Hmm okay, so I've been slacking on this pretty much since I started it. If you know me, this won't be a massive surprise!
WoW: My focus has shifted quite a bit in WoW with the advent of Ulduar. My main character, Veritam has effectively been shut out of raids by the raid leader (mainly not being told when raids are happening, raids being run on the ONE day a week I can't be online) and rather than being an *expletive deleted* to the person who filled my place on the day(s) I missed, I've not stepped in and pushed them out.
Of course, this means I've missed out on a lot of progression and gear but since being refused a place in Suffragium because none of the high end raiding guilds rate paladin tanks I've been caring less and less.... which leads me onto my focus shift.
I have another level 80 character, Bandrosh. Same server, same side. Up until the stitch job on my raiding, he was just a fun-to-play-when-I'm-bored character. Now as far as I'm concerned, he's my main. I've moved Bandrosh out of United Exiles and joined the guild that a really good friend of mine is in, Sword of Serenity.
Hmmm a few differences in the guilds. UE has been going for quite a long time and only invites 80s and allows one alt. SoS has been running about 2 months and allows anyone to join (in my view a far more sensible recruitment routine: it allows you to see people playing through the levels and gives a better sense of community). UE has completed all pre-ulduar content both 10 and 25 man. SoS is still struggling to complete 10 man naxxramas.
So, this has created an opportunity for me. Bandrosh dinged 80 only about 2 months ago and has already fluked some great gear. He's not completed naxx on 10 or 25, but I managed to dps my way into the uber books in VOA 25 on saturday, downing the new boss, Emalon the Stone watcher for the first time on either of my main characters!! I got some VERY nice PVP boots which were actually better than my PVE ones, so they're now my both-spec boots til I get better. He's got an average gear level in excess of 200, bearing in mind that in the 6+ months I've been in UE with Veritam, he only has an average gear level of 210ish raiding every week two-3 full raids.
I've joined SoS as a healer. I'm fine with that as I love to heal and quite frankly am very good at it. I'm outhealing all the other healers currently in the guild and have succeeded in passing on my fairly extensive knowledge of tactics for several bosses they hadn't managed to complete until my arrival (not blowing my own horn, they just didn't have the healing to get through some of the hardcore fights and are all very new to raiding so don't have the gear).
So far, we've now completed: The spider wing - which they'd already managed without me; The Construct wing - they'd managed Patchwerk, but no further. We've now cleared the other 3 bosses in only my second week in the guild, including the problem child that is THADDIUS... The Plague wing - I'm not sure that they'd done any of this, but may have done Noth the Plaguebringer once before. We blitzed our way through him with some very nice tanking and then moved onto everyone's favourite dancing partner, Heigan the Unclean. For those of you that don't know, Heigan is a stupidity/lag check. The fight itself is mostly controlled by the healers and disease cleansers. The bit that counts is phase 2, where Heigan teleports to a platform the ranged had all been standing on and then "THE SAFETY DANCE" begins. This is a really good picture of partway through the dance http://web.pdx.edu/%7Ejesset/Strat%20Pics/HeiganTran3.JPG the green stuff (Spooge as I like to call it!) moves across 4 zones on the floor forward and back for about 30 seconds and does nasty damage. If you're caught in it, you're either a retard or have lag (or to be fair to newbies, have never done it before - this reason becomes "retard" after your first 2 attempts). We passed Heigan, unbelieveably on only our 3rd try and then onto the last boss of the zone, Loatheb (which knowing the tactics is understandably an anagram of "Healbot", the most famous healing addon for WoW). Loatheb is a healing race, only being able to heal for 3 seconds in 20, while the raid is taking periodic damage. Nasty. Anyway, 2 priests healing Loatheb=WIN. 1st time there, 1 time killed!!
So far, we've not taken on the military wing, but I believe we're gonna have a crack at it after Sartharion and VOA tonight. If I'm not too lazy or busy tomorrow, I'll update on how it goes.
Hmm got a little caught up in my Naxx fighting there. Back to the point.... yes, I'm a damn good healer, but I've also now found that with a very nice Shadow spec and some half decent gear, I'm also a pretty good dps too! The highest dps in naxx 10 last week was about 2500 overall (for all fights together). In VOA 25, I got to go shadow... and did 3100. Now to be fair, there's only about 6 mobs in the entire place plus 2 boss fights. But still.... I love it!!!
Right, time for me to have a break so I'm gonna sign off for the day. Update "soon" =P
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