Hey folks!

Thanks so much for the responses to my last post, asking for information about which of my posts I should bring into the main navigations of the site! Great information, and lots for me to work from. I’m deeply greatful for the feedback :)

What Have I Been Doing?

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been working on some more WoW videos, and I got 12 or 13 of them done! Mainly, they’re about making money on World of Warcraft right from a low level, and truthfully they’re meant to get more eyeballs considering the purchase of my very own World of Warcraft Gold Guide which I’ve named “Wealth On Warcraft” and links from this site.

With my third toon edging up to 70 and me being a mere 400g shy of the money I need to buy her regular, and then her epic flyer (which of course the other two 70s already have), I figured I have something to say about how to earn cash on the game, even if it’s not the standard Gold Guide of “go here, do this”. It’s kind of scary to put myself out there like this, but at the same time it feels somewhat right to take a chance on :)

I will be posting the videos over the next while after my brother comes to visit near the end of this month, and I’ll link them from here as they release (not all at once, although I might start with a release of 3 at once).

If you’d like to subscribe to my series of email based off of this Guide, in the first sidebar there’s a link to where you can sign up for free.

At any rate, I don’t really like to self-promote on my blog which is for my own fun and creative release, so let’s move on, shall we?

Healing Priest Approaching 70

Game-wise, I’ve been working on my Healing Priest. She’s been advancing level-wise mainly through instance runs - sometimes with friends also leveling second or third alts to 70, but mainly just hopping into the LFG tool and going with random groups.

I’ll get back to the LFG experiences soon, but I’ll finish with a wee summary of what’s been going on, then get into the meat of the subjects in more postings.

At 64, I started my trek towards a gearing goal I had set for myself, by making the Primal Mooncloth Belt. At 65 I made the Primal Mooncloth Shoulders, and after a few frustrating PUG experiences, I cooled it on the PUGs for a bit and turned my attention to something different - Battlegrounds.

Fortunately for me, Season 4 of Arena fell right at a time when I needed it - sort of. I mean, it meant that Season 2 gear opened up to those of us slummin’ it in the Battlegrounds, and there was a new level of gear I could pick up without it “going bad” so to speak, so quickly.

So, while my computer was importing or exporting video stuffs, I battlegrounded, hitting all of them: Alterac Valley, Eye of the Storm, Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin. I ran around in my completely-NOT PvP gear (ie: zero resiliance) and healed my Undead butt off, and had a great time of it.

Even at 65, most of the time I was #1 on the healing charts, although that’s easy enough to do just by following the wrong crowd in WSG, so I won’t continue to brag on that part. I’ll write more about my thoughts on that another time, tho.

In the end, I’ve now gotten enough honor and tokens to buy the four PvP Season 2 Arena epics that will tide me over until I start getting some Heroics badges at 70:

Merciless Gladiator's Mooncloth Leggings
Merciless Gladiator's Mooncloth Gloves
Merciless Gladiator's Mooncloth Hood
Merciless Gladiator's Salvation

Once I got those done, I bit the bullet and advanced my tailoring from 366 to 375 making Imbued Netherweave Robes (which I then disenchanted for enchanting mats), and then I crafted my Primal Mooncloth Robe.

I’ve gemmed all my gear with Green-quality gems so they’re not socketally empty, and will worry about upgrading them once I can wear them.

My Plan At 70

I will probably ding 70 in an instance, as is the way of a Healing Priest PUGger, so I’m going to bring my gearset with me and hopefully be able to record a video (and not have it cut out as it sometimes does) of me dinging 70 and putting on a whole new set of gear.

Then, when I exit the instance I’ll make a bee-line for Shadowmoon Valley to buy my regular, and my epic flyer.

I’ve decided on the Swift Red Windrider for this one, and I’m not sure if I’ll go for a different flying mount or land mount quite yet.

But, I’ve already made the trek to Shadowmoon Valley to get the flight point…

I’ve got the gear, and mostly all the money… now it’s time to PUG my way to 70 and put this stuff on and see what the numbers tell me!

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In aiming for the goal of getting my Priest to 70 and running a few heroics as healer before the expansion pack hits, I’ve put steady love towards levelling this toon - mainly through instance runs.

This toon has been running instances for most the level up I’ve done from Level 38 to now, minus a few levels in the 50s when the BRD groups were too slim and I was bored of Azeroth and wanted to get to Outland.

I’m quite enjoying healing for the Outland instances, because they’re less tank-and-spank and require more “learning” on my part in order to be successful as a healer. Realizing, for instance, that the major damage I should be looking out for on the tank in Slave Pens comes AFTER the boss dies (Rokmar the Crackler) was one of the things that made me realize I’ve got to pay WAY more attention as a healer than I ever did as a DPS, at least when it comes to boss fights.

Or maybe it’s not true, and I’m just so used to Mage’n It that it feels like this requires more attention.

At least as a Mage, with a good tank I just worry about sheeping the mark and not pulling aggro when I DPS down the targets in the specified order. When it comes to bosses, I work on not pulling aggro while I DPS, and moving out of things that hurt me (charred earth, fire patches, shadow patches).

As a healer, I have to worry about everyone’s virtual lives, respond quickly to injury of certain squishy classes, and at times, make quick and tough decisions about who lives and who dies… and worry about what the mobs are doing and bosses are doing as well. It’s a real challenge, for sure.

What’s The Trick To AOE Healing?

I’m doing Mana Tombs these days, getting Consortium rep (Mana Tombs gives Consortium rep to just short of Honored) and plenty of experience healing in tough situations, including AOE healing.

One big thing I’ve learned is that healing AOEers is hard! Man, bigger kudos go out to those healers who are able to keep me up when I’m AOEing!

Then again, maybe I should pay attention and see if it’s Warlocks and Fire Mages who are hardest to keep up because they don’t tend to use shielding in their repertoire, and my shield vanishes in a couple of hits and I just can’t heal them fast enough.

Hmmm… then again…

Moving to Flash Heal from Greater Heal

One thing I’ve noticed is getting markedly important is that while I have been able to use the slower-casting, higher-healing Greater Heal since level 38, it’s often the length of my spellcasts that are causing me grief nowadays in the mid-60s Outland instances.

So, after these couple of runs in Mana Tombs and being reminded of that spellcast-length fact, I’ve adjusted Healbot so it uses Flash Heal(Rank 8) by default on a left-click, and I have to alt-click for the Greater Heal. Maybe that’ll help with my healing of AOEers.

At any rate, it’s interesting to me that I really hadn’t noticed a problem with Greater Heal’s cast time until I started hitting healing of AOEers in the 63-65 instances. I’m hoping this will make things a little easier on everyone.

I’ll let you know, and would be glad to hear your experiences too if you’d share :)

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