New cell phone. One with a full keyboard. Hoping this will encourage me to blog more, especially since it looks like I can use more than 180 characters...

Healing Priests Get The Short End of the Gear-Stick... (QQ post)

Healing Priests get the short end of the stick when it comes to gear. Period.

First off, we're clothies. There is only one kind of gear we can use. We can't be like Druids and use leather AND cloth. Shammies get mail and lower, and Pallys get it all. Cloth, that's all we get. It's an exchange, yes, lower armor for more powerful heals, and yes, I chose to play a priest knowing the armor restrictions. That's not what I'm writing about today.

Today, I'd like to QQ a little bit about cloth gear with hit on it. In addition to only being able to wear cloth, healing priests have absolutely no need for hit and therefore gear with hit on it is not for them. If we want to roll on cloth gear with hit, it has to be offspec. Even if it's a huge upgrade. It doesn't work the other way around either. DPS classes that wear cloth can roll on any cloth gear and it's all mainspec for them, sometimes they don't even need the hit if they've reached their hit-cap. Healing priests already draw from a small gear pool, made even small by the fact that half the gear has hit on it.

Rolling against a DPS clothie is a pain, especially if there's no hit on the piece, because if I'm rolling on something, I need it, there is no other option for me. If I'm rolling on something, that's because it's 1 of maybe 10 things I can actually use from ICC or whatever the raid is. If I lose the roll on a piece of gear with no hit, I can't necessarily roll on the next piece of cloth, I definitely can't roll if it has hit (unless it's offspec).

Kady does have a couple of pieces of gear with hit on them, because all the stats were upgrades from what she had been wearing. My guild has yelled at me a couple of times for rolling mainspec on something with hit, mostly if it was against a pug or some other cloth DPS. I always end up getting the piece the third or fourth time it drops because everyone else has gotten it by then. I get third-generation leftovers, even though they're complete upgrades, all because of a few points to the hit stat.

I maintain that if cloth DPS can roll on gear without hit, I should be able to roll on gear with hit, especially if it's an upgrade. I'm talking a decent upgrade too, not a few extra points in intellect or something like that. If a few extra points in a stat is the only part of the upgrade, I'll roll offspec, but if it's a huge upgrade you better believe I'll roll on it. If Druids can roll on my cloth pieces because it's an upgrade for stats (and they'd be losing an armor class), then I can roll on DPS cloth pieces with hit.

/QQ

We has Skoll <3

While herbing in Storm Peaks on Kady yesterday, I happened to see a worg down in the corner of my screen as I was flying just north of Brunnhildar Village. At first I didn't think anything of it until I realized that worgs aren't something I normally see while herbing in SP, so I stopped and turned around. Much to my immense joy, I saw lightning on this blue worg's fur and squealed with delight! While my main is a priest, let's not forget that my first 80 was/is a hunter and I'm very aware of what the spirit beasts look like and how rare they are to find.

Super was about to start dinner but I called him out of the kitchen and told him to hurry and get on his hunter (Ulfgarz) so he could tame this amazing beast (he likes worgs more than I do, I prefer the cat family of pets). Unfortunately, Ulf does not have Beast Mastery. He's a Survivalist and having switched to leveling Super almost right after hitting 80 on Ulf, the gold for dual-spec went to Super instead. Lade, however, does have dual-spec. I got it on her specifically so she could tame the worm pet (who I think I actually named recently though I can't for the life of me remember what it ended up being...).

Super got on his hunter anyway and we partied up. I camped Skoll on Kady while I waited for Ulf to show up and camp him while I got Lade over there. Thankfully, Lade wasn't too far away in the Argent Tourny Grounds and I logged and brought her over as quickly as I could. I had a minor panic attack when I saw a horde flying towards me while waiting for Ulf to arrive, it ended up being a Mage and they continued flying, thankfully. I was worried that they'd see Skoll and want to kill him or tell a horde hunter where he was, but that was the only sign of another player that we saw the whole time.

I arrived on Lade, ecstatic to see that Skoll was still alive and patroling his little spawn point, as I knew he was because Ulf was busy guarding him. I hopped off my mount, set a freezing trap, and began taming. With no other players around, and the freezing trap holding, the tame was easy as pie. I had my sparkly new Spirit Beast in mere seconds and was off to the Tourny Grounds again to show him off. I spent the whole day today using the random dungeon tool and playing with my new pet (whose name is Aemilia, which comes from Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors"). I've only seen one, maybe two, people on my server with this pet and I couldn't believe my luck to have stumbled across it the way I did, it almost makes me want to track down and tame the other Spirit Beasts. Almost ;)

Race Change and a Perky Pug

Besides doing Thanksgiving and Christmas achievements on two toons, I've been enjoying 3.3 changes, especially the new dungeon finder tool. But, first things first: who did I change?

One of my Christmas presents to myself was a race change for one of my toons. I've been thinking about doing it for a while, just as a change that's not a new alt (it's the same kind of thing as when I go get my hair cut, a dramatic change that's not actually too dramatic), and Christmas was the perfect excuse to spend some money on myself. I thought about changing Ladelyia to a Dwarf hunter, but if I was going to spend money on a toon, it was going to be a toon that I played a lot. I thought about my warrior tank that I'm raising up (dinged 70 the other day with my hubby's shammy!), but also didn't want to spend money on a toon that wasn't level capped either. That left Kady.

Kady, my pretty little Human priest. The one I raid with, the one I do dailies on. My main. Could I change the one I spent so much time with, the one I brought up from a little level 1 who started as a lark? Fo sho. It took a little while to decide which race to go with. On Lade, the choice would have been easy: Dwarf. I liked the idea of having a priest with Stoneblood, something I could use to at least remove the poisons on myself. I still liked the idea of having a pretty priest and I think the Dwarf females are cute, but not pretty. I already had a Night Elf so I didn't want to go there again (I'm not a fan of the ears or the unibrow) and that left having a Draenai.

Draenai. Aside from the hooves, there's not a sexier race than the Draenai imo. Tall, sleek, even the tails are sexy. My absolute favorite hairstyle with the female Draenais are the two pigtails, all of my alt Draenais start out with them. I also liked that I could have another HOT, Gift of The Naaru, to use either in my "oh-shit-heal-myself" macro or on another raid member. So really, there was no other choice, I now am the proud player of a Draenai priest. :)

(I didn't go with the two pigtails for Kady yet. However, she does have a ponytail and what appears to be 3 "bump-its" in her hair XD)


My Perky Pug.

OMG, it might be the cutest pet ever. I love the corehound puppy that everyone with an authenticator got, as ugly as it is, it's still adorable because it's a puppy. So it's ugly in a really cute way, or cute in a really ugly way, I'm not sure.

The pug looks like a real dog, which stands out and looks unusual in the visual style of WoW. But the part that won me over, besides the fact that you can see fur on it, was the fact that it rubs it's but all over the ground. It's hysterical. And the fact that I got it by doing random dungeons, earning emblems, and keeping my heals up to snuff, makes it even better.

Quick Update

I've been working a lot lately and I know there's at least one holiday I need to write about (Lade is a Pilgrim and Kady missed out on the rogues, but since it doesn't apply towards the Meta, I really don't care), not to mention our failed attempt at Trial of the Grand Crusader, but I wanted to do a quick post on Warcraft's Anniversary.

I noticed when I logged into WoW today that there was a section of the website dedicated to their anniversary. I'm sure this web site's been up for a while and I'm just now noticing. But what I liked was they're working on a mosaic of people and their "battle cry" (horde or alliance sign). So I played in Photoshop today and came up with a picture I submitted for the mosaic, enjoy :)

Garaba is a lush

Just for you ;)

The Headless Horseman is a Hoe...

Getting ready to summon the Hoebag Headless Horseman.

When I first started playing WoW last year, my first toon (Ladelyia), was only in her teens and low 20's, so there wasn't much she could do. I was able to pick up candy from several inns and get a couple of the easy achievements but not much. It was also very annoying to go to the main cities and towns that had waterfronts because there were plague crates that would turn you into a zombie if you got too close. It was for WOTLK and once you were a zombie you could infect other players. Being a lowbie, I found this very annoying because it was an interuption in my questing, I couldn't turn things in or I couldn't get things done in town because I was too busy either avoiding plauged players or trying to find the antidote because I had been turned.

This year, the Hallow's End festivities were way more enjoyable. The one and only thing I had trouble with (on both Kady and Ladelyia) was getting the Hallowed Helm to drop. My hubby (who I love very much) had it drop while trick-or-treating one or two of his toons and I hated him for a while. His lowbie Shaman got Sinister Calling through trick-or-treating, freaking ticked me off. I was running HH almost every night with Lade and Kady for a chance at the helm. I cared about the possibility of the mount too, but mostly the helm. For the people in our guild who semi-cared about the acheivements (there are a few who absolutely refuse or simply don't care at all), they ended up getting the Hallowed title before Garaba and I (who are actually working on the violet protodrake). It got to the point where Garaba was offering money to whoever's summon won him the helm. I managed to get the helm and finish the achievements a day or two before the end of the holiday, thankfully.

Finally, on HALLOWEEN, the LAST day of the entire two week holiday, Garaba finally got the helm. It took an extra summon, but he got it. The first group of guildies to go didn't manage to get the helm to drop. So Super and I got on our other toons (his hunter for him and Kady--who didn't have it yet--for me), Darwe had come on his Warlock so we each got summons, which was awesome. Super summoned first and that helm showed its vindictive little face after a relatively quick downing of the HH. I looked over at Super and asked if it would be mean if I rolled need on it (we'd been rolling need on anything that we actually needed, that way if the others got greed-happy we would still have a chance at looting the helm for the acheivement) since Kady didn't have it yet. That was when he told me that it had been his summon and he'd split the money with me. I'll take in-game money over an achievement on my non-achievement toon, heck yes. I knew how much Garaba was offering too, 500g, so I definitely did that. Since Kady hadn't done her summon yet, I went ahead and did it since we were all there anyway. That damn helm dropped again. Nobody else in the group needed it, Kady was the only one. So now both Ladelyia and Kady are sporting "the Hallowed" titles and Kady got 250g out of the deal!

Ladelyia dressed as a pirate (with a weird tabard glitch) and a weighted jack-0-lantern.