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Filed Under: IRL, World of Warcraft by Teresa — Leave a comment
August 18, 2011

Sorry about the quiet past few days! Boyfriend has decided that we should join a gym and I am dying as a result. Well not really but I feel that way. Anyway since we are usually rambling about alts on this blog, I thought I would share a little insight onto our Firelands raiding. We aren’t particularly progressed (4/7 normal) but we hit it every week so I’ve accumulated a few opinions about the place while herding my raid team around.

Shannox

- One of my melee will DC during this fight, or step on a trap due to ‘lag’. It doesn’t matter which one, but typically they are the plate wearing variety and make it so I am promptly line of sighted on my tank causing me to curse up a storm. This will only happen in the last 5% of the fight and my growling promptly stops the minute the boss drops. But damn guys, really?

- This fight will generally put me and the other healers to sleep until phase two when either our tank randomly gets two shot (ok this only happened once), or I throw my entire mana bar away in fifteen seconds and then the actual raid healers will casually finish off the fight. Want to buy real aoe healing pls.

Beth’tilac

- For the longest time, our healers were impatient and just told all the dps to stay on the floor and kill the adds because we were tired of drones creeping back up and hitting us in the face when we went up the web. This means typically we healed through 95-100% of her health depending on if she STILL landed on a spiderling or not.

- Last week we discovered that being melee heavy on this fight is actually good, and frees up a dps to go on the web without being overrun by things. I reluctantly told our warrior and paladin to ‘just taunt down all the yellow things’ and a few minutes later heal shaman and heal druid both chorused how EASY the healing was this go. Well then! Accidental strat improvement ftw.

- A MM/Survival Hunter is amazingly OP on spiderlings and I sulk whenever ours is unavailable.

Baleroc

- Prot Paladin single tanking this makes me a sad healer. Boyfriend does his best but his RNG sometimes makes us want to tear our hair out. Like hello there, three unavoided decimation blade strikes back to back right at the end of the fight when Boyfriend has a zillion hp!

- Glyphed Divine Protection on this is amazing. Our dps paladin tanks those shards like a boss. Asking squishy warlocks to two tank shards is not amazing, especially when not paying attention when heal shaman calls for a heal swap >_>

- Heal Shaman trounces me every time we do this fight. Damn you heal shaman.

Rhyolith

- Our original attempts were something to the effect of ‘oh look he soft-enraged, theres three angry volcanos up and adds keep exploding on our faces while the feet are still at 40%.’

- On Tuesday I made a ‘lets see if three dps on the feet is enough to steer the bastard this time, I’ll let you know when we wipe’ comment when we promptly pushed to phase two with minimal damage and I had to squeak at Boyfriend that perhaps he should go pick up Rhyolith before he killed all of our melee. I had told the raid team to get get intoxicated before the fight to see if it made aiming Rhyolith any easier, and this seemed to work swimmingly for us (and had nothing at all to do with the hotfixes >_>).

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Delete 2.2

Filed Under: World of Warcraft by Barbi — Leave a comment
August 13, 2011

A story about a Shaman… and a Hunter… maybe. I’ve recently resurrected both of mine. Shaman I have leveled to 85 in the past but ended up deleting her or leaving her behind on another server as a darling draenai – she is now a gangly gobblin named Fizzlezap (whom Sammy affectionately calls Fizzlefap). The hunter however, never makes it past 17 or 18 give or take a level.

Isn't she pretty?

This time I plan to finally take Hunter all the way. I just created her today and through the miracle of heirlooms and guild perks, I was able to level her to 20 in a short amount of time between chasing after a hyper active 3-year old and supervising my 10-year old’s kitchen experiments. As you can see, I’m already doing better than I ever have with Hunter.

When I asked Teres to invite Hunter 2.4.1 to guild, she told me that to make it fun that I should spec Marksman, use Aimshot and to remember that Hunter is for PRETTY PRETTY PETS and nothing else is important. I see the wisdom in this way of thinking. Hunter needs a PRETTY PRETTY PET to accent her amazing hair. (Also, if the rumors of an appearance tab turn out to be true, I’ll be able to dress Hunter to look just as FABULOUS as her hair – win)

In an effort to level Shaman quickly (She is currently 38), I took to healing pugs. Scary, I know. I usually avoid pugs like the plague you know, but I really wanted to learn to resto-shammy well and I figured what better way then to heal HORRIBLE HORRIBLE pugs – of which I had a few. Then I ended up with a really good tank who blew through dungeons like he was made of rubber cement and the mobs just bounced off of his shiny paladin armor… none of which were heirloom – wut?! Is that even possible anymore? He and I chain queued for dungeons and I made it from 23 to 38 in no time flat. We ended up exchanging Real ID information so that we could pair up for future runs if we were having trouble with bad pugs, or long queue times.

And this is the part where I tell you how darling Sammy is entirely overly protective of me.

I told him that I had made a friend pugging and added him to real id – which was promptly followed by Sammy logging into WoW and searching all of the friends on my Real ID asking me about each one – to determine which was Pug Friend. I lol’d when he told me that he would just have to resort to sending ALL of them friend requests so that he could screen Pug Friend.

A few days after talking and pugging with Pug Friend, he let me know that he didn’t particularly have a ‘home’ on WoW and was mostly playing on a friend’s account. He then proceeded to reactivate his account and roll a pally on Azgalor. I did what seemed normal and invited him to guild. It would certainly help him level faster with the guild perks and give him a place to meet new friends. If he turns out to be a douche bag, we can ship him down river with a one-way ticket in one of Sammy’s canoes. However, he seems pretty cool so far. Sammy does not approve of this as he does not know Pug Friend, and that if I actually met Pug Friend while pugging, that means I was spending Happy Friend Time with people other than him. He LOFFS me – he does, and I actually appreciate this. Fortunately, he is quite good spirited about the whole thing and giggles while giving me a hard time.

More on the girls as they progress!

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