New Guild on Ravenholdt (RH)

I just wanted to mention to my readers that i have found a guild to join on Ravenholdt US. The people seem really cool and i would love to join them in their adventures.

I plan to have four of my 80 characters in the guild. So far, i've logged on to two and have gotten invites. I've actually been a bit lazy to get on my other two toons to get them invited. i'll do that when i actually need to log on to them!

So far in the guild:
Devyn, my dps/tank DK, who leveled through wrath as a tank, in tanking spec only. no dps. the dps sucked, but i lived through everything while leveling. instance-wise, i did struggle a bit in the beginning (running utgarde keep, nexus, anh kahet and azjol nerub were hellishly annoying) but gotten a whole lot better in terms of gear when i hit level 75ish. so tanking violet hold and drak tharon keep were pretty easy. once i reached 80, i began tanking (and, unfortunately, went through the whole beginner tanking experience like i did with utgarde keep, again. this time in heroics) normal level 80 instances and then heroics. got my def to 535 (actually it was 525, with a sigil that gave me 11 def whenever i used icy touch to make it 535. this works out as i usually use icy touch in the beginning of the fights anyway). Then i switched over to DPS and LOVE LOVE LOVE it even more. I went frost dps with the two weaons, one on each hand, and a total makeover of all my gear. gearing was easy, but queueing up for instances as a dps sucked. in any case, i have pretty good emblem gear and should be able to do decently in ICC10 if ever asked to join.

(this got me annoyed this past saturday as the guild was asking for people from their saturday run, and i said i could go while on Devyn, but never received any kind of invite. instead, i saw maybe six people in ICC, with the rest of the people pugged. maybe they missed my comment. i should have repeated my statement. oh well. there's always next week i guess. as the new person in the guild, i would expect to be ignored? probably. there's probably better people in /trade they can pug with anyway. Instead, i hopped on Diinky and had a great time running one of our brand new dinged 80 warlocks through a few instances. she had a blast, at least i hoped she did.)

Diinky, my pve/pvp resto drood, joined as well. as you can see from the above statement! she's pretty decently geared. not too great, but still enough to push out about 2,400 per rejuv tick. i havent done much pvp on her lately, as i find it pretty mundane (maybe i should try arenas!) and instead, rush off to doing randoms and trying to help one of my friends get her tanking gear, and whoever else who needs a healer. i dont know anywhere else to get better gear tho. maybe i can get the 4pc t9. i currently have 2pc t8 and 2pc t9. that combo seems pretty good to me. but the ability for my rejuv ticks to crit might be more of a raid healing kinda thing. i do like extra swiftmend and extra nourish. at least, that's what matters more for me in heroics anyway. hopefully i can get some gear out of running more heroics, and maybe grab a frost emblem piece somewhere. i love playing this character despite the boredom because i do enjoy the occassional "awesome heals!" or "epic heals man" and the like. =P

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To be in the guild eventually (if things go well, ofc):
Brooke, my prot paladin. She leveled through outland and northrend as prot and has gotten quite good at tanking. when she first hit 80, she went to do heroics immediately. got a bunch of compliments about how the dps (ToC was out, but i think ICC was just about to launch) could not pull aggro off of me, ever. i had 23k hp then, gemmed with avoidance (no, im not a stam stacker and hate healing those stam stackers). had some basic weapons from lv.80 instances and a titansteel shield wall. i then bought my first two emblem of triumph pieces and got a bit more comfortable tanking at around 30k hp. i now have a bit more hp, but still, trying NOT to priortize HP over Def/expertise/agi. i'll blog about those stats vs stam one day. maybe i can get some feedback from healers on what they prefer healing, or just go on plusheal.com since i know my readers are not healers. ahem! but anyway, moving on.

Akeelah, my affl lock. Happily spamming Seed of Corruption in every instance. loving the AoE dps and the high numbers. and getting decent numbers on bosses. knows to stack some dots and 2 shadowbolts before using Haunt, using Curse of elements much more than Curse of Agony, and lifetapping like crazy since i dont have dark pact, nor will really need it due to health returns from Haunt and healers' heals. sorry for the rambling. im hungry. its lunch time. my apologies.

I may have mentioned this before, but may have not, is that i want to gear Akeelah up in Heroic gear only. This means that I will not buy emblem gear. I will only use the drops that come from heroic instances and the other normal, but difficult, instances like ToC, Forge, Pit and Halls. I may end up being able to do some heroic TOC, forge, pit and halls. but that's later on. i do know that Halls is SRSBZNS. so i'll dps that when i do get decent gear. but it does seem like everyone needs to be way beyond "heroic' geared for that one. there's just craziness involved in those fights and if people can CC property, use the right auras/totems and dps the right people down first, the fight will be a whole lot easier. /end halls of reflection tangent. so as much as possible, i will have ilevel200 gear, and some that are, i think 219 and 223. or something like that. emblems of triumph will be unused until later on i guess. when i need to if i ever become a regular raid dps. but as far as i can see, i dont think i'll be playing ranged dps in raids.

So in the end, i'd like to see how well akeelah's gear can outperform other dps with better gear. i purposely limit her gear so that i can prove, mainly to myself, and maybe to others, that gearscore isnt what makes your dps rise (although its just partial) but that your own skill and practice will help you find your best dps. once you get into that "high dps" zone, you'll never want to leave it. but it takes some work to get there. i do know there are certain limitations to every class and some classes will naturally (all things being equal) outperform others. bliz lied when they say all classes are withing 5% of each other. that is their goal, but certainly not our reality.

This is my pre-lunch update. off to lunch. and hopefully be back to essplane my plans for devynity on Ysondre. that's about it for now! laters!