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e for the dispelling the ice related debuffs from the nagas i get it in the 30s i think so i have to get used to not having it for a while in fact the run was noticeable in that i don t think the tank s bar dipped below 50 more than once or twice until the final fights i didn t want to spam heal so i typically waited until his health dropped enough that flash of light would have a full impact we also had some dps that wanted to pretend they were the tank and pulled some of the trash and i was surprised that the tank didn t call them out on it if i wasn t constantly watching the bars i d have said something but really the group could handle it that last boss fight with the twilight s hammer character that was rough not him per se but the trash that flew to us after the fight ended a portion of them aggroed on me and i was frozen in ice so i couldn t run to the tank hand of salvation didn t do diddly either so i used lay on hands on myself and hand of the naaru on the tank and hoped that when i freed up i wasn t watching a full party wipe in action after that initial onslaught things settled down and we survived after the instance was over the shaman told me he healed a bit in that last fight normally i wouldn t have cared i do that from time to time on northrend 5 mans but for some reason that kind of irked me the entire run was pretty much a non event until the final fight and while it may not have been his intention his comment came across with an i told you so attitude perhaps it s my stubbornness in wanting to be perfect on my first healing stint last fall i used to take it as a blow to personal pride if the party wiped on my account and i thought i did a decent enough job for the run oh well a few things i learned tanks can get lost the tank in bd got lost after the initial pulls where do i go now he asked this is so not inspiring one of the dps said for a world tree teldrassil has a lot of smaller ones on top i can get used to the female night elves the males still don t look right but the females are slowly growing on me i haven t seen a warlock since the glimmer twins in the deadmines and i like it like that while i was waiting at the dock in teldrassil i was parked next to a tauren dk the boat arrived we got on the alliance people getting off razzed him a bit stupid horde as if he could read it but the whole thing was amusing to me when i got the explorer achievement it was on a pvp server and i wouldn t have been caught dead doing what the tauren did oh did you know that tyrannus has a bug apparently if you start the fight before he does the entire last boss fight tries to reset itself what eventually happens is that things go haywire and you have to leave the instance i found that out this morning much to my dismay posted by redbeard at 6 56 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels alliance healers pugs tuesday june 8 2010 everything i need to know i learned in pugs this list was inspired by my daily run this morning when i was ported smack dab into the middle of the garfrost fight in pit of saron one moment i d landed on a mountainside away from any mobs in icecrown and the next i m seeing the saronite rock on you move on screen that was not an inspiring feeling that went through my system let me tell you don t be a jerk you d think this goes without saying golden rule and all that but i never cease to be amazed at the number of pure idiots out there who think they can get away with bad behavior the anonymity that they feel they get in a cross battlegroup pug works both ways pal and the kick option is a powerful one expect the unexpected just when you ve got everything down to a science karma has a way of throwing you a curveball like a disconnect in the middle of a boss fight or the healer going down when you least expect it in other words don t assume things will always go the way you think they will plan for a rainy day don t forget proper nourishment sure you can slog through for a while without stopping to eat or drink if you re overpowered for a 5 man run but that won t work if you re level appropriate for the instance eventually it catches up to you and you ll fail the team at a critical point remember to share if you can bring something to the fight that will help a run a fish feast a felstone etc sharing that skill will help the entire group if you don t know ask it goes without saying that a good sized portion of the wipes i ve been part of are due to someone not knowing what to do if the person involved and yes i include myself in this had only asked beforehand we wouldn t have gone through the wipe and run back bluffing your way through an instance only works when you are so overpowered you can solo it and even then you still can mess up if you want friends be a friend i know that in the age of the lfd tool you can get away with not having to pester guildies or people from your friends list to join a run and you just know the raid version of the lfd tool is coming but wow is a social game yes you can play it solo and yes i do all my questing solo but you can t really hide from everybody else in the game i know that people randomly asking you to duel or join a guild is annoying but if someone asks for help why not help out that way when you need help others can assist you as well that includes pug runs when someone asks if they can work on an achievement or for the group to not skip any bosses feel free to add to the list oh and that pit of saron run apparently the pally dps dropped group right at the beginning of the garfrost fight but they got me quickly enough that we survived the fight we had one wipe on the trash right before the tunnel but after the runback we refocused and made it through posted by redbeard at 10 10 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels pugs the wow life saturday june 5 2010 duelling crusaders i m lousy at duels i tend to think in terms of pve not pvp and duels especially spur of the moment ones emphasize that i think the first duel i ever accepted i ended up running away from because the warrior involved was absolutely crushing me i now realize he probably had heirloom gear but still i m one of those people who motor through the front gates of orgrimmar so i don t have some enterprising young whelp challenging me so it was with some trepidation this morning that i was doing my argent crusade dailies and i received a challenge from a tauren warrior while in the valiants ring my mouse cursor hovered over the decline option of a good five seconds or so but i had second thoughts oh why the hell not i thought we re both mounted and technically pretty equal we started out the duel matched evenly both of us with our shields up and on full and exchanging equal blows i was thinking that he hit me first so if it came down to a complete war of attrition i would have to do something to sneak ahead of this guy from experience i knew the first one who broke would be at a disadvantage but i didn t know what else to do then all of a sudden i started watching the tauren s lifebar plummeting toward zero he d forgotten to keep up his shields he panicked and tried to run and i was able to run him down and get a good joust in before the fight ended yay me winner by tko i hung around to finish up my daily and the tauren reappeared give a guy an achievement he whispered to me oh hell i was feeling generous particularly so since i d not actually won a duel before i became a sacrificial lamb left my mount s damage in place without healing it and just let him beat me to be honest that wasn t that hard of a thing to do since i m not the greatest mounted jouster either feeling pleased with having done a good deed for the day i went back to grinding some quests in stonetalon i pulled into the horde outpost there and while i was catching my bearings the magical duelling flag popped down you have got to be kidding me i hovered over the shaman and discovered she was l31 apparently she must have discovered my level at exactly the same time because she scooted away as quickly as possible sometimes it s good to be the 80 in a low level area eta oh and i almost forgot i finally got that azure whelp pet to drop in azshara time to go buy a lottery ticket posted by redbeard at 5 47 pm 18 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels pvp the wow life friday june 4 2010 which way to the deadmines tomakan dinged 20 last week acquiring flash of light in the process i d promised myself that once he got fol i would be ready to try my hand at healing pugs i also promised myself i d ease back into this by getting ragefire chasm first for a horde player ragefire is the first instance you go through although wailing caverns is a close second for me ragefire typically wins out because it s so easy to get to there s no just how do i get there moments while trying to traverse the hills in the barrens alliance players take note ragefire is smack dab in the middle of org you see a path heading down you take it you also don t have a 8 10 deep quest chain that takes you into ragefire either you can pick up a one off quest in the undercity or if you go about 4 5 quests into a chain started by thrall you have your excuse as well so i dialed up ragefire before it disappeared from my radar and away i went i m used to queuing as dps but instant gratification has it s advantages too i was admittedly overpowered for ragefire but i was perfectly fine with that this was the perfect intro for me since the last time i tried healing any instance was that ill fated trial of the champion with four or more wipes on confessor paletress without so much as denting her armor before i dropped healing for good ragefire went as smooth as possible the pulls were one at a time flash of light was my mainstay and i hardly had to drink at all the tank told us to yell at him if he got lost but i didn t need to say anything for the first time in ragefire in a group and not as a loot monkey the instance was as easy as pie i breathed easier knowing that i could handle this thus emboldened i just decided to let er rip on the lfd tool an unfamiliar instance picture popped up on my screen okay i thought deadmines or stockade which is it it was deadmines before i even got my hello out of the way i confessed this was my first time through deadmines i typically play horde so this one is new to me not a problem the tank said this is my favorite instance i play horde too one of the two gnome warlocks said this is only my second alliance character note to souldat you were wondering about the friendliness of the alliance side it s the battlegroup i guess the others we ve been on are more cutthroat we started in through the deadmines and i have one thing i m grateful for there s a single path through the instance no multipath instances like halls of stone here however that first set of trash set my teeth on edge one after the other after the other i had to keep judging wisdom on the first trash pulls just to keep my mana up once the room was clear only then could i drink this was more like what i was used to the watcher sequence in a n but quicker after that first room things got easier i settled into a pattern judging wisdom once the tank had aggro to keep my mana up and using fol on everyone who needed it when someone dropped around 50 i brought out holy light i d made a point of picking up the holy light glyph so the extra spam heal it gave was a godsend i pulled aggro by healing more often than i preferred but the tank was typically able to yank it back however things weren t all sweetness and light with not one but two gnome warlocks i kept having to heal them because they d use me as their gas tank when they swapped health for mana yes i know that s a class perk for warlocks but i m a holy spec paladin healer my specialty is in healing tanks not every single caster who decides i m his meal ticket and doesn t have to stop and drink i don t have aoe heals yet the locks also ran oom frequently during a fight and i made a point of laying down consecration when my mana pool could swing it so we weren t down to one dps on those longer fights we survived fairly well until we got to the bottom of the spiral slope before you get to the boat areas we not only had the regular trash mobs but the overseer mob as well and i could see things were pretty bad i kept up spamming the tank with everything including the kitchen sink gift of the naaru but it was just too much the tank bit it and i did shortly thereafter you want to know who survived the gnomes naturally anyway i discovered the joys of running back to get to the deadmines where the hell is the entrance i asked frustrated it s in the barn the tank told me go upstairs and head down into the mines i went to the barn looked pretty open to me only one floor too oh he meant that barn over there i followed his instructions and found myself in the caverns before you get into the deadmines naturally the entrance to a set of mines is in the second floor of a barn i then got lost in the caverns before the instance entrance itself this is worse than uldaman i said no uldaman is still worse finally after about 10 minutes trying to find the darn place i got back inside and we hooked up with the rest of the group in the intervening time the most annoying of the two locks split so my life was instantly made easier we then proceeded through the instance wiping only on the plank heading to the top of the ship the comedy of errors continued on the runback not because i didn t know the way but because the hunter and then the tank kept wiping on respawning trash thus necessitating further runbacks we lost and gained several dps in the process one at least asking why i couldn t rez the tank he already released oh the van cleef fight was almost anti climatic at that point so what did i learn that blizz figured out how to make instances easier to find by the time the two expansions hit low level warlocks can be just as annoying as their high level boomkin counterparts that i see a male night elf and the first thing that pops into my head is where s the weed man that the entrance to a major mining and processing operation is through the second floor of an abandoned barn the icc 5 man instances are nice and straightforward compared to this i m going to need more mana potions if i m going to do this oh yeah one more thing that i can heal instances posted by redbeard at 8 47 am 11 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels healers pugs wednesday june 2 2010 530 levels so seeing as we ve been doing the what have you been up to posts here s mine i ve pretty much stopped playing my dk raider except when he s needed by the guild for a random dungeon run or needing a raid slot filled on the regular saturday sunday nights i still like death knights but 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