I have had a number of drops in Kara lately, even though Maiden is still being a pain and keeping her two drops from me: [Mitts of the Treemender] or [Shard of the Virtuous]. I think at this point I need to change my strategy. I should stop bashing her and calling her a bee-yotch and start singing her praises. Maybe then she'll drop what I want. So Maiden, I loves you! You are sooo beautiful! And no, that high slit skirt doesn't make you look skanky! It shows you are a woman who knows what she wants and isn't afraid to show it!
So here are the six pvp pieces I am holding onto, or for my soloing/daily questing gear:
Now in terms of what I am wearing now, I did get exalted with SSO and have the necklace and trinket from them. I am finally glad to see my spirit so high. Oh and I did get a trinket from Opera... though from what I read online, its not that great for resto druids. Our HOTs won't trigger the proc. I may need to bring back my lower city prayerbook.
All stats unbuffed, no potions, no food, no scrolls, no nothing!
Weapon: [The Ancient Scepter of Sue-Min] Off-hand: [Netherwing Spiritualist's Charm] Idol: [Idol of the Emerald Queen] Head: [Hood of Primal Life] Neck: [Shattered Sun Pendant of Restoration] Shoulders: [Forest Wind Shoulderpads] Back: [Lifegiving Cloak] Chest: [Gladiator's Kodohide Tunic] Wrists: [Vindicator's Kodohide Bracers] Hands: [Gloves of the Living Touch] Waist: [Cord of Nature's Sustenance] Legs: [Earthsoul Leggings] Feet: [Forestlord Striders] Ring: [Violet Signet] Ring: [Keeper's Ring of Piety] Trinket: [Redeemer's Alchemist Stone] Trinket: [Ribbon of Sacrifice]
Anyways. So when these Kara drops dropped, there were a couple of times when I wasn't sure if I should switch those in for some pvp items I had because the pvp items had good MP5. But this is when every good resto druid goes to the queen resto druid, Phaelia. You'll see her mana regeneration canculator here. Assuming I am always casting (within the 5 second rule), in a 10 minute fight, 1 innervate, cast frequency of 1.5 sec, and with intensity, my intellect and spirit stats tranlate 1 MP5 to approximately 2.3 Spirit. Damn. This made my decisions easier. Now I am holding onto my pvp gear and bringing it to Kara for certain fights where I may need the extra stam. I do really like how I look in my pvp gear now! The healing pvp gear is pretty good. If you don't hate pvp too much, its a great way to go into Kara with really good stats.
Head: [Gladiator's Kodohide Helm]
Shoulders: [Gladiator's Kodohide Spaulders]
Hands: [Gladiator's Kodohide Gloves]
Waist: [Vindicator's Kodohide Belt]
Feet: [Vindicator's Kodohide Boots]
Neck: [Vindicator's Pendant of Salvation]
Level: 70
Health: 7044
Mana: 8314
Intellect: 415
Spirit: 425
+Healing: 1574
+MP5: 461/179
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Healing gear update 5.11.08 and MP5 vs Spirit
Kara update... running with two trees
I would say that last week was our first serious week back at raiding Kara. We were held up by Shade last week once again. This past week we did Attumen, Moroes, Maiden, and Opera the first night. It was our first look at Romulus and Juliet, which was cool. Then the second night, we did Curator, Shade, Chess, and Illhoof. It was funny because Shade was so much easier with Buns, our warlock (who has never been with us to Shade before). Buns definitely showed those elementals who was boss. After we got him down, Buns says 'Oh, that wasn't so bad'! We're like, uh... that's because you were with us?
We did Chess for the first time last week, so this was our second week at it. Last week I had no idea what was going on, so it was a little more fun this week when I knew what to do.
Next we went to Illhoof and the first try, I think we had too much dps on his minion, instead of Illhoof or the imps. After we figured this out, we got Illhoof down on our second attempt.
It was then pretty late, but we thought we'd go take a peek at Prince. We did one shot at him, which didn't go too well. But at least now we kinda know what the fight looks like. I sort of can't believe we are at Prince already. It kinda makes me sad in a way... we are towards the end of Kara! Oh but here's a funny shot of us. I can't remember now where we were going, but we were all bunched up in this corner to break line of sight, and then to AOE stuff. Of course there were jokes that someone wasn't using deodorant... or that someone's butt was pinched!
Now you may have noticed from the pics I've shared so far, that there are two trees! Yes, another resto druid Tobein has been running with us. Its been cool because I kinda know how he will heal and how long his heals will take to cast. It's sorta like healing with my twin! Plus its nice that we have two trees to give the tree of life healing buff to both groups. I am a bit concerned whether two resto druids can heal Jess through Prince, given how hard he hits. I'm thinking maybe we could put Jess and Wut in a group with both Tobe and myself next time... so that our group gets double the tree of life healing buff... 25% of my spirit and 25% of Tobe's spirit. Two trees though... total win.
Friday, May 9, 2008
Oh my
So when Jess isn't busy getting all mad over something (I swear... she's got such a short fuse that Jess) and being all dodge-y and parry-y and block-y (technical tank terms), she spends time rewriting songs in WOW speak. Jess has a song about me today, go check it out. I suggest you open the link she has to Youtube in another window and sing along with Jess' lyrics.
Why a restoration druid?
My tank Jess (yes, she's mine, all mine) did a post a couple weeks ago on why she chose to play a protection warrior. Well here's a little back ground on how K came to be K.
I am a bit of a planner. I like to know exactly what I am getting into so that I don't regret it later. So before I started this game, I read the little manual the game came with and checked out the WOW website to read up on all the characters options and decide what I wanted. I think I chose a druid for a couple of reasons. I knew I wanted to heal, but I liked that a resto druid would allow me to level up with relative ease. I love that in full healing gear, I can switch in and out of bear form and still take on 4 mobs while doing my dailies. I also liked that if I had to, I could switch specs at end game and have three other options (if I had to switch... I'd probably go boomkin).
Thinking about it today though, I really love the different druid forms. It may be because it is somewhat similar to my real life personality as well. Sometimes I can be tough and all growly like a bear (often in the mornings... pre-coffee). Other times I can be a bit catty and all rawr like a kitty. But most of the time, I am most like a tree... not the loudest or flashiest person in the room, but peacefully, dependably, and quietly standing in the back and getting things done. Now just like a tree, I'm not all stoic and responsible all the time... sometimes I can let loose and break it down, just like the crazy and funny tree dance. But I will say that I am probably not as paranoid as a tree. Have you guys seen how every few seconds, we'll look back over our right and left shoulder? What are we scared of? That someone will come jump us?
So there's why I am a druid, so why do I heal? Well my real life job is in healthcare, could that play a part? I wonder if it also has to do with how I described I am like a tree... I don't necessarily like to be the center of attention, but I like knowing that I am an integral part of the group, even if its less than obvious. There is also a part of me who takes pressure and stress pretty well. I sort of like how important the healer is in a group, and while sometimes there is a lot of pressure or responsibility, I kind of do well in those situations and like to try to step up to the plate. But I think there is also a part of me that likes having the "power" of the heals. Sometimes I like to bring Jess' health down precariously low just to show her whos boss (just kidding... well uh... not really)!
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
That birdie sure flies fast!
I plunked down the 5,000g for the quest chain for swift flight form back in January. Yes, January. I don't think we were quite ready for a heroic Set run until March or so... and by then we were running Kara. So I never bugged my guildies to run it with me. Well as Sethekk was the heroic daily yesterday, we finally went.
We had two wipes before we got Anzu down on the third try. I must say as the sole healer, it was a little tough to keep everyone up. Our softie mages Vel and Aksana - Jess' mage alt were getting quite a bit of damage by the birds Anzu summons, plus I was healing Wut, plus trying to keep HoTs on the three statues. The first time, I barely kept the statues up. I think the second time I was trying too much to keep the statues up. I know they help, but they won't do you much good if someone in your group dies. So the last time, I finally got the balance just right. If you are doing this boss, there are many sites online to help you, such as here. Make sure you create the macros to heal the bird statues.
After I turned in the quest, I was flying around in Zanga a bit... it was very very odd and sort of made me a bit queasy to fly around so fast. I swooped down to pick an herb, and totally flew past it and crashed into the water. Oops! It will definitely take some getting used to.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
A little something for the ladies
So I mentioned yesterday how our guild has more gals than guys. This means guild chat sometimes goes into fawning over who the hottest guy was in Lord of the Rings. Add to that I saw this list today of the hottest male characters in gaming. It gives honorable mention to Kael'thas Sunstrider. He may be mean and tough but Kael'thas... hot? Please.
Oh and for you guys, here is the accompanying list of the hottest female characters in gaming. No ladies from WOW. WOW is the first game I've played, so I don't know who any of these other characters are. But I wonder why there is no one from WOW. I'm sure Nio will protest that Maiden was kept from this list.
I wonder how many gals even read my blog... but we play a game with hot, curvaceous female characters in sometimes skimpy clothing while I really think that the male characters just look funny (ahem Kael'thas). But seriously, none of the male characters do it for me. Here's my list of the actors who I would love to heal as my main tank (sorry Jess). Why don't any of the male characters in WOW look like these guys?
Clive Owen
Joaquin Phoenix
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Daniel Craig
Viggo Mortensen
Gerard Butler
Monday, May 5, 2008
What I know
I have a bunch of random things I wanted to share... so I thought I'd just list them all in one post as things I know.
1. Being in a female dominated guild rocks:
2. What you say can be misinterpreted:
3. Getting your vent server hacked is annoying... but funny:
4. Let me introduce you to karma:
5. Alchemists should be taking advantage of transmutes without a cooldown:
6. You just can't keep a good cow down:
After Hammerfall, the group decided to storm IF. Now this was even more hilarious to me. A huge mass of cows mooing and dying from the gates of IF to the tram! The IF guards and a number of ally characters obviously one-shotted us over and over again. However we all came back and basically corpse ran ourselves to the tram. Like I said, you can try, but what I know is that you just can't keep a good cow down. A big memorial Moo to Sharvan to whom the race was dedicated!
Ok some of our guys probably have a little issue with the word dominated. However I find it amusing that in a game that is male dominated, our guild and our Kara runs have had more gals than guys. Us ladies like to say that this is the reason for our early success in Kara. Heh heh.
So yes, we have more gals than guys. However both sexes are apt to jokingly take things you say and turn them into a lets just say adult interpretation. This seems to increase the later it gets. The other night I was trying to just take Wut's name out of the raid group into a window on my screen. But I couldn't bring it out. I was yelling on vent "Ugh I can't get Wut's thing out!!!" You can imagine the adult interpretation and jokes that followed.
There we were, clearing trash to Chess when all of a sudden we had a couple of intruders on our vent server that Wut got for us. They came on, grumbled a couple of things, then proceeded to blare some loud rap music. I think Jess and a couple others were quite annoyed, whereas Adamas got all pumped up, and I couldn't stop laughing. At first I thought someone said these were Wut's friends, which wasn't the case. I was joking that Wut must secretly be a gangster rapper in real life. So anyone else had their vent server hacked? Why do they do this? Just to be annoying? They can't get anything from it can they?
You know that Intercepting the mana cells daily up in blades edge? Well I think we have all experienced rude people from both factions who will come and loot the little pink box while you are fighting the mana worm. I used to get quite annoyed by this. Not any more. As soon as this happens, I go into flight form and basically camp this person and follow them around. I wait until they engage a mana worm, then swoop down and loot the pink box they were going for. Then I fly off, laughing and saying to myself "Payback's a bitch aint it?" Wow, what a vindictive healer I am. But people please, karma exists... in real life and in WOW. I guess this is just my little way of introducing karma to these folks. Is it just a coincidence that karma starts with the letter K? I think not.
Did you all know that
I participated in BRK and Ratshag's Running of the Bulls on Saturday with a Tauren druid I created named Kiridririe (hee hee). I love this kinda stuff, it cracks me up. Despite horrible lag, it was a fun time. The run was from Mulgore to Hammerfall. I tried to practice the survival skills I learned from watching the Discovery Channel. Basically stay in the middle of the pack so that scary bears and spiders can pick off those running on either side of you.
Friday, May 2, 2008
I has issues
I've mentioned before that sometimes I have crazy dreams about this crazy little game of ours. Well the last two nights Jess and I have been grinding out SSO rep by doing all the dailies together. I am 6,000 away from being exalted with the nice SSO people. With all the dailies... this has to be the easiest rep grind to exalted ever! I am looking forward to getting [Shattered Sun Pendant of Restoration] and the recipe to make [Redeemer's Alchemist Stone] by the end of this weekend.
So I must have had rep grind on the brain or something. Because my dream last night... well I dreamt that I was on some big bar/pub crawl. I had a huge list of places I was supposed to go to get a drink or a shot or something... and after downing the drink at each place, what I got was rep in WOW. What's even crazier about this silly dream is that I hardly ever drink!
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