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Nov30

This afternoon I run a WSG and we win, 3/3 and I earn 153 honor, 57 HK’s, no killing blows.

Next one, WSG, a win, 93 honor there though, 2 killing blows, 2 deaths, 37 HKs.  3/3 flags again.  We spent some time camping their graveyard and I have a little convo with this gnome:

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Then I queue up for WG and wait 14 mins for it to pop. I get in and we have 6 people that gradually increased to about 11.  We got the relic room door down to about half and then lost.  I was unable to build anything more than a cata even though I killed 2 horde npcs, and assisted killing 2 horde players.  Also the problem we ran into,  when we were knocking down the inner doors, something like 8 guards spawned, so 8 of them plus 11 horde players outnumbered us on foot trying to defend the sieges.  Still it was quite close.  The vehicles really do need more armor since we have this giant battleground for like 10 people these days.

Having a healer like myself also, again, is quite obviously a huge advantage.  This does you no good in vehicles, however.  I hate to say it but I am starting to not like queuing for WG.  If the sides were balanced at a full raid group per full raid group, that would be ok.  But fighting 5 to 5 people makes it impossible to both defend towers, while defending vehicles or driving vehicles  and killing the enemy on foot.  It’s not fun, any more, without enough people to defend towers, try to break towers, take workshops, defend vehicles, etc.

I also picked up the 264 pvp bracers and finally used those to replace the 245 Royal Moonshroud bracers I’ve been using since the day I hit 80 and the 245 pvp bracers I was using.

I queue up for a dungeon, and the lines are still rather long and I have to wait over 5 minutes.  I know all the dps are like, QQ more with their 20 minute waits, but usually healers are much faster.

I get PoS with a tank who says he is new to tanking and not geared, and I lost him at Garfrost and lose the warlock when he stands in the poison nova on the second boss.  I DC when my stupid computer shuts down on the ramp but they seem to survive that.   I then lose the tank on the ice ramp because he gets out of my range and loses health very fast, constantly. I almost lose him again on Tyrannus when he blips down to 10% health in like a second, but somehow manage to outheal it. We finish, yay. Frustrating.

I get WSG as the random BG, again. Someone says to control mid but then everyone runs around like usual, leaving the horde to destroy me and the 2 people trying to control mid. We lose.  30 honor.  0 killing blows, 10 deaths, 14 hk’s.  Moonfire spam, is bullshit.

Next is Arathi, and we lose, 34 honor. I go to bed.

Forge of Souls

Nov29

Logged in and farmed herbs in WG until the battle came up. For some reason all I was getting was Goldclover though. WG popped and like last time I nearly killed a hunter, but they were able to run away from me and I could not catch up, until they ran back to their friends and I died. Oh well. For whatever reason when I was on foot there were no horde npcs for me to rank up on at Flamewatch, but when I came back with a catapult, boom they were there. WTF? I ended up going back to the fort and healed, and helped assist breaking down the sieges as they came in. The horde was pretty bad and unable to defend their vehicles even with equal numbers in the fort and we won.

Later I get in and get WSG, and I appear to be the only healer, and I do very well, and we win, 154 honor.

I then run Forge of Souls and Gun Drak to get some rep with my SW tabard on.

I kill hunters for fun

Nov28

This morning I log in and turn in my weekly quest, then pick up my Wrathful gloves. I went with the satin set for the critical strike rating though I suppose I should have gone mooncloth since that actually has a healer bonus. Oh well.

Queued up for a WG and had quite the time. I nearly killed a hunter and made him run for cover at 2% health, then survived 3 other horde and a gun shooting at me for quite some time. Even though I killed all the east guns, by the time I come back, they are all back up. We lose since absolutely no one was working together. Sigh.

“I prefer to wait for 25 people”

Nov25

I log in and run a bg, which is AV and we lose.  79 honor.  The battles in here lately have been pretty fun though.

Later at night I try to queue for a BG and wait 13 mins and get nothing.  Odd.  Then I put on my PVE gear and queue for a dungeon.  While I’m waiting for that someone named Bananaslug tells me I have a great guild name, which by the way is “Bloodbathed and Beyond”.   Silverveil is still in Relentless, which is also a great name.   The dungeon takes quite a while to come up and it’s Pit of Saron. We lose one guy right away and a warlock takes over. The fight goes fine until the last boss where the stupid mage just stands there and does nothing the entire Tyrannus fight.  He was taking damage from the starting spot but I wasn’t about to run over there and leave the tank alone.   At least we get it though.

Afterwards it’s back into the PVP gear, queue up and get Isle of Conquest. We lose, 36 honor.  Queue again, same BG. There is much sniping in battleground chat about who is doing what wrong and all the insults start piling in. We’re playing badly, very much so.  However some of the fights go for so long, without me dying, I have to retreat and drink to get my mp back. We lost, I earn 66 honor. 200 HK’s.

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I then run WG and we win it, and I do the majority of the calling out of stuff.  Recount shows I had 79% healing too.  I’d like to get a VOA at this point.  I get in one, so we’ll see how it goes this time. Getting enough people to do ANY voa has been a challenge lately. It seems to be a combination of less people able to participate in WG, most players taking a break until Cata, and now the addition of not many people hanging out in Dalaran.  No one  wants to wait like 20 mins for someone to come from Eastern Kingdom to do it either.

We’re only trying for the 10 man raid here and after about 5 minutes of waiting, 2 of the 7 people leave.  I am hoping Blizzard does SOMETHING about this area or it’s going to be a ghostland.    When another 5 minutes passes and we can’t even find dps… eeeh.  I wonder if this area is just being phased out.  Anyway all of a sudden several people recall that they did 25 voa, which now locks them out of 10, and 2 people leave.  That must have dropped last patch because I didn’t know that either.

Then another person drops because they ‘prefer to wait for 25’.  They will be waiting a very long time for that. We get the frost boss down no prob. I do most of the healing at 70% of healing done.  It really didn’t feel like anyone else was healing, at all. The other healer then admits they have 3k gs. We get all the bosses down however, because I rock, even with 9 people there. They also go on to say this is only their second time raid healing and they feel bad I did most of the healing (Branders is the healer btw).  I tell them I am use to pvp healing so this is very similar as far as speed and target switching goes and since we didn’t wipe it’s no worries.  I suggest they go heal in battlegrounds if they want to practice raid healing.

Turkey

Nov24

I get in and right away pop into a WG.  It was a lot of fun, I killed an orc hunter by myself and with the help of a shaman killed a paladin. Who I blew a kiss to but I forgot the name XD

We work together and communicate, helping defend the sieges and we take the fort back.

I join up for a VOA 25 only they get DPS and a few heals first and no tanks.  Then we have people saying stupid stuff like, I have a tank but I want to test my shammy dps. I say we need more dps like a hole in the head and go do that shit on a training dummy.  Then another guy says he has a tank that will be home in 5 mins, and about 15 mins later he says again they will be home in 5 mins.  I reply “5 mins, Turkish”

After all that fuss we wipe then everyone leaves. The problem appears to be healers, since only 3 people were doing heals. I asked if we can do a VOA 10 and the RL says they still want to do a 25.  I’m not waiting all that time again for another fail 25.  I leave.  40 mins totally wasted.

I queue up for a random dungeon and get boring old VH. Fortunately that is not fail.

After that I queue for a bg and get WSG. We lose that, 47 honor, and 2 killing blows for me. Rocking. I think rather than a holy off spec I’m gonna pick up the dps version of disc. I think I’ll like it.

I run a Strand bg as this spec, with my keybinds set up to mostly dps and some healing through penance, renew, shields, and will have to work in flash heal somewhere.  We win, 135 honor for me with 4 billing blows, 3 deaths, 21 HKs.  Not bad. I like this a lot.  Next one we lose, 46 honor, and my damage and healing is about equal.

I queue up for WG and get told to wait. I don’t get in.

I spend some time helping Maice get his Pilgrim achievements by getting turned into a turkey on some horde characters.

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Later I queue again and have to wait, and get in when some walls are already down.  We end up losing the fort.

I run a WSG after that and we win, 3/3, I have 7 killing blows, 2 deaths, 71 HK’s and earn 113 honor.

After that is a EotS and we’re doing well but lose.  I think making larger  battlegroups, or just one (If forget what they did) helps a lot since we’re not always paired with solid pvp teams all the time now.  I think I ended up with like 40 honor. I love when people say “no one is healer” or “only so in so is healing” when I’m like the second higher in the entire BG and they don’t mention me.

I put off purchasing the PVP gloves for right now and buy a pvp off hand to replace my very old Shriveled Heart that I got in an ICC 5 man.  I still need an upgrade to my Royal Moonshround bracers that I put on the second I hit 80.   Doesn’t matter much with the expansion coming out soon but I’m still sore about not finding upgrades for those spots.  Using PVP items in PVE doesn’t make me happy.