Benediction

So I saw a priest blogger mention this staff a few weeks back, but I seriously want one. It's no use to me at my level, but it's considered such an epic piece of Priest gear that I just have to attempt to get one. It requires doing stupid stuff like going into MC and defeating some boss in there (pretty sure it's not Ragnaros) and all other kinds of other twiddly, silly things.

It's a level 60 staff called Benediction. If you click on it, it changes into another staff called Anathema...it was supposed to be one staff for Holy Priests and another for Shadow Priests. It is still a very viable staff for a Level 60 priest, and will supposedly last you well into Level 70. Keeping a staff for 10 levels? Wow, nice. I just wish that I had found out about this staff when I actually was Level 60...and not being far OP for the quest chain now at Level 80.

Still want one bad...they're just so cool looking. If the warlocks get a heirloom modelled after a Level 60 piece of Dungeon Set 1...then us Priests want a heirloom modelled after Benediction. I deem it so :P

Purple? Frostwyrm? SQUEEE!

So excuse me a second while I just go and /dance off in the corner here, but this morning I opened Wow.com to find new about a new drake in the game when 3.3 comes out. No one has any set details as of yet, but it's looking like an achievement drake that you will get as a reward for completing all the IC meta achievement. Kinda like the Ulduar/Naxx drakes. I'm still kinda miffed that they took the Naxx drakes out of the game so soon, I really liked those. The Ulduar drakes are sexy too, but I can't seem to get a single achievement out of that place for the meta. I've gotten a few of the achs, sure...but none that count towards the meta- bah.

I like this mount though, always was a huge fan of the Gladiator's Frost Wyrm from PvP. Only two people on Cairne have that mount and it looks really awesome. Fiorra would look sick riding on one of those. And I'd love to have the IC looky-likey, but I'm gonna have to work my ass off getting my gear into shape. And it probably won't be pugged for a while, unless I can get in on a cross-faction pug after the LFG system goes live in 3.3. Hey, now there's an idea...

Shadow DPS...and Fiorra's Lack of Heals

As you well know, Fiorra is a discipline priest. Have you any clue on how I came around to that? Well, as any good spriest knows, we've been getting the crap nerfed out of the shadow dps spec for quite some time now and I'd finally had enough of being Blizzard's whipping boy...so I caved and went to heals. Since I levelled for 75 levels (!) as a Holy Priest, I wasn't going there again. And I spoke to other Priestly friends on Cairne, and I soon discovered that there was a lack of Discipline Priests on the server. It was very hard for me to give up my Shadow Priest role, but I was sick of having lacklustre dps...so from the dark side I was persuaded.

That was six months ago. I went Discipline and have fully enjoyed my time as a healy priest, but supposedly there are some lovely buffs for Shadow Priests coming along in the wind...so there is a huge chance that I will go back to being the sole Shadow Priest in For the Alliance. And come 3.3, a full set of T9 gear will be easy peasy to get. I'm not expecting to leave healing just yet though, this is all on the PTR and already we have recieved one nerf to SW:P so I'm just expecting us to come out at the bottom again, just where Blizzard wants us to be.

We'll never be able to compete with the pure dps (huntards, mages, locks, rogues), but we'd like to at least be on the same level as the rest of the hybrids (DK's, druids, pallies, warriors, shamans). Instead, we're right at the bottom of the dps when it comes to raids...Blizzard please stop turning us into Warlocks and hitting us with the nerf bat constantly. I don't give a shit about making it fair or being on a level par with every other class....for once...JUST ONCE! Could we please be OP? We're not even any good at healing anymore, we get pwned by shamans and druids for raid heals and slaughtered by pallies for single target heals.

I rolled Fiorra because I wanted a healer...and Priests are supposed to be the best in the game...not the worst! Hello, Earth to Blizzard? Did you forget that we're Priests? We're supposed to be the archetypal healers of the game, not the raid bitch that only gets used for Replenishment and PW:S. Gah.

Mohawk Grenade!

OMFG the funniest thing is happening in game coming this Christmas! A new tv slot is being put out by Blizzard and it shows the Night Elf Mohawk back...and putting the a new item in game. Come this holiday season, we are going to be able to use something called the 'Mohawk Grenade' and you'll be able to throw it at other people to turn them in a Night Elf Mohawk...AKA the WoW version of Mr T. Hehehehe....omfg, classic. Cannot wait :D

Source:http://www.wow.com/2009/11/16/mr-t-promotes-the-mohawk-grenade/

See! He Exists!

AHHH! So excited today! Just a very, very short post but I signed onto my blog this afternoon to check whether I had any comments that needed to be published/deleted or otherwise. And there was the surprise I'd been waiting to lift me out of my dreary day....my lovely, lovely boyfriend Poguemahon had left me a comment on my blog...so HA! to all you naysayers who have ever commented and told me he doesn't exist.

*blows raspberry at the world*

And yes Pogue, very proud of you over the Naxx lead. Big grats to you!! *round of applause* :D

Mage-Centric...Beware!

So as you know, I have a mage. Or should I say...I did. I was finally frustrated enough with my mage that I deleted her. I hate humans....I hate how they run, jump and seem to be way more squishy than any other class. So I came to a crossroads and had to make a decision...pay out $25 to get her a race change...or just delete and reroll. Hmm. I was bored out of my mind and didn't want to wait till Cataclysm to roll a Night Elf Mage...and so rerolled Amaraie as a Draenei (yes another one!)

And so far, so good. It's been very productive rolling her as draenei, as things like Gift of the Naaru are a frickin god-send for levelling, I barely die. And before I knew it, DING! I was lvl 20....just like that. I'm really enjoying her, far more than I ever did with my human mage. And she no longer looks like me, so that is definetely a plus. Dinged 21 last night while levelling in Darkshire, and will continue there today. I also think that levelling must be easier for me because I have three heirlooms; Dignified Headmaster's Charge, Tattered Dreadmist Mantle and Tattered Dreadmist Robe . Sure, I look like a warlock with all this gear on....ha, but I'm better...I'm a mage! :P I do love how all the heirloom gear is all based on the old lvl 60 tier gear. Like my cloth gear is based off the lvl 60 Dungeon blues set. My boyfriend Pogue, has the heirloom shoulders on his hunter...and they're exactly the same as the tier 3 hunter shoulders :)

Say hi to the new Amaraie!

Healer Questionnaire

I've seen this at World of Matticus, Hots & Dots and various other blogs too. No one asked me to fill it out, but I am going to anyhoo. Just for a giggle. Giggity goo.

• What is the name, class, and spec of your primary healer? Fiorra, Draenei Discipline Priest
• What is your primary group healing environment? (i.e. raids, pvp, 5 mans) I will heal pretty much whatever I'm needed for. I mainly heal in 10 man raids though, and as one of the main healers.
  
• What is your favorite healing spell for your class and why? Penance. Love the bursty healing, always good for spiky tank damage. Oh and coupled with Divine Aegis, it's just goddamn sexy.
  
• What healing spell do you use least for your class and why? Greater Heal. Too frickin slow to cast, the tank could be dead by the time it's cast and I don't stack in haste.
  
• What do you feel is the biggest strength of your healing class and why? Speed and damage protection. Everyone loves the Discipline Priest for their bubbles and mitigation.
• What do you feel is the biggest weakness of your healing class and why? Lack of big, fast heals. We have Greater Heal, but it's slow as fuck. We need something with the speed of Penance and the quantity of Greater Heal. Oooh but then we'd get called OP. Sigh.
  
• In a 25 man raiding environment, what do you feel, in general, is the best healing assignment for you? Since I am for the majority of the time the person that gives out the healing assignments, I usually put myself on the tank that has the best mitigation so I don't have to freak out too much when they die. That way, I can keep an eye on the other healers too.
  
• What healing class do you enjoy healing with most and why? Druids. I love their HoT's and watching a tree eat? Ha! Best thing ever, it honestly looks like their giggling! (Am not biased cause Poguemahon is a tree....no, not in the slightest....lol)
  
• What healing class do you enjoy healing with least and why? Shamans. Bloody chain heal makes me stand around and twiddle my thumbs looking stupid. I do love Heroism though...heh.
  
• What is your worst habit as a healer? Using Penance just so I can proc Divine Aegis on the tank....I like watching the spell cast and then proc in a pretty bubble. I'm a girl through and through...lol.
  
• What is your biggest pet peeve in a group environment while healing? People not waiting for the healer or casters to get their mana bars up. I really hate it when the tank thinks it's fun to pull the whole room and then bitch at me because I was eating strudel in the corner. Asswipe, see if I heal your ass next time.
  
• Do you feel that your class/spec is well balanced with other healers for PvE healing? I do believe so yes, but I just wish that we could have more healy throughput like a pally....nothing seems to outheal those dudes.
  
• What tools do you use to evaluate your own performance as a healer? I was recently introduced to World of Logs by Lodur from WoM and it's pretty much been my tool ever since. I don't trust Recount as it doesn't show absorbs unless you have the addon.
• What do you think is the biggest misconception people have about your healing class? That we can't raid heal. Yes we sure can, we just aren't very good at it. But everyone loves bubbles right? Nothing better than casting Prayer of Mending and watching it proc 10 times to see half the raid encased in a bubble. Heh :D
  
• What do you feel is the most difficult thing for new healers of your class to learn? That they need to stack two things and two things only...Crit and Intellect. Spirit is pretty useless for a Disc Priest, yet I still see some out there stacking in it. You are not a Resto Druid!
  
• If someone were to try to evaluate your performance as a healer via recount, what sort of patterns would they see (i.e. lots of overhealing, low healing output, etc)? Low healing output. Recount doesn't count Absorbs by all my pretty bubbles, and I've been kicked from pug raids for it. Absolutely stupid.
  
• Haste or Crit and why? I stack crit like a monster. Divine Aegis is my best friend :D
  
• What healing class do you feel you understand least? Resto Shammies and Holy Paladins. I have one of each though and am working hard to resolve my lack of knowledge.
• What add-ons or macros do you use, if any, to aid you in healing? Pitbull for unit frames, VuhDo for raid healing, Grid to see the rest of the raid so I don't have Pitbull stacked all over my screen and Mik's Scrolling Battletext.
  
• Do you strive primarily for balance between your healing stats, or do you stack some much higher than others, and why? As I said before, I'm a huge crit monster...but I also stack pretty high in intellect for faster mana regen and a bigger mana pool. I'm currently trying to figure out how to get more spell power on my gear though.