Guide to Healing, Leading, and Progressing in WoW Raids
Updates about the world or the blog at large.
Here’s the link to the post at WoW Insider!
MP3 direct download.
I should note that it is now officially on the record. Both Phaelia and Elizabeth Harper (WI producer) have admitted that Priests are the best overall healing class in the game.
Thankfully, no one pushed me hard enough to admit what I thought was the worst healing class in the game. Glad I dodged that bullet.
Welcome to… the Healer Hour.
I’ve always thought about forming my own raiding guild. I’ve always talked the talk. But can I walk the walk? It’s still something I’m mulling over. The expansion is nearly here. It’s time for players to re-evaluate their guild, their goals, and their environment. Are you happy where you are? Are you going to achieve your goal where you are? If you answer no, then it just might be time to do some soul searching.
That’s what I’m doing right now. Raiding with Carnage has been a major blast and one of the best WoW experiences I’ve had. I had my own reasons for joining Carnage because my goals coincided with their goals. Now my goals have changed.
I’m still mulling things over. But I’m more or less committed at this point. Talks with friends have helped me orient myself and I’ve come to realize that the only way I can be satisfied playing this game is to do it in a way where I’m doing what I want. Along the way, I’m going to have to find 24 other players that want to do the same thing as I do. It’s going to be a tough sell. Will they buy into the Matticus system and philosophy? Who knows? But I have the support of around 12 players on the same server and off the server.
Who else out there is changing guilds or is thinking about leaving? What’s holding you back? What’s making you consider pulling the trigger?
Wish I had the title of General Manager Matticus. Anyone in the market for a raiding progression guild?
I should’ve wrote this sooner. I fail. This is a cool edition of the show as it’s one of the rare ones that’s going to boast an all healer crew of myself, Mike Schramm (Resto Shaman), Elizabeth Harper (Holy Paladin), and Phaelia (Resto Druid). I’ll post the link up to the show later on. It’ll be around noon-ish (or 1230) PST. Expect a bunch of healer talk, some raid talk, and me loudly proclaiming the superiority of the Priest class (or at least, try to ^^).
It’ll be live on uStream. Here’s the link to the channel.
(worldofmatticus is my name)
PS, Phae my last name has no e :(.
In case that above embed doesn’t work, use the direct link to the channel.
2:00 PM: Shows over! Thanks for listening!
Kreeoni wrote a list post disguised as a non-list post about the traits of WoW Officers. Those of you unfamiliar with him and his work, he’s another blogging Guild leader. I randomly stumbled across him one day on Twitter. I was intrigued and started following him.
Now if it were me, I would’ve titled it something like “7 Universal Traits of WoW Officersâ€Â. Number + Catchy line = Eyebrow raising interest.
A good post by a good blogger! We could use more GM blogs around.
Er, did I say G String? I meant bow string.
Here’s a few choices screenshots leading up to and including the kill.
At this point, we’re down to 3 healers. Cheever just ate a real big Armageddon. Stupyd just died (Angel wings on the right). Luwin and Sthirteen are still alive. Both of whom are severely taxed and drained.
Thankfully, Lang (our MT) is still in good shape. Our Ret Paladin is still alive. We have enough momentum from our remaining players to carry over and finish him off. We started him today at 3:30 PM PST. We spent all night on him. It stretched on until around 8:50 PM. It was to be our last attempt regardless of what would happen. It always seems that on milestone bosses, it boils down to the last attempt.
I wonder why that is. I guess it’s desperation kicking in.
Here we are just a bare millisecond after we tip him over. The game registers the kill, my UI says he is still alive with 0.3k health remaining. The achievement system just kicks in.
I really want to take the rest of the week off. I doubt I’ll get that chance. My Guild leader was absent today. I entered the raid instance as raid leader. Clearly that must’ve affected the loot table.
Recount shows the DPS of the current fight. I didn’t set it to show overall. Caim was on orb duty as was Rackham. Big props to the two of them for handling the the Shields so well. Benchwarmer tank Hassai stepped in today and did a phenomenal job on acquiring and holding the Sinister Reflections.
We’d gotten to the point where we would bring Kil’Jaeden down consistently to phase 5.
Then down to below 20%.
Then down below 10%.
Then below 5%.
Until we finally punted him back him back into the ground where he belonged.
Burning Crusade complete. 02/11/08.
By the way, if you notice, you’ll see that we only have one mage. We could definitely use another one heading into Wrath.
Sadly, the realm forum thread I created has already been trolled. Why do people hate me so much? 🙁