Nah don’t need enchants

Jan29

I don’t generally inspect guild members when I raid on my shaman unless they seem to be struggling, and I’ve mostly left it to Jynx to monitor how the dps is going while I watch the healing charts.

But for some reason two dps were talking about how they don’t bother with enchants while raiding so I went and looked up Frostrated and Scubasam. Both were missing 5 enchants, Frost was also missing 2 major glyphs and in 377 pvp blues. Whether that was a pvp set or not, I don’t know, but both openly agreed they felt enchants were a waste of their time and money and they dps’d just as good as people with enchants. To make a long stupid story short, I said ok well if you think losing roughly 200-300+ in important stats to be a waste of time, next raid I’m going to heal with no pants on. Raiding is for at the least semi serious people, if you wanna half ass it, stick to dungeons. I let them know in no uncertain terms I’d check them before next raid. Dps aren’t hard to replace, yo.

One of them also told me if it bothered me “so much” I should just buy them some enchants. I said, not a chance in hell.

We were supposed to do Rag tonight but at 8:30 only about 4 people were on. The new pally we invited has accepted 2 invites and not showed to either so far. Then Frost was on an alt and said that, he was GONNA raid, but decided nah, he’d rather level an alt. I asked so, you are online, accepted a raid, but want to do an alt instead? This was prior to us calling it because of all the no shows. He said yes, then went on to tell me to not worry about him and to mind my own business and stop checking his gear. I called him the stupidest person I’ve met and blocked him.

Picked up Alexmx for arena on my priest, but went on to lose something like 6 in a row, one from a disconnect I had at the start of the first battle, the rest because I was ripped apart even through pain supp, fearing, and desp prayer. After that we went on to get cap and I got my new weapon. We’re just under 1600 at this point. I miss the escape abilities of my shaman, and the lack of interupts.

Things you don’t want to hear from pugs

Jan28

There’s a thread on the WoW healer forums about things you don’t want to hear from pugs, which ended up turning into a horror story swap. I have to say as dps, I think I have more bad stories since I have the possibility of a bad healer AND tank, rather than as a healer when I’m filling one important part.

Did an End Time today where the healer said from the start he didn’t know the fights, so I typed how to do them during the trash. The tank pulled every boss without hesitation, including trash when the healer hadn’t phased in yet. Pulled trash after a boss fight before anyone had a chance to drink, and pulled Murazond when half of us were still behind the hourglass, which meant every time I hit it, I had to run all the way back. He also linked recount mid-fight, screamed about time warp when I already hit it, and screamed about clicking before it was even time. Oh and he needed on everything he could. Needless to say I gave him a piece of my mind.

Sharing Gear in LFR

Jan28

Did the last half of LFR DS today, and unbelievably a paladin from Sargeras named Elifer (http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/sargeras/Elifer/advanced) won the helm token and gave it to me, then won Maw of the Dragonlord, and ALSO gave it to me! I could not believe it, tbh, and provided worshipful thanks, still hardly believing my luck.

Vengeful Druid

Jan25

Today we did normal Firelands since we still do not have a Rag kill. I like these fights! We were trying out a new healer to have them join the guild, a pally named Virstena. I don’t know much about pally healing but their heals were on par with what I was putting out.

Our druid though, gosh, I just don’t know. My druid healer is only 44 at this point so I’m not going to pretend to be any kind of expert, but across the board their heals were on the low side and typically came in as the lowest on each fight. After Rhyolith we lost a dps, so the druid said we can 9 man Alysrazor. I said “9 man with 3 healers, lol” and they asked why that was funny. Beeeeeecause you don’t need 3 heals, so you are basically running with 4 dps? Besides that obvious bit of information you mean?

I didn’t actually say anything sarcastic like that I just said it’s easily 2 healable so being short 2 dps seemed kind of harsh. That fight I did not see them do hardly any healing, my recount only showed about 2k hps but I thought maybe I was just too far out of range.

Then on Majordomo, apparently they chose to just do nothing that fight. They did not dps, they did not heal. First I thought my recount was broken because I saw no heals going off, then I focus targeted them and saw their mana bar not only not moving at all, but no spells at all were going off. They were stacking and spreading so they weren’t locked, or dc’d. I sent them a message about their lack of doing anything and just got an “oh”. I went completely oom by the end of this fight with no available cd’s to do anything about it.

They had 0 dps and 0 hps until the very very end of the fight. Like when the boss died. After that fight they dropped raid and logged out. I don’t get it, maybe it was some angry version of making me prove it could be two healed? But I meant with a full 10 man raid, with everyone actively participating, not 9 people with 1 doing nothing. No one expects to 2 heal an 8 person raid. We did get him down but what the fuck.

I won these shoulders for transmog though, they are AWESOME for my masterwork set.