Healadin 101: an Intro.

So, after finishing off ToC10 for the first time ever, we finished our weekend by bringing in some new faces for an Ulduar run on Sat/Sun nights. V.V

Admittedly, I suck at tanking Razorscale. We wiped on the old bitch 4 times, mostly because I and my pali co-tank kept getting overwhelmed with adds (idiot on turrets and overeager dps dont help). At our best, we can get upto Thorim and Hodir easily, but we still struggle with Freya and have only tried Mimi once. This weekend we got down FL, XT, Razor, Kolo and Auriaya. 5 bosses compared to our usual 9. Bleh.

So, one of our issues (not including Razorscale, because that fight the healers were not the problem) was bad heals. Saturday was fine. We had our bo0mkin hero healing and our usual Shamy-raid healer on…well…raid heals. But we had a new healadin come in. First off his spec was messy. It was all over the place. My spec-OCD kicked in, and anytime I see more than 55-56 points in a single tree I get woozy. This thing was 63/8/0. BLEH. To make it worse, in the first tier, he put 5 points into ImprovedSealsofDPS, and 0 points in YouCanHitMeButMyHealWillStillGetOff. /facepalm. His Recount(tm) activity sheet looked like this: Holy Light: <10, Flash of Light: 2. That was it. A two-button healer, and only like 12 casts total. Sunday we had failadin and two other totally different healers and the only boss we got was Auriaya. Everyone else just roflstomped us for 2 hours.

Anyways, as a very confident healadin, I have made it my mission to help him. So, as I go through the process of crafting him into a winadin instead of a failadin, I will be posting several entries in a “Healadin 101″ format, to help all aspiring winadins out there on the intertoobs.

Seriously, Blizzard?

Ok, so two nights in a row, my server, and all of my battlegroup (Whirlwind) have crashed at roughly 10pm EST. Bullshit. Monday night a few friends and I were in the middle of our weekly attempt at the Less-Rabi achievement (yes I know it resets every day, but if I tried that thing daily I would quit WoW out of frusteration) when the server went down. Last night I had jumped in to dps a PuG Naxx10 run on my warrior (he needs the badges) and the crash actually came at a great time! This PuG was total fail. Whether it was healers trying to be on the ground level during heigan to the tanks PULLING Razuvious…yes…he Avenger Shielded the boss AFTER those of us who had run naxx before told him about the Understudies and the crystals. Ugh. Anyways, we were about to head down the Construct wing after giving up on military when poof! “Realm is down” Thank you blizzard for saving me the frusteration of wiping on Patchwerk.

On a more positive note, I was by far and away the highest dps on there (on my Arms warrior) which made my epeen grow a bit. Not as much as Jong’s but…a bit. Of course there was only one other person wearing anything comparable to my gear, and that was our very good Retadin. But I still beat him, even with him running around with Aesir’s Edge.