So I should be qq’ing massively. As a resto druid with jewelcrafting as my profession, I got nerfed, nerfed, and then minorly nerfed again this patch. Not that the JC nerf is obvious until we start running around with lots of epic gems, but it’s the thought that enables the QQ, right? Ah well.
I’m not in a qq mood though. Haven’t been playing WoW super hardcore this week. We had to finish off NaNo last week and my novel isn’t complete yet. (Since it’s a fantasy epic, the 110,000 words I wrote in November are basically half the story. Yes, my blogging has been low this month because all my words are going elsewhere. Trust me, I made the right choice)
Still, what I’ve done so far has been awesome. The new five mans are super cool. My druid went through once to get my boots and a few VPs. I got my boots Thursday and when I did, made a comment about how Alysrazor had never ever dropped the leather int boots so of course she would now. Loved the five mans except the bit in Well of Eternity at the end when I was trying to turn in a quest to Illidan and he would not stop running around. Seriously, dude, get a Ritalin prescription or something. Ran the first two on Invariant and got her like 4 upgrades. She’ll be LFR ready in a couple days at this rate. The Murozond fight is amazingly cool.
Transmogged Analogue to a nice understated set. I didn’t screenshot it, but I know Repgrind did so the two of you who might care will see it later. I don’t actually like any druid tier except the Conqueror’s Nightsong Hood, which is the most awesome headpiece ever, so I’m sporting that. And probably always will. What doesn’t got with a glowing crescent moon headband?
Darkmoon Fair is cool! I’ll stick to doing that on my mage only. She collects pets, she’s my fisherman (and not maxed level so that fishing daily there is great!). The little minigames were awesome, except the shooting one. It’s hard enough to do as a gnome because you’re the same height as the counter and that’s before a Tauren on a Kodo parks on your head. Grr. The other games were great. Healers will own the Whack-a-gnoll!
And raid: Well. For about an hour Friday night things were looking really really bad, because an hour before raid time Rev and I had no internet. We troubleshot and determined the problem was on our internet provider’s end, and called them up, only to discover that they use their own phone service and so were completely down. Hmm. Well, we can always use guild chat to let the raid know we’re having trouble and to find another tank and heals, but since our disc priest lives in the same town as us and has the same isp, they’d probably be down two healers… which is not good.
Around raid time the internet started staggering to its feet, and after several dcs and much muttering, we were ready to go. This was going to be our one solid night this weekend; Saturday we were missing Kerick, Log, Grom, and Slice; I didn’t have a clue who I was going to get to tank for us. But that was tomorrow and this was now. I’d asked everyone to watch the first four fights and know what to do, so we went in and got started.
We one shot Morchok the Not Really A Raid Boss. I got to soak crystals, whee! Nice note to start the night. Went to the ping pong boss. Took a few tries – like, what, four? It really wasn’t bad. Then off to the oozes. We had the mechanics there right away, just had to learn how to handle various combos, and he went down too after a few tries.
Off to Hagara for some ice and lightning. I rather outdid myself with sucking on that fight. Our penultimate pull, I died twice. The final kill, I was dead… that time was just bad luck with getting bounced funny though. We did really awesome with the chain lightning bit. I thought that might take time to learn but we mastered it right away.
Right. So. Now it’s 9 pm, we have two hours left, and we’re standing around going “I dunno what do you wanna do?”
We ended up deciding on Firelands. We want to make Falahla’s staff still, and I don’t think we can ask people to commit to another night for Firelands clear, so we’ll just have to devote a couple hours every week to doing 6/7 in Firelands. It may slow our progression a bit but I am determined to make that staff! She’s on the final collect stage now.
We got half the firelands down, called raid, and went to bed. Came back Saturday, collected some guildies to fill our slots and went back to FL to finish the clear. We had one wipe on Alysrazor. And then she died and dropped my #$%&^#%$% boots. That are not as nice as the End Times quest boots. I hate you, loot gods.
We even made a few Rags attempts before calling Saturday early. Rev and I got to go watch a movie on a raid night! It felt like cheating or something.
Anyhow. TL:DR is that I love 4.3 so far, am slightly worried that the first four Dragon Soul bosses are undertuned, and my HPS have gone through the floor, but Kerick and Toxic can make up for me so I just need to get used to the new normal of me not owning meters.
Druid T8 is the most amazingest, in my opinion. I’m also wearing the helm and will wear it forevah ❤ I just wish I also had the chest + shoulders (10-man golden version), but my desire to run any retro raids is zero, as always.
And thanks for the notes on the raid difficulty. I'm in a pretty hardcore guild and I was thinking 'of course bosses are dying, we're in heroic gear!'. From what I'm reading… nope, they're just really, really easy. (Which is a boo – I want a challenge – and a yay – we can do an alt run for my friends who can't raid full time!.)
I had kept that helm in the bank, just because it was so awesome. I don’t keep much old gear, but that was one of the things I kept. Now I just need a staff so I can transmog back to Damnation. I love that staff…
Me too, the only things I have from Wrath are that helm and the T9 chest (boobs!). I ended up transmogging to a robe that drops from MgT in the end… and I’ll probably wear T13 because I think it looks cool. (Too bad we didn’t have transmogging back at the beginning of T12, because I think casters should never ever wear tunics…)
Just as a note: We aren’t heroic geared but we are a solid raid group. One of our raiders had been in a run in a different guild and they barely managed two bosses, so it does still take a decent group to make progress. Just not a whole lot of gear or anything. How badly are you feeling the WG nerf? I hate it…
Well, our run would be alts of raiders and my friends (who took a break before Rag due to a newborn baby), so we have the skill, but not the gear. My shaman can’t even get into LFR and I want to take her to Dragon Soul :-s
I don’t know about WG to be honest. I never really watched meters… last night, I never topped them, but I was anywhere between 2nd and 4th (out of 6 healers). It might just be the other healers slacking 😛 One of the reasons I miss 10-mans is that I could really feel *my* contribution, now I’m just random healer #3. I used the glyph, so my “internal” WG cooldown was off, but I was having bigger problems than that – i.e. OMG I don’t have enough burst to heal thisssss!!!
4.3 seems to be a very popular patch, which is a first, from what I can tell. For my part, I think the new dungeons are amazing, and the Raid Finder is the Best Thing Ever. I can actually raid relevant content, for the first time ever.
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I spent two hours desperately searching for my staff of twin worlds, only to find it at the top of Maeth’s bags. My favorite staff of all. Okay, except maybe for one of the bc pvp staffs… No longer available. So when do we all get to read the novel?
That one is pretty epic! If you’re thinking of the pink BC pvp staff that one was great, my mage has it.
You can read the novel in a year or three when I find a publisher. ;-p
Hey cool I can comment now! Whoohoo!
In hopes of reversing the slacking that’s been going on here for the last couple months, Gromaeth would love to see a post detailing Ana’s vuhdo set-up, spells and their use, and just everything in general about druid healing. Not very much i know, it might only take 2 or 3 minutes ;P