Differences

The difference between healing Kara and healing ZA:

Karazhan: Lifebloom... lifebloom... lifebloom...

ZA: OH SHIT

Caelestrasz

So a new Oceanic realm opened - Caelestrasz - a PvE realm, with free transfers from the existing Oceanic PvE realms. I conferred with the couple of RL friends who I play with, and we all decided that yes, we'd transfer to this new realm and see what was happening.

It's a pretty low population server at the moment, which means no queues, and there isn't a lot of competition for stuff like mineral nodes and the Skyguard escort quest. On the other hand, it's hard to find groups for heroics.

First thing I did on Cael, however, was to look for a decently established guild, and I've found one, I reckon. 25-man raids will be starting for the first time this Saturday, we've got two groups with Kara clear, and we're trying ZA tonight. I gained almost 250 +healing and a little bit of mana regen in the few epics I grabbed in our Kara run the other day - a healthy gain.

Anyway, today's Heroic daily is Black Morass, so time to find a group.

Trollin' dem forumz

Quote from the WoW forums, describing resto shammies and how to spot them:

Actually that is often one of the easier ones to spot. Follow the giant yellow beam that appeared on your target back to its source and you almost always see a giant cow or blue goat squid thing wearing a skirt and shield with a potato circling his waist.

If instead of a giant cow or blue goat squid thing with a potato circling him, you see someone running around and hitting stuff, see if the giant yellow beam continues beyond the running target and back to the healer with a potato circling his waist. You might have to repeat that last step if you once again find someone hitting stuff when you trace the yellow beam.

To get rid of this sort of healer, all you need to do is take their potato and then apply something called crowd control. Sometimes when you attack him, the healer will turn into a transparent puppy. Don't worry though because this is as easy to take away from him as the potato was. Don't forget to give the healer some more crowd control after taking their potato and puppy. At this point the healer will be very sad and is effectively taken out of the game. You may either kill them or leave them to mope at your discretion.

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Thinking up titles is hard

Anecdote time!

Playing TF2 today (as Medic): *healing a Soldier* Dum de dum... hey, that Pyro has his back to me! *runs off and kills him with the bone saw*

Running Steamvaults today: *hots up the tank* hey, that gnome's healing the boss! *tree punch*

Does this say something bad about me? I'm not sure.

In other news, http://n.nfshost.com/1.html. It goes to 30. Have fun.

My ping is GREEN!

For everyone who plays from Australia, or anywhere remote from where their servers are based, for that matter:

Click.

Enjoy.

Holy crap

I bought a bunch of [Talasites] for ~9g apiece the other day, to cut into [Steady Talasites] for jewelcrafting skill. There were a few on the AH for about 15g, I put up all of mine for about 12, figuring that I might as well try to flog them off before vendoring them. Turns out more than half of them sold! Score. Might be a new way to make money.

And again with the talking about stuff

So, now that I've been 70 for a bit (and actually awake while), I've been enjoying myself a lot. PvP as a resto druid is fantastic - highlights include carrying flags through an entire ton of horde, controlling a priest wearing what looked to be a lot of Season Three gear until the warrior he was healbotting died (kek cyclone), and running around the Blood Elf tower in EotS, successfully fleeing from a warlock and a rogue. I'm looking forward to when I can get some decent gear so I can start doing arenas.

PvE, on the other hand, is pretty touch-and-go on whether it's good or not. I had today an amazing Botanica run with a prot paladin tanking, possibly the best prot paladin I've ever grouped with. He was damn easy to heal - a single lifebloom stack kept him up on everything except Sarannis, where I threw about three rejuvs as well as the lifeblooms, and during Thorngrin's enrages. And also - he could hold aggro on more than one mob at once. This is very much a paladin virtue, but oh GOD the difference between him and the other tanks I've grouped with today was so much in the fact that I wasn't pulling healing aggro.

I'm now going to rant, mostly about bad tanks. Feel free to close your browser if you don't want to listen to me complain.

I hate incompetent people. This is not largely because of the fact that they are incompetent - it's largely because of the fact that their incompetence continues. It's as if they don't want to become better. This is mainly directed towards bad tanks, since I'm still pretty annoyed at this one particular one, but also includes DPS who sit below the tank on the damage meters, healers who stand there as people die - or alternatively, use the wrong heal for the situation and go oom when the boss is at 70%, and people who clearly haven't put the thought, research, gold, time, and effort into their characters. I mean, how many people do you see with stupid enchants, green-quality gems in epic gear, talent specs that don't make sense (10/20/31 priest? wtf is that?), and, for people who have been 70 for a while, those still don't have all their heroic keys - after they were changed to Honored reputation. Honestly.

I mean, if the healer is pulling aggro from mobs you're ostensibly tanking, shouldn't you try to generate threat on them? Shouldn't you intervene to them and taunt them off? Shouldn't you stun them with concussion blow? A warrior has so many tools to keep mobs either hitting him, or at least not hitting the squishies, not using them is just... stupid, lazy, whatever.

Maybe I'm just an elitist. At any rate, the point when I don't need to pug five-mans is a point I'm looking forward to.

70! (finally)

Summary of my experience as a 70 Druid so far:

PvP - Aiieee tauren chasing me with a big sword! *dies*
Botanica - *pulls healing aggro and dies* Wtb good tanks.
Steamvaults - this is easy. Daily quest! mmm gold and rep

zzzzzz tired. It's 7 am - no, wait, that was last time I looked. It's a quarter to nine. sleep time.