garreth's blog
Help Me Heal
Submitted by garreth on Wed, 10/15/2008 - 11:06.
I've been freakishly busy the last few weeks and haven't had a chance to really get into the healing mechanics much for the new paladin spells.
Can someone please direct me to some links that discuss the new techniques to healing as a pally in 3.0, specifically in how to get to the most out of Beacon of Light and what not?
Thanks!
WoWHead's Item Comparison Tool
Submitted by garreth on Wed, 10/08/2008 - 13:23.
http://www.wowhead.com/?compare=30054;30139;34912#.
Check that out as a starting point. Holy shit.
Echoes of Doom
Submitted by garreth on Thu, 10/02/2008 - 12:08.
You all probably remember my hysterical, rant-filled, rage-fueled freak-outs over the Illumination nerf right after BC. You all told me "it will be alright" and then it went live and it wasn't alright. Paladins to this day are considered some of the weakest healers in the game and it's something I struggle with in raids nightly.
Then the first beta talents came out and I was... overjoyed. The talents were amazing, the abilities exactly what we'd begged for for years.
Then we got it all taken away.
This post pretty much sums it all up: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=10532600037&sid=20...
Read it and understand why being a Holy Paladin is about the shittiest role to play in WoW. At this point, playing Holy is nothing but a labor of love for me. It's fun in a "hit yourself with a hammer" sort of way, but I know that if I don't heal, we will lose one of the few remaining healers left in this fucking game.
A fundamental flaw of WoW is that it bases the entire success of a group of people on a set number of those people "taking one for the team" and rolling a tank or a healer. You've all heard this rant before, yes, I know. But at one point I was EXCITED for the paladin Holy changes in Wrath. And now they've all been pounded into the ground and we've been reverted right back to where we were.
In before the inevitable Shihli post stating "It's beta, nothing is set in stone".
In before the auto-shotting Hunter tells me to suck it up because "dps r hard 2".
In before the resto shammies emo out again.
In before the tanks tell me "you think YOU got it bad".
In before the resto druids realize they actually get an AoE HoT in Wrath. (Yarly: http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?spell=53251)
Win a Tyrael Pet, a Beta Key and a Figure Print
Submitted by garreth on Thu, 08/21/2008 - 10:56.
For five days WoWhead will be taking the first 5 entries in this contest:
http://www.wowhead.com/?contest=name-that-screenshot
and drowning them in insane WoW schwag. Get on that!
Chesticles
Submitted by garreth on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 13:02.
Heyo,
I just realized I can now make the [item]Sunblessed Breastplate[/item] and wear it since I can keep my 4-piece T6 bonus.
So, I'm looking for [item]Primal Life[/item]s and [item]Primal Water[/item]s. Hit me tonight if you can spare them!
We have these
Submitted by garreth on Sun, 08/10/2008 - 02:50.
Downfall has every single one of these characters. For better or worse.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=8765779306&sid=1



