Happy after Holidays! During break, I had the realization of how much I missed raiding. I'll be honest; sometimes it does feel like a job but when you accomplish things it makes it all worth it. I haven't raided really hardcore since Wrath and I wanted to push progression again. At the end of Cata I had nothing but regret for not raiding. I really liked T11 and T12, but after doing normals my guild fell apart. Due to all that I went through, I had no motivation to raid. I came back during Dragon Soul but I wasn't impressed. It was my least favorite instance by far. It did have a few interesting mechanics, but I just wasn't feeling it.
With that being said I went back to my old guild and they welcomed me back and i'm thankful for that. I'm happy to be in the raiding 25s again.
One thing I noticed was as I healed this expansion for mvp, my healing just doesn't keep up with most healers. I find myself falling behind on burst and as well as mana trying to keep up on damage. Our mana pools don't allow us to use [Rejuvenation] as much as we used to. Granted, I hated the idea of spamming it in Wrath, but now we don't really have much else to do. Our toolkit is very limited, especially when it comes to burst damage. All the fights are designed that way and druids were left behind on the burst department.
These are a combination of logs post 5.1. We're behind of all healing specs, including holy. This disheartens me as I really love playing my druid. I've mained her since vanilla, and I would really hate to have to reroll.
My problem isn't about keeping up on meters, it's about keeping up on damage. Where the other healers can't make up for the burst, druids can't. I find myself having to stop mid tranq during Wind Lord on [Rain of Blades] due to having to heal myself or i'll die, regardless of having Bark Skin. We just can't keep up.
There have been multiple posts on Blizzard forums and there has been no replies from blues. I really hope to see something from 5.2 patch notes. I won't quit my druid unless i'm forced to reroll for progression because of being a druid bringing down the raid. Wish me luck.
Hello, hello! It's certainly been awhile (again.. I'm so terrible, I know). This time I'm back for quite awhile. Mists of Pandaria has so much to offer for me (because I'm returning to my Achievement Mongering again). My goals so far were to finish getting 150 mounts, the Pandaren Ambassador, and 60 exalted reps.
My progress so far!
I made the switch from Alliance to Horde; as much as I miss my Night Elf. I play casually on Tichondrius (US, of course). The latency is much better, as I am from the West Coast. I PvP very little because I don't feel to push past 2200. Once I reach it, i'm satisfied (Yay xmog gear!).
I do a little raiding on the side, but for the most part we're a PvP guild. So to fill that gap, I just do a bunch of dailies and Archaeology. I found myself doing achievements here and there.
Even though i'm a casual player now, I still try to min/max my stats in anyway possible by keeping up with information on my class as well as testing things out myself. I guess you can call me a "hardcore casual" or a "tryhard" but I like doing the best I can.
As a Resto Druid our stat priorities are:
Spirit(until you're comfortable) > Int > 1st Haste Cap (3043) > Mastery > Crit
To be honest, as Resto Druids stand right now, I won't be feel comfortable gemming Intellect instead of Spirit until I have heroic gear and for the next tier. Our healing is behind due to our regen and our HoTs going to overheal due to sniping and absorbs. I keep most absorbs tracked on my grid, but it's kind of hit and miss.
Coming to the haste part, I always had problems working ReforgeLite around Spirit (maybe that's just me being dumb). But with that problem, I found a solution: wowreforge.com.
This site enables you to check your reforge numbers and asks for priorities, as well as helps you get the exact numbers you need. If the numbers are too much, you can use Simple Mode.
On the bottom you can choose what stats you're trying to get. As you can see I put our first haste cap and unchecked the Spirit box because I didn't want that stat to be modified. Once the numbers are added up and you like what you see, you can hit the summary button and it will tell you exactly what you need to reforge to get there.
Also if you don't wish to go through all the stuff, you can simply use my template! Keep in mind that I don't modify Spirit for haste, but i'm easily able to access the first haste cap while doing so. http://www.wowreforge.com/?template=for:Druid-Tree,Haste=3043+,Haste:0.8,Spi:0.75,Crit:0.6,Mastery:0.65
With that, I take my leave for now. I'm extremely rusty on blogging so I apologize if this post was short. I'll have more to come when I raid once more. Happy Holidays, Everyone! <3
So i've been MIA from this blog for a long while and I apologize for that. I've had many changes going on my life with all the moving around and going into college. Now that i'm sitting here, i'll be explaining what has been going on.
The guild I was raiding in quit due to the lack of attendance and everyone transferring to greener pastures. I decided to take a little break due to the rush of the beginning of the expansion.
When Firelands came out I raided casually and a friend of mine from my old guild said they were recruiting a resto druid. I'm always hesitant about transferring servers, but I went on ahead. I was able to clear Heroic Firelands, minus Rag, the first week. I did well and passed my trial.
SWTOR came out and there went our attendance, as well as our officer core and guild master. The server was extremely low pop so I couldn't raid casually. I had problems finding groups for Baradin Hold 10 man. I went MIA from WoW to focus more on school.
Now that MoP is announced, I really don't know what i'm going to do. I really don't like guild hopping, but it's the only thing i've been able to do. I've just been having troubles finding a stable guild in need of a resto druid.
I love raiding, but it's so hard to stay into the game while i've done everything I wanted to do outside of PvE.
So I hope soon or by the time MoP comes out that i'll have a guild.
I'll then be posting my merry adventures, but for now i'll just cross my fingers.
I really regret not having found a guild yet. This is exactly what happened at the end of Wrath where I missed H ICC. I regret missing H Dragon Soul but there really isn't anything I can do about it.
Anyway i'm done with my little rant. Here's to me hopefully having luck for once.
Cheers!
