Last night we got down the Wind Lord, on the first pull, I think? Or maybe second, anyway it was fast. Tried Garalon a bit then the night was over. We started over an hour late because we were missing Nilv.

Today did second half of HoF and Terrace and got one sigil of wisdom and gold gold gold. Starting to get cranky I have 0 tier especially when others have 4-5 pieces.

Oh yes and was made an officer yesterday. I think we were getting borderline officer-less, actually. It was Alyis, only he hasn’t been on in around a month (sadface) because of work and money stuff, and Io will be gone for related reasons as I understand it. That just leaves Ran, who is GM, if I remember right.

I also have not seen Stout in weeks, nor Perfide, nor Rinni all this week so far. Janusz has also been missing for a month or so. I find it difficult to accept a request to come to his server when he has a lot of playing gaps. I mean I’m sure I could find people to get along with, but I’m not paying for a server transfer AGAIN and having the people that asked me to come over just vanish.

Last night we attempted Heroic Stone Guard. I’m not quite sure we’re ready for heroics yet. We were losing people early on the first few attempts, so at Angey’s prompting I suggested we have healer assignments. Plus I noticed that I was outhealing both Tree and Dor, while ending the encounter at 70-90% mp and they were totally OOM. I said I would take Nilvana and Dor would take Silly, and Tree would raid heal.

From then on, Silly was generally the first to die, every attempt afterwards. I haven’t pally healed in a while, but I don’t think it’s changed all that much. His top 3 heals varied pull to pull and Holy Light was often the #2 heal. Unless I have it wrong, that would be like me using Heal, which I never do. Ever, seriously it’s not even on my bars any more. If I need a ‘heal’ I smite. There was also a lot of LoDing going on which struck me as odd for tank healing on a spread fight. Was the range mad boosted from Cata? I dunno.

It was more apparent this wasn’t going to fly when Dor was saying things like “I need to work in another CD”. Wut? You mean you weren’t using one? Holy pallies, as I recall, are kind of boss with their ‘hand’ CDs. We ended up switching tank healing and I got Silly, who I only lost once when he hit one of the traps and exploded, or when it was a full wipe.

We gave up on that and did it normal, then had a wipe on Garajal when no one went in to heal one totem and the adds got out of control. Last week when I had asked what Dor uses for raid healing, he said it was “Smart Debuff” which as far as I could tell looks and works like Decursive. I had said I use Vuhdo and it shows me who has the voodoo dolls, to the point that neither of us need to call out who has it, because it should be apparent. But alas I still have to call it out because he can’t see it I guess.

Another thing that confuses me, our hunter, Hotbrass. In vent the things he says makes him sound like a hard core elite raider, but then he dies A LOT to normal mechanics. I can’t quite reconcile the talk to the play.

Anyway hm we wiped on Elegon at least once too for dumb reasons and ended it at that point. I think we should stick to regulars for a while.

Hm let’s see.  So we cleared up to the wind lord last night though our kill of the Vizier was pretty bad.  I think it was down to me, Silly, Duriel, and Onenight on the actual kill.  I still don’t really understand the way we do loot.  I went to the bottom last week after Elegon for winning the mace, contested.  Since then we’ve done 7 bosses, people have gotten loot, but I remain at the bottom.  That seems wrong.

Anyway last night we wiped on the wind lord for 3 straight hours.  The last phase is where people drop like flies, and one attempt I think we were at 3%.  I have no idea how the guides say you can 2 heal that.  So much damage.  I think I died on tornados twice, once when I wasn’t really watching my health and did not get grabbed by one, and another time I was well past one and still got grabbed.  Ugh that fight. UGH.

Also yesterday when we won WG it was suggested by Crucifixion that we got VOA and I was like sure why not.  Why not indeed.

Reins of the Grand Black War Mammoth.