This is dedicated to my last 2 weeks of trying to gear up. Thanks to Stout for inspiring me.
“IF IT’S NOT PLATE”
“… IT’S MAIL!!!!!”
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OMG LFR IS SERIOUS
So tried the LFR new raids, we got it down with a little trouble. I find it amusing that this junk JUST CAME OUT and people were already yelling fail tanks, you idiots, etc etc. IT JUST CAME OUT. We’re not all Paragon or something who heroics raids on the PTR, or whatever! Geez.
Lots of fire!
Hm. So I’ve been testing out shadow as an offspec since there are many complaints about healing priests, disc in particular. I won’t drop disc, but I want and need options for questing. And MY GOSH questing is so much easier as shadow! That might sound like a no brainer, but it was reasonably easy to do until I hit 88.
Anyway the other day I was in TB with 4 other alliance, 2 of which were with me at ICG. Holystab shows up and draws out a druid and I follow to help out. He runs in ICG and starts msging me with
“Are you stupid
dumb ass stop attacking me
thats it your dead”
Well, hi? It’s um, pvp, and I kill the opposite faction.
So I replied that was how I show love and what did he expect, a make out session?
“well you know me and my pvp friends we like to kill some alli wanna be the first to die?”
At that point I said sure bring it, I mean boring TB is boring. I want some action. Told him he was cute when he cries and come back and I’ll brush his hair (joke about blood elf hair).
“ROFL you kids don’t even know how to pvp you just run in numbers and get at me when you cant win 1v1”
Again, hi? You came solo to an unmatched fight.
“its sad how you think your good hiding in numbers, sorry hunny i’d rape you in 2 shots without your back up”
I told him I never said I was any good. I just picked up shadow the other day. Then I said I would be 4 shots at least.
“nope I have a 1 shot macro but i’d be a waste on you”
I asked, what if I beg, really hard?
“just a waste of my time to even touch you lul”
Told him he knows he wants to come try.
“you wish”
Then I said I appreciated him making the battle less boring. This was after he showed up at WV with a holy priest and we rolled them both.
“ROFL SO BAD LUL god i’m laughing so hard at how ad you alli are, ha ha an 86 healer beat your dps, LOL”
There was more, but yeah. Done talking to that guy, that was beyond rude.
Wrathion
Hmm some out and about catching up, I finally hit up The Black Prince, or Wrathion, who you only before saw in the rogue legendary quests, as far as I am aware. I don’t know what he’s up to, but you really don’t have a choice on helping him.
I’ve been flitting around on the mountains a lot lately farming Snow Lillies and ran into these guys
Some of the storm effects are really cool but hard to show with a screenshot.
But this guy, he seems to be in a bad spot.
Then, I have been running randomly into people I know quite a bit. I’ve run into Nytok, Swan, Aussiedoll, a few other random A9N people, Lila, etc. Today I was flying around the mountain herbing when NPCscan told me a rare was in the area. I targeted it and saw it was half dead but figured ah I’ll see if it kills the person and maybe I can try. I hovered above them for a little bit, and he did indeed die and then I noticed it was, whoops, Awesomus.
Awesomus, who is Howlurr’s (a rogue) warrior alt. We joined up and killed it, it dropped plate (what else is new) and we talked a bit. I hadn’t seen or heard from him in a while.
LFM Right Nao
Usually I ask in guild if anyone wants to run heroics with me, but lately I find myself queuing solo just because it seems easier, as foolish as that sounds. Today for example I said I was running some heroics if anyone wants to go and I got “5 of us are in one now”.
Yes, I’m not an idiot, I looked at the roster already, I meant it for people NOT in a dungeon.
Then there is the usual bit of someone joining but “I need a few to finish this quest” or something. Yeah no, I wanted to queue RIGHT NOW, I didn’t say “willing to wait on anyone doing whatever then going”. Yeah, feeling extra bitchy today.
A lot of times I get no response though, which just seems odd. Mind you I don’t flat out say “hurry the fuck up” or anything. I’d jump on a healer queue in a second on my mage. 30 min queues, grumble.
On other news, disc and holy priests are considered to be rather bad right now. Our throughput is anywhere from half of other healers to 10% less (variables like gear and encounter), our control of mana is quite poor and we have no smart heals as disc (no divine hymn, tranq) and our only AOE heal, prayer of healing, isn’t putting out very strong DA bubbles. 8k on a 400k HP pool is nothing. It also seems to make almost no noticeable change on a parties health when you cast it, and at something like 9% of total mp per cast, it’s bad to use right now. IMO.
In pvp we are really bad too. Most of our claws have been pulled out, no more mana burn, or made highly situational at best. Mind control for example was spammable but had something like a 2 second cast, and diminishing returns (DR). Now it’s a talent, meaning you have to give up Psyfiend and Void Tendrils, and it’s on a freaking 30 second CD. It’s not limited to just humanoids any more but gosh. I’m not seeing where that is useful.
We lost SW Death as a “can use whenever” skill and the baseline version requires the target be under 20% health. My lovely lovely glyph that allowed you to double SW death a low health target is totally gone. I can’t even tell you how many 2’s I won for us getting a KB on someone using that. If you want the old version of SW death back to counter a mages polymorph, you have to glyph it so one prime glyph spot gone to make it what it use to be.
You have to use another major glyph to take the interrupt protection with Inner Focus. I can’t exactly remember but I think that use to be built into another talent, it was always a talent choice but it came with some other options also.
And for pvp you HAVE TO HAVE glyph of desperation to cast Pain supp while stunned, so right there you are done. I use to take SW death, mending (60% more healing on first jump) and desp but now we have a lot less wiggle room.
Then you have mages who can spell steal every damn shield you put up.
Anyway, rdruids are the best for pve and pvp right now, and it looks like every last arena team is rdruid+warrior+ something. Or rdruid+warlock+ something. My only consolation is, rdruid vs rdruid, has to be ANNOYING XD.
In the mountains!
So hmm kept pretty busy the last few days or so. Ran at least 4 days of dungeons with nothing but plate and mail dropping. I usually brought Onenight and/or Stout with me and we didn’t see hardly any leather either. Heroic Scholomance was a good time though.
After raging about gear all those days and never getting anything, between last night and today I picked up heroic helm, back, bracers, staff, gloves, and belt. ABOUT TIME. I also had really good random groups even if people tend to still not pay any attention to where my mana level is.
And, I just want to have some tea up here.
There’s a ton of talk on the healing forums about priests being really bad, but I’ve managed heroics so far so good. We’ll see about raids. Since we’re not super hard core progression and not aiming for any world first kills, I think it’ll be ok. Taking shadow as a second spec though for questing however, gosh. It’s just too hard to manage as disc.