I spent a lot less time in beta today than I did on Friday night into the wee (and then large) hours of Saturday.<\/p>\n
After dealing with that pesky “real-life” thing, I came back to beta and decided to try out that whole “guild” thing. ;)<\/p>\n
Apotheosis was born on Lost Isles (US\/PVE) this afternoon, with much thanks to four (no longer nine) random people who were kind enough to sign my charter.<\/p>\n
I’m not actively recruiting random people, but I did tweet about it. Before I knew it, the awesomesauce Kody<\/a> from WorldOfRaids<\/a> (aka, the super awesome person from Curse who extended me a beta invite) was whispering me.<\/p>\n Thus, Kody and I embarked upon a journey, the likes of which have probably never quite been seen before and may never be seen again. At least, I kind of hope this journey won’t be seen again.<\/p>\n Guilds are totally broken in beta. Which is okay. It’s beta. It’s supposed to be broken. I get it.<\/p>\n But, among the issues:<\/p>\n – Guild masters have no permissions, thus their ability to do things (officer chat, invite, etc) is severely limited.<\/p>\n – Promotions (and probably demotions) aren’t saved.<\/p>\n – New ranks don’t work properly.<\/p>\n I’ve got a low-level Worgen as GM of Apotheosis at the moment and this is the result of a bug that meant Kurn couldn’t speak or read guild chat.<\/p>\n The only way to promote Kurn and Madrana was to make each of them GM in turn and then hand it back, since this action, by default, places a GM who gives GM to someone else in the spot right below the GM in the guild ranks.<\/p>\n Kody was extremely patient with me as I hopped over around all three toons and gave him GM and asked him to ginvite me and give me GM back and such.<\/p>\n On the plus side, Apotheosis has Fast Track<\/a>! I’m not randomly inviting the world at large, but if you read this little old blog and have an Alliance toon on Lost Isles, let me know, either in-game at Kurnmogh or Madrana (or Kurnbank) or via twitter, and I’d be happy to extend you an invite.<\/p>\n Okay, so that was the guild excitement. On to instances…<\/p>\n I’m a much better healer than I am tank. I tried tanking some of Throne of the Tides tonight and we failed hard core. We had virtually no crowd control and I’m unfamiliar enough with tanking as it is.<\/p>\n I enjoy the Consecration, although I still hit it way too often because I feel like it’s part of my rotation. ;)<\/p>\n I’ve gotten adept at using all kinds of cooldowns. Divine Protection<\/a> has received a bit of a facelift. It’s no longer 50% damage reduction, it’s only 20%, but it’s on a one-minute (one!!) cooldown AND, possibly the best part, it doesn’t cause Forbearance any longer. No, actually, the best part is that this is available by training at level 30!<\/p>\n Anyways, my tanking efforts were, shall we say, less than awesome. I’d like to run a dungeon on Kurn tonight and actually make use of crowd control.<\/p>\n Healing Throne of the Tides tonight, a separate group, went a bit better. We wiped about 7 or 8 times but downed three of the four bosses. The last boss, Ozumat<\/a>, is brutal. There are just SO many mobs and SO much damage! He may even still be bugged which I read as being impossible to kill.<\/p>\n So how is healing?<\/p>\n Well, I posted in the comments on my previous post, but here are some cast times:<\/p>\n Flash of Light: 1.14s cast With 1026 haste and JotP:<\/p>\n Flash of Light: 1.05s With 1026 haste and Speed of Light (3\/3):<\/p>\n Flash of Light: 0.879s With 1026 haste and JotP AND Speed of Light:<\/p>\n Flash of Light: 0.806s I feel like I’m super busy ALL of the time. I’m constantly trying to keep up with HUGE incoming damage on the tanks and crazy environmental damage on the group. Tip: if the ground turns green or purple\/black, MOVE<\/em>. If the ground around you has pretty blue swirls all around you, MOVE<\/em>.<\/p>\n That said, I’m getting better at noticing the debuffs that I can cleanse. Did you know you can now Cleanse someone even if there’s nothing to be removed? Yeah, and it costs like 600 mana each time.<\/p>\n Again, mana is not an issue for me. It’s the timing, it’s the GCDs, it’s “WHY AM I NOT HEALING ENOUGH?!”.<\/p>\n To that end, I’ve gotten rid of Glyph of Seal of Wisdom (because SoW no longer exists) and plugged in Glyph of Holy Shock. I use it a lot.<\/p>\n I also swapped in, and people will laugh at me for this, the Libram of Veracity<\/a>. I may even waste Emblems of Frost on the Libram of Blinding Light<\/a>. Ridiculous as it sounds, I am definitely using Holy Shock enough to justify that. (Thanks, Kaboomski, for reminding me I have other libram options.)<\/p>\n I don’t think there’s a new libram (or any new relics, but I could be wrong) as of yet, but I’m interested to see in which direction they want to nudge us.<\/p>\n I think that’s about all I wanted to say. Don’t forget to check out my ever-growing collection of screenshots from beta!<\/p>\n
\nHoly Light: 2.06s cast
\nDivine Light: 1.68s cast<\/p>\n
\nHoly Light: 1.89s
\nDivine Light: 1.54<\/p>\n
\nHoly Light: 1.58
\nDivine Light: 1.29<\/p>\n
\nHoly Light: 1.45s
\nDivine Light: 1.18s<\/p>\n