Additional Instances cannot be launched.

This picture was taken before patch 3.2, but I think we can all understand the frustration that is going on.  And this wasn’t even in Northrend…IT’S GNOMEREGAN!  I was trying to get some engineering pet recipes that night…and I didn’t get in for over half of an hour.  /sigh /sigh /yawn.

This has gotten even worse since patch 3.2 has hit and emblems of conquest have been dropping from heroics.  On our server (Burning Blade-US), we have had very long waits at the new ‘door boss’ but luckily no raids have been effected.  Other servers have not been so lucky, with these epic door bosses now keeping 10 and 25 member raids from entering Naxxramas.

I’ve already seen plenty of screenshots of chats with GMs.  They are all pretty much the same: some QQ from a player and some ‘we are aware of this problem’ from the GM.  Most players just want some more servers, but the GMs and CMs like to tell us its more work than just inserting a new RAM card into our PCs.  Well, thanks for being specific Blizzard!

Leave a comment about how you’ve been dealing with this problem!

My first Naxx run on mage

**Edit: since this post seems to get a lot of hits, here is a guide I wrote to frostfire mage.**

Today was my first run in Naxx with my mage and the first time that our guild (MAN THE HARPOONS) went into Naxx.  Most of the people have very little or no experience raiding, so it’s very impressive that we were able to down the first two bosses in the spider wing relatively painlessly and got the third to 8% (couldn’t get through the damage spike of the enrage).  We’re running it again tomorrow and I think that with some tweaking we can up the dps just a little to get the third boss down and have a shot at the fourth.  I had tons of fun and everyone was super chill!

I got lucky and from the second boss (Grand Widow Faerlina) the Grieving Spellblade dropped for me (I rolled 100 on it!).  I’ve been running tons of heroics, so I already have the badge offhand (Ward of the Violet Citadel) for casters.  This was a huge upgrade over the blue-quality blade I had from Kirin-tor revered reputation.

I also respecced Eau from deep frost to the cookie cutter frostfire spec  – 0/53/18.  The spec is fun and also raised my dps from around 1500 to around 2500 with ony some minor gear upgrades/tweaks (whoa!).  Being a fire-heavy frostfire specced mage means that my play style is very different now from how it was before.  For one, this spec is heavily crit dependent and when things proc, my damage goes nuts.  For once I’m finding myself in that stereotypical mage ‘place’ of not being able to control my own aggro when everything starts criting.  When I run heroics, I usually keep one finger on ice block!  Haha!  I don’t quite like this spec as much as frost for soloing purposes, but it’s not as bad as pure fire since the frostfire bolt has a slowing effect like frostbolt.  For those of you who want to try it out, the rotation that I find works best for bosses is stack improved scorch (only needs two casts with the improved scorch glyph) –> apply living bomb –> between 3 and 5 frostfire bolts depending on the fight and how much haste I have (I try to get it so that the last bolt is going off when my living bomb just finished) –> use pyroblast if hot streak procs, reapply one scorch if needed –> rinse, repeat.  I’m still messing around with a good roation for trash, but what I’ve been doing is just stacking one hit of scorch (which again is actually 3 stacks because of the glyph) and frostfire bolting.  I don’t think this is the best rotation, and this is reflected in my dps – while I can pull 2.5k dps on bosses, I’m usually hovering around 1.7-1.8k for the overall instance.  Anyone have any suggestions?  I feel like the length of the frostfire bolt is kind of a hinderance…  In melee-heavy groups, it’s hard to get more than one or two out before the mob dies.

Enough about mage though!  I will leave you now with this gem:

I’m still completely baffled about how this guy guessed that I (1) am a real girl, (2) am in college…  Especially since so many dudes play female blood elves!

**Edit: since this post seems to get a lot of hits, here is a guide I wrote to frostfire mage.**

Server Transfer

I transfered my mage (Eau) from the Eonar server to the Burning Blade server because of a combination of wanting to play with people I know in real life and feeling like I don’t fit in with people in my guild on Eonar anymore.  Initially, Nick and I were going to just level the rogues we made (the picture in the previous post) to save the money of transfering…  But when I decided to transfer my mage, he also transfered his shaman, and, as of yesterday, we’re both 80.

I’ve actually been 80 for a few days since I had a leg up in leveling – Eau was already 75 when I transfered her, but Nick’s shaman was only 70.  I’ve been running a lot of pugged heroics and it’s interesting to see the different dynamics that occur on each server.  On Eonar, people always pass then roll on BoP loot (or DE if there is an enchanter), whereas on Burning Blade everyone just greeds everything (I think this is because shards are pretty cheap on the server and people generally believe that they’ll get more gold if they just vendor the item).  There are also way more good pugs on Burning Blade, which could just be because there are so many more horde on this server than there were on Eonar.

Since reaching 80 (and with lots of help from Nick), I was able to buy my epic flying skill in Eau – my third character to have it.  I also made myself a Magnificent Flying Carpet!  Man, that thing is cool!

I think we are going to start a 10-man Naxx group this weekend and I’m really looking forward to it because a lot of the people in MAN THE HARPOONS (our guild on Burning Blade) don’t have much experience raiding and are really nice and funny.  It should be a nice change from what our guild on Eonar has become, at least for me…  I still have my hunter and other characters in the guild and I still check their forums sometimes, and it seems like they’re all having fun, but I just don’t fit in there anymore.  I like seeing content, but my idea of fun is not being so hardcore that people are yelling at you from fight to fight based on their damage meters (and I’m not even going to go into the accuracy issues surrounding those damage meters).  I guess they all just became a lot more intense and raiding-focused than I realized and I don’t really like it.  I’m pretty sure my mage is my new main.