I am level 85 Finally!!

WOW after days of working on leveling I am finally 85!!!

I was trying to explore the places to get experience from them since if I do it in future I will not be able to get any experience if I go around exploring later on in the game...



Finally leveled to 85 and wow!!! Got myself a new trinklet [Tear of Blood] which is better then my [Purified Lunar Dust] ...So far I have not seen the [Tear of Blood] yet...Happy!

There are still a lot for me to catch up with since I have not done any heroics or even doing any of the higher instances...Just hope I can be able to catch up with the rest of the people in the guild asap... =)

Found out that I am capped on my justice points...which means that for the past few days all the instance I have gone for I did not earn new justice points cos I forgot to buy something from the vendor...OMG...should have done it on the first day I started playing cata....what a waste...

Cataclysm Questing

Art of attraction

I totally have no idea what is anemone...ok I know nothing here is real but still the description should have been more clear LOL....

Rather then: Use the Anemone Chemical Extraction Device to gather 8 Anemone Chemical Samples from the red anemones along the walls of Glimmerdeep Gorge.

Anemone Chemicals Gathered (8)

Anyway I found out from wowhead that they are some red clouds on the cliff walls...just use the device near them and well do it 8 times and done....

Beq calls them sea creature that has small legs like jellyfish...I think they look more then deformed sun flowers...wa the Anemine Frenzy are really damn irritating...you gotta turn to them then can hit them and they move at high speed round and round you....OMG...damn ouke blood...actually been dpsing as a holy priest...leveling and not respec...should be more puke blood that way...

Odor Coater

Next I was totally blurred by Odor Coater....Found from wowhead again that these "Divers are all around 47:50. They're humans and dwarfs (easy to recognize), and you can find them in groups of up to three (3).



They are Glimmerdeep Divers on the bottom of the sea in Glimerdeep Gorge"...I found them damn cute walking around tight together like that...Just knew they were for some quest...but never know it's for such simple quest LOL...

Anyway been busy trying to level and going to different instance to level my priest at the time being...Queuing for instance is so convenient now...but the wait is longer...

Preloading Cataclysm

Was talking to Irony regarding preloading of Cataclysm before 7 Dec 2010 and he told me to go to the guild's forum to learn more about it...

Taken from wow.joystiq.com

NOTE: Blizzard has approved use of this method. It is not against the ToS, EULA, or any other acronym.

Pre-orders for the Cataclysm digital upgrade are officially open, and you can start downloading the remainder of the expansion's data the moment your purchase goes through. But what if you're awaiting a Collector's Edition or you don't have the money to upgrade online right now? You don't want to be left waiting for Cataclysm to download and install on launch night.

Thankfully, we've got you covered. There's an easy way to preload all the data you'll need to play Cataclysm the moment it goes live on midnight Dec. 7. Just follow these easy steps:

1. Make sure World of Warcraft and/or the launcher and background downloader are completely closed.
2. Open up your World of Warcraft folder.
3. Open Launcher.wtf in Notepad and change the "accountType" line from LK to CT.
4. Open Config.wtf in Notepad and change the "accountType" line from LK to CT.

Now load up the launcher and you should begin downloading 700 megs or so of new material. That's the last bit of data you need to play on launch night. Enjoy!

Certainly must try it out...I keep worrying about not being able to start downloading the Cataclysm since I wanna get the box....I wonder if still can get the collector's edition...Thanks to Vixyn.... =) and oh ya not to forget IRONY!!!

Dawyn tried it and it works perfectly...hee....now's my turn...and I found that both Launcher.wtf and Config.wtf is actually found in [drive installed]:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WTF

Malygos

I just realised that I might not have blogged about Malygos fight...tried searching for it but was not able to find...dawyn told me that the boss was long before I started blogging...wow...

Anyway the guild wanted to do it so I joined in to heal and realise that I totally don't remember how to heal while on the dragon....

According to Rai...I am suppose to cast 5XRevivify and then a Life Burst....meaning I have to press 33333 and then 4...at the mean time not getting too close to the boss and of cos I will need to cast a shield on anyone by pressing 5 if anyone being targetted by malygos.... Just writing it down so that next time I will not make the same mistake again...

Luckily Irony switched to heals when I went down and we did down the boss eventually...that was so embarassing...LOL...

I was the first to die for the boss fight =D

Glory of the Icecrown Raider (25 player)

YAY!!! We downed sindragosa again today!!! And I have completed the whole of Glory of the Icecrown Raider (25 player)!!!

I have been having this piece of paper in front of me so that I dun panic when doing Heroic Sindragosa....(of cos it includes the stuff that I needed to bid for the bosses that we are going for) dawyn actually took a picture of it for me.... I can finally throw it away!!!! Dun need to look at it more!!!! LOL...

Now I finally gotten the mount, Icebound Frostbrood Vanquisher that we are after for so long!! Its such a great present before the next expansion!! =) OMG!!!

I can not imagine that I have forgotten to install DBM at the start of the game since I wanted to try out DXE as advised, but I got bro aggro on that day and totally forgot to install it!! Killed Hunggy in the process OMG!! so sorry about that...

Anyway it all ends well =) I completed the Glory of the Icecrown Raider (25 player)!!!

WOW - The New Patch & Counting down...

Was just talking to Sixx about mods and realised that I am only using the followung mods: bartender4, dbm, grid2, OmniCC, Pitbull4

He told me is good enough...I found that having too many mods will slow down my latency...

As I was trying to respec for raid...I found out something new on the spec for Holy priest...Revealation....OMG what the....LOL...I thought that was auto last time?

So I changed my holy spec removing stuff like Tome of Light and also ...

I realised that they removed the Chakra for renew...sigh...so sad...I guess its too over powered...

Was shocked that Sixx says he's not joining us for this weeks raid since they were locked with 10 man...sigh....which got me worried since I am kinda like aiming to get the last 2 Heroic bosses that I need to get the achievement: Glory of the Icecrown Raider (25 player)....I cannot imagine...it seems that most of the core raiders are locked...

Zero's being very gentle while raid leading...we were unable to do Heroic Sindragosa since we don't have enough healers...sigh....where are all the healers? OMG...we have like more then 50 on-line....sigh...

Anyway we downed Heroic LDW this week...which officially makes Heroic Sindrgosa my last boss in Heroic mod....can't wait to get the mount =)Wondering if I will be able to get it in fact...we will need like 8 healers tomorrow if I want to get the mount...Lets hope we can do it tomorrow cos next week is the last week of raid...

What is Chakra

Saw in this website a super detailed explanation of What is Chakra, I find it very easy to understand hence copied whole thing from it, please note it is not done by me....

What is Chakra?

1. Chakra is a 20 point talent in the holy tree that allows a priest to enter a state where certain abilities are enhanced, depending on which Chakra state the priest chooses to enter.
   
2. Chakra is put into effect by casting the spell and then one of four other spells immediately after it, putting you in that particular state.
   


• Heal


• Renew


• Prayer of Healing


• Smite
  
3. 
   Chakra can be extended by putting talent points into State of Mind and by casting spells unique to the state you’re in (i.e. casting Renew while in Chakra: Renew).
   
4. Placing a talent point in Revelations will allow Chakra to change the effects of Holy Word: Chastise, to compliment whatever state you are in.
   
   
   
   • Chakra: Heal/ Holy Word: Serenity
   
   
   • Chakra: Renew/ Holy Word: Aspire
   
   
   • Chakra: Prayer of Healing/ Holy Word: Sanctuary
   
   
   • Chakra: Smite is the only state that does not improve Holy Word: Chastise.
   
   



5. Chakra does not limit or restrict what spells you can cast while in a state. For example, you could still use Shadow Word: Death if you were in Chakra: Prayer of Healing or Greater Heal if you were in Chakra: Renew. It only takes spells you already have and makes them more effective or slightly changes their effects.
   



6. Chakra does have a 60 second cooldown – so if you go into the wrong state by mistake or you need to change into another one (due to the needs of your situation), you would need to wait for that cooldown to be up again before you could change your Chakra.
   



7. Chakra has been shown to not use a global cooldown, so you can make a macro for each state you would want to enter and make it more efficient to use that way.
   

Chakra: Heal

1. Increases your chance to crit with Heal by 10%


2. Casting Heal will refresh a Renew already present on your target.


3. Holy Word: Serenity
   
   
   
   • Instantly heals your target for 4654 to 5462 and increases the crit chance of your heals on them by 25% for 6 seconds. Has a 20 second cooldown.
     
   • The direct heal from Holy Word: Serenity is capable of a critical heal.
   
   
   
   


4. Ideal for situations where you are tank healing or focused on a single target.
   
   
   
   • Deathbringer Saurfang
   
   
   • Valithria Dreamwalker
   
   
   • The Frostmourne room during the Lich King encounter
   
   

Chakra: Renew

1. Increases the healing done by your Renew by 10%


2. Reduces the global cooldown of your Renew by .5 seconds


3. Holy Word: Aspire
   
   
   
   • Instantly heals your target for 1991 and then another 3762 over 18 seconds. Has a 15 second cooldown.
   
   
   • The instant heal and HoT portion of Holy Word: Aspire are capable of critical heals.
   
   
   
   


4. Ideal for trash pulls or situations with steady raid damage or harmful auras.
   
   
   
   • Blood Queen Lana’thel
   
   
   • Sindragosa
   
   
   • Sapphiron
   
   
   
   


5. Helpful on high mobility fights or fights where your cast time could be delayed.
   
   
   
   • Thorim
   
   
   • Halion
   
   
   • Malygos
   
   
   
   

Chakra: Prayer of Healing

1. Increases the effect of your AOE healing spells by 10%
   
   
   Circle of Healing
   Divine Hymn
   Prayer of Healing
   Holy Nova
   Holy Word: Sanctuary
   
   
   
   


2. Reduces the cooldown on Circle of Healing by 2 seconds.


3. Holy Word: Sanctuary
   
   
   
   • Targets a zone to become a sanctuary and heals those standing inside of it for 267 to 317 every 2 seconds for 18 seconds.
   
   
   • You can only have one Sanctuary up at a time – they do not stack. If you cast a Sanctuary while one is already present, the healing properties of the first one will stop, despite the graphic still being there.
   
   
   • Despite not being a direct heal, the healing effects of this spell will proc your mastery, Echo of Light.
   
   
   • Allies must remain in the zone to receive the full effect of the healing. If they step out of it, for any reason, the healing immediately stops.
   
   
   • The effects from Holy Word: Sanctuary are capable of critical heals.
   
   
   
   



4. Best suited for healing through burst AOE damage, preferably with people grouped up.
   
   
   
   • Blood Queen Lana’thel
   
   
   • Twin Valkyr
   
   
   • Freya
   
   
   
   

Chakra: Smite

1. Increases all damage done by your Shadow & Holy spells by 15%.


2. Holy Word: Chastise - Remains unchanged by this Chakra.
   



3. Works best for leveling or during a lull in incoming damage, where healing is light and you can find time to do some DPS.
   
   
   
   • XT- 002 Deconstructor
   
   
   • The Gunship Battle
   
   
   
   

Holy Priest - Holy Word: Chastise and Chakra

Just the word Chastise and Chakra makes me feels like a divine being...its like chanting! OMG....when I first saw them I am like WTF?!!??!! What did blizzard do to my holy priest spells?!?!?!?!?

LOL....

Not to worry...Just relax...once you get used to it, you should find the Holy Word: Chastise and selection of Chakra a very fun thingy....

Its very simple, you just have to remember the following:

While in a Chakra state, your Holy Word: Chastise ability will transform into a different ability depending on which state you are in.

Holy Word: Sanctuary (Prayer of Healing) - Blesses the ground with Divine light, healing all within it for 299 to 355 every 2 for 15 sec. Only one Sanctuary can be active at any one time.

It simply means that after you click on Chakra, then you cast a PoM, and your Holy Word: Chastise button will become a Holy Word: Sanctuary. Click on Holy Word: Sanctuary and click on the area that you want to heal, 475 sec for every 18 sec. Only one Santuary can be active at one time.

Holy Word: Serenity (Heal) - Instantly heals the target for 3162 to 3730, and increases the critical effect chance of your healing spells on the target by 25% for until cancelled. 45 sec cooldown.

ATM I still can not deal with the Chakra state of Holy Word: Serenity well, it means that I have to concentrate on healing one person constantly...I guess it is best used for Deathbringer Saurfang, I guess I will find time to blog about this later after making some research on which boss to cast what...

Holy Word: Aspire (Renew) - Instantly heals the target for 2363 and another 4470 over until cancelled. 15 sec cooldown.

The simplest to use, all you need to do is to spam your renew through out the raid and ta da! Heals are good....problem is you have to be careful of mana later in cata since mana is a very essential thing after the new expansion...ATM mana should not be a very big issue.

Anyway it was after I fix my holy spec that I started understanding the chakra thingy...so back track to my holy spec:

The most popluar build in wowpopular

But I prefer mine, will try it out before changing later I guess...

Disc Priest - Evangelism and Archangel

Just respec recently for my disc priest...had so much I did not understand and still trying to figure out...

I talked to Zell about it and he says that it does not matter much whether I use smite or not and there is no standard best spec...anyway my disc spec is a bit weird but I prefer it:



Was wondering what exactly is Evangelism when I tried and click on the instant cast Archangel....OMG....

Took me a while to find out from wowhead:

At level 80, your base mana is 3863 according to http://www.wowwiki.com/Base_mana. To get 5 stacks of Evangelism we would need to cast 5 smites. Smite is 15% of base mana or 579 mana for the first smite. With Evangelism, each smite cast afterwards costs 3% less mana so 561, 544, 526, and 509. In total to get 5 stacks it would cost 2719 mana. So if it costs us 2719 mana, and Archangel returns 15% of our total mana, the only way we would lose mana using these abilities correctly is if we had less than 18,126 mana. Currently, I am sitting above 40K so I am gaining 6k minus 2719 or roughly 8.2% of my total mana.

So yes, this will be beneficial to regen mana when you have down time. Also, the bigger your total mana pool is the better your regen will be. As you upgrade gear and get a larger mana pool, your base mana pool stays the same, (except when you level). So while the cost of the spells will remain the same (when you hit 85) the regen will only get better as you gear up.

sigh...I ran through a few heroic instance to find out how it works....casting smite 5 times and then archangel is really fun...since I never have mana problem I am not sure how well it works getting mana etc back since I am not lack of it...also I am not in raid to test it out LOL...of cos it will also depend on whether the raid can allow for me to do tat OMG...currently I just see a very cool animation on my character...I am with wings!!! LOL...

After going for a few instance, I found out that I did not glyph my disc spec OMG...what a blunder....CMI man!!

Glyphs as advised by wowpopluar (please note I kinda crop the image a bit):



I am not too sure what to use at the moment, hence I only added the following for my glyph:
Prime Glyph:Penance, Power Word: Barrier, Power Word: Shield
Major Glyph:Pain Suppression, Inner Fire
Minor Glyph: Shadowfiend, leviate and Fortitude

Fixing up my disc priest has been fun but I still prefers holy priest hee...
hmmm...I just realised that I have not blog about what I have done for my holy priest...I guess I just have to do it later...

Heroic Putricide Finally

Got my Atthor's Abacus at Gunship =D was wondering when I will be getting it...

We fianlly down Heroic Putricide...1 thing I realised is that if we deals with
When casting Prayer of Mending, it should be casted on the melee instead of on the tank since you already have MT healers...especially when out MT healer's a Pally hee...

Most impt thing is the timing...If we get 2 cloud and an ooze at one time...that's it...lol...anyway I realised that its better let the range pass the plague around and I tried to stay away from them...even though I do have to pass them once in a while...management of the plague is very important...

I used all the CD that I could for gaining mana...spells like hymm of hope can be casted when your raid is not getting too much dmg...shadow fiend is another good friend especially at phase 3...

Sadly I don't have inner focus anymore...but I still saved my divine hymm for phase 3 so that it will top up the raids health at the end...we survive the phase change we will be able to down Putricide...this way I can make sure that the raid to topped up...

Fact is I got hit by goo for phase 3...so I used prayer of mending and renew till I can heal normally again...I was 100% looking out for goo man! Trick to avoid goo is to run directly away from it...meaning not side ways, left or right...if you can keep your distance, you should be ok...

For Dreamwalker I could not even cast a GS at all...omg...so buggy...

So happy that we finally down heroic Putricide! yeah!! happier then getting a new gear actually!!!

Exchanging my Tier Piece/Gearing

Zero had passed on loot yday and the next person getting the tier token was me...wow my 1st and only heroic token! omg! I decided to wait till I have the time to seek help in case I make any haste decision on getting the gear that I should not hve changed first...very precious token..

Within the last half hour before raid today...I managed to get my tier gear changed after consulting my group of consultant, MM, Butter and dawyn...
I was being told to get either Head, Robe or Leg. My choice was Leggings...but the 3 councils say Head...so it shall be head! LOL...

I managed to get help from Vokah to cut the meta gem that Butter advised to use i.e Ember Skyflare Diamond and of cos for the blue socket I kept to my usual Purified Dreadstone...was pretty confused where to get the head "enchant" from...

Realised that it should be from Archmage Alvereaux in Dalaran...very easy to find him just up the stairs...

My latency was not as bad as yday, I had to stop and start my wow and then stop the backgound downloading for the wow patch...

During raid, I made a mistake when I actually pst Zell, "need" on a waist cos I mistakenly thought that it was the wrist that I needed from Rotface...blur...you see I got the habit of reading the first and the last letter of words...in which I was being told to pass the item to Kitata instead...very messy for raid leader actually...

Anyway just to avoid any problems in future, I draw out the items I need from Heroic bosses...and place it right in front of me in case I boo boo about gears again...

Things I need from Heroics not inclusive of RS:

Boss: Rotface
Wrist: Death Surgeon's sleeves

Boss: Gunship
Trinklet: Althor's Abacus

Boss: Prince Valanar
Gloves: San'layn Ritualist Gloves

**[Sanctified Crimson Acolyte Gloves] vs [San'layn Ritualist Gloves], MM had advised that San'layn Ritualist Gloves is better...

No good news on LK this week...guess we will have to try again next week...

Happened to run by this mage named Bradstrut who'd done the quest "Secret Strength of the Frenzyheart" and he looks so damn huge...looks really fun quest...took a few pictures with the Bradstrut and his cute pet...Dun Morogh Cub where the hell did he get that from??!??? LOL

Bradstrut with his pet, they all looked kinda petite...

WOW background downloading

I realised that I have to actually come on-line like an hour to get all the background downloading done and also getting my internet connection to be more stable....

However, I jumped straight into raid when beq told me that there is a 10 man ICC...omg I must be crazy...omg I was lagging so bad...and I was panicking all the way...basically my hands are so cold cos I am so worried...one thing I learnt so far playing WOW the more worried I am the worst I heal...>.< pain...very painful...

I could not help 2 heals on Deathbringer Saurfang, my latency went up to 500 plus at a point and I am like wow! sadly the worst wow was letting my mark die...sigh...

Sigh I cannot imagine I missed an empowered fireball at Blood Prince Council...sigh...how silly of me...really...

I managed casted like only one GS on Valithria Dreamwalker and the fight was over...healing normal's fine with this boss but I lost our mage and hunter in the process...too bad we are not able to get the achievement that the raid tried to aim for...If I am not wrong we kinda missed the very last portal that spawned...

Fact is I am not used to the button punching style that I used to play when my latency was that bad for a long time...I must remember in mind to do that...I realised I am not very used to healing as a holy priest as I used to in raid though I have been forcing myself to heal using holy in heroic instances but I guess that is not enough...

Everyone Wants to DPS

Holy or Disc?!! OMG thats the only 2 choice I have...what??!! Both heals? LOL when Haha "volunteered" to DPS today...I was like sigh...everyone wanna do DPS and I guess I am the only one in the raid that does not have DPS spec...

At Blood Queen, Urmada actually ice blocked on me when I was already standing at where I was healing pple during air phase...sigh...caused me to die cos I was too slow to move away from him...I was wondering if its his fault to ice block on me when I have already been standing at my position to heal for sometime...guess I should have been more alert to move away from him rather then continuing to heal since he already ice blocked and can't move away from me...felt like screaming though...LOL

Anyway its been sometime since I have to heal my hands off...even in Heroic Putricide I did not do tat...but blood queen today is a real challenge...some of us actually missed bites...hmmm...guess they must be lagging very badly to do that...all in all mistakes like this is not so common...

We had our tries on Heroic Putricide again....Irony actually DCed when he was actually the abom today...he came back on-line saying that he is off line...I guess our service provider really is screwing us up...

Totally hate the Unbound Plague...pple get so scared and run around passing them around...I tried counting to 5 before going to someone and unfortunately died cos of Malleable Goo...I got 1 hit by Malleable Goo cos I actually turned my camera angel before running and died due to Unbound Plague and Malleable Goo together...sigh...how can I die to Malleable Goo ?? I think I just got 1 hit for that try and still died OMG...but nevertheless...getting hit by Malleable Goo....X1 hit or X2 hit is not the main point...the point is not to be hit by it totally! Its very hard to discribe how sorry I felt when I died from Malleable Goo...sigh...

Kitata was being asked to heal and I realised having 2 disc priest in Putricide was quite painful after a try...so I switched to playing holy...still like playing holy more...more fun and that you can heal as you move...

Day ends with Putricide dead in normal mode...guess we have to try our best next week...

Chrystie mistakes report: Sigh...doing lots of stupid things and especially not surviving...never HEAL yourself!!!! Too slow on Malleable Goo...

Heroic Putricide - Starting early

Cannot imagine I died to pungent blight today at Festergut today...really CMI..I din see myself missing any of the spores...or at least I have ran to all of them...I even have I of the spores...how can I missed it and die?? OMG =(

I even took time to cast pain suppression on the tank when Pungent Blight occurs..I should have done it on myself...silly me...too confident on my positioning today to think I would have missed any of the spores....

Sigh...died to Rot face at the very end cos the big ooze came after me when Val died...Lucky I had the chance to cast inner focus and also divine hymm...before dying and got the raid up to proper health =)

We started on Heroic Putricide earlier today...or was it?? Anyway we kinda got the boss down to p3 (when Putricide's health reaches 35%) and I felt tat we have improved judging by the % of the health of Putricide....however, pple are still making a lot of mistakes e.g running to orange ooze during target change and not able to run from Malleable Goo etc...actually Malleable Goo is the the that we should not get hit...cos it is something that we should have been avoiding all the while while we were doing normal putricide...

Same as last week there are pple that died to plague...even though less...for one of the tries I myself even died to plague since I could not pass it over to someone next to me...but I can't imagine one thing...there is no one around to pass it to!!!! LOL...next I see I am dead already...omg...

Anyway Zero ended the raid on time and warning was given that either we do it properly and he leads...or he sub out the pple that are causing the problems or making mistakes...or he totally give up on leading the raid...things that he was concern about will be of cos:

1.) Running to orange slime when target not set yet
2.) Proper stopping of dps on boss when phase change so that we don't get extra ooze
3.) Running away from Malleable Goo
4.) Pple dying to plague and passing of plague

We have no doubt that we need a good leader to get the boss down...I guess that will mean that we will be sub out if we are doing anything wrongly...wow this is stressful for me...imagine my hands were cold by the time we are at P3 of the fight...

We will do it again tomorrow!!!

Heroic Putricide - Dealing with Plague?

I was late to raid cos I had dad aggro again...why choose of all days to talk to me when I only raid 2 days a week?? LOL...

Anyway I joined the raid after like they had a few tries on Heroic Putricide and raid leader decided to go for some other bosses before we go back to Putricide again...so there I was in raid cos I needed an off hand and trinklet...in which I finally got the off hand - Shadow Silk Spindle, the heroic version of it...I have waited for a long time....sadly I could not pass it to someone who needs it more then I do (cos I already had the lower version of it i.e the 264 level one) cos of DKP issues (understanding better after discussion with the leaders)...nevertheless I am happy that I finally got it...

My first try on Heroic Putricide of the day....sigh....Seems that the gas cloud like me so much....I was marked for it twice in row...lol...if you sitting next to me in RL...you can actually hear me going "OH MY GOD OH MY GOD....run faster run faster"...of cos I mean myself and not the gas cloud...was really comical actually....real sweat...

I talked to Elyss today and he told me that his guild had to learn how to deal with the plague before they can down heroic putricide....I kinda worried aboout the way our raid is handling it...It seems that everyone is afraid to get the plague...I thought it will be easy if you get it...just count 5s and then pass it to someone...I kinda scared to die so I just hold it for 5s...I wonder if there is any better ways to deal with then that...

Anyway hopefully we can down the boss the next next week =) posititve thinking is the key to sucess! Of cos we need skills as well hee...

Heroic Putricide - Another screwed up day?

How many days have I been screwing up? I not sure abt that...

Totally done all the wrong things for Rot Face and Festergut today...I keep getting pple in my way for Rot Face tat motivation had to show me where to stand...actually the position tat he so call assigned me is where i usually stand....I was just trying to move to the center part so I can reach everyone and at least shield them from the dmg...but no I got squeesed to the right hand side again and screwed up a few times...(we had to try rot face a few times before we can down him....omg...)

I was clearly frustrated when one of the new range dps and also melee keep standing too close to healers...i.e myself lol...and after talking on my mic for sometime I realisd that I forgot to on my mic...when I finally gotta say something on vent...lots of pple pst me and said that I was too loud LOL...

Anyway my ms was as bad as 800 plus during the fights...but I should not be dying to explosion for festergut...I must be dreaming to not see that coming....omg...so another failed boss for me...at least the raid was good enough to down him while I am dead lol....moral of the story? "A dead healer is a useless healer...but at least the raid is so good...they can down the boss without a useless healer" LOL...

Anyway we had an attempt on the Heroic Putricide...we did not manage to go into P3 today...I had a talk with MM and realise that I forgot to mending on the melee for P2 again...

Things I learned after speaking to him:

1.) Mending on melee or myself (If I am dying)
2.) Shield tank and let the pallys deal with the tank even for P3
3.) Must remember to Pain Supression the tank when they have 3 stacks
4.) DPS can die, but not the tank cos the tank will heal the boss if dead, but they are easier to heal when more stacks (this I must double check again).
5.) Raid will get more dmg with more stacks on tank.

I just hope tat for I will remember the tips tat MM has been sharing with me...and also I must go and print out the strategy and study it before I screw up more....

After raid today I have a very sad feeling....cos I realised that there is a long way for us since the group are still not understanding the importance of working hand in hand with one another...

After raiding for so many years, one thing I learnt is that if we want to do well and progress for bosses...we gotta start to treasure the importance of each player...especially healers themselves should know that...no matter how well you heal....you cannot keep the whole raid alive alone...if there are only 5 healers...or 6...we gotta make sure tat all 6 are alive in order to help the raid...whether you are a raid healer or a tank healer...you are very important to the healing committee...I guess if healers are only cares about meters then that will post a very big problem for raid progression...

Actually same goes for the DPS "team" if you can down the boss alone...its not call a raid group...its call "a levelling process"...you know when you level and needs to kill mob to gain experience? LOL...I wonder how long it will take for everyone to understand that...

Cool mount - X-53 Touring Rocket

Was talking to HaHa and suddenly realized that he's just next to me...lol...and was on a very cool mount...the X-53 Touring Rocket...using this mount you can actually carry a passenger behind....and the speed is 310%...OMG??!!!!!

Being curious I was quickly invited on board and he was trying to test whether he can dismount the passenger and true enough I was being forced off the mount...LOL...

When he tried to see if we will be forced off the mount at dalaran...I was being forced off and never gets the slow fall effect on me...OMG the passenger do not get slow fall!!!!

Hee....an evil plan was brewed...I told HaHa to shhhh about it....then he can try killing some lower level by flying above dalaran so that you can be "forced" off the mount...hee hee hee....

I hope HaHa will tell me how many he killed....at least he can rez pple so no problem making some kills....imagine killing your own pple LOL....EVIL....

HK trip

Sigh...was so worried that I will not be able to raid for the week when I went to China and then to HK on 12 Aug 2010...been bugging Zell for the pictures and finally got the time to convert them or rather make them smaller since Zell's cam's resolution was extremely scarily big...LOL

Beq said that we can go down to HK from China so I made plans to meet the guildies from HK...

hhmmmm....I guess I went in a rush...we couldn't form group to run an instance...only Zell was there to meet us...actually it was just nice a group...we have a tank (Zell), a healer (myself) and a dps (Beq)....I was even wearing my "Priest uniform" (got from www.jinx.com totally love it) when I went there...and I really appreciate him taking the effort to come and meet us given the hectic lifestyle in HK...everyone has no time...or rather busy...

He sounded exactly the same as he was in RL and in vent!! LOL...

Zell had to bring along all his installation disc for WOW since Beq had to reinstall his WOW since he corrupted it when he deleted the administrator account on it....he keeps getting an error message and his couldn't login at all...

Clockwise: Zell, Christy and Beq

Imagine while we were at HK, Beq had to leave his PC on and running the WoW installation while we were having lunch in the restaurant LOL...it was raining heavily outside and we made haste our choice to come to this Japanese restaurant...

May I have some more please?

Anyway thanks to Zell at least Beq can now play WoW while he's is away from SG... =)

After our lunch and of cos after installing WOW onto Beq's laptop...we went on to the streets to explore...its like 19 years since I step foot into HK...

Hope the next time we go HK we will be able to meet all the guildies there...I told Zell next time I go there I will make sure I organise a guild outing....hopefully by next year I can save enough money to do it =)

Kingslayer Finally!!

I have been AFK for at least 2 weeks...and after coming back from my trip, this is my first week back to raiding...I finally down Lich King in 25 man!! Or rather this is the first time I ever down LK!!! LOL..... I never know Lich King is so big! LOL...

OMG...it was really tiring fight for disc preist...imagine I had to shield the pple all the way...I had another disc priest helping me with the shielding...I kinda taking half of the raid only...but I try and cover everyone when I have the time....

I used everything I can to get back mana e.g Hymm of Hope, shadow fiend...etc during phase transitions and then I used Divine Hym after the 2nd phrase transition...

Sigh...I see a lot of Wicked Spirits, floating around and doing dmg...even tough they are very low health but does decent AoE dmg...lol...(I died to them the last time we attempted LK)

After the fight I still can see my body floating in the air...kinda interesting...but sadly I died during the fight again...This time..I did not fail myself...but other healers did not heal me since I was stunned by LK and could not heal myself...sob sob...no love from our super healer group... >.< I guess I will have to take some time to study the Lich King fight and also Heroic Professor Putricide, I even told zero that I can't find what is the ooze variable...dunno what it is...realised that I did not read the fights carefully...or rather dun understand it fully...Dawyn had to specifically explain this fight to me before I understand...omg...

Found from wowhead.com:

Heroic: A few new things will trouble your raid in the Heroic version of this encounter. First, Putricide will no longer use Tear Gas during his phase transitions. Instead, he will summon both a Gas Cloud and a Volatile Ooze. In the 25-man version of the fight, he will also split your raid in half - approximately half of the players will receive Gas Variable debuff, and the other half - Ooze Variable. The people marked with Gas will only be able to interact with the Gas Cloud, and the people marked with Ooze - with the Volatile Ooze.

The other key change to the fight is the addition of Unbound Plague and Plague Sickness. Putricide will use Unbound Plague on a random raid member about 1-2 times each phase. The Plague will do increasingly more Shadow damage to that player and will jump to nearby raiders if there are within range. To deal with it, you need to have the infected person step away from the rest of the raid, take the Plague's damage for about 10-12 seconds, then move to another raider and pass it on. The old target will receive a Plague Sickness debuff, which increases the damage taken by Unbound Plague by 250%, so they should never get it again; the new target will receive the Plague with as many seconds as were left before the passing (50-48 ideally). The raid needs to continue passing it until the 60 seconds duration expire.

Its a fruitful day for me...even though my internet connection CMI, we finally downed Lich King!!! OMG!!! LOL...Yeah!! I am so happy... =D

Raiding with great improvements

We just down Heroic SF with just 23 men! OMG lol...Our 2nd team raid is getting better each week...of cos with the maximum buffs tat we have does helps a lot...

But nevertheless...Well done! I hate to say this...but the missing man does make me worried...I was trying to heal all the marked ones constantly renewing on each and then PoM on the 2 tanks (who ever had agro) I wondering Y they are not being shielded...

Feels good being able to do heroic mode with 1 less...I will be away next week afk...just hope tat it will not be a 22 men night next week...

I am kinda having fun switching from disc priest to holy and then back, and its without much pain! I do have to agree that holy priest does needs some skills in playing...strangely I prefer to play disc now...sometimes I forgot I am using disc when I go into instance...usually I will be playing holy in instance and the only time I go disc is when I play.

Anyway we kinda did so well today...we even did Blood Queen Heroic! But we 2 shot it...at least we downed her =D

Hope we can get King Slayer 25 men this week....Just hope tat tomorrow's attendance will be better...

Blood Queen (Heroic)

OMG I forgot to take a picture again!!!!

We downed Blood Queen in heroic the first time...I mean the 2nd team of the guild of cos. Yeah!!! Did it in 3nd try!!! 2rd try someone became mind controlled, the first guy...LOL hence we have no vampire at all LOL....

OMG the healing was real tough...I had difficulty finding the right spot to shield everyone...everywhere seems to be filled with pple....so in the end I decided to move to a better spot further away from the raid healers...

Priestly and I were the 2 healing priest..I am disc and she is using holy...I should have coordinate with her to use divine hymn during air phase at least cast one per air phase...but I forgot to do that...In the end both of us had it casted during the 2nd air phase and somehow it was just nice! Or rather perfect!

The macro I set for Divine Hymn is still winner:

/cast Inner Focus
/cast Divine Hymn

Priestly and I both using it... =D I totally love the animation of the spell cast...Anyway I was careful for the last try first casting fear ward on myself so that I can make sure I heal the rest of the pple during the first air phase...actually P1 of air phase most of the raid was healed quickly to full health...then on the 2nd air phase, I use "Every Man for Himself" to get myself out of the fear running straight back to position and start to cast my Divine Hymn.

I was shielding pple like mad through out the fight...MM says that I should do mending 1st, shield and then binding heal the "vampire" person....I kinda din do that...as advised I did do mending whenever the 10s cool down is up and then I shielded everyone (like mad)...cast penance on the tank and then binding heal on the person who needs healing if I am also low (can you imagine I can forget to use that sometimes? Risk is that if the person u binding heal dies....the heal will not go through and then you will not be healed too) LOL...

I tried very hard to keep rabbit alive but to no avail...too bad...our dear rabbit healing as pally is very fragile today...nevertheless we downed the Queen with half the guild alive...not bad for a first try...hope we can do a cleaner one next week!!

Quoting Zell or was it Zero, the end was a little messy but its ok...LOL...we did it!!

I am not sure Y today's game feels a bit slower and I had to do direct connection to get my latency down to 300 plus...if not it will be like 500 plus if I am connected to the router...I guess its time to get a new router...WTB router!!!!

Healing with more ease (Holy Priest)

I kinda healed as holy all the way today since there was no Trees around...

Zell was disc and I could see his style of shielding since I have set the indicator on grid to show shields on players....kinda interesting...

I feel that I could heal with more ease today...Realised that the CMI healing last week was due to my router's problem...my latency was at least 400 plus ms...OMG...no wonder...this week I did not even reach 350ms...

Got myself 2 new gears Frozen Bonespike and Sanguine Silk Robes both heroic version...Da was telling me to save my DKP for the tokens...but I realised that I should at least upgrade to do better in my healing then just wait and wait and fight with everyone on gears...

Needless to say the new main hand was so much better then Trauma...I was just wondering if the Heroic version of Trauma will be better then the main hand that I just got...and Haha actually menitoned to me that the heroic version of Trauma will not do us (shaman and priest) any good....Guess I will just stick to Frozen Bonespike for the time being...

Anyway the mystry of my CMI heals has been solved...I just hope that my service provider will not give me more problem next week....

I am really glad that we downed Heroic Blood Prince Council easily...OMG I nearly get hit by empowered fire ball...too slow in running away from it...lucky when it reaches me it has become smaller...OMG...

So tomorrow we can move on to try out Heroic Valithria Dreamwalker...

Heroic Festergut

Was late back home due to RL issues...my Parent-in-laws are back to Singapore...

Talked to MM about healing after our tries on Heroic Festergut...PoM is more important then shielding...3rd spore onwards then start shielding everyone is advised...

I have been just shielding and doing PoM whenever I have time...but the problem is according to MM I should pay more attention to PoM cos everyone is getting AOE dmg...

I could see the pple having Vile gas...so I can heal those pple especially...if the MT healers both gets the vile gas...I will definitely heal the MT first then turn to the MT healers...then the raid...

I realized that I have made a very bad mistake of healing using PoH...pple are too spread out to be able to get the optimum heals...so I must remember that PoH is a no no in this fight....

One of the thing I have not done so far to keep myself alive when I missed a spore due to screw ups on running of spores is to Pain Suppression myself, shield and then PoM...I must really practice to do tat...if not how to survive Festergut??!!!???

So the conclusion that I get from healing disc in this fight is that I have to PoM more...Shield when necessary...only start shielding everyone after the 3 spore. PoH should not be used. Not to forget Penance on low health pple...very important too...

New Raiding Experience

This week is the 2nd week I have been raiding with the new guild...first week I never take time to practise before going for raid...have been really busy with RL the past 2 days...

Needless to say it was really fun to play a disc priest...last week I had to alternate between a holy and disc priest since there were way too many priest around and some of the priest does not have holy spec...

That can really be confusing as I really feel that healing for holy priest and disc priest is really different...lol...I guess I have been ranting about that for a long time...

Anyway, we down Festergut hard mode last week giving me time to review on the healing using a disc priest...its is not only about healing...but shielding the pple who requires healing...I am not sure why but this week especially when I have gotten my connection to be better I still died during the fights...raid awareness is very important...

Malleable Goo seems very easy to avoid as long as when you see the puddle of green slime on the floor...move...but the running away part is a bit tricky since you might come too close to someone else...If healers are being hit as I mentioned before...they get a slow debuff and then tanks might die cos of that...if the dps gets hit then most likely we will not meet the enrage timer...which is what happened to us this week...sigh....

We have a few failed case on getting innoculated...those who gets spores are not running to the right place...there are times that 2 of the spores will run to the same place...omg causing at least 1 group that stacks together miss and of cos getting lots of dmg during blight is one of the cause of death...

Anyway I guess we will have to try Festergut again tomorrow...I still cannot figure out what is causing the heals this week to be so weak...so who is the weakest link? I gotta wait for Zell to upload the reports before I can find out what is missing from my heals...dying of cos is the worst thing...must practise my reaction...

I really need to join a 10 man grp to start practising heroic modes else it will really am too slow for raids...I do not want to be the one pulling the raid down...heroic modes are really PITA...

2nd Day Raiding

Another CMI day for me...I seems to die easily...keeps doing little little errors that is not acceptable for heroics attempts...No mistakes...

We were that close on Heroics 25 man Dreamwalker...on the 2nd attempt I healed till I have no mana...Just hope I have asked for help and also used my shadow fiend...but I was too slow to get that done...Was talking to Elyss regarding healing at work today and realize that his idea on placing an "ALERT" (a sound or something) to indicate that I have only 1/3 mana left becomes very essential when it comes to fights that are very mana intensive...

For our attempt on Sindragosa...I heal till I die literally...there were like 5 stacks of instability on me by the end of the boss...No choice I guess that was the last chance to down the boss...after which I can still use of my "Angel" to heal after death...I had to get back to GS on myself after the pull! I thought I already gotten over the pulling part??!! But today I really did fail in running after the pull...a few times I missed and GS was there to rescue me...that is really lousy of me...

Blood prince Council...I died to fireball (Conjure Empowered Flame)...really tired by the time I realized that the empowered power ball is flying towards me...it was already too late...I just moved like a few steps I am already dead...I could still hear Irony calling out "Christy...Empowered fireball..." Raid awareness...not there...

Guess I will have to really practice on my awareness of the environment around me...today I did very badly I would say..Played holy most of the time...sudden change of spec I will need to get used to it...

Holy...disc...holy...disc...It should be about the same right??!!! No...Sigh...disc's a little different...if you use disc to heal your instant cast spells are different. You gotta stand where you are to cast Penance while you can run around like a chicken for Circle of Healing...It feels very different, I still think that I am more familiar with healing in holy but still once I switch back to holy after healing using discipline for a day...it feels funny also...I need to go and rethink on my rotation and wake up!!!

Priestly was telling me about his rotation and I needed to check with milkmom about his discipline rotation again...why am I doing so bad today? Is it the lack of practice and also I have forgotten about the boss fights? I guess I will need to go read up on the bosses again if I wanna do heroics with the guild. I did not even do well for normal...how to do heroics?!?!??

Why am I back to the I need to practice period? I really can't just stop playing for a while...I will lose track of what I need to do or rather what I am suppose to do...

Going for Heroic 25 man ICC

Today marks the first day of 2 raiding group for our new guild. The guild now officially has 2 25 man raiding group and today is the first time I every raid with the guild in 25 man...and also doing some bosses in heroic mods for 25 man...

Out of the The Lower Spire, we did Lord Marrowgar and Gunship Battle in heroics but left Lady Deathwhisper and Deathbringer Saurfang in normal.

First thing I found out in Lord Marrowgar is that I missed updating my GridStatusRaidDebuff...OMG!! I can't see who's being spiked!! I end up manually looking for the person (even though slower but no choice) to heal and shield quickly. After the fight I quickly went and updated it...

At Gunship, its the first time I ever see a Rocket Pack stuck at the butt of a bear...it does looks very funny...



As for The Plagueworks, we only did Rotface in heroics and I died to funny mistakes like running the wrong way, healing and facing the wrong way (because of penance) then tried to turn and run too slowly away from Unstable Ooze Explosion and then find myself stepping on Ooze Flood (how can I ever run into it??!!!!???!!). We did Festergut and Professor Putricide in normal while our Raid leader explain about the fights in heroics mod...

We seemed to be doing well for all, only been very messy in Rotface according the Raid Leader...Actually still need to get used to a lot of things in the new guild. First of all the way raid are being placed...2nd the way the guild plays...3rd the different things in heroic mods...cos u cannot make mistake...mistake means dead..

Nevertheless, I am glad we are able to do some heroics today...Tomorrow will be another day...

Difference in 25 Heroics Vs Normal (Part1)

As usual, I had to find out more about the fights before I can go for it...since even after reading I might do still funny things...writing it down will help me remember them better...

Heroic Lord Marrowgar

More dmg in general, Coldflame will now stay on the ground for 8 seconds, instead of just 3s. Marrowgar will now continue casting Bone Spike Graveyard during Bone Storms. Meaning when he does his spinning, he will still "stick" pple in the air. No wonder Zero says that healers should heal the person that is being impaled by this boss...The boss will also do an extra charge during each Bone Storm.

Heroic Lady Deathwhisper

Cultists will continue to spawn - one Cultist from the entrance of the room on 10-man, and three on one of the sides on 25-man.

She will start mind controlling people on 10-man (one at a time), and continue using Dominate Mind on three people in 25-man. Phase 2, Lady Deathwhisper is not tauntable so must make sure tanks are always highest on threat, and that one tanks taunts the boss just before her shield dissipates.

Unresistable Frostbolts, these MUST be interrupted...hhhmmmm...OMG....I also heard from Zero that you cannot be hit by Ghost..."One shot one kill"....

Heroic Gunship Armory

We did Gunship Heroics in 10 man so no problem...

Heroic Deathbringer Saurfang

Blood Beasts catching Scent of Blood — 5 seconds after spawning, reduces the movement speed of the entire raid by 80% for 10 seconds. Deathbringer Saurfang will heal for 20% HP if a mark of the fallen champion dies. Blood power gain is also much faster. Blood Beasts will also hit hard enough to one shot any non tank...There will be six marks on 25-man...OMG...

Heroic Festergut

The big addition in heroic mode is Malleable Goo. The playful Professor Putricide periodically flings Malleable Goo from his balcony as he watches the fight. Everyone even the Tanks are possible target for malleable goo.

If players are in the blast radius they take damage and suffer a 12 seconds 250% attack/casting speed debuff. If DPS are debuffed you will have difficulty beating the enrage timer. If healers are debuffed, the tank will probably die.

All players must know how to position themselves to get innoculated while not getting blasted by Malleable Goo.

Heroic Rotface

Professor Putricide will come to the balcony and cast Vile Gas on random players. He will not cast on melee if there are at least 8 players in range. Make sure you always have enough players standing outside of Rotface's melee range, especially when your designated Vile Gas 'soakers' are moving to dodge ooze flood. A vile gas targeted at the tank/melee group can easily wipe the raid.

Mutated Infection, Ooze Flood deals more dmg...

Heroic Professor Putricide

OMG PP in heroics? Mist be madness....

Professor Putricide gains Unbound Plague deals increasing damage every second lasting for 60s, players will be killed within approximately 15s after being infected.

It will jump to anyone within 3 yards, leaving a Plague Sickness debuff every time it jumps, dmg from Unbound Plague increases by 300%, stacking infinitely.

During change of phase Professor Putricide debuffs half the raid with the Ooze Variable and half the raid with the Gas Variable. Volatile Ooze and Gas Cloud will spawn at the same time. Players may only attack targets matching their variable. LOL...how interesting...

I guess I will study the rest later...too many to digest...Found most of the information from http://www.wowwiki.com/

WoW - UI settings

Since we will not be raiding till next week...I guess I will have to take the chance to do some changes to my mods that I have been using...

Ag_UnitFrame in particular is not going to be updated...so I guess I will need to change it...have been planning to do it but did not have the chance to get it done...

Irony and Rabbit told me to change it to PitBull...and yes PitBull is great!!

This is my new interface, just a bit different replaced Ag_UnitFrame with PitBull =)



Took the screenshot when I was trying to test out in a PUG what it looks like and making sure all icons etc are all correct since I just updated most of my mods namely, Fubar, Grid, GridIndicatorSideIcons, XLoot, XLootGroup, ArkInventory, DBM and also Sexymap (hee...) I wonder how the horde char can get up there....

Everything seems to be ok...I hope all will go smoothly on sunday...this week will be my first time raiding in 25 man in the guild...

Reflection

Have been trying to find out how to join raid in the guild...accordingly we are suppose to post our application to be part of the team.

Was having great difficulty filling the answer actually....did a lot of reflections on what I have been doing in WoW...

Qns like: "How do your talent and Glyphs choice optimise your DPS/TPS/HPS/Survival" makes me remember the times I spend on trying to find the best glyphs and what talents to use. I believe those who's been reading my blog should have seen how many times I have tried to respec and find what is the best glyphs that helps in my style of healing...

What got to me was this qns: "Please provide a WMO / World of Logs for any raid(s) you have participated in" I have no idea how to answer this one...checked with Zell and he mentioned that our logs are out dated...sigh...

From TerraAustralus, Alamak, Royalty, Reddot, GotMilk, Sentient (chronologically) I have not done any application as such so I am really lost about it....

Terra Australus, since MC time, should the funniest guild that I have joined so far, cos the crap that everyone and all talks so much crap on the vent...very funny and amazingly entertaining...they can play horrible tricks on new comers, getting them to go to a spot to look at Ragnaros and getting the people burnt to death...LOL...horriblely playful ones...only problem I remember we had was about gears...people will get upset when the raid leader or officer over rules on giving who and who the gear first etc...I believe I joined TA till Kara and moved on....

Alamak and Royalty (about the same group of pple in guild), we are very discipline in positioning...only problem is that people don't respect timing...some comes on-line very late for raiding...I guess the problem is that most are working adults...so sometimes when work gets in the way...I believed this is when I joined the guild when they were starting Kara and since I have all the required gears it was really relaxing to play with the guild...I don't have to think about which gear to fight for etc...This is when a few of us I remember Nonni and I leveled a warlock and switched our mains to warlock to help the guild in progression...that time really hard core...enjoyed playing a warlock actually...totally different game...I always tell pple that I am a healer and have been healing all the way...I even leveled with holy (which to most pple thats very amazing-amazingly slow LOL)

We moved to the new server from Moonrunner to Aman'Thul and merged with Reddott which later some of us moved and formed GotMilk. The leaders are very specific in positioning...our raid leader will take time in making the raid understand the strategy of each game and even makes powerpoint to show the people where to stand...amazing right?

In fact all the guilds mentioned above had problem with gears...some even split cos of gear...anyway I always believe that the Guild master or raid leader should have the final say...even if it might be a bit unfair at times...but if you do not like the ruling, then you should be the one leading in raids or even start your own guild if you are so good...there has to be a governing party in a group a leader to say yes or no all the time...thats why we join guild right?

Sentient...I would say is the most discipline guild I have ever joined so far...GM and officer is very strict in rules...no QQ allowed...cannot be late...everyone really place an effort in coming to raid on time...when I first joined I really got culture shock...where should I stand? I asked...answer is just stand anywhere you like and heal...LOL...

Its been a long journey for me...from someone who does not play game till playing WoW for at least 4 hours a day...all the way to raiding for only 2 days a week...till now...Frankly speaking I can't rememeber how it took for me to level from level 70 to 80...seems like it took me a few months....I had to play everyday to get to it man!! Really tough...somehow in a way I enjoy raiding more then leveling...you make friends on the way...

I really suck in PvP, but I love to play battleground, I used it to learn how to heal in Discipline and train my reactions on healing for holy...

I became very worried when Zell told me that discipline priest, LittleBai can heal very well...OMG...after checking out the top healing priest that he was telling me about...I realised that he meant effective heals not the ones reflected in recount...at least my trainings on disc priet has not been wasted so far...lol...cos my undertsanding if disc priest is not about just heals...

Went to sentient forum and found the "World of Logs / WoW Meter Online" with the help of Dawyn (finally free to show me where)



I realised that I treat healing on normal bosses and healing at lich king in a different manner. I should really do some reflection on it...

Having your WOW characters deleted?

Can you imagine someone deleting your characters? Worst of all, your own love ones? OMG!!

"She should be hanged!" LOL I kept telling dawyn about that after reading the below article...

I read this from Sankaku Complex - Boyfriend Explodes as Girlfriend Deletes WoW Characters

Kinda scary, I mean the guy's reaction when he found his characters are being deleted. I wonder if it is being staged.

A girlfriend who sadistically deleted her boyfriend’s MMORPG characters without his knowledge and secretly filmed his explosive reaction has been the subject of no small opprobrium.



Beware the spurned 3D girlfriend.

Such incidents seem increasingly common – it is not clear whether any boyfriends so afflicted have sought legal remedy, but under US law property damage against a partner generally counts as domestic violence, and malicious deletion of online property certainly seems to meet this definition.

Thus it would probably be possible to have her arrested, not that this would resurrect characters worth hundreds of hours of play time.

Another Day of No Action

Yesterday was the guild's raid day again...and same thing..I came home early to wait and see if there is any actions...Its like a waiting game now...No action for the time being...Raid is full...I checked with an officer in guild and realised that as Social Memeber we are like "Friend's of guild"...no choice of action unless we are at least a "Trail Raider"...Alamak...LOL....

Now we just have to wait for the 2nd 25 men raid...See how first...

Anyway was talking to Elyss today regarding healing today regarding healing for Lich King...Definately agree when he says that we should at least have one discipline priest in the fight...to shield the Infest etc...

He gave me an amazing tip on the Lich King fight...I didn't realise that some actually downgrade their Power Word: Shield to a lower ranked spell to take advantage of the "mana" regeneration...Disc priest if you have spec Rapture...you get a mana regenation once the shield is being consumed. This way, if you have a lower ranked shield it will be consumed and regain mana when Lich King cast Infest and deals 11782 to 13218 Shadow damage to all enemy players within 50000 yards...So now I just have to decide which level of the spell to be downgraded to...hhhmmmmm...should be either a rank 12 or 13...I guess rank 12 which absorbs 1265 dmg will be better since rank 13 can absorb 1920 dmg meaning the shield might have chance that it will not be consumed...with improved Power Word: Shield I will still need to consider the 15%....OMG...hmmmm....

New Environment

Joined the new guild today...feeling so bored since raid timing is different here...raiding for 25 man is like on sundays and mondays...and the time is like omg 10pm...wednedays, thursdays and fridays are for 10 man and according to Zelluis they should be full at the moment...so this priest is very free till everything is settled down.

There is no action today, so I joined another guild in raiding today and went for the Sindragosa fight with them...

We really failed badly with P3 since not everyone is stacking enough for the marked ones with ice tombed to run out...sometimes there are even people standing in between the stacked group and the ice tombed marked ones...causing the whole raid to be affected...I guess the raid have to learn how to stack before they can down Sindragosa.

Best part is that some are blindly DPSing when they have the Unchained Magic debuff. I guess most pple did not realise that they should stop when they have around 4 stacks. Max you can stack to around 5-6 stacks since we have the 10% buff.

hmmm...I will have to remember to logon on monday cos they are gonna give it a try again on monday.

GOOD BYE Sentient

Feeling extremely sad today...Its like more then 1 year since I joined Sentient and have been raiding as casual raider here...Sadly, I found out that we are going to disbanded since mao mao and some of the core raider and officer are going to leave the game...

Not sure where I will be going since Dawyn's not been playing for sometime...

From my aussie guild in the previous server...all the way to alamak ,red dot and also got milk I have been raiding and learning how to heal better each day...joining Sentient, I have learnt the most amazing ways of healing as a holy priest and especially learning how to be a discipline priest...(I guess I will not have a chance to learn how to dps as a shadow priest from mao mao in this case sadly...)

Here, I learned to read fights and even print out all the fights of each boss for ICC before going for the fight the first time...you can see me with my highlighter deligently highlighting the important parts of some fights on my way back home (ride home is like at least an hour)

I have really enjoyed playing WOW especially with Sentient...we have no drama about gears, no drama about anything basically...our superb dkp system made it such a way that its very fair for players who'd played everytime and also make sure that players who're new will not lose out to the senior players...plus our officer had made it a point to eliminate any drama kings...which I really respect the ways each officer supports each other on such matters...

I love the way the raid leader screams on vent and pin point out what each player had done wrong and obviously with my direction problems often enough I have heard my names being called most of the times when I first started playing with the guild...I love the way Oaklin comment on stuff and also missed it very much when his mic was faulty (even though I never mentioned it before) LOL...

I guess the only regret that I have with Sentient is not being able to down Lich King due to attendance...We have been 17 maning a lots of our games these days...with all the DCed and new people...

Last but not least, thanks to all the officers and also my dear mentors who'd helped me throughout the year...people like irony, strisen, zellius and oaklin...especially mao mao and nanny (who'd not been playing for some time) Thanks for all your patience especially with my getting lost in game and instance =P

BYE BYE Sentient...

Guild outing

Misha had came to Singapore for tour and guildies in Singapore too the chance to have a guild outing...hee...the so call outing is a gathering we had at Red star restuarant...NOTE: Its RED STAR!!! LOL...

Sigh...Dawyn and I were late for our guild outing...

Finally gotta meet up with Bunny and Bastillia...Misha's wife was joined us too...so sweet...Lugo, I was surprised he was there...long time no see =P

I as usualy insisted on taking pictures for outings!!! LOL...

Left to right: Oak, Lugo, Dawyn, Bastillia (Hugging Bunny), Misha (hugging his wife), Harry and Sam...

I am not in the picture...sigh....obviously the one taking picture again > . < I was there too!!! LOL...

WoW T-Shirts from Jinx.com

OMG OMG OMG!!!

I made an order of over 300 plus of T-shirts from www.Jinx.com!!

I have been calling some of my friends in RL to check with them whether they wanna join in the fun...Oak gave me the best answer so far...he of all pple I would never imagine saying "NO" to getting a WoW t-shirt actually declined the invitation!!! LOL...Can't remember specifically what he said...but I remembered him mentioning that he's no longer 20 years of age...LOL....and he wouldn't dare wear something like that out...

But I still think he will look great in these T-shirts from Jinx.com...Dawyn's not young anymore...He looks great in those gaming T-Shirts he usually likes to wear...

Anyway I ordered something for myself =D Couldn't help it...temptation too hard to resist...

Don't these ladies look just so cool??!!!?? I think they look great!! I just took out some of the them whom I think looks great in the T-Shirt...

You can see more of them at http://www.jinx.com/world_of_warcraft/women/alliance_crest_version_2_women.html?cs=6&csd=1229

At first I wanted to get the World of Warcraft Priest Legendary Class Women's Tee

Too bad totally out of stock...too many female priest??? OMG...sob sob...

Irony, mao mao, dawyn, Beq, sis and also rabbit each ordered they share of joy....

What makes me very sad is that I am not able to order the Murlock t-shirt =( ****Cry***

I was so desperate I logged on to WoW to search for one of our guildies from US (sadly she's not around), to check if she is able to go down to the store to get it for me....

Being a Disc for Lich King

We are finally on the 2nd phase of Lich King!! Calling that a Guild Progression?? OMG yes it is....

We are kind of short of people these days...amazingly we are at full force today...even though there are some who DCed etc...

Bakasan is around and had paid off his wow finally...He has not been playing since he did not pay for WoW subscription...OMG one of our best DPS...

Come to think of it...there are a few that are not sentient...so we are kinda like doing it 20 man if you count the DCed ones...

Very taxing for me since I did not see the infest timer, what I did is before the start of the fight...around 20 sec before I would have started shielding the whole raid grp....and then continue shielding the whole raid throughout the fight...

Checked with mao mao...he mentioned tat if I can shield 20 sec before the infest is being casted its better...I guess I must pay more attention to the infest timer the next time we try out the fight again...

We are doing fine so far since we have done enough practice on running away from defile...we stack before Val'kyr so that all the 3 Val'kyr will throw the raid off at the same direction allowing the dps to be able to get it killed before anyone is being thrown off...

I hate it when I get taken by Val'kyr...cos tat way it gives me less time to shield the raid...best is when I am being thrown off...then when the Raid Leader calls for shield I am dead...

Tiring fight >.< Real taxing for everyone...

Healing as a Discipline Priest

I just kind of changed my shadow spec to Discipline Priest again...when Irony told me I had to respec to discipline I am like OMG....sure or not???!!!???

Link to my new spec

This time round I went straight for POS, FoS and HoR...No pain no gain...No practise no gain right?

It has never been such easy tries on these instance! I comfortably shielded everyone in the group before the start of each pull...No problem with mana...

Healing was so easy...I just have to cast penance on the grp memeber that has really low health...I just keep shielding the tank (of cos PoM and casting a renew on the tank) and also all the grp memebers...no pain at all...

Before the respec I had a HoR and FoS run and sadly for the 2 instance I kinda had a very bad experience with a lousy mage that keeps complaining that we are all very well geared but we are still wiping...of cos we are wiping...he keeps pulling agro from our druid tank and everytime he ice block the next thing that happen is the mobs will be after me! OMG....so what if I have 5.9 GS? Does not mean you have gear means that you can play well!!!

Attempts on Lich King (Normal)

For the past few weeks we have been attempting on Lich King...I can say that I heal till my hands pain man!

One thing Dawyn keeps telling me is that I am really slower then I used to be (he wants me to do more 10 man to train up my reflex)...

Whatever I am writing below are things that I can roughly remember in the Lich King fight since I am healing my hands off most of the time....

Phase 1
Whenever somebody gets Necrotic Plague, they need to run close to the Shambling Horror, while trying to have the Horror closer to them than the OT. This way when the Necrotic Plague is removed, it will jump to a Horror or a ghoul, and bounce back and forth between the OT and the Horrors...(Note: Necrotic Plague should be removed within 5s of its application)

One impt ability to take note is Infest, it will do some minor Shadow dmg to everyone, when more dmg is taken the longer the debuff stays...the debuff is removed when the target's health reaches 90% and higher. Discipline priests and other classes with absorption shields are especially useful in handling those, as the shield's damage reduction may prevent Infest's damage from bringing the target below 90% health, negating the DoT-like effect.

Phase 2
When the outer layer of the platform collasp its when all of us have to run into center part of the circle...mao mao was asking everyone to stack on him...Then Val'kyr will target 3 random raider, lift them in the air, and carry them slowly off the platform...you can only stop the Val'kyr from "throwing" your team mate off the platform by killing them...Do whatever you can...to slow them...it will give the DPSers time to save our beloved team mates....LOL...Everytime I hear Oak says "CRUEL WORLDDDDddd!!!" I will be like omg there goes our super heals....ha ha...

Next thing the Lich King start casting "Defile" is when choas strike...real PITA...ahhhh!!! The Defile will do dmg every second, and every time it does damage, its size and damage will increase...sob sob...I can still hear mao mao saying "Christy why are you still standing there to heal???!!! GG lor!!"

Sigh...I need to practise more!!!! Move faster...