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Another reason to love (or hate) Druids
I was checking out my Google Analytics traffic data just now and noticed that my post on Durn the Hungerer was getting some traffic from search engines. And that reminded me of something that I did a couple of weeks ago.
I was cruising around Oshu’gun doing the Multiphase Survey and killing Clefthooves for Clefthoof Meat for the cooking daily when I happened upon none other than old Durn himself.
Now, if you play a Druid you probably already know what I was thinking at that point. If there is one thing I pride myself on as a Druid above all others, it’s our ability to take things down that nobody else could. Solo.
So yeah, I sat down and ate some Grilled Mudfish, popped an Agility Potion, checked my cooldowns and charged in.
I used everything at my disposal to keep myself alive. Lifebloom. The amazing Barkskin/Tranquility combo. The instant cast regrowth granted by the 2-piece T5 bonus. Frenzied Regeneration. Health and Mana Potions. Innervate. The Regeneration ability on the Spyglass of the Hidden Fleet. I really went all out.
At one point I seem to remember my hit points being under 100. At another point, someone flying past stopped and looked like they were going to jump into the fight which would have totally ruined it for me. I stopped fighting and quickly /yelled “DON’T HELP!”
In the end? I got him. A couple of people had stopped to see what the commotion was all about and they all /cheered me after he was dead. I bowed and thanked everyone and finished my dailies.
Another “Yeah, I soloed that” moment under my Druid belt.
Droods and Spriests
Now that Vishyna and I are very close to 70, I think I can safely say - with at least a little bit of authority - what I’ve been thinking all along.
Feral Druids and Shadow Priests make awesome duos.
We don’t tend to shy away from anything that crosses our path. In fact, I’m eager to attack anything and everything that we see. We usually take down elites without casting any actual heals. Vishyna will use Vampiric Embrace and I do get some health back from Improved Leader of the Pack and that’s usually plenty to get us through most fights.
We did some group quests to finish up Blade’s Edge Mountains last night. With my old Prot Warrior I wouldn’t have even considered doing them without a dedicated healer in the group. Vish and I made them look easy though.
I do need to learn to pay more attention to her health and mana though. The mana part I’m getting better at. She used to always have to remind me to innervate her or let her get the killing blow so Spirit Tap can proc. As a Feral Druid, I can just keep going and going though. One fight after another, with no more than a few seconds in between to get my energy back to at least 80. And I do that quite often, leaving her with no mana. I’m getting better though. Mana is rarely a problem until we fight the big fights.
Health however, I still need to work on. I’m just not used to being able to heal other people other than with First Aid, and that only happened in some extreme cases with my Warrior.
We’ll finish a long string of fights where Vishyna has backed up into some mobs or had some patrols wander into her. We kill them all and I’m ready to go as soon as we’re done looting. Then she has to remind me that she is very close to being dead from the aggro that she had. Then I feel bad because had I not gotten the aggro off of her when I did she probably would have died. And I didn’t even notice.
Now, she could just heal herself. But then she’d have to pop out of Shadowform - which costs 32% of your base mana to cast - then heal herself using more of her mana. Then she’d have to sit and drink to get her mana back.
Or I could just heal her and pop back into Fite form.
We’re well over halfway through 68 now. We’ll be a good bit into 69 by the time we’re done tonight. On Saturday Vish has some studying to do. She’s gonna put me on /follow and I’m going to farm Thick Clefthoof Leather and Netherweb Spider Silk for the both of us. I need about 50 more leathers to finish my clefthoof set and she needs infiniti more netherweb to make… I don’t know, some lame cloth stuff.
Whatever gap we leave between 69 and 70 tonight will be considerably smaller by the time I’m done farming that stuff tomorrow. That means you can expect a post about us doing the Shatari Skyguard and Ogri’la daily prerequisites soon.
Tags: Druid, Shadow Priest
The Smallest Creatures
Vishyna and I are about halfway through Blade’s Edge Mountains now. We dinged 68 last night which means I got to train Flight Form, woot!
We did one of the coolest quests in the game too: The Smallest Creatures. If you’ve never done it, check out the item description on the Kodohide Drum (an item for the quest) to get a idea of what you’re in for. You get to take control of a ridiculously cute little Marmot and use him to poison the Ogre’s brew kegs. He can toss acorns to distract ogres or even go stealth if they are in his way.
The night before I had stopped in at Halaa to see about turning in my 40+ Oshu’gun Crystal Power Samples. It was owned by the Alliance, but lucky for me there was a raid forming to reclaim it for the Horde. There were about 30 other Hordies there all waiting to flag for PvP at once, and only about a dozen Alliance players.
Someone was kinda calling the shots and when he said “Now!”, we all flagged and destroyed the Alliance players that decided to stay and fight. That was my first PvP experience as a Druid and I had a blast. It’s a considerable difference from trying to fight as a Protection Warrior (my other character).
I ended up with three Halaa Battle Token and two Halaa Research Tokens from the fighting and the powder turn-ins. So I only need 97 more Battle Tokens and 18 more Research tokens for my Dark War Talbuk.
Hello World …of Warcraft
Hello. My name is Megalis. And I’m a Druid.
I started playing World of Warcraft on December 15th, 2007 on a 10-day trial account. Some new friends had invited Vishyna and I to a LAN party. They were all playing WoW, and we were playing Tabula Rasa, a game we had picked up about a month earlier.
Now don’t get me wrong here. I already new what WoW was. I had spent the last three years continuously making fun of the people I knew who played WoW. I also used to make fun of people who played Everquest. Until I started playing it myself that is.
Vishyna and I had played EQ2 together for about a year before we decided it would be best for us and our relationship if we quit. Two years later, I came home from work one day and find that Vishyna had bought herself a copy of WoW. She broke the news to me by offering me the 10-day trial card that comes with the game. I respectfully declined and she started playing it by herself. She didn’t play for very long though. I think she got to level 20. Then she heard about Tabula Rasa at work and started playing that instead. A week later I started playing Tabula as well. Until the LAN party.
So at this LAN party, seeing all these people playing WoW was nothing new. It wasn’t the excitement of seeing a game completely new to me that made me decide to start playing. That was what did it for me with Tabula Rasa. With WoW, it was just out of pure curiosity that I finally decided to give it a shot.
Without saying a word to anyone, I went to the official site and signed up for a 10-day trial. I downloaded the game launcher and started playing the streaming version. I rolled a Dwarf Paladin (yeah, the “easy class to play“). Vishyna rolled a Warlock and another friend (who caught me downloading the game) rolled a Gnome Rogue to come level with us. We got to level 12 that weekend and I had a really good time. On Monday I went to GameStop on my lunch break and bought the Battle Chest.
Now one of the reasons I didn’t want to play WoW was because I knew I would enjoy it and I knew I would become addicted to it. Alas, that is exactly what happened. I never played that Paladin again though. I rolled a Draenei Warrior instead. I leveled him into the 40’s as Fury, then swapped over to Arms. Vishyna and I had joined the guild that the people from the LAN party were in and they needed tanks. It had been my intention to try and fill that roll. So in the low 60’s I changed to Protection.
I had barely dinged 70 when I was whisked away to off-tank Karazhan. There was a Feral Druid in the guild who would be main-tanking the trash pulls, then I would main-tank the bosses. It worked out very well. We had a really solid group of players in that guild and we were doing things that everyone says you can’t do, in gear that isn’t supposed to be good enough for what we were doing, with classes that aren’t supposed to be there and without some that are.
A few weeks after I hit 70, Vishyna and I had to leave that server. We started playing on another server with some people that she works with. They needed another bear tank. So I rolled a Druid. Vishyna rolled a Priest. We started out doing our own thing. Just grinding out the levels however we could. That went on until about level 25 when I found Jame’s Horde Leveling Guide. Vishyna and I picked it up from the beginning (even though we were already halfway through our 20’s) and we haven’t looked back.
As of today we are level 62 and gaining fast.
As for this website. Vishyna had mentioned this “big bear butt blogger” to me a couple weeks back and suggested maybe we start our own WoW blog. I read that blog and found many others as a result. I really liked the idea and started looking for some good domain names right away. We came up with a solid list of interesting domain names related to WoW in some way, but we still haven’t officially settled on one. We’ll let you know when we do.