Random Number Generator? My Ass

So I've been using the LFG system pretty frequently lately. Hurrah for three 4 day weekends in a row!

I'm assuming that something akin to the RNG is used to determine what instances you get when you go into the que. I have gotten so many DTK, Gundrak, and HoS instances it makes me sick. The gearscore is not playing a role here- trust me on this. One day hubby and myself (on two different characters for me) 3 characters total mind you, all got the same instance as our random... W-T-F.

Happy Holidays everyone

To my guys out there in Pansy Division, to anyone from my guild, or anyone else that stumbled across my blog and might be reading. From my heart to yours have a fantastic holiday.

Mine will be spent suffering from a possible sinus infection. It just started today, maybe I'll luck out though... here's hoping.

The bright side is, I don't have to work for the next 4 days.

/LFG Tool

Ok for the most part this thing has been awesome. I'm starting to gear up my DPS alt (the one who isn't closeted permalife) and in general I have had good experiences on my alt and on my main.

However, the LFG took doesn't have a checkbox for the judgemental asshole retards to click to exclude them from the system, or group them with only eachother. Admitedly, some of these guys amuse me when I'm not the target. I full out laughed my ass off when a DK putting out 700 DPS was called out in group. The heroic reset was coming up, he (Sad-DK) asked if we were gonna get kicked out, we tell him no, you'll get an option to stay. The Druid tank then says pricelessly, "Stay or go it doesn't matter the pet can take your spot in DPS." The Sad-DK had been called out earlier for his lack of DPS, having no gems in his armor and no enchants on his gear. All-in-all someone that deserved at least a very good ribbing- if not a sit down talking to right?

Yeah then you get the assholes who I get grouped with on my main. I'm not bragging, but I like to think I have good gear. I think I just got rid of my last 213 piece of gear... I think. Most of my stuff is at least 232 if not 245. With all the heroics I did with the new tool I upgraded my last few slots that I could through the vendor. BADGE FARM.

Oh, yeah back to my story. I got this asshole tank in one of my groups. Originally I thought he was going off on the druid... I made a fuckup and died. This guy was so good he managed to tank the boss down to 9% or some shit before the last DPS facepulls a roamer and adds it to the tank and he died. So the tank starts talking about situational awareness, which I thoguht was directed at the druid, being as the druid battlerezzed a fucking DK and not the healer (WTFBBQ?). He then proceed to call me out as having died to the AoE blast from the boss which (omg) "Boggles his mind."

I told the guy look, I've done this boss twice (2nd boss -I think- in PoS) and you can kiss my ass. Shit happens, get over it. His response was pretty good.. I can't fault him for it... "Then ask." OK.. I can see that If you're not doing what everyone else at our gearlevel is doing... consta-pulling with no chance for the healer to do more than play whack-a-mole. I retort with that, then say "You know what.. I don't have to take a ration of shit from you, have a nice day," and ragequit while he was going on about me costing his guild repair money.

Wow... someone that ubersauce has to rely on his guild to repair his shit.... he can't take a few minutes a day to do a damn daily or two and make some cash on his own. I guess he's too cool for that.

Overall I'm a fantastic healer (buffs armor), I had a momentary lapse on the first run on the boss.. it wasn't the second try or the third, it was the first fuckup and he went off on me like I was one of these assholes getting carried in an uber group. I don't have time for people to treat my main like that.. and you know what I don't have to put up with your bullshit. I'm a healer, do you know how fucking fast I can get in another run? It takes about 5 seconds for the tool to go "TA-DAHHHHH" with a group invite after I join. That combined with the fact that I hate PoS, yeah ragequitting that shit was the highlight of my day.

Mimiron and 3.3 goodness

So last raid week (remember how I told you our raid weeks are weird? this was just last monday) we approached Mimiron with trepidation and a few of the more experienced raiders adjusting our shorts and expecting a wipe night.

I was even in tells with "Turdhead" and we both agreed on the outcome of the night. We figured that the raid wouldn't know what hit them, and it was going to be a wipe/learn-fest.

I say in party chat (not raid) to my husband, the raid leader, the guild leader and one of our awesome DPS, "If we get to phase 3 I'll shit myself." Hubbys seconds previous statement of "If we get to phase 3 *I'll* tank the command module" wasn't without it's irony. He is a hunter.

If you haven't seen the videos go watch a regular Mimiron strat video, he looks hard. all these phases that do different things and require people to think and move and OH FUCK THERE IS AN OMNOMNOMNOM MISSILE POINTED AT ME!

I love my guild, I am in it for the people, not to progress in raids or get loot. Those are benefits, but even if this guild didn't raid I would still be with them. We have rules of conduct, and only one of them chafes me. Many people in the guild know eachother in some way. We've had to limit ourselves to friends only invites and we're hovering at the max member count at all times. As such, typically in our raids you have 10-15 people who watch themselves and know what the hell they're doing. The others are being carried and will generally stand in fire, or cause a wipe now and then as they are not as aware of their surroundings, or what is going on.

1st try what do we do? Get to phase 3.

4th try, we kill him.

I was completely blown away..... I think even "Turdhead" was speechless.

So we saved the ID for this weeks raids.... 3.3 killed the raid save... buh-bye progress.

Painful Grouping

Have you ever had one of those groups that just makes your hiney hurt?

I'm not complaining about people not knowing their class or not knowing how to play the game, I'm talking one of those groups that just doesn't *mesh* right. The type that takes you 3 hours to do Old Kingdom... yeah those groups.

These people are competant raiders. Here is the makeup of the group; DK tank, Priest healer, Shadow Priest, Rogue, and Hunter. The hunter is my hubby and as such will not be the target of any bitching. He's good at what he does, he spends hours upon hours building spreadsheets witht he best gear for his character and where it comes from. He keeps up to date on every single class change and talent point update. Trust me, he does know his shit.

I was the Shadow Priest, and admittedly I'm new to the DPS game. I ground out about 8-10 regular ToC runs and upgraded some of my gear, but I still have some lvl 70 epic Sunwell stuff. I just haven't found better yet, and frankly I won't until I'm out of the 5 man content I'm pretty sure.

Sure Sunflare isn't the most updated thing in the world, but I didn't get any better from questing because... well I leveled her PVP. I guess I should mention that too.

Now understandably I'm putting out sub-par DPS. This is why I didn't force myself onto the LFG system and some poor schmucks who just wanted a quick instance. I instead forced myself onto some guildies.

The DK tank hasn't done 5mans in ages. He's a conpetant tank and raids with us. Hell they use him to off tank adds in raids. He is that good.

The Rogue I don't know very well. I want to say he's been on some raids with us, but I just don't know the guy.

The Priest healer is an alt. of one of our raiders as well. She typically plays a warlock.

Now the makeup sounds good, if a little heavy on the priests, but not something that would lead to repeated wipes and painful progression in a heroic right? Well you'd be wrong. I don't know what it was, but between the of us we coudn't down one boss without a wipe, EXCEPT for the mind control guy... not sure how we managed that.

We were going to beeline for the boss to go burn the corpses at, but after the first wipe we didn't have corpses to burn anymore.... (fix it Blizz... you know you read my blog as a guilty pleasure).

There was just *something* missing from the entire thing and it frustrated me to no end. Hubby of course blew me out of the water DPS wise, but I knew that would happen. The Rogue was not subpar either... it was just a convoluted mess I think...

Well two of us were drunk, but I'm not even going to mention that... I play drunk all the time.

Quick Shoutout to my guys at Pansy Division. Thanks for the mention and I love the show. Keep up the good work. (Can you tell I'm behind on my podcasts?)

Raid Leaders > everyone else

OK, I've been saving up this bitchfest and I'll see if I can get it out before work.

If you are not the raid leader you do NOT have the right to call out on voicechat bitching to everyone else. I don't care if you used to lead raids in the past, you can shove your qualifications up your ass. If our main raid leader (IE Guild Mistress's hubby) is there, you do not have the right to call out anyone not doing their job. In fact if you're not listed as the raid leader in the little calendar thingy- you do not have the right to bitch or call out anyone. You have been talked to before about your addon that called out people who failed at frogger (which was the funny the first 2 times), you've been told that your abrasive nasty attitude is the reason people won't run with you.

I usually end up in tells with one person not familiar with my anti "Turdhead*" tells during raids that he tries to become de-facto raid leader on. I don't think there is one person yet who thinks this guy is NOT a dick.

I know of at least 4 people who have gone to the leadership and said "We will not raid if "Turdhead" is leading." Suddenly he's not leading, and I don't think that we were the only 4 who said something. I'm just not savvy enough to be in every social circle within our guild.

We are not hardcore, we are not that type of raiding guild. We are friends and hugs and do not treat everything like it's a motherfucking job. People can have RL shit and have to go and it's OK. You can occasionally no show and it's cool. You can disappear for weeks and when you sign up again we'll throw you in a raid slot.

We are not hardcore even after "Turdhead's" efforts to make us so. I don't care how frustrated you are that we are not progressing... you do NOT EVER take it out on guildies when they fail. We are not that guild you stupid motherfucker.

You do NOT EVER call out the healers as the problem when it's an offtank getting critted... because guess what thats his fault, not ours. You do not coordinate heals...EVER. We have a channel for that and we handle it there, you know this, you have a FUCKING HEALING ALT WHO IS IN THE CHANNEL!!!!!

So "Turdhead" remove that stick from your ass and calm down. Or alternatively, die in a fucking fire and fuck you, from the bottom of my heart.

*names have been changed to prevent teh dramas

I'm here really

The Holidays and a very sick cat have put a damper on my posting. Plus lack of raiding last week gives me nothing to bitch about except that it always seems like I have NO playtime.

The turkey pet is kyute.

Sorry

Just wanted to put it out there that it's been hard to get motivated to post anything this week, and apologize to anyone who's reading (or I am apologizing to myself for letting myself down... hrmm narcissistic much?).

We did Ony this week (technically our raid weeks are weird, it was last Thursday) and for once I felt completely useless. I was coordinating heals for a fight I've only been a grunt healer on. We started off the signups with 8 or 9, but ended up with 7 showing up, with 2 of those either being an alt or very new to the fight.

4th attempt is when I lose my alt healer from my pool of healing.... I'm now down to 6 because apparently the DPS wasn't doing their job and they needed her to help kill the big bad dwagon.

So on each pull we were damn near guaranteed to be down to 5 by the time Ony hits the air. Not naming names, but I saw a fail angel alot... maybe not exactly by the first phase, but certainly by the time the big flamey breath weapon struck.

Here's a fucking hint... the raid leader (or my husband, having the duty handed off to him mid-fuckall run) was calling out WHERE IT WAS WAS SAFE TO STAND.... "North and south are safe" "Sides are safe" "NE and SW" "Outside the goddamn zone". So maybe you should get a clue from that... don't stand in the middle of the fucking room and try to soak up the flames because you needed a goddamned tan. This is not survivable, so FUCKING MOVE instead of showing off your fail angel each and every attempt.

I refuse to name names, since I do love this woman dearly, but maybe Ony was not the first raid you should have come back from Hiatus on.

Oh and next time you go into Ony's room and notice a vague spacegoat shaped pattern of blood spatters on the floor thats starting to tile the room... pay it no mind, we finally killed her Sunday, but the 6 or 7 attempts on Thursday left me wondering when she was going to buy me dinner and what I did with my KY.

Armor Sets

I have to say I'm a little peeved at the developers.

What the fuck are they smoking?

How fair is it that I can wear gear that looks like it came off of a hunter? or a shammy? (Ok some of that shammy gear is rightfully taken)

I have a paladin buddy who I have a friendly gearcheck with every week. He's wearing an ilvl 232 helm that looks EXACTLY LIKE the ilvl 245 one I just won tonight. W-T-F-B-B-Q?

I don't get it. Oh and he's got a different shield, but it's the same graphic, just with a slightly sicker hue to it.... (more green). It's just not right that they reused, no wrong word, overused all of the armor patterns and even went crossclass with them.

There is no originality to it, no uniqueness. It feels like the only reason my Paladin doesn't look like everyone else and their mother is the fact that she has the tabard for being exalted with x-amount of reps. The red flamey pretty cool lookin one.

Oh and her sword from grayskull.

Edit 12/8- Correction the tabard is from having 25 tabards. It is awesomesauce.

Open Letter to Blizzard Dev's (Part 1)

I don't know how many parts that this will have, but this is my first in a series of open letters to the Blizz developers.

What the fuck is wrong with you?

Patch 3.3 you are going to add in a new feature to Report Lag.

Really? WTF is wrong with you? No I'm serious... I'll wait here for your response.

You are giving this functionality to everyone, I'm assuming to improve the servers. On one hand it looks fantastic on paper. Lets see who has the worst lag and we'll upgrade those servers first, etc. OK- I can see that.

But in reality you are giving problem players a way to harass you, and the rest of the server. You are giving this to every douchebag who persists in typing in /2 Anal (insert ability name here). You are giving this to people who can barely find the "on" button on their computers. You are giving this to people who should be chemically castrated for how STUPID they are. You are giving this to players who have no sense of reality and think that all of their problems are someone else's fault. None of these people are going to listen to a reasonable answer, if in fact you or your employees are going to respond to each of these incidents.

Instead what you are going to be doing it giving them an "ADD LAG" button to their UI. That right.. all of these individuals will report lagginess when their addon's, internet connection, computer, etc. is at fault. Because as each of these rolls in, it will stress the server. As each player says in trade "Hey I just reported Lag. I wanted to see how it worked. HAHAHAHA" more people will do it. Our servers are already stressed to the point where you had to make our instances boil over onto more open servers in our battlegroups, and you have just added to the stress level for all of the extra data you will have to mine and process.

The only way that this could even remotely work is to only trust people with this button who have more than two braincells. Unfortunately there is no script in the world that can recognize this, and you have just mastered being complete twits about any problem that may actually exist.

Congrats Blizzard for a complete fuckup of an idea. Go back to the drawing board.

P.S. Every person and their mother lags in Dalaran unless they are playing on stupidly overpowered supercomputers. Are we ALL supposed to report lag when we hit Dalaran. Great way to crash the server.

Argh!

Wether I am at work or home, if you speak to me in ALL CAPS I am less likely to give one flying shit about you, or your comment until I'm damn good and ready.

I will make your ass wait on me since you were so goddamn rude.

More than likely your capslock turned on due to the drool running out of your mouth. If I'm in a forgiving mood, I might ignore it.... once.

If you continually bombard me with tells in all caps, not only will I put you on ignore, but I'll also blacklist you off of healbot, which means that when your little green bar is smaller than normal, I'm not healing your retarded ass.

The only exception I will ever make to this rule is for the MT... but all the tanks that I normally run with know better. If it's a PUG, I'll edumacate you on the ettiquette of asking for a fucking heal.

In the end though your fucking capslock is not my problem, and in fact I'll make it yours.
- signed
Angry Healadin.

Comment about AV and Drek

Yes Drek is going to hit you hard.... if I hear one more non-tank bitch about how they got critted for xx amount I'm going to lose my mind I think...

Of course he's going to hit you, what do you expect him to do?? Shower you with Light, Kisses and Rose Petals?

Maybe you shouldn't try running in every time YOU or some other DOUCHEBAG calls for everyone to go...

Ask yourself the following before calling "all in" and proving that you have more intelligence than a 6yr old with severe Autism.

Do we have a tank?
Do we have heals?

If no to either of these, and you still feel the need to type "OMG GOGOGOGOGOGO" or some variant thereof, remove yourself from the keyboard and have your mother get a reverse abortion.. kthxbye.

Phreaky Phriday

Not a WoW post.

I dressed up for work today, my outfit.. the thing farthest from the truth.. an Angel.

So I go frantically looking for a Halo last night, hoping I can find something premade.. no luck. I ended up at Michaels and I bought a long vine christmas decoration thingy (gold glitter covered vine thingy) and I proceeded to make my own out of a wire coat hanger, that, and some fine gold wire that I also purchased at Michaels.

I had no clue how heavy it'd be.

I decided that since I had the rest of the outfit it would be easy to do this outfit, and it was very last minute. White graduation gown from HS graduation... Check. White heels from my wedding.. Check. White wings I bought in Holland a long time ago and never used (and just recently delivered to me by my parents)... Check!

Those shoes never hurt this much the last time I wore them.... I've been barefoot at work for hours just out of the pain. I guess I had more adrenaline in my system the last time I wore them.

This is what I get for wearing flats for years.

Never ever ever again. Fuck high heels. With a big nasty uncleaned dildo.

3.3 LoH Change

So there's a rumor going around that 3.3 will bring the change of not being able to cast LoH on yourself anymore.

How I feel about it: Meh

Why: I'm not that concerned baout this change from a healing perspective. I use this as a last ditch "OH SHIT THE TANK IS GOING TO DIE!!" button more than anything else.

My guild raids with 7-8 healers in our 25 mans and I know that a MT or OT dying is much more hurtful than one of the healers. Yes the MT healer is important too, but our people are on the ball when shit goes downhill fast, and they can pickup where I left off if I bite the dust.

So it doesn't really affect me as much as some folks. I'm sure some Ret-fail-adins out there are crying though.

Healer Questionaire Meme

Post this questionnaire, with your answers, on your blog. Pick the healing class you know most about (or is the focus of your blog) for the questionnaire, and then send it over to another healing blogger you know and love who heals with a DIFFERENT class. Include a link to the blogger who sent you the questionnaire, as well as a link to the blogger to whom you are sending it.

Ok so I literally had to steal this motherfucker since I'm not known yet.. Who knows, maybe someday, somoene will find my blog. Stolen from Amber over at http://forthebubbles.wordpress.com/

•What is the name, class, and spec of your primary healer?
Aoladari, Holy Paladin.
•What is your primary group healing environment? (i.e. raids, pvp, 5 mans)
25 man raids
•What is your favorite healing spell for your class and why?
FoL- short and sweet and I can get that mother to crit for 10k.
•What healing spell do you use least for your class and why?
Would you believe I don't even know the name of the damn thing? It's the one that could be used as damage OR healing... WTF kind of spell is that? No thanks.. I only need two heal spells let me prove it to you.
•What do you feel is the biggest strength of your healing class and why?
Only two healing spells to manage, the rest is in the othershitIuse hotkeys.
•What do you feel is the biggest weakness of your healing class and why?
No AoE heals.
•In a 25 man raiding environment, what do you feel, in general, is the best healing assignment for you?
MT or OT. Paladins are the best single target healers out there.. hence... you know.. the blog name.
•What healing class do you enjoy healing with most and why?
I like having a variety, I can't say I can pick a favorite.
•What healing class do you enjoy healing with least and why?
Umm.. a DK? LOL
•What is your worst habit as a healer?
Taking heals off the tank to top off this person right ov-oh fuck, the tank died. (Sorry Amber I stole your response to this one.... I do the same fucking thing)
•What is your biggest pet peeve in a group environment while healing?
Blaming the healer for everyone else's issues. I got better shit to do than to be your fucking scapegoat.
•Do you feel that your class/spec is well balanced with other healers for PvE healing?
Each class has it's pros and cons.
•What tools do you use to evaluate your own performance as a healer?
Is the tank alive? Have we wiped yet?
•What do you think is the biggest misconception people have about your healing class?
Oh you can raid heal just fine... >.<
•What do you feel is the most difficult thing for new healers of your class to learn?
To not level as a healadin.... period.
•If someone were to try to evaluate your performance as a healer via recount, what sort of patterns would they see (i.e. lots of overhealing, low healing output, etc)?
I'm on the lower end of the heals... I don't find it necessary to judge the mob with heals to make my numbers go up. Paladins always waaaaaaaay overheal and I'm not an exception to that rule.
•Haste or Crit and why?
Crit crit crit crit
•What healing class do you feel you understand least?
Am I allowed to say all but my own?
•What add-ons or macros do you use, if any, to aid you in healing?
Healbot, Decursive
•Do you strive primarily for balance between your healing stats, or do you stack some much higher than others, and why?
Spellpower and MP5. The Shammies get pissed at me because I steal their MP5 gear all the time.

Kiss my grits!

OK, so I'm new to the whole blogging community.

Who knows maybe you didn't notice this being my first post.

My introductory blog is a rant targetted at an asshat on my server. Why do I think this is wise to be my first post? I've had 24hrs to stew about this guy and I want to make sure that if anyone reads this, who happens to play on Icecrown, they can avoid this poor excuse for a human being and do something else constructive with their time... like fishing.

Let me back up and tell you who I am. I play Aoladari on Icecrown. I like long walks on the beach... oh wait, this isn't that type of post.

I'm a main tank healer by trade and a secondary or tertiary raid healing organizer person for my guild. I also coordinate the pally buffs (this doesn't sond like alot to some of you but I have a whole separate rant saved up for that one). I'm not a self absorbed or excessively mean person by any standards, and in most cases if you want help with something, and I know you, I will be more than happy to give a hand if I have the time. This ends up getting me involved with doing things that are a waste of my time more often than not, but can occasionally be entertaining.

My gear is not the best on the server. I'll openly admit that. I don't spend time grinding out badges for better gear and I'm often behind the curve. That doesn't mean that I suck, and it doesn't mean that I don't know how to do my whack-a-mole healing job very well. Healbot FTW.

Anyway I have a few pieces of iLvl 245 gear and I continue to upgrade through raiding mostly. I just don't have the tier sets. Looking like I could jump off of the mountains in IC and glide to the ground safely is not a target goal of mine by any means. If you don't know what I'm talking about, check out the Alliance T8.5 Paladin kit. I am one of the better geared healers in my guild and I attribute that to our casual progression raiding style and my damn luck with the /roll's.

So I took yesterday off of work. Not a big deal, I was ill (really *cough cough*), but I did spend my time doing my second favorite thing in the world, playing WoW.

At around 3pm yesterday a call goes out for a PUG 10man ToC. I think to myself... "Self, you could use an upgrade or two there, reset is tomorrow, go for it."

I send a tell to the leader from my alt telling him I'll be bringing a healer. I switch over and join. Here is a crucial point in how he was building this group... only 2 healers for 10 people. Normally this would work fine, if people know what they are doing.... including me.

One point for the raid leader, he recognised that as a single target healer, I should be utilized as a MT healer off the bat. Very nice.. I must have found a decent PUG run right?? Well sorta.

Along the way we lose a few people while getting rolling or after the first 2-3 wipes at Beasts... yes thats right folks.. 2-3 wipes at the first fight. >.< We fill the holes and move along. Finally getting Beasts down.

We wipe more and more, but are also progressing in the raid by actually killing bosses, so I decide it's not in my best interest to bail, but GOD did I want to.

Why?

The Raid leader "Amoone" decided that if we wiped, it had to be the healers fault... every... single.... time....

No that wasn't the Kolbold beating my brains to a pulp that caused anything, or the DPS not switching light to dark feet at twins... or anything else. It was always the healers fault, and he felt so sure of it that he said it every.... single..... wipe.

We often corrected him, or told him what actually happened. Or told him that the strategy was wrong. He would then tell me how easy it is to single heal the entire raid on one priest... oh really?? Well if you haven't noticed by the fact that I'm wearing a shield, or PLATE GEAR, I'm not a fucking Priest. It's a little harder to heal at least 4 people (2 tanks and 2 healers... we're more prone to not watch our own health bars after all) even with BoL running on one of the tanks.

I can't recall every instance of him going off on the healers in raid chat but for the most part they went like this;

Raid Leader: W
Raid Leader: T
Raid Leader: F
Raid Leader: ....

or

Raid Leader: OMG Where are the heals?

or

Raid Leader: What the fuck is wrong with the heals?

When I say we wiped a lot.. I mean it. I was at 18% durability before the first attempt at the last boss, and I started the day at 100%.

Luckily the other healer, or the tanks were backing us up... they knew that other shit was going on and that we were not responsible for every wipe. (I was responsible for one... C-T-D ftw... *sigh*)

Finally before the last attempt I compared him to a 10yr old with his panties in a twist, everyone got their heads out of their asses, and we won.

Still for blaming every single wipe on the healers, you have officially earned our spot on my shit list Amoone. Fuck you very much, kthxbye.