Too Many Annas

BA Shared Topic – What would you add to WotLK?

4 Written by Anna on February 23, 2008 – 11:14 am

I’m sure I”ll come up with more interesting things as I think on this one, but I thought I’d jot off a quick list while it’s on my mind.  Will talk to spaceship husband and see what we can come up with for more changes later though, so expect follow ups (and possible Paladin/Rogue/Mage lists!)

Shaman:

• Spirit Pets (perhaps as a talent)
• Some kind of (talented) instant cast heal

Hunter:

• An extra stable slot!! Maybe TWO!!
• More pet abilities added to more pet classes (maul for bears, thorns for crabs, amirite?), better designed pet aggro
• fix pet pathing

Priest:

• “Viable” holy DPS (ok, I know lolsmite is a marginally sustainable build for DPS, but it’s so hard to pull off…)

SSC/TK this week

Comments Off Written by Anna on February 23, 2008 – 12:48 am

  So our first Void Reaver kill last week earned us the right to call him Lootreaver (raid leader wouldn’t let us call him that until we’d actually, you know, gotten loot from him), and we were officially 5/6 SSC and 1/4 TK.  Shaman healing on Void Reaver is a nonstop chain fest really, as so far the best way we’ve found to deal with it is to have me stand right under him, eat poundings, and just chain heal spam everything in melee – especially since I have to stand close to keep the totems up for them.  The times we’ve wiped have been to ranged getting orbed, and not to melee getting smushed, unless I got smushed first.  Which is nice, and leaves me feeling happy with myself as a useful raid healer – sometimes being a small heal for lots of people can be frustrating (see: Leotheras).

This week, no new boss progress, though we did manage to get Solarian down to about 30% a few times, before someone blew up the raid.  Solarian is another shaman-friendly fight for healing, as just about everyone is standing all in one spot at the same time. I can chain cast for quite awhile, and that seemed to work well here too, with the random raid damage/moonfire thing she does.

Upgrades!    Annorah is no longer the dignified shaman in grey/blue!  She’s now decked in Red/Gold!

• Natural Life Leggings
• Gladiator’s Ringmail Armor
• Cataclysm Gloves
• Cataclysm Shoulderguards
• Girdle of Fallen Stars

All upgraded in the last week.  I have no more stockpile of primals/enchanting mats/gems, that’s for sure.  I’m pretty sure I also have no more DKP.  Comletely tickled that she gets to continue to match, and that she matches her engineering goggles too!  These new upgrades gave my healing a serious kick in the pants on the WWS too, and I moved up on the healing charts.  Next week hopefully a Solarian kill, and hopefully see these upgrades put to good use.  The longer I stay resto, the more I’m enjoying it, and the less likely I am to really want to switch back to one of the DPS specs… even if I carry both sets of gear with me all the time.

You attempt to cast Dispell on Burnout.

2 Written by Anna on February 23, 2008 – 12:34 am

  So, today I respecced Angoleth to survival (5/13/43), and took her into Sethekk with a friend of mine to tame an Avian Darkhawk – one of the dark brown owls.  At the suggestion of other fabulous survival hunters in my raid corps, owls and boars are where its at for the aggro, so we’ll see how she does.  I think her name is going to be Taleh, which is (if memory serves me properly) “Darnassian” for ‘Hooty’.   You can find all sorts of fun translations if you borrow a friend that doesn’t have your racial language ability and say fun things at them.  For instance, “mandalas” is “mongoose”.   Anyway – I’m holding off naming her, because I can’t decide if I want to keep the brown owl or attempt a tame on Gutripper (elite, frost trap immune owl in Nagrand), who is silver/black.  Also, this will be the first time since my Z’G bat that I’ve had a “flappy” pet.

So far the main difference I’ve noticed is a considerable drop in DPS, but a definite jump in survivability – and my traps stick around for FOREVER it seems.

Another suggestion made to help with this burnout was to change her name, which could definitely go a long way towards alleviating that feeling of nostalgic burnout I get when I log on.  Her nickname has always been “An” (pronounced Ahn, not Ann) – so I may see if that’s open on Feathermoon, but for some reason totally coming up with a new name for her is… well… awkward.  She’s got a history and a past on the server, and leaving behind her name would be really really hard.  I guess that ties into that whole RP thing – as a character, she has a separate existence (to me) from just pixels on a screen.  So that makes it hard, since, in a way, she’d have to be a part of that new name.

I guess I’m not sure if I could rename a character I’ve been playing, writing about, planning about, and generally being friends with for 3 years.

Dear…

1 Written by Anna on February 21, 2008 – 11:28 pm

  Dear level 55 hunter:

No, I do not want to join your guild, as, among other things, the guild name is in all caps and partially misspelled.

Thanks,

Annorah