Friday, October 30, 2009

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.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

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.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

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.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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.