WoW: I think we’ve got it
Our return to Zul’Farrak was a complete success. We were still level 45, but the difference from last time was incredible. I guess we’ve gotten back in the grove. I respected a little more holy and was healing differently, trying to gain less aggro. I threw less shields on Mark’s Warrior, never before a fight, and more big heals. It seemed to work. I did the math on my heals, and it certainly is more mana efficient to use big heals, it’s harder to control aggro though. I also tried something new called pre-fading. The theory is that if you fade before your big heal you won’t have aggro when your fade fades. I wasn’t all that impressed, but I’ll keep practicing, maybe it will help.
The only boss we took was Witch Doctor Zum’Rah, Mike’s Mage needed the Gloves she drops. It took us a while to clean up the grave yard first. I’m not sure it’s required anymore, but we did it with one hand tied behind our back. I expect we’ll be working in Zul for a while. Mark likes the big Shadow Priest Sezz’ziz fight on the stairs. It’s a little too chaotic for my taste. We all dinged 46, new spells for everybody.
I spent some time looking at Priest UI mods. I avoid using UI mods for the most part. I don’t want a mod-breaking patch to reduce my skills. I would like my group members health bars to be larger though. Maybe I’ll reduce my screen resolution.
September 12th, 2007 at 8:49 am
ZF runs bring back great memories in WoW for me. My favorite battles were on those stairs, it’s really not as bad as it seems at the time, the majority of the mobs coming up the stairs aren’t elite and with the added help of the NPC’s it’s quite fun and doable with a competent group. I remember being the main healer, as a retribution specced paladin…we made it fine. I had to get the big bad shoulders from the next boss…good times!