This One Is For The Healers Out There

Last night was one of those nights when I wanted to play but not grind. I completed my two Wyrmrest dailies and leveled my tailoring to 430 and picked up some epic tailoring patterns. I also decided to go with Jewelcrafting as a 2nd profession. I leveled that to about 25. One of my guildies wanted to go into Anul Nerub and asked if I could heal. I agreed. He is 72 and with me being 74 I figured that we would be okay. It took awhile to a group put together but we managed to do it while I was completing my dailies. The tank ended up being a lvl 70 and I was mildly concerned but we headed in for adventure. We went about 3 inches before the whole group was wiped. The tank said sorry for aggroing everything in sight and said he would do better. We entered the first chamber and before I knew it we had about 3,000 mobs on us. I kept getting webbed so I couldn't heal and the tank would not follow the unwritten rule of 'slow and steady', so a 2nd wipe. We went in a 3rd time and the tank that promise 'to go slow' didn't. I was webbed about 3 times and noone was watching out for me. I kept seeing tells 'lesser heal', 'heal me', 'what are you doing?'. After the 3rd wipe things were quiet and I could tell the group was grumpy. We hadn't gotten anywhere near the first boss and the group wiped 3 times. The tank started venting at me a bit when I finally had enough and piped up. I told him that he needed to go slow because in my opinion he was a little to low to be in there in the first place. I also told him that it was obvious that I was pulling the aggro with every 'greater heal' because I kept getting webbed which meant I couldn't heal. Now maybe I need to get a bit more knowledgeable on my healing since I don't do it full time but I'm not 3 wipes before the first boss bad. The group ended up falling apart and leaving me the feeling that maybe I'm not cut out to be a full time healer. I've healed parties before but maybe 10 times before total. I'm dps - not heals. I can off-heal but I don't want to full time heal. I just know me. That's not what I want to do. I want to melt, not restore. I'm realistic though in thinking that I'll need to heal from time to time to get in groups to finish quests and gear up. I've got a whole new respect for those of you out there that heal full time. It is such a thankless job and you get blammed quickly for any group issues or wipes. You have to dispell, heal, uncurse, cure disease etc. as well as look out for yourself so you don't die. Stressful. Any healers out there with suggestions on how to get a heal rotation down? Any suggestions would be very appreciated. What ever happened to crowd control? We used to use seduce, sheep, shackle undead, etc. to get through instances. Now it seems that tanks aggro everything in sight and expect the dps and healers to compensate and blow everthing down as fast as possible. It's not strategy, it's a dps race.

The Grind

Still grinding through the levels on the way to 75. About 60% of the way there. Last night I did a little recruiting and ran the Wyrmrest dailies. I want that drake so bad...mmmm....shadow drake! You only have to have exalted status with Wyrmrest. No big deal right? I was blasting through the quests last night in Venomspite and Zul'Farak. I'm so ready for a break from the quests and I'm all for running another instance. This is my 2nd go round through the wotlk quests so its easier to blow through quests and know exactly where to go but they do drive you insane from time to time. I'm at 426 tailoring and now I'm thinking about taking jewelcrafting. I think I'll ask the guild what we need and level the 2nd profession based on need. I've actually never had two maxed out professions before. The guild seems quiet. I think we have 6 active members in the 'new' guild now. As long as we are all logged in at once we can do 'guild runs'. My focus is getting to 80 as fast as possible. I'm wondering if I should actually try healing with my 'healer'.....hmmmm.....

Guild Drama

I joined a guild about 3 months ago and played a few days a week. There was definitely some hidden drama going on. About a two weeks ago we were finishing a drak run and suddenly one of the gm's alts was promoted to gm. My eyebrows went up and then I started seeing the /gquits start. We lost the mage (and main dps), the GM the Main Tank. The 'what the hell' whispers starting flying around. I kept hearing, 'it's not your fault, sorry you got caught up in the middle'. Really? We're they actually sorry or were they trying to justify their actions and feel better about ditching guildies??!!! I ended up leaving the shell of the former guild thinking that it was all over feeling very alone and betrayed. About a week later those of us that felt that betryal actually put the guild back together and I ended up being the co-gm. I got my guild back, I got promoted and now I feel like I'm home again. Not to shabby! I'm not a raid leader but I can keep personalities flowing together peacefully. Its smaller but I think in the long run we will be happier. All the 'what about me's' will be long gone getting done what they think they need to get done. The rest of us will plod right along just fine in our new home!

The Beginning...

Melt faces or heal? Melt faces or heal? Truly a nice problem to have. That's the beauty of the priest, you can do both and do it well. I have decided to embrace the shadow side of my priest and go dps. I just love the way he looks as a purple shadow. Whatever he touches turns shadowy purple as well - mounts, flying mounts; it's great. Currently my troll priest is level 74 en route to 80. I was playing my hunter for the longest time but after having a tough time getting into consistent Naxx runs, I have decided to go back to my other toon and level him to 80. Who doesn't want a high level raiding shadow priest?? This will be about the adventures, the highs and lows of a leveling shadow priest, guild issues, raiding, reputation gains - you name it - in the wonderful world of warcraft.