Through my many PUGing adventures, I’ve grouped with many a douche-bag for a tank, but I’ve also stumbled upon a few great, courteous tanks. To express my gratitude, I’m going to start highlighting the great players, specifically tanks, that I’ve grouped with in-game.
Basim, a feral druid from the Khaz Modan server, Disciples of Azeroth guild, I salute you. He pulled at a great pace and whispered to make sure he wasn’t pulling too quickly. He wasn’t loaded with HP but his game was tight and made the run smoother than any tank I’ve grouped with for that particular instance….including the 50k+ HP tanks.
Conversely, I grouped with another tank tonight for H-AN, who pulled the first two groups of mobs, then intentionally AFKed. Since he was leader, we had to wait 15 minutes for the internal kick timer to expire before we could proceed. To kill time and frustration, we pulled the next pack of mobs and fled to the instance portal for the sheer joy of watching the tanks HP disappear until his death. How mature we are.
I really appreciate it when tanks fight on the stairs rather than the top of the platform where they are out of line-of-sight and I have to be in melee range to heal them. Some examples would be the Moorabi boss fight in Gundrak (pictured above), and most of the fights in Violet Hold. It’s relatively minor, but it’s a considerate move and I want to thank all tanks out there that have a mind to do it. I’m convinced that those tanks also play a healer.
As a side note, does Moorabi ever actually hurt anyone? Since the release, he has been such an easy fight.
Buff Moorabi!
First off, please disregard my awful graphics card. Everything in the game looks like it’s built with LEGOs.
After many hours (more like 8 minutes), I decided to go with another dwarf for the new priest alt; this time it’s a female. The reasons came down to a) the awesome casting animation b) the rarity/repulsiveness of female dwarfs and c) the fact that I can probably tolerate Dun Morogh one more time.
She’s pictured above, modeling her heirloom Tattered Dreadmist Robe, which will level along with her and give a 10% XP boost. After a few more heroics I’ll have enough badges for the matching Tattered Dreadmist Mantle, which adds another 10% XP bonus.
I’m in the middle of laying out the complete list of heirloom items and the total emblem/shard cost, for those that are interested in pimping out their new priests.
Now for a little bitching and complaining…
There is a possibility that I’m missing something, but if not, the way to purchase heirloom items is stupidly tedious and annoying. The items cost around 40 Emblems of Heroism. When Wrath was first released and there were only two types of badges (Heroism and Valor), purchasing heirloom items wasn’t so bad. If you raided and had Valors, in order to buy the items, you had to convert 40 Emblems of Valor into 40 Emblems of Heroism. Yes, this means clicking close to 80 times for one purchase.
Now, with 3 MORE different badges in place, it’s out of hand. You have to convert Emblems of Frost to Emblems of Triumph 40x, then Emblems of Triumph to Emblems of Conquest 40x, then Conquest to Valor, then Valor to Heroism. I developed Carpal Tunnel Syndrome midway through the shitty process.
Am I missing something or is this really how we’re supposed to handle it?
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Well, good luck has to end eventually. This was the band of complete morons that I got grouped with tonight for a random heroic (VH). I should have left the party the second I saw the crap they were writing, but I honestly didn’t feel like waiting for the 15 minute debuff to wear off so I just kept quiet and got through the run.
Feel free to file a complaint with Blizzard. I did.
So I’m creating another priest. I don’t know why. I like pain, I guess. Part of it is because I’ve forgotten what it’s like to heal the old 5-mans. The other part is wanting to be able to provide tips to newer priests to the game without having to say things like, “Use Prayer of Mending a lot during the Van Cleef fight…oh wait, you don’t get that spell until level 68.”
The question is, which race? With a few more dungeon runs I’ll have enough to purchase three heirloom items, so I prefer Alliance. Another dwarf? A human with a beard and a staff? Maybe spacecow? What’s your opinion?
