My 1st Flying Mount, SSC experience, and...

Fucking hell, Blizzard. Cord of Nature's Sustenance dropped, killed Illhoof for the 1st time in many moons. We pinned down Netherspite for the 1st time as well (yeah 1st time kill, we're fucking lazy. So sue us =P)

Got exalted with Netherwing faction early this morning. On top of that gotten my 1st flying mount for free as well kek. Quite funny it seems that I was in flight form all this while as a druid. Only now able to ride a flying mount, cbf to get one when I had 275 riding skill.

Have anyone wonder why having even number percentage of critical chance gives you more chance to critically hit/strike? Unless I'm feeling a bit different or the game mechanic are screw up. Didn't have the chance to dps much nowadays. Don't have enough healers to go around these few days. So back to healing duty for me, ain't complaining much. Switch to new raid frame User Interface Addon called Grid. Very much like it at the moment. Makes healing more enjoyable I think...

SSC last night was good, improving on Hydross the Unstable attempts. But could be better if everyone didn't lose out on their concentration thru out attempts. 27% was our best effort on the night. Come this Monday I hope I can post some good news about it.

Good, Just When I Was Planning On...

Something else, the loot I wanted from Gruul finally dropped. I couldn't as for more, or should I? lolz.

Spend the whole afternoon yesterday editing WDK 1st kill on Void Reaver, don't know where to host that file at the momment... Don't think is a good video thou, But ill leave the folks out there to decide. Ill update this post or blog if the link to the file is up.

SO... looking back on my wish list again... so far...

Idol of the Avian Heart of Moroes <- No luck with this idol. Ill just settle for something else...
Cord of Nature's Sustenance of Terestian Illhoof <- FUCK IT, I got my Veteran's Wyrmhide Belt to replace this shit.
Cowl of Nature's Breath of Gruul the Dragonkiller <- finally got this, the spirit stats on it is awesome.
Gloves of Malorne of The Curator <- still waiting... and waiting... and waiting...
Antlers of Malorne of Prince Malchezaar. An optional upgrade for me, but ill settle for the glove instead. Since I got this already Wicked Witch's Hat kek.

Ill get another wish list up once I figure out how the hell I gonna clean up my bank space... Fucking Stormrage Ramient still occupying 10% of my bank space... =P

FTK - Void Reaver,

Yes, WDK downed Void Reaver. Just only our second week at The Eye, or you can say our 2nd day there. As usual trash was pain for any 25man raid at this point as we speak. Not much of an issue this week on the trash, but then again dps was weak again at Void Reaver.

Clearly missing the wanted dps class in the raid, i.e. the Shadow Priest. Misery would seriously help the caster dps much more better. I was given the green light to dps yet again. As much as I like to heal, my dps was needed =P. Both of our resident shadow priest wasn't around every time when we need them most. But I guess I can just fill in their roles =P.

Grats to the Tier 5 set winners. Another notch in the progression chart for us =).

SSC Incoming, srs buziness.

Magtheridon Down, Incoming Serpentshrine Cavern?

Yeah I know this is a late post, WDK down Magtheridon on 6th of June. With the wipes and yell over the TeamSpeak server to get the fight right for 3 nights / raid we finally lay him to rest. Now he drop a quest item that you can turn it in to receive rewards with 4 rings for you to choose. I won the 1st Magtheridon's Head, very much honored in doing so as well.

As everyone know, or if they haven't I just transfered over my toon from Smolderthorn to Tichondrius. 3days ago, mark my 3months from the transfer. Which means I can transfer this toon again "should" I choose to.

I'm very much enjoying my time with Wad De Kao at the moment. It was a pivotal point in my WoW career that I made this transfer. Never much I have enjoy playing this game, even if it's always repeatable most of the time. Still so much to progress in this game. But little much time everyone have on it.

Another win for us, and with Serpentshrine Cavern on the horizon.

Our 1st kill, hope is not the last one lolz.

As you can see, Magtheridon's Head displaying as a trophy of our victory over him. Very much thanks to everyone who made this happen. THX FOR THE LEWTS GAIZ!!!

Loots have been fucking around with us again this week. Not to say it was bad, but then again it could be better looking at the amount of effort everyone puts in week in week out. I think WDK loot seed is bug, gonna petition to a GM about this... lolz

Are you going to drop?

What drop I’m referring to? Well loots obviously, I haven’t been getting anything upgrade recently. I mean my healing gears, getting frustrated on the loots haven’t been showing up for the past 3 weeks if I remember correctly. Karazhan this week was ok, have to get used to some of the boss fights such as Shade of Aran and Prince Malchezaar. Nightbane was a bitch as usual, where the internet ate my connection on our second attempt at him. Manage to get him down nonetheless.

Current wish list base on priority:-
Idol of the Avian Heart of Moroes
Cord of Nature's Sustenance of Terestian Illhoof
Cowl of Nature's Breath of Gruul the Dragonkiller
Gloves of Malorne of The Curator
Antlers of Malorne of Prince Malchezaar.

WTB fucking good loot seed for this Sunday’s Gruul's Lair run onwards. PST!!!

Swift Flight Form ITW

Well worth the 5000golds spend on getting myself the Swift Flight Form, the best thing is you can gather herbs while in this form. So Swift Flying Mount < Swift Flight Form =D. Quest begins at Moonglade, but to obtain this quest. One must already learned 300 Riding Skill i.e. spend the 5000golds to learn it. After that you will be ask to do a chain of quest to summon a boss in Sethekk Halls in order to complete the quest. Before I start the quest I was left with only 218golds to spare, I was worried on this amount as the repair bill on my current gears will accumulate up to 19golds from 100% durability to 0%. Now after the series of quest done, I manage to double up that amount and on top of that doing instances to test out the new patch which of course enables me to get this Swift Flight Form. Now I’m sitting happily at 1000+golds since patch day and the 5000golds I spend. I also got myself new Balance Spec leggings from heroic The Blood Furnace instances. Very happy indeed because all these while I’ve been using my healing legging to DPS (Check out my armory.worldofwarcraft.com profile). Still looking for a new chest piece to replace my current one, hopefully can get another run to Mana Tombs and be a fruitful one XD. Going to try to get a group to The Old Hillsbrad just hoping the DPS head piece and the glove drops'. Gruul’s on Sunday, going for Magtheridon on Monday. This week’s Karazhan run for my group wasn’t very productive, didn’t even have enough people for day 2 for the run. Hopefully things will turn out well next week.



Many thanks again to "Bends", "Asuth", "Tunn" and "Dartana"

The Art of Healing on Heroic Mode?

WHAT, druid healing on heroic instances? Hell no…

Yeah druids healing at heroic are much gimped at the moment. But I’m sure the next patch we will get the chance to prove that we can as much do the same as other classes. Even with talent and such, our overall heals / efficient are still not as good as any other classes claim by people around. 1st of all, Healing Touch casting time is in 3sec with talent without talent is at a massive 3.5 sec cast time. So getting heals in fast are a big issue for us. Even with the fastest heals that we’re able to use are Regrowth which is at 2sec cast time, is not an efficient healing spell to used for over all duration.

The average heal on it is not as effiecient as Healing Touch, although the healing over time that comes together with it. Still not the best spell to be use over time in an instance. Unless you‘re talent are spec into Tree of Life, it might just cut it out. But still Healing Touch is the way to go, is slow but is good. There are ways to maximize the spell, one of them is to reduce the casting time on it. My current talent spec allows me to reduce the casting time by 0.5sec of the next spell after a critical cast. So that give me 2.5 sec cast time on Healing Touch. And on top of that with Scarab of the Infinite Cycle proc you should be able to reduce the cast time on Healing Touch to of 1.93 sec.

Is not hard to heal in heroic instances, is just that you’re group need to have good DPS. If not is going to be hard for you to actually last thru out the duration in combat. I always make sure that I start of my heals on the target with Regrowth then just spam away the Healing Touch. Recast Regrowth on target once it expired, rinse and repeat until you’re out from combat. You can combo together with Rejuvenation as well as Lifebloom, the healing over time is the bread and butter for druids healing. It really helps on buffering the Healing Touch cast time.

Macro Nature Swiftness with Healing Touch is another life saver in every situation. If you have Swiftmend you will have 2 instant cast ability with you.

Gruul this week was awesome, eated him on 1st attempt. High King Mulgar wasn’t that awesome, could have one shot him. As usual things get cranky when new people are in the raid, not to say that they suck or anything. I think they need to be on the toes at times on the things they need to be doing. Did not get the chance to upgrade any of my gears last week. Hoping for a wind of change this week, with patch day coming things can only get better I hope.

Easy Mode On.

As per my expectation, the patch version 2.1 did not roll out on last night’s maintenance. So another week of “Easy Mode”, hoping for some great run this week. Monday run on Gruul’s wasn’t that impressive, but certainly another moment to ponder about. Main tank died thru on Growth no.13, just about when we manage to drop him on 1% HP left in him. Paladins were happy on that night, another week of loots that we’re least to expect from it.

Trying to look forward to patch version 2.1, all level 70 epic gears are getting buffs. More improvements on the stats on them to compensate some of the nerf’s certain classes will be getting on the next patch. I don’t think the next patch will make much impact on everyone’s game play. Everyone just need to improvise on the changes or at least make adjustment to the changes.

All the gear changes according to my friend, is to help those player who don’t have chance to progress fast in the player vs. environments content in the game. I would say this is bullshit, but I’ve dare not to back this up with my own words. Mainly players across the other continent have the edge over us on the internet connections. As well as the mentality of self over others, is already hard to please 40 peoples last time around. I hope people would understand the concept of being a team player at times.

Unproductive week...

This week's Karazhan raid wasn't that impressive as far as my concern. Group 1 didn't manage to clear the instance, left with Nightbane to dealt with. We had to use a new main tank for the week as our usual tank was away for the week. Much impressive start on day one on the instance.

Cleared all the way to The Curator, on the next day we killed Prince Malchezaar with out much problems. Made our way to Nightbane after that, we had a go at him. Wiped a lot of times, most probably not enough heals on the main tank to last thru out until Phase 3. Tanking wasn't the issue on hand that day, postpone the killing of Nightbane over the weekend. Not a good turn out, eventually we have to skip him for this week.

Hopefully tonight's Gruul's Lair would be a productive run. Looking forward to this week's raids. Keeping finger cross on the new patch which is estimated to be release this week... eventually.

Healing is a marathon.

The thing about healing is like doing a marathon with your ability to focus on what you're suppose to be doing. I can roughly say that a 4hours of raiding for healers is like a marathon because the amount of focus you have to give is limitless.

Keeping people alive, not just 9 others. But then a 25man raid comes into mind it gets more tiring. Not to mention before the release of Burning Crusade, healers for 40mans raid are into the similar mental marathon over the space of 4-6 hours of raiding.

Is easy to lose focus if you're half asleep, at times I couldn't keep myself up if my tired. Talk about people who complains about playing other classes that does not heal. Maybe is just me, I like to keep people alive 1st myself later =P

My healing user interface at the moment. You should see it when I'm raiding =).

Going to make this a WoW blog...

Since I have nothing much to talk about, I've decided to make this a World of Warcraft blog.

Started playing this game since 16th August 2005, roll a druid on Horde side at realm Smolderthon. Got accepted into the guild name SycK, they wanted druids at that time. So that's how it all started. Basically spend my whole entire WoW career there for the past 1 year and 4 months there until I decide to transfer my druid to another realm.

Tichondrius is where I reside now, made a lot of new friends in the process. We recently down Gruul the Dragonkiller one of the new bosses in the 25man raid instances. Was intense fight and as always I went berserk over the TeamSpeak as everyone was shouting for joy on the success after killing him. Took us 2 days time on attempt to get him down (well that is counted on the attempts we made on him with my current guild's members, if not we took like 2 weeks to get it right)

Last week's kill was more memorable for me, as I was given the green light by the raid leader to pump some DPS into the fight. That was our problem over the weekend where our usual dps wasn't around. Hope I will get more chance to DPS in near future =D

More details on what is DPS is all about, visit WoWWiki

Ill post more as I'm still trying to figure out what to post in this blog lol.

Doing the right thing.

At times I wonder if I would still be staying at my previous job. What would I end up with? Most probably I would be "living paper weight". I guess I made the right choice to leave my previous job.

One of the best decisions I made for myself. I learn a lot of things from my current job at an retail outlet as a supervisor on duty.

Human management is definitely one of the most exciting things then I've learn to dealt with. Come to think of it, I emo more then I used to. L O L

Hmm... seems I got things to blog about today.

Shh... I'm back... I think...

Hmm, whether I'm going to blog again. It will all depends on my mood, it could be a year, months, weeks, days that I might feel the urge to blog. But at the mean time, I'm still alive and kicking. Yes I still smoke, although I stop for like 3 months.

The nicotine is all under control in my blood stream, thanks to the Lingzi pills I've been consuming for the past 6 years IIRC... well if I'm wrong, heck just shoot me.

Work have been kind of hectic these days, but then again is a thankless job being in the retailing line =P I guess... K E K.

Chinese New Year is coming soon, was hoping for a long break for work. But meh, business as usual. I can only take a few days off for the CNY week. Better then nothing. Can't wait to get into my new pair of shoe. Which is a yearly anticipated event for myself on CNY. Don't ask me why, but I always look forward to get my old shoes replaced.

My life, current still as usual. Still no attachments with anyone of the opposite gender. Well, good ones are hard to come by nowadays. Even so, all are already taken. 2 more years to go for myself, I mean my target of "GOALS" in life... Is gonna be a close call I guess =)

Ill just let god drive my love life for now. As always... the word I like to use at times, "It Depends"

Fast fast la...

Such a boom month, just recently my ex boss wife gave birth to a baby girl. He is just 4 years older then me. Sigh...

Today is my friend's wedding, and she is only one year older then me. Time really flies... or should I say the time is not moving for me instead? I wonder...

Going to break my head again this coming weeks. So many things to worry and so many things to do. But then again, if I don't do it who will?

Will you do it for me? I think not =P

Cheerio...

Patching things up...

Yeah patching my World of Warcraft game as we speak loller... what are you all thinking?

Anyway, same old drill at work today. Nothing much for me to learn anymore, I think... perhaps I have to search for things to learn about.

So hard to hire people to work at retailing line these day’s... partly due to World Cup maybe? Meh, hope things will turn up well. Need to hire 3 more people to work at the shop. Sigh, good employee are hard to come by these day's.

Yay, finally have time to post... O rly?

Holy blog resurrection Batman!

Yeah finally take the luxury to post since last year... WoW almost a year already since I last posted up a journal. Yeah WoW, World of Warcraft. The game that has taken over my life.

Been juggling my work with my leisure life, it seem that I spend more time at the shop I'm currently working at then having a time of my life. Well maybe in the end something will turn out well. Hopefully...

World Cup 2005 on this month , couldn't be bother watching it. Since that incident I don't want to think about it again. (Want to know more about this? Well this is for me to know and you to find out =P )

I'm playing this MMORPG game called World of Warcraft since last year, and I meet lots of new friends in the process as well. But I wonder will I be in the same path where all the shit started 5 years ago? Meh ironic... But then again, I found is really burning out me at time. But, but... I still love this game... Maybe I have to take a break or something.

Heh, posting here now obviously taking a break from it =P

HELLO WORLD !!! AGAIN!!!

Oh, Happy Father's Day to my dad. Also to those dads out there as well.

Respect.

Responsibility + Effort = ???

Finally, yeah reply again at my blog. Been measuring my room floor and leaving house for something else other then work. Sad eh? My parents were asking to look for job, which I already did. So is not my fault entirely that my oyabin (stands for boss in Japanese) ask me to work at home.

I don’t think anyone buy this excuse that I gave; come to think of it… with my academic qualification. I don’t really deserve this, well maybe I can relax until the big hell unleashes in the next few months. Should be able to handle it… I guess… Does the responsibility given able to blend in with the effort that someone will give out?

The out come would be, I should say… depends on the individual. I for one are someone who like to put in extra effort if require to. Unless, I don’t have the heart to take responsibility/task/work handed to me. Another early morning babbling… Well it seems that is been awhile.

The last I known that I’ve posted at this time was when I were at my old company. How time flies… I think that is almost one year passed.

1st week, hmm... I really started my work ar?

Yeah, started work last week. My boss gave me 5 more days off just to do some analysis on the shops warranty department. Oh boy, tomorrow will be the day I propose to him what is going on with the department. Hope everything will turn out well.

This is just a quick rant on my life at the moment. Going of for a futsal game now. As always, Wednesday is futsal day for me.

Yes, still not yet started my work...

Wasting my free time over and over again with this Warcraft 3 : Frozen Throne custom map game called DotA - Defense of the Ancients. Basically you get a random hero or if u choose to pick one yourself to go head to head with other players in a game of 1vs1/2vs2/3vs3 and so on and so forth. The fucking objective of this game is simple.

Keep yourself alive, I mean defend your team defense tower and keep the Tree of Life for the Sentinel and Frozen Throne for the Scourge from being destroy. As either team tower collapse from being attack from other team hero's, the game is getting tougher.

Well if still don't know what the fuck I'm talking here. Well, nevermind then. I spend mostly all my time playing this custom map for the pass 5 weeks. Still learning how to play well in this game. So this is who I spend my time now. How fucking lame. Starting work soon, hopefully on the 1st of July 2005. Till then, ill be doing some research these coming weeks on PDA's and Pocket PC.

ARGGG, I really need to do something better then leaching my life out from this game...

Back On Track... Are You Sure?

Bah... Been "measuring floor" for the past few days at home. Basically being at home, facing the computer, then take my food, sleep. About sleeping... Well been sleeping like a pig recently. Need to get my body clock back in-synch again with my previous work time sleep.

Going for a trip today to Penang. For a friend's wedding reception. Boy oh boy, seems like everyone is getting married... Thinking hard about my future now. Single Chinese boy, piff... I guess I have to use my heart to find a girl that I like. Not by the looks... Well I don't think is will go fair with what I have just mention?

Personality 1st? Look 2nd? Ill say is a bull shit. Most guys will go for looks, well... I think most of them. Don't be so shallow "la" brother.

Take care everyone who visit this blog. Ill be back... Hopefully without a inch increase on my waist line...