This weeks section of “Is it a full moon?” and other muck-ups:

  • Mistaking a Frost Wyrm flask for your Endless Mana Potion
  • Getting into a virtual slap fight over summoning for raids
  • Only one Pepsi left in the house.
  • The cheating Argent jousters who somehow manage to shield break AND Charge in the same moment.
  • Realizing I can’t do my normal round of Icecrown Dailies on Tim because I haven’t unlocked Shadow Vault quests yet.
  • Winning a really great item … with a roll of 1.
  • Logging into game when trying to post is not great for productivity, either.

Great night for raiding, huh?

Our Sunday night raid was a little less stellar than normal last night. Ignis was giving us fits, as was Kologarn. (Shockingly, we 1 shot Council which has not been par for the course.) Things were fine after we brought a 7th healer in. I think it was just a combination of bad timing (2 or 3 healers getting grabbed at once on Kolo) and slightly lesser geared folks.

I fully admit Tim is one of the latter. Unbuffed (prior to last night) he was sitting at 1821 healing, which is not great for the content we were attempting. Before we got the extra healer, there were some fights where I just ran out of mana for all the heals going out.

I still feel, too, like I’m in the process of learning this whole healing thing. I was in a Naxx25 pug on Saturday night and I think I did pretty well, got a compliment from the raid leader, at least. ^_^ *preens*

Have to give props to the Sunday night group though, we got Auriaya down for the first time, ever I think. Had a couple rough starts and some (really) awful void zone placement, but she died a horrible, painful, agonizing death. That one has been a long time coming, and felt really good.

Then we went and wiped on Freya trash, returning to the general theme of the evening. Got 1 of her badge-toting tree things down, though.

Go High Roller

That fantastic roll of a 1 in the top screenshot? That was, actually, for loot. Phaelia’s Vestments, as a matter of fact. The funny thing? It won.

Yes, there was much ribbing involved. >_>

Funny thing is, it was the 2nd or 3rd winning loot roll of the evening that was a 1. I know it wasn’t actually a full moon this weekend, but damn it sure felt like it.

I have gone from: 1821 heal  & 425(222) mana regen unbuffed to  1897 Heal & 467 (243) regen. And the new gear isn’t completely enchanted yet.

Bitching after the cut.

You are, no you are!

So, got into a bit of a verbal slap-fight with a guildie on Friday. We both had a point, and we were both wrong.

Raid start time is 5:30. Invites go out anytime after 5. By 5:05, I had my invite, and was running up to what was to be our starting point. Get a whisper from guildie A who was in Ironforge at the time asking for a summon. At that point, there were an entire 2 people sitting in the instance, I told him as such and pointed out there were 20 minutes till raid, why didn’t he hop a boat.

Within 5 minutes, as more folks joined, he asked again for a summon in raid chat. He was still sitting in Ironforge, having made no effort to get to Ulduar under his own power.

Before 5:10, A and I ended up in the same party and he was asking what was so hard about creating a portal. I asked what was so hard about getting off his ass and hopping a boat. Things devolved from there until the recruiting officer told us in essence “you both had a point, now shut up and play. I’m here to relax, not babysit.” Which is probably a much better point than either of us was making.

I do, kind of, understand A’s point. I had the shards, I have the portal ability, I (probably) wasn’t doing anything else. So why couldn’t I just make the portal and summon him? Well, since this is my blog, here’s my opinion:

Argumentados

A says: Making a portal is easy

Gnome sez PRO: You’re right. It costs me a single soul shard and 2 other willing souls to drop a stone and summon you.

Gnome sez CON: 1) at the time A was asking, it was 20 minutes till raid start, there was no where near a full raid. If I summoned everyone as they joined raid, I’d be dropping portals every few minutes. Not everyone is ready to be summoned the minute they join raid. It is much easier to drop one stone right before raid to summon everyone.

2) Would you expect a mage to drop a table before most of the raid was there? Would you expect the paladins or druids to drop their mass buffs before most everyone was there? No. Why? Because it costs them a reagent, one they have to purchase. And if they drop the table/buff too soon, then only a small number of people are going to get the food/buff they need, and they are going to have to do it again.

Summon stone costs me a reagent as well, one I “bought” by either spending the time to kill an appropriate level mob, or draining a training dummy. To get the maximum effectiveness out of that reagent, I will drop it when the majority of the raid is here. Just like the mage.

A says: (Implied) You’re not doing anything else.

Gnome sez CON: Maybe, maybe not. I’m usually getting off work maybe an hour or so before raid. Quite often in that half hour prior to raid start, I’m still getting dinner together, catching up on e-mails, eating, etc. Which is why I log on early, to make sure everything’s taken care of and I’m all set. To give myself that extra time in case I forgot to get flasks made or whatever. And on those lines, I know that some of the other folks who get there “early” are doing the same thing. So, despite the bodies in the instance with me, there’s no guarantee I actually have help to summon you.

A says: You have the portal ability. (Phrased along the lines of “why do you have the *$&# spell if you’re not going to use it?). -

Gnome sez PRO: That’s right, I do. And it’s a hell of a lot more convenient than when it cost a single shard per person. And it was added for the convenience of the raid to be able to summon folks directly to the party.

Not to mention the summoning stone outside the instance also. (Which, I notice,  no one ran out to to summon him from, either.)

Gnome sez CON:The profanity filter does not entitle you to swear. The fact i have a summon spell, does not entitle you to a summon. The folks who liked to whisper me for summons when I was out soloing in the middle of Desolace didn’t really get that point either. It is my opinion that until the raid group is fully coming together, it is not my responsibility to get you there, it is yours.

I will rebut this by saying “You have the ability to get on a boat to Northrend, then catch a flight to Ulduar.” A did neither of these things. He sat in Ironforge waiting until we dropped a stone and summoned all the remaining folks. I think this is what pissed me off the most.

It was no later than 5 after when he whispered me the first time. Raid starts at 5:30. He probably finally got a summon about 5:25. That’s 20 minutes he sat in Ironforge waiting for a summon. It would have taken him what, 10 minutes to get to Ulduar if he’d tried? If he had showed even the /least/ bit of interest in getting there under his own power I probably would have relented.

But he didn’t, and sat there, and insinuated that as a warlock it was somehow my /job/ to get him there just cause he was asking.

Sorry, Charlie, but in my opinion, it isn’t.

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