TUC is now a Smite Priest Blog

When I first started this blog, it was with the intention of making it a blog about a priest who did all sorts of bizarre stuff - including Smite. But I love Holy healing so much that I've been focused more on that aspect of my priestlyness.

Well, now that I'm not raiding, for both lack of time and, at this point, lack of interest (ToC is kind of blah to me, and I hate playing catch-up in raids that have made tons of progress and have their own vibe already established), I am going to goof off with Smite again.

So here is your warning - while I will still post about healing occasionally, as well as achievements and stuff, this blog is officially becoming what it was originally intended as: a Smite priest blog.

I thought about making a separate blog about it, but to be honest, I am incredibly lazy and maintaining two separate blogs would be too much.

Expect to see layout and content changes in the next couple days. What is currently available from Loregasm, as well as my Insane guide, will still be available, so no worries there.

I'm looking forward to just logging on and goofing off again.

Edit: I would like to point out I am not quitting healing by any means, but since we have dual-spec now, I can freely play with smite without hurting my pocketbook. So consider Fuyu Holy/Holy =)

WoW Rage, Lessons, and Craziness: Or why borrowing gold is a bad idea...

WoW rage. Don't lie. We've all had our moments. Remember the giraffe from Robot Chicken? That kind of Stage 2 Anger?

Yeah, that was me last night.

See, I borrowed gold from someone I've known for years and years and years. I usually loathe borrowing gold from people because I am slow to pay back, but I had 800g worth of CoDed junkboxes in my mailbox with an hour left on them. And this person offered to lend me the gold if I'd promise to pay by the time her alt hit 40, "which I don't ever play, so don't worry, haha."

So I borrowed the gold, got my junkboxes, and promptly proceeded to be swamped with schoolwork. I've not really even been on WoW the past month or so.

So imagine my surprise when this person, who only ever talks to me about WoW even though we know each other IRL, messages me demanding her money back. Not in a nice way either. In a belligerent sort of way. I explained that I'd been busy with school, which just got me a "grow up."

And thus, Fufu became very, very angry. I logged on with the intention of selling the Crusader Orbs I had worked so hard in my very little free time to save so that I could pay her back and stop the harassment.

The first thing I see when I log on is a Horde pally ganking in Southshore, where I'd logged out working on junkboxes. I mount and ride off. HE mounts and hits crusader aura, chases me down, and a 10 minute fight ensues that ends with his popping LoL on Hands at 100 HP and destroying me with infinite stuns.

Now Fufu is really pissed.

At this point, I'm tired of people who play WoW. Tired of people who only ever IM me to talk to me about WoW, or people who take it too seriously, or people who really have nothing else to do but gank.

So, in a rage, I sell 2 Crusader Orbs, unload the rest alongside anything even remotely valuable in my bank into the guild bank, send Loan Shark the money, and promptly log off and cancel my subscription.

The following 30 minutes went something like this:

- Yell at keyboard

- Eat chocolate

- Yell into phone

- Log back on, make toon named Helloladies with the most Fabio-esque appearance possible

- Giggle

- Go, "Oh shazbot, I gave away all my stuff. HAHAHAHAHAHA"

So after that little melt down, and some WoW blog-browsing, I came to a decision. Since I'm not going to be able to play consistently for a while, I'm just going to go nuts and play with Smite again.

You've been warned.

Also....

.... don't borrow gold from people. Geez... it's really not healthy for you. >.<

Oh Mah Gawd - Healer Meme

Clearly my lack of consistent content during my last semester of school is making an impression on people, as Averna over at Nerf This Druid tagged me in a "lovefest between healers." Either that or she just wubs me as much as I wub her!! /snorgle...... /end creepy...

So here it goes!

Post this questionnaire, with your answers, on your blog. Pick the healing class you know most about (or is the focus of your blog), and then send it over to another healing blogger you know and love who deals with a DIFFERENT class. Include a link to the blogger who sent you the questionnaire, as well as a link to whom you are sending it.

What is the name, class, and spec of your primary healer?

Fuyuko - Priest - Holy

What is your primary group healing environment? (ie, raids, pvp, 5 mans)

I've not really been able to play much recently because of school, but when I do, Fuyuko usually heals in 25 man raids.

What is your favorite healing spell for your class and why?

This is actually a really hard question. I thought about it for a couple minutes, and eventually decided on Divine Hymn.

"What???" I hear the other priests say loudly. "Why not Circle of Healing, or Prayer of Healing, or Prayer of Mending for the fun ping sound, or even Guardian Spirit for the wings???"

Well, here's the thing with Divine Hymn: Heals the 3 lowest HP nearby raid or party members for 3024 to 3342 every 2 seconds for 8 seconds, and increases healing done to them by 10% for 8 seconds. Maximum 12 heals.

So why is this awesome? It can retarget every tick, hitting a different set of people with the "lowest health," and when used with Heroism or Inner Focus, it's even more amazing.

To sum it up, the following comments from WoWHead:

-"So this is an "Oh sh*t, button?"

-"No, it's a "F*CK YES BUTTON!"

What healing spell do you use least for your class and why?

Probably Greater Heal or Binding Heal. Greater Heal just takes too long and Binding Heal has never really been in my play-style's arsenal.

What do you feel is the biggest strength of your healing class and why?

This is pretty obvious to me - the fact that we have two healing specs that can fulfill two very different roles extremely well. Disc is awesome for tank healing, and Holy is awesome for raid healing. We don't have one healing tree with abilities and talents for both specs. We have two separate, dedicated specs for each job.

What do you feel is the biggest weakness of your healing class and why?

Watch me get flamed for this again.

I feel like our biggest weakness as a class is our inability to be the best at any one thing. Now, I keep hearing "Zomg, you suck if you don't top your meters, lolz" but I feel like if I am on raid healing with, say, a shaman, and I am higher on the meters (not just number-wise, but overall with efficiency, etc.), then that doesn't make me look GOOD, it makes that shaman look BAD. The same goes for Disc priests and tank healing, I suppose. Disc priests are about mitigation, and so their overall healing output is lower than most, making them great tank healers, but probably not the best. But I'm a Holy priest, so I don't know much about Disc, to be honest.

Anyhoo, it seems like both specs can do a variety of things well, but not one better than any other class every single time.

In a 25 man raiding environment, what do you feel, in general, is the best healing assignment for you?

I'm Holy, so raid healing - no question. I'm not made for MT healing. I'm sort of ok with OT healing. And lolz at asking me to waste the mana putting up bubbles. I'm not a disc priest. My bubbles are pretty worthless for the mana they cost me.

What healing class do you enjoy healing with most and why?

I'm going to go with Averna's answer and say I enjoy healing with our healing team as players, not as classes. I do not prefer healing with one class over another.

What healing class do you enjoy healing with least and why?

Again, going with Averna's answer here and saying shamans named Vicars (although, technically, it would be shamans named Victoree). Hehe

What is your worst habit as a healer?

Letting one bad raid make me feel like I am a bad healer and causing me to not sign up for future raids. That's kind of where I am now, to be honest. I could spare an evening every now and then in my schoolwork for raiding, but I won't, because of that one raid.

What is your biggest pet peeve in a group healing environment while healing?

From tanks - LoSing your healers for no reason, especially during fights that involve a lot of obstacles.

From other healers - QQing about how people are sniping or stealing your heals and how that is why your numbers are so low. Take that up with the RL or healing leader, don't spam it in raid or healing chat.

From DPS - standing in fires, not moving out of obstacles, not CCing and letting healers take damage needlessly.

Do you feel that your class is well-balanced with other healers for PvE healing?

Yes, I love where we are at right now, at least those of us in Holy spec. Again, I don't know much about Disc.

What tools do you use to evaluate your own performance as a healer?

Recount, WoW Meters Online, whether or not everyone died.

What do you think is the biggest misconception people have about your healing class?

Hmm.... probably the idea that Disc and Holy are easily interchangeable and that one can easily do the job of the other. Sure, I could tank heal for a small amount of time before I ran out of mana, and a Disc priest could raid heal if absolutely needed, but really, we're two different specs to the point where we could even almost be two different classes.

What do you think is the most difficult thing for new healers of your class to learn?

Which of the 50000000000 priest healing spells to put on the toolbar.

Haste or crit and why?

Crit first, up to a certain point, then haste. Most Holy priests spec into Surge of Light, which grants us free Flash Heals when another healing spell crits. It has been calculated that crit for this purpose stops becoming useful around 30% raid-buffed, so when you've reached that threshold, haste all the way!!

What healing class do you feel you understand the least?

Probably paladins.

What add-ons or macros do you use, if any, to aid you in healing?

Recount. Otherwise I use the standard DBM/oRA/Omen raiding mods and the standard Blizzard UI. I don't use Grid or Healbot or Clique or any of that stuff. I leveled on dial-up and raided through Naxx with a horrible laptop, so I just got used to not using those mods. As for macros, I am currently working on some humorous /yells for spell casts.

Do you strive primarily for balance between your healing stats, or do you stack some much higher than others and why?

I did the whole balance thing for a while, but now I aim primarily for spell power and haste, as I have reached that crit threshold, and my mana regen is fine.

Alrighty, since I said I don't know much about paladins, I'm passing this one on to Pallymar over at Pallymar's Take. HA HA. Have fun!!

I didn't die, really!!

I apologize for the lack of posting for what seems, to me, like ages. I've been crazy busy with school the past couple weeks. Taking two lab science courses in a single semester might have been a bad idea. XD

Not much has been going on in WoW-land for me recently. I've not raided since utterly failing last time, so most of my in-game time has been spent on PVP, since it's an aspect of the game I haven't done much of since back during the High Warlord grind on my troll. (I only got the shoulders and Senior Sergeant title before TBC came out, though, since I hit 60 late. Bah.)

I forgot how unbearably annoying BGs can be.... it seems like a lot of the ones going when I am online are losses. I'm only doing it for better gear for my 2s team, though, which is a frost mage/disc priest combo. Both of us are kind of arena noobs, and new to our combo, but all things considered we're doing pretty well. We did awesome at the beginning of this past week, but played for too long, I think, and lost a few. It's a lot of fun, and it's nice to have a partner with so much CC!! It's hard to get used to playing offensive disc, though, as I feel like most of my time is spent running around healing myself.

In other news, I've been playing Aion when I get the chance, and I love it. I'm playing a cleric, which is essentially a priest. The priest class in Aion breaks down at level 10 into two subclasses, from which you choose one. There's the melee-based, bard-esque chanter, and then the healxxor cleric.

Don't get me started on crafting. It's so much fun. The tailoring looms mooooooove.

I'll prolly join the club and make one of those "Aion from a WoW-er PoV" posts in the near future if anyone is interested. But for now, I just wanted to let everyone know I'm not dead, I still play WoW, and new posts will be coming as soon as midterms are over at school.

For now, if anyone is interested in reading a former WoW-er's PoV on Aion, my bf currently has a blog he's keeping as he levels. Check it out at Cliona Lake Yacht Club!!!!

d-^_^-b

Returning to Raiding

Ya gotta love Google Image search...

It has been about a month since I stopped raiding, and tonight I returned for Crusader's Coliseum 25 and Ulduar 25.

I've not really healed anything during that month hiatus, short of the Heroic UK run I did right before the raid. In fact, I've not really done any instances at all, short of DPSing Heroic ToC, which is just lolsear half the time.

So imagine my surprise healing something - a raid - in a new instance for me - for the first time in a month.

I.

Sucked.

Hard.

Oh my god. It's one thing to be low on the meters because the other healers outgear you, which several of them do now. But I was just plain bad.

The first couple bosses were ok. As long as you get the movement mechanics down they seem fine. But then we got to the Faction Champions.

To quote one of our shaman: "Don't read the strat. Just bring a pvp mindset and a trinket."

Ok! I can totally do that. I'm really bad at pvp when it comes to keeping other people alive, but surely I can handle this! (Just like to point out, in case my RLs read this that I DID read the strat anyway, haha)

I switched to my disc pvp spec on a suggestion from the other priests, but seeing as I specced into that yesterday, I had no idea what I was doing. I died so fast I might as well had skipped it to go get ice cream.

We downed Anub, which was awesome!! I didn't die for that one, I don't think, but I may be wrong. The evening was kind of a blur.

After finishing CC, we went to Ulduar. "Aaaaaa," I think. "I can handle this now. Rawr!!!"

Mrrggll..... my healing was still bad, my overheals were nuts (73% wut?), and Thorim went a little like this:

Fuyuko has died.

RL: Bring up Fuyu.

/clicks accept

/rezzes

Fuyuko has died.

.....

.....

Battle rez is up! Who should I bring up?

RL: Bring up.... Fuyu.....

/sadface

And the heckling from the priests in our priest channel didn't help either!!! It was vicious! I have scars! The emotional distress!

I guess I am just waaaaaaaay out of practice. Hopefully as I get back into the swing of things I'll start to do better, because I do know my class, and I do know how to play it in raids. I've just become a wee bit on the tetanus-inducing rusty side.

Hope you've all had your shots, cuz Fuyu is back.

Just an FYI

I'll be trying to find a layout that is less troublesome and more aesthetically pleasing today (ie, an actual header), so if you happen to check the blog and it looks very disjointed and crazy, bear with me. My knowledge of HTML is very rusty, and I'm still learning about Blogger.

Thanks, guys!

Faction Transfers - Would You Do It?

Baby Kyo!!!!

Well, it's here, folks. Faction transfers.

I don't know about you, but I never saw it coming. I thought that there was a slight chance of Blizzard caving in on their strict policy about playing both factions on a PVP server (which they did), but I honestly never thought they'd allow full-blown faction switches.

I'm honestly pretty torn about it. As you all know, I am a bit of a lore whore, and so the idea of a Draenei/Troll with no knowledge of Orc/Gnome history suddenly running around as a level 80 drives me insane. So much faction history in leveling up!!!

When I rolled my first character, Kyokiru (troll priest), I read the little book that came with my game about the history of some of the races, and the first thing I did at level 5 was brave the walk to Orgrimmar, look for Thrall, and take a screenshot of my character kneeling in front of his chair. Yes, I know. Nerd, right? Well I thought I was pretty badass. =P

At the same time, though, when I switched to Alliance to play with my friends, I would have given anything to change level 70 Kyo into an Alliance character. I loved priest, and knew I wouldn't be able to devote enough time to both characters, so I created Fuyuko as a priest. (Hence why I have 2 high level priests).

While it was a huge pain in the butt to relevel a character and try to catch her up to the rest of my new guildies, I'm thankful looking back, because Alliance leveling is a different experience than Horde leveling, and I know a lot about the lore associated with both factions now.

At this point, if I were in the Kyo situation again, would I take advantage of the faction transfer service, despite my complaints of it ruining lore? Even if I didn't know anything about Alliance history?

Yes.

It's just too convenient for playing with friends. Releveling a character that you intend to be a raiding main at some point, for most of us, just takes too much time. This was a good financial decision on the part of Blizzard, and I bet they are making some decent scratch off it.

How about you all? If you were in a situation like I was (and I bet most of you have been), would you take advantage of the service? Why or why not?

I'm not dead!

Thanks again to Azumanga Images!!

So yeah, I haven't really posted anything in over a week, so I figured I would let you all know I'm not dead. After my summer classes ended, I spent a week in California with my boyfriend, and then came back and immediately started fall classes.

To add to that, I am taking the Japanese Language Proficiency Exam in December, so I turned in my "raiding resignation" of sorts to my guild the other night. I'm really sad, because I love progression raiding a lot.

It's not that I am quitting WoW or never raiding again until after the exam is over, but I will be playing far less often and I want the time I do have to devote to the game during the next few months to go beyond just raiding. Besides, Ascended raids on weeknights and I've decided weekend WoW fun will be my reward for working hard on school and exam prep until January.

Does that mean this blog is done? Hell no.

I never really wrote about raiding anyway, mainly out of a self-conscious fear that I'd get rage-filled comments about how "bad" my healing style is. The time I spend in game now will mostly be devoted to questing and achievements, so nothing about this blog will change! I will be on every day for a couple minutes doing my cooking or AT dailies so I don't fall hopelessly behind, so if you're on Bonechewer and happen to catch me, send me a tell!

I'm going to do my best to post at least twice a week, but if I miss a week every now and then, I hope you'll all stick with me! Last semester of school is always hell.

And besides, I'm getting close to being Insane. Muahaha! Check out my Armory to see my progress!!

The Interwebs > Applebough

I was recently contacted by THE Applebough regarding his blog. He was concerned over a comment by someone named Inishi about the lack of activity on his blog recently and wanted to set the record straight:

I regret to inform my legions of loyal readers that my blog may remain un-updated for some period of time. It is not that I am too busy, as the fruit business has been suffering in Azeroth recently. It would seem that, with the new additions to the Tournament in Icecrown, my usual customers have chosen protein shakes from some no-name shop in Gadgetzan as a means of gaining their nutrition. While I cannot fault them for being concerned about their muscular welfare, I must say I have always considered fruit smoothies just as healthy and a thousand times more delicious... maybe I shall start a stand for fruit smoothies..... I have the supplies...

Alas, I digress. As I stated previously, my lack of activity cannot be attributed to a busy schedule, nor a lack of intriguing content to post.

No, the cold hard truth of the matter is..... I've forgotten my blasted password. And in the process of trying to recover it, I realized that I had also forgotten my username. To make matters worse, I have always posted from the Dalaran computer lab, and as most public lab users know, passwords are not saved on these machines.

It pains me greatly, but until I can recover this information or muster the energy to create an entirely new blog, Applebough's Fruitcart is suspended indefinitely.

I am going back to my empty fruit stand now. This month has been utterly depressing.

There you have it, folks. Right from the tree's.....um.... mouth. Here's hoping he can find his password and username, because I was looking forward to reading more about the war between Averna over at Nerf This Druid and Applebough.

Maintenance Day Shenanigans

Some of us troll the forums.

Some of us troll the chatrooms.

Some of us even go outside.

But seriously, why would you want to when you could sit at your desk and play with WoW Model Viewer?

Now, yeah, it's just full of the same things you see every day in Azeroth, so what could possibly be so exciting about it?

Remember encounters like Kael where your entire guild spent the first 10 minutes of every raid spamming /spit on the boss, because after months of attempts, you still had not managed to down him?

Wouldn't it be great if you could go back to Tempest Keep and humiliate the miserable bastard?

Well, you could, but it's maintenance day. Whatever shall you do? You need revenge!!!

You could......

.........

..... MAKE HIM DANCE!!!!!

No, you heard me correctly. Make. Kael. Dance.

"Womanizer" by Britney Spears, (c) Jive Records 2008.

(It's a little slow because of the compressor... but you get the idea.)

Yeah, who's a big shot now, eh? EH????

Unfortunately, Kael was such a terrible dancer that he crashed the program.

But, yeah, if you're finding yourself bored waiting for servers to come back up, go check out WoW Model Viewer. There are plenty of NPCs to embarrass, bwahaha.

Conquering WoW Burnout

Emo priest is emo.

Ever logged onto your character and felt like you had nothing to do, nor any desire to find anything to do?

"Wanna run heroics?" Naw...

"Wanna level our lowbies?" Naw...

"Anyone up for AT dailies?" Naw...

"Let's run Sunwell for the achievement for the last time before they close teh zone FOREVAH!"

Naw....

We've all experienced it at some point. We log on and don't really feel like doing much of anything, and we either log right off, chat for a few minutes, or AFK for food and get caught up in a far more interesting episode of Seinfeld.

There are several different kinds of burnout:

• "IRL": You're just too busy with real life to think about WoW. By the time you have the free minutes to log on, you find yourself feeling unattached to the game. Chatting with everyone is fun, but you've been out of it for a bit and just aren't interested anymore.

• Repetition: You're farming a raid zone, and runs are essentially little more than gearing the last few people up. Everyone knows the fights, the thing goes off without a hitch, blah. Raids just aren't fun anymore. Ease leads to boredom.

• Change: The game keeps changing and you don't like the direction it's going. You try the new changes for a while, but don't take as much joy in it as you did before Patch XX.

• Completionist: You've been working overtime to finish a certain achievement such as *cough* Insane in the Membrane *cough* and you either tackle a huge portion of it, or if you're going overtime, finish it, and you need a break from the screen. Or, you've levelled multiple characters and feel like you've seen and done it all, even with new content patches coming out.

• Gankee: You don't enjoy the game because you can't stay alive long enough to random, bored 80s to get anything done. You're camped so often and for such long periods of time that it's not even worth logging on anymore.

• Straggler: You started after everyone else, and no matter how much time and effort you put into catching up, you start to think you'll never be allowed to join the big kids because they're putting in just as much work to progress even farther. No one will run heroics with you because no one needs anything from them anymore.

That's not to say these are the only kinds, but they are definitely some of the most common. I've experienced most of them myself! So what are some ways you can combat them if you're not ready to quit the game just yet?

The most obvious way is just to take a break. Sometimes that's all it takes.

Another thing that sometimes works is trying out another MMO. I tried out World of Kung Fu and Mabinogi for a while when I was sick of WoW. While Mabinogi kept me content with the shearing of sheep (omigod, was it fun!), it wasn't what I was looking for, and WoKF made me want to shoot myself in the face. I missed the interface and graphics and knowledge I had of WoW, and came back to it again.

Levelling an alt sometimes helps! If you've levelled a warlock and a mage and you don't really feel like levelling a different DPS, then try a different role. If you play healer, roll tank. If you play tank, roll healer or DPS. Sometimes the switch from healer to DPS isn't enough because you have to DPS while questing anyway, or already have an alternate DPS spec. But the short version is, try something totally different from anything you've tried before. Switch from caster to melee or vice versa.

"But Fuyu," you cry! "If I see those stupid starter zones one more time I'll seriously lose my mind!"

So try a Death Knight! Death Knights come geared from the initial get-go, and are not only high enough to make the remaining grind short, but also equipped with all the flight paths, etc, already.

Another neat thing to try, even if you can't on your original server, is to roll a new character on the opposing faction. I originally played Horde, although I'm Alliance now, but it was really cool to see the storylines for both factions.

If you're sick of PVE you could always try doing some hardcore PVP for a while.

Or, if you have so much gold and so many badges that you literally have NOTHING else to do, try experimenting with a nontraditional spec, such as a priest who plays with smite. See if you can prove the yuppie min-maxers wrong! The challenge may never be a successful one, but I assure you it's a lot of fun.

Of course sometimes you're just plain bored of the whole damned game and it's time to say goodbye. It's always hard to say goodbye to a guild that has become your family, but we won't be playing World of Warcraft forever, and you have to know when to call it quits. Maybe someday you'll come back. Maybe you won't. But I bet you made some awesome friends along the way.

But for most of us, burnout is only temporary and we're back in the swing of things in a few days or weeks. So hopefully some of these suggestions will help those of you feeling kinda "meh" lately come up with a way to keep the game exciting for you long enough to get over your slump. Or maybe it made you realize that it really is time to quit.

But here's hoping that, whatever your case may be, you enjoyed the time you played, and one day we'll see you in Azeroth again.

An Open Letter to Astor Hadren....

Dear Astor Hadren:

Seriously, dude. I understand you're angry. I know I've killed you every time I go through Silverpine into Tirisfal, unaware that you actually have a purpose because you were so unfriendly to me when I was part of the Horde.

I promised myself and the rogues of Azeroth that never again shall the back of my hand your sunken face meet, but you had to do it, didn't you ....?

You know I can't remount in combat... and running is sooooo pre-level 30 (or soon to be 20).

So to all the would-be rogues who needed to murd------ er...... um, speak with you at 4am ST, I apologize.

But to you, Astor Hadren.... you asked for it. Pansy.

Spirit of Redemption: The Big Blue Angel of Fail

See bottom of the page for artist info!

Hey, priests. Have you ever done something silly, like misjudged the Heigan safety zones, or stood in the fire or runes of death, or been hit by flame wall? Sometimes we die of aggro before we even know we have it. Squishy like bad cheese. Bad..... smelly.... cheese.

Some classes have the privilege of a quiet, peaceful death. How many times have you been halfway through an encounter before you noticed another healer or a dps down? Sometimes things get crazy and you just don't see that person die. And unless that person says what happened to them, it's generally unknown until the RL asks or the log comes out.

Now, when we holy priests die, we turn into this big, beaaaautiful angel of awesome save-y-ness, right? We can cast as many heals as we want for free during those few seconds. We could die and save a raid at the same time, right??? Some priests even save raids when oom by suiciding and turning into the angel!!! Right????? RIGHT????

WRONG. So very.... very..... very wrong.

Iyenrith from the server Scarlet Crusade said it best on the priest forums:

You could always go discipline, but it's just not the same experience.

Death as Disc: "Splat. And a strange disappointment that you didn't turn into an angel"

Death as Holy: "My body transcends the physical world, as the beautiful angel rises off the ground in an act of defiance to the priest's attacker. Everyone stares in awe, and at that very moment you truly feel at one with your priest. Nothing matters but the majestic angel wings, not the raid, boss or even the angry screams over vent saying 'OMG HEAL WHILE IN ANGEL FORM!!'"

Yeaaaaaah.... that's exactly how it feels. I feel pretty and blue and sexy in my Queen Gorgo dress. I'm bigger than the raid boss, and sooo much hotter. And my heals? AWESOME.

Or are they....?

I got curious and checked the WWS for the last raid I was in, since I felt like my heals were kind of... well.... "meh" during spirit form. And damn...


OMG!!! I AM TEH LEET!!!! I healed for a grand total of 11!!! Whoooooo!!!!!!!! I could totally outheal every single *cough cough* rogue in the raid!!!!!! Now, granted, several of the deaths were on called wipes that I know not to heal in spirit form for, but still..... 11??? Really???

So yeah, we have so many better glyphs than the one that adds 6 seconds to spirit form, so I am not picking that up. I'm sure other priests do soooo much more healing in that form, and usually I at least manage to get a completely useless Guardian Spirit off, but blah. I guess I should just spam Renew.

And what's worse is that Miss Angelbutt makes it very obvious when we screw up. See that big blue angel that is covered in flames? Is that the Angel of Death??? Are we in Hell???

Nope, that's Fuyu. She was playing with the fire. d-^_^-b

I suppose at the very least, if you're bad at SoR (and I am very, very bad), then it still does one job: keeps you on your toes. Everyone is going to see you in the void zone when you are bigger than everything else in the room, and scantily clad at that. And there is nothing funnier than a massive wipe and multiple priests going into spirit form around the room.

All we need is for someone to play Alabama's Angels Among Us over Vent and my life will be complete.

**Thanks so much to p3p574r from DeviantArt, who was kind enough to let me use that gorgeous picture of Spirit of Redemption at the top of the page! She has some other equally gorgeous WoW art, so check her out here!!**