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That reminds me the other night I was down at the park with our toddler. While I was gone the wife decided she didn't want to cook, so she went out to pick something up, while I gave the little one a bath and got her into bed. When I got done with all that the Mrs. was standing in the doorway with 2 XL pizzas, 2L of coke and a bottle of rum. I think I fail-healed some heriocs that night, before everything became a blur. I don't really remember.

Anyway, WoW stuff. For some reason Sindy wasn't pulling everyone in last night, only a few people. Did they nerf her or something? Or were we just glitching? At one point she ported a bunch of us to her room while we were running back in and proceeded to kill us all. That was odd.

We're getting to p3 now, so yay for that. Also having lotsa people with bleeds and DoTs sucks on the frost tombs. Those things don't last long with the 30% buff...

I need to eat more salad.

Bugs suck.



A little whiskey with Sprite or something. Straight or on the rocks if it's a heavy PuG night.

Edited, Jul 28th 2010 9:13am by someproteinguy

Details please.



And preferred beverage for raiding is nothing alcoholic. Makes focusing and top performance harder.

Preferred beverage right now is Leffe double


Edit: While Travis Barker is a good drummer, I can't say I've found any of his songs to be epic.
And more epic drumming

Edited, Jul 28th 2010 6:27pm by Aethien

Dave Grohl is a good musician. If you can make it as a drummer as well as a frontman/guitarist you know your way around music.

Guys, how important is the T10 4-piece bonus for Druid tanks? Because I just got two upgrades in ICC25 (shoulders and legs), but if I replace either slot, I'll lose the bonus (due to HC Sack on chest). It'll also cost me some expertise, but will give me some decent health instead.

Aren't you so unbelievably far over the expertise (soft?)cap? 'Cause 42 does seem like a bit much, but I could be wrong. Either way, I don't think you should worry about losing expertise, 'cause I tanked the majority of ICC with Aeth having absolutely stupidly low levels of expertise, and hit.

I'd use Glyph or Corpse any day of the week. Dodge is so devalued and the way healers heal the 35% proc is not worth losing a static 1700 armor. I'd use Gossamer over Corpse to be honest.

I also hope your not dropping 4t10 for higher ilvl gear. Small gains in other stats, even stam, are not enough, in my opinion, to give up a strong cool down on a short CD.

This is the worst time for the WoW forum boards to be without a designated administrator. >.<

Edited, Jul 28th 2010 7:25pm by Davejohnsan

Been playing around with RAWR and Maz the Druid.

Have yet to get it to ever recommend dropping 4t10, and it even tells me to down grade the new stuff you got to the 251 tier versions.

Are you setting up buffs and other various settings properly?

Our guild has picked up a drama llama, yay.

Not that he doesn't have a point, I see the same thing he sees. Clicky. Priest and pally went in and I stayed out. Pally was getting 20-25 stacks of the buff, priest would get up to about 6. Priest went in because she had a lot of problems healing when she stayed out. Really when it was me and the pally going in, we'd consistently come out after the first set of portals to find a wipe well in progress.

I dunno, at this point the priest has never been good at the fight for whatever reason. She's done fine and even quite well in most other circumstances, just this one gives her problems for whatever reason. Honestly, I reach a point where I stop trying to figure out why that is and just compensate on that fight (see attempt 3, for example, where I did 10% of the healing on the drake...).

I'm all for calling people out when they have problems and what not, but once you've identified the problem there's a point where hammering the person over and over is kind of pointless. I mean a bit of stress can help, but too much and people get all grumpy and I have to deal with it. Funny, one of those weird unmentioned skills a guild leader seems to need to have is how to talk to everyone about their shortcomings. Meaning I may need to have another conversation with the priest it seems, though I really doubt there's much more I can say at this point.

New guy wants to take a week off from raiding though, which I'm all for honestly. The more serious raiders that come with us on their alts are a bit tired of him, and I don't want to lose them.

Anyway, enough of that drama. Back to work...

We got her to stand right near the portals, and she's actually getting in okay. The first time we cleared Val she couldn't even find the portals, and just stayed out and healed the dragon.

From what I've gathered there were 2 different problems, one came from not being close enough to the other healer to both get the same bursts. The other seems to be just movement related. She's having issues adjusting to the 3D space she has to move through (she had issues on Maly as well for reference). She's been slow to get up and get to the clouds initially.

I don't know about guardian spirit, does that should but on the buffs in a log file? If not I'll have to double-check on it. Maybe it's time to visit our priestly friends...

The really cruddy thing is that I don't think the priest is going to ever get the raid healing part. Basically she just gets that 'deer-in-the-headlights" look when she is faced with it. Mostly, I think she gets glued to the multiple health bars and stands in stuff. I'm hoping drama llama helped make the point that she needs to step it up.

If it was progression we'd be more along the lines of replacement at this point, since it seems she really can't handle it. But I'm not going to replace someone over a fight that we're past really. No-one likes wiping 2x on farm stuff though, hence the drama.

The mean officer's feeling is along the lines of what I wrote above. Yes, she's sucking it up, but he's picking his battles apparently, since Sindy is our main focus now. It's certainly not helping the situation any. She probably needs to practice it more, but I'm not sure I can justify wiping the raid multiple times just to make a farm fight easier.

Not that directly, but I should.

I've asked her what her problem was outside, and how the healing felt. She said too many people were taking damage and she couldn't keep up. Since I'm normally on raid heals, and am fairly used to healing multiple targets (plus the druid mobility thing) I elected to stay out once it was apparent she wasn't going to be able to do it.