Come fly to me

Your guild is getting ever closer to downing Ragnaros, the final boss in the Firelands raid. On Wednesday we started a fresh run and downed 6/7 bosses and spent the whole of Thursday evening’s session dying to Rag.

At least we are getting closer each time and our main issue at the moment is learning how to handle the last phase. This phase is crazy town, let me tell you. As a healer I have to find a way to stay close to my tanks , keep shields on them, try to find a way to heal and run when I get a debuff that starts doing damage if you stand still for too long AND worry about steering rolling meteors in the right direction when they randomly target me. It is madness, and I am not talking about the long sentence! But that is not what I really want to write about today.

Just before you get to Rag, you have to clear some trash. One of the things that happen is that a sort of fire pool spawns under you, and if you don’t move away before it blows, you are thrown in the air. Normally that would be just annoying, but in this particular case we are standing on a bridge. Nine times out of ten you will be thrown off the bridge and in to the lava for an annoyingly slow, red death. My raid awareness is steadily improving and I am now able spot when I am able to use a spell I didn’t really use before.

Leap of faith is one of the funnest (better than most fun) spells in a Priest’s bag-o-tricks. A when a friendly team member is in range, this spell literally pulls them all the way to you. There is a cool sound effect, the target gets angel wings and they do some fast low flying. It doesn’t look that great if you are the target, but from my side it looks SWEET. It is mostly used in Player vs Player where you will run ahead and pull your flag carrier forwards and out of a fight. (It is also good for annoying people when they are trying to be first back after we all died, but that is a whole other strategy guide.)

Last night I was able to use leap of Faith with afore mentioned trash. One of our healers was standing in the fire. It is not always easy to see when you are in it, but I was able to see that I WAS NOT and she WAS. I targeted her and readied myself to pull her if she did not move fast enough. I didn’t really expect her to get blown in the air because she is usually much better than I am with these things, but when she did get thrown, I went a mashing on my keyboard key for that spell.

What a boring story, you say. Yes, I suppose, but not for the two of us, or at the very least, for me, and lest face it, I am the only one who really matters *wink*. She was blown completely out of my view but I managed to literally pull her out of the air. I watched her get thrown up, start speeding away, disappear off my screen and next thing I knew she was whoooshing to my side, alive and well. That is going in to my book of Sweet Moment in Gaming

It was so good I was a little turned on, and yes, sometimes I am THAT geeky.