Monday Morning Mumblings: Chapter 2

Wouldn't it be cool if I actually had the focus to turn this into a weekly installment?  Well, I'm going to try.  Yes, I missed last week...and maybe a few other Mondays, but I'm trying now.

There are a few things I want to touch on:

• Being a guru
• Elitists, the good and the bad
• Another Firelands Nerf discussion
• Why can't I get the bullet points to stop???
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• WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

 By the gods above, that was an ordeal....No idea why the bullets kept coming, but they've stopped so we can continue on with the post.  Yay, right?  Sheesh...

Firelands Nerf
Alright, since I started in reverse order, I'm going to keep the theme going.  I just wanted to say that maybe Blizz really did go a little too far with the Firelands nerfs.  Friday night, once we all got settled in for the night we took some of our alts into Firelands to see what we could do.  We didn't have an "ideal" group makeup and some of our alts are maybe not ideally geared...AND...they're alts.  These aren't our mains that we're probably intimately familiar with.  


That being said, our Friday night alt group plowed through all of Firelands before we ended up stopping after we roflpwnt Majordomo Staghelm.  Does no one else see a problem with that?  I mean, we wiped I think a few times on Baleroc and maybe a few other trash pulls or boss fights...but overall, the run went incredibly smooth.  It seems like the Firelands nerf might have been just a tad too big.  Free epics are always nice, but...I guess I still miss the challenge.  You know, where I might have to drop a Mana Tide totem halfway through a boss fight because ZOMG WE ARE OOM!!!  I don't remember dropping that more than 2 or 3 times the entire night.  It's kind of sad.

Elitists
You know, it is possible to be a good elitist.  Maybe you know everything there is to know about your class, all of the raid instances and 5 mans, and a bunch of stuff about every other class that exists.  Maybe you are some sort of genius in life.  That's fine.  A good elitist is someone that might know everything, that shares knowledge with other people in a non-jerk way to help another person become a better player.  My guild has a few of these and I love them for it.

But...it's easier to be a bad elitist.  Bad elitists are the ones we refuse to run with, the ones that get muted on vent, or the ones that, ultimately, end up on many, many ignore lists.  


I met a hilarious bad-elitist this weekend and I couldn't help but giggle at what a jerk he was being for no reason.  I'm sorry, but your ability to be top dps, as a tank, on Coren Direbrew does not make you amazing by any stretch of the imagination.  If you're a GOOD tank, you're beating on the little adds the entire time to keep them from annoying the healer.  If your dps is GOOD dps, they're mainly focusing on killing Coren and getting the fight over with since the adds disappear when he dies anyway.  


All tanks have some AoE ability/abilities they use to keep the adds focused on them.  Pallies have consecrate, Avenger's Shield and Hammer of the Righteous.  Warriors have Shockwave + Rend and cleaves.  Death Knights have Death and Decay, Blood Boil and can spread diseases to all targets.  Druids can thrash and swipe.  All of those abilities mean that our dps would be higher since we're damaging multiple targets, versus your dps who might just be targeting just the boss.  


So, my elitist warrior darling:  You're not really awesome.  You're just being a tank.  The group was just single targeting.  Had you been as amazing as you think you are, I wouldn't have had 3-4 adds beating on me for the duration of the fight.  I'm just saying...


Being a Guru
Recently, I've been getting asked a lot about how to become a better resto druid by friends.  It's flattering, but I don't feel like I'm Guru material.  I don't like math, I hate trying to gem, enchant and reforge my gear to get the perfect balance of the stats I need, and I don't know that my rotation is optimal.  I'm always willing to help out and answer questions, and if I don't have an answer I'll look it up.  That doesn't really make me a guru though.  It just makes me someone who's willing to share what I don't know and help point fellow druids in the right direction.


Last night while I was in BWD on my druid, someone I had never met before whispered me asking for advice on tanking and healing with a druid.  Apparently he'd been referred to me by an old friend of mine from a guild I've long since moved on from.  We talked a for a little while, but I can't help feeling like I totally confused the poor guy.  He thanked me and asked me if I would BE his druid guru.  Er...I uh...Should I hold Druid classes?  Like, Feral Tanking 101 with Professor Des?  Restoration Theory 101?  


If fellow druids are looking to me now for advice, I'll do some more research and create more informative posts.  But I can't help thinking:  "If they're looking to ME for advice....these poor souls must be pretty desperate..." 


lol...anyway...


I don't know who's spreading the rumor that I know stuff...but when I find out...DOOM!