Friday, May 30, 2008
I want my computer back!
My computer is still being fixed and I am still WoWless... I think I am going through withdrawal because its been 20 days now since I last logged :-(
Friday, May 23, 2008
Best feeling in the world
I know I can not speak for the general druid healing populous but leveling as a Resto is one experience that humbles you. I usually play through RPG's as the "bad guy", you know when you get to chose if you want some one to live or die and you elect the more popular cut his head off and piss down his throat option. But for some reason I did not want to go down this path, I wanted to help people, try out a concept called being nice.
So the decision was made at level 10 that I am going to heal and clicked my first talent skill away. I noticed as I was leveling that I could not damage shit, so this caused me to quickly befriend people with the good old "you hack and slash and I will keep you alive" technique. I made some of my best in game friends this way, and would not have done it any other way.
As the levels went on I started to hone in on my healing abilities, becoming more aware of not only what my role was, but the roles of every other class and talent build. I soon took a leadership position in my Guild, being the "superior healer" of the lot. That guild fell apart and I was left guildless, so I joined my friends guild. At this point I was in the Outlands trying to reach 70 and found myself frequently healing for PUG's. I know /gasp a PUG, but I had a fairly successful time healing these groups.
Then it started to happen, every time I would heal for a PUG I would get invited into their guild, them telling me that I was one of the best healers they have ever had. I was shocked the first time it happened and I talked to one of my real life friends about this who happens to be on the same server as me. He told me that I was the best healer he has had too, and this further shocked me because he was running Gruuls.
I sat around wondering how this happened but then I realized something, the reason why I can heal the way I do is due to all my experience leveling as a healer. Most players will respec from a DPS class to a healing role at 70, and it becomes an entirely different game for them. While I can just sit around and do the same thing I have done my whole WoW career (crack open a beer, relax and heal).
I have also spent time messing around with alts of all classes to gain a better knowledge of them and I recommend this to everyone who is not sure of what everybody's role is.
So the decision was made at level 10 that I am going to heal and clicked my first talent skill away. I noticed as I was leveling that I could not damage shit, so this caused me to quickly befriend people with the good old "you hack and slash and I will keep you alive" technique. I made some of my best in game friends this way, and would not have done it any other way.
As the levels went on I started to hone in on my healing abilities, becoming more aware of not only what my role was, but the roles of every other class and talent build. I soon took a leadership position in my Guild, being the "superior healer" of the lot. That guild fell apart and I was left guildless, so I joined my friends guild. At this point I was in the Outlands trying to reach 70 and found myself frequently healing for PUG's. I know /gasp a PUG, but I had a fairly successful time healing these groups.
Then it started to happen, every time I would heal for a PUG I would get invited into their guild, them telling me that I was one of the best healers they have ever had. I was shocked the first time it happened and I talked to one of my real life friends about this who happens to be on the same server as me. He told me that I was the best healer he has had too, and this further shocked me because he was running Gruuls.
I sat around wondering how this happened but then I realized something, the reason why I can heal the way I do is due to all my experience leveling as a healer. Most players will respec from a DPS class to a healing role at 70, and it becomes an entirely different game for them. While I can just sit around and do the same thing I have done my whole WoW career (crack open a beer, relax and heal).
I have also spent time messing around with alts of all classes to gain a better knowledge of them and I recommend this to everyone who is not sure of what everybody's role is.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Hello
Hello my name is Zeffy and this is my first attempt at a WoW blog!
I have been playing WoW pretty casually for about a year now and am thinking about doing the unthinkable, becoming a semi-hardcore Druid!
If you check out my gear you will see that its not all that impressive, and it has kept me from doing some of the "fun" stuff at endgame. The truth is that I am a college student first and a gamer second. I currently am studying Electrical Engineering at Marquette University and it kicks my ass on a pretty much daily basis. I would sit down and play WoW when I had free time, but during the past year I have been leaching internet from one of my neighbors resulting in poor connections at time. This prevented me from doing a lot of dungeons because I hated being "that guy" who got disconnected in the middle of a boss fight. And trust me this happened more often then you would think.
I recently joined this new guild and all the guys seem really cool, the problem was that when I joined it was right before finals so I had to limit my WoW playing. The plan was after finals were over that I would go to work, work out and play WoW, but little did I know that my computer was plotting against me! My laptop started to get really slow, so slow that I could not listen to a song without it being all choppy. I tried playing WoW one night and was kicking some ass while healing Sethekk Halls then all of a sudden my computer flashed a blue screen and went out. As we all know the blue screen is never a sign of something positive happening, and it turned out that my Hard drive crashed. my laptop is currently being serviced by an HP repair center while I have been left to complete Mass Effect... twice and am currently finishing up Eternal Sonata.
/cry
I have been playing WoW pretty casually for about a year now and am thinking about doing the unthinkable, becoming a semi-hardcore Druid!
If you check out my gear you will see that its not all that impressive, and it has kept me from doing some of the "fun" stuff at endgame. The truth is that I am a college student first and a gamer second. I currently am studying Electrical Engineering at Marquette University and it kicks my ass on a pretty much daily basis. I would sit down and play WoW when I had free time, but during the past year I have been leaching internet from one of my neighbors resulting in poor connections at time. This prevented me from doing a lot of dungeons because I hated being "that guy" who got disconnected in the middle of a boss fight. And trust me this happened more often then you would think.
I recently joined this new guild and all the guys seem really cool, the problem was that when I joined it was right before finals so I had to limit my WoW playing. The plan was after finals were over that I would go to work, work out and play WoW, but little did I know that my computer was plotting against me! My laptop started to get really slow, so slow that I could not listen to a song without it being all choppy. I tried playing WoW one night and was kicking some ass while healing Sethekk Halls then all of a sudden my computer flashed a blue screen and went out. As we all know the blue screen is never a sign of something positive happening, and it turned out that my Hard drive crashed. my laptop is currently being serviced by an HP repair center while I have been left to complete Mass Effect... twice and am currently finishing up Eternal Sonata.
/cry
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