Sorry I’m so late in responding. Your gear looks fine, to start. Obviously your mana situation will improve with gear so don’t get discouraged. It’s a shame you weren’t around in the days of unlimited Disc mana…finishing raid fights with 60% or more, those were the days!

To be honest, your spec needs a lot of work. I’d be glad to go into my reasoning if you’d like, but here’s a decent spec to start. You should notice a big improvement. One important thing to mention…as Disc, you should be using Penance almost every time it’s available. For that reason, pick up the talent that reduces it’s cooldown, as well as the glyph. You can afford to drop the 5 points that you have invested in decreasing the cast time of Greater Heal…you really shouldn’t be using it. If you’re relying on GH then that is probably why your mana situation is so bad.

Here’s the build I recommend. Stick to shield, renew, Prayer of Mending, Flash Heal, and Penance. Prayer of Healing if needed but be careful because it’s heavy on mana:

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#bVcbuhhVRhsffRtfxzc

You still have 3 points to put wherever you’d like. Good luck!

Not sure if you know this or not…a lot of people don’t… there are four pulls in the room with the first boss of AN. Three of the four have a mob in the group called a “Skirmisher”. The skirmishers will drop aggro suddenly, enrage, and dart for the furthest player (usually the healer) and become untauntable for something like 10 seconds.

I wrongly blamed the tank (in my head, not out loud) in my group when I died to one of those bad boys before learning about them. My advice is to always be sure to mark them with a skull and ask the group to focus them down. They ARE vulnerable to stuns, so if the party DPS isn’t through the roof you can always stun it before/while it drops aggro from the tank.

Of course this is no excuse for the healer in your group to have acted like a sissy. Sometimes a wipe is nobody’s fault, and sometimes it’s everyone’s fault. Yelling at and offending people isn’t a great way to make the run more fun or any quicker.

It’s still just a video game.

And sorry if my comment seemed snippy, I was in a bad mood because of a bad experience with a priest. I was running heroic AN for the first time (I’m a rogue), and on the first boss the priest healer went down, soon followed by one of the other DPS (mage I think)

He started flipping out, complaining about how unlucky he was to get 3 horrible DPS on the run and how we should all just leave. So I did.

I was thinking about the saying “If the healer dies, it’s the tank’s fault.” But this guy was nonstop complaining for about 5 minutes

Ruined my mood and after jumping into another heroic just to get my Badges of Frost, I stopped playing for the day

I use to constantly offer strategies for all bosses in heroics, but after awhile people out-geared heroics so much that they just ignored me and now they do what they want.

Normally I’d be happy to hang in there with a party and work through some wipes. But in this case there are players who are refusing to buff, and who are arguing over who can win a duel. Meanwhile, we’re wiping.

Did you tell people some strategies for the bosses? Did you tell them to move and not just sit and “nuke”?

If you did and they ignored you, then I support you dropping them

But if you didn’t say anything and just let it continue, then it’s just as much your fault as theirs.

I want to clarify that I have no problem healing a new tank….I never have. 23k health is no problem for me, since that was the standard when Wrath was released. My problem is DPS in DPS gear spec’ed as a tank, and queuing as a tank to bypass queue times. The DK was a nice player but she was in attack power trinkets and gems. Even if she was not defense capped but wearing tank gear, I wouldn’t have mentioned it. But this was her first tank run and she didn’t bother hitting the AH for some of the half-decent crafted plate. It reeked of laziness to me. But again, nice person, not geared to tank, but made for an exciting run…

Now what I don’t like, are the arrogant assholes and general douchebags you get stuck with. I was booted from a heroic CoS run for pointing out the rogue (same guild as two of the other members) had been on autofollow the entire run and not contributing. If this was a single person you could use the kick feature however those 3 characters posed a majority that us other two people were stuck with. Blizzard needs to fix this.

Enki, [A] Alleria