Wrath raiding…how…

Uneventful?

So this weekend I took my first foray into actual raiding in Wrath. Yea, my guild is fairly casual , it’s fine for me. I wasn’t able to attend the Obsidian Sanctum raid because I had to work too soon after but I was able to get into my guild’s semi impromptu semi puggalicious Vault of Archavon raid. And…wow, five minutes of actual fighting and then…down. It wasn’t even much of a challenge healing-wise except for making sure that my raid frames were properly enlarged. (Still looking for a replacement for X-perl by the way, I might just give up and go with Grid full time).

Pwned in under 30 minutes or your money back!

(Pardon the weird jpeg artifacts, I’m having to deal with Vista’s default image editors)

In other news, I’ve been continuing to fish up a storm on Yasura and up her cooking skills. While I’ve been doing that, I’ve also been stalking the spawn areas for the books for the Higher Learning acheivement. So far I have two, I am…less than ambitious with this goal. If you see a troll priestess chick with her Stinker pet out and about in Dalaran, that’s me and yes, I am partially brain dead from some of the monotony. XD

Future goals:

~ Clear out all these damn fish from my inventory.

~ Cure cancer. Heal the remaining heroics I have left.

~ Blog about real things sometime.

~ More “acheesements”!

On an added note, I’ve found the fishing guide at El’s Extreme Anglin’ very helpful. It has just about everything fishing related and WoWhead’s section on Dalaran cooking dailies is also helpful.

The High Life

I love healing. It’s not something I was intitially attracted to as a noob WoW player back in July of 2005 but once I got the hang of it, priest healing hooked me and hasn’t let go. The best part is when you find your groove and everything just clicks.  This is what I love about progression raids and wiping over and over on bosses. It’s that final attempt when you’ve measured your available buffs and consumables carefully, chain-pot at the right moments, pop your trinkets without missing a beat and are healing your heart out until your team wins that really gets your adrenaline pumping. For me, it rivals the excitement of having your favorite sports team win a tough game or pay day at work. When everything just works it’s an awesome feeling.

Last weekend, I got to experience the frustration and joys of working on Hex-Lord Malacrass. Technically, it’s not incredibly hard but the devil is in the details and the execution.  After two raids attempting at him , we finally got him down and got to stare at Zul’jin and tickle him a few times (with not so positive results, unsurprisingly). I’m just so proud of how far we’ve come. We’ve got a fantastic crop of healers, tanks and dps and I could not ask for a better group of people.  Every kill with this guild feels like the best kill ever.

So, discussion time: what is the best part of raiding for you guys?