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Cleaning up May 29, 2008

Posted by Sharny in : Gear, Instances, Paladin, World of Warcraft , trackback

Just finished an evening of Karazhan with the guild.  We had the people to do two simultaneous teams which is quite promising, we could maybe have pushed 22 or so people.  As such I got the rare event of being the only paladin in my raid which although isn’t normally a particularly uncommon thing I would imagine we have quite a few active paladins so I’m very rarely alone.

The run itself was a breeze, one shotted every boss and I picked up a couple of bits and pieces as well as badges of course. I didn’t pick up any straight upgrades and am still in desperate need of a new weapon, trinket and chest but its all good otherwise.  One thing I really do need is to enchant more of my gear, I really dislike enchanting generally because of the necessary requirement of having contact with the enchanter themselves. It’s just irritating finding a person who can do the enchant, giving them the materials etc.  I wish Blizzard would just hurry the hell up and implement auction house sellable enchants (which they showed they could do in the Arena tournament realms).

In other WoW news, I experience my first 25 man this week, Magtheridon’s Lair.  It would seem that during my time away from WoW my guild has progressed as far as downing the Tier 4 25 mans which is pretty cool really, I’m very pleased with the speed of our progress.  The only downside of this is that I’m starting to feel under geared again, as I was when I joined.  Before I went on my break I was actually one of the better geared healers in the guild, despite starting behind the others.  Now I’m a little bit behind although I’ve healed through the first 4 bosses of Zul’Aman and by the opinion of Be.Imba I shouldn’t even be able to perform at all.  I guess I must be alright at this healing malarkey after all.

Back to what I was actually going to talk about - my first experience of 25 man raiding was pretty chaotic, there was damage appearing everywhere and of course I’m just freaking out because I start to forget that there are 6 other healers helping me deal with it all.  I think I am, at heart, still a 5 man healer but it is being flushed out of me, albeit rather slowly.  We didn’t manage to down big ol Maggy but we were already trying to 22 man it so I’m not really disheartened.  We also didn’t get that many attempts on him because people were needing to go, I think a few more gos and we would have had him as all the problems that we had got dealt with very quickly generally.

I’m really enjoying the raiding with my guild and although I don’t really make any effort to make myself a part of the social side I do enjoy being in the company of the people in the guild.  A lot of them to remind me of the more ambitious people I knew in Runescape, I think there is some kind of hardcore inclined gamer stereotype which just pops up everywhere and it’s kinda interesting to see that here in quite a different environment.

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