Monday (2 Apr) - I'm Going to Regret This

Monday (2 Apr) - I'm Going to Regret This

Priests have too many procs! The other day Wild helped out a druid guildie who wanted to learn to heal. After half an hour she said her head was esploding. I simplified things down for her, and helped her set up and monitor the four key things she needed to do and watch for: lifebloom stacks, swiftmend on cooldown, wild growth on cooldown, keep the Harmony proc active. Keep up with those four things and you've got all the basics.

I started laying out the same things for Philly, and I ended up with a whole page full of stuff. Priests have more spells that proc more "stuff" than I ever remember I was supposed to keep track of. Procs like Weakened Soul, Grace, Renewed Hope, Divine Aegis, Inspiration, Borrowed Time ... and every one requires Philly to react and do something. Or not do something. Or prepare to do something. And that doesn't even count all the spells. My head is esploding.

Philly is going to keep banging away, at least for awhile.

Where has my week gone? On Sunday night JB suddenly realized she hadn't done her two lfr DS runs for the week! It was already late, but she caught a break and picked up a just starting Siege with only 12 minute wait. The group was as good as any random bunch of raiders JB has been in. She was in elemental spec hoping to pick up some gear. The raid raced through all four bosses with hardly a death and not a single wipe or miscue. When the fourth boss, Hagara, lay dead the raid leader applauded us. Applauded! 

JB was also fortunate on the gear front, replacing two i378 pieces with i384s. JB has a new belt, [Girdle of Shattered Stone] and a pair of bracers, [Grotesquely Writhing Bracers]. Her elemental gear level is up to i377.

It was late Monday night when JB was next able to get in game.She queued for fall of Deathwing and was ten minutes into the wait when one of JB's guildies started up a dungeon run to help some other guildies with gear and asked JB to join them. JB switched over to enhancement spec to speed up the run, and we had a good time cleaning out the place. Then it was back to elemental spec and the lfr queue. Eventually JB got her run in and her valor points, although she came up dry on gear.

It's another long maintenance day on Tuesday . . .

JB has 3000 VPs to spend, but can't decide what to spend them on for her elemental spec. The tier equivalent gear is okay, although I hate to spend points on them knowing that the god of rng will hand JB her tier piece from the lfr once she spends those VPs. But the non-tier equivalent stuff - necklace, rings, etc - are loaded with stats like crit and haste that just don't help JB as much as she'd like. I'm pretty sure she's going to end up spending 2200 of those VPs to replace the last pvp piece she's still wearing - her i377 chest piece.

This week is the beginning of the Major League Baseball season. I am planning on catching three games this week starting Tuesday night. I set a goal to go to at least twenty games this season. That would double the number of games I've gone to over the years. I've mostly lived where there are no major league teams. Here in San Diego, and two years in Cleveland, are the only places I've ever lived that had teams. And, weirdly, I never went to a Cleveland Indians game. But, I've gone to games in Baltimore, Detroit, and Yuma.