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Resto Druid Roundtable

Posted on April 16, 2013 | Leave a comment

Team WaffleThis weekend I was invited to participate in Team Waffle’s Resto Druid Roundtable 3! I had previously taken part in one of these when Mists was released and this one was even more fun to do.  The other participants were:

We discussed everything from how restos are currently performing in PVE and PVP, talents and glyphs, gearing and play style changes to what we’d most like to change about resto druids. We also made sure to complain about Disc Priests a bit :P

Go listen to it!

Last month I also was invited on to The Training Dummies podcast to talk about how to use World of Logs. If that’s a topic that interests you, go listen to that podcast as well.

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WoW Drinking Games

Posted on July 23, 2012 | 11 Comments

Looking to spice up your time in WoW a little bit? Why not play a drinking game! I’ve been thinking about all the healer-related derp moments that happen in raids and came up with a lot of things that should drive a healer to drink. I had help coming up with some of these rules, so thanks to Kaleri, Tikari, JoeEgo and especially Walks, who also came up with the idea in the first place.

Healer Rules

Take a drink any time one of the following things happen in a raid or dungeon:

Druid

  • You see your Efflorescence pop up in the middle of nowhere because some ranged dps is standing off by themselves.
  • Your Lifebloom expires and does 100% overheal (tree form not included).
  • You accidentally Innervate a tank or dps.
  • You let Harmony fall off.
  • You shift out of Tree of Life before it’s finished.
  • You die because you are distracted by having to Battle Rez someone.

Paladin

  • Your Lay on Hands is all overheal.
  • You try to cast Lay on Hands or Hand of Protection but you can’t because your target already has Forbearance.
  • You cast Light of Dawn while facing the wrong direction.
  • You die because of Hand of Sacrifice.
  • Any time you come up against a fight where Resistance Aura plus Aura Mastery is useless.
  • You use Divine Plea right when the healing gets intense.

Priest

  • Your Lightwell comes off cooldown and there are still charges left in your last one.
  • Your Prayer of Mending bounces to a pet. If it bounces to a Bloodworm, drink twice.
  • You overwrite another priest’s Prayer of Mending or they overwrite yours.
  • You can’t bubble the tank because another priest has given them Weakened Soul.
  • Your Shadowfiend refuses to attack anything.

Shaman

  • You cast Chain Heal and it doesn’t bounce.
  • You overwrite another shaman’s Earth Shield, or someone overwrites yours.
  • You drop your Spirit Link Totem out of range of the majority of the raid.
  • You drop a Healing Rain and the whole raid moves.
  • You Ankh, only to die again immediately to raid damage.

Multi-class

  • You fat-finger one of your cooldowns.
  • You have to move and interrupt your Tranquility, Divine Hymn or Hymn of Hope channel.
  • You go a whole fight without using your cooldowns.
  • You get aggro on all the adds in a fight and die horribly or need a Pally’s HoP to save you.
  • All of your Intellect/Haste procs go off when there’s nothing to heal.

Of course, I don’t want the non-healers to feel left out, so here are some rules for the rest of the raid.

Rules for Tanks and DPS

Drink whenever one of the following happens:

  • A Paladin bemoans the removal of Divine Intervention.
  • A Priest tells you to click the lightwell.
  • A healer tells you to stand in the ground heals.
  • A healer tells you to use your healthstone.
  • You die with your healthstone still in your inventory.
  • You die because you stood in the bad.
  • You die because you were standing just outside of the PW: Barrier.
  • You have to be Lifegripped out of the bad, or into a stack point.
  • You get out-damaged by an Atonement priest. First drink, then cry.

I also can’t forget the people who like to PVP. I’m sure it makes many people want to drink away their frustrations.

PVP Rules

Drink whenever one of the following happens:

  • A healer steals a killing blow from you.
  • You realize mid-match that you are not in your pvp gear or spec.
  • Your main class of spells gets locked out by an interrupt.
  • A healer successfully jukes your interrupt.
  • You and another member of your team CC the same person at the same time.
  • You CC the kill target. If you cyclone the kill target, drink twice.
  • You get Mind-Controlled, Typhooned or Thundershocked off a ledge.
  • Someone drops a flag because they tried to mount or stealth.

If you play by any of these sets of rules, I’m sure your whole raid or PVP team will be thoroughly intoxicated within a few minutes.

Can you think of any good rules to add?

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Team Waffle Podcast

Posted on May 25, 2012 | Leave a comment

Team WaffleTonight, I’ve been invited to join Arielle, Reesi, Lissanna and Clay on the Team Waffle Podcast. Graylo of Gray Matter will also be joining as we talk about Druids in the beta and recent Druid updates.

The podcast records tonight (May 25) at 11pm EST and you can listen live on twitch.tv. Hope to see you there!

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Six

Posted on February 22, 2012 | 5 Comments

There’s a new meme floating around the WoW blogosphere. This one originates from Gnomageddon. I was tagged by both Glow and Chatmay.

The challenge:

  • Go into your image folder.
  • Open the sixth sub-folder and choose the sixth image.
  • Publish the image! (And a few words wouldn’t hurt, though I dare say I couldn’t stop a blogger from adding a few words of their own.)
  • Challenge six new bloggers.
  • Link to them.

Unfortunately, my image and screenshot folders are scattered throughout my C drive in no discernible order. So I went through a couple folders.

In my WoW screenshot folder, the sixth image is this:

Scepter of the Shifting Sands quest
I took this while I was doing the Scepter of the Shifting Sands quest. I was trying to get it done before it was removed from the game, but alas, I wasn’t able to. I did get fairly far. I finished the quests for the Blue and Green Dragonflights, but never finished the Red. It was a very cool questline and I’m sorry I never got to see the end of it.

In one of my other image folders this was the 6th image in the 6th subfolder:

Charlie and Max
My kitties :) Poor Max just wants to have a nap in his hammock and Charlie decides he wants to nap there too. At least they’re good at sharing.

Now I need to tag six people. (As a side note, 6 is a lot! Wouldn’t a 3s meme made more sense?)

I’m tagging my guildmates:

Arolaide
Jacklalanne
Kaleri
Kurnmogh
Srsbusiness
Tikari

It’s very cool to be in a guild with so many bloggers. They just need to write more often. /glare

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My Desk

Posted on November 29, 2011 | 6 Comments

This is Day 6 of the 20 Days of WoW Blogging Challenge.

Here’s where I do all my WoW playing.

My desk Things that are usually on or around my desk:

1. My purse. That’s where my dozen different lip glosses are. Also, my credit card when I find something I need to order online.

2. iPad – So I can use Twitter or look things up online without alt-tabbing out of the game.

3. Captain James Tiberius Kirk. I won him at a work trivia contest where I was dubbed Geek of the Year. He likes to watch me play.

4. Wine glass. I have to drink wine from a tumbler during raids. Using a glass with a stem results in too many shorted-out keyboards and too much wasted wine.

5. Headphones. I wear my headphones 90% of the time that I’m at the computer, so I made sure to get nice, comfortable ones.

6. G15 Keyboard. I thought the extra buttons on the side would come in handy…but I never use them. I do however, like the LCD screen that shows me when I get a whisper or who is talking in Vent/Mumble.

7. G700 mouse. It has lots of buttons for all my spell bindings and can be used both wirelessly or plugged in. My last mouse was totally wireless and died on me mid-raid on more than one occasion ><

8. I currently have a pretty orchid on my desk but based on my past experience with plants, it is not long for this world.

Not pictured above but usually around:

Charlie under my desk9. Charlie. He likes to sleep by my feet or on the printer beside me while I play. He also likes to chew all the wires while he’s awake, or attempt to knock my monitor over. Bad kitty.

 

I have to admit, I cleaned up a bit (okay, maybe a lot) before I took this picture. Other things which are usually on my desk but not pictured here include: water glass, bills that need to be paid, unopened mail, scraps of paper where I write my Baleroc healing rotation, phone, assorted USB cables and flash drives…but I wanted it to look nice for the post.

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My Favourite Items In Game

Posted on November 25, 2011 | 8 Comments

This is Day 5 of the 20 Days of WoW Blogging Challenge.

My favorite items in-game tend to fall into one of two categories. I either have good memories associated with them or they are things I’m proud of having because they are relatively rare. Here are a few of those things.

Sprite Darter Hatchling

Sprite Darter

I wasn’t too into pet collecting when I started playing WoW. I had a few, but never went out of my way to get them. I found the quest that rewarded this little guy in Feralas while exploring. The quest-giver was a little hidden and the chain was long and required a lot of traveling. When I finished the quests and got the Sprite Darter as a reward, I was quite pleased with myself. The pet’s existence almost seemed like a secret at the time. Plus, he’s cute and he’s got little moons on his wings that match a lot of my druid gear. This is still my favorite pet in the game.

Will of Arlokk

Will of Arlokk

I can’t remember if Will of Arlokk was my first epic in the game, but it was the first epic to inspire loot lust. The stats were great, and I really liked the look of it (yay, snakes!). I remember doing ZG every week, hoping to get it. It would drop…and go a priest. It would drop again…and go to another priest. When I finally got it, it was pretty sweet and well worth the wait. This is the only weapon I’ve ever saved on Jasyla.

Plagued Proto-Drake

Plagued Proto Drake

Wrath of the Lich King introduced raiding meta-achievements with mounts as rewards. This was the first one I got, from doing all the Naxx-10 achievements. I have a lot of achievement drakes, but the Naxx drakes were the only ones that got taken out of the game when the content was no longer current, so I’m especially proud of this one.

Primitive Mantle

Primitive Mantle

Another item that’s apparently no longer available in the game. The Primitive Mantle was a starting item for troll shaman. At the time I got it, I had never played for the Horde before. I good in-game friend of mine rolled a troll shaman, got the Mantle, transferred it over on the neutral AH and gave it to me as a gift. I think it’s pretty snazzy and Jasyla wears it all the time.

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BlizzCon

Posted on October 30, 2011 | 10 Comments

It’s been more than a week since BlizzCon, and I’ve been suffering the most terrible case of writer’s block since I got home. I had such a fantastic time that I’ve been stuck in ‘play’ mode since then, and I’ve been trying to put off going back into ‘work’ mode for as long as possible.

BlizzCon

The convention itself was a lot of fun. I was ticketless when I flew to California, but was pleasantly surprised when I arrived that a guildmate (X, you are awesome!) had an extra ticket for me. The plans I had of sleeping in and lazing around the hotel quickly went out the window and I ended up seeing a number of panels the first day and catching the live raid and doing a bit of wandering around the second day.

The preview panel was the most exciting panel for me. I’m not totally sold on the pandas. I’m not against them, they’re just a little too cutesy for me. That problem, however, is easily solved by not playing one. Pandaria looks gorgeous, the new creatures look cool and the Monk class looks very unique and like it could provide a welcome change of pace to those who are burnt out on the current classes.

I’m interested in how the talent changes go. I like the idea of streamlining things – getting rid of the spells you don’t need for your particular spec, and automatically giving you the ones you do need – but I do think that having only 6 choices of talents is not enough. I’d be happier to see a talent choice every 10 levels rather than every 15. I also think that for some classes, especially Druids, having 18 talents that apply to 4 completely different specs is overreaching. Also, a lot of the talents say PVP to me, more than PVE.

Overall I thought the preview of the next xpac looked great. There were lots of small, quality of life type changes, along with new things to keep people interested like challenge modes (definitely looking forward to these), account-wide achievements (yes!) and pet battles (umm…to be honest I’ll probably skip this feature). Regardless of what was being introduced, I found the panels themselves very enjoyable. The atmosphere was great and it was nice to see the developers up there talking about something they obviously love and take a lot of pride in. Also, Greg Street was wearing the most epic purple shirt I’ve ever seen on Friday (which I totally wanted to steal) and Cory Stockton is adorable.

One of the things I enjoyed most at the convention was the Live Raid. It was great to see two über guilds go head to head in the Firelands. They made it looks so easy. It was hilarious hearing everyone in the crowd (myself included) hold their breath as Vodka almost drove Lord Rhyolith into the lava and gasp in dismay when their tank dropped on Baleroc. I just wish I could have heard them in vent.

The convention wrapped up with the absolutely amazing Foo Fighters concert. I was actually considering not going to this (because I am a silly, silly girl) and I am so glad I changed my mind.

The meetups

As fun as the convention was, it was not my favorite part of the weekend. The best part was meeting and hanging out with my Apotheosis guildmates who were also there. It was really cool to meet a lot of the people I’ve been playing with for the past 6 months. Whether we were suiting up for our fancy steakhouse dinner on Thursday, chilling at the pool bar, drinking too much at the Twisted Nether party, or just hanging out in the hotel until the wee hours of the morning, I was always having fun.

I also met a few other bloggers, though not as many as I expected since I’m kind of shy about introducing myself and I was generally preoccupied with my guildies. The people I did meet were really friendly and great though, and I’m glad I had a chance to talk to them.

Since I’ve been home I’ve been a little sad. BlizzCon was such an awesome time, there were always friends a few steps away and always something to do, so being home is a bit of a let down. Dammit, I’m being sappy. I’m done here.

How was your BlizzCon?

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