Red/Dhar

Taking a WoW break till Easter

Raymond — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:26:44 +0000

I think I made the decision yesterday, while at work. I knew that I had signed for the raid yesterday night. Because I know that I havent signed for many raids lately. Always something else. So, I was at work, and I got an sms from a friend, asking if I wanted to have a coffee in the late afternoon. And I replied “Sorry, busy”.

Then I thought about it again. The theme from my last post here. WHY?!

Yesterday, Lent began. And I thought about my spiritual life (yes, I am religious. no, I will not preach to you), and I thought that “Well, why not follow Lent properly this year?”.

Oh, and I also missed Ash Wednesday mass at church yesterday because – well – you know. Raid time.

So this is day 2 of Lent. I will work on some of my old projects these coming weeks – the magazine I edit, the website I have been neglecting for months, etcetc.

Also, to spend more time with friends. People who are still your friends and you talk with regularly even though you leave the guild or something like that…

Variation

Raymond — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:47:27 +0000

Yesterday, I was sick and home from work, but I had signed for our ICC-10 raid and I felt OK enough to go and raid.

We started the raid at 20 – I got on at 19.30. Before we had finished, it was past 11 PM. Well, the log is up there (missing a few attempts due to DC) and…

After I had logged off I thought to myself “What am I doing here?”

Variation. Or lack of the same.

Do you know the feeling when raid night after raid night just becomes a drudge? As much fun as it may be in itself, it isn’t very surprising or very innovative. It’s not like wiping on Queen x9 was teaching me a lot.

I guess the thing is that I wish my evenings – those of them that I spend in Azeroth – had a bit more variation. Wasn’t so slow (and yet, the time goes so fast).

Don’t worry, there is a staff for you as well

Raymond — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:05:24 +0000

Lich King 25N has a staff for you as well

Bloodsurge

Raymond — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:15:55 +0000

TOGC 10, fishing

Raymond — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:04:42 +0000

Last night we did TOGC10. We two-healed it which went rather well for the first four bosses, but on Anub we hit a brick wall. I guess I was also tired at the end, making more mistakes (such as not using plea during the burrow phase, meaning that I went quite oom at third phase. What a bummer).

Log: http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-phbd1x5n8dcwuusj/

Today, I bought 200 northern spices for 100g, and I will try to do some fishing while chilling, reading, doing other things. Just fish a lot, and then sell the food. Maybe just make a ton of Fish Feast? They also have a higher sales-price on AH so once I do go and sell them I will make a larger profit.

But yeah, lets look at the economy of fishing. If I say I buy spices for 0.5 g each, and I sell SP-food for 19g per 5, this means that for a stack, I will make about 70g. Take away 10g for the spices, and I end up with 60g per stack. 60g per 20 fish.

If I sell a fish feast for 10g, the mats are:

2 Musselback Sculpin
2 Glacial Salmon
2 Nettlefish
1 Northern Spice
If we say that I catch fish at about the same speed as my Glacial Salmon for the SP-food, then: 6 fish for 10g (minus 0.5g for spices).

SP-food: 60g per 20 fish.
Fish Feast: ((20 fish / 6) x 10g) = 33g per 20 fish.

Seems like selling the SP-food is much more profitable than getting the mats for Fish Feast.

I guess I will do the SP-food for profit, and Fish Feast for raids.

Rotface tries

Raymond — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:51:40 +0000

Sucks how we cant down him yet

[Full report of raid]

January 19th

Raymond — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:08:27 +0000

Redemptio:

Dhar:

Yes, they do count your Mr. Bigglesworth kills!

An example of a HC WorldOfRaids log

Raymond — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:03:33 +0000

Here is an example log from a HC.

Leaving 51/0/20

Raymond — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:57:48 +0000

After being 51/0/20 for most of this expansion I am going to try 52/17/2. It will mean a lot less crit, but the Divine Guardian will be useful for some of those critical phases. I will make the shift tonight, and we will see how it then goes

Being a lootwhore

Raymond — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:10:46 +0000

It hit me last night when I was in ICC25. I am becoming a lootwhore.

I realized it when the loot master during the raid, after we had downed Lady Deathwhisper, saw that the Necrophotic Greaves had dropped, and he saw that there were no resto shamans in raid. He then went on to say “ok need all of you who want this for offspec”. I remember my reaction “?!” and I also typed in /ra that I would really like to need on it for main spec. The loot master then said “But that is mail. You are a plate-user” or something along those lines.

And then it hit me: First of all, I feel like I need to justify my wanting a mail item. Then I feel like a lootwhore because I even let such a small thing affect my mood even the slightest. I felt that the lootmaster failed to really see how holy paladins does indeed sometimes go for mail items (because of the improved itemization), and I felt it then unfair how he in his ignorance was about to give it as off-spec to someone.

I felt like shit for most of the remaining of that raid. Have I really sunk that low? Have I really sunk to the level where gearscore and character optimizing is so important that my toon’s gear affects my mood?

I don’t like this development. I also look at my last post here on the blog, and it is all about gear. Gear Gear Gear.

I seem to measure the raid only in terms of the gear upgrades I got, not whether I had fun, or whether I enjoyed certain situations during my healing of the tanks, or even reflections upon attitude in the raid after we had wiped on Saurfang.

I hate being a lootwhore. I guess I should focus a bit less on the iLevel of my gear, and more on what I can do with the gear I do have, and how I can improve as a tank healer in 10- and 25-man raids.

Shame on me!

(And yeah, I did in the end get to roll on the mail boots, but I wonder now how I would have reacted if I hadn’t)