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....