{"id":1392,"date":"2010-09-14T09:27:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T13:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurn.apotheosis-now.com\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2010-09-14T09:27:06","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T13:27:06","slug":"ding-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/ding-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Ding, 85."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 22 hours spent at 84 (much of that running around, testing things, not getting XP in instances and the like), I finally hit 85 on the beta.<\/p>\n<p>Suffering through zones and quests that weren&#8217;t itemized, meaning I get beat on within an inch of my life was probably not the best choice, but I wanted to get to 85 and get my guardian dude thing and then focus on instances and not questing (as ret, no less).<\/p>\n<p>Some quick numbers.<\/p>\n<p>At 85, the following spells cost&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Flash of Light: 6323 mana<\/p>\n<p>Holy Light: 1405 mana<\/p>\n<p>Divine Light: 7026 mana<\/p>\n<p>Cleanse: 3279 mana<\/p>\n<p>Holy Shock: 1873 mana<\/p>\n<p>Beacon of Light: 1405 mana<\/p>\n<p>Light of Dawn: 4918 mana<\/p>\n<p>Holy Radiance: 9368 mana<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I want to cry, too. I have about 60k mana, I think it is.<\/p>\n<p>At 85, I also got <a href=\"http:\/\/cata.wowhead.com\/spell=86150\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian of Ancient Kings<\/a>. He looks like a moron. (Click for a larger image.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kurn.martindaley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/guardian.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1393  aligncenter\" title=\"guardian\" src=\"http:\/\/kurn.martindaley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/guardian-262x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s wearing some kind of bastardized Lawbringer armor, it looks like, is carrying a Val&#8217;anyr and is wearing a mask reminiscent of Batman.<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, but he&#8217;s on a 5-minute cooldown. He lasts 30 seconds or 5 heals, whichever comes first. <a href=\"http:\/\/cata.wowhead.com\/spell=86674\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s the effect<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t run an instance with him or anything, but&#8230; ugh.<\/p>\n<p>And he &#8230; cries out in what sounds like pain. Or anger, according to Walks.<\/p>\n<p>I want to heal on beta later today and report back on some of the instances. At the very least, I&#8217;ll comment on this post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmo-champion.com\/content\/1968-Archaeology-Rewards-and-Previews-Blue-Posts\" target=\"_blank\">MMO-Champion<\/a> put up. It&#8217;s by our friendly neighbourhood Lead Systems Designer, Ghostcrawler:<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><em>Right now on the Beta videos a lot of the healers seem to be spamming  the weak &#8220;Heal&#8221; for 90% of the time. So spamming is ok and we are  expected to spam for most of the fight as long as what we&#8217;re spamming is  a weak spell? is this truly what is intended for Cata healers?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No, that&#8217;s not the intent. We made those heals very cheap so that  healers wouldn&#8217;t be in constant terror of running out of mana. We also  are making the normal modes easier than the heroic modes. You&#8217;ll have to  pair the right heal for the right situation to a greater degree in  heroic modes. I think part of what you&#8217;re seeing is that healers are  using the base heal because they can get away with it. It&#8217;s also  possible that in our effort to distinguish them from the more expensive  heals that we made the base heals too cheap or efficient. (<a href=\"http:\/\/blue.mmo-champion.com\/t\/26725726427\/i-like-to-dig-ditches-at-least-right-now\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I have so many things to say in reply to this and I just don&#8217;t even know where to start.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, more later as the day goes on. Gotta love Tuesdays!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 22 hours spent at 84 (much of that running around, testing things, not getting XP in instances and the like), I finally hit 85 on the beta. Suffering through zones and quests that weren&#8217;t itemized, meaning I get beat on within an inch of my life was probably not the best choice, but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,70,52,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beta","category-cataclysm","category-healers","category-paladins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}