Adventures of a Dwarf Priest

I got on looking to for a raid or something and noticed that HOL was both the regular and Heroic Daily.  no  one was doing it though so I was about to give up and go do old world questing when I got a tell from a tank and we formed a group.  I told them that my record for both Dailies in this instance was 33 minutes.  Despite the tank needlessly clear the wrong direction a few times, we still managed to do it in 31 minutes!

The next time I got on a bit later I tried again and ended up in a 10 man VOA.  I was laughing at them because they took 3 healers.  The other healers were saving the same thing.  I managed to out heal the Paladin and Druid.  In some fights I managed to prevent most of the damage LOL.

Next up was an Onyxia 10 since I missed it with the guild.  I didn’t see many 25man pugs going tonight.

Lastly I had a very entertaining trip to Hyjal Summit.  Kymer even ended up coming too.  It was the first time either of us had been in there.  Man it must have been one hell of a fight back in the day.  I went shadow shortly after the first boss.  It was clear to me the Paladin, and Raid Leader didn’t need my help.  I ended up topping most of the fights with my AOE when they were all clumped   You get tons of rep in there too, that wouldn’t be a bad rep to farm if you could find 10 rep collectors.

Got to get on tonight, and for cone have a nice conversation with Inien!  We both have been working too much   We ended up getting to go do Onyxia 25 run together.  For once it wasn’t a total fail which was nice.  We wiped once but then got it the next round.  I was laughing because we had like 6 priests and I said watch the head drops and what drops but Aurora of Transcendence!  I didn’t roll on it though I am more than happy with my Helm of Clouded Sight and wasn’t interested.  I was even glad I didn’t have to compete.  Though since the trinkets didn’t drop and I already got the bag and head the only thing that I could roll on was the gem bag.  Got a few more badges though.  I am saving up for the triumph int trinket I decided.  Going to get the ring after I think.  Was a nice evening though really enjoyed myself.  Time for bed though, got lots of work tomorrow!

Continued to work too much this week.  I haven’t laid eyes on WoW since Saturday I think.  I had to go in super early for a server upgrade today so I came home about 1.

I noticed the heroic daily was old kingdoms.  I don’t think i’ve ever seen it as the heroic daily in a long time.  I ended up getting a group to my surprise and got through it.  It was a little painful because there was a WoW newbie in the group.  We tried to give him good guidance.  Can you guess what class he was?  Correct! Night Elf Hunter 

Later this evening I was checking mmo-champion and was pretty excited the posted the loot for the 5man dungeons.  Lots of good upgrades in there for me!  Should be really fun, I’m looking forward to the new 5 mans a lot.  I liked ToC and all but it isn’t all that interesting, you stand around i the same room the whole time   They posted the rewards for the Quel’delar Quest chain and there is a Mace for me from there.  It looks quite nice, and turns out a good offhand to go with it from the heroic 5mans.

After oogling over the 3.3 gear I went to see if I could get a Onyxia 10 run.  I got in one that just needed a healer and got summoned right away.  We failed the first two tries but we were really close.  We always wiped right when she landed.   We pulled it together on the 3rd try though and got her down.  We were missing a few, but once she is down she is easy.

They left it on group loot so I watched to see what everyone did.  I ended up rolling need on the head like they said and won!  With a 75 no less too   As soon as I got it the ret pally was trying to buy it from me for 500g.  I was like no thank you!  He said ‘Hrrmm’   I haven’t got anything new in a while, and I don’t need gold, that is easy to get.  A i245 ring that is totally retro, yes I need that

So I only need one more Triumph badge and I can get that ring too.  Then I can stop wearing my Dalaran ring.  My 8,000 gold teleport spell   Unfortunately once I stop wearing it I’m going to have to wait 30 seconds before I can use it.  Though I suppose that isn’t so bad.  The other ring is so much better.  After that I’ll probably be looking at the int/spell power trinket I think.

Well it looks like the Texas Mercenaries finally got another healer in their guild so they don’t need me anymore.  So I didn’t get a chance to do ToC10 today.  I only needed one more seal for my Ammen Vale Lashling so I went and did a Heroic ToC.  After getting that I did a few dailies and ended up in an Onyxia 25 run.

It took a few tries but we finally got her down.  It was a bit rough at first though   She didn’t drop anything for me or Inien.  Inien ended up joining me on this run.  We tried for her head but failed miserably.

I haven’t got to play all week, I had been looking forward to that ToC10, too bad I didn’t get a group for that.  Maybe later this weekend.  Inien and I are planning on another ZG run to finish out his rep too.  I made a nice chunk of gold today to the tune of 1200 something because of some old mats I cleaned out of my bank last week and this week.  My enchanting bags were over flowing so I finally got rid of some planar essence and arcane dust.  Need to start hording gold for the expansion I think.  Who knows what might come up for that.

I had an evening of Dragon Slaying today.  The Heroic Daily today was the Nexus so I started off with that.  Nice easy one to do, and we did a speed run which is fun.  Had a good DK tank and told him to sprint   This I did earlier in the day when when my son was napping.

When I got back on in the evening I was bound and determined to do Onyxia.  So I started doing some Argent tournament dailies while I waited.  I eventually got into a 25 man Onyxia group and was summoned over.  They had already been wiping so I was scared.  It turned out they were all quite terrible and we eventually gave up.  While I was standing there still I saw another person was starting a Onyxia 25 and joined up.  I mentioned it to Randorf and he joined and I saw Kymer did too.

Eventually we started, it took a bit to fill the group and we were successful.  I apparently didn’t take any screenshots last night.   We wiped once I think on the 25 man.  I decided to try for a 10 man so I went back to questing.  This time I went for some old world quests and while I was doing that I eventually got into a Onyxia 10 man group.  That was a little rough to start then it went well too.  In that fight the DPS Priest had dropped, the Coronet of Transcendence. If only it had been the healing one!  They gave it to me anyways since I was the only Priest.  I’m not sure if I’ll gem it for my DPS set or not.

It comes to the real problem with the hat I’m trying to buy.  I think I like the Helm of Clouded Sight best it is a lot of badges.  Though the Circlet of Transcendence and Halo of Transcendence are both good hats. Though I was lucky on teh Coronet, I highly doubt I will be as lucky for something I actually want.  So I think I’m going to spend the 75 badges for the Helm of Clouded Sight and just not worry about it.  The stat distribution on it is more to my liking anyways.

All in all though it was a good day.  If I get the chance tomorrow to do the heroic daily, then maybe get in some VoA action I could have my new hat

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!