Tada, I’m here /cheers (hehe)

So how you all been keeping? I’ve been spending a little time in Naxx – twice I would think since my last post, Did 3 wings on Sunday evening, with some good loot dropping (I got nice shiney purple shoulders  – again cloth – but hey as always I dont intend on gettin hit all that much) but when nice stuff dropped (Token for T7, a nice shiney trinket) my dice once again deserted me and a classy rolls of 4 and then a 2 came out……. naturally I lost – but hey it’s the taking part that counts, and as it’s a guild run we’re keeping it in the “family”.

And whilst we’re on the family topic, finally after a fair chunk of time, and a “little” persuasion my brother finally decided to try Wow, he’s been on War for a while and raved about it, now I admit to playing War, and that for a briefest of brief moments it was great, but hey it didn’t last long and Wow called to me like cheesecake in the fridge…… So yeah my brother rolled a Druid (horde ofc) and is making all the right sounds of enjoyment – ones that I can remember making a few years back so thats a big thumbs up.

Now the hunter, yeah so I dinged 47 yesterday still sticking with BM spec and still with a cat, I did try a gorilla for a short period, but to be honest I missed my Black Cat, so I swapped back and theres no stopping me, think I’m gunna enjoy this goon

Anyways as always say hi if you wanna, and dont if you dont wanna.

Buel

Morning Gang, a new shiney achievement is whats new hehe – if you take a look to the left and then scroll down you’ll see that I am sporting a rather shiney, brand new achievement – Kel-Thuzad’s Defeat yes I’ve been in Naxx rather a few times over the last couple of weeks and finally I got to see the end content.

So thought’s about this from a healing perspective, I was asked to stand in a couple of times to help the guild raid, this naturally I jumped at (helping the guild and healing is a good excuse to see the content, and potentially earn some loot).

Firstly loot – chuff all to be honest, there was a couple of drops during the times I was there, but nothing could beat the kit I currently have, I found this really dissappointing that the Naxx kit dropping was worse than my crafted and heroic purples! Now I’m sure if other items had dropped that my blues would easily have been replaced it just wasn’t to be. The Hunter, Shammy, Warrior Helm dropped (seen waaayyyy to much of the hunter, shammy and warrior tokens in my last few trips!).

Secondly – Healing. This time around there was only 2 healers available myself and a Disc priest so I saw a different side to the healing, not quite so “laid back” as it is with three healers but still were capable of handling the situation (right till the last boss! which is a very different story). I’ve learned that swiftmend is a nice “get out of jail free card” and that along with natures swiftness you can get those heals out fast and make a difference. I found that rejuvenation is still a firm favourite even tho I’ve change my idol for another shiney item Idol of Lush Moss which boosts my Lifebloom (which I try to use as often as rejuvenation altho stacking it three times can sometimes interefere when healing a full raid in my limited experience but guessing that will become easier with practise), now my other firm favourite which I find extremely useful is Wild Growth – whilst it’s not a massive heal, it is certainly very effective when theres alot of AOE going on and the melee guys are beginning to take a hitting, instant cast one off on the MT and it ticks nicely onto the DPS guys, in fact I found alot of cases it was just as friendly dropping it on myself and letting it tick on the healers and other ranged casters around me.

So onto that last boss, the one that gives the achievement that sooooo many PUG’s want before they let you join (which is kinda strange if you ask me lol, I understand the need for knowing raids etc, but surely if they are kitted and can understand simple instructions like stand here, hit the boss type thing, surely thats a good start?)  not that I often do PUG’s not being a snob just limited time restricts that – there always seems to be a group going in the guild. SO the final boss – now I could list out the strategy but to be honest theres better strat guide sites out there, lets take a look at the healers potential pitfalls during the fight, phase ne isn’t really an issue for the healers, everyone stand in the center of the room, stopping those encroaching before they get too many in the middle and swarm over us all, phase two – this in my opinion is the tricky bit for the healers Kel’Thuzad come’s into the battle and start throwing his “ample” weight around (you should allready have an encounters add on like deadly boss mod if you haven’t seriously get one, makes it alot easier – google it to find the linkage) so many of the key spells and offensive attacks from him require you to be 10 yards away from the affected player, spell casters is relatively simple deadly boss mod tells you if someone is within 10 yards so just start 10 yards from others, the healers really need to be stood cloe to the centre of the room and the others spread out around so healing is made easier. In my humble opinion the killer ability of this guy is Frost Blast this basically affects the player taking 104% of your heal in 4 seconds, you need to stack these guys up fast, very fast, instant casts for the win, HoT’s dont seem to cut the mustard on this you need the big guns out, it’s exceptionally hard work to keep everyone upright, and with two healers a little bit too much to keep everyone upright, we found when one of the healers has this spell (he is stunned and cannot help) the other healer struggles to keep you alive and keep everything else together.

We finally put this guys down on the 4th attempt with a third healer brought onine to help heal throughout this boss, I’m sure it’s possible with two healers, but for both of us who hadn’t really dealt with the boss much before the third one in made the difference.

Anyways enough gabbling for now, cya all later.

L2Heal

Once again I’ve been playing more than blogging – sorry

I’ve been putting in some time into the heroics and Wintergrasp (mostly for Raid healing experience – it’s not a good reflection due to the lag but it’s fun too) I managed to get enough tokens to pick up The Egg of Mortal Essence which replaced my last green item – ya, that along with a few nice heroics a notably nice blue trinket Talisman of Troll Divinity and my crafted Wispcloak which wasn’t much of an upgrade but enough to make me shell 0ut for the mats.

Then my moment of truth came – guild run to Naxx, I had a free (ish) evening so though why not sign the druid up, it was a late sign up and 2 healers were already ahead in the queue so I really didn’t expect to get in – but when 7pm (UK time) came around sure enough I got an invite – lucky I’d stocked up on Food & a flask.

Phenominal is about the word I’d use – the druid’s healing is outstanding – there we 3  healers, 2 druids and a disc priest – I was amazed at the results (I’ll put some screenies up tomorrow) I topped the healing charts & 4th on overhealing which I was dead chuffed about – not the overhealing is an issue – just nice to not have massive amounts, I thought i’d do ok, but to be top healing was just amazing to me – the others being Naxx kitted and having visited there before as a healer so pretty much nowing what to do and where best to stand.

We managed to get thru to Saphiron and stopped there – on the whole a nice run – always nice to get involved in a raid with the guild people who truly understand what it’s like to be new in an instqance / raid and take the time to explain rather than running headlong with others trying to work it out on the fly.

Screenies will follow guys.

L2Heal /out

Not alot to report really but thought I’d stop in and say hullo (just incase anyone was missing me – lol yeah)

Wow has it been 2 days already, so I got dragged into Naxx 10 man on Tuesday night (with the DK) as the guild run was a little short on numbers, and again it was a nice changed of play style and pace – which is great and again I got lucky and another Epic dropped for me a nice chest item this time – Chestplate of the Risen Soldier.

Yesterday evening I had a relatively good levelling evening – about 50% of a level not brilliant for all you grinders out there, but I was pleasantly happy with that – managed to sort the pre-reqs on the Sons of Hodir so can start the rep grind on that one.

hopefully tonight might well bring the big 79, but have to wait and see eh

Cya laters

L2Heal