Wow it's been ages since I updated this journal. I think I stopped updating because I became very busy with raiding with Delusion for a while. Panadoll geared up heaps, became one of Delusion's top healers & priest class leader, and cleared all 10 and 25 man content - with some difficulty, because Delusion was never particularly organised and had a lot of bads. Actually, I don't think Panadoll has actually gotten the 10 man Maly achievement yet. 0_0 (I did eventually work out my problems with third phase Maly btw.) She's pretty much as geared as she can be now & ready for Ulduar, almost full tier 7.5, with the exception of helm, and she looks like this:



Unfortunately, I had a lot of problems with Delusion, and I wasn't the only one. There was heaps of drama, mainly caused by the terrible way the guild was run and the actions of the guild leader and her boyfriend, and after finding out something particularly nasty I finally gquit. Damager - the mage and raid leader of Delusion I mentioned before in this journal and who I'm now in a relationship with <3 - left soon after, throwing the whole guild into turmoil because he was really keeping the whole thing together. Lots of other people also gquit. Damager and I applied to join Twisted Faith, a much more organised & progressed guild on our server. Damager was accepted into the guild almost immediately. It took me a little while longer, because although I was told my guild application was excellent it took a while for the heals leader to find time to talk to me. Finally he asked me to log on to their vent to have a chat. The first question I was asked was, "why disc?" Twisted Faith wasn't actually looking for disc priests, they were looking for holy priests, and they asked me if I'd be willing to respec. I think I managed to convince them to give me a chance to show them what I could do as disc, because I am extremely confident with my heals as disc - raiding with Delusion I was often second or third on heal metres despite my single target healing discness. They seemed to like me anyway and offered me a raiding spot with their guild, which I very happily accepted. Shortly therafter, I was invited to their 25man Naxx as a replacement (usually people in the guild have to sign up in advance for raids). I was very nervous because I wanted to impress them, and I don't think I did too badly. Their healers were much better than Delusion's healers though and although I kept up with them through most of the raid I started losing concentration a bit towards the end and dropped down to 5th overall on the heal metre. I was extremely happy though, to clear 25 Naxx in one night - Delusion only ever managed it over two nights. I also got my tier 7.5 chest out of the run. :)

Today I was logged onto an alt I've been levelling with Damager (and occasionally other friends' alts), a little 20-something mage called Dollfase, when Twisted Faith's raid leader whispered me to ask if I'd be interested in taking my shadowpriest to the guild's 25 Naxx alt run that night. I told him I'd really like to but Panacea is hardly geared for 10man Naxx. He said that he didn't really care about gear, he just wanted someone experienced who could MC on Instructor (which I had successfully done on Panadoll the night before). So I told him I'd give it a go. I think I was even more nervous than I was raiding with them on Panadoll, because Panacea's gear was so bad, not gemmed, not enchanted, no glyphs, and a really bad rotation that I'd been meaning to work on for ages. So I fixed everything I could, worked out a new rotation which I tested extensively on dummies & dueling Damager, and ended up going to the raid semi-confident but still nervous. I actually did far far better than I thought I would - I never actually realised how powerful my aoe (Mind Sear) is. I think I ended up 6th or 7th on dps overall. I really enjoyed myself too - dps is much less stressful than healing (though I will always love healing the best ^_^). Panacea also got three new awesome pieces of gear - Digested Silken Robes from Maexxna, Touch of Horror from Gothik, and Mantle of the Corrupted from Four Horsemen. Panacea now looks like this:



We stopped the run after the DK quarter, because it was 1am and the raid (being an alt run) had gone on for far too long already. We'll be picking it up again tomorrow.. should be fun ^_^ I'm liking gearing up again. :)

WoW has been so fun lately. I think I'm addicted to my friends in game and guild more than anything else. It's been a pretty productive week so far.. Panadoll did a couple of 25man VoA's, and in the first one (organised by Damager, with a lot of guildies) she got t7.5 pants. :D In the second one, which I did this afternoon (I was invited by Leth) she got t7.5 gloves. :D So, so awesome xDD~

Mostly I've been levelling Panacea lately. At first, I was hating her mana regen.. I had the same problem in the early 70's levelling Panadoll. 0 regen while casting? badness. But I had been playing Panadoll for so long that I completely forgot about my dispersion for a while. >< Mana regen now is ok. Not as good as Panadoll's obviously (Panadoll never ever needs to drink) but a lot better now that I'm using my shadowfiend & dispersion a lot more, and since I put a point into Meditation. Panacea is level 75 now, almost 76. I'm working towards this build at 80.

need more instances for Panacea. It's so much harder to find groups as dps. >< I get heaps of whispers all the time asking if I'm heals, if I will respec heals (no goddammit, if I wanted to heal I'd play my disc priest) etc. beh :P

(in case you can't tell, I'm standing 7th from the left - or technically 3rd from the right :P)



We've had a really good run of Naxx over the last couple of days, culminating in our downing of Sapphiron - an awesome effort on everyone's part, as the main tank Raltor d/c'd with Sapphi around just under 10%. o_o He didn't get the achievement, which sucked. But he did get the key that dropped when he came back on to distribute loot. We plan to finish off Kel'Thuzad tomorrow. :)

I got many good things! ^_^ Resurgent Phantom Bindings from Gothik, a chest from Four Horsemen which I should never have rolled for (it had hit rating, should have gone to the lock), Ring of Holy Cleansing from Heigan, Agonal Sash from Anub'Rekan (upgrade over the epic belt I got last time), and best loots of all: Infection Repulser from Grobbulus (this mace looks so cool ^_^), and my first piece of T7, Chestguard of the Lost Conqueror from Gluth - with which I bought Heroes' Robe of Faith :D Hm, I think I did pretty well xD

Tonight Panadoll went with Twelve to ZA! :O It was a little hectic as I'd never been there before of course, and also it was a timed run. o_o But it wasn't too difficult, all the bosses went down fairly quickly. And Panadoll got so much nice stuff xD So finally, she has graduated out of her PMC set.. so glad I got to do that before WotLK ^o^

I got Robe of Departed Spirits from Halazzi, Cloak of Ancient Rituals from Hex Lord Malacrass and Mantle of Ill Intent from a chest. :D Panadoll is looking pretty awesome now ^_^



I'm not sure if the Swiftheal Mantle I made is better or worse than the Mantle of Ill Intent.. I get the feeling it's probably a sidegrade. /shrug

I wasn't planning to do much on WoW today.. kinda wanted to have a bit of a rest from all the instancing, and just do dailies and farm rep. I logged onto Panadoll to do the Quel Danas dailies. While I was there Lutzi (on Fuzo) began organising a Kara raid for Leokadia, who had just dinged 70. I remember back in the day when Panacea was just a little level 11 running around Loch Modan and ran into Leokadia, then level 42, and thinking I'd never catch up to her. xD /nostalgia :P Anyways, I asked Lutzi if Panacea could come along to the Kara run, and he said ok. So I logged over to Panacea, and immediately got the nervous shakey adrenaline feeling I always get whenever I raid with Twelve - partly of course because they are all so much more experienced and awesome at this game than me, and partly because this was to be Panacea's first time in Kara.. my first attempt at DPSing in a real raid.

Kara was awesome fun! I think I did pretty well, though I had a little trouble in the beginning with targeting mobs, as my usual way of doing it in instances is to just click on the tank's target, next to their name, but in a raid my frames are different and don't show the mob the tank's attacking unless I target the tank first. I got used to it after a while though. Of course I was way down the damage metres, usually in about 6th spot, but I did manage to get up to 4th a couple of times. :D I shackled my assigned mob like a pro on Moroes, and did quite well on the other bosses too, except for Nightbane and Shade of Aran. On Nightbane I died early on because I didn't have my visual settings set high enough and couldn't see the charred earth, and therefore died cos I was standing in it. >< Shade of Aran remains my most hated of Kara bosses; I have died every time I've done it. I thought I had the strategy figured out - move to the outside of the room on Arcane Explosion, and stop moving completely during Flame Wreath. But I got aggro somehow near the start of the fight, and died from it pretty quickly. One day I'll do it and actually survive.. ><

I got some good gear from the Kara run. :) Bands of Nefarious Deeds from Maiden, Wicked Witch's Hat from Opera (we got Wizard of Oz again.. I've still never seen Romeo & Juliet :P) and Adornment of Stolen Souls from Prince. :D And a whole lotta badges. :)

Later on, I logged on Panacea again planning to just buy up some mats and make my Frozen Shadoweave Boots finally. But Verd was in a Magtheridon PuG, and asked in guild chat if either me or Help would be interested in joining it, as they needed a shadowpriest. I was dubious at first as Panacea is not really geared for Mags, but Help (who is less geared than Panacea, mostly in PvP gear) was starting to look like he was keen so I jumped in before he could. :P I was summoned into Mags - they'd cleared the way through up to him already. We wiped on the first attempt after getting him down to 25%. A couple of people left, and I got Yuge invited in to tank. On the second attempt, I was assigned backup clicking duty, which made me a bit nervous. But I worked my ass off, managed to stay alive through the entire fight while running back and forth to check on the clicker, getting out of fires and trying to stay in range of Mag to dps & put my all important VT on him. We managed to get him down. :D And then, amazingly, I managed to win the roll for his head with a roll of 99. xDDD So now I have a shiny new Band of Crimson Fury!

Afterwards I went back to my plan of buying up the mats for my boots (I farmed the netherweb spider silk for them though, as they are going for 11g a pop on the AH at the moment ><) and eventually made my Frozen Shadoweave Boots. ^o^

So yeh, a very successful day! 5 new epics, yays! xD Panacea is fast approaching Panadoll's gear level now. I am so glad I got to take her through Kara before the expansion.. and I never even dreamed I'd get her through Mags as well. :D

Panadoll was very generously given Pattern: Swiftheal Mantle by Lutzi a few days ago (apparently there were a couple of them in the guild bank). So I made these smexy shoulders ~



From what I've read (and there's quite a bit of conflicting info) it seems that these shoulders are not worth breaking the PMC set bonus for, until I get a few more armour upgrades (e.g. Belt of the Long Road, perhaps). They look cool though. :P

I have a habit of writing heaps of notes as I'm reading up on loots to look out for, things to farm for, talent builds, quest chains I wanna do, etc etc.. my desk is therefore covered in little bits of paper with said notes, mostly unorganised (though I've started using paperclips lately :D). Anyways.. it's all getting a bit much with two 70s.. so I'm going to attempt to organise my current Panacea goal lists here for my own reference (will strike them off as I get through them).

Instances

Shattered Halls
Grand Warlock Nethekurse
- Pattern: Spellstrike Hood (mats: 10x spellcloth, 5x Primal Might, 1x Primal Nether)
- Bands of Nethekurse

Shadow Labs
Murmur
- Pattern: Spellstrike Pants (mats: 10x spellcloth, 5x Primal Might, 1x Primal Nether)
- Robe of Oblivion (pre-FSW)
- Silent Slippers of Meditation
Blackheart the Inciter
- Wand of the Netherwing
- Brooch of Heightened Potential
Ambassador Hellmaw
- Jadenfire Gloves of Annihilation
Quest rewards
- The Soul Devices: Shattrath Wraps
- Into the Heart of the Labyrinth: Shattrath Jumpers

Old Hillsbrad
Epoch Hunter
- Time-Shifted Dagger

Black Morass
Aeonus
- Bloodfire Greatstaff
- Mana-Etched Crown
Temporus
- Khadgar's Kilt of Abjuration

Mechanar
Pathaleon the Calculator
- Incantor's Cowl
- Baba's Cloak of Arcanistry
Mechano-Lord Capacitus
- Warp Engineer's Prismatic Chain

Sethekk Halls
Talon King Ikiss
- Sethekk Oracle Cloak
- Incantor's Trousers
- Trousers of Oblivion

Steamvaults
Warlord Kalithresh
- Sash of Serpentra
Hydromancer Thespia
- Scintillating Coral Band

General

• Kara key quest chain
  
• Arc key quest chain
  
• Kurenai rep & Halaa raiding for talbuk
  
• Level cooking & fishing
  
• Mats for FSW
  - Robe: 14x shadowcloth (7x Primal Shadow, 7x Primal Fire, 7x Bolt of Imbued Netherweave), 16x Primal Water, 4x Netherweb Spider Silk
  - Boots: 8x shadowcloth (4x Primal Shadow, 4x Primal Fire, 4x Bolt of Imbued Netherweave), 12x Primal Water, 2x Netherweb Spider Silk
  
• Mats for spellstrike set
  - Hood: 10x spellcoth (10x Primal Mana, 10x Primal Fire, 10x Bolt of Imbued Netherweave), 5x Primal Might (5x Primal Earth, Water & Air), Primal Nether
  - Pants: 10x spellcloth (10x Primal Mana, 10x Primal Fire, 10x Bolt of Imbued Netherweave), 5x Primal Might (5x Primal Earth, Water & Air), Primal Nether
  
• Dailies for gold, save for epic flyer
  
• Grind Cenarion Expedition rep for hippogryph

..that's quite enough to keep me occupied for now, and I haven't even gone into Panadoll's goals (she doesn't have as many, but still..)
Damn that's a lot of primals. -_-

I edited my new awesome macro to fix my problem with the shift modifier.. I just took it out. *facepalm* Now, whenever I click Mind Blast it will cast Inner Focus first if it's up, then pop my first trinket if it's up, then cast Mind Blast. It seems that the macro can only cast two things before casting Mind Blast.. so if Inner Focus is still on cooldown it will pop both my trinkets, and if the first trinket is on cooldown it'll just pop the second one, etc. I think that's how it's working. My second trinket has a 15 minute cooldown so it's a little hard to tell.

Late Monday night I hopped on Panacea to talk to my guild leader about organising a guild run of Ramps and/or Blood Furnace. I am so wary of PuGging them now. >< She was quite happy with the idea, and said she'd come on her lvl 60 resto druid Lilacmoon. She said she'd never really done any instances before though, having been run through things up til now, so we'd have to be kind to her. I can totally relate to this of course, as it's the way I took Panadoll to 70. So I told her we'd get Yuge in to tank for us, and it should be a breeze. We organised to do the run on Tuesday night at 7pm. She said that would be 9pm her time, as she's in Perth.

On Tuesday I hopped on in the middle of the day to make sure she was still up for the run and discuss who else we'd need for the group. She was still keen, so all was good. I logged off, and then later when Yuge got home he told me that 7pm our time is actually 5pm Perth time. Bah!! I logged back on at 7pm and sure enough, Lilac wasn't there.. I asked Yuge if he'd be ok doing the run at 11pm instead (9pm Perth time) and he said that'd be alright.

In the meantime, Yuge tanked a PuG of Ramps for me. It went so well.. I got the feeling the rest of the group was just as nubish as the first PuG I was in, but Yuge made up for that with his awesomeness. I got Crystalfire Staff, yay! It's pretty. ^_^

Later on I finished off all the Hellfire quests and moved on to my beloved Zangarmarsh (not really, anymore.. I loved the zone so much when I was levelling Panadoll but not so much this time around since nothing's new). At 10pm, to my horror, the server said it was going down for maintenance. Wtf, there wasn't anything on the login page! Should have expected it for a Tuesday night though, I guess. Anyways, so no Ramps/BF at 11pm with Lilac. :( Maybe we can get a group together for it tonight, though I'm not sure if Yuge is raiding. He's getting home from work late so... maybe he's not?

Lots of good stuff happened today! :D

This evening Lutzi (on Fuzo) wanted to go back and finish off the Kara we did on Saturday night, before it reset. Yay for no maintenance tonight! :D Yuge was set to come too, but his computer crashed before invites went out, and he had to spend the next 3 hours reinstalling Windows, which sucked. But I nervously asked Lutzi if I would be welcome to come along to Kara anyway, and he invited me. :) He's my friend but it was still kinda generous on his part, as he was looking for really good (i.e. t6) healers to speed up the run.. and I am not one of those. :P At first, waiting around outside Kara, I wasn't sure we'd actually go ahead with it, because we were having a lot of trouble convincing the uber healers of Twelve to come along. But eventually awesometastic druid Bearilic and awesometastic priest Empithy agreed to join us. There was no way I could possibly keep up with their heals.. i.e....



I have not done any research on any of the Kara bosses after Nightbane, so my strategy was just to stick to the other healers like glue and heal & dispel as best I could. Nightbane (which, you may recall, we wiped on numerous times in the last run) went down extremely easily - the difference in the level of the group was plain to see. I relaxed a bit after that. :P The following bosses were not so difficult for me, apart from Shade of Aran, a fight which was just confusing. I need to read up on it to figure out what was going on. At one point I moved, a second after someone told us not to move on Vent, and was tossed up in the air. There were lots of Vent comments after that of a "who moved?" "who's the noob?" variety. >< So yes.. definitely gonna read up on Aran. I did do better than the first time I was at that boss - where I died instantaneously and just watched the rest of the fight. At least I didn't die this time. :P

I also want to read up on Chess, cos I really have no idea what is going on there. :P

I was hoping for a t4 helm drop from Prince, but didn't get it. :( I did however get Pantaloons of Repentance from Netherspite. :D And after the raid was over, I discovered that I now had 50 badges, so I spent them on Cowl of Naaru Blessings. :D No more Red Pointy Hat of fail, finally! That's my last green item gone. :D I gemmed up the new gear and now my heals are at an awesome 1335 (almost leet, heh). xD Yayyy~!

Here's my new hat!



and a few ( screenshots from Kara )

In Panacea news, she dinged level 40 today! :D I respecced her also, and put all her points into shadow (I am too impatient to wait another 10 levels for shadowform :P). I'm thinking I'll put points for the next few levels back into disc.



Panacea joined a group for SM arms today. I told the group when I joined that I was happy to heal if needed, but I'd prefer to dps if at all possible. The group leader told me flat out "you heal". >< It was easy enough, even though a couple people in the group were a bit low level for it (early 30's) and I got the annoying "wand please" from the group leader (errrghhhh... no) but I really would like to have a chance at dpsing an instance sometime. :-/ I'll be running SM more in the next few days so hopefully I'll get a group who will let me.

Panadoll did some more Kara tonight. :D Lutzi's alt Fuzo needed a run through. So this was the first time I've done Kara without Lutzi's heals.. I was kinda nervous, but I'm a bit more confident in my skills now.

We did pretty well at first. We had another priest (Seraphe) as the main healer (I think he has around 1350 heals) and a druid healer (Snippd) as well. I found I could hold my own pretty well though and often topped the healing charts ~



I got Gloves of Saintly Blessings off the first boss (Attumen) which I was very pleased with. :3 On Moroes, I was all ready to shackle away but when I made a slight error in timing, my shackle broke and I got killed by the target pretty quickly. We wiped. :-/ On Vent people were asking if I was ok with shackling and I was like >___< yess.. I just made a mistake that time. :P The second time I kept my target shackled up until after Moroes went down - it didn't break once. :)

I was especially pleased with myself this time around, for not dying during Maiden. :D I had read up on the fight, so knew what to expect and what I was supposed to be doing. I did pretty well dispelling and keeping everyone in range.. it was a big success. ^_^

We got Red Riding Hood for Opera. This is the one I've most been wanting to see, so I was like yay!! x3 It was much easier than Wizard of Oz. I got turned into Red Riding Hood once and I think I was the only one of us who actually survived the experience, lol. Seraphe died twice during the fight, and Snippd died once as well, but I managed to heal through. :D

Nightbane was where we hit problems. Our dps wasn't that great, and we wiped numerous times. I'm quite sure it wasn't a problem with the heals at all. I had also read up on this fight so I knew what I was supposed to be doing - much different from my first experience (where I just ran around madly trying to stay close to Lutzi :P). Seraphe and I did ok keeping fear wards on Yuge.. but because the dps was lacking - unable to get rid of all the adds, etc - we both died and were b-rezzed a few times. In the end we gave up - and someone (who sounded kinda pissed off) said on Vent that if people didn't know the fight they shouldn't be attempting it, and other stuff.. which made me feel a bit insecure but really, I'm pretty sure I was personally doing ok.

Overall I am quite pleased with how this Kara went. :D I got loot, badges, rep & raid healing experience. Yays :3

( a few screenshots )

edit// oh yeh! I also got Pattern: Soulcloth Vest in Kara, as a random drop. :D Yay for my first epic tailoring pattern!

bah, maintenance night. >_< I guess I am kinda glad that Blizzard doesn't usually take our oceanic servers down later on in the night - last week when they did that we got a huge influx of people at 8pm, making things pretty lagtastic.

Anyways. Panadoll got her Primal Mooncloth Shoulders yesterday! :D



I couldn't stomach the thought of farming the 8 primal lifes I needed for them (I've already farmed so many just to make the mooncloth), so I bought the damn things. :P I've made the gold back already with dailies, so it's not too bad. And I've saved myself hours of mind-numbing bog lords. :P Now I need to make the robe. Which requires 12 pieces of mooncloth.. that will take me about 18 days if I make it all myself. I really don't mind the wait though. I've accepted that it's going to take me ages to do all of the things I wanna do in WoW - saving up gold for epic mount & getting exalted with Sha'tari Skyguard in particular - and I have my little Panacea to turn to if I want a faster pace. :)

So Panadoll's heals are at 1200 now. :D Happy! Hopefully I'll get into another Kara soon. Where I could maybe.. just barely.. actually be useful as a healer. :P Yuge's gonna tank n bot for me next (hopefully tomorrow?) so I'm looking forward to that as well. :)

And just randomly - here's a screenie of Panacea dinging level 27 today (I has an addon that takes a screenshot every time I ding). Yay kill 20 Plague Spreaders quest. :3 ( screenshot )

So I have been neglecting this journal, and posting WoW things on my regular journal.. but my friends are probably getting a bit tired of it. :P

Panadoll has been level 70 for about a week or so. :D My guild (which is far more advanced than me) ran me through Kara on Friday night... I was terrified as I have very little instancing experience (my partner ran me through most instances as I was levelling) and no raiding experience. But since everyone else in the raid was way overgeared it was really easy and lots of fun. :D We got Wizard of Oz for Opera and I got Trial Fire Trousers :D Other Kara loots I got ~ Shining Chain of the Afterworld, Pauldrons of the Solace Giver, Boots of Foretelling (plus another pair of purple boots for my healing set - armory is showing my dps set at the moment), and Signet of Unshakeable Faith. I can't wait to go again. ^_^ I was terrible with overhealing last time around - we had an extremely overgeared healer with us (my irl friend who plays a priest called Lutzi) who could easily heal the entire raid alone.. almost every time I went to cast a heal he would beat me to it and I would overheal.. ^^;

I have Healbot installed now though. I love it so much. It makes healing a billion times easier. So perhaps I could possibly even be useful in Kara now. :P Last night I ran Shadow Labs with my partner (who plays a gnome warrior called Yuge, he's been 70 for a while now & is much better geared than me) and really used Healbot for the first time. I was nervous as I always am with an instance group (because I have so little experience and I don't want my noobishness to wipe the group) but Healbot made it so insanely easy to heal people and keep buffs up. :D There are lots of other instances I wanna do at the moment - Black Morass, Mechanar, Botanica, and Arcatraz mainly - and I'm actually confident I can heal them now... in normal mode anyways :P

Anyways this post is getting kinda long. :P So I shall leave you with a screenshot I took yesterday of someone I saw flying through Shat on the phoenix mount :O

( phoenix mount! wanty! )