Happy New Year!

I hope y’all had a safe and happy turn of the year. I spent most of it playing WoW, which was fine.

It was a pretty awesome WoW Weekend, all in all.

HoR-ror

I have been less than eager to do Halls of Reflection on the druid.

I still feel uncertain of my ability to heal at times, and having heard some horror stories, and having been through one myself (with one of the most awesomest healers I know), I have frankly been avoiding it like the plague.

Saturday I think it was, HoR was the random I got for my frost badges. I was nervous, but decided to just suck it up and give it a shot. The worst would be we’d wipe a few times, I’d politely excuse myself and that would be that.

We tore it up.

The hunter disconnected right around Falric.

We tore it up.

We didn’t get a replacement until after Marwyn

WE TORE IT UP.

I couldn’t believe it. I know there are a lot of factors that combine into making that instance doable, or a pain in the ass. Among them are crowd control, high dps, and a good tank. I’m not putting all the success on my shoulders.  So props to Ophelia – Aman’thul, Niellex – Sen’jin, and Cherriblosom – Proudmoore. And I’m sorry, original hunter, I didn’t note your name down. Sorry you DC’d/dropped group. Cause we tore the shit out of that place.

Your ICC Little Heart

Gears

Tim has his first piece of tier 10: Lasherweave Gauntlets.

As he was still rocking Touch of the Occult for his healing set, this is a pretty decent upgrade.

Caliban is sitting at 45 Badges right now, and is only about Halfway through Neutral. He did get some upgrades from the 10 man run we did on Friday:

Sliver of Pure Ice, Icecrown Spire Sandals, Bracers of Dark Blessings.

Both toons are actually rocking the Sliver now, which is a nice piece.

In o

Progression

I’ve run ICC so much the past couple weeks, I’m having trouble remembering which group got to where.

Our Sunday 25 man run got Lady Death-wipe down for the first time yesterday. YAY! It still felt really messy, and about half the raid was dead, but we’ll take it!

The good ship Free Loot went quite smoothly, other than a couple deaths.

Saurfang … was a poop-head. We got him down under 10mill a couple times, but at that point we had too many people marked and he was regaining health and power at astonishing rates and it was pretty much a wipe. Going to have to read up on that fight again before next week.

My guild has shrunk to where we’re running 10 mans now, instead of 25’s, which is actually okay. I like the 10 man size a lot. I honestly don’t remember if we got Saurfang down on the guild run (I think we did …) but we tore through it. We went on to TotGC10 after, and got everything but Anub down. We just can’t muscle through that transition into his final phase. Our priest healer likes to eat it right at the transition and then we’re toast.

I think we might try and tackle that clean up tonight.

Self Reflection

It was a little under a year ago that I first picked up the healing mantle. I want to write up a “year of healing” review, but that’s going to take more concentration than work is affording me this morning.

So, in lieu of that, some goals for 2010:

  • Get a site design (really, it’s been a year now, you lazy gnome.)
  • Lose weight (really, it’s the classic, it had to be said.)
  • Write some more text comics.
  • Post more regularly, and with more than “i got this gear, blah blah”
  • Don’t let WoW rule All.
  • ???
  • Take over the world.

Have a Happy New Year.

2 Comments »