Hey, At Least It's Progress...Right?

My main's guild took down Baleroc last night.  Finally.  We've been working on him for about two raid nights now and it took us a little fine-tuning but we got it.

The problem with that fight is that one mistake can really mess up the entire group.  People really need to be on the ball there.  

On the plus side though, we've almost got Shannox and Lord Rhyolith on farm.  That's a few guaranteed purples every week now, which is good.  I'm pretty sure we one shotted Rhyolith last night and maybe 2 attempts on Shannox to get him down.  That's definitely a leap in the right direction.  At least we're not spending 2 nights wiping on bosses and getting no kills.  No kills = frustrated raiders and miserable druids.

I got complimented last night I think.  Generally, we barely have enough raiders to completely fill our 25 man team, but last night we had a surplus of healers.  I had offered to sit out so that our regular paladin healer could step in and was told I was going to stay in the raid.

"There are four healers I want with me every night until all of these bosses are on farm."

That's what I was told.  I definitely took it as a compliment...and despite all my griping about being forced to heal during tier 1 raid content...I'm actually really enjoying it right now.


I really want to rant too, but that's for an entirely different reason and I'm going to save that for my next post.  If I get a chance, that will be posted today.  Time is working against me today, so I'm going to end for now.  I just wanted to share our recent progress and I'm trying to get back into the habit of posting more regularly.  

 (Yes, I got your emails...yes, I got your guild page link - no, I'm not switching factions/servers for the time being - sorry).

What Once Was, Isn't but what Isn't Might Be?

What Once Was, Isn't but what Isn't Might Be?

That's about as confusing for you to read as it was for me to write as I was coming up with a good title for my post.  Rest assured that this won't be another babbling rant.  Yes, it will be a lot of babbling, but not a rant.

What Once Was, Isn't.  

That means, I was a tank in tier 1 raiding content for Cataclysm with my raid guild.  Let me be more clear, I was an off-tank on quite a few nights and occasionally asked to heal.  

So...

I once was a tank.

Isn't?

In tier two raiding content, I'm healing almost all encounters and only occasionally being asked to tank here and there.

I isn't a tank anymore...kind of.

I didn't really think too much about it as we made our way through the first night or two of raiding.  I tend to think very little about the potential loot drops and more about the fact that I'm just happy to be bumbling around with the raid group.  It's an awful lot of fun most of the time.

But when we downed our first boss and a resto druid chest dropped, it dawned on me that I really had no idea what spec I was really supposed to be looking at as my main spec and which was an off spec.  I passed on the first two resto pieces and one potentially feral piece until I decided maybe I needed to check in with officers.

I mean...main spec in  previous raids was always bear.  Off spec was resto.  Surely that wasn't still the case.  But I wasn't sure.

When I inquired about this, you know, because inquiring bears wanna know...I was told that it seems like my main spec is resto for now, but that might or might not change.

That was kind of the conclusion I already had.

I guess I've never really been in a situation where this mattered before.  Previously, I always ran with 10 man raid groups because the guilds I ended up really just weren't big enough for 25 man raid groups.  So either I was the only one in the entire run that could wear any leather, or I was the only druid.  We rarely had rogues with us.  They seem to be a rare find these days.

And warlocks.


Where the hell have all the warlocks gone?  I WANT MY CANDY!


Oh right, stay focused...I don't even remember what I was talking about anymore.  I just finished working on a few things for work and basically my mind still all wrapped up in that.  I guess I felt guilty for not posting and thought I'd share some random stupid experience I've had since my last post.


And apparently people in my guild are either starting to get used to me or are starting to like me?  I don't know.  Some of them are randomly being more social toward me than before.  It generally seems to be shamans that attach themselves to me.  Not sure why.  Because we share animal forms?  I really don't know.   Just saying.  


So I'm going to retreat back to my RL for a little while.  Hopefully I'll be back to post sooner, rather than much later.  Until next time...


MUCH LOVE!


PS:  So far, guild progression is - Some solid attempts on Beth'ilac, Starting Baleroc tonight and we've downed Shannox and Rhyolith (and basically have them on farm WOOT WOOT).

The Long Silence

It's been far too long since I've written.  Far too long.  Work has been hectic, life outside of work has been hectic, and being in any sort of raid guild generally limits the amount of free time you have to tab out of the game and write anything worthwhile.

But I mean...is a WoW blog ever worthwhile?



Meh...

Sorry to be all emo but not getting to write as often as I want to really makes me a grumpy, grumpy bear.  It's been so long that now I don't even remember all the things I was going to talk about.  I had notes but who knows where they are by now?

"It's 10:30am, do you know where your feckin' notes are?"  Yeah...no.

Anyway...

I'm sure a lot has happened since I last checked in.  I don't remember most of it.  I got a priest to 85 and switched her to Shadow/Holy instead of Discipline.  I either didn't understand Discipline or it was incredibly broken while I was playing it.  Any healer spec that leaves you completely OOM so often after blowing every CD you have for mana regeneration just isn't worth it, imo.

***FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING HOLY I AM SO MAD RIGHT NOW***

So I wrote this totally profound and awesome post because I felt bad for wasting your time thus far and LO AND BEHOLD...Blogspot decided to devour it.


It is lost.


LOST.


If anybody finds it, you can leave it at my doorstep and I'll be eternally grateful and/or reward you with infinite gold!


Or not...


Anyway, I was basically talking about how I meant to review patch 4.2 notes before it went live (which I failed at), and talk about the new stuff, how to get it, where to go for new quests and awesome new raid goodies (which I failed at), but that I didn't get a chance to read the patch notes before it went live nor did I find time to post about the patch notes I didn't read (I would have made up some really awesome sounding stuff which you all would have eventually come to my door angry about with pitchforks and torches)...


Best run on sentence EVER?  I think so.


I was also going to tell you how "excited" I was to actually read the patch notes today and maybe post about them "soon" (but I define the term "soon" very much like Blizz does, meaning you probably won't see another post from me for months and months but if I do pop in early with a post it's a pleasant surprise YAY)...

And I was talking about how distracted I get when I'm reading patch no...omg look!  A BUNNY!

I'm going to go look at bunnies now!

Wait...no...bad druid...I'll find something much more constructive to do for my poor, neglected blog.


I'll post "soon" (tm).