Tale Twenty-Two: Druid and their abilities

I don't pretend to be a "Great Druid" but I do like to think that I know my class fairly well. And as such, here's a little something I think might help new druids. When I hit 80 and realized I wanted to heal, I was confused. Lifebloom? Wild Growth? What is that?! Well, here, I'll explain it to you.

What does a Resto Druid bring to the raid?:

The resto druid is well known for bringing HoTs to the raid (Healing Over Time). What are these spells?

Lifebloom
Rejuvenation
Regrowth
Wild Growth (51er in the Resto tree. A MUST have)
Nourish
Healing Touch
Tranquility

Gear!

Gearwise, you want to focus on these stats: Spellpower > Spirit/Int > Haste/Crit/MP5 > Stam

The more the spell power, the more effective your HoTs are. Spirit got nerfed big time for us in 3.1 so we don't have to stack up on it as much.

One of the mistakes I made when I was gearing up Littlebark was forgetting an important stat: HASTE. The haste cap for resto druids, Gift of the Earthmother included, is 359.

Gems!

Some good gems for druids are :

Insightful Earthseige Diamond
Runed Scarlet Ruby
Luminous Monarch Topaz
Purified Twilight Opal

Glyphs!

Swiftmend
Nourish
Wild Growth

Those are great ones, depending on your build/gear.

Healing Rotation!

There isn't one, really. Usually, if I'm tank healing, I'll throw a stack of Lifeblooms on the tank, a rejuv a regrowth and then go from there, with Nourish making a huge portion of my healing arsenal. If I'm raid healing, I'll still do some of the above.

Healing Mods!

There are two major Healing Mods out there right now. Healbot and Grid. Personally, I use Healbot just because it's what I'm used to. Its not standard for all healers and by no means the better one of the two. Just the one I use as I find it easy to use and customize.

Food/Flask!

Depending on how your mana regen is, you can use two different kind of flasks.

If you need a boost in mana regen, I'd use Flask of Mojo. If you don't need the extra mana regen, I'd go for Flask of Frostwyrm. Foodwise, I use Firecracker Salmon.

I'm sure I missed something. If you'd like to point it out or add in your comments, by all means please do :)

Tale Twenty-One: WTF!?

So. Questing on Baby Druid. Needed to Escort the Defias Traitor and this pally is nice enought to offer his help even though he'd already done it. After it was done, I thanked him and he told me that if I was gonna do Van Cleef later, to add him up, he'd tank or heal.


Sweet! I thought and went my merry way. I went to get some lunch came back and saw that he'd whispered me. Here's a little clip of our convo:

I was all the way in Redridge, but I thought 'Hey. This guy helped me out when he didn't get any benefits. Time to return the favor!" So I hauled my butt to SW, through the tram, to Ironforge, to outside of IF... and then this!

Gagiu and Gaciu, I hope you enjoy being on my Ignore List. May I point out that the guy who went AFK was not AFK the second before, as he'd been telling me where to go. So you two. I hope you enjoy your crappy trial accounts. People like you give WoW a bad name.

I don't see the point in dragging me all the way to IF and beyond just to turn out to be a "SUCKA!" moment. But then again, I'm not an evil genius. Perhaps there is a greater motive.

Tale Twenty: Paper Zep

Please, never throw that thing at me. Most of the time, I am afk and you will not get it back until I get back. Please, do not swear at me because you threw it at me without me asking and I'm not at my computer. Insert a short convo I had recently on Littlebark:

You are now AFK
You recieve: [Paper Zeppelin]
[Ithrewit] whispers: Throw it back
[Ithrewit] whispers: Hey, give my paper airplane back
[Ithrewit] whispers: dont mess around, give it back
[Ithrewit] whispers: throw it f**king back you cu**
[Ithrewit] whispers: if dont fucking throw it back im gonna f**king report you you f**king w-

Twenty minutes after, I come back to my keyboard with poor Littlebark /spitting, /disgust, /etc. You get my drift.

to [Ithrewit]: o.O
to [Ithrewit]: I was afk. Sorry.
[Ithrewit] whispers: Whatever, bitch.
to [Ithrewit]: I'm sorry!
Ithrewit is now ignoring you.

The next event happened while on my Baby Druid (Level 14 now!) when I was walking to Redridge. I was on my merry little way, almost half way there! When this happens:

[Inyourbags] whispers: give it back
to [Inyourbags]: Give what back?
[Inyourbags] whispers: My paper airplane. I threw it to you, its in your bag.

Mind you, I'd been up for about 45mins, had only gotten 3hours of sleep and was very grumpy.

to [Inyourbags]: If you come get it, sure. But I'm not going to go all the way back to get something you threw at me when I didn't ask for it.

Props to [Inyourbags]. He invited me to his group, mounted up and hurried over. As soon as I gave it back to him, he kicked me outta his group and I went my merry way.

Now question for all you Alliance people. What is the big deal about Goldshire. Every time I go there, there's always 80's and duels and whatnot. Enlighten me?

Tale Nineteen: No news

Hey guys...

No news that really matter. Haven't touched Littlebark in like... a week. Real life getting in the way. Alliance toon also getting in the way. Which reminds me, [After Hours] is recruiting for like... every class. Specially healers, since my Disc priest makes a crappy raid healer. Our raid times are from 9pm-12am (server time)Wednesday, Friday and Saturday on the Cenarius US. Awesome raid times for me, since I work till like an hour before raid time and my house is like 5minutes away from my work.

*back on topic*

Leveling Artaius veeeery slowly. She's only like level 8. Levels 1-20 SUCKS. Why can't Blizzard just give me my Kitty Form of AWESOMENESS right off the bat?!

QQ

Tale Eighteen: The Death of...

"I can only pray to the ancestors that I am never placed in the same position as my father—torn between what I know in my heart is right and the defense of my people. It is why I continue to strive to uphold the tenuous peace between us and the Alliance. Because few offenses and insults in this or any other world are sufficient to warrant the slaughter of children."

~Thrall

Mr. Littlebark and myself were doing ToC on Wednesday and I commented that I thought that it was so cool that Thrall was up on the bleachers, cheering us on. It totally brought out the RP'er in me, and already I was building a story in my head.

When I was rudely interuppted by Mr. Littlebark saying something along the lines of, "Yeah but it's even cooler that Hellscream is gonna be the next Warchief."

Hold your horses. Put a break on that. What the hell!?

"What?!" I spat, "You've got to be kidding me! Hellscream is ignorant, he fights at every chance he gets, he doesn't think things through! Where did you hear this from?"

Mr. Littlebark shrugged, "Just speculation. That might be why Thrall is training Hellscream. He's always at his side, haven't you noticed?"

"Jaina is always at Varian's side. Are you telling me that she'd become Queen?" Indignant now, I glared at the Hellscream telling me to rip apart my oponent, "I would never follow him as a Warchief."

"It'd be cool! Come on, it's HELLSCREAM! He's a hero! His father killed the demi-god Cenarius-"

"And now the Night Elves are pissed at us."

"He's all about action-"

"Mhmm. Like when he was the first one to drink the demonic blood and curse the orcs?"

I'll give Mr. Littlebark props. He shrugged and gave up. "It's just speculation", he said.

But it got me thinking. Thrall is my favorite WoW Lore character. He's so diplomatic, he learns from past experiences, he analyzes things... what kind of Horde would it be Grommash Hellscream was the Warchief?

Any thoughts? Who's your WoW Lore? Or am I the only nerd here?

Tale Seventeen: Post Patch 3.2

So the patch has me excited. As soon as I came home, Littlebark transformed into kitty and ta-da! She's gorgeous. I've said it before and I'll say it again. The druid class was the reason I "love" WoW. This totally made me happy.

I haven't gotten her into a raid yet, and I probably won't be able to until Saturday, which kind of sucks! But I did heal the new dungeon, Trial of the Champion. I love that dungeon. From the beginning where the announcers introduces us (he called me a cunning druid *blush*) to where Thrall is watching you... It's an amazing dungeon.

I also tried the new battleground, Isle of Conquest. Laggy is the only word that comes to mind. Anywho, it's a bit of Alterac Valley, Arathi Basin, and Strand of Ancients. It's really neat. If you like PvP, then you should definitely check it out.

Tale Sixteen: Patch 3.2

Is it here?! My server is down for an extra hour... ack, the frustation!

I just want to go check out the kitty/bear forms! I'm so glad I managed to gather enough gear to have a feral set again.

Is it bad that all I want to see is the new forms? *le sigh*