So... Last night... There I was just minding my own business and the guy who leads my sometimes Friday night Kara run came on and I asked if he was planning on running it again. He wasn't they were running it as a guild that night. I forget how it came about exactly but he ended up asking me if I could join them as a healer. Could I EVER!!! I've been itching to try out all the resto PvP gear and the tree of life form. I swapped in my healing trinkets and ended up with 1813 healing unbuffed (over 1900 with elixirs and food buff). While they were forming up, they were looking for a priest for shackles. They were looking for a shadow priest but couldn't find one... So I asked if we could bring a holy priest from our guild - Pater. Man... Did they hit the jackpot.
Moroes and Attumen went down pretty easily... And by "easily" I mean that a warlock tanked Attumen for about a minute and effectively mana drained me. There were also some dicey moments on Moroes where we had split DPS on some of the adds and the undergeared paladin OT had 2 mobs and Moroes on him. Any time Moroes switched targets, the current target would take a big hit before I could get the HoTs rolling. But when they did... A single lifebloom was ticking for 230. A stack of three? 657/second. Rejuvenation was ticking for over 800. My regrowths were critting for over 3.1k and they almost always crit. It was insane how much healing I could sustain.
We had a little trouble on Maiden because a paladin healer accidentally pulled Maiden early and died. Then a warlock LoS'd Pater and took a holy fire and died within the first 30 seconds of the fight. With all that, we were still able to get her to about 4%. On the second attempt, that same warlock got the first holy fire and... Oh!! Died again. Got her to about 10% when she crushed the tank for 4k twice and then a ranged pulled aggro making the main tank a viable target for her AoE chain damage effect... Dead tank. Dead raid.
After that, things went pretty well (except for the main tank dying on the last 5% of Curator). Someone moved during the flame wreath at 10% on Shade of Aran (they're still learning... Last night they learned that "don't anyone move during Flame Wreath" means that even if you don't have the flame around you, it's safer not to move) causing a wipe at 7%. This was at about 12:50 AM my time. But Pater was willing to clear to Chess so I went along and we finally finished at about 1:20. For my trouble, I picked up 13 Badges of Justice so I can now get the super awesome tanking pants. I'll probably do that tonight. Pater also got enough badges to get some nice healing pants so that will really help us if our guild ever does see Prince.
Just after Curator, a rogue sent me the healing stats for the night. I'd done 1.6 million healing, Pater had done 960k healing and the one healer from their guild had done 700k. Like I said, they hit the jackpot with us. Not only that but Pater nailed his shackles (doesn't mean the paladin didn't break them) and was his usual self about cleansing the holy fire off of people. He'd cleanse and I'd hit them with a couple of instant cast HoTs that healed them for about 6k. Ridiculous. I even managed to get off a cyclone when I had a couple of mobs on me to give the tanks a chance to pick them up and when that failed, I heal tanked one of the spell shades until the first two were down.
All in all, a great learning experience for me PLUS a huge confidence booster. I've healed regular Steam Vault before, but with a shadow priest and a full feral spec. With a resto spec AND the gear... Holy moly. Nerf resto dr00ds.
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