The Angry Dwarfs

This Saturday was the day that I’ve finally went into a proper 10-man raid to Naxxramas on Sheven. Fortunately for me, it was almost exclusively a guild group (with half of them already geared in Naxx-25), so we didn’t have any huge problems with clearing the instance.

Of course, I have expected to get absolutely nothing out of the run besides badges and experience, but it wasn’t that bad. Of course all the tier tokens were for warrior, hunter or shaman type, but I’ve managed to get few items as well. The [Boots of the Follower] replaced my previous Leatherworking epics (they’re a bit better with haste in place of stamina), [Ring of the Fated], while it’s rather a caster dps ring, replaced one of the blue rings I’ve had since level 76, and [Bone-Linked Amulet] with [Contagion Gloves] are nice to have while grinding badges and waiting for another chance to go back to Naxx. Oh, and the masterlooter threw some feral gear my way as well… I guess while I have no intention of going feral anytime soon, it can’t hurt to have some gear to consider it as an option if needed.

Healing-wise, it wasn’t so bad as well. Other than Patchwerk and Four Horsemen, all three of us were just healing whatever needed healing at the moment, which turned out to work pretty well. The only problem I’ve had was with Kel’Thuzad’s Frost Blocks – I couldn’t cast Regrowth fast enough to keep the players healed, and my Lifeblooms weren’t healing enough to let them live. I guess next time I’ll just have to stick to Rejuvenation and Nourish there. And I still don’t know if I’m doing things right – and how am I supposed to even know that? I just go and heal people, if they don’t die and we get shinies, I guess it’s good…

The run was very fun thanks to my guildies – I liked healing you a lot, and it’s a really nice, refreshing change from playing my rogue all the time. Now to finish with the gearing up, and maybe I’ll even be useful once in a while.

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This Saturday I’ve finally managed to level my druid up to 80. Of course I forgot to take a screenshot of that, even though I was thinking about it earlier this day. I wasn’t really expecting to ding there to be honest, I thought I would have to do one more quest. Apparently not. ;)

Anyway, after a short visit to Moonglade, I ran back to Dalaran, outfitted him with some leatherworking stuff I made earlier on the rogue and started to search for heroic pugs. I’ve also tried to pick some healing stuff from the AH, but found only the [Dragon Prow Amulet] and the [Reanimator's Cloak] there. That was actually quite weird, as usually Deathwing has more of these random blue things floating around, but oh well.

First thing I’ve ran wasn’t a heroic anyway, as I’ve found a group to normal Halls of Lightning, but it made me feeling a bit better about my healing skills, and the two finished quests with some Sons of Hodir rep attached to them are not in my quest log anymore. Not that I actually need that reputation for anything special, given that my Inscription’s shoulder enchants are much better and cheaper, but I like the Storm Peaks zone and all the quests there are just so awesome that I couldn’t resist doing them anyway. And it gives me an excuse to spend a lot of time flying around herbing. :]

Next thing was my first heroic instance that I healed – The Nexus. I love that instance, the looks, the bosses, the idea of “saving” poor Keristrasza, the music… And I would love it even more if the bosses would drop what I want when I’m there on the right character. Saithir still hasn’t got his [Sphere of Red Dragon's Blood], and of course it had to drop now. And so it did. :| At least I got the [Gloves of the Crystal Gardener] from one of the bosses, but of course no headpiece or the mace. 

After that I went for even more heroics in search of gear, which unfortunately wasn’t that much successful either. I found a good pug group and we did both Utgarde Keep and Drak’tharon Keep. The only drop I’ve got was the [Battlemap Hide Helm] from UK’s first boss, which isn’t even a tree headpiece, but it will do until I get something better. And I’ve got only 14 badges (well, emblems, but I am so used to calling them badges) even though the Nexus was a daily instance. Sigh, one more and I’d have the healing idol, but I guess that’s just my luck. I’ll try to get into another group after I finish up with this post. ;)

Overall, this was a fun evening even with the bad luck on the drops. I finally got my tree form, and nobody died too much in all the heroics I’ve done. And what is most important, I’ve had a LOTS of fun healing it all, even though I’m still scared as hell. So, happy dwarf signing off for the night!

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