Is purism in WOW pure BLEEP?

Okay, so the title might sound a wee bit hostile (Ive discovered recently that my stuff is the stuff I do from the get go and if I think about it too much.....) but this is one of those questions I have often asked.

Years ago I was made aware of a guild that was all Druids and that the participants of this guild were Druid "purists".  Now, what is purism in WOW?  The variance here depending on the person, I imagine, would be gigantic, but from what I remember the guild was very into RP and stuck to what ever Druid lore is, and never used mounts, only using travel and flight form.

Kind of cool, actually.

My contribution to purism in WOW takes shape with my healers.  I no longer dual spec my heals.  There are a few toons that have a DPS spec that I will change in to from time to time, but that is more an aspect of that toons personality as I have come to know them, not a mechanic to make use of in the game.

Make sense?

Managing a second spec on a toon used to be a lot harder as there was no gear set option, it could never be done on the fly and talents weren't saved (or were they? Lord I am getting old!!!).  Modern spec switching woes these days more or less amount to being able to play said second spec effectively.   This, my dear friends, is one my foundation reasons for being an altaholic!

There are six healing spec's available in WOW.  All of them have abilites that are offensive, but are not very powerful.  Anyone of them can kill a mob, but it takes like 8 years, and one must be very aware of mana, as you can blow out all of your mana trying to kill something and then have nothing left to heal yourself! That kind of thing happend on my Monk.  Monk abilities seem to have a GIGANTIC mana cost.

Druids have an ability that converts Spirit into Agility while in Bear/Cat form.  You'd think that would make life easier playing Resto all the time, but no so much.  Throwing down and Efflorescense to stand in while you kill a mob is helpful, but you can start attacking something and go fold laundry and come back before you will actually kill it.

To date the best "travelling" healing spec is Disc.  I has to have the highest DPS output and you heal while you do damage.

All of this being said I am not sure how this could change.  The balancing that would need to happen if heals were to be able to dps, like, well, a dps class would likely throw things all out of wack, but after all, these are just my rants, raves, and yelps.

Thanks for comming!
All the best!
Kurly

Soon comming!!

All the holiday business is over!!

Back to blogging!!

There will be something coming soon!!

XOXO

Kurly

Suggestions and Holiday Salutations!!

One of the things I do when I write one of these things, generally is sit back, start typing and let the blog Gods take it where they may.  From all of the bits and pieces I try to pick whatever is the most coherent (that being extremely relative in my case) and try to run with it.  I try to think about the kinds of things I would like to read about (cuz, after all, it is ALL about me!!!), and try to present them in a way that is helpful and or entertaining to those who may choose the read them.  I do get a little gun shy a lot of the time, as I know there are some really good bloggers out there and I wonder just how I rate?

I know I have something of a target audience, mostly folks from the most awesome Clan of Darkness guild, and a few others here and there, and I am so grateful for everyone who come to read what I post.

All of this hoo-ha being said, I would like to open things up to you all.  If there is anything you would like me to tackle, please please let me know.  Or I am happy to go with my usual rabble!!

I wish you all the best, happiest, and safest of holidays!!

XOXOX
Kurly

Kicked by an add-on?!?!?!?!

So last night I am doing LFR last night with my raid buddies....the first time on my litte lady Dwarf DK.  We had made it all the way to Garrosh one shotting all the bosses until the first attempt on him.  I got up to have a wazzer and get a glass of soda, and came back to start the second attempt only to see her in Stormwind with a message in my chat box that stated "You were away during a ready  check and have been removed from the party"

None of my friends in the party saw a vote to kick box.

THIS IS BULLSHIT!!!!

Anyone know this add-on?

I want to submit a post to have the add on banned.

Oh...MERRY CHRISTMAS.

XOXO
Kurly

Fracking addon!

Just how many guilds I am in and why.

Guilds, guilds, guilds!!   (Am I even spelling that correctly?)

Back in '08 while running around the human starting area on my then human Paladin, Annamia (she's a Dwarf now), I was asked by a stranger to sign a guild charter for a whooping five gold.  I had no idea what I was being asked to do, and I feared that said stranger was some kind of reprobate that was after my private information, or some kind of sickie that would expect me to compromise my morals....wait....I had morals back then?

Regardless of the fact that she and I became friends and I have since met her and her family, as of right now I am part of five different guilds.  (ITS JUST SO SAD!!!)  Two are mine.  One is one of the three largest guilds in WOW, and its not AIE!  Its Taint on Proudmore.....cuz I am proud gay wow playing dude and I loved the idea of joining a huge guild where we discuss some of the most amazing things in guild chat! Not that AIE is not fantastic, but I just didn't feel very welcome there, no offense, just not a good fit.

Taint is a lot of fun, but as I am not on those toons with any degree of frequency, the few people I met there have gone off to do there own things, but the good thing is that there are almost always people on who want to do the same thing I want to do...talking trash in guild chat is one of them!!!!

The other mass guild is The Clan of Darkness on Earthen Ring.  Something of an off shoot of AIE, but created and run by Ctrl-Alt-Wow, is a podcast fan guild with a lot of people who love to play wow, and goof around in in large groups usually on friday nights!!   So many wonderful people in that guild, alas, this is not where I spend a majority of my time either, which is TOTALLY my loss.

The last two are my own creations!!  Rabid Kittens....a name that came up as a joke, and has been me and my long time friends' guild.  A very nice level 25 guild we leveled up all on our own...(all seven of us at the time), and my little level 2 Horde guild on Ysondre called Living Dead Gurls...so um...if anyone is up for leveling a guild....FEMALE TOONS ONLY!!!

Peace...and thank you for listening!  XOXOX

Flex raids

Here we have more of an admission then any kind of commentary or anything like that.

Raiding has always scared the BLEEP out of me...and frankly still does.

There are several different reasons for this.

First: I should stop listening to podcasts like Convert to Raid, My Epic Heals.  Not that these are bad podcasts, in fact they are both very good, informative, and entertaining shows, but if you are someone that has any self doubt OR worry about falling prey to mechanics OR worry about putting out as much as you can, these shows and others like them can be a little daunting.  Listening to these wonderfully intelligent folks go on about...well...math, and maximum this and that can, for me, suck the joy out of Christmas.

Second: When I'm the first to die on the fourth pull, the issue is mine and mine alone.

Third:  Its a little scary when you and everyone else knows the wipe was totally your fault.

Fourth:  Um, I don't always watch the fights on you tube, read up on them, OR look at the dungeon journal.  OKAY I SAID IT!  JEEZ.

There seems to be no easy slide into raiding.  LFR, is not all that hard...and if you do fuck up, who cares.  Not that I am suggesting you go into an LFR not caring about it, but learning curve errors that we ALL experience can be hidden in all the LFR trolling that go on when a wipe does happen, or you can blame the dude next to you who is probably going to drop anyway.   The jump in difficulity level gets to me more because I fear failure, letting down the folks who have been waiting a week to raid down, and making me wonder if I am actually a good player, and should I be raiding at all...sniff.

Its on me, I know this, I understand this, and I hope that I am able to grow from this...isnt this kind of what a blog be for?

Thanks for hearing my confession.

COME ON.....LIKE YOU NEVER FUCKED UP!!

:-)

Peace all and thanks for listening.

Kurly

Some PVP Rage

Anyone who knows me knows that one of my favorite features of WOW is PVP.   From my first shaking tour of Warsong Gultch and Arathi Basin, all the way up to whatever was/is the max level BG's, there I shall be.  And there shall I be, getting my ass handed to me over and over again.

Now, to be fair, I am not the best PVP'er.  I don't min/max, I don't always fully gem or enchant my gear, and there are many times when I loose sight of any kind of strat and just want to kill, kill, kill.

So, here is what I have noticed, and here is what I think: I think Blizzard stacks the deck in favor of one side.  In part so that the loosing side's resolve to come back burns ever brighter with each loss.  Does this sound like the theory of a ranting crazy person?  Sure!  Could I be totally wrong?  Totally!

However, take into consideration the following pieces of info!

Over last week I did I total of 30 BG's, 15 on the Horde, and 15 on Alliance.  Out of that 30 I won 9, five on the Horde, four on Alliance.  During each BG I checked the number of toons from the same server on each team, how much health team members had and my observation of team work or cooperation.  I played on toons of all levels.

Whenever I won we simply mowed over the other team, each time it was a shut out and on three occasions were able to pen up the opposing team.  (which I think sucks even when I am the pen-ner).  There were no close calls, no 2/3 type losses at all.  We either won totally or were used to mop the floor.  The winning team almost always had 50 to 75k more heath then the loosing team, and teams with no one in a party were pit against groups of people CLEARLY working together in a party.

There I said it!!

My intention here is not to troll.  If I am correct, it is a valid and working way to rope me in and keep me coming back.  Obviously I don't hate what happening as BG's are near and dear to my soul, but I do wish we could all go into a fair fight is all.

Best......Kurly,