Yesterday I started telling you about gear for my virtual character. Exiting stuff, I’m sure you would agree. 10 million people cant be wrong.
As I mentioned, I was healing during the Firelands Raid, but my team was kind enough to let me do a quest and let me have the stuff that I needed to get what is called a Legendary Weapon. These things are amazing. With one of those on your character you can do some serious damage, as in up to 20% more. Trust me, that is a lot. The weapon is called “Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest”. But, you are a healer, you are saying. they said it was a thank you for being shoves in and out of roles, and I was not going to complain about it.
If I can get my hands on this weapoin a lot of my being behind in gear will be offset by its amazing ability to make me kill stuff faster. I might be able to finish the quest now, but my main problem is that I will be doing it at a time when most of my guild will not be online to help me, so I’m thinking now that I want to get some more gear so that I kind of have more than I need, then go make a run at quest to get the staff.
I am currently stuck at the most difficult part because I was never in a real position to get it. As I said, I was a healer, and my gear was for healing, not for fighting my way through giant monsters keeping me from an awesome staff. So, over the next couple of weeks I will get a few more pieces of gear and I will take a Saturday off to head back in to that dungeon to get my digital Gnome hands on that staff.
You might think it stops with the gear. No, sir, and madam, it does not. I will be spending my hard earned gold to buy potions, a lot of potions, on the Auction House. I will also be spending gold on making the gear that I have perfect, and I will have to redo my Talents to help me not die. This, again, will cost me more gold. once I am done with that I will fly to where I need to be, sit down with a coffee while watching some TV, and when I am ready I will place myself in front of the computer and bang my head against that quest for two to three hours.
(Despite my gear shortage I think I will have a go at it this Saturday evening,. Kind of like practice.)
Friday 17 February 2012
Thursday 16 February 2012
New life, real and not so real.
Yes, I have been away for a long time, but let’s face it, very few people cared.
I have been working hard at getting my life back together in various way. I’m exercising more, learning Korean big time, reading books, taking more photographs again (I’m planning posts on that) and playing less World of Warcraft.
Having said that, I am still playing quite a bit of said game. See, I am in a small raiding guild and I am on the raiding team. Sure, it is extremely geeky and many people even think sad, but is it really any different from the guy who play some sport every day? My sport just happens to be online, where I do interact with my team members, all be in through the means of a virtual world. We talk. We joke. We have fun together.
I’m sure I mentioned before that I play a Priest. Priest have two ways of healing, Discipline and Holy. Throughout the Firelands Raid I was healing as a Discipline Priest, a change from healing as a Holy Priest while leveling. I did most of my raiding in the first raiding tier as a Shadow Priest. Shadow Priests do not heal, they kill. I started out raiding as a healer though, but changed when I showed my ability to do damage. For Firelands we were in need of a healer and I had done it before, so there I was, saving lives again. It was fun because it was although the healing was still new in a sense, I was a veteran raider now. Then came Dragon Soul, the last raid of this expansion.
The way this latest raid has worked out recently is that we usually only need two healers in stead of three, and I was asked if I would be willing to go back to killing again. Since changing to Discipline I have fallen in love with healing again, but I figured that I already have a lot of gear and will be able to step right back up for the fights where we need three healers, or on the days when one of the other healers can not make it. My numbers have show that I’m well up for it. In fact, since my “personal fight” to get my healing numbers not just competitive, but good enough to to post the best healing number on our team, I was a little surprised that they asked me and not another healer.
Us three healer came together in Ventrillo, a voice chat program we use while playing, and it basically came down to this. Each player can create two Specs for their class. Most healers use the second one for damage, because outside of raids you often need that. Our Druid has no damage spec created. The other healer has a damage spec, but like me she prefers to heal. Apparently the general feeling (them two and the raid leader) was that once geared up I would be the better damage dealer among us. I suppose this was largely based on my previous experience.
I just like playing for the most part, so despite having a favourite play style, I will do what the team needs or I will get out. If the team does not get it done then I don’t it done either, So here I am, still trying to gear up. Unfortunately most of my gear that I need now comes from things I need to kill, and you only get it once said stuff dies, then it is about luck to see if they give you what you need. This catching up thing is going to take some time. Did I mention we have another Shadow Priest who will be fighting for the same gear I am looking for?
That is it for this post. More on the gear appropriation in tomorrow’s post. After that I am thinking want to make posts that shows that weeks photos for my Photo a Day project. More on that another time.
I have been working hard at getting my life back together in various way. I’m exercising more, learning Korean big time, reading books, taking more photographs again (I’m planning posts on that) and playing less World of Warcraft.
Having said that, I am still playing quite a bit of said game. See, I am in a small raiding guild and I am on the raiding team. Sure, it is extremely geeky and many people even think sad, but is it really any different from the guy who play some sport every day? My sport just happens to be online, where I do interact with my team members, all be in through the means of a virtual world. We talk. We joke. We have fun together.
I’m sure I mentioned before that I play a Priest. Priest have two ways of healing, Discipline and Holy. Throughout the Firelands Raid I was healing as a Discipline Priest, a change from healing as a Holy Priest while leveling. I did most of my raiding in the first raiding tier as a Shadow Priest. Shadow Priests do not heal, they kill. I started out raiding as a healer though, but changed when I showed my ability to do damage. For Firelands we were in need of a healer and I had done it before, so there I was, saving lives again. It was fun because it was although the healing was still new in a sense, I was a veteran raider now. Then came Dragon Soul, the last raid of this expansion.
The way this latest raid has worked out recently is that we usually only need two healers in stead of three, and I was asked if I would be willing to go back to killing again. Since changing to Discipline I have fallen in love with healing again, but I figured that I already have a lot of gear and will be able to step right back up for the fights where we need three healers, or on the days when one of the other healers can not make it. My numbers have show that I’m well up for it. In fact, since my “personal fight” to get my healing numbers not just competitive, but good enough to to post the best healing number on our team, I was a little surprised that they asked me and not another healer.
Us three healer came together in Ventrillo, a voice chat program we use while playing, and it basically came down to this. Each player can create two Specs for their class. Most healers use the second one for damage, because outside of raids you often need that. Our Druid has no damage spec created. The other healer has a damage spec, but like me she prefers to heal. Apparently the general feeling (them two and the raid leader) was that once geared up I would be the better damage dealer among us. I suppose this was largely based on my previous experience.
I just like playing for the most part, so despite having a favourite play style, I will do what the team needs or I will get out. If the team does not get it done then I don’t it done either, So here I am, still trying to gear up. Unfortunately most of my gear that I need now comes from things I need to kill, and you only get it once said stuff dies, then it is about luck to see if they give you what you need. This catching up thing is going to take some time. Did I mention we have another Shadow Priest who will be fighting for the same gear I am looking for?
That is it for this post. More on the gear appropriation in tomorrow’s post. After that I am thinking want to make posts that shows that weeks photos for my Photo a Day project. More on that another time.
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