Adventures of a Dwarf Priest

Logged on for a short time tonight, my son was trying to avoid bed again.  I had a nasty headache but felt like letting off some steam.  I ended up joining a OS 25 man group which usually doesn’t take too long and isn’t stressful.  The guy actually only got 3 healers so I actually had something to do.  There are still a few things from this guy I wouldn’t mind, mainly a nice cloak, and possibly some wrists, though not ideal.  The valor tokens are also quite nice

Everything went down without a hitch.  I at first thought 3 healers wasn’t enough but it was just because on the first drake everyone kept standing in void zones

You also might noticed a new feature to the site.  I’ve got a twitter account especially for my WoW persona and will allow my WoW related thoughts to ooze out onto it, in addition to some more real-time blabberings.  This is partially an experiment with Twitter, and another way to feed content into the site. We’ll see how it goes.  Perhaps some people will prefer the twittering over my much more longer winded neanderings

Today I managed to do something I’ve never done before.  I got into a PUG raid where they DIDN’T take too many healers.  I did a 10 man Obsidian Sanctum because I knew again I would miss the guild one Sunday (middle of the day).  I was shocked when I realized that the only other healer was a restro Druid.  I actually got to do something and make a meaningful impact!  With 3 healers in a 10 man you are almost fighting over who gets to heal the people.  I don’t understand why people do that, it just makes everything go slower, it doesn’t make it safer   It was the first raid I’ve done in WOTLK where I felt I contributed something if you can believe it or not.

I don’t know what the optimal fun number of healers would be for a 25 man, maybe 3? 4 tops probably.  I think every 25 man I’ve done has had 5 healers.  It is always too many and again I feel worthless.  Mostly because everyone has tools to often get to everyone before me.  I don’t have much raid healing ability at the moment besides PoM.  The Shamans, Druids or Holy Priests get to everything before me.  Most of the time I give up and just do crappy dps till we get to a boss I can be somewhat useful on.  With less healers I actually get to do something and it becomes more fulfilling, and challenging.

After that satisfying run I went and did my oracle dailies and ended up watching LFG looking for my 25 man vault.  That never ended up coming but I figured I wanted to do something else so I checked the Heroic Daily was Azjol-Nerub.  So I checked out LFG and noticed a Prot Warrior sitting in there and just asked him if he wanted to start a group.

He was all over it and we quickly formed a group and went over there.  Everyone turned out to be pretty good quality and we had no problems.  No one died till the very end where the Feral Druid got caught in the pound.  Other than that it was super smooth.  A good way to end the night!

I was going to go mess around on the PTR but it was having major issues so I went ahead and got on live.  I ended up quickly joining a 10 man Vault group and did that.  It was pretty fun, and the other healer was actually another Disc Priest.  Nothing dropped that mattered to me so I left after that.

I was thinking maybe I’d do a 25man vault after that but ended up in a 25man OS.  While I was waiting for that to come together I ran around and made my cloth for the week.  It is so convenient having it all in one place now   Eventually we filled up the group and started on it.  Things went fast and easy.  As usual there were too many healers so I didn’t have much to do

I also ended up looking horrible because I kept getting hit by the stupid fire wall.  I had never been in a group where the tank would move the dragon all the over the place which kept throwing me off.  Of course I can still heal and absorb the damage it isn’t a big deal but someone now always has that stupid mod that makes fun of the people   I think I got hit twice, but again I never seen anyone run around with the dragon before!

After that I ended up logging off live.  I stayed on Skype with Inien to listen to his horrible horrible Heroic HoS run.  After finishing up some non game related stuff I went and got on the PTR which was working only slightly better.  I purchased my Duel Spec and played a little bit with that system.  The way it is right now it doesn’t require anything to switch which is kind of neat.

I was messing with trying to create a smite build, but was really having trouble coming up with something that made sense after all the changes.  With the switch from BC to WOTLK they removed some of the talents in Disc that were useful for it, mainly the +hit for smite/mindblast and the extra damage/crit you could get.  They made some changes to Shadow Form that may allow me to use a lot of my current gear.  Your dots can now crit in Shadow Form which may make things interesting.

I’ve never been shadow in my life, but my smite isn’t looking as viable so perhaps I might actually given in and do a shadow build.  Who knows maybe I’ll like it.  Plus the other advantage is I might be able to speak with more authority about all things Priest, instead of just 2/3rds

I got on this evening and attempted to work on the Love is in the Air achievements.  My first barrier I ran into on that was the constant tells from everyone who remotely knew me to come do some version of Naxx with them.  I continued to run around to the different capital cities doing some of the activities.  I was just about to say screw it to the whole thing when I hit a string of the more rare achievements.    I have ended up with the black dress, the Picknick Basket, and the Truesilver Shafted Arrow (the flying goblin pet).   I thought well now I got all the hard ones I need to do the other ones now

I had checked the Heroic Daily while I was doing the cooking daily and noticed it was HoS.  I had been in the LFG for it while I was doing the holiday work.  Eventually I got a tell from someone and annoyed with the holiday stuff joined them.  He apparently had carefully crafted our group, as he was after some of the HoS achievements.  He had more achievement points than I had ever seen at just over 6200.   I can’t remember his name off the top of my head I’ll have to look it up in Karma.  Anyways we managed 2 of the tree HoS achievements one of which I hadn’t got.  The one on the last guy is really hard time time with the Oozes.  The bigger part of destiny again was the Rose dropped and yes I won it

So I did a lot of standing in front of people again following the stupid hearts, trying to manage the stupid number of things in my inventory to make all the crap.  Again I did this till I was about crazy and then put myself up for a 10 man OS. I was invited into one after a little bit.  The guy kind of annoyed me because after he invited me he told me that he was going to armory me and make sure I was good enough.  We did it easy enough as usual they bring too many healers 2 is enough everyone always brings 3   Oh and on this run I won the Majestic Dragon Figurine to replace my Spark of Life.  I didn’t really need the extra spell haste I have so much and it seemed given the randomness of the Spark that it would give me more mana regen.  When we were done they tried to get me to go to Naxx.  I went back to my achievements.

By the end of the evening I was close to done with all of them.  I even managed to get one of the Bag of Candies and got 5 of the 10 names you need.  I went all over to Pity the fool as seen here in this shot.  I heard a tank I’ve grouped with quite a bit starting up a 25 man Vault and joined up for that for another break.

While I was in Wintersgrasp I went by and got my Mammoth I kept forgetting to get with my shards.  I had more than plenty and you even get an achievement for it which I didn’t realize   We finished up the Vault which dropped all plate and mail gear as easily as usual and I finished up for the night.

I logged with having completed every achievement of the holiday except the ridiculous candy.  I intend to log in tomorrow every hour to at least try for it then while I’m doing my house work.

I did a lot of random things today but I spent quite a bit of time making my way back over to Storm Peaks to work on the quest chain that leads to the Sons of Hodir faction dailies.  I need to get started on that so I have access to the shoulder enchants.  Actually I should have started a long time ago   The quests are really fun even if you are a big blue lady most of the time

The big blue lady looked pretty silly on my mounts too.  Mostly because she is pretty stiff but also because my mounts are scaled to Dwarf size and she is HUGE.  She looks like she would break my poor bears back!

I managed to give Obsidian Sanctum a try today.  I thought it was quite fun and now I wonder why  I avoided it.  I actually did the 25 man one first.  We had a pretty pro leader and some good DPS so it was pretty easy.

The actual dragon fight was really fun.  I had so much fun I went into LFG for the 10 man version afterwards.  The same RL did a 10 man and I joined that one as well.  The 10 man version seemed a bit easier but that is understandable I guess.  I even one the set gloves from him.

Later that evening I got in a mostly guild run with some folks for 10 man Naxx.  We went through the spider wing with relative ease.  The people were amusing and kept me entertained until Inien got on, then I mostly ignored them.

I was hoping to do a full run, but alas they gave up after wiping to the 4 horseman too many times.  I really wanted to see them dead.  I really wanted to see the whole thing downed actually which is why I was mad when they called it.

After that I went back to my Sons of Hodir questing.  Through Inien I found out I was in a phased area where the fire elementals were.  I (for some reason) wanted to try making a Frost resistance set so I could hopefully see the end of Naxx down and decided to farm fire there while I had it all to myself.  So I managed to get all my needed fire and a ton of relics too.

I am not hated with the Sons of Hodir (or Sons of Homer as Inien likes to call them) I just have to figure out what I do next to bring that up