So LFD round two . . . .
First Dungeon pops up and is Utgarde Keep which was no problem at all. No deaths, no drama, a Pally tank that chain pulled the entire time and a disc priest that kept everyone over 50% all the time. Bish Bash Bosh all wrapped up in 25 mins, sweet as a fucking nut I tells ya. Bring on the next one (which was Ahn’kahet: The Old Kingdom)
Oh dear, Paladin Healer hit 80 yesterday, in mostly blues but a couple of BoE epics. Not to worry, it’s still workable if the group knows what they’re doing, but they don’t. Tank pulls very slowly, and doesn’t seem to get the idea of LoS pulling the casters so we have a trigger happy mage (very well geared) die trying to speed up the Tank adn then a wipe before Nadox. No surprises that we wipe almost straight away, healer does ok but Mage pulls aggro which means I have to pick up the Tank on heals, and then the adds come out and decide to give me a big 8 legged hug which gets me dirt napping. I pop reincarnation but go down again (no one on the Guardian ffs). Still, these things happen and now I know to pick up the Healers slack I reckon we’ll be ok). However, tank and dps are super pissed and leave the instance. Mage decides that he’ll ask for a rez rather than run the 1 min to the instance entrance. Fucking lazy ass mages. Too used to teleporting and blinking everywhere if you ask me!
So the 2nd night of LFD wasn’t as nice as the first. At least I got my 2 Frost Emblems from the first run.
LFD Stats on Chunder is 3 good runs, 1 pisser
Filed under: Alt, Bandaid, WoW, achievement, healing, instance, toon update
Well this is the first part of the Dungeon Levelling series for Bandaid, and while I’ve no idea how many parts there will be, I’m going to try to actually document some of my experiences with Bandaid healing\levelling through instances. This will be more for me to simply diary what it was like, but it could also offer some information\guidance for others who might be thinking of doing the same thing.
So the first Dungeon was Ramparts, with a DK Tank who was (to be honest) a better at tanking than I was at healing! He died a few times and other than a couple of ‘more healz plx’ didn’t give me any grief. Personally two of the three deaths were not really my fault, as the noob mage pulled additional mobs which meant I couldn’t keep up with the damage. Still, I got the Cheev, and a quest completed for some new shoulders so it was a success in my book.
I need to sort out my UI a bit more, as I wasn’t really happy with my key bindings or unit frame placement, oh and I need to sort out some focus\mouseover macros as well. I’m planning on doing another run either of Ramps or BF tonight, hoping for a death free run (or at least to keep the Tank alive!)
Filed under: Alt, Bandaid, LFD, Levelling, healing, instance, toon update
Well with the new LFD system now out there, it seems only right that Bandaid comes out of hibernation for some healing action (as that’s what he was rolled for). Plan is to level through Outlands in Instances. The only caveat is that I will do some quests if required to get Dungeon Quests.
With this in mind, I’m going to have to sort out his talents\glyphs (as he’s rocking a Mind Flay glyph (that will be redundant) and zero talent points allocated) as well as some gear upgrades. As you can see from his profile that he’s got some very old gear (a belt from Arugal ffs!!) which goes someway to explaining his meagre +150 spell power !
Planned Talent Spec at 60 is as follows . . .
I’m going to stick the points in Spirt Tap & Searing Light just to make those few quests outside instances easier to handle, but depending on how I fare out in the wild these might get moved back into more healy\discy talents.
Gear wise, I need to upgrade Neck, Back, Wrist, Trinket x2, Ring x2, Boots, Belt & Gloves. Ramparts ‘could in theory’ offer me 2 Rings, Staff, Neck, Shoulder & Legs and BF gives the opportunity for Trinket, Wrist, Hands, MH Mace, Waist & Chest (not including quest turn ins on these). These also give the option for 3 Red, 4 Blue & 1 Yellow Gems to be used. I’m not sure if you can use level 70 gems on level 60 gear but if so that a possibility of an additional 120 or so Spell Power (providing you ignore the socket bonuses and go for Perfect Runed Bloodstones. Considering that I currently have only 150 Spell Power, this is a massive increase off simple green gems which should only set me back a few gold.
To stand any chance of getting all these lovely shinies from these two dungeons it will mean running them a few times. This shouldn’t be an issue though, especially with the new LFD tool (speeding up the already quick healer group take up) and the fact that this is something that I actually ‘want’ to do on this toon. I’ll have to check how much XP I get from a run of each instance (will probably always be ‘rested xp’ as I’ll be rotating this guy and my 70 DK when not playing Chunder) and see just how many runs I’ll be looking at to level.
All in all I’m looking forward to getting Bandaid’s BC Dungeon Healing Cherry well and truly POPPED!!!
End result will hopefully be level 68 – 70, ready to hit Northrend and this achievement completed . . . .
As per every other blogger out there, I’d thought I would post up my 1st impressions of the new LFD tool . . .
I’ve only had 2 runs, both Dungeons I’ve not done before, and with a UI that’s not fully operational (thanks patch).
Both runs were as DPS (not ready for healing with UI in it’s current state), and took about 5 mins from joining LFD to being ported into the instance.
Nexus HC
Having only been in here long enough to sneak a Blue Shoulder upgrade (that was solo’able) I had no idea where I was going or what I was doing. Also my unit frames were all messed up – I had no target’s target which made assisting the tank a bit iffy, but luckily they were a well geared Tankadin so it was AoE all the way. Unfortunately I hadn’t remembered to but the new Fire Nova spell on my bars so I couldn’t check out how good\bad\indifferent it is..
I managed to commit suicide by falling off a ledge (doh) which would’ve been funny enough but then someone who was lol’ing at me managed to do the exact same thing 
. I also managed to pull aggro from a wandering mob while getting back to the group and died again, but finally rejoined the rest of the party at the end boss for the kill which was nice. DPS was pretty lame at around 1.5k but I wasn’t last (even considering the time spent on 2 corpse runs!). All in all a good run, everyone was either in equal gear to me, or higher and seemed to know what they were doing (which was more than can be said for me!).
Drak’Tharon Keep HC
After reinstalling XPerl and getting my Unit Frames somewhat sorted I hopped onto LFD again for another random heroic dungeon and got Drak’Tharon Keep, another one I’ve not seen before. Again the group was well geared, however there was a bit of a moan after the 1st boss when the DK was only pulling 1.5K dps (I was back nearer my usual 3k, averaging 2.75k dps over the whole run and was top banana when recount was posted by the healer). I wasn’t too fussed as there was 2 of us over 2.5k and the healer\tank were both very well geared\skilled. I had a bit of an issue when I kept taunting the last boss as when I went all skelly my bars somehow moved under my unit frames so I couldn’t see what was what very well. I soon worked it out though and we once again got through with no real issues.
I grabbed a few achievements from the two quick runs (probably 25 mins max for each) which was also nice, along with some cash and emblems. All in all LFD gets a thumbs up from the first night of using it. I’ll certainly be running more heroics at this rate, and hopefully be on my way to getting the Northrend Dungeon Hero Achievement
Last nights cheevs were as follows (plus the one for normal Nexus)
If I can get online tonight I think I’ll get Bandaid a few gear upgrades (as he’s still got some from level 30 – 40) and then pop to heal Ramparts and see how I get on. He’s got no talents as yet, so I think I’ll go with a Disc\Holy mix as all I’ll (hopefully) be doing outside instances is a few pre-quests to get the Dungeon Quests. He’ll be going for the Outland Dungeonmaster Achievement I reckon, levelling upto 70 just through instancing (and the few quests needed to get the dungeon quests). I guess I’ll need to sort out a post about the bony healbot once I pop his BC healing cherry!
Filed under: todo
Here’s my plan of things I want to do before the end of the year . . .
DPS the new 5 mans with Chunder to gear up a bit more - Get EPIC achievement on Chunder
- Heal all WotLK (pre 3.3) instances on Chunder (Heroic if possible)
- Heal HFP instances on Bandaid
- Tank HFP instances on Chompi
- Make enough gold to buy flying mounts for Bandaid and Chompi (I have the gold in the bank but want them to make it themselves)
- Run a couple of early WotLK instances with Cinki
Of these, I think that the #1 should be easy enough, and doing that will hopefully mean that #2 follows (will need to get Head, Shoulder, Chest, Bracer, Ring x2, Trinket x2 & Shield). The Healing\Tanking of the Hellfire instances will probably be one or the other, I doubt I’ll do both. Healing the WotLK instances with Chunder will probably be tough to accomplish, but I’ll give it a bash.
So 3.3 dropped on the 8th as expected, and while my playtime has dropped off, I did manage to pick up a few cheevs in late Nov.
I haven’t really played Chunder in December yet, as I was waiting for the new LFG tool so I can ‘practice’ healing on heroics with people not on my realm (I prefer the idea of fucking up with people I have less chance of bumping into). Now it’s here though, I need to sort out my UI so that I have a better healing focus. I’m going to play with the addon ‘reflux’ which will hopefully allow me to switch up from Ele to Resto with minimal fuss and switch out bits of my UI etc at the click of a button.
In Alt news, Cinki (my DK) hit level 70 yesterday, which was nice – I’m really enjoying him solo’ing stuff. I’ve burnt out all my rested xp now though which means he’ll prob just fester in an Inn somewhere once I’ve got his Skinning up to Northrend levels, and then come out again once he’s fully rested.
Next on the Alt list that will get a playing will be either the Priest or Warrior, both of whom are 60 and ripe for a few Hellfire Instances I reckon, I’m leaning towards the Priest at the moment, as while the class has changed a ton since I last healed as a Priest (MC) I kinda have an idea what I’m doing.
First thing on the agenda though is to get Chunder through the new 5 mans as Ele and grab some loot which will hopefully overgrear me enough to make the healing training I’m going to put myself through a bit easier.
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With 3.3 in the near future, I think I’m going to attempt to see how I get on levelling my DK\Warrior\Priest (well any of my 60’s really) through outlands instances.
I’m thinking of going with the Priest (healer) or DK (Tank) as I reckon getting groups as a either of these two roles should be pretty easy (yet to be convinced that getting groups as DPS will be any easier than it is currently). I’ve zero experience of Tanking, so the DK is looking like it could be the favourite, and I’ve no problem dropping the 1k for dual spec so he can quest with ease if the instances dry up.
I’d really like a Paladin or Druid Tank\Healer but my Paladin and Druid are in the mid 20’s and the thought of grinding out the necessary 30 odd levels before I hit outlands (especially as I’ve no heirloom xp bonus armour) is not exactly an enticing prospect. I might see if I can take the Paladin through a few low level instances to see how I get on before making any real decision.
The Druid would give me the better option as stealth always comes in handy, although I have a Rogue (70) so that aspect is kinda covered. I’ve always fancied an OP Retadin for BG’s and Tankadin for solo’ing instances in a couple of pulls.
Totally undecided though, and with CoD4 MW2 now out that is taking up almost all my free time
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Well I realised that I need to upgrade my welfare epics from ToC as the cheev needs you to have ilevel 213 in all slots.
So I’m quite a way from getting this unless I start puging some 10 & 25 mans.
I did finish up exploring icecrown thos morning, and have come to te conclusion that pvp as Ele with my gear is not a lot of fun. Might dust off the rogue and get him to 80 so I can pvp/gank clothies with him lol
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Good night achievement wise, I also dropped a few hundred G on enchants etc.
Been pvp’ing most of evening to get one of the epic totems that are available for honor which will get me the epic achievement.
Not exactly liking pvp tho on the Shammy, but PuG bg’s are never going to be too plesant.
Really looking forward to the new lfg stuff in 3.3 and can’t wait for it to get here. Only hope it’s not for a few weeks so I can get my CoD fix first lol
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No deaths and lost the drake roll.
More info to follow ……
