Adventures of a Dwarf Priest

So my wife got back and I finally got a chance to relax for a few and do a little WoW’ing.  I did my daily random and was about to go log onto Laneir when I see someone asking for healers for ToC10 for the Weekly Raid.  I figured I’d give it a shot though this is not something I was imagining to be much fun in a PUG   I have run this with Texas Mercenaries quite a bit so I knew the fights well.  Man I miss raiding with those guys.

Anyways the guy asks me if I think we can two heal it, and I mention we did that all the time before so as long as he gets another equivalent healer we are good. So we finally get the second tank and we are ready to go.  The second healer he got was a paladin who had a higher GS than me by quite a bit.  I think oh good, it will be just like when Redfive and I used to do this.  I go and make an assumption that the stupid high GS number means he knows what he is doing…WRONG! We start off and the guy dies in the first 45 seconds of the fight, he stood in the fire … So I solo heal it till I start loosing people once we get to the worms and we wipe it.  I don’t think anyone realizes he died first, I didn’t say anything.

We try again, he dies AGAIN early on, I solo heal the thing to the worms again, and tried to keep as many people alive as I could but eventually it is just me and the tank left and by this time we have lost everyone but the one tank, and the Rogue RL who started the whole thing.  They both told me nice heals and the rogue went back to grab another group    This time we got a Holy Priest, higher GS than me, and another DK tank.  We lost some people in the worms, the other healer wasn’t helping enough, but got to the last guy with 5 people and we defeated him.  I looked at the healing out of curiosity, not only did I out heal a Holy Priest who was better geared than me, I did so not even including my absorbs

We defeated Lord Jaraxxus just fine, and I even picked up the Felspark Bindings off him for my DPS set   I have terrible wrists actualy tempted to wear them for my healing set if it wasn’t for the loss of regen   I will say one thing, every time I PUG there is outstanding evidence that having a high GS doesn’t mean you know what your doing, doesn’t mean you will do lots of damage/heal/tank well.  I can’t be the only one to notice this so I wonder why so many people put so much stock in that stupid number?  My little Mage I’m still gearing up will often out damage people with a higher GS then him because they are lazy I can only assume.

Speaking of Laneir I did do a few heroic runs on him today.  We got stuck in Oculus which I admit is not my favorite.  No one ran away this time, and I did get the extra 2 badges for doing it they added recently   Best of all I got the epic staff that drops off Eregos, the Staff of Draconic Combat which was a nice upgrade for Laneir   Sorry I don’t have any pictures from his adventures, I forgot to take some!  I’m almost ready to get my 3rd piece of T9 on him though, yay!  After I get all 4 pieces, I’ll start grabbing some of the other triumph gear.  It is kind of fun gearing up an alt, I’ve never done it before and well now it is more fun and easier than ever!

I got on after spending most of the day trying to recover from my cold.  I noticed that Brewfest was in the middle of setup.  I don’t think I ever saw that before

So after getting around I went and did  a Heroic ToC.  We did so good and were so fast we went over to do the Heroic Daily too.  We went over to the Nexus and did that in 25 minutes flat.  I do believe that was the fastest I’ve ever done that one   The tank, a gnome warrior was nuts, he would run in and pull tons of mobs and we pretty much chain pulled the whole time.  I managed to keep up though.  After that we kind of broke up as Inien as trying to get together an Oculus group.

It had been forever since I had done Oculus and I remember why now   It is one of the more annoying designs.  It took us a few tries to get the last boss down but finally got it.

After that I went and checked and Brewfest was up so Inien and I just basically messed with that for the rest of the evening into the wee morning hours.  I have only a few of the harder achievements to do for my grand long strange road achievement   I’ll continue to do the dailies every day, I hope I can work the new pet into my purchases too.