And now my post-coffee entry...
Mar. 13th, 2006 10:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqA few weeks ago I bought what I hoped would be good coffee for the office. This coffee is not good - heck, it's not even bad. It's undead coffee embalmed in the urine of lepers and ground with scientific precision to enhance its awfulness. Obviously there are a finite number of things that can go awry between the bean and the bag, but these coffee producers managed to miss every quality target on their way there. So what does one do with bad coffee? In a rational world the conversation might go something like this.
"Yo,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
plonq, I have a bag of ground, distilled evil that was apparently mislabelled as coffee. What do you want me to do with it?"
"We don't seem to be wanting for convenient garbage receptacles in our little office. I vote that we throw it out and never speak of it again."
Unfortunately it didn't stop there.
"I know. I'll mix it in with the good coffee to dilute its vileness to a level that we can handle."
"Noooooooooooooooooooooooo! Not the good coffee!"
I suppose the resulting blend is passably drinkable if you don't mind vomiting a bit into your mouth with each sip. =/
Our guild has been running fairly regular set piece raids lately, and though my priest armour refuses to drop, we've been getting some pretty sweet loot. There is, however, one oddity that I have noticed, and I wonder if it is by design.
If we do a raid without a druid, then druid gear will inevitably drop.
If we do a raid without a rogue, then rogue gear will invariably drop.
If we do a raid without a shaman, then... well, you get the idea. (It's fun running a raid with 3 shammies. "Totems. TOTEMS! TOTEMS!!"
We tried an all-guild run at Zul'Gurub over the weekend, but we couldn't round up enough for a 20-man raid. We debated advertising for pick-ups, and then decided to try running it with 15. We did remarkably well right up to the first boss. Even then we did pretty well - inasmuch as mass party death can be considered "pretty well". If we'd had a full raid party - and specifically a couple of druids in the mix - I think we'd have been in good shape. I'm all sorts of positive about this guild.
I am having a lot of fun doing these raids, even though I am in a role that is entirely support. For me, the raid is a very different experience from what it would be for a most of the other classes. When we have pulled a large group of mobs, or are fighting a boss, I am usually only peripherally aware that there is a fight going on. I have no idea how close the enemy is to defeat. During a large battle, my world is all about damage meters, mana management and line of sight.
There are two of us in the guild with level 60 priests just now, and we are usually both along on most raids. At risk of sounding immodest, I think we work very well as a team. It makes your job easy when the other priest seems to read your mind occasionally. I usually finish at the top of the healing stats on most raids, but that does not mean that I'm the better healer. The truth is, I use underhanded techniques to pad my healing stats. Yes, I admit that sometimes my inner statwhore manages to claw its way to the surface and make me do things like that but... I came in second behind a druid one time. A druid. There's class pride at stake here.
"Yo,
plonq, I have a bag of ground, distilled evil that was apparently mislabelled as coffee. What do you want me to do with it?""We don't seem to be wanting for convenient garbage receptacles in our little office. I vote that we throw it out and never speak of it again."
Unfortunately it didn't stop there.
"I know. I'll mix it in with the good coffee to dilute its vileness to a level that we can handle."
"Noooooooooooooooooooooooo! Not the good coffee!"
I suppose the resulting blend is passably drinkable if you don't mind vomiting a bit into your mouth with each sip. =/
Our guild has been running fairly regular set piece raids lately, and though my priest armour refuses to drop, we've been getting some pretty sweet loot. There is, however, one oddity that I have noticed, and I wonder if it is by design.
If we do a raid without a druid, then druid gear will inevitably drop.
If we do a raid without a rogue, then rogue gear will invariably drop.
If we do a raid without a shaman, then... well, you get the idea. (It's fun running a raid with 3 shammies. "Totems. TOTEMS! TOTEMS!!"
We tried an all-guild run at Zul'Gurub over the weekend, but we couldn't round up enough for a 20-man raid. We debated advertising for pick-ups, and then decided to try running it with 15. We did remarkably well right up to the first boss. Even then we did pretty well - inasmuch as mass party death can be considered "pretty well". If we'd had a full raid party - and specifically a couple of druids in the mix - I think we'd have been in good shape. I'm all sorts of positive about this guild.
I am having a lot of fun doing these raids, even though I am in a role that is entirely support. For me, the raid is a very different experience from what it would be for a most of the other classes. When we have pulled a large group of mobs, or are fighting a boss, I am usually only peripherally aware that there is a fight going on. I have no idea how close the enemy is to defeat. During a large battle, my world is all about damage meters, mana management and line of sight.
There are two of us in the guild with level 60 priests just now, and we are usually both along on most raids. At risk of sounding immodest, I think we work very well as a team. It makes your job easy when the other priest seems to read your mind occasionally. I usually finish at the top of the healing stats on most raids, but that does not mean that I'm the better healer. The truth is, I use underhanded techniques to pad my healing stats. Yes, I admit that sometimes my inner statwhore manages to claw its way to the surface and make me do things like that but... I came in second behind a druid one time. A druid. There's class pride at stake here.
