What to do when your on the bench
So thanks to a last minute invite to a VIP function at this conference deelee I am at (cause you know you’re a VIP if you’re invited 1 hr before start time). I am riding the bench for the second evening in a row.
I hate it – though we are in Ulduar finishing drakes (that I wouldn’t get anyway and don’t give a tinker’s curse about) so its not all bad. I have had enough old content for a while.
That said we have 9 consistent, regular healers. This means I am sitting out much much more often than I would like. I am not really sure how to take it. To be honest I am not concerned that its a performance issue. My performance is more than high enough. I am also, thanks to obscene luck, the most geared pally in my guild.
Anyway, I don’t want to say too much on this but I am unlikely to continue sitting on the sidelines so much. Its not good for a guild to always be sitting 3 or 4 heals. I don’t want to point fingers but I am getting a little tired of Blizzard designing content where 1 fight needs 7 heals and the next fight cannot be done with more than 4.
Happy Birthday Australia
I had a big rant to post today about the secret evils of the LFG tool (here is a hint there is a gear equivalisation process in there somewhere and it seems clearly biased towards some instances over others).
However, I can’t be negative on my country’s birthday. Get drunk, get laid – do all the things that make Australia great my brothers and sisters.
I love my country.
I gotta stop ad-hoc raiding
So right now I am in a 10 Ulduar run desperately trying to finally get my drake.
Its not going well.
I really don’t want to be here. I am _tired_ of wiping on this stuff. I am sure that I will get my enthusiasm back, right now though I am a bit pissed at the fail.
Its weird I finally gemmed and enchanted a ret set and I can’t dps cause I want to fucking strangle the healers for every mistake. Of which there are a lot. I’ve had to heal these fights (3 heal in 264 gear) cause they can’t get it done.
Both are disc priests – I am going to put up a post why disc is done as a raiding spec. Soon…
Edit – drake in possession
Putricide is easy when you drunkenly abuse your guildmates
So I am in this alt 10 man ICC run – well it was mostly mains but it was billed as the alt run. I am not sure that I really SHOULD be in this run. I am behind on badges and I really don’t like wiping on easy content. Anyway we wtf pwn the first 6 bosses in very quick order.
And I am drinking…
And had been all afternoon…
So we wipe twice on Putricide – understandably cause most of us hadn’t killed it yet and some hadnt really done it. One of the alts talks about how they had 3 sub 10% wipes in the Wednesday group (which was our first guild clear). I am like fuck that shit; we get to phase 3 and the son bitch dies.
Anyway we have two 60% or so wipes and there is a long strategy discussion (or so I assume – they were talking strats when I got up to get more booze and still chatting about it when I came back).
So I decide that I will do what I used to do – and I call out all the things people need to watch (and make the disc priest go holy – disc offers little).
We kill it EASY – I let out a stream of obsensities at the end (something like “that’s how you fucking do it, none of this fucking around bullshit – pull your fingers out and fuck that shit up”). Yeah I am awesome fun when I am a little cut.
Reckon I might have to have half a skinful Monday to ensure a kill. I know PP agrees with me here.
PS I think Zah may get a bit miffed at me if I keep calling her PeePee – I may or may not be doing it for that reason…
The new dungeon finder
I don’t hate this.
Stop with all that fake fucking surprise, its not fooling anyone.
I tried to put together a list of pros and the only thing I could immediately think of was the cues are instant. Since I don’t have to run with my guild I also don’t really have to put any effort in stuff like getting on with your group members or social niceties. I just say hi, heal shit and leave. Its great. I guess that is two things.
I do tend to get matched with reasonable tanks too – for example today I ran with another astral walker. I get shitty dps of course but I only need a good tank for it not to the worst thing in the world.
I have also not been shafted with Oculus up the ass day after day.
Which is good cause you need hundreds and hundreds frost badges. I’ve missed the last few raids cause of the whole holidays and family thing, so I am behind on gear slightly. Doubt that matters at all. Healing is the least gear related thing there is. Its all judgement and multi-tasking, probably why so many girls are good healers I guess.
Anyway happy new years all. Lets kill that lazy so and Arthas – oh and spoiler alert (I become the next Lich King!)
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