25-Man Naxx Pug

I decided to do a Pug 25-man Naxx because I was going to miss my guild run this past weekend and I wanted to stay on the same fight 'learning curve'. I was feeling pretty good with my healing prowess lately and I wanted to go and get 'mad loots'! This group knew what they were doing. My roll dice still weren't working. I watched a head piece, a cloak, a ring, a wand - the loot march was going to the same two other clothies in the raid. This run had loot rules of if you need/want/gotta have it then roll. My roll dice weren't working again and I went down to a miserable 0 for 6 on the run. Aggravation started setting quickly. I wasn't winning anything. We went a little further and I was still losing rolls. I mentioned to one of the guys that I knew in the raid that if I lost one more roll I was ditching this raid. It was beyond crazy. We got to a point where the raid leader said 'the next thing is for Mad'. They even felt sorry for me and I was a pug on their guild raid. LOL! We got to a part where a boss dropped 4 items that I could use. I won 2 in a row - finally- and barely lost on the third. I ended up upgrading 6 items before the raid ended at 2 am on a work night. It was a brutal work day the next day but well worth the lack of sleep for upgrading so many items. I upgraded my shoulders, hands, off hand item, chest, cloak and feet. Amazing how it works out sometimes!!

My Roll Cheat Doesn't Work

My roll cheat program doesn't work. What I mean is in the last week I'm 1 for 5 in loot rolls. The only one that I did win was in my 25-man naxx run a few nights ago that nobody else rolled on. That doesn't even really count. I wanted to start improving my gear since I have now become a naxx raid healer (still pinching myself). I started asking around and managed to finagle a 25-man OS run. We did well with very little deaths except myself on the final dragon boss. I popped the soulstone that I had to get into the fight only to be run over by a fire wall that was coming from behind me (that I never saw, /sigh) and died for the 2nd time in 5 seconds. I did get the achievement Heroic: Besting The Black Dragonflight for the effort and had my sights on some Tier 7.5 gloves but lost the roll. 1 for 6 now. We then decided to forge on and try a 25-man VOH run. We went right to the Emalon and failed miserably 3 times before the dropping started. All in all a good night of playing and my heals are coming along. I'm still trying to figure out a healing 'rotation' but I'm really starting to keep tanks and groups standing!

First Naxx 25-Man Run

Yes I did hear correctly. This was going to be my first 25-man Naxx run as a healer! Unbelievable. We absloutely wrecked the spider wing. It helped that we had a 10 man run the night earlier. We knew what to do and what to expect - it was just a little harder. I was healing main tank and some raid during the run. It was a ton of fun. We managed to knock out the spider wing and the plague quarter and I did end up getting a nice glove upgrade. I had rolled on 5 different items in there and only one the item that nobody else rolled on. I kept rolling numbers like 1 and 4 and 15. I think that I went 1 for 5 on the rolls. I also received the Heroic: The Plague Quarter achievement for my first time through. We ended up getting hung up on Patchwerk and stopped by we had a blast with the first two wings. I'm feeling VERY good as a healer and my role in the raid community.

First Naxx 10-Man Run

After getting the Explore Icecrown achievement I got a whisper from my guild leader. I couldn't believe what he was telling me. We were going to be going into a 10-man Naxx run. Yes, it happened. My first Naxx run as a healer. My guild hooked up with another guild who has been raiding Naxx for some time and knew the fights very well. It didn't matter how bad the run went, how many deaths and raid wipes there were; they were in for the long haul to teach us the fights and help get us geared! Finally it was happening; I was making my way into Naxx. This would be the first step into a brand new healing world. I pulled main tank heal duty and backup group heals when I could do them. I didn't do to bad at all. It was brutal and ugly for the most part and we managed to just get the arachnid wing done but it was a learning experience. That was the most fun in WOW in some time. I got a cool ring upgrade and the 25 Emblems of Heroism achievement. As we were calling it a night I thought that I heard someone mention a 25-man Naxx run for tomorrow? Is it possible?

Back In The Saddle

I got bored with WOW. I know that's a blasphemy but it's true. I've been grinding dailies and failing (in my mind) as a healer. I finally got back on after about a week off and I got into some groups today and actually healed well. I think I just need a few runs that don't melt to feel like I know what I'm doing. As you know, this whole healing gig is a new thing for me. I completed a heroic Violet Hold and a heroic Nexxus. There were very few deaths and the group worked well together. I earned my Wyrmrest Exalted status (and achievement) and went and got the epic boots upgrade along with the 'Reins of the Red Drake'! Now I just have to finish getting the gold for the epic flying. I'm almost there. I can't wait to take to the skies on my very hard earned drake!

I'm Not Sure That I Should Be Healing Afterall.

This was an epic fail night. The guild whispered me when I logged in last night and wanted to go do an older instance, Sunwell. I was just getting back into playing after all of my internet issues and the internet technician literally just left the house. We went in there after taking awhile to form a group. I was tasked with keeping the Tank alive. After multiple tries and multiple wipes we called it. We had not done very well and not even really gotten out of the first room. My healing confidence is not at an all time high. I know that groups can make the raid/instance good or bad but when people are dying I take it personally. Maybe I'm not cut out to heal after all. I've tried different styles of healing, different spells, insant heals, group heals, different UI's, I've combed the internet looking for tips and tricks and I'm not sure that it's doing any good. Maybe I'll just go back to 'face-melter' and just live with the expectation that I may never see Nax. Shadow priests aren't really in high demand, at least not on my Kul Tiras server. :(

Naxx Run? Sort Of.....

I was minding my own business running my dailies when Pottymouth asked if I wanted to get into a Naxx group he had just gotten into. It was going to be a 25-man run. I was just about to start helping my brother with one of his alts when the whisper came through. I thought, 'I'm ready! Let's do this!'. This would be the cloth wearing freak's first foray into Naxx. They wanted me to go in as shadow and do some dps. I've been wanting to get Mad out of the healing box so I joined up. I started thinking of the epic loot that I now had a chance to get. I asked my brother if he wanted to go which he did so he went and dusted off his hunter, Zumbo. It took awhile to get everyone in there but we eventually got started. I started to notice some pretty heavy lag when hitting my spell buttons. Pottymouth started to mention something about having lag issues too. Since we were playing off the same network I figured there might be a network issue. We got to the first boss and I got a new epic wand! This is going to be an awesome night! First boss, already epic loot! Zumbo got two epic pieces!
Then I got disconnected, then I logged in, then I disconnected, then I logged in.......this went on for the better part of 30 minutes. My only thought was 'why now?'. This was the group that I had been waiting to get into for a very long time and network lag was going to take it away. Take it away it did. Potty whispered to the raid leader that we were going to restart our router/hub/computers and be right back. That solved the problem for about 10 minutes before the connection went down again and the ISP was down for about 20 minutes. It wasn't our network at all; it was the connection. It never goes down; it always works - until you want to get into a rare Naxx run. I was so mad and disappointed that I couldn't see straight. When we finally got logged back in we had been kicked from the group but managed to get reinvited. We got to the instructor boss fight and wiped twice so people started to leave the raid; it fell apart quickly. That was it. My Naxx run was over. I wanted to punch the wall or tear something in half I was so mad. I spent most of my night dinking around with an internet connection. I finished up my Wyrmrest dailies and called it a night. 6K until 'exalted' with Wyrmrest..... /sigh