Who’s Healing Valithria?

I’m all about putting the right person in the right spot to do the right thing.  When I had initially heard about Valithria and that it was a healing fight I was absolutely a flutter.  I was downright gleeful.  Then we got to it on 10man and I realized that maybe I wasn’t cut out for the job.  The biggest reason that I personally can’t do it is that I’m a huge micromanager.  Having to focus on one thing isn’t something I do well so I passed the job up to two other great healers Kahnti and Conifer.  They rocked the joint out and setup the stage for our 25man.

In 25man we had a variety of healers, a paladin, a shaman, a druid, and a priest (initially) healing Valithria.  It quickly became clear that not all healers were created equal.

(Disclaimer: This is a VERY limited pool of test subjects (ie. my raid) but just giving my opinions and observations on healing this fight.)

Sindra-boring-as-fuck-gosa

Ever put kittens in a bag and drop ‘em into a river?

Why not?

You probably haven’t gotten to Sindragosa yet.

Let me explain.  The frost wing started out phenomenally.  You have a mini event that gets you a frost badge and then you get to do the Valithria boss (which for some reason I’m HORRIBLE at).  You clear some more trash and then you get to Sindragosa.  You may or may not watch a video on how to do the fight (if you do I suggest this one).  You realize the fight looks somewhat complicated but doable.

You start your first attempt and wonder… why did they say to use 3 healers again?  Who cares… oh I got sucked into her cavernous chest… run run run… woot I’m alive!  Heal tank… check.  Heal raid… check.

Ice blocks?  Oh yea, hide behind them.

1…

2…

3…

4… frost bolts.  Okay now we break them out and back to p1.

(elapse time it takes to ride a hot air balloon to the moon)

35%!  That means p3.  /loosen up

Dodge iceblock, duck behind ice block… oops not my turn yet, tank low, heal, heal, HEAL!  raid needs heal, uhoh I’m at 17 stacks of unchained magic healer (cuz its ALWAYS ON A HEALER!) and 4 stacks of mystic lunch so I can’t heal for 8 seconds and now I’m dying to a constant AE (now I understand why there is 3 healers).

Roughly the time it takes for heroism to fade you wipe, actually I’m not even sure if we did live 45 seconds.

That’s how p3 is… quite frantic.  I’m not bitching about p3 though.  I like p3… its where the fun lives.  My problem is the first 65% of the fight where you do fuck all.  The fight basically doesn’t even start until 35% and that ends so quickly you are wondering if the hooker took off with your wallet.  We were taking AFK pee breaks and I took some time to order a pizza (srsly… I did… cuz I was chained for almost an entire attempt).

I should probably tie in the kittens now huh before you call PETA on me.  The frost wing started out fantastic, tons of fun and then you get to Sindragosa and her first half is painful… painful like watching kittens drown.  See, I tied it in.

She should just start at 50% so that you get to experience that p1 and p2 which aren’t bad and quickly progress to the difficult part of the fight.  I just expected so much more after Valithria and it’s a serious let down.

On another note any priests that have been doing Valithria?  I did lose my stacks a few times on 25man which accounted for some very bad attempts from me but even on the good attempts I wasn’t pushing anywhere near the pally / shaman / druids that were going inside.  I tried a variety of healing but I’m not sure if flash x3 then g.heal is greater than just spamming flash (especially since I have 2p t10).

Valithria & Stuff

When your desire to play WoW begins to decline… so does your ideas on things to write about.  I’ve sat down several times and just stared at a blank screen… but you aren’t here to read about my QQs.  On to the new raid content!

Star Trek Online – Final Review

U.S.S. Relentless C (Akira Class Variant)

I mentioned before that I’ve been playing Star Trek Online Beta and it just ended yesterday.  I think it lasted 2 weeks?  That seems like a REALLY short beta to me, but I haven’t been in a lot of them so maybe not.  You’d think it would certainly last a lot longer for an MMO since there is so much content (haha… there isn’t much content).

Rez of the Week – Kahnti

Moral code requires me to put something witty and nice right here…

/afk

I’ve known Kahnti for quite some time, we were in a previous guild together that shall remain nameless.  He was a pally at the time and has since switched mains about… (how many classes are there?)… about that many times.  That’s okay though because he excels at each class he plays.  He’s a great guy and I’m honored to have him as one of my friends.

Without further ado…