I’m back! I realize I didn’t actually mention that I was going on a two week business trip and our blogging would be a bit scarce, but it’s true. I logged onto WoW a few times while I was gone but my setup was terrible, the internet was weak, and I just wasn’t feeling it. I missed three full weekends of raiding!
Got back late Saturday night, Sunday I logged in and decided to finish leveling my paladin, Divergent. I couldn’t remember how far I had to go – so I was pleasantly surprised to see she had two bars to fill. Six quests later, she was 85.
I flew back to Stormwind, dropped my ret spec, and respecced both my Holy and my Prot specs since I probably screwed up some of my Holy talents on the way up. Then I went through my gear… Divergent’s tank gear is nonexistent, she doesn’t even have a shield and weapon. Well, she does; for her Holy set. Not exactly optimal. But her Holy set isn’t bad. Most of it was 333, a few weak slots here and there but not too bad. I only had to wear two pvp pieces to meet the minimum level requirement for heroics. And I thought briefly about running normals but – I was pretty sure with Reversion tanking for me I could manage. He decided to pull out his gnome warrior. Now the warrior is not as well geared as his two bear tanks but she’s respectably outfitted for heroics. And she’s a blacksmith who can make me gear with Chaos orbs. I thought about all the lovely plate in SFK and decided we’d queue for that. I asked in guild if anyone wanted to come and one guildie did, if we didn’t mind him rolling on plate. I warned him I would be rolling against him on tank gear and he was fine with that. So I was happy with how we’d stacked the deck.
Our random people were a mage and a hunter. Great, I love mage cookies. We started and had some roughness as I remembered how to heal on a paladin. Got to the first boss and I honestly wasn’t prepared for how fast the dps were killing him and didn’t have people really healed at the point where he goes Dark Archangel. Which resulted in, I think 2 of the 3 dps dying. But we downed him, I rezzed, and we went on.
Next boss, we get there, we’re killing trash, and we aggro him and wipe. Oops. Run back, do it right, he dies. Up the stairs to Commander Springvale who we haven’t killed since they changed it so you can’t kite him away from his adds. We decide to give it a try, and he dies. Again I lose some of the dps. I really am a little weak as far as gear goes. If I weren’t really good at healing this would be impossible. And my mana pool is terribly small. If I’m not in melee range smacking the boss for regen, I run out fasst. Fortunately the awesome dps levels are making all the fights quite short.
I was still occasionally letting a dps, or myself, die, which was annoying but seemed reasonable. The hunter kept pulling aggro; he was doing about 12k and Reversion’s warrior was doing 5.5k and the hunter wasn’t using Misdirect or Feign Death. So my heart wept, really it did, when he died occasionally.
We get to the end boss and wipe. I just wasn’t able to get Reversion healed up fast enough. We go again, and our dk died really fast and we don’t have the dps to kill him before I’m out of mana. One more time, and this time I pop my cool downs one after another. A druid healer who plays another class of healer usually has great reflexes, good triage skills, and weak cooldown usage. Druids just don’t have cooldowns like priests and pallies do. I don’t even know which ones to use together, which to use separately… I’ll have to do some real research.
But at last, the boss dies, the instance is done, and I’m ready to check out. We’re saying the usual “thanks for the run” politeness, and then this:
This guy has said…. nothing, the whole run. Now when we’re safely done and can’t kick him, he feels like he should open up and tell us what for.
Two months back an SFK run with only three wipes would have been a great run. Now apparently it’s a “you suck”. No allowance for poor gear – I had mentioned my mana pool being small and why, earlier in the run, so yes, he knew I was under geared.
He made me laugh! I thought it was great. He clearly knows nothing at all about tanking and healing if he could say that. And he couldn’t even play his own class right; his dps might have been good but he didn’t, as I said before, use Misdirect; when we were doing the boss with the adds, he trapped the first one and then ignored traps like they were a plague; and at least once he had to rez his pet mid fight because he’d forgotten until then.
Ah yes. Welcome back to WoW, Analogue. Hope you missed it!
Welcome back!
Your hunter made me really laugh – after all, such an obviously skilled player probably is on the top 10 world wide WoW player list, belongs to a guild like Paragon and has sponsors beating down his door…..
Oh…wait a minute…
1. He’s not on the top 10 WoW player list?
2. His guild hasn’t cleared all new content yet?
3. No sponsors?
Sorry Mr. Hunter (and all other “expert” puggies out there). If you can’t answer 1, 2 and 3 then maybe you need to “L2P” before telling other players what to do
Zing! Wow, I knew I liked you.
I swear that people should be required to level a tank or healer before any DPS.
sigh….got to love people who like to open mouth insert foot.
but WB!
And of course he was a hunter… who never used misdirect or FD. And he was doing 15k dps against an under geared tank so yeah, he pulled off me sometimes. I wonder sometimes do some hunters never once stop to think, “huh… Bliz gave me those abilities to dump or redirect agro…. I guess they must have designed my class to accidently pull agro a lot… I wonder if maybe it is MY fault when I pull off a tank if I am not using those abilites.”
Nah, that requires thinking.
Geez, you guys should’ve hollered, I would have come along. Assuming it wasn’t during the two hour grocery shopping trip.
And welcome back! And grats on 85!
It was during your offline period, presumably while you were at the store. Not that that stops SOME people ;-p
Ah. Well … Moe’s > SFK
Oh, and I didn’t say ‘omg log on right now for a heroic!!!’ … I called over an hour before raid time.
A couple weeks ago I was queuing for Heroics on my (barely Heroic-eligible) Hunter and ended up in a GB group that was working on the trash after Throngus. It was comprised of people who were clearly very well raid-geared. They probably didn’t need a 3rd DPS at all.
When we got to Erudax, the tank starts throwing out some instructions and assignments. I was last and all he had for me was, “Hunter, don’t suck.”
I was a little tweaked for just a moment, then I shook my head and responded, “too late.”
This made me smile.
We were so happy as a guild the first time we were able to clear heroic Grim Batol that we took a screenshot of Erudax as though he were a raid boss. Heroic Deadmines, the first two times we went, we were executing perfectly on Ripsnarl but were forced to admit we simply weren’t geared enough to kill him- not enough survivability on the tank, not enough mana for the healer, not enough burst on the DPS to kill the vapors.
It amazes me how quickly people have forgotten that these heroics simply are not trivial and gear matters.