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Tunnel Vision

May14

Queued for a heroic and got Deadmines, but failed on the thresher boss with the druid and another person doing less than 5k dps. We wiped on that boss a few times and it was clear 2 people did not know the fight, the tank bailed and then I left.

After that I got Stonecore with a guy who did not know how to tank it, but other than 3 wipes on bad pulls, and 1 wipe on Ozruk, it went ok. Didn’t pick up any gear in either run.

Later ran arena with Acks on his warrior and got cap pretty quickly. I am doing better on my mage mostly because I am trying harder to use all my crowd control first rather than trying to damage someone down, and running to hide and heal up even if it’s 2 to 1. Sort of learned that when doing arena with Alex.

Yeah, it sucks.

May9

I had always been curious what it would be like to run arena with Rayslayz on his rogue on Alliance, and I found out today.  It sucks.  He asked me to run a few matches I said sure, we set up a team and ran first against a frost dk and a feral druid.  We lost, and I didn’t see either person we fought against take any considerable damage.  I got beat down pretty hard and died after I had to use all my cd’s.

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Then we did a shadow priest and frost mage, which means they had a good amount of CC, so I was healing/dispelling as much as I could between fears and such and we lost again with neither other player taking what looked like ANY damage. He then said he quits, left the team we just made, then ragged on me repeatedly for not dispelling, being in the wrong place, etc.

Did not want to raid tonight, so ran 2’s with Acks on my mage to get cap, after running it with Alexmx earlier, then ran 3’s with Rashill, Acks and my priest for fun, did pretty well, 8-3.  And one loss was only because Acks didn’t load in with us during one battle.

After that I did a SoTA and, wth honor?  I had 10th highest HK’s, 3rd highest healing, 1 siege destroyed, and got the LOWEST amount of alliance honor, BY A TON.

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So how the hell did I get over 100 l less than the lowest alliance player?

Master of Tol Barad

May6

Managed to get the Tower Plower achievement today and ended up with Master of Tol Barad even though it showed I did not have one of the quests done. During one battle, afterwards, a rogue named Bakstabz sapped me a few times in the middle of the alliance camp. I switched to horde just to say ‘good one’.

Ran into Zukk again during a TB, blew a kiss and got a /lick in return, funny.  It still took alliance a while to get him off me.

Later on ran a dungeon with Acks and the dps was horrible and every fight took twice as long as usual. Well, his dps was fine but the group besides that was fail, dying standing in green stuff, doing bad dps, etc.  The tank of that group, Ideki-Kargath gave me a “good job on healing I know it was not easy”.  Yep, no joke.  I queued again without him since he usually logs around 10, and the first bosse in Blackrock whatever it’s called took 7 fing minutes. We failed repeatedly on the second boss, and it was like raid healing even on trash.  Then that fail group all left. Then the next group failed on the same boss. Since we didn’t clear that boss, the big mob doesn’t show up to help you.  I am really, really hating all cata dungeons. I dropped out of that dungeon with 90g in repairs. So no exotic satchel for me there.

Tried to queue one more time and got a GOOD group for Lost City, got the first boss down fast, was happy! Then the tank and a dps left group. ugh. The new tank says “one sec” makes us all wait then leaves the party. Then the second tank joined, and quit straight away. After that the run went smooth, but I did end up with 17k heals. For real, I took a screenshot.

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I got my satchel and got 78 g and a flask of the winds. Got 10k heals on Siamat and same on the high prophet.  So I can do it, when I need to.

Wintergrasp

Apr30

Yesterday I mentioned to Rexe that I was in WG alone and he came along. We defended the fort no problem since I think there was only a horde warlock running around.

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The next time we had 5 active people, and the battle was quite fun that time, with horde having instant sieges, and managed to break into the inner courtyard.  I had help from a paladin and 2 warlocks breaking up the vehicles, and the warrior was taking down the towers.  The warlocks shadowed me nearly the entire raid so we had no issues even busting up 3-4 sieges that rolled in at regular intervals.

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I had also noticed earlier that Rexe had a cute little pet cub, which he told me you can get in Winterspring, so I went and got one.

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It sits down after a while, and will fall asleep if you are idle too long.  I have noticed though that if it sleeps, you have to walk quite a distance away before it “wakes up” and comes back to you.

At night we ran a few battlegrounds with guildies, Pala, Apollo, Alex, Acks, and Tet I think, and got IoC twice, won on, lost one.  This just made me laugh out loud.

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After that I ran the new instance, ZG with Seanjohn and Fist.  Fist seems to have a bit of the “go go” impatience that I don’t care for in instances.  He need rolled on two wands that were only slightly worse than the one I spend 3 months raiding to get.  That burns a little.  I had read in forums that some healers didn’t need to use flash heal AT ALL in these dungeons/raids but yeah, lies.  I did hit that coveted “14k heals” mark on the poison boss though.

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If we had 2 healers for some reason, I wouldn’t have since I try to work with the other healer and not just spam the charts.  We got that instance done, even though we went through like 4 tanks.

After that I grouped up with Rexe’s group in ZA, and for the first time went in their vent and heard everyone.  That run was pretty rough, and we were not able to get down the boss that transforms into animals.  We kept getting the lynx and the enraged swipe thing it did, there was no outhealing it, at all.  Putting guardian spirit on the person wasn’t enough, the boss would rip through that and still kill the player.  The only way we managed to survive it was to throw guardian spirit AND the paladins hand of protection but of course the next time they did it, we were out of CDs.  We wiped on that a number of times then it was too late and we stopped.

I had at least 200g in repairs for a run that I really don’t need anything from. I think they need to tone it down A LITTLE since from a healing stand point, at this time, it’s harder than normal mode Chimaeron.

Changes to the Tol Barad Guards again

Apr28

Tonight I queued with Leonz and got one of the new instances, uh, whatever one Hakkar use to be at. I can thank Arashikage, even though I haven’t seen him in ages, for taking me through here before it was ever revamped.

We got the first boss down ok, with me doing about 9k heals (any more would have been stupid), but the boss where Hakkar use to be, we died over and over from the same mistake, repeatedly, which was me getting targeted by 10 mobs and dying instantly. After about 5 deaths I said I quit and left party. It was late, and having 60g in repairs or whatever from a damn instance pissed me off.

The TB guards have been buffed, so if someone attacks you from range, near the guards, they will run out and kick their ass double quick. I found this one when Ladiesman was standing a safe distance from them, and I tossed a SW pain on him, and they shot him, netted him, and beat him to death. So apparently they don’t even have to touch you, for the guards to pay attention. Very nice, I like it. I did not MEAN to get him killed though I honestly had no idea that was tweaked.

Besides that I am noticing some annoying little issues in the new instances and in general. If I am moving and stop, and try to cast a heal or something, half of the time it tells me I can’t do it while moving even though I’ve already stopped. It does this sometimes even when I am just turning my view around. Also when I died and went into SoR, a few times I either couldn’t cast any heals at all because it said I was OOM, it said the skill wasn’t ready yet, or it let me crack off one flash heal, then the buttons did nothing afterwards and I just hung there like a dope until the spirit ran out. Between that and dying so much through no fault of my own (or Leonz for that matter) I got irritated and logged out.