Setting it up as a first time user can be a little bit intimidating. Tam at righteous orbs used to have a guide, but the blog is defunct and the guide was a little old. Here's my version after the jump!
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Come get the Vuhdo
Everyone who has addons has a few they can't live without. My absolute most favorite addon is Vuhdo. It's a comprehensive healing/decuring/raidframe addon. It tracks HoTs and debuffs and raid icons, and of course the health of all your raid members.
Setting it up as a first time user can be a little bit intimidating. Tam at righteous orbs used to have a guide, but the blog is defunct and the guide was a little old. Here's my version after the jump!
Setting it up as a first time user can be a little bit intimidating. Tam at righteous orbs used to have a guide, but the blog is defunct and the guide was a little old. Here's my version after the jump!
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Healing Questionaire
Post this questionnaire, with your answers, on your blog. Pick the healing class you know most about (or is the focus of your blog) for the questionnaire, and then send it over to another healing blogger you know and love who heals with a DIFFERENT class. Include a link to the blogger who sent you the questionnaire, as well as a link to the blogger to whom you are sending it.
1. What is the name, class, and spec of your primary healer? Millidin, Tauren Restro Druid
2. What is your primary group healing environment? (i.e. raids, pvp, 5 mans) Mostly 5-mans at the moment, but should be back to 10's after a bit of a break from WoW
3. What is your favorite healing spell for your class and why? Lifebloom, Procs Omen of Clarity, refreshed by Nourish, and if you accidentally let it fall off it blooms for a nice heal so no one dies, and it's even better in tree form!
4. What healing spell do you use least for your class and why? Regrowth, it's expensive. I also don't use tranquility as much as I probably should.
5. What do you feel is the biggest strength of your healing class and why? Endurance and being able to keep moving. I don't have to stand still to roll HoT's and can get out of stuff super quick, while healing, and with inervate and a mana pot, I'm good the whole fight long.
6. What do you feel is the biggest weakness of your healing class and why? No cooldowns to speak of. I mean, Tree form could be considered a cooldown, but, really, it's not. I use it as a personal defensive cooldown with barkskin more than anything.
7. In a 25 man raiding environment, what do you feel, in general, is the best healing assignment for you? 25's what are those? I'm primarily a tank healer in 10's, and would probably do the same no matter the raid size.
8. What healing class do you enjoy healing with most and why? Holy priests and paladins. They bring the cooldowns I'm missing, and I fill in the cast time gaps with HoTs.
9. What healing class do you enjoy healing with least and why? Other druids, they'll roll on my gear :P. But really, I like all healers. As long as we know what the others are doing, things will work.
10. What is your worst habit as a healer? Panicking. Results in bad mana use. Also not using the limited cooldowns that I have. I haven't been a tree in weeks! Also, compulsive dispelling. The debuffs where you have to clump up or spread out first, then dispell are a death sentence in my raid.
11. What is your biggest pet peeve in a group environment while healing? Lack of comunication in pugs.
12. Do you feel that your class/spec is well balanced with other healers for PvE healing? Yeah, I'd say so, but I would like my more powerful AoE healing abilites from Wrath back.
13. What tools do you use to evaluate your own performance as a healer? Is everyone still alive? We did good! Other than that, I have Skada and look at the distrubition of spells, and who I'm healing, yada yada. The only time I really like to look at numbers and go "I WIN!" is looking at dispells.
14. What do you think is the biggest misconception people have about your healing class? That we're nothing but raid healers.
15. What do you feel is the most difficult thing for new healers of your class to learn? How to learn to trust the HoTs.
16. If someone were to try to evaluate your performance as a healer via recount, what sort of patterns would they see (i.e. lots of overhealing, low healing output, etc)? Lack of use of cooldowns, I only have 1 why don't I use it?
17. Haste or Crit and why? Haste. Maybe Mastery, but HASTE nomnomnom.
18. What healing class do you feel you understand least? Shammans and Holy Priests. I have a Holy Pally, but I leveled my priest as disc, and I still don't quite get Shamys.
19. What add-ons or macros do you use, if any, to aid you in healing? Vuhdo. Power Auras are also useful, but No Vuhdo, no heals.
20. Do you strive primarily for balance between your healing stats, or do you stack some much higher than others, and why? Well, haste, it's tasty, and mastery, since it stopped sucking, and other than that, I could forget I have other stats on my gear. Int's a given though.
1. What is the name, class, and spec of your primary healer? Millidin, Tauren Restro Druid
2. What is your primary group healing environment? (i.e. raids, pvp, 5 mans) Mostly 5-mans at the moment, but should be back to 10's after a bit of a break from WoW
3. What is your favorite healing spell for your class and why? Lifebloom, Procs Omen of Clarity, refreshed by Nourish, and if you accidentally let it fall off it blooms for a nice heal so no one dies, and it's even better in tree form!
4. What healing spell do you use least for your class and why? Regrowth, it's expensive. I also don't use tranquility as much as I probably should.
5. What do you feel is the biggest strength of your healing class and why? Endurance and being able to keep moving. I don't have to stand still to roll HoT's and can get out of stuff super quick, while healing, and with inervate and a mana pot, I'm good the whole fight long.
6. What do you feel is the biggest weakness of your healing class and why? No cooldowns to speak of. I mean, Tree form could be considered a cooldown, but, really, it's not. I use it as a personal defensive cooldown with barkskin more than anything.
7. In a 25 man raiding environment, what do you feel, in general, is the best healing assignment for you? 25's what are those? I'm primarily a tank healer in 10's, and would probably do the same no matter the raid size.
8. What healing class do you enjoy healing with most and why? Holy priests and paladins. They bring the cooldowns I'm missing, and I fill in the cast time gaps with HoTs.
9. What healing class do you enjoy healing with least and why? Other druids, they'll roll on my gear :P. But really, I like all healers. As long as we know what the others are doing, things will work.
10. What is your worst habit as a healer? Panicking. Results in bad mana use. Also not using the limited cooldowns that I have. I haven't been a tree in weeks! Also, compulsive dispelling. The debuffs where you have to clump up or spread out first, then dispell are a death sentence in my raid.
11. What is your biggest pet peeve in a group environment while healing? Lack of comunication in pugs.
12. Do you feel that your class/spec is well balanced with other healers for PvE healing? Yeah, I'd say so, but I would like my more powerful AoE healing abilites from Wrath back.
13. What tools do you use to evaluate your own performance as a healer? Is everyone still alive? We did good! Other than that, I have Skada and look at the distrubition of spells, and who I'm healing, yada yada. The only time I really like to look at numbers and go "I WIN!" is looking at dispells.
14. What do you think is the biggest misconception people have about your healing class? That we're nothing but raid healers.
15. What do you feel is the most difficult thing for new healers of your class to learn? How to learn to trust the HoTs.
16. If someone were to try to evaluate your performance as a healer via recount, what sort of patterns would they see (i.e. lots of overhealing, low healing output, etc)? Lack of use of cooldowns, I only have 1 why don't I use it?
17. Haste or Crit and why? Haste. Maybe Mastery, but HASTE nomnomnom.
18. What healing class do you feel you understand least? Shammans and Holy Priests. I have a Holy Pally, but I leveled my priest as disc, and I still don't quite get Shamys.
19. What add-ons or macros do you use, if any, to aid you in healing? Vuhdo. Power Auras are also useful, but No Vuhdo, no heals.
20. Do you strive primarily for balance between your healing stats, or do you stack some much higher than others, and why? Well, haste, it's tasty, and mastery, since it stopped sucking, and other than that, I could forget I have other stats on my gear. Int's a given though.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Vote kicked
Being the one to be vote kicked from a group is an interesting experience. I know I've been kicked a few times for disconnecting, but to realize that someone kicked you from the group for being bad is a different experience entirely.
I have been kicked for being bad twice.
First, Milli zoned into regular Stonecore at level 83 to a group that looked like it should be running ramps. Meaning 4 DK's and a healer. The DK that was tanking ran into the first group, then the rest did, they all AoE'd and promptly died because both the earthragers turned into elementals, and I simply couldn't heal it.
We wiped, I ran back, and found myself not in a group.
The next time, I was healing H-SFK on Luna. For the 3rd boss, the one with the adds, we were going to do the courtyard strategy. The only way I've ever seen the boss get down to the courtyard is if a dps with a movement speed increase (or a healer with the same) aggros him and books it down to the courtyard.
But this group wanted the tank to slowly tank him down the stairs, and for me to stay with him and heal. I thought that it was going to be a grab it and book it sort of situation, and ran way ahead of the tank. Tank died, we wiped, it was my fault, I apologized, and got kicked anyways.
Part of me wants to know what each group was thinking when they kicked me. I'm wondering if the first group thought that they had some chance of success and that the healer was the only thing holding them back. I think their chances of success were rather low no matter what healer they got.
With the second group, they did it a different way than I was used to, and with the many available strategies for the current bosses, I should have asked exactly what we were doing.
I think that people should give pugs a little more leeway when it comes to how they do things in a dungeon. If your guild does something that is rather strange, let anyone you pug in know ahead of time so that they don't screw it up. You'll wipe less, you won't have to vote kick the pug, everyone gets badges and loot, it's a win win.
Just remember that pugs are people too!
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I have been kicked for being bad twice.
First, Milli zoned into regular Stonecore at level 83 to a group that looked like it should be running ramps. Meaning 4 DK's and a healer. The DK that was tanking ran into the first group, then the rest did, they all AoE'd and promptly died because both the earthragers turned into elementals, and I simply couldn't heal it.
We wiped, I ran back, and found myself not in a group.
The next time, I was healing H-SFK on Luna. For the 3rd boss, the one with the adds, we were going to do the courtyard strategy. The only way I've ever seen the boss get down to the courtyard is if a dps with a movement speed increase (or a healer with the same) aggros him and books it down to the courtyard.
But this group wanted the tank to slowly tank him down the stairs, and for me to stay with him and heal. I thought that it was going to be a grab it and book it sort of situation, and ran way ahead of the tank. Tank died, we wiped, it was my fault, I apologized, and got kicked anyways.
Part of me wants to know what each group was thinking when they kicked me. I'm wondering if the first group thought that they had some chance of success and that the healer was the only thing holding them back. I think their chances of success were rather low no matter what healer they got.
With the second group, they did it a different way than I was used to, and with the many available strategies for the current bosses, I should have asked exactly what we were doing.
I think that people should give pugs a little more leeway when it comes to how they do things in a dungeon. If your guild does something that is rather strange, let anyone you pug in know ahead of time so that they don't screw it up. You'll wipe less, you won't have to vote kick the pug, everyone gets badges and loot, it's a win win.
Just remember that pugs are people too!
Friday, January 7, 2011
On Alts, guilds, and ADD
I really didn't expect to hit the end of Wrath burnout that I did. But I dealt with it by leveling a small army of alts. The week before the shattering I had:
- 4 level 80's
- Druid - H
- Priest - H
- Hunter - A
- Paladin - A
- A level 73 rogue
- Various bank and other alts
The shattering opened up a lot of new interesting quest chains, so my little baby mage banker set out to do some of those and leveled from level 6-41 in a little over a week.
Then the expansion came out. I went from having not enough to do, to having no idea what to do first. I made my obligatory goblin and worgen, they are both sitting at around level 10. I dithered around on my druid doing archeology for about 2 days and questing and picking flowers, and not knowing quite where to start.
Now, at the beginning of December I made a list of who I would level first, and where they would go along the way. I had to throw that list out the window after about a week. I thought I was going to level my hunter and farm ore to give to my paladin to level her jewelcrafting, but no. It's a lot cheaper to just buy it off the AH (at least on my server A side) and save anything my hunter gathers for her own engineering efforts. I race changed my priest and thought that would help me get the urge to level her, but no. She and my hunter are still sitting at level 80, probably playing chess with each other. Well my priest isn't completely bored, I've been feeding her cloth and greens.
Of course I leveled my druid first. She's my main. I am mostly on top of all the resto druid goings on (I'm looking forward to 4.0.6 and the decrease in rejuv's mana cost, I might be able to raid heal again!), and she has a raiding guild that needs her. It would really make sense to level the alt that could help support her with enchants and stuff next.
But, noooooooo, I fell in love with my paladin while leveling her to 80, and want to get her to 85 next. Shockadin is really quite fun to level with. Plate wearing ranged dps FTW!
Here we meet some problems. The guild my paladin and hunter are in is basically a bank guild. It will take quite some time before I see any guild perks. I won't have anyone to run heroics with that I know. She did a lot of pugging on her way to 80, but those were much more forgiving conditions. I don't pug with my main, let alone an alt that is going to have much less time devoted to her gear, and support from guildies. I could try to find a guild for her (and for my friend's alliance side characters) that would have perks and the occasional tank that would take my side in things. But she's not a main. And when I get alt ADD again, I don't know if I will continue to play her much. Like my hunter.
Oh well, I'll figure something out.
- 4 level 80's
- Druid - H
- Priest - H
- Hunter - A
- Paladin - A
- A level 73 rogue
- Various bank and other alts
The shattering opened up a lot of new interesting quest chains, so my little baby mage banker set out to do some of those and leveled from level 6-41 in a little over a week.
Then the expansion came out. I went from having not enough to do, to having no idea what to do first. I made my obligatory goblin and worgen, they are both sitting at around level 10. I dithered around on my druid doing archeology for about 2 days and questing and picking flowers, and not knowing quite where to start.
Now, at the beginning of December I made a list of who I would level first, and where they would go along the way. I had to throw that list out the window after about a week. I thought I was going to level my hunter and farm ore to give to my paladin to level her jewelcrafting, but no. It's a lot cheaper to just buy it off the AH (at least on my server A side) and save anything my hunter gathers for her own engineering efforts. I race changed my priest and thought that would help me get the urge to level her, but no. She and my hunter are still sitting at level 80, probably playing chess with each other. Well my priest isn't completely bored, I've been feeding her cloth and greens.
Of course I leveled my druid first. She's my main. I am mostly on top of all the resto druid goings on (I'm looking forward to 4.0.6 and the decrease in rejuv's mana cost, I might be able to raid heal again!), and she has a raiding guild that needs her. It would really make sense to level the alt that could help support her with enchants and stuff next.
But, noooooooo, I fell in love with my paladin while leveling her to 80, and want to get her to 85 next. Shockadin is really quite fun to level with. Plate wearing ranged dps FTW!
Here we meet some problems. The guild my paladin and hunter are in is basically a bank guild. It will take quite some time before I see any guild perks. I won't have anyone to run heroics with that I know. She did a lot of pugging on her way to 80, but those were much more forgiving conditions. I don't pug with my main, let alone an alt that is going to have much less time devoted to her gear, and support from guildies. I could try to find a guild for her (and for my friend's alliance side characters) that would have perks and the occasional tank that would take my side in things. But she's not a main. And when I get alt ADD again, I don't know if I will continue to play her much. Like my hunter.
Oh well, I'll figure something out.
Monday, May 31, 2010
DoHP's Wrath bucket list
Cataclysm is coming. And I have things I still want to do in wrath.
Milli-
- Kill Arthas (Sindragosa should go down this week!)
- See up to Yogg in Udular
- Stockpile some gold
- Make a kitty set
Sybb-
- Get Ambassador rep title
- Max out engenering
Q-
- Get to 80 and maybe enough gear to go to raid or two
- Get all the good rp tailoring patterns (should help with the stockpiling gold thing)
Bleeth-
- Pick a pair of professions
- learn how to rogue
Milli-
- Kill Arthas (Sindragosa should go down this week!)
- See up to Yogg in Udular
- Stockpile some gold
- Make a kitty set
Sybb-
- Get Ambassador rep title
- Max out engenering
Q-
- Get to 80 and maybe enough gear to go to raid or two
- Get all the good rp tailoring patterns (should help with the stockpiling gold thing)
Bleeth-
- Pick a pair of professions
- learn how to rogue
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Screenshot with song lyrics!
Featuring my hunter, and a horse, with no name.
(I can't remember who started this meme... will link when I remember)
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Bubbly flavor
Something rather unusual happened to my druid. She has become my "raid only" main. I've got about 100 frost badgers that I'm not doing anything with, guildies to farm up herbs to make flasks, and a geared to the teeth healer. I'll duitifully take her to the weekly raids, but she's stopped doing dailies, I couldn't even really get into children's week with her. My hunter still has some mining and engenering to work on, and her gear would have been good last patch. But I have apparantly gone crazy and am leveling another healer.
Enter Q. No, not that Q. or the other Q. My Q. She's a bouncy disc bubble thrower priest. She's pretty much leveling using the dungeon finder, with a little bit of questing as shadow on the side. (Don't tell my guild's shadow priest, but I kinda like it. A lot better than I do balance on my druid. MOAR DOTS!!!) But she always has a constant goal, more levels. And then when she hit's 80, gear to do heroics, then gear to do basic raids, then gear enough to do ICC... etc. And I don't know, but come cataclysm, resto druids are losing tree form, not getting any new heals, but disc priests are getting power word barrier, and "life grip" and a new heal. So for right now, she's a back up plan.
Enter Q. No, not that Q. or the other Q. My Q. She's a bouncy disc bubble thrower priest. She's pretty much leveling using the dungeon finder, with a little bit of questing as shadow on the side. (Don't tell my guild's shadow priest, but I kinda like it. A lot better than I do balance on my druid. MOAR DOTS!!!) But she always has a constant goal, more levels. And then when she hit's 80, gear to do heroics, then gear to do basic raids, then gear enough to do ICC... etc. And I don't know, but come cataclysm, resto druids are losing tree form, not getting any new heals, but disc priests are getting power word barrier, and "life grip" and a new heal. So for right now, she's a back up plan.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Friday, April 9, 2010
Catacylsm changes... huntard edition
I have friends coming to visit this weekend (Hi Munckin!), but instead of cleaning, I've been refreshing WoW.com to find out about the new class changes.
Quick thoughts on the Hunter changes (because deep down, I still have a little bit of huntard in me)
The change from mana to focus- could be interesting, but it replenishes faster while casting steady shot/cobra shot. Mmmm... steady shot spam. The talent/ability that gains you focus when you land a critical hit should also help with focus regen, like a LOT. And I like the move away from Armor Penetration as a big hunter stat, and haste and crit applying to your DoT's as a standard.... yeeeeesssss.
Also, I need to liquidate my bullets.
I really like the idea of having pets provide ghetto buffs. My shadow priest last night was complaining about our melee heavy raid group and how he has no synergy with the buffs provided by them. It would have been nice if the hunter could just switch to a different pet and provide a missing buff.
Quick thoughts on the Hunter changes (because deep down, I still have a little bit of huntard in me)
The change from mana to focus- could be interesting, but it replenishes faster while casting steady shot/cobra shot. Mmmm... steady shot spam. The talent/ability that gains you focus when you land a critical hit should also help with focus regen, like a LOT. And I like the move away from Armor Penetration as a big hunter stat, and haste and crit applying to your DoT's as a standard.... yeeeeesssss.
Also, I need to liquidate my bullets.
I really like the idea of having pets provide ghetto buffs. My shadow priest last night was complaining about our melee heavy raid group and how he has no synergy with the buffs provided by them. It would have been nice if the hunter could just switch to a different pet and provide a missing buff.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
I, Jerkface
I have an in-game friend who recently came back to the game after being gone for a couple of months. She's lovely and nice, and plays a hunter well enough to not be a huntard.
Story 1: You are out numbered...
So, this friend, a couple of guildies and I decide to random for frost badgers one day. There's 4 of us, all from the same server, and 3 of whom are in the same guild. We zone into Old Kingdom and before we get the chance to go "ugh not this one, I hope the tank is good," the DK tank has gone "GOGOGO!" and sped off towards a pack of spiders. We do okay, until patrols start eating on me and the ranged dps, and the tank ignores the patrol and goes charging into the next pack of mobs. No one dies, but it's getting annoying.
I should note here that all 4 of us are on vent together.
So we get to after the vampire boss and he's still "gogogo! I have 5 minutes until wintergrasp!" Then several things happen at once. He jumps down off the platform, the hunter lags and goes down the stairs, and extra mobs get pulled. The hunter ends up dead, and I rez her. She says something in vent like "brb, really quick" and I say in party chat "Hey wait up a sec." The tank goes, "You're DPS, you don't matter, wintergrasp in 2 minutes!" We all go "WTF mate?" I go "Don't queue if don't have the time to complete the dungeon properly." He goes "Whatever, we'd have time if y'all weren't slow" or something like that. So, in vent we decide to be really slow, and jerks. On the boss, we just do nothing. No healing, no dps, just stand there and die. And then we started yelling stuff at him in party chat, while he was blowing cooldowns trying to solo the boss. Like "HOW I SHOT BULLIT?" "WUT AM TREE??" "DK RES ME!!!" "BREZ" "WHAT BUTTAN FOR DPS???"
It was amazingly fun. We ended up 4 manning the last boss after rezing, with resto-bear tank. That was also fun.
Story 2: The tank that didn't move (based off the red haired man that didn't move from "The Sweet Potato Queens" series)
So, the hunter and I are again throwing our selves to the mercy of the random dungeon finder. We both could use a few more triumph badges, her for gear (possibly heirlooms) and me for gems. We get FoS. We run in, buff up and stand in the little hallway that's perpendicular to the entrance and stare at the first set of mobs. The tank is still standing at the entrance. We wait a couple of minutes. I go "Tank (but I used his name because otherwise it's kinda rude in my opinon), are you there?" He goes "Yeah" but dosen't move. I wait another couple of minutes. I know I waited several minutes because my random dungeon cooldown was down to about 11 minutes. I ask "Are you coming?" He goes "I'm kinda busy right now."
The hunter and I boggle at each other. One of the other dps goes "I wish you'd just go away" at the tank, but he still dosen't move. I go at the hunter in vent "You know how to misdirect right?" She goes "Yeah...." and we misdirect the two skeleton things onto the tank, who still hadn't moved. In the ensuing chaos, one of the other dps dies, one drops group, then the hunter drops group. I'm in the process of dropping group, when I notice the tank isn't there. He stepped backwards out of the instance portal, and then says "Weren't expecting that were you?"
We ended up waiting the debuff out and queueing again.
So the morals of these stories are, even though I'm normally very nice, I can be a jerkface.
Story 1: You are out numbered...
So, this friend, a couple of guildies and I decide to random for frost badgers one day. There's 4 of us, all from the same server, and 3 of whom are in the same guild. We zone into Old Kingdom and before we get the chance to go "ugh not this one, I hope the tank is good," the DK tank has gone "GOGOGO!" and sped off towards a pack of spiders. We do okay, until patrols start eating on me and the ranged dps, and the tank ignores the patrol and goes charging into the next pack of mobs. No one dies, but it's getting annoying.
I should note here that all 4 of us are on vent together.
So we get to after the vampire boss and he's still "gogogo! I have 5 minutes until wintergrasp!" Then several things happen at once. He jumps down off the platform, the hunter lags and goes down the stairs, and extra mobs get pulled. The hunter ends up dead, and I rez her. She says something in vent like "brb, really quick" and I say in party chat "Hey wait up a sec." The tank goes, "You're DPS, you don't matter, wintergrasp in 2 minutes!" We all go "WTF mate?" I go "Don't queue if don't have the time to complete the dungeon properly." He goes "Whatever, we'd have time if y'all weren't slow" or something like that. So, in vent we decide to be really slow, and jerks. On the boss, we just do nothing. No healing, no dps, just stand there and die. And then we started yelling stuff at him in party chat, while he was blowing cooldowns trying to solo the boss. Like "HOW I SHOT BULLIT?" "WUT AM TREE??" "DK RES ME!!!" "BREZ" "WHAT BUTTAN FOR DPS???"
It was amazingly fun. We ended up 4 manning the last boss after rezing, with resto-bear tank. That was also fun.
Story 2: The tank that didn't move (based off the red haired man that didn't move from "The Sweet Potato Queens" series)
So, the hunter and I are again throwing our selves to the mercy of the random dungeon finder. We both could use a few more triumph badges, her for gear (possibly heirlooms) and me for gems. We get FoS. We run in, buff up and stand in the little hallway that's perpendicular to the entrance and stare at the first set of mobs. The tank is still standing at the entrance. We wait a couple of minutes. I go "Tank (but I used his name because otherwise it's kinda rude in my opinon), are you there?" He goes "Yeah" but dosen't move. I wait another couple of minutes. I know I waited several minutes because my random dungeon cooldown was down to about 11 minutes. I ask "Are you coming?" He goes "I'm kinda busy right now."
The hunter and I boggle at each other. One of the other dps goes "I wish you'd just go away" at the tank, but he still dosen't move. I go at the hunter in vent "You know how to misdirect right?" She goes "Yeah...." and we misdirect the two skeleton things onto the tank, who still hadn't moved. In the ensuing chaos, one of the other dps dies, one drops group, then the hunter drops group. I'm in the process of dropping group, when I notice the tank isn't there. He stepped backwards out of the instance portal, and then says "Weren't expecting that were you?"
We ended up waiting the debuff out and queueing again.
So the morals of these stories are, even though I'm normally very nice, I can be a jerkface.
Friday, March 19, 2010
I hate dual specs
Okay, hate is a strong word. I kind of want to get rid of mine. And sometimes I do like the ability to actually hurt something twelve seconds after healing.
But I don't like being asked to dps on a regular basis. I'm fine with doing VoA 10 as dps, because our shaman dosen't have a dps spec. I'm fine with doing the occasinal heroic as dps because our tank, his fiance is his healer.
Being the raid healer for the first wing of ICC and then being asked to switch to dps for the second wing? I don't want to! I want to get the healing experience. I won't get any better at healing if I don't heal anything that is kinda difficult.
It might take me a try or two to really realize what is going on in a fight. And to realize that the slimes really hurt, like 1-shot hurt.
I want to heal, I like healing, I just need practice, and don't get practice healing as a dps.
But I don't like being asked to dps on a regular basis. I'm fine with doing VoA 10 as dps, because our shaman dosen't have a dps spec. I'm fine with doing the occasinal heroic as dps because our tank, his fiance is his healer.
Being the raid healer for the first wing of ICC and then being asked to switch to dps for the second wing? I don't want to! I want to get the healing experience. I won't get any better at healing if I don't heal anything that is kinda difficult.
It might take me a try or two to really realize what is going on in a fight. And to realize that the slimes really hurt, like 1-shot hurt.
I want to heal, I like healing, I just need practice, and don't get practice healing as a dps.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Everything I learned about Healing I learned in Kindergarden
I was a lost little tree, until my guild master sat me down, yes I was on a little carpet square, and taught me how to be a better healer. (Look down for the whole story!) This is basically what he taught me. This is mostly for my reference, but if you find it useful great! I know I have NO readers.
So your a tree! Your role in a raid is to heal pretty much everyone that is not the tanks. And to help out the tank healer(s) as needed. Your spells tend to be Heal Over Times (HoTs) but you have a few just plain heals and other useful buffs and debuffs.
Spells you have:
Rejuvenation: A HoT that lasts for 18 seconds, ticks every 3 sec, and (for me) heals about 2000 every tick. Instant cast.
Regrowth: A HoT that has an instant heal attached to the begining. It casts in about 1.5 seconds for me (with a buttload of haste) and the instant heal heals for ~5k (can crit for about 8-9k) and ticks for 1kish.
Lifebloom: A HoT that lasts for about 8 seconds, stacks to three stacks, has an instant heal at the end, and gives you back mana when it expires. Yes it's that confusing. But useful.
Nourish: A just plain heal that (when glyphed) heals more if you have more HoTs on your target. It casts in ~1 second (again with a buttload of haste) and I've seen it crit for about 10k.
Wild Growth: A HoT that can affect 5 targets within 15 yards of each other. Ticks every second, but the amount healed starts off at about 1k, then decreases with every tick.
Swiftmend: An instant cast just plain heal that can only be cast if you have a regrowth or rejuv on the target, and the glyph keeps you from consuming the HoT when you cast swiftmend. Oh SPOON! button.
I'm not going to bother with healing touch, because it's huge it's slow, and you are not a Holy Pally. And because I somehow speced out of having Nature's Swiftness.
Spec:
This spec is what my GM and I came up with. It dosen't include Celestial Focus, due to having enough haste on gear, and Nature's Swiftness got left out due to being the lesser used Oh SPOON! button.
Rotation Priority List:
As a hunter I was told "you don't really have a shot rotation, you have a shot Priority List." You basically go by what the conditions are, what's off cooldown, and "are you having to move?"
So this is the Tree Druid Priority List as of this point:
One or two people taking damage:
Regrowth--> Rejuvenation --> Nourish (repeat as needed) --> Swiftmend
Don't use Nourish unless a Regrowth is on someone.
If mutiple (more than 3) people are taking damage (ie a decimate):
Wild Growth ---> Regrowth (person 1)--> Rejuvenation (person 2) --> Regrowth (person 3)---> etc etc. -->Nourish and Swiftmend as needed
Special cases:
- Just use Rejuvenation if someone is taking just a little damage, but kind of regullarly (ie the little lasers in HoS)
-Lifebloom is great for when you can anticipate a lot of damage is going to come in at a certain time (ie decimate, pound), get it stacked and let it expire after the damage is done.
You also may want to put Fairy Fire on the boss (after the tank pulls!) if there is no other druids in your group.
Vuhdo: (My favorite addon EVER)
Set it up so it looks how you like it, I like class colors, HoT icons instead of just little colored blocks, and I have the swiftmend showing.
I got the great piece of advice to put only your instant cast spells on just plain mouse buttons (with no modifier) so you can heal and run, or jump around like a tard. When you press a modifier key to cast your spell (ie Regrowth is Alt+left click) you don't have to hold down your modifier key until the cast is done. Really! You DON'T!
Also keep in mind your vent push to talk key when deciding on your modifier keys. Clicking into vent everytime you have to decurse gets annoying after a bit.
That is basically it.
So your a tree! Your role in a raid is to heal pretty much everyone that is not the tanks. And to help out the tank healer(s) as needed. Your spells tend to be Heal Over Times (HoTs) but you have a few just plain heals and other useful buffs and debuffs.
Spells you have:
Rejuvenation: A HoT that lasts for 18 seconds, ticks every 3 sec, and (for me) heals about 2000 every tick. Instant cast.
Regrowth: A HoT that has an instant heal attached to the begining. It casts in about 1.5 seconds for me (with a buttload of haste) and the instant heal heals for ~5k (can crit for about 8-9k) and ticks for 1kish.
Lifebloom: A HoT that lasts for about 8 seconds, stacks to three stacks, has an instant heal at the end, and gives you back mana when it expires. Yes it's that confusing. But useful.
Nourish: A just plain heal that (when glyphed) heals more if you have more HoTs on your target. It casts in ~1 second (again with a buttload of haste) and I've seen it crit for about 10k.
Wild Growth: A HoT that can affect 5 targets within 15 yards of each other. Ticks every second, but the amount healed starts off at about 1k, then decreases with every tick.
Swiftmend: An instant cast just plain heal that can only be cast if you have a regrowth or rejuv on the target, and the glyph keeps you from consuming the HoT when you cast swiftmend. Oh SPOON! button.
I'm not going to bother with healing touch, because it's huge it's slow, and you are not a Holy Pally. And because I somehow speced out of having Nature's Swiftness.
Spec:
This spec is what my GM and I came up with. It dosen't include Celestial Focus, due to having enough haste on gear, and Nature's Swiftness got left out due to being the lesser used Oh SPOON! button.
As a hunter I was told "you don't really have a shot rotation, you have a shot Priority List." You basically go by what the conditions are, what's off cooldown, and "are you having to move?"
So this is the Tree Druid Priority List as of this point:
One or two people taking damage:
Regrowth--> Rejuvenation --> Nourish (repeat as needed) --> Swiftmend
Don't use Nourish unless a Regrowth is on someone.
If mutiple (more than 3) people are taking damage (ie a decimate):
Wild Growth ---> Regrowth (person 1)--> Rejuvenation (person 2) --> Regrowth (person 3)---> etc etc. -->Nourish and Swiftmend as needed
Special cases:
- Just use Rejuvenation if someone is taking just a little damage, but kind of regullarly (ie the little lasers in HoS)
-Lifebloom is great for when you can anticipate a lot of damage is going to come in at a certain time (ie decimate, pound), get it stacked and let it expire after the damage is done.
You also may want to put Fairy Fire on the boss (after the tank pulls!) if there is no other druids in your group.
Vuhdo: (My favorite addon EVER)
Set it up so it looks how you like it, I like class colors, HoT icons instead of just little colored blocks, and I have the swiftmend showing.
I got the great piece of advice to put only your instant cast spells on just plain mouse buttons (with no modifier) so you can heal and run, or jump around like a tard. When you press a modifier key to cast your spell (ie Regrowth is Alt+left click) you don't have to hold down your modifier key until the cast is done. Really! You DON'T!
Also keep in mind your vent push to talk key when deciding on your modifier keys. Clicking into vent everytime you have to decurse gets annoying after a bit.
That is basically it.
Raid Healer Kindergarden was not as embarassing as it could have been
*Brushes dust off of blog* Yeah, between work, actually playing the game and my other hobbies, my blog has been neglected a bit.
So, since I last posted, I've changed guilds twice. The first change came when several of my in game friends and I went from our RP/maybe raiding/Where'd the GM go? guild to a guild that at the time was trying to casually progress through content. Not long, maybe 3 weeks, after we joined that guild they decided that they wanted to be more hardcore, and recruited a lot. There were some issues and it basically turned into a hardcore progression guild with loot issues, personalities that some of us didn't get along with, and some other things we just didn't agree with. So several people who had joined with the "casual, friendly and most of all fun" progression in mind split off and founded a different guild. It was an amicable split.
Yesterday was our first guild outing. We tried to do ToGC 10. That raid is HARD. We bashed our head into the beasts and got Gormuk the Impaler down one time, but couldn't get the worms down. There was even "Yeah, I died.... 'cause I stood in the fire like an idiot" coming from me. We ended up running out switching it to normal and roflstomping normal 10. It was fun. We even managed to get the speed kill achievement on the twins. I don't think I can ever do Anub right though. It was messy, but we got through it.
Afterwords, we tried to get a group together to do the weekly, but couldn't because about the guild was saved, and when you have about 13 people, that's not enough people to go kill Dragon in SPACE! A few people were going to go grab some level 70 alts (some people stayed on their mains) and go stomp Kara for the benefit of Paladin on dial up. I was about ready to say "Ooooh! Take me take me!" when our GM, who is a Boomchicken/Tree asked if I could hang around and talk for a bit. He then proceded to look at my spec, gear, and glyphs to figure out why I was not healing to my full potential. I knew I wasn't, and I had been reading and researching, and just not being able to figure out what I was doing wrong on my own, but too embarassed to ask.
Diversion story! My little sister has a friend that is home schooled. She is in a musical group with this friend. When the musical group has performances at school events or other such venues, I tend to notice something. This friend can't seem to wait in line, and could use a lesson in cafeteria etiquette. She is very smart and plays her musical instrument quite well. She's just a little behind socially.
That is how I feel as a healer. I basically "home schooled" myself as a tree. I read blogs, I read forums, I dungeon leveled, but in a raid, I am behind on social healing. I kinda made my "rotation" up out of thin air. It was basically Rejuv, Nourish, Nourish, Nourish, Swiftmend if things get hairy, and Wild Growth to top off the melee. I had the Rapid Rejuvination glyph, so I was casting rejuvination a LOT because I have a ton of haste. I'm gonna put his advice in another post so as to make this one longer (TOO LATE!), but I feel I have a better grip on what I'm doing now. My spec and glyphs and style now compliment each other instead of me trying to work around them. I rearanged everything in Vuhdo, so I'm still trying to use my old key combos and getting a "there is nothing to dispel!" or "That spell is not ready yet" far too often.
I think I'm going to try to pug the weekly to test everything out. It's Malygos this week, and the last time I went people had no idea how not to get one shotted coming out of the tornado thing. Should be fun.
So, since I last posted, I've changed guilds twice. The first change came when several of my in game friends and I went from our RP/maybe raiding/Where'd the GM go? guild to a guild that at the time was trying to casually progress through content. Not long, maybe 3 weeks, after we joined that guild they decided that they wanted to be more hardcore, and recruited a lot. There were some issues and it basically turned into a hardcore progression guild with loot issues, personalities that some of us didn't get along with, and some other things we just didn't agree with. So several people who had joined with the "casual, friendly and most of all fun" progression in mind split off and founded a different guild. It was an amicable split.
Yesterday was our first guild outing. We tried to do ToGC 10. That raid is HARD. We bashed our head into the beasts and got Gormuk the Impaler down one time, but couldn't get the worms down. There was even "Yeah, I died.... 'cause I stood in the fire like an idiot" coming from me. We ended up running out switching it to normal and roflstomping normal 10. It was fun. We even managed to get the speed kill achievement on the twins. I don't think I can ever do Anub right though. It was messy, but we got through it.
Afterwords, we tried to get a group together to do the weekly, but couldn't because about the guild was saved, and when you have about 13 people, that's not enough people to go kill Dragon in SPACE! A few people were going to go grab some level 70 alts (some people stayed on their mains) and go stomp Kara for the benefit of Paladin on dial up. I was about ready to say "Ooooh! Take me take me!" when our GM, who is a Boomchicken/Tree asked if I could hang around and talk for a bit. He then proceded to look at my spec, gear, and glyphs to figure out why I was not healing to my full potential. I knew I wasn't, and I had been reading and researching, and just not being able to figure out what I was doing wrong on my own, but too embarassed to ask.
Diversion story! My little sister has a friend that is home schooled. She is in a musical group with this friend. When the musical group has performances at school events or other such venues, I tend to notice something. This friend can't seem to wait in line, and could use a lesson in cafeteria etiquette. She is very smart and plays her musical instrument quite well. She's just a little behind socially.
That is how I feel as a healer. I basically "home schooled" myself as a tree. I read blogs, I read forums, I dungeon leveled, but in a raid, I am behind on social healing. I kinda made my "rotation" up out of thin air. It was basically Rejuv, Nourish, Nourish, Nourish, Swiftmend if things get hairy, and Wild Growth to top off the melee. I had the Rapid Rejuvination glyph, so I was casting rejuvination a LOT because I have a ton of haste. I'm gonna put his advice in another post so as to make this one longer (TOO LATE!), but I feel I have a better grip on what I'm doing now. My spec and glyphs and style now compliment each other instead of me trying to work around them. I rearanged everything in Vuhdo, so I'm still trying to use my old key combos and getting a "there is nothing to dispel!" or "That spell is not ready yet" far too often.
I think I'm going to try to pug the weekly to test everything out. It's Malygos this week, and the last time I went people had no idea how not to get one shotted coming out of the tornado thing. Should be fun.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Tales of Fail #1
I figured I need to get some of my really bad PuG stories down in writing before I forget about them. Both of these are from Baby Druid's leveling experience. When I leveled my hunter, I did a total of 8 5 man dungeons before she hit level 80. So, to get my druid some healing experience, I dungeon leveled her.
Tale the First- BRD
BRD is a looooong complicated and kind of confusing instance that lists the appropriate level range as 49-58. I ran it on Milli 3 different times before I finally got the achievement for it. The first time, we started with a DK tank, me healing, a warlock, a warrior and I think a rogue for DPS. We got through the ring event, of course someone got locked in the room with the boss, and were on the way down to the fire elemental boss. Someone has to go afk for a minute and the rest of us stand around and twiddle our thumbs and play with mini pets and tree dance. Suddenly the person that is afk is getting eaten by one of the giant patrolling iron things. I try to heal them, I get eaten, and we wipe. Person comes back from being afk, and we run back and move on. We get to the boss and the tank and two of the DPS die very quickly, and as far as I remember due to their own stupidity. The warlock and I keep each other going long enough to kill it. At about that point the DK tank had had enough and leaves. We look for a new tank and find a level 49 paladin. She's polite and generally competent even if she is a bit squishy due to being 4 levels lower than the mobs we're fighting. After a few minutes the warrior dps leaves and we get, another warrior! This one is competent and polite and dosen't try to off tank. We make our way to the bar, eventually. At the begining of the run, the warlock and I are getting along great, but by this point, we're going "Rrrr" at each other. We wipe due to pulling the entire bar and the boss all at once, but we run back and eventually get it right. We end up calling it after the next pull when we wipe yet again.
The next time I went, I went with my acquired paladin. I did a ZF run with this paladin who went afk at the bottom of the stairs as we started the stair event... Three wipes later he's been kicked and we proceed to 4 man the rest of the instance with the tank that figured that I wasn't too squishy and he didn't need to get adds off me. But the paladin actually turned out to be okay and kinda nice. I ended up running a lot of instances with him through the later part of old world and Outland. But on this run I get brought in half way through since their previous healer d/c'd. There was a DK dps that had deathgripitis and kept trying to tank. That group disolved rather quickly when the paladin rage quit.
The third and final time I went to BRD, the warlock from the first run, he had a paladin at about the same level. We went in through the back door, took out the bar, the seven and got our achievement very quickly, then went back through the rest of the instance. I then decided I was never ever ever going back to BRD again, at least until next brewfest.
Tale the Second- Slave Pens
Baby Druid was level 67 and getting bored of questing in Outland and really ready to move on to Northrend. So I put her in lfg for healing Underbog and a few other assorted instances. When we get our group together the average level is a little better suited for Slave Pens rather than Underbog so we head over to that instance entrance and we're off. The paladin tank had a familiar looking weapon though. I do a quick inspect and see that it's the same caster mace I have. I also look at his talents and see reassuring points in the protection tree. I brush off the caster mace as a "it was probably an upgrade to a quest green he had in old world and he just hasn't found anything better yet." As we go, I'm finding the healing to be a little bit harder than I would expect it to be, but I'd been healing an overgeared and overleveled tank for the last few instances that I'd been doing, so I figured this was just him being several levels lower than me. We get to the second boss and the tank asks if he would be a good raid tank. I think "I'm not peeling aggro off of him, and squishyness can be fixed." I reply "You're doing okay on this." The mage, who is decked out in heirlooms, also says something to the effect of "You're doing fine enough." The tank then decides that after a smoke break (or tree dance break if you're me) that he's going to go "balls out" for the rest of the run and procedes to say "balls out" as often as possible. While we were stopped, I took the time to really inspect the tank. I look at his gear and every piece of it is spell power plate or spell power weapons and accessories.
Now, I will admit to having caused a wipe or two due to getting distracted by looting things or picking flowers, but that tends to only happen when you have a tired group and nobody is really paying any attention to what the others are doing. We wipe once on that trash that requires the tank to pick up stragglers before they get to the healer (ie all trash). In this group we also have a shaman and a balance druid. I start struggling with the pace the tank is setting, and I notice that the shaman is helping to pick up some of the slack, and healing herself as needed. I manage to get myself into a tight, yet fixable healing spot, because I got silenced or stunned or the tank was squishy and suddenly the balance druid shifts out of moonkin form and pops tranquility. After we're done and I'm getting ready to thank the balance druid, he starts bragging. "Thank goodness I'm here or we wouldn't have survived that!" That's a very good way to make me mad. There's back up healing and then there's that. We start the escort event that leads to the final boss and the balance druid is continuing to heal and jump about in range of the mobs. I stop healing him at that point. He gets rezed and we take out the boss. The tank and the balance druid ask if we'd like to do another dungeon or do this one again. The mage replies "oh I've gotta dash, I have a raid I have to get to." The paladin and druid both ask to go along on the raid. I'm quietly facepalming in the corner.
Tale the First- BRD
BRD is a looooong complicated and kind of confusing instance that lists the appropriate level range as 49-58. I ran it on Milli 3 different times before I finally got the achievement for it. The first time, we started with a DK tank, me healing, a warlock, a warrior and I think a rogue for DPS. We got through the ring event, of course someone got locked in the room with the boss, and were on the way down to the fire elemental boss. Someone has to go afk for a minute and the rest of us stand around and twiddle our thumbs and play with mini pets and tree dance. Suddenly the person that is afk is getting eaten by one of the giant patrolling iron things. I try to heal them, I get eaten, and we wipe. Person comes back from being afk, and we run back and move on. We get to the boss and the tank and two of the DPS die very quickly, and as far as I remember due to their own stupidity. The warlock and I keep each other going long enough to kill it. At about that point the DK tank had had enough and leaves. We look for a new tank and find a level 49 paladin. She's polite and generally competent even if she is a bit squishy due to being 4 levels lower than the mobs we're fighting. After a few minutes the warrior dps leaves and we get, another warrior! This one is competent and polite and dosen't try to off tank. We make our way to the bar, eventually. At the begining of the run, the warlock and I are getting along great, but by this point, we're going "Rrrr" at each other. We wipe due to pulling the entire bar and the boss all at once, but we run back and eventually get it right. We end up calling it after the next pull when we wipe yet again.
The next time I went, I went with my acquired paladin. I did a ZF run with this paladin who went afk at the bottom of the stairs as we started the stair event... Three wipes later he's been kicked and we proceed to 4 man the rest of the instance with the tank that figured that I wasn't too squishy and he didn't need to get adds off me. But the paladin actually turned out to be okay and kinda nice. I ended up running a lot of instances with him through the later part of old world and Outland. But on this run I get brought in half way through since their previous healer d/c'd. There was a DK dps that had deathgripitis and kept trying to tank. That group disolved rather quickly when the paladin rage quit.
The third and final time I went to BRD, the warlock from the first run, he had a paladin at about the same level. We went in through the back door, took out the bar, the seven and got our achievement very quickly, then went back through the rest of the instance. I then decided I was never ever ever going back to BRD again, at least until next brewfest.
Tale the Second- Slave Pens
Baby Druid was level 67 and getting bored of questing in Outland and really ready to move on to Northrend. So I put her in lfg for healing Underbog and a few other assorted instances. When we get our group together the average level is a little better suited for Slave Pens rather than Underbog so we head over to that instance entrance and we're off. The paladin tank had a familiar looking weapon though. I do a quick inspect and see that it's the same caster mace I have. I also look at his talents and see reassuring points in the protection tree. I brush off the caster mace as a "it was probably an upgrade to a quest green he had in old world and he just hasn't found anything better yet." As we go, I'm finding the healing to be a little bit harder than I would expect it to be, but I'd been healing an overgeared and overleveled tank for the last few instances that I'd been doing, so I figured this was just him being several levels lower than me. We get to the second boss and the tank asks if he would be a good raid tank. I think "I'm not peeling aggro off of him, and squishyness can be fixed." I reply "You're doing okay on this." The mage, who is decked out in heirlooms, also says something to the effect of "You're doing fine enough." The tank then decides that after a smoke break (or tree dance break if you're me) that he's going to go "balls out" for the rest of the run and procedes to say "balls out" as often as possible. While we were stopped, I took the time to really inspect the tank. I look at his gear and every piece of it is spell power plate or spell power weapons and accessories.
Now, I will admit to having caused a wipe or two due to getting distracted by looting things or picking flowers, but that tends to only happen when you have a tired group and nobody is really paying any attention to what the others are doing. We wipe once on that trash that requires the tank to pick up stragglers before they get to the healer (ie all trash). In this group we also have a shaman and a balance druid. I start struggling with the pace the tank is setting, and I notice that the shaman is helping to pick up some of the slack, and healing herself as needed. I manage to get myself into a tight, yet fixable healing spot, because I got silenced or stunned or the tank was squishy and suddenly the balance druid shifts out of moonkin form and pops tranquility. After we're done and I'm getting ready to thank the balance druid, he starts bragging. "Thank goodness I'm here or we wouldn't have survived that!" That's a very good way to make me mad. There's back up healing and then there's that. We start the escort event that leads to the final boss and the balance druid is continuing to heal and jump about in range of the mobs. I stop healing him at that point. He gets rezed and we take out the boss. The tank and the balance druid ask if we'd like to do another dungeon or do this one again. The mage replies "oh I've gotta dash, I have a raid I have to get to." The paladin and druid both ask to go along on the raid. I'm quietly facepalming in the corner.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Baby Druid is scared of heroics
Patch 3.3 introduced the new looking for group interface. I've used it a few (times a day) to find dungeons for Milli. I've mostly been dungeon leveling her, since level 18, and I'm loving the new interface. I don't have to spam a channel and beg guildies and friends to run stuff with me, and then it teleports me straight there and back, and instances are often painless and quick.Well, the ones that aren't are a completely different story.
It does however tend to stick me in the same dungeon over and over and over. The other day I had managed to find a mildly competent paladin tank and we kept grouping since we could both put up with each other. We ran DTK three time in a row. And the system thinks that Gundrak and HoS are the only things I can heal at the moment. There are only so many rhinos a girl can stand.
But she's getting so close to 80, and random heroic groups.
I've also been poking about the WoW blogosphere and have found that a lot of groups tend to react badly when a new 80 is placed in their random heroic group. Tam's example about noobcow over at Rightous Orbs is what I'm afraid is going to happen to me when I get to the point of being able to heal heroics. I think I'm going to get kicked from any group I get into faster than a gnome that got lost in Thunder Bluff. Guess I need to get on my crafted epics shopping list.
It does however tend to stick me in the same dungeon over and over and over. The other day I had managed to find a mildly competent paladin tank and we kept grouping since we could both put up with each other. We ran DTK three time in a row. And the system thinks that Gundrak and HoS are the only things I can heal at the moment. There are only so many rhinos a girl can stand.
But she's getting so close to 80, and random heroic groups.
I've also been poking about the WoW blogosphere and have found that a lot of groups tend to react badly when a new 80 is placed in their random heroic group. Tam's example about noobcow over at Rightous Orbs is what I'm afraid is going to happen to me when I get to the point of being able to heal heroics. I think I'm going to get kicked from any group I get into faster than a gnome that got lost in Thunder Bluff. Guess I need to get on my crafted epics shopping list.
In which DoHP makes a post about WoW, also introduction
In an effort to keep all my World of Warcraft stuff off the blog I share with my friends, I'm going to try to put it all here.
So, I've been playing almost a year, and have found a nice server in Wyrmrest Accord.
My healer is on her way to 80, and will always be my baby druid even when she's all grown up and outgears my main.
So, I've been playing almost a year, and have found a nice server in Wyrmrest Accord.
My healer is on her way to 80, and will always be my baby druid even when she's all grown up and outgears my main.
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