Late Night Shenanigans

So it was turning late a few nights ago, and we were running some reg ToC run's and finished ported back to dalarn. So on my mage I went to go sit in my normal seat to enjoy a night of talking on vent and wow... until someone was in it... some stupid pally then it became a game, joined by a few other guildies it became a night full of late night pranks. We all decided to follow a random alliance pally, wich was hillarious but was even better when he got into our group just to DI someone and commit suicide. Then we followed another random stranger for a few, until we decided to get a lock and get into the horde only inn and say hello to the hordies, and generally goof around until the wee hours of the morning, more story to come of this......

UI's, Speed runs, and Ulduar oh my!

So after about 4 years of WoW on and off I finally got to the point where I wanted something different with my UI, so with the help from a friend I decided to change the look of my UI by a ton.... its not as hard as it looks, and is really helpful for raids when you finish it, of course mine isnt as racey as ahm's is but it gets the job done all the same.

Also during the past week or so, a few of us have been pushing really hard to run speed run's of heroics for easy epics.. to view a list of times and the racey UI look here Stories Of The Tentacled Mind. Speed run's are a blast to do, the only problem now is that we have been ramping down a lot, expecially on raid days when there is raid prep to do, bosses to preview ect.... and a lot of people are still wanting us to clear every heroic every day, which is fine if there was no door boss at all.

Finally Finally our guild managed to drop freya in ulduar on friday night.... let me give you a run down of the fight..
wipe 1
raid leader wanted us to control burn the 3 add's and drop them one at a time... wipe
wipe 2
same strat. except with 2 healers... wipe
wipe 3
another controlled burn but with assigned groups.... wipe
finally on I think the 4th attempt, our raid leader said in a PG way basically "Fuck it just burn them down and we will see what happens"
easy epics. so I guess the fuck it additude really does work sometimes..

Huge thank you to everyone

Well I have to type this thank you to everyone, as of last night according to wow-heroes, I have managed to sneak into the top 20 overall gear score for alliance resto shaman's, now I know a lot of people say that gear score doesn't mean a lot. But they have to realize for a casual raider, and in a casual raid guild getting to this point is a HUGE accomplishment, and it's not just gear score, new content came out recently (trial of the crusaider) and as a guild we managed to clear it in 3 tries, and then to ice the cake so to speak Sholderguards of the Spirit Walker drop, and by shear luck and I think in some cases pitty from my jaw hitting the floor that I managed to get them as an upgrade. It's amazing what it takes to get someone to this point in the game, and I just have to thank everyone who pushed, pulled, dragged, and helped in any way shape or form to get me to where I am. So from the bottom of my heart thank you.

New Patch New shaman

Well it has been a long time since I have wrote anything on here, so this might turn into a long post to start off I am no longer a melee dps'er I have switched spec's into healing and have never looked back. Let's see progress into ulduar has been very slow only major achievement is that we cleared hodir after some trial and error and even managed to snag Cheese the freeze along the way. Thought that was great for us.

Let's see 3.2 has rolled around since the last time I posted so figure I might as well elaborate on those changes

• Changes to riptide are amazing and a great situational tool for us now, old style i was at a .68 second LHW cast that was completely wasted, under the new set up my LHW crit is just over 62% and my HW cast time is at 1.3 seconds, or 1.15ish with a trinket proced (did notice in 10 man buffed with both trinkets up im at a .997 cast time).
• IWS now proc's off of chain heal jumps, this has already proven to be a HUGE benefit to our mana regan, found myself casting a lot of chain heals when I was only healer up on phase 3 of ToC and could have pretty much casted endlessly.
  
• Gear from badges, im happy/sad/indifferent from the changes, they have benefited me greatly I am currently in the top 20 overall resto shaman's on ther server (big prop's to everyone) but it makes it easy for bad players to get good gear and that is just wrong.

Let's see thats about all the info I can think of currently.