Smart healing – Time for Soul Searching.

This is a little long time coming, but we downed Sarth + 3D last Thursday for the first time, and repeated that in less than an hour yesterday (although we did have about 4-5 “false start” wipes). With that, I am going to presume we have got it all down pat, and 3dSarth is officially on farm.

Firstly, I would just like to say that was one of the “smartest” healing I have ever done. not that nothing else requires strats and awareness (lady Vashj was a huge test of my patience, awareness and my guild’s love for me lol). It’s just between the first time I joined wow 2 years ago, till the day I left spirestone, I have been in constant company of more experienced and more loving/caring gamers that I have played with for the last… 6 years. What that means then, is that  when I am doing stupid things, they are not as open with me than, say, perfect strangers. While i thought i did most things fine, I had say I was more than likely carried through half of the raids I was in – which gave me experience, definitely, but I was somewhat of a liability for the most part.

that’s not to say that my current guild is brutally harsh. For some odd reason last week, when we did down 3dSarth, I was making simple stupid mistakes: Lava waves, void zones, stuff that the week and weeks before I managed to avoid successfuly in failed attempts, I was doing it all. They realised I was possibly sick/tired/distracted, and just soul stoned me instead without a nasty word.

Last night was beautiful. except for the wipes, I did all the avoiding shit well. Not a single void zone or lava wave – and it felt good. I was on raid heals and it felt like everything snapped into place after my stupids last week.

- help MT heals when I am near MT

- help Add-tank heals when he runs next to me – or when he starts dropping like a rock (lots of DC on one of the healers)

- Help Drake Tank heals

- Keep all the mages up

- moving away from louds/mass mobs/mass avatars so I can see if there’s a void zone near me at all.

What I did learn while learning these fights was that progression, when it does happen, can kill guilds. In their frustrations at the wipes, the constant mistakes that sometimes happen, the learning progress itself, we have lost quite a few. Some dramatically, some in a quiet manner.

The original main tank disappeared suddenly, and so we had to run Naxx a few times to gear up the new tanks (not to mention a few heroics, a few normal raids). then suddenly no tanks, not even alts, wanted to turn up – and there goes that plan. we had to recruit new ones.

We lost a druid healer, who decided that all the new recruits must be scrubs since apparently some “scrub guilds” have already got it on farm (never mind the internal drama that caused the guild to have to recruit new people in the first place) – and proceeded to join a guild that had 3dSarth on farm – then spamming the titles at everyone in the guild.

I fear for Ulduar, but I will embrace it too – challenges are good, I just hope no one else goes crazy