Adventures of a Dwarf Priest

I had such a crazy day at work I had completely forgotten that today was patch day!  Good ol’ patch 3.2.2 went live today!  A small patch but with a few great changes put in place, mainly Onyxia’s Return!  Wowhead has a great run down of the patch on their website. Of course like many patch days this one wasn’t super silky smooth.  The database seemed to be having issues, loot lag was pretty bad, at least on Doomhammer.

When I got on I did my Brewfest stuff ( I should finish my achievements on Sunday! ) then I got a tell from Inien he got in an Onyxia Raid.  I thought Oh ya so I joined LFG and got in a PUG.  Shortly after that Inien asked if I wanted to join them, he was with one of the guilds we occasionally raid with.  So I left the PUG and joined them (guessing more success).  I was flying over to get on the boat and I noticed it was really raining.  For some reason this looked visually better than I remember.  There is so little weather in WoW though I could be wrong.  I hope they put more weather in Cataclysm.

Just as I was landing I got a summon to the instance.  Apparently they had already been attempting her and had some openings that Inien and I filled.  I remember standing here with 40 people so many times back in the day

The fight seemed pretty much the same except for more adds.  Wowhead has a strategy guide up for her for your viewing pleasure. Obviously Onyxia was a bit more beefy as welll as her whelps!  I can’t wait for my anniversary pet

We defeated her first try, well our first try anyways   All they needed was the dynamic duo!  Inien was quite happy with the Arcane changes, he saw an increase in DPS.  Onyxia was not friendly to the casters providing tons of Plate   I was so excited when I was researching to write this post I noticed they recreated the shards!  The Purified Shard of the Scale and Purified Shard of the Flame MUST be mine!  I used the original Shard of the Scale for a while into BC even.  If I recall I got it on my first Onyxia run, and it was my first Epic ever, which was a REALLY big deal at that time. They made the set really sweet too, I must have them!  I did win the Enlarged Onyxia Hide Backpack which I felt happy to get.  Back in the day I always wanted the original bag but never got it   It was a lot harder to get things when you had to share like 5 things with 40 people

After all that fun Inien and I ended up in a guild run for the Heroic Daily which was Utgarde Keep.  I was rushing them a long because I had to do something before bed so I was “helping” to pull and DPS   Then after we finished I realized that two of the DPS were brand new 80s that had never done even the regular UK.  They were people I didn’t know, we had an influx of new people in the guild recently.

The other notable patch changes was a few talent changes in Shadow that should increase Shadow Priest DPS which I’m sure will make them happy.  There was also a bug fix on my Glyph of Power Word: Shield so that the heal uses my crit instead of the targets.  This is nice and I noticed it right away because they fixed Divine Aegis for it last patch and now when the heal crits you get dual bubbles

Oh and to quote a Mage whine they added a new inscription item “Added a recipe for Runescroll of Fortitude. This item grants a stamina buff equal to the highest rank of Power Word: Fortitude (untalented) to all players in the raid.” which of course means no one will ever bring a Priest to a raid ever again…Ever!

Anyways was a great night, had lots of fun, good job Blizzard!