Chris woke me up because I was apparently talking in my sleep. I was dreaming that I was a little kid and Kuya Rangell and I were at some county fair. He was trying to make me wear my hat backwards and I didn't want to. I asked if I could wear a bag instead.
LOL
Yeah weird.
Apparently I said, "I don't wanna wear my hat backwards because it hurts my ear. Can I just wear a bag instead?"
LMAO
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So we started the morning off on a good foot. He even invited me to go do some normal scenarios on my paladin - JUST to get the hang of healing.
I agreed because, I mean, how bad could it be?
Well luckily, because he's a tank and I was queued as a healer, it seriously was insta-queue pop. DEAR LORD. DEAR LORD. WHY did we have to get "A little patience" as my first healing scenario? The longest fucking scenario ever.
Not to mention, our 3rd was a destro warlock that outputted like 20k dps.
DEAR LORD IT TOOK FOREVER.
SO yeah, the purpose of this scenario was to help build like, reinforcement stations then kill the boss at the end. Well the boss doesn't have a normal aggro table so he just randomly goes after people. Not to mention this warlock decided to pull the world - and didn't provide good aoe, so it was hard. LOL
I'm learning this class so lets refer to that old "Photoshop Phriday post" as "Increased Difficulty".
DEAR LORD.
We managed to kill the boss, obviously - but I had to blow 2 BoPs, a divine shield, LoH, and my stupid guardian spirit just to make it.
Then we proceeded to do another scenario:
A Brewing Storm
THIS was SO easy. We had a BiS Warlock that raped. It was awesome.
*God I love warlocks, no seriously - after everything we did, I never realized how easy it is to heal them. They're so self sufficient, that I swear they're the easiest class to heal/put on the backburner. They can tank stuff decently for a while before things get picked up and hardly take damage, not to mention they can prevent themselves from getting hurt/heal themselves through it. They are a healer's dream.
So we did a few heroics afterwards because of my sudden boost of confidence:
First was temple of the jade serpent. Then we did that Shadow Pan Monastery.
OKAY, the reason why I say warlocks are the best ever, lol not that I'm biased or anything, is because we basically played with all the possible classes this morning and by far, they were the easiest to heal.
This super geared (close to BiS) hunter was doing a lot of damage, but dear GOD he took damage so so so much. An elemental shaman was also with us and was SO fucking squishy. I had to BoP him because he'd not only aggro very quickly, but get hurt from it too.
THEN, THEN, THEN, there was a death knight. Dear LOOOOORD, I never realized how squishy they were. This completely changes my view on plate wearers. They are not all the same. This guy was decently geared - probably around my warlocks ilvl. He did a decent amount of damage, but HOLY FUCKING SHIT he would STAND in shit and JUST fucking get hurt like a cloth wearer. I kept yelling at the screen, "OMG PLEASE stop standing in shit. PLEASE stop standing in shit!"
He would stand in shit that would tick for 100k at a time. Chris had to stand in some of that shit because he's the fucking tank and doesn't have a choice sometimes. BEACON OF LIGHT isn't GOOD ENOUGH OMG. So we had a rogue, deathknight, and chris, all standing in shit at the same time. I SWEAR to God, I thought I was going to have a heart attack.
HOW DOES FRANK DO THIS!??!
I have aoe healing, but nothing like my priest. I know having better gear makes a difference, but when 3/5 people in your party are getting hit for 100k+ for every tick, it's fucking impossible - for me at least.
The death knight died twice. I felt bad about it. Chris said it was his own fault for standing in the Sha purple shit. HE LITERALLY would stand in EVERYTHING. EVEEEEEEEEERYTHING. I HATE PEOPLE who stand in shit. OMG GTFO!! GT....FFFFFFOOOOOOOOO!!!
We talked about it after and I don't really know if there was anything I could do to save him while him and the rogue were also taking substantial damage. I know some people are just idiots, but DEAR LORD, HOWDOESFRANKDOIT!? Tbh, he probably lets them die, LMAO.
AAND for the FIRST time, I ran OOM. OMG, I RAN OOM. I was so intensively party healing because of this godforsaken deathknight that he made me run OOM. Luckily when I used LoH, it returned a bunch of mana and then i used my whatever that sparkly yellow shit is to regen my mana faster and it all worked out.
It literally felt epic. I haven't had that feeling in a while of HOLY CRAP, I actually have to try REALLY hard here. Dont' get me wrong, when I play, I do like to try hard - but this was a different sense of responsibility. This was a "HOLY SHIT if I dont' try hard, we WILL wipe." I'm not always a fan of pressure situations (actually, unless it's work related, I basically hate it). Despite that fact, I did have an okay time.
I still have to pick Frank's brain because half the buttons on my bar still don't make much sense to me. I'm a decently quick learner, but I don't settle by being average... so I won't want to play really until I understand a class or spec well. It's not all or nothing, I just have high standards for myself and HATE being responsible for causing wipes from being unprepared.
We didn't wipe. We did well. Chris said I did a great job. I know he's partially right, but it wasn't good enough for me and considering how stressed out I was, I clearly am not comfortable with the spec yet. It's one thing to button mash (and manage to do decently) and another thing to actually know what to do and plan your moves out ahead of time. I was only partially planning what to do next and relied a lot on "oh shit" buttons.
Part of me wanted to level another paladin from scratch. I know? I made fun of Abeer for doing it on his warrior, but part of me understands why. They've changed the game so much from before that even learning rotation and the class helps when you're doing it from the start. I don't know if I have the patience to do that anymore, tbh. I can hardly stand playing my warrior past 45. It just gets to a point where the repetitive quest grinding makes me feel like, "Jeez, there's gotta be something better I could do with my day."
I do have that truesilver champion though... :)
Uh, we'll see. :)
I did enjoy myself and had some fun with him on WoW. We haven't played together for a really long time (probably close to 6 months or so), so it was a good opportunity to try for a bit. Perhaps it's the fact that he's a paladin and he has his own divine shield and LoH - I'm not as afraid to let things get 'hairy', but I'm still afraid to heal Andy on his warrior. I'll get over it soon enough. :)
xo
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