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s doing and hadn t looked into the fights at all yor sahj the faceless boss who summons slimes was actually the sticking point as a pug the other bosses it s very clear what to do shoot the boss don t stand in bad group up with everyone else when you see people clumping there were a couple people who already knew the fight and made callouts in chat when needed and the fights weren t complicated enough to require more than a little nudging for everyone to get the message but yor sahj featured the ever popular problem of people dps ing the boss instead of the slime adds we wiped three times and each time loss some people fortunately the raid finder found replacements quickly i think the 25 man formula was a good choice as there was none of the waiting i d normally associate with a 5 man though we lost a tank a new one appeared immediately and by the fourth attempt people finally got it into their heads to kill the adds and we one shotted the fourth boss with only two deaths due to ice wall failure i m not sure what it is about the hagara fight since it didn t particularly strike me as very paladin friendly with all the running in circles chaining lightning or avoiding moving ice walls but i had my best healing performance in that fight versus the other healers no healing assignments were given so it was really a free for all which makes me wonder what it s going to be like healing ultraxion this week since the second wing is opening up posted by hana at 1 52 pm 0 comments labels misc tuesday november 22 2011 skywall now accepting new players i ve dropped off the blogosphere a bit between raiding a wedding two conventions and now nanowrimo but i m still around for all of my time on wow skywall has always been my main server i knew the names of the vanilla guilds the names of the top raiders i knew who the pvp enthusiasts were on both sides of the faction divide and i remember laughing at some of the forum jokes like how members of the sacred samophlange had managed to get eringobragh s name into the urban dictionary with an entirely inappropriate definition i ve certainly made enough alts on other servers mostly to play with friends and i ve gotten a feel for some of them but i ve always come back to skywall the funny thing about being on the same server so long is knowing the history of how one guild rose from the ashes of another or who went where and why skywall has been a medium population server since late vanilla there was a brief period when it was high and we even had queues to come on but then arathor opened up and a lot of people transferred there including the alliance guild i played in with my coworkers server technologies improved and we went back to medium pop at the end of wrath of the lich king we had at least five or six strong 25 man guilds on alliance and perhaps four on horde horde has always been weaker on skywall but when cata launched the 25 mans started dropping with many reducing to 10 man during tier 11 content not all of them voluntarily then disconnected broke up driven to conquer broke up language barrier and sanguine curse couldn t managed the numbers and by firelands had either dropped so low on the radar as to be invisible or vanished and i know these guild names won t mean anything to 99 of the people who read this and if they had gradually vanished it wouldn t mean as much to me either but before i realized it something was happening it was when osmosis began struggling that it really hit me osmosis had long been one of the premier guilds on skywall and been undisputedly the best on horde since tbc i don t pretend to know all the details and osmosis still exists as of this writing but they lost a lot of players one of those who server transferred was a guy i d known since vanilla osmo the last of our progression 25 man guilds did their last progression kill on 10 man skywall still has one 25 man guild on alliance choice and one on horde tortured so that kind of raiding still goes on for those who like it and can make the time slot but they aren t the bleeding edge that disconnected or osmosis or dtc was progression on skywall is now in the hands of 10 mans guilds and while i like my 10 mans very much i am very sad for those who want the bigger raids who want to work the edge and can no longer find that outlet i don t remember the exact words used but i remember the guild leader of osmosis venting on the forums at the end of wrath about the equal loot for 10s and 25s he loves the 25 man format he hates 10s and he was afraid of what the change would do to recruitment why aren t there more 25 man guilds on skywall well it seems everyone s leaving we used to be medium population but when i logged in last night we were one of only two realms with the blue new players population size i hesitate to say skywall is dying a walk around org nets a fair number of people and our economy is healthy pugs still happen and my guild hires itself out every now and then for achievement runs of old content to stuff the guild bank with more goodies there are new guilds forming as always and for all i know one of them will be fantastic and fill up a gap that people had forgotten was there but seeing new players has been demoralizing it is proof of how many people have transferred away i ll still be on skywall i don t do the transfer thing but if you re looking for a new server i won t mind if you roll here and say hi posted by hana at 5 26 pm 3 comments labels misc wednesday october 5 2011 writing update just a quick update to my post from monday but i did get a contract woohoo early this morning so that finalizes my not participating in this year s blizzard writing contest i now have a story to write and an outline due later this month good luck to everyone who enters posted by hana at 10 12 am 2 comments labels writing monday october 3 2011 blizzard writing contest 2011 redux well it s a couple weeks from the deadline i have a draft that is 75 done but i thinking of calling it in there are a couple good reasons for this firstly from a creative standpoint i could force the story to completion but i don t think it would be very good and when i think of what i could be writing instead i find i perk up a lot nutshell my heart s not really in this story secondly i am 90 positive that i will soon have a contract for a paid writing assignment it ll be a short story of equivalent length to the blizzard contest requirement nobody gets rich from writing short stories but in the current economic climate any additional spending money is welcome the 10 of doubt is only because i haven t received a contract to sign yet but communication with the editor points to a yes earlier last week a friend of mine was talking about a work for hire writing job i did several months ago like the blizzard contest i give up all rights to the story i create but unlike the blizzard contest i get paid and i m not obligated to write the story until i sign on the dotted line my friend was urging me to talk with the editor again to see if i could get picked up for another contract which means more work after i sent that e mail i got a positive response and the story bibles for two different properties with the possibility of writing stories for them both and that brings me to my contest entry for me the blizzard contest is a hope to be recognized as a writer in a way that will eventually lead to a job i do like warcraft so this thinking isn t entirely mercenary of me but the fact remains that i am in a fortunate enough position where i can be paid to write fiction and time spent writing for the contest is time i m not writing for potential pay writing is not my day job but i would like to make a career out of it someday and each story i write should be furthering that dream what will bring me closer to being a paid novelist the blizzard contest or pursuing other short stories thus far there has been no correlation between winning the contest and writing novels richard knaak and christie golden came into the business of writing books for blizzard through other media tie in work aaron rosenberg who wrote the tides of darkness warcraft book is a fellow writer in the same universe my last work for hire job was in in fact you can get the ebook collection containing both our stories here i m doing professional level work with the contest deadline coming so soon i have to look at my schedule and i see nanowrimo is coming up next month and one of my top concerns is finishing the outline for my novel before november 1st hits and then all of november will be eaten by the book assuming the work for hire contract comes through i ll probably be due a story in december and i m also rewriting a short story for a book anthology i ve been invited to submit to that has a deadline in january this is not counting the second and third tier projects sitting on my hard drive beckoning me or the fact that something unexpected may come up and i ll have another opportunity to do a short on request it s so much easier to write knowing a story is pre sold but the thing is i hate to give up even though i can rationalize this is the best use of my time and i know some of my writing peers would agree with me it still feels like giving up i had a really good opening to my entry for this year too maybe i ll try to salvage it and turn it into an original story later posted by hana at 7 34 pm 0 comments labels writing friday september 2 2011 paladin the lament of flash of light flash of light used to be my bread and butter spell this blog is flash of moonfire because flash of light was such a key part of my repetoire as a holy paladin ever since i first hit 70 and started healing karazhan but when cataclysm hit i had trouble figuring out where i d put it on my bars the tilda numbers 1 6 and f1 f6 are the keys i bind things to with occasional ctrl or shift combinations flash of light used to be number 2 since i hit it so often then it moved to f2 to be a little more out of the way since i didn t use it that often now well it s still on my bars but it s not bound to anything that s probably bad but its usefulness has become so far out of sight and out of mind that i have trouble thinking of moments where someone died because i didn t use it the thing is it doesn t heal that much for the mana cost making it an expensive proposition for what you get out of it and it still has a cast time unless there s an infusion of light proc making it s usefulness while moving limited i ve been doing arena the majority of season 9 and since the start of season 10 i ve seen other holy paladins run themselves dry casting flash of light too many times while i m still at 90 or more mana whereas when i need an emergency heal and holy shock and word of glory are on cooldown i hit divine favor for that 20 haste and crit and chug out a speedy divine light or two perhaps combined with aura mastery to ensure no interruption i figure if i m going to spend the mana i m going to get the most health i can for it i m sure there s room for a flash of light in there again it d be instant with an infusion of light proc but as a cast time spell i just wouldn t use it an iol enhanced divine light goes by so fast that 90 of the time it s too fast for my opponents to interrupt gladiator level i am not so ymmv then this week i did some firelands raiding with the second 10 man team in my guild as a fill in healer i know these fights on my druid but for those i ve always been dps or a tank i had little to no experience healing them so i was surprised by how much faith the raid leader had in me suggesting we two heal several fights considering that my paladin had only the firelands cape and a bizarre mix of bwd troll dungeon and pvp gear i thought that perhaps as i was doing pve raiding i would find a use for flash of light a reason to keybind it again but i didn t it s not that there were no wipes that were my fault being rather scrubbish for the duties i was assigned but they weren t because i didn t get a quick heal off i m quick with my lay on hands and i m not afraid to use it if i think a tank s gonna die wipes were more due to missing the smouldering devastation cue on beth talic i m not usually on the web let alone as a healer being in the wrong place on alysrazor until recently i always tanked that fight so i had no concept of where the caster adds spawned and lost a dps and a tank because of range issues and there was the occasional for some reason or other i didn t think the tank s health was going to drop that fast so i wasn t ready with a heal but we cleared 6 7 and i two healed alysrazor and rhyolith so at the very least i know i m not bad i was just on a bit of a learning curve and i was the only healer who didn t let someone die to torment on baelroc so i was rather happy about that getting back to flash of light though i still didn t see when to use it i thought maybe baelroc would be the boss torment s a nice stacking debuff that eventually chews through dps the higher it goes but it ended up that i would holy shock word of glory and then roll almost immediately into divine lights to make sure no one dropped my mana was hurting almost every firelands boss inexperience healing the fights combined with not as geared as the rest of the raid so if i needed a save i wanted it to be lay on hands because at least that would give me some mana back i guess i don t use flash of light because i try very hard not to be in the position where flash of light would be appealing to me namely where someone s going to die and that little sliver of health would make it worth the cost of using it in pvp i use holy shock and word of glory as much as possible if i use cast time spells i m either using them under an iol proc making them very fast and hard to interrupt i aura mastery to make them uninterruptable or i prepare to cancel the cast if the possibility of getting interrupted exists and then cast again after the interrupt is wasted it s rare i do unprotected casts in arena and if i do it s because my partner is probably going to die in the next couple of seconds if i don t and all my cooldowns have been burned in pve there are multiple healers and the the damage intake doesn t seem to warrant it tanks get hit too hard for flash of light to make much of a difference and if they re dps or another healer there is typically enough time between damage bursts to allow hots or a holy light to save them posted by hana at 6 31 pm 6 comments labels arena holy paladin pvp raiding sunday august 28 2011 human decency i like to think that most people even in a game are decent to each other if not actually friendly it takes some effort to be a jerk after all and usually people particularly in pugs just want to do their business and be done with it but yesterday i came across an unusual bad specimen that i had to write this to wash my mind of it i joined a pug on my resto druid alt my third druid and it was for hellfire ramparts...