[7F]Griswald
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Hey, I wanted to give you all my comments on how this went... now that I have had a day to reflect and calm down.
It was painful, there were good moments and bad ones... the bad out numbered the good ones unfortunately and we played like a pickup group. From my Priests point of view, it was kind of nasty... of the 40 people there were only 2 Priests, 5 druids. So from the start it was looking bleak, but I figured if they were going to do it that I would do my part.
Some of the highlights:
I only died 6 times
We had some really bad moments; I was rezing people still when they pulled the next mob... I had just finished buffing 4 groups of 5 people and had 500 mana when the next pull happened. Twice we wiped while trying to recover from a wipe... This next one was real cute, after a wipe... I was 3rd last to get rezzed... The first person was a warrior, then a mage etc...
Trying to de-buff and heal at the same time does not work, what is a cool down doing between a dispel and a heal? If I dispel, I have to wait before I can heal???
Curses in that place really suck, one I am particularly fond of is the Curse that reduces both Intellect and Spirit by 50%... seeing your 8k of mana reduced to 4K... what made it worse is that it did not get removed until after the pull on the next combat sequence. Most fights were done with no buffs at all, as they were pulling before I could get mana to do fort on the groups... with only two Priests to buff 8 groups it does take time.
The straw that broke my camels back was being rezzed almost last and then someone either pulling or agroing a mob (for the 3rd time) before I could even sit down to drink... I died by its aoe.
We did have moments that were good also, we killed a few mobs without losing a person... the Priests/Druids did an excellent job in light of what they had to deal with... going by memory I was just under 400k of healing and the other was just over 400k; the druids were around 280k... yes I did not finish first I must admit that I was thrown off my groove a few times by pulls when I had no mana at all... hence no healing... My repairs amounted to almost 5 gold, which is my new record.
In summary, it was a humbling experience for myself... for success in this place there needs to be more communication and only one puller... one leader and someone watching the healers for mana and what they are doing... There may have been some without CTRaid as I could see the mana on everyone else, I could see the dead and living... so it could have gone alot smoother. There is hope that things will improve as people get familiar with the place... but 2 Priests is not enough plain and simple.
I have done a few other raids with other guilds and they were very good experiences... very well done. Not once was there a pull with healers rezing, or low on mana... at least 5 Priests are needed (8 Preferred)... Mages need to de-buff curses in combat as Priests must debuff magical effects... they are just to nasty there. (-50% Int & Spirit, Healing reduced by 75% etc...)
It was painful, there were good moments and bad ones... the bad out numbered the good ones unfortunately and we played like a pickup group. From my Priests point of view, it was kind of nasty... of the 40 people there were only 2 Priests, 5 druids. So from the start it was looking bleak, but I figured if they were going to do it that I would do my part.
Some of the highlights:
I only died 6 times
We had some really bad moments; I was rezing people still when they pulled the next mob... I had just finished buffing 4 groups of 5 people and had 500 mana when the next pull happened. Twice we wiped while trying to recover from a wipe... This next one was real cute, after a wipe... I was 3rd last to get rezzed... The first person was a warrior, then a mage etc...
Trying to de-buff and heal at the same time does not work, what is a cool down doing between a dispel and a heal? If I dispel, I have to wait before I can heal???
Curses in that place really suck, one I am particularly fond of is the Curse that reduces both Intellect and Spirit by 50%... seeing your 8k of mana reduced to 4K... what made it worse is that it did not get removed until after the pull on the next combat sequence. Most fights were done with no buffs at all, as they were pulling before I could get mana to do fort on the groups... with only two Priests to buff 8 groups it does take time.
The straw that broke my camels back was being rezzed almost last and then someone either pulling or agroing a mob (for the 3rd time) before I could even sit down to drink... I died by its aoe.
We did have moments that were good also, we killed a few mobs without losing a person... the Priests/Druids did an excellent job in light of what they had to deal with... going by memory I was just under 400k of healing and the other was just over 400k; the druids were around 280k... yes I did not finish first
I must admit that I was thrown off my groove a few times by pulls when I had no mana at all... hence no healing... My repairs amounted to almost 5 gold, which is my new record. In summary, it was a humbling experience for myself... for success in this place there needs to be more communication and only one puller... one leader and someone watching the healers for mana and what they are doing... There may have been some without CTRaid as I could see the mana on everyone else, I could see the dead and living... so it could have gone alot smoother. There is hope that things will improve as people get familiar with the place... but 2 Priests is not enough plain and simple.
I have done a few other raids with other guilds and they were very good experiences... very well done. Not once was there a pull with healers rezing, or low on mana... at least 5 Priests are needed (8 Preferred)... Mages need to de-buff curses in combat as Priests must debuff magical effects... they are just to nasty there. (-50% Int & Spirit, Healing reduced by 75% etc...)
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