Tonight I was putzing around on my druid, collecting herbs to mill into Darkmoon Faire cards, and trolling the LFG forums incase something came up that interests me. A group was looking for a healer for the heroic daily which happened to be Draktharon Keep. Since my druid is part resto and I could use some upgrades, I decided to give it a shot.
The group was aces.
The tank was a paladin with around 28.5k health, the rest of the party was made up of hunters. The group didn’t do ‘nasty’ DPS, nor did we fly through the instance, in fact the tank was leading on the DPS charts and we wiped on the first boss. But the point is, they were friendly, polite people and it made the experience completely enjoyable.
After wiping on Trollgore twice I switched over to Zejus the Priest to just get it done. I still haven’t been able to get use to druid healing; the whole “Ok I’m going to cast this and eventually it’s going to add up to a lot of healing” thing. When somebody needs their health bar filled I like to do it right away incase another surprising spike of damage happens again (like a corpse explode, for example).
But anyway, once I switched over to Zejus things were fine and even though the boss fights weren’t a breeze like usual, the group was courteous and appreciative, and the fights were challenging which is a change from the usual “outgear the place, blow it up, get your badges, and get out”.
The final boss dropped Moonkin pants which would have been decent for an off-spec sort of thing but all-in-all I didn’t miss out on any loot.
Oh and since I had a few beers I was carrying on in guild chat channel and jokingly asked if anybody could craft a Titansteel Guardian for me for 43g 03s and somebody actually whispered and said he’d do it. He said he wouldn’t accept any gold and was happy to help. I felt bad taking it and even offererd 500g but he canceled the trade and wouldn’t exchange until I stopped trying to give him gold.
I feel weird in situations like that because, why do I deserve it? It’s nice of him but the item is worth a good 900g. Maybe I’m doing something wrong when it comes to farming gold and 900 is just peanuts. Who knows? But anyway I’ll have to dig up his name and mention him here because it’s an extremely generous thing to do and I don’t want it to go un-noticed.
Well, it’s time for bed…I suppose
