It's been a busy month. I've still been playing, working, reflecting. It's just been a while since I've felt like I had something that I wanted to share and so here it goes.
Last night I completed my first heroic dungeon with Mythsaken. It was Stonecore. It was a Pug. The night before I’d tried it, but we kept wiping on the first boss. The tanks kept leaving after a couple of wipes and I just didn’t know why. Last night I figured out why they left. I realized that I qued up for a heroic and didn’t realize it. Duh! Yeah that is why it was so much harder. It turned out to be a good mistake on my part. I felt unprepared to do a heroic and I wouldn’t have intentionally qued for one. But once I figured it out, it at least made sense why it was so much harder. Well again our pug group lost two tanks before we got one who admitted he never tanked that instance on heroic and asked if we minded if he gave it a try. You know after the night before, waiting in que for a half an hour losing 3 tanks and having the group give up before you got the first boss down, I was like hell yeah I want you to give it a try. Yeah we wiped a lot. Over and over again. When we finally got the first boss down, I felt elated. I even got to go be a “Hero Bear”, switching from cat to bear to tank the boss the last 20% after the tank died. The second boss was worse if that was even possible. I was afraid that the group would give up after numerous wipes. So as a last ditch effort I said I had a crazy idea. The tank asked what? I told the group I wanted to change spec to heals and wanted us to try with two healers. I had been dying early each fight anyway and I had read that using 2 healers in a heroic can be a good idea sometimes. With no enrages on the boss, it didn’t matter if you lost a little dps. Now let me tell you I was a bit nervous to suggest this because, I hadn’t healed since I got berated by another player in Tol Barad. Also, I hadn’t healed in an instance in probably over a year. Needless to say I felt a bit rusty. Well we wiped again. I was surprised that the group didn’t fold then. We tried it again and we got him down. I shifted back to kitty spec and we continued on. I’d shift to bear when we got too many in one of the pulls and we kept marching through the place. Yes we continued to wipe on the next boss and got the dragon down on the 3rd attempt. Working our way to the last boss I glanced at my dps after we did a large pull of the initiates and saw I had over 22K dps on that fight – woot for me. Made me glad I upgraded my boots to a piece of pvp gear. It wasn’t ideal but it was a solid improvement over what I had before. The last boss was hard for our tank. He forgot about the hurled boulders – twice. On the second attempt I paid more attention to him and when he caught a boulder I shifted to Bear and took over tanking her. The healer kept me up – for a while, but not long enough. I died. The healer died next. We were left with just the two hunters, health below 50%. Finally we were down to just one hunter. With barely any health left, the boss on the platform hurling boulders, the initiates overrunning him, I was quietly yelling "kill her" – to the laptop. (With no vent – I typed the words for encouragement.) And he did. EPIC.
What a great memory. What a great group. I wish I had been in there with guildies. I got one drop for my healing offset and /cried when I saw other items I could use for my off spec get sharded. But it doesn’t matter. I had a great night. I got to be a hero bear. I got to use my off spec heals. I felt pretty awesome. That’s why I like being a druid – they are very versatile. I definitely will be going back and dragging some guildies if I can.
Have a great weekend all!
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