Comments on: Monday Musings – 6/7 Heroic and Recruitment Still Sucks Edition

By: Essence

Essence — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:04:02 +0000

Very true. People do seem to be very happy where they are. However, the recent outflux of various raiding guilds (Nexus, Ascendance) has made it seem less homey, to me.

By: Imalinata

Imalinata — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 02:32:22 +0000

Sounds about the same as what we were doing with the shards as far as getting people higher shard stacks. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to be in this week healing for the encounter. I spent most of the time we were learning it waitlisted or playing as boomkin.

By: Why I Hate Heroic Modes : Kurn's Corner

Why I Hate Heroic Modes : Kurn's Corner — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:22:27 +0000

[...] Beru linked to Borsk’s post about the end of his guild’s raiding. A sad thing, to be sure. It’s never easy to throw in the towel and it’s often something that has huge emotional repercussions for all those involved, so my sympathies go out to him. His post, however, is wonderful and he discusses a lot of different things. What really hit me is this, though, which resonated with me greatly: I look back on TBC fondly because it was the last time when finishing the instance meant finishing the instance. [...]

By: Beruthiel

Beruthiel — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:36:16 +0000

I think this is something that is equally as common in life as it is in game. Sometimes people are thoughtless without realizing that they are being thoughtless. Or they say/do things that haven’t fully been flushed out and that has an impact on people that they likely don’t realize. However, everyone has a breaking point, and sometimes all it takes is one thoughtless comment to push a person over the edge to theirs

By: Beruthiel

Beruthiel — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:34:31 +0000

The only part of Heroic Staghelm that I really dislike is the orb phases. Actually, only when you get 4 of 6 orbs in one quadrant, and have to try to navigate stacks on people, and the massive cat leaps you get with the orbs because you have so many people concentrated in one area.

I actually think I like Staghelm more than Baleroc, but I’m not sure yet! I’ll let you know next week ^.^

By: Beruthiel

Beruthiel — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:32:31 +0000

Ah, in heroic we don’t take the scorpian slashes so that we can maintain legendary concentration as long as possible Basically, before he hits 100 energy the first time we transition him over to cat. So it means that there are more transition phases, but more periods of time where the raid will have legendary concentration.

By: Beruthiel

Beruthiel — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:31:01 +0000

This expansion has been so terribly difficult in so many ways. I’m not really sure if it’s turned out quite how Blizzard “intended” it, but it’s what we are left with, and I don’t know that we can expect any changes in the future to make it better. In fact, I wager that it will continue to be more difficult in coming months.

Best of luck to you!

By: Beruthiel

Beruthiel — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:29:01 +0000

I don’t know that “almost dead” is quite right! I think it’s more than many people are content where they are, so it makes recruiting on server that much more difficult

By: Beruthiel

Beruthiel — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:27:58 +0000

I think probably right now the Moonkin shortage is that everyone is trying to snag up as many as they can for Heroic Rag. We’ve pretty much just asked all of our druids to bone up on their moonkin gear, including our feral, and we’ll go from there!

By: Beruthiel

Beruthiel — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:26:44 +0000

We used 1 paladin, 2 disc priests and 2 resto druids from attempt one until our kill I should also probably note that we used two tanks as well.

Honestly, I think in the long run the healing was really the least challenging part of the fight once you got down to it. I definitely think that not spreading tormented and making sure there was good communication for back up soakers was by far the more challenging part of the encounter.

We broke it down like this:

Shard 1: Shadow priest soaks ranged shard entirely. Paladin/Disc priest build stacks. Resto Druid (me) heals melee shard. Resto Druid/Disc Priest heals tank.
Shard 2: Shadow priest soaks ranged shard entirely. Paladin/Disc priest continue to build stacks. Resto Druid (me) heals melee shard. Resto/Disc heals tank. At about 19 stacks on the shadow priest, Paladin swaps to the tank.
Shard 3: Resto Druid (me), Paladin, Disc Priest all on the tank. Previous tank priest/druid heal shards.
Shard 4: Resto Druid (me), Disc Priest on the tank. Paladin swaps back to build a few more stacks.
Shard 5: Paladin, Disc Priest on the tank. Resto Druid (me) helps with tank, or builds shard staks, whichever is needed. Resto/Priest on shards.
Remaining shards: Same as Shard 5. Changing only if one of the shard healers gets tormented.

I was still running at only about 2k spirit, and I screwed up and innervated way late, so I really felt the mana pinch by the end of the fight. I also didn’t stack sparks as well as I could have, which I think would have helped as well. But as for running two druids? I don’t really think it was a huge problem. We had to work hard, but no harder really than any of the other healers I don’t think!