Transfers and other catchup.

So I really need to get better at this whole thing. Keep letting it sit and rot.

Moving on, literally. I’m no longer on Blackrock due to the persistence of the ‘GDKP’, the Horde/Alliance imbalance (strongly favoring horde) and the languishing status of my old guild. I’ve now moved to Thunderlord-US and am currently focusing on my Death Knight more than my Druid. Why? Because after nearly a year of healing ICC I’m tired of it, thus I stopped. The guild I’m now in is a 10 man strict guild as well and my druid has done ICC 25 a couple of times and has gear from it. Tombstone’s the name and kicking ass is the game…at least in theory. We’re currently kicking around in TempStone due to a member accidentally killing some ICC 25 man bosses on an alt thus removing Tombstone from strict rankings. Yea TempStone, capital “S”, my somewhat witty idea save for the “S” part, not sure why that happened but eh. One small caveat to me being in the raid team, I’m an alternate. But an alternate with a lot of time in the instance due to others in the team getting burnt out/schedule conflicts. Overall I enjoy it greatly. We raid 4 hours a night for 3 nights a week and get a good bit done. Not as much as some would like, but more than I’ve gotten through in a great while.

Oh I forgot to mention, this all happened about a month and a half ago…or something like that.

In other wow news I am still saddened by the lack of a constant tree form, but the new tree form that blizzard put in the game has lessened that sadness. Our raid leader nicknamed it the “Big-gay” Treeform, while my girlfriend said it looked like a hippie tree designed towards liking the druid class with hippies and people like that. I just think he needs a leisure suit and platform shoes and he’s good to go. Oh and I WILL be getting the glyph to never have to see that on my character.

I think I’m going to stick with Tree Me Up as my name, granted I’m not so much a tree as a night elf now…nor am I so much a main druid player as a Deathnoob Player but that’s okay.

Loremaster: The Full Mile

So a lot has happened since I’ve last posted. I pretty much stopped playing WoW for about a month or so. Only logging on every once in awhile. Not really sure why, but just didn’t feel like playing is all. Since getting back into it I did a recustomization on Ellelia and Annadelia making them into Ederal and Sernaum(shout out to the first Sernaum I knew, he knows who he is.) Just felt like it was time for a change. In addition I’ve been trying to decide who I want my main to be in Cataclysm. I kind of want to get out of the healing game for awhile, so I’m working on Chaous’ achivements.

As the title suggests one of these is Loremaster. Now on Ederal it would involve grinding all my goblin reps back up to neutral and then destroying my bloodsail rep and then having to redo that and then redo the goblin grind, unless I did the Insane first. So I’m going with Chaous who just has the issue of HAVING NEVER QUESTED IN AZEROTH BEFORE. So starting at like 2/1400 total for the old world I begin. In the few days since I’ve set out on this mammoth task I’ve gotten Eastern Kingdoms up to 46/700 and Kalimdor up to 326/700. My current goal is 500/700 Kalimdor by Tuesday.

Gah!

So I really can’t decide on the flavor of my blog for the life of me. So here I am back at the original which I probably should have stuck with. Only issue now is the fact that I won’t be a tree come 4.0. This makes me sad in so many ways.

Yes I know I’m late to the party on this one, but I had been looking over the prospective talent tree for resto druid in 4.0 and it made me sick. Improved tree of life will increase damage the druid does while in tree of life form? What the hell is this crap? If I wanted to do damage as a caster druid I have my boom-lazor-chicken form for that. Tree is for heals, not dps. Blizzard can take their new healer design for druids and shove it up their collective assholes. While I wouldn’t mind useing some of my other spells a bit more often *coughhealingtouchcough* revamping the entire way we play is bad. It took me long enough at the start of wrath to get off of the lifebloom spam that had dominated BC. I can’t imagine how long it’ll take me to adapt (or how many dead tanks in instances) to their new ideas. here’s hoping I get into the beta so I have some time to practice before I end up with the real deal.

Cataclysm Data Mining

So MMO Champion managed to get some datamined files from the Cata alpha, and this one really caught my eye, well this and the whole stormwind set, but I’m going to avoid spoilers for now. Just know, Firegar will burn you dead!

You, Me and Grandpappy Lich King.

So, as the title and picture show, I got to sit on grandpappy lich kings lap on Wednesday morning. We started out the raid in awesome form with our first kill of heroic marrowgar (got someone with kingslayer to switch modes for us) and I got the cloth healer belt from that. Then we went on to kill 11/12 in just over 4.5 hours. One shotting everything (including heroic marrowgar) except BQL, who we two shot, and Sindy who we 4 shot. Make note, our guild wiped on her for about the past month, extending lockouts and pulling two nights a week of attempts.

So now she died, and her death comes at an odd time for our guild. We had our co-gm get hacked last week and had an empty guild bank for the better part of 5 days. But we have also had to go through some restructuring of our teams, we had a bunch of people quit or take a break from wow and as such we are down to about 13 or so raiders. Just enough for 1 10 man team, thus leaving many others out in the…warm? Since I assume Icecrown is cold they must be warmer at least.

So with our new Team Divine we waltzed into Icecrown and are now ready to give the Lich King what he has comming to him. A big fat Lich Slap. So we are 11/12 normal and 2/12 heroic (with gunship already under our belt).

Our first night of WIPEFEST: Lich King Edition is friday morning starting at 5 am CST or 3 am PST/Sever Time. Well, hold on, we did accidentally engage him while we where up there as our shadow priest thought it funny to start the event while we were trying to get a guild screen shot on his lap. Needless to say, we only got him down to 94%.

Until our WIPEFEST concludes, I bid ye all farewell.

The Karazan Experiment: Week 2

So yea, I went in again, this time took my girlfriend with on the condition that if the mount dropped I got it. She was fine with that.

Never in a million years would I have guessed that it would drop. But drop it did, and thus I now have the Burning Warhorse. She was able to come with me through Moroes but then had to go due to our son (he lives with her) making a ungodly mess in his room. And so I went onward alone to kill maiden…and then be met with Oz once more. I figure that if I get more gear I may be able to do it with the right combo of RNG and skill taking my side of the fight. I was able to kill roar and get strawman down to 50% before I died due to tinman’s swings. I gave it another go to dismal results with a series of full hits by dorthee’s waterbolt. So I called it there. So good news and bad news on the KZ front.

In other fronts had the chance to try heroic Marrowgar on ICC10. Got him down to 20% (we haven’t killed lich king, pugged a kingslayer) and wasn’t able to replicate that result, made for a sad rest of the raid. Did heroic rotface too, sadly no dice there either, 30% when we wiped due to a hunter pet getting vile gas and killing everyone in melee range.

The past few weeks have been filled with a wee bit of guild drama stemming from the fact that we put our 25 mans on hold, thus we lost some of our best dps, and had one person just stiff the guild when he signed up for one of our 10 man raids, he went off and pugged it on his own and told us it was more important. He also ninja’d the pot of a gdkp either by accident or intentional but didn’t do what was needed to makeup for it and thus ended up becoming something of a pariah on our server. Not such a good thing for a guild already struggling to recruit people.

So we are back down to 2 10 man teams which we are re-tooling a bit with the losses. Where this will all end up only time will tell, I can only say that I do not envy our gm’s position one bit. And I really hope it turns out so that most people are happy.

that is all for now!

mp5, gcd’s and puppy dog tails.

So I was reading Penance Priest and the article about ABC rule of disc healing.

It was put: “Always. Be. Casting.” That simple. This easily applies to my druid healing, when people are full I can put a single application of lifebloom, or a rejuv to make sure when they don’t move out of the fire on time that I can just pop swiftmend to bring them back from the brink.
I more or less try to do this and thus in more intense encounters I hold my innervate for myself and really hope I don’t need to battle rez anyone.

Its early, I haven’t slept and I just felt like posting this, not really sure why. Seemed the thing to do.

Anyway; ONWARD TO BED!

Attumen, Madden, Moroes and Jin’do: Down!

Opera, Curator and Shade on notice!

So I have been doing some more soloing of old raids on Chaous the Damned. I have done nearly full clears of ZG but up until tonight I never killed Jin’do. But I had a strat. I clear all but two of the trash packs and then pull Jin’do by the sacrifice pit. When he mind controls he goes back to dancing and the totem despawns. But his health never resets, so I go right back to killing him. When he mc’s and sacrifices me he still doesn’t reset and I kill the skeletons and then back to him.  After a few rounds of that he dies. Easy pie.

But before doing that I decided to venture into my first level 70 raid on him, Karazan. Pretty basic stuff, except for Moroes, his 4 adds kept me pretty low on hp (around 30%) for most of the fight until all 4 of them died. I had the paladin, warrior, Holy priest and Shadow Priest. Once they were down it was a matter of timing my Death Strikes around his vanish to avoid garrote ticking my health too low. He died and sadly no pocket watch (I’m still using one of my starting trinks for tanking).

My opera event was Oz and wasn’t really sure how to handle that, nor in the mood to figure it out, so I left it at that for this week and will return next week (or in a day rather) for a chance at midnights reigns.

Going into Molten core with two hunters to see if we cant full clear it for fun and profit!

IRL crits you for lots.

Alright, so this time I kind of have an excuse. I’ve been busy, and been drawn away by a shiny xbox 360 that I picked up for 80 bucks. So I’ve been rocking out on Halo 3, FFXIII and the like, did a long run in Fallout 3 and have done the main quest twice in it on two different characters, started an oblivion character as well as Fable II. And the one thing that I like about those that wow (even with phasing) lacks is that I make a difference. That and if a guard is pissing me off I can just kill him.

But other than that I’m starting as a manager at my Pizza Hut so been working alot of odd hours, and when I’m not there, I may be hanging with some friends or playing D&D. In short, I log on to wow to raid,and then log off. Don’t even bother with the daily frosts for the most part, I really can’t stand heroics or most of the people in them. On occasion I’ll get a good group, but they seem to far in between for my liking.

We’ll see where things go from here. In good news I did get to see rotface die, and then die a 2nd time. Pray there is lots more where that came from in the comming weeks.

Alright so I fail.

To keep my blog updated. Its been a couple of weeks since I’ve done this thing and now my fiance is up and running her own. To be honest I should probably drag her over here and have her write on mine too, or make it a joint blog. Anyway, until I proposition that idea here is her blog: http://chimwolfeye.wordpress.com/.   But I digress on that point.

The other thing is I switched characters again. I guess maybe I wasn’t sick of my druid as much as I needed a break from raiding, or more specifically a break from Rotface. Which our Team 1 10 man group got down a week after I started hanging on my Death Knight. With me going back to Ellelia, I don’t know if I’ll refacelift the blog or not until I talk with my fiance about the joint idea. Of course she’ll probably read it here before I ever talk to her today, but eh.

So whats the reason for my emulation of John Kerry these past couple of weeks? Like, why did I decide that I didn’t want to raid as a tank? It’s mostly the RDF system. That and I feel like tanks have to trust others too much and I’m not that much into the whole trust thing. As a healer I feel as if I am in control, I own the group and their lives depend on me. Sure the tank holds aggro, but for me that didn’t feel like power as much as a shackle I had to contend with. Yea I like power, deal with it.

But along with my switch back to healer I find myself cheering on that rogue who pulls more mobs onto the tank when they have 50k health and are only pulling one group at a time in Utgarde Keep. I’ve also found myself just standin in the way of a lighting charged General in Halls of Lighting because the tank was backing up and didn’t seem to have faith that I could heal him (he got the Lighting Struck achievement!). These are things which before I was tank I would have never done, and as a tank I would be none too pleased with. To be fair in that HoL run after general the tank got a bit more confidant and did a few double pulls! Sometimes the tank just needs a swift kick to the behind to realize what they can do. Maybe its them being worried about their skill, or the skill of their healer, I know I’ve met many a ‘geared’ healer who couldn’t keep a def capped 30k health death knight tank up on the first boss of Drak Theron, but I am not one of those.

If a tank or a group makes me work for my frost badges or whatever I will love them forever. Swiching out and doing dps isn’t what I want to do to fill in the times when I’m not casting Rejuv on the tank, or throwing out a Wild Growth to the dps, I want to have to hit Natures Touch (hardly ever use it <.<) or pop my swiftmend then throw a nourish on you. I want to see my mana below 80% for longer than 2 seconds. Make me heal you, it’s why I’m in your group, and its why I qued up as a healer. Not to dps, and not to run jumping around the fight going on. So to all tanks on the Bloodlust battlegroup, here is your call to glory. If you get Ellelia in your group, pull moar! Pull even the groups that you think will kick you in the nuts. Pull more than you are comfortable with and make me heal you. Try to get yourself killed even. Yea wipes suck, but its more fun for me to have to franticly hit my swiftmend and try to keep you alive than it is to /sleep through the entire instance.

But enough of that. Odds are most tanks in my battlegroup will never read this blog, but if they do they have gotten the message. So my druid says “I’m back, baby.” while my death knight says “Oh hey, its hakkar!” (farm zg with him, good gold there). As for my priest? Well she’s holy/disc now. She’s a cool toon, eh heals tanks and dosn’t afraid of anything.

Also Divine Crusaders is still recruiting! We have most of our 25 man team filled but I’m sure the leaders wouldn’t mind if our guild could have a third 10 man team.  We also accept casual members. Guilds fun, you really should join. http://www.divinecrusaders.com/

Until the next time I kick myself to post, cheers!