{"id":490,"date":"2010-01-13T02:05:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T07:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurn.apotheosis-now.com\/?p=490"},"modified":"2010-01-13T02:05:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T07:05:55","slug":"i-feel-naked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/i-feel-naked\/","title":{"rendered":"I feel naked."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I have felt, how to put it&#8230; <em>silly<\/em> hauling out my Water Elemental (his name is Clyde) in raid situations (VOA), I decided to get dual spec on my mage. Primary spec is frost and is more of a heroic spec so that if I get a fail tank who can&#8217;t hold aggro, at least I have my Ice Barrier and Cold Snap.<\/p>\n<p>My secondary spec is arcane and I&#8217;m trying to get the hang of it before I go embarass myself in a raid, so I just did a boss and a half (we wiped on Hadronox when the fail tank pulled everything at once) of Azjol-Nerub before the healer (and the rest of the group) bailed. I cannot express how naked I felt without my Ice Barrier and how lonely I was without Clyde. :(<\/p>\n<p>Still in the LFG tool though, to get my two Emblems of Frost and to continue acclimating to arcane. I have NEVER been arcane before. I went fire for like, two and a half levels in my early-to-mid-60s and hated it. Long cast times, no real defense and no Ice Barrier!<\/p>\n<p>I may have a love affair with Ice Barrier. But Mana Shield just isn&#8217;t the same. :(<\/p>\n<p>Having said all that, Kurn and Madrana both did XT today for the weekly raid. Hilariously, Kurn had no issues getting in. At some point, I&#8217;d done an Ulduar 10 pug and we&#8217;d done Must Deconstruct Faster (the speed kill) so all I did was &#8220;Hunter, 5k+ DPS, 5k GS [Must Deconstruct Faster (10 player)]&#8221; and got an invite. Heh.<\/p>\n<p>The shammy and the mage, especially the mage, will definitely be more challenging when it comes to getting spots in the weekly raid, that&#8217;s for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I have felt, how to put it&#8230; silly hauling out my Water Elemental (his name is Clyde) in raid situations (VOA), I decided to get dual spec on my mage. Primary spec is frost and is more of a heroic spec so that if I get a fail tank who can&#8217;t hold aggro, at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,19],"tags":[65,66],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mages","category-raiding","tag-arcane-spec","tag-weekly-raid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","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=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}