Valerius do Naxx

Right then, I’ll get right to it.

Last night was out first foray into the wrath-raiding content. It was an eventful night and probably surpassed all of our original expectations on how far we would get.To summarise, we cleared the whole of the spider wing, and then took down the first boss in the plague wing (although I don’t know if that’s its actual name). From a boss encounter point of view they were all quite interesting with their own individual quirks.

From a healing perspective (which is the reason you’re here), we took two priests and a shammy. This felt about the right level of healing, although im sure we can reduce this to two healers once we are better geared. The only boss that seemed to give us real trouble was Maexxna, mainly due to her raid wide cocoon effect, which relied on our HoT’s to keep the tank up. For one reason [tactic] or another we couldn’t keep the tank up whilst she was enraged. A quick change of tactics seemed to resolve this, and on we went.

All in all it was a very successful initial foray into Naxx and one that we are going to venture into again tonight to refine our tactics. All being well we may even get to see a few new encounters [fingers crossed].

Interestingly, on a personal note, my new healing spec seemed to work a treat. When accompanied by raid buffs, my mana regeneration was very good, and although I could probably use a little more intellect and spellpower it all felt pretty good.

welcome back?

Well, its certainly been a while since my last post. I wont give you a long list of reasons for my absence, its predominantly down to my own laziness, but also the fact I hadn’t really been playing my priest in the build up to wrath.

However!!!! Things are about to change. Northrend is here and with it a youthful exuberance for a game that can sometimes become tiresome. I have [as have most of you] been playing wow to death for the last 10 days and have worked my way up to the dizzy new heights of 80. Selfishly I did this in shadow which created a lack of healers in our guild, but that’s all about to change.

As of last night…. I AM HEALZOR!!!!!!!

Yes that’s right folks, I am back to my healing roots, and to be honest I loved it. I did a couple of runs last night just to get my trigger finger used to it all again, and it was fantastic…. Forgot how little I pay attention to the actual encounters though, and more about those 5 health boxes on my screen, which at times can be a little boring.

Anyway, I hoping to try a few heroics tonight and test my healing ability in those.

Also, I will try and become a frequent poster again if I get time. Im currently trying to work out a wow/life balance to suit everyone, which may mean less blog time [if that’s at all possible].

For now I leave you with something from Anna that really cheered me up this cold winter morning… enjoy and I’ll speak to you soon

On the first pull in Northrend, this dumb tank brought to me, a Blue drake evaded in a tree.
On the second pull in Northrend, this dumb tank brought to me: Two orphaned mammoths and a Blue drake evaded in a tree.
On the third pull in Northrend, this dumb tank brought to me: Three squawking robots, Two…
On the fourth pull in Northrend, this dumb tank brought to me: Four talking murlocs, Three…
On the fifth pull in Northrend, this dumb tank brought to me: Five Fountain Coins! Four…
On the sixth pull in Northrend, this dumb tank brought to me: Six rabid wolvar, Five…
On the seventh pull in Northrend, this dumb tank brought to me: Seven angry Vrykul, Six…
On the eighth pull in Northrend, this dumb tank brought to me: Eight loot crazed hunters, Seven..
On the ninth pull in Northrend, this dumb tank brought to me: Nine creepy spiders, Eight…
On the tenth pull in Northrend, this dumb tank brought to me: Ten Kvaldir pirates, Nine…
On the eleventh pull in Northrend, this dumb tank brought to me: Eleven ghouls a-grinning, Ten…



On the twelfth pull in Northrend, this dumb tank brought to me: Twelve Lichking cutscenes, Eleven ghouls a-grinning, Ten Kvaldir pirates, Nine creepy spiders, Eight loot crazed hunters, Seven angry Vrykul, Six rabid Wolvar, FIVE FOUNTAIN COINS! Four talking murlocs, Three squawking robots, Two orphaned mammoths and a Blue drake evaded in a tree.