//Okay, guild drama aside for a moment… the guild I’m apping to on Proudmoore got 25-man heroic Northrend Beasts on Monday (and again on Tuesday) and we got Jaraxxus tonight (after doing some Ulduar due to poor attendence — which got me a mace and a new chestpiece!) and then worked on 25-man heroic Faction Champions.
Two words: Epic. Fail.
Hilarious, though. It’s nice to always be one of the last ones to be alive. It’s like, hey look! I’m NOT a noob! :)
Bed now. These hours are killing me.
//Long story short, I packed up and transferred my toons to Proudmoore from Bronzebeard.
Long story long… well, I guess that’ll be the next entry.
//Got the shammy to 80 at long, long last, so now I have:
Kurnmogh (80 hunter on Proudmoore)
Madrana (80 paladin on Bronzebeard)
Katarrah (80 shaman on Bronzebeard)
Plus I still have my 74 mage on Proudmoore.
In the less-than-24 hours that Katarrah has been 80, she’s healed (!) Vault of Archavon 25 and 10, DPSed Azjol-Nerub and ToC (both heroic)… I’ve gotten a TON of nice gear, stuff I made on Kurn that I sent over with Katarrah when she transferred to BB. I also got a couple nice drops here and there and, overall, am kind of excited I have another 80 on the server.
In other news, server first Northrend Beasts, faction server first (server second) on Lord Jaraxxus and server/faction second on Faction Champions.
Woot.
//I’m probably making too much of it, but I’m still very sad about the nerfs to Divine Intellect and Illumination. Bastards.
Anyways. Got an achievement the other day that, frankly, shocked the living crap out of me. So surprised was I, I forget to screenshot it as it happened.
I had no idea what the hell that was.
… I’m still dumbfounded that the raid I was in, my guild raid, got that. Week after week, people get ruined by that dumb lightning… and yet, we get THAT achievement? It’s not like it’s difficult to avoid or anything, but it’s kind of surprising. Sort of like The Safety Dance.
Anyways, I’m still unsure how the hell I’m going to be healing in 3.2.
I guess something along these lines:
1) Cast Sacred Shield on the tank I’m healing.
2) Beacon the tank I’m not.
3) FoL the tank every 12ish seconds to keep my hot up (must configure Grid to show hots AND my own one…)
4) … FoL the other tank if they have SS on them?
5) Continue to spam Holy Light and pray to God I don’t run OOM.
Ugh. I guess we’ll see how things go in the Coliseum (anyone else think that should be spelled Colosseum?!) tonight. Assuming the servers and such get all sorted out okay.
//2-piece HOLY T9 bonus is extending the duration of our judgements by 10 seconds, to last 30 seconds.
Blizzard hates us.
Not only that, but I’m trying to figure out what to do with regards to the Illumination nerf. 30% of mana back on a crit instead of 60% (and all that is instead of the original 100%!!!).
Do I stack spellpower so my FoL/Sacred Shield hot is huge? Do I keep stacking int so that I can cast close to forever? Do I stack even more crit so that even if I’m only getting 30% of mana back on a crit, at least 50-60% of my heals ARE crits? Do I respec back into ret for the +crit?
I should probably go read up on this stuff at EJ, PlusHeal and other places, but part of the problem is that I’m just so SAD about our bonuses and our nerfs. And I’m sorry, I don’t particularly like the idea of beaconing the tank and healing the raid so that the heal can transfer .5 seconds later, even if it’s now going to count overhealing. I’ll probably still beacon the other tank and spam heal the current tank. The only places in current content where I can see beaconing the tank and raid healing as viable are:
– Freya +any elders (’cause the tank doesn’t take a lot of damage, but good LORD, does the raid)
– Head tank on Mimiron, MAYBE?
– Thorim in the arena, I guess? I still foresee a squished tank.
I’d like to take this opportunity to say that I LOATHE Beacon of Light with all my heart. I use it so sparingly. I use it on a second tank, I use it on my tank on Mimiron’s Plasma Blasts and use Hand of Sacrifice and then heal the crap out of myself, I use it on myself on Kologarn and Iron Council and Hodir… and that may be it.
I want the new expansion to come out and I want a decent 61 point talent, please. Sigh.
//You may have noticed by the fishing-related achievements in the sidebar that I am levelling fishing. Sadly, it’s true. I am. On a second toon. Sigh. Up to just over 300 fishing. At least I’m fishing up my own buff food, now, which gives me the possibility of fishing up the Sea Turtle. Plus, I’m making Fish Feasts, which are selling quite well.
Apart from that, we wiped 24 times to get a new achievement last Wednesday:
We did it with Elder Stonebark up, so we had to deal with Ground Tremors. Bad. Bad, bad. Ground Tremor damage was huge, and it’s physical damage, so… Ow. I’m kind of pleased with how healing went on that, though.
We had 3 holy priests, 1 holy paladin, 1 disc priest, 1 resto shaman and 1 resto druid in the raid, so I had this going on:
– Resto Druid topping off group 1 (with tanks) and 5
– Holy Priest 1 – POHing Group 2 (5 of 7 healers)
– Holy Priest 2 – POHing Group 3
– Holy Priest 3 – POHing Group 4
All holy priests to COH groups 1/5 after their POH.
Resto druid watching for Nature’s Fury (although he didn’t do a great job).
Me and the disc priest spamming the tank(s) and the resto shammy doing what he could to top people off.
Overall, it worked okay. But I have a lot of refinements for Freya + Elders, mostly to do with positioning.
Anyways, still conscious, thereby confirming that my sleep habits are completely screwed up. I’m thinking I’ll get back to my healer evaluations.
Done so far: disc priest app, two holy paladins.
To do: disc priest (regular), holy priest (irregular), both holy priests (regular), holy priest (app), both resto shammies (regular), all three resto druids (all somewhat irregular).
At least the regular disc priest and one of the shammies are fine and I have nothing bad to say to either of them. Gonna be fun times with everyone else, though! HOORAY. ;)
Should probably get started on at least the easy ones…
//When speaking of PVE content, one of the typical holy paladin specs is 51/5/15. Another is 51/0/20. And another is 53/0/18.
All three of these specs bring you deep into the Retribution tree to pick up Conviction (15 points) and then perhaps Sanctity of Battle (3 points).
What cheeses me off is the idiot holy paladins who pick 2/2 Improved Judgements over 2/2 Improved Blessing of Might as they spec down into the Ret tree.
Why? Honestly, why on earth would you ever pick something that lowers your Judgement cooldown?
There’s one reason I could possibly see for PVE content: do more DPS.
What the hell? You’re a holy paladin. You heal people. Your DPS is poor at best. Judgements of the Pure lasts a minute, not 8 seconds. Your global cooldowns should not be used in order to judge more often than is necessary to either:
a) Keep your judgement up (which is ~20 seconds)
b) Keep Judgements of the Pure up (which is 1 minute)
I’m lucky in that I’m rarely a paladin who must judge. We have a prot paladin and a ret paladin, both of whom are regular raiders, and I’m not always the only holy paladin in a raid, so JoL and JoW are both generally up and I don’t absolutely need to judge, most of the time, unless I want to keep Judgements of the Pure up.
You may not be as fortunate as I am, but there’s still very little excuse to lower that Judgement cooldown for any PVE reason whatsoever.
But, you may argue, what if we always have a ret paladin with improved might?
So what if you do? What if he or she is out of town for a week? Do you think your melee or raid leaders will be okay with crappy might? Is your raid really going to rely on Battle Shout? Hah!
So Improved Might wins over Improved Judgements and don’t get me started on Heart of the Crusader. That’s win, too, even if you have an elemental shaman. They can die, you know, and there goes 3% crit, unless you keep up Heart of the Crusader when you judge. Or maybe they’re out of range, like on Thorim. I judge Light in the tunnel on every mob for the additional healing (which won’t interfere with anyone else’s judgements, as I’m the only paladin in there) and for the crit buff, and I’m especially careful to do it when we don’t have an elemental shaman in the tunnel with us. It helps us get through the tunnel faster and who knows when that ten seconds we shaved off will be the time we need to get to Thorim before Sif leaves?
So, TL;DR version:
– Improved Judgements for PVE holy paladins = bad
– Improved Might for PVE holy paladins = good if you’re going for Conviction or anything else deep into the ret tree
– Heart of the Crusader for PVE holy paladins = good, just like Improved Might
//It was a long Naxx 25 clear, slow, but ultimately successful. And I walked out with both T7.5 pants and helm, plus the DPS ring from the Emblem of Valor vendor.
Also, survival is HAX.
http://wowwebstats.com/gf1jpa2y43qxi?s=bosses
I’m “Io” and that shows me as fifth on the DPS charts for all boss attempts.
Hilarious.
//So I went to Proudmoore after my raid tonight (smoothest Thorim kill in forever with a WEIRD raid comp!) and did my cooking and fishing dailies and somehow wound up in a Naxx 25 pug.
Thus far, I have my T7.5 legs and proof positive that survival is HAX. I should not be doing 4.9k DPS on Thaddius. Even if it IS Thaddius. My gear is just that bad. Then again, I’m hit-capped and not a moron, so…
But explosive shot is disgusting. In the face. For real.
//The first person up for the legendary mace asked to sit because of connection issues.
Fragment #2 is mine.
Yay? haha.
ETA: Make that Fragments #2 and #3.