to the many failed attempts I participated in the past. Our group was stellar as we blew through each guardian phase without a hiccup. Hard Mode Freya was defeated on the first attempt.

Next was Mimiron. Finally we were allowed to push that big red button in the back of the room that reads, “Do Not Push.” His Hard Mode challenge, Firefighter, was a bit tricky but we managed to beat him in three attempts. Out of all the Hard Mode events, this was my favorite.

By now, it was late in the evening but we all pushed through the packs of trash on our way to General Vezax. The fight was quite simple, if  you find dodging shadow crashes easy, and he was one shot too. Another Hard Mode one shot under our belt.  With one achievement left for me and another guildie the group decided to finish with Razorscale’s Iron Dwarf Medium Rare. It’s not the most challenging but long.  With five minuets left on the Razor’s enrage, my guildie and I reached the 25 crispy Iron Dwarves needed. We pushed him to the enrage for a few more Dwarves for some other guildies (I had 10 Dwarves cooked from a previous attempt) but fell short. Quicky we rezzed up to restart Razor for the last needed. Finally I had my Rusted-Proto Drake.

It was decided after Razorscale that we would continue Yogg +1 the following day to help the other two raid members with their final achievement for new Drakes. We knocked this out before our Sunday raid, and this time I managed to keep my insanity the entire time. Yogg + 1 was the final one shot for our group.

The evening was meant to be short with just a Starcaller run with no other Hard Modes other than Levi and XT, but I was very thankful that my guildies were willing to go the distance.  We made Ulduar our B**** .

When the servers finally settled down this evening I logged in to begin my dailies. I manage to knock out the new Shadowfang Keep Holiday Bosses, pick up my cooking and fishing quests and queue for the random heroic dungeon run. I soon find myself  in some conversations with friends and before I know the Dungeon box pops up waiting for me to accept: oh joy it’s Nexus.

I zone in and notice that this group’s druid tank is in speed mode. Fine, that’s cool . I do my best to keep up, kill mobs, misdirect to the bear, yada yada yada, we get to Anomalus. It’s still my understanding we are on a speed run and begin to all out DPS-balls-to-the-walls on everything. Well, I must have missed the call that we were doing the achievement because the tank begins to yell, “NO DON’T KILL IT.” I stop my DPS as fast as I could, but  it was too late, my dots must have finished it off. Okay my bad, and I was about to apologize until the other 4 people  in the group pile on the Hunter Hate. “Wow, you suck and you can’t read,” “You have crappy DPS, “Why are you pulling that? Oh wait you are a hunter!” Har-har-har-har. What a bunch of jerks all the sudden.

If I wasn’t that close to finishing the instance, I would have left. The thought did cross my mind to ninja the rest of the items from the bosses but Karma must had been on my side. I won 2 Dream Shards and 1 Abyss Crystal from the bosses. Now that I think of it, it’s been a very long time since I had to deal with a bunch of @**clowns in a 5-man heroic. Perhaps I was due. /shrug

Anyway, I wasn’t going to allow 4 people ruin my night. I got me a new pet! Watch out, he’s looks hungry.

Sorry for the lack of updates. I was socked with a heavy duty cold that is kicking my butt. I’ve been to the doctor so I have medication to help combat whatever is brewing in my sinuses. Hopefully I’ll shake this soon. In the mean time I hope you all are enjoying the recent patch.