ICC - Pit of Saron

The Forge of Souls must be completed before a player can access the Pit of Saron...I must be crazy enough first try for both instance I tried in heroic mode...

Since I have done so many times The Forge of Souls...I made it a point to practice on Pit of Saron...

So first thing I do today....using the very well loved looking for group system that Blizzard has done for us...I managed to go for a run for Pit of Saron...There is one more boss as compared to The Forge of Souls...

Forgemaster Garfrost

Garfrost looks like a giant piece of patch work...ugly to the core...has only a few abilities you need to look out for:

Forgemaster Garfrost throws a massive saronite boulder at ranged...so you gotta run when he emote...its really cute to see him throwing a big piece of ice at you...I tried to run but was still hit by it and got knocked back...sigh...I did run out of the shadow IRONY!!! LOL...This thrown stupid ice will deal lots of dmg to anyone stupid enough ehhhhhmmmmph...or slow enough to stand in its shadow..... =(

Other then running away from "flying ice" or what they call it saronite rocks fight is easy to heal. He has a party-wide aura that cause Frost dmg and applies a debuff that increases Frost dmg taken....PITA...The debuff is applied every 3 seconds and stacks.

DPS/healers should hide behind the thrown saronite boulders if their permafrost stack gets too high....healers gotta be quick about healing this part...I still remeber I just monkey see and monkey do whatever the rest of the group is doing the first time I tried this boss...Not sure why everyone was hidding and thought that the boss is gonna do some massive AOE LOL....but none was due....

When Forgemaster Garfrost yells: "Axe too weak. Garfrost make better and CRUSH YOU!"

Garfrost jumps over to one of the two forges in his room and reforges his weapon to increase his frost damage dealt by 100% in Heroic mode...While Garfrost runs off to one of his corner (forges) to grab a weapon the tank should let the debuff wear off by using the boulders.

Once everyone's debuff has worn off and is healed up, we continued the fight by going to the boss. Garfrost does not lose aggro on the phase transitions.

When Garfrost yells: "Garfrost tired of puny mortals. Now your bones will freeze!" He will cast Deep Freeze which reduces the movement speed of a random target by 50%, and causes 6k Frost dmg after the spell expires...So I had to make sure the player (fact is I can't remember who) is at full health (and shielded just in case...a bit KS)...

In phase two Garfrost casts Chilling Waves in front of him. The tank (and only the tank) should be getting hit by the Chilling Waves....So you must be careful to avoid that....

Krick and Ick - Krick is a leper gnome that rides on the back of Ick, a large ghoul/abomination. Krick issues spoken commands to Ick. Ick will drop plagues areas and we are suppose to avoid those, he will also drop a series of bombs that looks like purple domes and we are suppose to avoid them too...else it will be hard on the healers.

After killing the first two bosses, Tyrannus, who has been flying around the Pit on his frostwyrm, summons a series of mob groups along the path, each of which include a caster and several melee mobs. As the group approaches the tunnel, Tyrannus commands his frostwyrm to collapse the tunnel, so the party must run through the tunnel, killing mobs and avoiding falling ice blocks, you gotta avoid the round circles on the ground, its something like what Hodir does, dropping icicle on to grounds that was marked with circles...

Scourgelord Tyrannus, the last boss of Pit of Saron is a human Death Knight mounted upon the mighty frost wyrm Rimefang...one thing to take note of while healing this boss is that I need to make sure that the tank gets lots of love after the boss jumps from his mount...cos he does hit hard...if you are not careful, the tank might just die seconds after the boss lands...

Abilities that you need to take note of for this boss:

Forceful Smash, which is heavy dmg and knocks the tank back, this the ability that might cause the tank to die very fast after he dismount.

Overlord's Brand, which marks a target and transfers all of the dmg done by that target to Tyrannus' main target, generally the tank. DPS that is being branded should stop attacking until the brand is removed.

Unholy Power, which increases Tyrannus' dmg, but greatly reduces his movement speed.

ICC 25 Man

Have been trying to do random instance everyday...but was back home late from work and needs to join the guild on raiding....hmmmm....normally we only raid on Fridays and Saturday...since its gonna be New Year's Eve and New Years day...Our guild decided to raid on a Wednesday....

We completed our ICC 25 man run...same things like always and I made some silly mistakes on the way...(I was having dinner and playing at the same time, lucky today my dad already had dinner hence the house rule to have dinner at the dinner table does not apply and I can play WOW and eat at the same time)

This time round I did not die for the first boss, Lord Marrowgar... =) I learnt how to see who to heal for bones spike...

While walking to Lady Deathwhisper, there were some mobs can chain cleave and of cos causing some of our melees to die cos they were standing lined up one after another LOL...

I died at Gunship Battle cos our super heal died...not sure why and I had to fly over to the other ship...after super heal was being battle rez....I wanted to go back to the main ship but was silly or rather stupid enough to stand at where the tank is tanking the High Overlord Saurfang and since the boss was cleaving and I took lots of dmg...next sec I know I was dead...I was just trying to look for the jump button to go back to the main ship sob sob....

First try on Deathbringer Saurfang, I had mark of the fallen champion...aiyo got marked...very stressful...You gotta heal yourself like mad...end up I can only heal myself and also the tank at the same time...one of our new shaman "ankh" up and healed the boss for 10%...OMG...after some of the DPS died the raid leader decided that we wipe and try again....since the fight was dragged like longer I ran out of mana and sigh of cos died...no mana no love...

For this boss we are not suppose to battle rez or use SS and of cos as already mentioned no ankh!

Second try we got him down and sadly our legendary heal, nanny got the mark and I did not heal him on time...he died before he can react to it also...Something new I learnt....got the mark no matter what happen...must heal like mad to keep myself up...I cannot imagine I did not get the mark for the past few tries!

ICC - Forge of Souls - Bronjahm & Devourer Of Souls

I have been so busy trying out the new instances that I did not realise that I have not blogged about my experience with the new instance...OMG...

After my random instance of the day Pit of Saron (I guess I was too concentrated to remember what I did I guess I will have to write down what I do in this instance another day)...I went for a specific instance ICC - The Forge of Souls...

Really like the new way of looking for group...you can either choose to go for random instance or just go to specific dungeons...really cool...
The Forge of Souls...."skulls" are really painful...I gotta heal constantly while getting from one location to another...There are 2 bosses here...

Bronjahm has two phases...Phase 1 you just have to make sure that the affected player by the Soul Fragment moves far away from the boss...else these fragments heals the boss...Healing is easy...

Phase 2 is interesting...first time I do it I was not sure what the hell was happening when the boss cast a vortex something like what malygos had..just that this boss does it a little differently...he does not spins the pple around...he will just sort of "bounce" some one out into the vortex and this person has to be healed all the way...of cos also have to run back in as your healer is healing you...This time round I am being "bounced" out again...I was being told to run back to the center but I still couldn't do it when he cast the vortex....so end up I had to shield myself and heal while I am inside the vortex LOL...maybe I din run fast enough...

Devourer of Souls

This boss reminds me of ROS LOL...The basics are to quickly move your characters out of the purple void areas it will do a significant amount of damage.

Boss will cast "Mirrored Soul" Whenever Mirror Soul is active, any damage done to the Devourer will be mirrored to whoever has the debuff. Therefore it is crucial to stop DPS while it is up....Hate it when our DPS just go ahead and DPS like no body business...sigh...

When Devourer of Souls cast a Wailing Souls......According to wowhead.com, This is a 90 degree sweep of the room (either clockwise or counterclockwise) starting from a position selected at random. The wail starts about 3 seconds after casting it and will wail for 15 seconds. Anyone caught in the wail will take a very high amount of damage that ticks every 0.4 seconds.

She does Shadow dmg like 4,875 to 5,125 to anyone infront of her(her cheek face)...and of cos dmg to the tank...this is when I have to heal like mad...Safest place to stand is opposite where the tank is standing...what Dawyn will tell me is the "butt cheek" of the boss LOL...it does looks like that...

Unleashed Souls - The Devourer of Souls is releasing tormented souls periodically...The best time to max dps is during unleashed souls, a bunch of untargetable but killable adds spawn...

Well Of Souls - The Devourer of Souls leaps towards a target, slamming the ground creating a Well of Souls. Inflicts 2925 to 3075 Shadow Damage.

Phantom Blast - does like 11,700 to 12,300 Shadow damage

Trick is when DPS see Mirror Soul - stop DPS and when she does wail of souls, healer heals tank like mad, DPS to the max during this part which is usually Unleashed or Wailting souls...

darn I dunno Y in the last few sec we downed the boss I died...OMG....lucky got pally to rez me...ALAMAK forgot to print screen!!! Fainted...will do it next time....wanted to take the "butt cheek" of Devourer of Souls...how can I ever forget to do that??!!! She turns too fast for my liking...

During the run I rolled and won a Battered Hilt Hee...Not bad...let me see if I can sell it off...Dawyn says dun sell it at AH end up I am selling it at trade chat...so boring...

Icecrown Citadel (25 man) - 2nd Try

Before going for raid I went and updated all the mods that I am using...most importantly the Grid, GridIndicatorSideIcons, GridStatusRaidDebuff and also FuBar...not sure why Omen is not updated.

This is the 1st time I did the Lord Marrowgar with the guild...I was the first to die....best part no one knows why I died....cos my death was not logged in death log...I could only see myself being impaled by bone Spike...sadly no one destroyed the spike....sob sob and no one healed me...Nanny was joking that I did not bribe him to heal me....Aiya!! Why me so unlucky??

For Lady Deathwhisper, I had the same problem as last week...I was having cold hands when we finished the fight....strangely for the first try our tanks died...I was wondering why...

Especially for phase 2....then I remembered about the blue ghost....Nanny said blue (vengeful spirit, I call them ghost) and green (death and decay on the ground) is bad...of cos they are...in fact there are times when the ghost spawns, you just have to make sure you don't stand too near to those areas and run away from them quickly...you will see some blue lines and hear a sound when they are spawned...

3rd boss, Gunship Battle, Nanny was asked to be attack team...LOL he say he might not be able to come back to the main ship....Lucky I already got my jet pack ready and equip...when mao mao as me to go as attack team I was prepared....in fact I will suggest that every get one of these for the fight in case you have to go over....My first try jumping over...the range of these packs were quite far in fact...

For Deathbringer Saurfang, since we have to spread out 12 yards to avoid mark from verzak I was being asked to stack with our super heal...while the 2 big fat chicken sneeze adds away...ready to go when the instance server was being scheduled to restart in 15mins and we had to rush through the fight...sadly due to some technical or strategic positioning problem, we wiped and had to wait for the instance to restart before we can go for the 2nd try....

Nanny's telling me its suppose to be an easy fight...I agree...but some were standing too near to each other and the "blood boil" actually got spreaded to another group...but we did quite well for the 2nd try...we even achieve the "I've Gone and Made a Mess (25 player)" - by eefeating the Deathbringer before Mark of the Fallen Champion is cast five times in 25-player mode....heee....consider a guild progression?

We went back to doing ToGC and I got myself a trophy to get a new gear...For Twins (which is our last boss for 25 man raid), mao mao keeps telling me I was healing badly...Told him "cos I too old liao"....our super heals say "I am even older" OMG how to compare stamina with super heal...I play till late I CMI already...can talk can laugh...but concentration need to train since I din play for some time....

New instance v3.3 - Heroic The Forge of Souls

Tried a random Heroic and the instance I joined was The Forge of Souls, my first try on random instance...LOL...

I did only 2 bosses, Bronjahm and Devourer of Souls

Bronjahm, there are 2 phases for this boss.

In phase 1 players will have to weaken him and destroy the Corrupted Soul Fragments that Bronjahm separates from players... These Soul Fragments hover towards Bronjahm and heal himso the player whom Bronjahm is channeling the spell on should try to move as far from Bronjahm in order to maximize travel time of the Fragments.

Phase 1 will ends at around 30% with Bronjahm teleporting to the center of the room. In the center, Bronjahm will cast a constant vortex that hurts anyone on touching or even crossing the boundaries. I read from wowhead.com that players will have to stay near the inside of the room to avoid being hit....a player will be feared through the vortex, so healers will need to be sure to keep players topped off and be attentive of which player is feared....First try I've got for this? I was the one being feared and I could easily healed myself through it...since it is first try I have no idea what the hell was going on when I was being feared away...just went ahead and healed myself through....

Devourer of Souls, definitely look like ROS and the fight is similar to ROS...kek...You gotta make sure you dun hit when it has Mirrored Soul, pain really damn pain LOL cos the dmg inflicted, a percentage will be mirrored to you if you do any dmg to the best at this time...always stand away from the face that is "awake"...I just have to run around avoiding ghost and then heal the tank and the rest of the group...

First try on Devourer of Souls, we wiped and I had so much difficulty getting back into the system...sigh....had no clue how to fly back in...till no choice Da went and download from youTube.com What a route idiot....I am very glad that the group actually walked out to get me in the end...so embarrassing...



We completed the 2 bosses with only 4 in the group as our rogue got DCed on the last boss and we did not continue to the next instance...sadly...

Icecrown Citadel (25 man)

Our guild was doing Icecrown Citadel, Lord Marrowgar while I just logged in. I gotta say that the boss looks really cool...he looks like "Death" himself. One big axe, 4 skulls....

LOL I talked like I was in raid...sadly was watching Da's screen as the guild is doing the fight and learning the fight at the same time...real fun and learn about the fight...can't wait to be able to join the raid....Da says that our internet connection is getting better these days...

Writing down the abilities of the boss in normal mod so that I can remember it =) they are:-

Bone Storm - its a physical damage AOE, looks like he is doing a whirlwind...Lord Marrowgar will announce the ability before he uses it, so your melee will want to get out of the way so they don't get hit by bleed...


Saber Lash - An incredibly powerful melee strike that splits its damage across three targets on 25 man, have to make sure all of tanks are standing together so that they don't get one shot.

Coldflame - A line of (cold) fire spawns, and you must not stand in it, cause 8k dmg per sec to anyone caught by the moving line of frost. Hhhmmm....I wonder how to avoid this one....really shouldn't stand in it...Da says its very easy to avoid....see it coming just move left or right...

Bone Spike Graveyard - Lord Marrowgar throws a bone spike at a random player, impaling all players between the boss and the target on Bone Spikes, inflicting 9,000 direct Physical damage, and additional 10% health as damage every 1 second until the spike is destroyed. Meaning anybody directly in the line of fire will be impaled. The rest of the raid will need to DPS down the spike to free impaled players. It can be avoided, and it will not hit targets being hit with Saber Lash.

Anyway yay!!! The guild downed the first boss liao =) easy...

Keeps hearing Mao mao telling the raid that he's not able to see when his shackle breaks...Its too to have the shackle macro when you doing the thrash:-

/clearfocus [button:2]
/stopmacro [button:2]
/focus [target=focus, noexists]; [target=focus, dead]
/cast [target=focus,exists,nodead] Shackle Undead

very easy to use...when the shackle break you just have to click on the button and recast...to set the target, you just have to right click on the button to clear the focus....

I have upgraded all my mods...so hopefully if they ask me to go in I will be doing fine....

Not very sure what the rest of the boss looks like since I was asked to join in for the 2nd boss...Lady Deathwhisper, my hands are all cold by the time we down her =) Long time never raid feeling worried...DBM lua errors keeps poping up till I had no choice but to disable the reporting...

We were divided into left and right side...first few tries I died very quickly to ghost...OMG and had to be brez...on the last try we downed her like with most of the people alife...Cult Adherents (spells dmg) and Cult Fanatics (melee dmg) will spawn from 3 from left and right side and the center...I have to make sure I dun aggro when any of the new adds spawn...some times I have to fade make sure to make sure adds dun come to me...and I try and move across the center circle till the adds are picked up...but when you do that you gotta be careful of the Cult Fanatics cos they cleave...One of the PITA is Curse of Torpor - Increases a player's spell cooldowns by 15 seconds...its a curse that must be decursed asap cast by Cult Adherents...

Phase 2, you must make sure you spread out (easier to see the 'ghost') and make sure you are not killed by ghost (vengeful spirit), stay away from them...green stuff on the ground you gotta avoid too (death and decay)...

Tankspot.com really had a great explanation about the fight:


3rd boss, Gunship Battle, the most embarrassing for me...cos mao mao asked me to be the attack team and I have no idea where the stupid goblin is to get the jet pack to jump over...LOL...so embarrassing...yes get your jet pack from the green thing! LOL... >.< Deathbringer Saurfang, spread out 12 yards to avoid mark from verzak (this gotta heal with lots of love LOL)...we have 2 boomkin sneezing on them...at first I couldn't understand what mao mao wants them to do until I ask kemeko...LOL...knock back the adds away...if the adds really comes to you...you gotta do some kiting till they're being "taken down" =)...it was fine enough to heal through...

Patch v3.3 - Downloader stopped at 99%

Sigh...first thing I came home I tried to download the patch for my wow...Waited extremely long and finally it was downloaded irritatingly it stop running at 99%. Sigh...was extremely worried that I have to wait and download the whole patch again.

Since I am using Vista, the next thing I thought of is to run the launcher as administrator.

Lucky I did not have to wait too long =) Phew...very scary...

Its only when I logged into WOW that I realise that its Tuesday today....Server down...sob sob =(

A try for achievement for 25 Man Mimiron

I joined a "fire figter" fight...and died in Rocket strike....

OMG! How can anyone fail to a rocket strike? There is plenty of time to run out of it!! Fainted. I definitely see the red circle on the ground and also I definitely moved out of the space...but I still died after running out of the stupid circle...

Sadly when I say a try it really means a try....we only joined in when they were going for the last time...and sadly...I died =( so end of story...sob sob...

After the which nanny borrowed his dad's car and went for supper....ha ha...a small group outing of 6...

So a group which consist of Lugo, Da, Irony, Nanny and Mao mao...(shaman, rogue, "tanky", pally, priest respectively...are they a good combination? aiya if really get them to do instance no kick la....)

First day after a long break

Have been having internet connection problem and afraid to play WOW....Got my high speed ISP paying tons and tons of money just so that I can play without lagging...its WOW first not ISP first if you wanna talk about chicken and egg issue...LOL...

And guess what my ISP says that they are still checking on why the whole of country is having the same problem...according to them a sudden slowness in the network...I got a 1/2 price for my bill for that...

Was just telling Midgetation that the Heroics no kick and his reply is "your are over geared"...but but...but I am considered under geared in the guild!! LOL...

As usual I did Heroic TOC to test skill and still very bad at the first fight...But other then that the rest of the bosses sigh...no kick...the tank I played with today are pretty good...

Did Heroic VH since its the dailies today...with one less group mate cos our pally went off line in the middle of the fight....never came back till the end of the last boss...I wonder whether the pally completed the dailies or not...anyway we went through the fights very easily and quickly even with 4 in the grp...

Asked mao mao whether I can raid this friday and he suggested I log in and see how...Friday is guild progression...we are aiming for Heroic Anub'arak....

Guess I will not only need to get used to healing rotations (timing of POM and CoH has to be practiced again), but also revise on the fights....Went to wowhead.com and there is a very nice blog on heroic version of all the boss fights...Time to study hard...

Kept bugging Dawn regarding the strategy website that I used to go to OMG!!! How can I forget about Bosskillers.com? Yep need to go there and do some reading as well...

Hope I still go some time to do some BGs...I always like to go there to get use to my healing rotations...can die and come back to worries...call it the training ground =)

End of Hallow's End

Sigh...been having internet connection problem and hence did not managed to do any of the world event...so sad...

Guess I will have to do it next year in that case!

What a PITA!! Dawyn was been disconnected the moment the boss fight starts...I guess I don't even have a chance...what a disappointment...

OMG we downed Twins! (25 Man Heroic)

We downed Twins~!! Which makes us 2nd on the server!!! (and we kinda raid only on thurs - 10 man and Fri & Sat - 25 man) OMG!!! or rather the guild did, I din do anything much on the last try when the guild downed it...I got DCed LOL....OMG super heals and legendary heals were there so no worries!!! Dawyn and I were DCing for the last few tries....we were doing fine for the first few tries....since we have moved to the new house our internet connection has been very bad...the cable guy tat did the cable for us did like 4 splits in different rooms before coming to ours....So the internet connection has been so bad that I am having like 600plus ms latency....

So we attempted on Anb'arak...wow really PITA...I thought twins was tough...I had to off my recount so that I don't get DCed at the start...

Attempted on 25 Man Heroic Twins

We attempted on 25 Man Heroic Twins and I as the holy priest keeps dying...OMG!!! CMI!!!

Told nanny that I not sure if I can do this at all...even die when I do the simple version...totally CMI....usually I have no problem if I am being assigned the white in the start...cos I can see white better the the dark ones...this time round I was being asked to take the dark portal...of cos white is easier...you dun need to change too often LOL....when we changed to do the normal version, can hear Irony say "I can see some people din change...oh its ***" and I am dead even before he can complete my name...sigh....really CMI

Downed 25 Man Heroic ToC - Lord Jaraxxus

Yeah finally got the stupid yeti (Ice Howl) down!!!! Actually the guild had downed it like 2 weeks ago but I never had a chance to do it with them...previously I did it with the guild the Yeti likes me too much...keeps running after me...ehmmmm..... =( trick to get out of his way is to strafe side way...look at where he is going...problem is when you are somewhere near a person and you are not very sure which way he will be pouncing to...cos the angel is too small....

We downed Lord Jaraxxus after a few tries...our legendary (nanny) and Shadow priest (mao mao) were both saying that they were both saying that they have to be around to be able to down bosses hee....

This fight seems simple if everyone just stay out of trouble...interestingly we were doing fine (but still cannot make it when 2 healers where being locked/silent) when we had 4 healers...with nanny not DCing, we were healing with 5 healers (oak-super heals/val - legendary heals/erectos - shadow heals in disc lol/lohkies - new heals and myself).....If a portal spawn without an extra mistress...it should be a very nice and easy go...so our tank was screaming all the way in his broken mic (I keep hearing pfttt...pffttt....) to kill the portal/hit the portal...LOL...same goes for the volcano...

I would say that "Incinerate Flesh — Burns the flesh off your bones!" is a real PITA....It absorbs the next 60000 healing received and decreases damage dealt by 50% for 12 sec. If Incinerate Flesh is not removed before it expires it will cause a Burning Inferno (which is even more PITA). So to avoid that...according to mao mao, its best to get a pally to heal the person that gets the debuff...I just had to throw like a Greater Heal and a Flash Heal on the person and leave the rest of the heals to nanny and it will be taken care of..Most of the time my second heal cast was not even done and the debuff is already gone....

It is very bad when both our super heals and legendary heal is being CCed...the last try we did at the very last min...Oak had the "Incinerate Flesh" and OMG nanny was loced and was not able to heal LOL...And I was healing my hands off Oak...but still the heals were not enough...and it actually expires and killed most of the raid...OMG...nevertheless we downed him!!!!!!! Happy!!!! Yeah!!!! I took a screen shot before the guild gathered together for the guild photo....

WOW I really find the 2 addons: GridIndicatorSideIcons and GridStatusRaidDebuff cool!! I can see very clearly who are the poeple who will be getting dmg etc...and time it in such a way that I can heal them right after they get dmg...

GridIndicatorSideIcons helps me see very clearly who to dispel and also who to remove the disease from...Best part I can see all the debuffs tat the raid is getting...

Another Server restart...

This is the 2nd night raiding in our new house....still not used to it....I have changed sitting position with Da and that is also weird...

stupid blizzard...another shut down again...sigh....I just wanna be able to play game!!! Why is there always needing to be restarted at our prime time??

Attempted on 25 Man Heroic Northrend Beast

1st thing when I log in to the server mao mao told me to go and have a look at the guild's raid videos...

Our guild's super 10 man team actually did of Faction Champions with the Resilience Will Fix It (10 player) achievement and actually downed Onyxia with 2 achievements: More Dots! (10 player) and She Deep Breaths More (10 player)



After watching it I went and changed my macro again...if not I will not be able to mass dispel as fast....

Now my dispel button can do both, making it faster and easier to dispell:
/cast [mod:shift] Mass Dispel; [mod:SELFCAST, target=player] [target=mouseover, exists] [] Dispel Magic;




LOL Irony was saying that the music sucks for the first video >< If you guys are having trouble seeing the please bear with it...mao mao is still experimenting with the whole capture/compressing/editing/uploading thingy...LOL quoted from our guild forum...

We attempted 25 Man Heroic Northrend Beast again....there were lots of DCing problems and also in the mids of waiting people keeps getting DCed and were forced to down load the patch again and again...if not for that our DPS were quite good and should have been able to down the stupid Yeti (Ice Howl)...

wow I changed a lot of gear today....Velen's Legging of Triumph (lvl 245), Velen's Robe of Triumph (lvl 245) and also Aurora of Transcendence.

Had to trouble Zell to cut the gems for me...while waiting for DC problems, I took the chance to trouble Strisen to help me make the enchant for my Leggings (after that I realized that I can actually learn the tailoring formula LOL...)

Its Brewfest!!

Started my quest from dalaran next to the mail box outside the inn...just talk to the guy commoner flirting with the pretty commoner...pretty obvious place... =)

I see dawyn trying to do the different quest and getting himself killed jumping from high areas in Shattrath...I wonder what is he doing...

OMG thats one of the quest that has to be done for Brewfest!!!

You gotta get yourself drunk to do all the achievements...OMG is blizzard trying to spoil my eyes??!!! Everything is so blur!! I am like walking left and right or rather swaying whenever I am trying to walk straight...I just made new glasses in RL!! LOL...

Look at me trying to complete the Catch the Wild Wolpertinger! Basically you gotta get your self completely smashed "Drunk" then you can be able to see these cute little rabbits and catch them...You can't move while casting the net...else it will not be captured...

WoW...after the effect of the "Drunkness" wears off you feel that the picture quality of WOW is super good man!

Heroic General Vezax

wooot!!!!! We finally down General hard mod!!

Gotten a new boots: Boots of the Servant, gemed and enchanted on the last try we downed generals...thanks to Zell...I must remember to send him back the mats that he lent me LOL...

Attempted Yoggs hard mode...but we were only able to down her till like 4%...in the end we finished Yoggs doing it normal...ran into one of the clouds in one of the attempts...wow I really have to have better stamina to do it...

Got scolded by mao mao...cos I was not dispelling fast enough...guess I have to place back the dispel button to my button 1 for that fight...If I keep pressing shift then 1 will be too slow to dispel...worst I got confused at first on curing disease...OMG! sigh....branded removing bad stuf slowest and healing the worst...Dawn keeps asking me to use decursive...but I really find decursive too stupid...

Mao mao suggested that I use gridstatusraiddebuffs (according to mao mao its for all the debuffs so I don't need to add in myself) and gridindicatorsideicons (which I find his idea to place disease and magic at different sides of the grid...cheer!!)...

Did a very cute quest, Mystery of the Infinite, Redux...fighting along side with my past...so cute...feels like having a twin self fighting for me...LOL...so darn cute!!

Our guild's 1st Val'anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings

Yesterday when we attempted on Northrend Beasta lot of pple get DCed...I wonder what is wrong...hhmmmm....Oak said that combat log is useless hence I actually removed it...so as to avoid getting DCed during the Northrend Beast...its so simple right click on the combat log window go to settings and remove all the ticks there....kek...

After several tries on Northrend beast today, we managed to down the 2 PITA worms and go into Icehowl phase...sadly I failed the run and he enraged on tank died...Dawn was telling me I might have hit the pilars at the sides of the area cos I was so afraid of the run that I started to press the run key way before I was even being released hence there should be enough time to run... >< so sad... I was so sleepy that I fell when getting off the train to mimiron...Dawn had to perk me up by telling me that our guild is going to get our first legendary after we down Yoggs...hhhhhmmmm.....die die also must get it today....I immdediately become alert!!! Nanny finally got the Legendary the "Val'anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings" OMG!!! cool leh!! Nanny is now OP man!! He said so himself hee...now we just need for Oak to get his and our guild is really OP!!

Playing with Macro

I have been trying to get my "shift 1" key to do Mass Dispel and just by pressing 1 to Dispel...However no matter how I changed the macro for it, I still end up having to click on my number 1 button after pressing the shift button.

After searching high and low regarding marco (nearly giving up), I found out that my "Shift 1" was actually key bound to "Action Page 1" (wonder what the hell is that?) Anyway, I removed the key bound and finally my macro "/cast [mod:shift] Mass Dispel; [mod:SELFCAST, target=player] [target=mouseover, exists] [] Dispel Magic" can do Mass Dispel finally....

That's not the final aim I want from my macro, I want to be able to shift to dispel and shield without...hhmmm....so this does the job =)

/cast [mod:shift] Dispel Magic; [mod:SELFCAST, target=player] [target=mouseover, exists] [] Power Word: Shield;

I wonder how I can change it to do mouseover dispel...must take some time to try that out...sigh...

Also added one for the Divine Hymn (this one found easily)

/cast Inner Focus
/cast Divine Hymn

Attempt on General hard mode

We attempted on General hard mode...The range not including the healers were to stand all together right....and had animus down to 2% on our best try...sadly....we din down generals hard mode we were that close...in the end we just downed him the simple way...

guess everyone is so tired...I actually fell asleep in front of my desk and didn't realise that arn had initiated a ready check before the Yogs fight...I actually thought to close my eyes for a little while while waiting for the switch of people...had a long day today...can't imagine that I had woke up since 6.30am...

bye bye Ulduar...today will be the last day we will be doing 25 men Ulduar....

Too sleepy to do my dailies....gotta do it tomorrow sigh....

First try on Fjola Lightbane & Eydis Darkbane

We did 25 men Ulduar after getting kolagan down...Went to do colosium after tat...

The fragment actually drop when nanny is around!! How can that be?? "SEE it DROPS..." he pst me....at first I thought I see wrongly and I thought I had to take back the "gratz" I send to nanny...LOL another instance of blurness...He must be thinking I am going crazy healing...in my own world again...

This time our fight at Faction Champions our raid lead realized that last week we were focusing too much on CC and too little DPS was due to the NPCs...so this week, CC was minimal...and we actually did the fight at first try. =)

I got a Trophy of the Crusade this week and it give me more reason to get my daily Heroics done...

At Fjola Lightbane & Eydis Darkbane, a very fast encounter...when you first start the the fight, 4 portals pop up, 2 dark and 2 light. Click the portal of color to get a debuff of the color. Dark debuff will let you damage the Lightbane and Light debuff will let you damage Darkbane, we were separated into 2 sides....It is important to know which vortex is being cast and taking which debuff...

It was so fun running after white balls...our 3 healers at right side, were all white (while our right DPS took the black portal) and had to run around and "walk" through the white balls to get rid of it and raise stacks of powering up to get empowered....It was quite fun to chase after the balls and heal at the same time...we've gotta try to get the color that matches our debuff, the opposite color ball will damage you...I saw oak running after like a couple of the balls but they were so fast that he actually ran into black ones at the same time...quite scary when u look at the dmg done...our main concerns are having the Twins being touched by too many balls and thus powering up too much, or losing too much DPS to Vortex and being unable to stop the Twin's Pact heal.

I copied the below wholesale from wowwiki, quite interesting cos it explains why our raid leader had gotten us to split into 2 groups:

For Twin's Pact, one of the Twins will shield herself, and then begin casting a 15 second heal for 20% of their maximum HP. The half of the raid not currently attacking her will need to switch colours and DPS her until the shield is down, and then interrupt her heal. After the heal is over, switch your colour back to what you were assigned at the beginning of the encounter.

For the Vortex ability, one of the Twins will begin an 8 second cast. The half of the raid of the opposite colour will need to switch their colour to match the vortex. Failure to switch colors will cause 30,000 damage. The other half of the raid can safely ignore this ability. For example, when Darkbane begins casting Dark Vortex, the Light half of the raid will need to switch to Dark. After the Vortex is finished, the effected players should switch back to their original colors.

Another try on discipline priest

Did Ulduar 10 men...at Flame Levithan...its been some time since I am the passenger for the demolisher...You see erectos carrying and bringing the pyrite to the demolisher using his chopper...making it so convenient when the pyrite is out of range...so cute!! Never know they can do that....

Had another try with discipline priest...this time not only for one boss...did fine today...we downed Ignis, XT, Kologarn, Auriaya, and called it a day at Hodir...I am constantly shielding the tank and the raid...mostly doing mending and then penance (mostly on tank since I am the MT healer) and some flash heals...but sadly our druid died @ XT cos he was OOR...

After the fight I had a "Nanny session" again....nanny's wondering why @Auriaya I am still full mana...LOL...but I double checked with bunny after the fight whether its fine or not....she seems fine with my healing as a discipline priest....same thing...constantly shielding everyone in raid of cos my priority is the MT...penance and also mending is always on MT...

I was very happy to tell nanny about learning from mao mao about the tricks about Divine Hymn...but he laughed at me and said "lol it heals the lowest HP raid memeber...how hard to use? its a SMART heal...cute leh you" He say I CUTE leh!!! (OMG in my own world again LOL...missing his point LOL...) CUTE!! I must tell Dawyn that nanny say me cute =) ha ha....

The combination of casting the Inner Focus then Divine Hymn is still a very smart thing to do...mao mao so smart to think of such thingy...love it especially when I like the animation of the spell so much...

Tried out the "WOW Latency Reducer"

Got the below wholesale from Oak's post in guild forum (I got his permission to post it) =)

To get low pings with 2 simple registry hacks do the following (you need to do both settings for the maximum effect)

1 - TcpAckFrequency - NOTE if you are running Windows Vista this setting may not have any effect - a hotfix is needed which i'm tracking down (can anyone point me the right way?). This works fine under Windows XP

Type "regedit" in windows "run.." dialog to bring up registry menu

Then find:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\

There will be multiple NIC interfaces listed in there, find the one you use to connect to the internet, there will be several interfaces listed (they have long names like {7DBA6DCA-FFE8-4002-A28F-4D2B57AE8383}. Click each one, the right one will have lots of settings in it and you will see your machines IP address listed there somewhere. Right-click in the right hand pane and add a new DWORD value, name it TcpAckFrequency, then right click the entry and click Modify and assign a value of 1.

you can change it back to 2 (default) at a later stage if it affects your other TCP application performance. it tells windows how many TCP packets to wait before sending ACK. if the value is 1, windows will send ACK every time it receives a TCP package.

2 - TCPNoDelay
This one is pretty simple

info here: Microsoft Corporation

Type "regedit" in windows "run.." dialog to bring up registry menu

Then find:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ\Paramet ers

Right-click in the right hand pane and add a new DWORD value, name it TCPNoDelay, then right click the entry and click Modify and assign a value of 1.

[EDIT] Some people it seems don't have a MSMQ entry in their registry. You will need to add it, to do this the simplest way is to copy/paste the below code into a empty text file, and save it as a .reg file (just call it msmq.reg). Once done right click the file and select MERGE and click yes to the box that follows.

******snip below******

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ\Paramet ers]
"TCPNoDelay"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ\Paramet ers\OCMsetup]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ\Paramet ers\Security]
"SecureDSCommunication"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ\Paramet ers\setup]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ\Setup]

******snip above******

Click Ok and close the registry editor, then reboot your PC.

In fact, I did not have MSMQ entry in my registry, was very scared to add it...but if you just follow the instructions above, its done easily =)

My wow latency went down to 350 plus from the normal 500 plus in dalaran!! cool!!

Attempts on Hard mode Freya and Generals

while clearing mobs to Hodir...arn was pulling lots of mobs...hee...actually makes it faster to go to the boss...more fun then just clearing normally...mao mao was trying to heal in shadow!!! And he wondering Y his flash heal is taking forever to heal...

we attempted 2 elder up for Fraya...but finally downed her with 1 elder up only...hhmmmm....took a very nice screen shot before the fight....

mao mao reminded me that he had to dispell for me today...in fact I was thinking that the heart shaped debuff appearing on my grid looks very pretty and wondering what debuff it was... =P got scolded and started dispelling the debuff...oophs it was too cute leh...

We were attempting general hard mode and we keep dying to "missing on intterrupt" sigh...mao mao commented that we are not testing the healers so far...and I already told nanny that I am getting cold feeted each try we doing...

Ended the day with a dailies H UP...still thinking of watching Blizz Con on-line...so envious that Oak has bought the ticket to watch on-line life....drool...

OMG I didn't do H ToC today! sigh...Have to do it tomorrow then...

Downed 25 Men Faction Champions & Assembly of Iron

Downed 25 Men ToC...Faction Champions

NPCs are as follows:
Malithas Brightblade - Paladin (Retribution)
Caiphus the Stern - Priest (Heal)
Vivienne Blackwhisper - Priest (Shadow)
Thrakgar - Shaman (Heal/Caster)
Ruj'kah - Hunter
Ginselle Blightslinger - Mage
Erin Misthoof - Druid (Heal)
Shadowcleave - Death knight
Maz'dinah - Rogue
Narrhok Steelbreaker - Warrior

Wow...imagine we had to deal with 10 of the NPCs...OMG...

Did Assembly of Iron hard mode...killing the big one last... =) positioning is the same as what I have previously mentioned...just that we have added soaker Elyss (shadow priest, and of cos he had to stand away from everyone)

Our MT really best lor after the boss die...he came after the raid and more then half the raid exploded...Heard from dawyn that everyone saw this in tankspot and started doing it LOL...

TankSpot's Guide to Iron Council Hard Mode:

10 Men Trail of the Crusader

If I am not wrong this is my first 10 men Trail of the Crusader...

Totally love the Faction Champions (even though we wiped like 12 times....), combination of the following NPCs

Thrakgar: Shaman (Healer/Caster)
Narrhok Steelbreaker: Warrior - Can narrhok Steelbreaker be MCed? Nope...its seems that he can't be...Elyss tried but he's immune...
Gorgrim Shadowcleave: Death knight
Ginselle Blightslinger: Mage
Ruj'kah and her lioness: Hunter - monkey keeps coming after me...I mean...stupid lioness keeps hitting me...I had to fear her away whenever I have the chance...
Liandra Suncaller: Paladin (Healer)

Gotta dispell lots of things (e.g gotta dispell sheep) and so much things to handle, must fade (at least this works so that the warrior/any of the NPCs don't come after me), must fear (already mentioned, any mob that come after me, sometimes both the lioness and a NPC will come after me together and that is the best time to fear)....

There was one try that both elyss and I was being CCed...Elyss is being silence while i was being sheeped! Then I died....cos no heals and then Elyss died...WIPED!!!! LOL so funny!!! I laugh till jaw drop...

After wiping for sometime...Mao Mao asked what we are doing and we found out from him that the strategy is to deal with the 2 healers, shammy and pally. Kill the shammy and chain CC pally...must kill the healing totem of cos...Minor thing to deal with: kill pet too as it has got low HP and will not be resummoned back...

After that everything fall into place and all the rest was down easily...hee...

Sigh...feels that I am healing funny at the hard mode Thorim today...Have done the 10 men hard mode with Bunny healing with me before....And successfully completed it before...Not sure what I am doing wrong...

Starting my day with H ToC

When I first log in to WOW...I checked for group to go for H ToC....and then today's daily heroics...Heroic The Nexus...

It was really fast, before I know it, some one invited me...I did a H ToC with a group with hunter, DK, pally and Druid as tank (he had like 39 K hp...another no kick...)...not very difficult...died cos I did not heal myself on time other then that we did not wipe at all...

still remember once I did it with 3 DKs and a s priest...the DK tank was standing in the green stuff for the first boss...his health went down so fast...I shielded and also PoM and doing flash heals as fast as I can...I wonder how to heal him through that...

Talked to nanny about it and he said that if I want to heal through such case, it means that there is no room for mistake and also conservation of mana...also on top of that no heals on the party...so if the party member dies its not my fault....ahhhh!!!! That's my mistake!! I should have just place my eye on the tank and tank only!!! doesn't matter if the tank have like less then 10 K of our OT....he should have been able to survive if I have been smarter to just heal him....I was worrying about the rest of the group as they were taking as much dmg as the tank...sigh...anyway nanny and I agree that the tank should be kiting the mob instead of tanking in the green stuff...

Dawyn had an experience with Oak healing before and he was standing in the green stuff...imagine he had less health then the tank and Oak can heal him through (even though he was screaming at dawyn about standing in the green stuff) guess thats the difference in the super Oak heal....

Attempts on Hard mode Assembly of Iron

I seldom see the guild do positioning...still remember first time i actually joined the guild I asked where should I stand and where I should stand...nanny will just tell me "aiya just find a comfortable position to stand and heal any body...There is bound to be people for you to heal..."

But this time for hard mode Assembly of Iron, positioning is very crucial....We had to position before we start...

A: Where our soaker is standing (nanny's position), poor thing he is constantly getting dmg after the medium guy (Runemaster Molgeim) die...punching bag ha ha...

B: Big guy (Steelbreaker) and all the range must be standing at melee range to him, best to be further away from C.

C: Small guy (Stormcaller Brundir)

Very importantly, we have to be in Melee range of the big guy (Steelbreaker)...if we are not in the melee range, Static Disruption after one dead - 7K Nature dmg to all raid members within 6 yards radius area (also +75% Nature dmg for 20s). Since this spell prefers range, Nanny had to stand away from raid and be the soaker to take the dmg, however if any one of the raid group stands like a little further from melee, they might get a chance to be targeted for the spell causing the raid group to get lots of dmg...which was why one of the hunter caused a wipe when he was not at his minimum dps range...anytime someone dies, our raid leader will call for wipe and try again, as we need all the dps we have in raid to be able to down the last guy...

Half way through the fight, mao mao mentioned that I have to PoM more...I did not realise that my PoM count is half of CoH...I try hard for CD on PoM and CoH...improved a lot after the 3rd wipe but it is still like 90:158 (or something like that), PoM:CoH ...both counts should be about the same since the CD is only 1 sec different...Cos the 3rd Phase is so healing intensive...First time I ever heard Oak say that he does not have time to do other heals...

After a few tries till after midnight or rather we were like still trying after 2am, our raid leader decided to try it next week...sigh...

5 men ToC 2nd try...Training on heals...

As advised by Elyss...I was going for ToC 5 men every chance I have...Formed a group with Kit tanking and in the middle of the fight the hunter went off...We actually wiped on a normal mode!!! It was until the wipe that I realized that we were doing a normal mode...I thought I was improving in heals....sigh...I was wondering why its taking so long for the mobs to die then I found out that the hunter was doing like more then 1/2 DPS then everyone else...hmmm....something wrong with the DPS that we have in this group...

Later I did a Heroic with Bastila and sigh...No kick!! It was so easy to heal him...He had like 10 K HP more then most of the tanks that I did with so far...To practice I can not do H ToC 5 Men with him...hee....

New instance..ToC

Joined our first 25 men ToC...1st try I din realise that I was not suppose to be in raid till middle of the fight..and we wiped

2nd try...I run back to rez they started the fight before i can run out....I wonder who's not in the raid in the first place...sigh...so embarassing.......sadly I have let Bunnybun got stuck outside of raid...Since I am in I have no choice but to continue...I got Paralytic Toxin and needs move to the Dreadscale tank, take a tick of AoE fire damage to clear the debuff but I was too slow and became paralyzed and stunned...aiyo...we should have enough time to do it...but the whole fight like so chaotic...seems like a easy fight...I bet team 1 did it without any problem at all in 10 men LOL...worst thing is when one of the when one Jormunjar dies, the other enrages, for at least 50% extra damage...mao mao was screaming on vent "Chrystie dun steal people's raid spot!" OMG! I was sweating in RL man...I should have waited to rez when we wiped...aiyo...

For the first phase....I keep hearing "snow balls" "snow balls" "there is snow balls alive"...hee....actually it was "Snobolds"...Gormok will throw Snobolds on random players. These Snobolds regularly stun and kick their targets...when that happens, DPS should kill the Snobold, sigh...these Snobold can incapacitate and cause problems for the tanks if the healers gets it...problem is I can't see the "Snobold" very clearly...but it will be really funny to see Snobold beating your face....hahaha...

Snobolds are an arctic kobold-like race according to my search on google It took me a while to realise that you will get a "Snobolled!" debuff on you...trying to figure out how to add the debuff on my grid...

mao mao din explain the 3rd phase...cos he wanna find out who comes unprepared....actually I find the last phase the cutest...the Yeti looks so cute! Its call Icehowl...have to run away from his "breathe" Icehowl knocks the entire raid back to the walls, stunning them, picks a random target to charge and runs to the opposite side of the room...before he does that he will "goes a turn" (move backwards/reverse to the wall)...that animation done is so CUTE!!! LOL...All raid members gain a speed buff to run away from the target area at this time...very interesting to end the fight this way...

I went for my first Trail of the Champion run with PUG...real fun and tough...very exciting...we did wiped a few times for different bosses...

Can't imagine we wiped for the first fight...we nearly made it...I made a mistake of not getting on to a horse asap after I was being dismounted...you've gotta keep shielding yourself else you will get dismounted very fast...

We met the "Argent Confessor Paletress"...very interesting...its really PITA to see her does a few things like "Holy Fire" and "Shadows of the Past" I have to quickly dispell...and push heal at the same time...she does a lot of "Waking Nightmare" and feared us...causing our wipe...cos the tank got Holy Fire at the same time of the fear...2nd time we tried I was better at the timing and also remembered using "Every Man for Himself"...should have used Fear Ward on myself too..Still not very sure about the other different bosses...will try it again tomorrow...

Found another error on my UI "...DBM-Party-WotLK\OldStratholme\OldStratholmeWaves.lua:60: attempt to call global 'GetCurrentDungeonDifficulty' (a nil value)" when doing Heroic VH...under AddOns\DBM-Party-WotLK\OldStratholme change "GetCurrentDungeonDifficulty" to "GetDifficulty" and should solve the problem...

Amended Spec...dealing with UI problems...

After talking to mao mao regarding the pros and cons...I made a little modification to the spec he suggested...so now I am using the Newly amended Spec...

Made some small changes to my UI too...moved the positions of the buttons closer to grid so that I can reach my grid and buttons at minimal speed...sigh...My hands giving me problems again...the stupid wrist swell is up at work again...so I gotta be more careful...

rawr! Hate patches and needing to make changes to UI....I keep getting errors from my ag_UnitFrames..."Message: Interface\AddOns\ag_UnitFrames\ag_UnitFrames.lua:657: attempt to call global 'GetDifficultyColor'..." had to find the file ag_UnitFrames.lua and replace the "GetDifficultyColor" with "GetQuestDifficultyColor" before I can rid of the errors...Since I am grounded cos my hubby has H1N1...I have a little more time to deal with these stuff...hee...

WOW.exe not found...Whats new for Priest?

Just patched my WOW....even though was through some difficulty cos I was using Window Vista...Had to right click on WOW.exe, "run as administrator" before I can patch properly...else I keep getting the "wow.exe could not be found" error...problem solved...

New patch for Ulduar..."Ominous Clouds in the Yogg-Saron encounter are now more vocal about touching players" Ha ha does it mean that Yogg-Saron's gonna call out the name of the player that touch the cloud!!?? Great! Isn't this wat mao mao wanted?

Changes for Priest (I just jot down things that might affect me):

Divine Hymn now worlks correctly with Illustration of the Dragon Soul...Mass Dispell can now trigger some types of trinkets (e.g Flow of Knowledge)

=( PoH - % of spell power gained in healing (per target) is being reduced from 80.7% to 52.6%

OMG! Disc - Penance CD is now 12s up by 2s
Glyph of Power: Shield - heal from glyph can now cause Divine Aegis...

Holy - Inspiration, buff from it reduces physical dmg taken by target by 3/7/10%

Hmmm....Shadow - Dispersion CD is now 2 mins
- Improved mind blast...now improved, in addition to reducing cool down of mind blast spell, it also has a chance to reduce all healing done to the target by 20% for 10s...sounds good of PVP?
- Vampiric Touch, doubled the amt of dmg done when spell is dispelled

The achievement that I aim to get...A Brew-FAST Mount...hee...

Anyway I still have to update my UI...sigh...I guess I will do it tomorrow...too sleepy...

Talent points....Respec...

Tuesday server down...3.2 patch...So I took some time to study about my build again and see if there is anything that I need to improve on...

Previously I was using a popular build from www.wowpopular.com

Since I found out that renew is really useless I decided I should to get rid of renew from my cast bar...and also from my build.

I removed:

1.) Improved Renew (3)
2.) Empowered Renew (3)
end up I now have 6 points extra...so I added to Healing Focus (2), Holy Reach (2)

I will removed Desperate Prayer (1) too...

Nanny has been telling me to remove it...I plan to create a macro to focus on myself, fade, instant heal and shield when trouble occurs...Shall see if this will work for me...

Hate dying the most...a dead priest is a useless priest...

Now I have a tie between Spell Warding and Divine Fury...Since I do not use much of a Greater Heal...should choose to use the 5 points on Spell Warding???

hhmmmm....but I wanting to play safe...have chosen to place these 5 points on Divine Fury instead...I might need to heal using Greater Heal? Definitely not using it in 25 men though...

Now my new build is rid of renew and desperate prayer...

I have 3 points extra...where should I place it? Hmmm....

After some consideration, I guess I will need cheaper instant spells...So I added 1 to Improved Power Ward: Shield and 2 to Mental Agility...This way I get at least a 7% less for my instant spells...So my final build will now have cheaper instant cast...

Ok all I need now is for the server to go up and then try out my new build...and also check on the new glyph I should add for this build...

Downed Thorim Hard mode!!

We down Thorim hard mode!!! Hee...tough fight...I was healing hallway...getting very used to the "running left and right" part (where the Runic Colossus - Mini Boss, uses Smash, simply run left if you see the cast on his right hand and vice versa)...and also the part that Irony just runs up the stairs before our jump to join the arena team...

We were being separated into our different groups, 2 by 2 so as to avoid the chain lighting...

Sif is a real PITA, she will cast a few things that really does a lot of damages to the raid...

She does, Frostbolt Volley which is Frost damage and reduces their movement speed by 50% for 4 seconds...Sometimes Frost Nova also Frost damage and trap the raid up to 6 seconds...the most obvious of cos will be Blizzard, anyone trapped in her blizzard will have their movement speed reduced by 65%, I hate it when she stands next to me...Since the other 2 priest are doing MC, I had to constantly help to mass dispell those that are trapped...I'm very happy that I did a good job with my stuns for the fight! =)

Half way through while clearing thrash to boss...I pst mao mao and told him that I bought a new mouse "Novint Falcon" for dawyn to play wow...very unusual mouse...actually wanted introduce him to the new mouse since he play a lot of competitive games...I wonder how it will feel to play wow with it...

After that we attempted Hodir hard mode...however I was not healing well enough...according to nanny...there is a significant difference when mao mao heal and when I healed...of cos I din do as well...and I know that..

Nanny also added: if I were to use renew, I may as well precast a flash heal on tank...mao mao heals as a disc and mostly he does shield the raid...I should at least do it for myself and the 2 other healers I guess...Oak got distracted after we missed the timing...sadly our 2nd try we were on track...but we wiped...so since we missed the timing on our last try...our GL decided that we just down him without the hard mode...

I should be doing more prayer of mending and also circle of healing more often...mao mao and nanny thinks that I should remove my renew...I removed it from my common button click...guess tomorrow I must remember to remove the Glyph of Renew...I have found some websites that talks about renew and flash heals...I guess I will read about it more tomorrow....sleepy.....ZZZZzzz....

Still need better FEEL...

Wow a lot of people already sign up for raid when I tried to sign up yesterday...some even register as early as Monday...I guess I will have to set an alarm to remind myself to register for raid...don't want to miss out the chance to familiarize myself on the different bosses...

We were discussing about the levels for the different profession when mao mao was saying "I am a priest! Why do I need bandage???!!!" LOL well said...Ya why do I need

Anyway I had mine maxed out long ago...

Did XT-002 Deconstructor and Hodir hard mode for the first time and of cos got the achievement for it...

XT-002's trantrum is really a PITA, I had to use my desperate prayer and a health stone too...Irony keeps asking me about my mana....really scared by him LOL...I was like very low on mana and he kept asking me "Chrystie are you fine with your mana?"
I was looking at my mana fiend and its like on 12 sec CD...still can survive (though a lot of things can happen in that short period of time)...I used Flash Heal then Greater Heal to keep the tank up...the constant prayer of mending gave me a very comfortable time to heal the tank...

During the 2 giant mob to Auriaya, one of the giant was killed faster then the other and hence the giant got buffed and killed tank that was tanking...I was so shocked!! eh?!!! OMG!!! MT Healer on training...dreaming?!!! What I should have done is to cast GS!!! Later when I pst Robin, he asked me to pay attention to that....ya I agree...should have been more alert to cast the GS as soon as one of the pair is down...not attentive enough...still need to have a better feel then what I having now...That's the big difference with a good healer and just a healer that can heal...

Hodir doing MT heal...my eyes never left the MT and all I did was to Flash heal, renew, prayer of mending and also circle of healing (CoH only after frozen blow when he 'screams')...Defeating Hodir in under 3:00 minutes?! Woot! Not very difficult but tough part is to make sure that the DPSers move, the have the tendency to stand still to DPS...The NPC mage and also the shaman must be freed and everything will fall in place...

Got switched out from Thorim cos Elyss wants to do Thorim...I gotta try it next time...never done it in 10 men hard mode before...

MT Healing Training Program...

We had a few tries @ Thorim hard mode today but Arena Team keeps getting over whelmed...Dawyn is getting a lot of agro while he was doing his "forking" and I see him dying to mobs...Lots of pple keeps getting a lot of dmg from the chain lighting and Oaklin is getting lots of aggro from healing...more dmg pple gets, the more heals he does and in turn more aggro...

I got disconnected twice and had so much trouble reloading UI, tried a few commands like "/reload UI" and "/console reloadui", but both times my UI did not load properly especially my grid is no where to be seen...Harry had to mind control one of the mob to get us out of combat before I can get my grid back...

I am getting used to running with Irony up the stairs in Hallway...previously I had to run like mad to get to him...I was having a better feel I guess...

We downed all the way to Yogg-saron and then downed Ignis, Razor and then IC after tat (all in normal mode cos our GL is saying that we have wasted too much time)

Today I really pay lots of attention to our main tanks...in fact it took a lot of my effort not to heal the lower health pple in the raid...hee...

Heal MT ONLY!!!

XT hard mode
Wiped again at XT hard mode...as we wipe more I can hear my heart beating faster and faster....

My hands had grown cold and shaking LOL...How can I be more scared of healing the MT more then the stupid thief that stole my bag from my home in the morning? LOL

"OK no more trying....we have wasted enough time....", our GL gave the signal to continue in normal mode...we have people in the raid that was too close when they had gravity bomb...twice in a row we actually were pulled back.... I guess that was Y we missed the enrage timer and wipe at 3%...wasted...

So no XT hard mode this week...I thing I realise from healing @ XT hard mode (we had Elyss - a shadow priest with us):

1.) I had no mana problem, I was spamming flash heals all the way
2.) Heart phase I will cast my shadow fiend after the shaman cast heroism....my shadow fiend will be up by the time my mana is low, I still have inner focus
3.) Priest will have to click on Shadowcrawl to help in the heart phase DPS...and we should do it twice
4.) Must Shadow Word: Pain, Holy Fire and also use Devouring Plague...I casted Shadow Word: Death twice most of the time at heart phase...

Thorim Hard mode

Thorim first dry run I died @ hallway (left and right again)...dreaming!!! I heard the left but I stunned in RL for a sec...OMG how could I??

mao mao not happy with my way of healing the MT...He gave a scenerio, think of it this way: there were 2 other healers who were looking at me heal...and if I itchy hand and heal the raid...and within that 3 sec MT die? so they have to cover my inability to do my job as a MT healer...that means that 3 healers will be on tank!!! No way!! (I have bad habits that is actually inherited from healing in other guilds or rather since I have been raiding...usually the healers I know previously are unable to heal properly even though they are healing tank...Gotta help push heals a little...) Must wake up!~!!!

MT healer job is to top overheal meter...No more "saving mana and don't over heal"...

So now my new Vision: MT Healer...heal MT ONLY!!!

Next task is to aim the MT ONLY!!! Must drill that into my mind....if I want to be MT healer...

Mission Possible Day #4 - MT healer?

I've got the biggest scare from nanny today when he pst me....I thought he was gonna scold me for being slow in healing sigh...since I am still having the aftermath of not raiding for sometime...or rather MT healing for a long time...I confessed that I know I healed badly for the last 10 men raid....and am trying to train myself up @ the moment...

But to my greatest surprise...he actually told me to MT heal the next 25 men!!!!!!!

"You must be kidding me!!! LOL" I wrote back to him...I made several print screens of what he said...I nearly fainted....I asked him a few times again and realise that he meant what he said...Me?? MT healer? OMG...

Frankly I've been MT healer for the past years but after joining my current guild I have never MT heal in 25 men before!! What is MT heal??? Things that were so naturally easy for me has became a very foreign thing...where did my confident go? All the healers in the guild are so super I never need to MT heal!!! I am no where in comparison to them!!! Must talk to mao mao...aka Hairy...to him healing is so simple!! argh!!!

I went ahead and continued my one instance a day...wanted to form a H CoS but end up doing naxx 10 men instead with Kemeko (his alt Eclar)....Never been so happy to get such a sucky PUG!!!! At the "spider" boss we wiped once due to no cleansing...I figured no mater how fast I try and heal the poison over run our heals...we did it in the 2nd try and I used what ever I could to keep the tank alive...was so happy that I even need to use GS LOL....completed the whole instance feeling very sleepy...I guess this instance as a training ground is too long for me...yawn!!!

I went and downloaded cowtip to move my tool tips of my mouse over while waiting for them to change pple in and out...but the funny thing about the cowtip is that there are a few other little pop out that are really prominent so I removed it while raiding in naxx...guess have to try and do some config tomorrow...

Sigh...couldn't sleep last thursday after a failure MT heal on XT hard mode...will I be ready on Friday??

The more I look at the print screen of my short conversation with nanny..The more wide wake I become...Can't sleep thinking so much...so went back and added a new macro for the Yogg-saron fight:

/CancelAura Flash Freeze
/CancelAura Hand of Protection
/CancelAura Ice Block

At first I just wanted to add in the Flash Freeze one...however I found out from TankSpot that there is more...so being a "KS" (scared to lose) Singaporean...I added them all....I guess I don't need the extra buff bar that I added after all...

Mission possible Day #3 - An instance a day keeps the stiffness away...

Ok today is the so call day 3 for my special training...I promised Irony that I will "wake up"...hee....

An instance a day keeps the stiffness away...doing an instance a day to make sure I am more brushed up...since there is no Heroic CoS I joined a group in Heroic VH and Uncle J pst me and asked "wth are you doing H VH?" LOL I know its no kick to him...I was just trying to get familiar with the new interface arrangement I have made...did UK and also CoS....

Got some of the feel back while healing, but duh...still failed on the time run for CoS since I got too much aggro from healing and let the tank die...sigh...I can do better then that!! Tomorrow will be another day of training if the server is not down!!! AHHHHHHH!!!! Already day #3!!

Hee...did one round of Strands of the Acient Portal...but lost...

I moved my grid back to the original position since it was better for situation awareness...

Mission possible Day #2 - Getting Familiar

Went for another CoS again today...this time its a new tank...who's doing it for the first time...Lucky I have dawyn in the group cos we did the time run with 2 mins left @ the boss...Beq finally got his Reins of the Bronze Drake!!! LOL...

Was back late and hence did not get a chance to do Freya in 10 men....Was asked to join for Mimiron...SO happy!!! Suppose to be healing the MT (fatechan ~ mage) tanking for P3...got him in one piece to P4 and did not realize that I was suppose to be healing him also for P4!! He got brez and hee...very next sec he was dead again!!! My bad!!!!

The try where we down general was a challenge, Bunny and I were the only 2 that was healing for cos Irony though that there is one more healing...hee...we managed quite fine though...remembering what I used to do when casting heals after a short talk with Hairy...I used the pre-cast method that I did not use for a long time....trick is to cast heal and see if tank's health is full or not...if tank's health is ok, cancel the heal at the very last minute...I was using Greater Heals...but according to Hairy, we should use Flash Heals and do the same thing...Our MT (pally) needed to do a lot of kiting (cos of Surge of Darkness sigh...a DK will be great tank for this fight) and we had a hard time running after him and wipe a few times before we did General Vezax successfully...

We had quite a lot of problem @ Yoggs 10 men...our newly joined members were spawning a few Guardian of Yogg-Saron, the last try we did, I was "saved" by the Flash Freeze, however according to wowhead its called Protective Gaze with very little health...Confirmed that its call Flash Freeze....Irony was telling me to get rid of the buff quickly, however I was not fast enough...and the out side raid got wiped very quickly...I was being encased in a block of ice...sob sob...I found out that we are suppose to create a macro "/cancelaura Flash Freeze" to remove the buff when necessary. I took a bigger step and created a big button to show when I have that BUFF using my ElkBuff addon...Hope it will work...I ever shifted back the grid to the previous position so that I can be more aware of the environment...

You can see a horribly created button LOL...I don't want to remove the anchor so that I can reposition it later...

Mission possible Day #1

New code name for my mission: Training to be a better healer...go for training so that I can be able to do healing with better feel...or according to Hairy...with better sense...

Today is Day #1 to start training...Changed my buttons position and also moved my grid so tat I move my mouse faster...moved my clock back to the top again...hmmm...thinking to use SexyMap instead of squeenix...Not very sure what's gonna be affected...Looks & feels a bit funny still...guess have to do a few instance before I can know wat's affected...

Since I can't join raid for the Hodir fight, I decided to go for COS to start my training...so I asked Beq to start an instance with his pally as tank...Sadly we missed the time run cos our DPSer kept getting disconnected...On the last batch of mobs to the timed boss our tank lagged out and died...sigh...left suddenly cos I was being called to go for General...Oh no...Beq's gonna hate me for at man...First time I ever left a group so suddenly...

Yeah!!! Our guild downed Hodir in hard mode!!! This time it's for REAL!!!! Congratz!!! Sad that I am not in raid but VERY happy that he's down!

We had a few tries at yoggs as there were lots of new pple...some of our experienced players were very nice to stay out for the new ones...

Some one tried to rez pple inside yogg's room and triggered the boss...LOL...I tried to find out but dunno who....wanted to tell the person.."I did tat before"...finally downed yoggs for the day...phew!

OMG!! I actually ran off with the items that I should DE =P OMG only realised it after the raid...Sure gonna be blacklisted...

Total Screw up

I totally screw up today....again...First time I started healing MT since I join the guild...or rather first time doing 10 men since I came back from Australia...

Mistakes I made is so scary that I basically panicked all the way...First @ XT I let my MT die and I was suppose to be healing the tank!!! I moved when I got light bomb...and missed a heal for the tank...Can you imagine that? So we end up not doing the Hard mode cos the Healer (ME) sucks!!

Hodir even "better", I let tank die again!! My timing for heals were totally out! Totally not thinking well...Harry mentioned in the vent that Hodir hard mode is suppose to be a 1 healer fight...I guess I gotta really time everything well if I am going to be the 1 healer...and no mistakes...

Sob...sob....I was so stressed...During Thorim, Irony told me I had to step out for Elyss to come in cos my raid spot is suppose to be his....but end up some one else gave their place for me...I started to realize what is wrong with my heals...I have not been using my spells as efficiently as I used to!! Or rather as correctly...cos I panic there were times that I did not use Greater Heals when I was suppose to!! OMG!! What am I thinking? Isn't that the basic?

The whole raid ended with us achieving quite a lot of achievements but we did not manage to get the Thorim hard mode done...

After raid Harry was telling me that "healing is not about feeling...its about decision making"...I have a sudden realization, this is the difference guys play games from girls...we make decision base on feelings most of the time...so to me healing is mostly feeling...and Harry thinks of it differently...logic...its all about logic...

Having taught a good lesson today I went and respec on my holy spec again...I followed a Popular Spec for priest...should be better next time I heal...I went and replaced the Glyph of Dispell to Glyph of Circle of Healing since they have nerf the Glyph of Dispell...Now it makes more sense to me...

Ok no more next time!!! I must do at least a Heroic a day...else I will be too rusty to do myself or the guild any good...too late to do one today...will have to start the mission tomorrow...

Sadly I heard from Zerino that he is going to transfer server...or rather he already transferred...so sad...He is one of the players I find amazing since Lyctina...He's healer as well...

The worst news I heard today was that the guild did not down Hodir hard mode for 25 men!!! I thought he was downed when dawyn told me they completed Hodir...sob sob...They missed the enraged timer by just 6 sec!!!! Just 6 sec!!! I am sure he will be down this week!!

Another CMI day...

So envious!!! Hairy actually made himself the [Spellslinger's Slippers]...Drool....:P~~ I also want!!!! Need 6 Runed orb....wow....I guess I must start doing dailies everyday like I used to so that I can get my Azure Netherwing Drake

Our guild downed Hodir hard mod today!! Congratz!!! But too bad I have to sit out cos I am not good at healing in disc and sigh...nevertheless I am glad Hodir hard mod is done =)

We did the "medium" mod for Assembly of Iron...we killed the "Runemaster Molgeim" last.... =) yay!!! still considered as being involved in guild progression =) hee...cos first time we are doing it this way...

I CMI again at Mimiron again...when he did his "P3Wx2 Laser Barrage " again...This time so pissed!!! Cos I actually died after the raid warning was shown...but I din see him shoot!!! and next sec you see I am dead...I actually lagged at the wrong time!!!!! What the $#$%#$@!!! Wa liao I really suck big time!!! I must make sure I will be back on time for 10 men...getting worst and worst at healing these days...sure needs to do more practice...else I really have to quit WOW...

We did the 25 men The Obsidian Sanctum, Sartharion after the raid with less then 20 people...We had 2 wipes cos people keeps dying to void zones...fire wall and such...and I was in disc spec...so I got fed up so for the 3rd try I revert back to using holy specs...I went OOM at the end...gosh...tough...

Fun with Disc Spec...back to Holy in raid...

Got a shocked when Hairy asked me whether I am disc spec or not...cos I thought that I will have to have at least 5k gold to be able to get dual spec and I don't have so much...

Turns out we only need 1 k gold to purchase that ability...I went and bought it immediately....and played disc in my holy gear LOL...

Since the guild were trying to attempt for the Hodir hard mod and that only 3 healers are required, I had to sit out which our people wipe in their tries....

While they are busy enjoying themselves and learning the fight, Irony calls it a wipe feast, I had nothing to do, hence went and tried out my disc spec in BG...Really damn fun!!! Cos was uber..Won my first fight in AB (have not done AB since the patch)

Best I got the achievement for winning AB in 6 mins!!! LOL....

I enjoyed casting Penance...the spell looks so nice!!! When you shoo..shoo..shoo...to heal, the animation is so refreshing.... =) Used pain suppression once in a while as well...it works the same as Guardian Spirit...

After trying a few BGs I got tired and our raid leader decided that we should go for other bosses and attempt Hodir tomorrow...I was being rotated into raid to heal...

I had to follow Nanny to the hallway...Before we started our Thorim fight...Nanny pst me accidentally with "/w thoramas Wanna bet that christy die in hallway? 500g?" LOL so bad!!! Then he ask me to die and share half half!!! Luckily I din die...but had a few near death experience...cos of the Smash (I think this is what its being called asked most of the very knowledgeable ones in guild but they also not sure what it is being called) from the Runic Colossus (Mini Boss), when the mini boss cast with his right hand we have to run to the left...and vise verse, I actually got hit a couple of times...I din know that we have to avoid the "circles on the ground" as described by Rabbit...I call them the shield that looks like the ones cast in the Malygos fight...got stunned at the end of the hallway, good thing the tank has already jumped into the arena area while that happened...Rabbit was laughing at me saying that if the tank dies, he can know who to blame hee...In fact Nanny was there, I don't have to worry about such thing happening....

We downed Freya and also Thorim...Finally got my 2 tier this week, the head (which can be a PITA to gem) and the leggings...but feel so bad for Bastilla cos he was a little too late when he asked for the token only after the token was given to me...

Normal Monday...

Kinda bored today...still feeling sad that I can't complete the midsummer event...and I had so many token and did not change for Captured Flame and Toasted Smorc ...Guess I will have to continue the achievements it next year...

We did not have any raid...so I went with Elyss and santaku to H DK...our tank Misha did not give time for us to mana up and went all the way...a very fast run!!! =) I think we were all bugged or something cos till the last boss we couldn't drink....most of the time I was having half mana ><
Bought a new 1 TB harddisk and Hairy suggested that he use my PC to fraps our raid fights on algalon...wow can no problem...I guess I will just pass him my 1 TB for him to do the fraps when the time comes...fraps from his perspective will be better then from mine right? Less stress and even if I do funny things I dun have to worry hahaha....I can still make use of the old hard disk to raid what...no probs...

Anyway Dawyn suggest I should just start to fraps something with my normal raids every weekend... >< install OS and WOW first don't think too much first LOL....fraps or no fraps I need my WOW up first!!!!