tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56023817946817274332011-07-31T05:34:20.654-05:00The rantings of a raiding hybrid class lover@valkyrierisenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11958181790385738245noreply@blogger.comBlogger411100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602381794681727433.post-9204151422885679852010-07-16T11:37:00.002-05:002010-07-16T11:55:22.799-05:00

Please visit me at my wordpress. @valkyrierisen.wordpress.comThanks!

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*The title for this post was inspired by the troll-lovers in my RP horde guild. An entire afternoon spent reading troll-flavored common has rotted my brain.**The renaming of this blog was approved by Bossy Pally herself. ***I think I've worked the kinks out of the feed above with loot/achievement junk. LOOK FACEROLLER YESSSSSSS (I will never have that on my druid it seems).If I were to pick

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Last night I was asked to come fill in as a third healer in a ten man ICC. I realised I really need to heal more. I know the barest basics but have no concept of mana management (wtf I thought paladins didn't need to do that), working with other healers (this will be solved by, gasp, raiding with my paladin's new guild more) and just a better flow/understanding of my skills, and where I should

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Wynsmea paused at the edge of the rough camp beside the ancient elven road. This part of Kalimdor was different from some of the other places she'd been. It felt open like the Barrens, but the mountains and the trees spoke of Time, ancient Time, and still seemed to reverberate with a heavy and thick magic. "What could this empty and ancient place hold to fascinate a mage like him?" she

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This weekend I relaxed and didn't run myself ragged through raids. This led to discovering that, lo and behold, Maraudon can indeed be fun! Sunday I logged onto warcraft (having partied plenty on Saturday in honor of Green Beer everywhere) and tossed a coin to see if I did my first random as a lowbie 50 mage or chained through my heroic random grind. Me and my level buddy's 50 warrior decided

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WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING MOUNTS!A month or so ago I finally got my druid a flying mount. No one else in a heroic Culling of Stratholme run needed the drake, so SNAG it was mine. Cool. Never really intend to use it, but whatever. So, not surprising that the pretty mount rewards have meant jack to me, eh? However, every stinking time I get Arthas-be-damned heroic Oculus when I'm doing my daily

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Blogs you should check out this week: Blessing of Kings covers a Paladin tanking spec, and I give it my approval. I still prefer Divinity in my prot tree, and see Pursuit of Justice as laughingly silly, so never get it. But that's just me. Seal of Command is GOOD. I loves it. Especially on big pulls. :) UK, UP, CoS. Yum.Falling Leaves and Wings covers Quartz Procs, a module for my

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Zalam Njord'il is a blood elf paladin, specializing in holy healing but more than capable of donning tough armor and tanking one or several enemies on the battlefield. Her endurance and analytical skill suit both roles admirably. Sefalir's story begins as merely a blood elf civilian living her life in Silvermoon City, daughter to an apothecary and mage, minor members of a noble family that

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Over time I believe I've mentioned that I'm not a very reactive healer, not really, anyways. I love to pug, and I love to heal on each of my healers, but my skill at healing is highly based on my raid leading and tanking experience. I heal based on my judgement of the incoming damage. But that judgement is based on my knowledge of the tank. Not really his class, though that comes into it

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What do you do to stack your group/raid's deck? I guess this could mean classes, but really I'm wondering what you do when you put the groups together.Me, I don't start invites until I have the tanks and heals covered, minimum. There's no point in getting people's hopes up without those key roles, and the impatience factor can seriously hurt anything happening without them! For tens, I keep

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Yesterday after running my daily random heroic on my horde paladin, I was killing time doing stuff and saw a group desperate for one more healer for ICC10. It sort of killed me. When does healing experience and raiding experience makes up for a lack of actual hands-on-practice? I'm sure this is a quandary many altitis sufferers deal with.She'd have been third healer, but a tank healer. She's

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Reputation is a joke on my alts, but on my oldest toon, my main, my lovely druid, I really want to get her rep up. I freaking crave the Guardian of Cenarius title. But.... sadly I'm lazy. Too lazy with too many 80s to do randoms on to sit and grind annoying rep. So what are my rep goals with her?Argent Dawn to exalted. No I will not get the other Argent rep. I've done like 3 dailies at the

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I've managed to heal through ten man ICC up through Saurfang on my discipline priest, my resto druid and my resto shaman. I also heal 25 man ICC on the druid. It's been... interesting. And a school of hard knocks. Here's what has been going through my mind when facing this huge payload of damage I have to help heal.My main is the druid, and I've done far more 25s with her than 10s, I've also

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The rantings of the pro/anti Oculus arguments are getting on my nerves. In a big way. I'm stubborn enough that the more crap they try to drop in my lap, and the more furious some people get that I don't like the instance and I won't run it if it pops in random LFG (so sorry but those other 4 aren't paying my monthly subscription) the more irate I get and closer to telling people to jump off a

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Happy to say that over two nights, my 25man raiding guild managed to kill 3/4 bosses in ICC. It was a painful adventure. Yay! Now on to the negatives...As a healer we saw our healing corps go from 5 in TOC to 7 in ICC. The sad thing with this is... the guild has overinflated opinions of us healers. D: There was griping that we were wasting at least one dps slot on a healer. Even though we

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My paladin alt is on the verge of entering that frozen land in the great north of Azeroth. I finally gathered up the gold to get dual spec, and have to actually consider my talents for holy, as well as reconsider my erstwhile levelling prot-ish sort-of talents. My group mates trust me to hold aggro but I'm not a very professional paladin tank, that's for sure! I had to beat my mage buddy into

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Silvery moon, washed in blood, Led astray into the night, armed with the sword of broken Light.Broken, then betrayed by one, standing there bestride the sun. At darkest hour, redemption comes, in knightly lady sworn to blood.Prophet Velen

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A hesitant hand carefully holding a fragile ink tipped metal nub slowly crossed a blank page...I remember nothing of the darkness. Nothing. I was called Sefalira and I danced, and sang, and drank. Everything was dust, and nothing mattered. I was empty and hollow and it's a miracle I didn't die. I'm not sure how I did not, other than the rest of those struggling to survive wouldn't dare to

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I really love the twins fight. When I manage to stay alive.

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Sometimes I get myself an invite to my guild's ten man heroic team. We have a good set up, with 3 healers: my druid, @xparanormalityx's resto/elemental shaman, and a disc priest. Our tanks always included one paladin, the guild's MT, and then some trusted OTs. Last night's was fantastic. Last week we got to Anub but just didn't have the dps needed to get into phase three. Well this week we

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Let's set the scene.This week I was handed a very forceful, er, painful reminder of why I stopped tanking and that aside from heroics I should probably continue to avoid it. I tried to jump into a 25m pug for ToC that sort of fell apart and turned into two 10mans. They needed a tank. So instead of trying to get gear on my priest, I ended up bear tanking. Painful lessons, I tell you!Aside from

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What is the name, class, and spec of your primary healer? Oh hell. Primary? Uhm. I can't pick. LheafZarixaanuValkureWhat is your primary group healing environment? I'm a pugger and a raider. I find myself in 10s and 25s way more than heroics, though.What is your favorite healing spell for your class and why? My favorite healing spells are, in this order, Chain Heal, Rejuvenation, and Prayer of

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@Arcania was talking about RP on twitter today (as she usually does because she's awesome at it) and it got me thinking why I don't roleplay more on my toons. I come from a free-form roleplay world, pure fantasy, where really anything could go. After that, roleplaying in a world with so much lore and history leaves me feeling so challenged I avoid it. So, I need to come up with some phrases and

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I finally took the plunge and put my druid into a progression based raiding guild. I feel guilty on multiple levels. I was first asked to tank with my druid for these guys almost six months ago, during a rough time with her first guild, the one she raided with in TBC, and I was working on my shaman and had almost totally given up on doing anything with the druid. I should have joined them then

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Damn you, Blizzard, for creating party-only buffs!If you don't play a shaman, or a select few other classes (maybe?), or try to compose a raid, you may not be aware that Blizzard did NOT make all buffs raid wide. But it is true.Healing Stream totem, for a glyphed shaman, can pack a pretty heavy punch of healing when used appropriately (18-25%). So at times I have to nag my raid leaders to move

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The other night I spectacularly failed at offtanking Ignis (well his adds). I couldn't figure out the best spot for the camera that I could see both zones where adds spawned from, and my frame rate per second dropped to 2. TWO. If I was lucky. I was too stressed to be staring at that little number most of the time.So, I am taking a look at my addon folder. The main tank thinks I have too many

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The question I pose is this: Any help on what to do with 2 pally healers and 3 tanks? And, should multiple holy pallys use the same judgement? We had 3 holy pallys, zero ret and prots. For the full story, read on.Last night was a nasty night of wiping on Ignis. It's not a hard fight, it's just very chaotic with a LOT of things going on, and very healing intensive because of the constant raid

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WowGrrl asked why we raid?I love teamwork. I lack the epeen to try and top numbers anywhere, whether it was tanking (look I can keep them ALL on me!), dpsing (I rolled a shadowpriest in The Burning Crusade for heaven's sake) or healing (hello, Discipline Priest here). I am in raids because I get a vicarious thrill in killing the monsters, in working with others (sometimes total unknowns, since

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Maybe. You decide. I like it. My flickr set of screenshotsThe "focus" would be above my target (on the right side) Here you don't see the rising list of buffs I add to a target (using Quartz)

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I finally got my act together, and stumbled upon a great UI in the comments of Big Bear Butt's latest post about a screwy addon happenstance. It is Blacksen's UI, and while sure I pillaged it and tossed out a lot of the heavy memory hogs, I loved the basic pitbull setup and the general look of it.So, here we have it. This is from our guild meeting. Notice the raid down the left? My tip tac

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Noth25, Oh I hate him.  And that was after Military Thaddius25 mini-bosses, where a mage got tossed instead of me, leading to a wipe.  On Noth, it was literally impossible to hold Noth off of the three 3 enhancement shamans, the boomkin, and the mages.  W.T.F.  Am I that bad?  From what I read I didn't think bear threat mechanics were that sucky.  But I woulda given an organ if I could get the

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Just found Lyra at Healing Way thanks to a Wow Insider article.  Was added to my google reader right away, and I found an excellent article on the mess that the Blizzard devs have made of the Blessing of Wisdom vs. Mana Spring Totem debacle.Great read!  In fact hopefully its in the right list of shaman articles to read...Now, I need to write a post about arranging groups, which many many MANY

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So I am quite happy being a feral mostly-tank flower and elixir farming druid. I don't have grand plans for her at all, even though she was my main in TBC. I have no idea what to do with the dual spec system for her.Maybe I'll finally get into pvp and spec appropriately. I was planning on setting up a resto spec but with the lifebloom nerf, even though I'm not a micromanaging lifebloom roller

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My blood elf paladin (omg another hybrid!) has been level 10 for a year now.  Crazy, eh?  So, needless to say I don't have awesome rep with any horde players on my server.  I loved to world pvp (I still want my darn talbuk on my druid) and never hesitate to defend a city.  But while leveling my toons, I've always managed to get along peacefully with hordelings.  Case in point: Yesterday.I've

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Her article "Shifting Perspectives: Tanks, "Wrath," and crushing blows" is simply fantastic.It's depressing to be nerfed, and still more depressing that it seems to be happening little by little and patch after patch, but it is also the correct approach.Our health is being nerfed in 3.1, the scaling of said health is being nerfed, on top of yet another armor nerf whose compensatory mechanic (

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So Fel Fire's latest post, and really the entire clique series, feels very applicable to my current guild.  What's a day in guild on the 80 (that's still in the guild) without some QQ, no?I wanted three more valorous tokens.  Then I could break my awesomely sexy outfit of blue and gold to get my tier shoulders.  I poked around all day Sunday and no one put it together.  We just didn't have the

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Reading my google reader at lunch today I saw this excellent blog post and decided to jump on it.  Do you notice any trends in what gender fills what role while playing (healer, dps, tank, etc.)? Who talks more in Guild Chat or Vent? Who brings up what subjects? How is loot distribution handled? Are there favorites? Problems with gender? What about gender and sexuality differences? Unfair

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I play some hybrid classes, yep.  But I'm pretty inflexible on the druid.  With her I will dps or tank, and courtesy of The Burning Crusade still cluttering up my brain I'm a much less confident tank than I should be, so I seek off-tank positions in 10 man pugs.  The other night in a heroic Naxx pug fully raid buffed she hit 38k health.  Can I just "AWESOME!"  Yeah I loved it.  But boomkin is a

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Kalon stirred up lots of feelings with his "druids are op" post.  I read it with a mixture of sick fascination and horror combined with blankly nodding, as it's all stuff I've heard from my former guild's other bears.The entire druid tanking experience is so subjective, reading opinions like those shared by Kalon or B^4 or Karthis or Currant or Jac makes my head spin.  In my (former) raiding

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So I've set up shop here to blog about the fun times to be had in World of Warcraft (Wrath of the Lich King).  You may want to know a little bit about me, perhaps? I'm an alliance addict. I can't help it. My main is Valkure, draenai shaman, my previous main and new alt is Lheaf, druid, and my extra alt-distraction is Zarixaanu, draenai priest. I do own a horde blood elf paladin but she's been

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