Saturday, February 26, 2011

Cataclysm Progression and Chakra States

The past 2 weeks have been absolutely phenomenal for my raid team.  Not 3 weeks ago did I feel like I was on the Titanic and was going down with the ship.  But my raid and I managed to find a lifeboat and stayed afloat.  Not only that, we've basically made more progress in the past 2 weeks than we have since Cataclysm came out.

Throughout our raiding time, I try to see what Chakra state is most beneficial for each encounter.  I'm usually the second tank healer for our team and help out with raid healing when necessary.  Our main tank healer is a Discipline priest and our main raid healer is a Restoration druid.

We are now 5/12 normal modes and we will be working on Ascendant Council next week.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Recent Hotfixes And a Quick Dip into Holy PvP

So as of my last post, Holy priests everywhere were visiting their trainers to respec into the Holy "bubble spam" spec.  I was not one of those priests.  I knew Blizzard wouldn't let this new spec be viable and I was right.  I woke up this morning to see these changes posted:

Friday, February 18, 2011

To Bubble Or Not To Bubble? That is the Question.

The forums have been blown up recently and Disc priests everywhere are in a state of panic.  In a recent hotfix, Blizzard decided that the recent increased mana cost and spell power coefficient to Power Word: Shield wasn't enough to prevent Discipline priests from utilizing the "bubble spam" method of raid healing and immediately raised the cost by another 33%.

But wait!  What about Holy priests who use the spell for our precious Body and Soul talent and maybe to save a raid member or two?  Have no fear, Blizzard thought this through and didn't want Holy priests to shy away from using PW: S and added a mana cost reduction to the Body and Soul talent.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Patch 4.0.6: A PvE/PvP Perspective

So the patch has been out for a little less than a week and I've been able to test out some of the changes for both PvE and PvP.  Here's some feedback:

Friday, February 11, 2011

I'm at a Crossroad...

2 days ago, during our 10-man raid, I broke.

I've NEVER quit in the middle of a raid before.  I might have complained, whined, and even cried, but I've never flat out quit.  I was feeling many emotions.  I was angry.  I was disappointed.  But most of all I felt like a loser.  A loser that was wasting 2 1/2 hours of my time to some hopeless cause.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Priest PvP makes me cry T_T

I mentioned on my earlier post that priests in PvP are just awful and I wanted to touch on it a little further. No wait, scratch that. It's just plain bad.

I'm no arena junkie, nor have I ever claimed to be. I'm a casual PvPer that enjoys occasional random Battlegrounds. I have extremely limited arena experience. I've won a few rounds in Wrath, and lost quite a few more. I have learned that I excel much better at BG's where I'm not always the focus of the enemy's attack. I like to have fun in PvP. PvP is no longer very fun to me as a healer.

Blizzard broke healing in PvP by breaking mana costs, cast times, and homogonizing all melee classes. And before you ask, yes this is going to be a QQ/rant post.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

4.0.6 is almost here!

Well, according to MMO-Champion Patch 4.0.6 is set to be released this Tuesday and there are a few changes priests should know about for both Discipline and Holy. Don't worry we aren't getting nerfed! They are good changes for both PvE and PvP!

I'm just going to highlight the "priest-only" changes that we will be seeing.