Phase 3: Profit !

Warning: This is not a econ-related post

Okay, I admit My BElf Paladin is not as sexy

My raider career

My raider career started back at TBC.

I was a late comer, When everyone is raiding on DT, I had just ding 70 and started on raiding Kara. I got my T4 set and then Wotlk came out. And I raised my main and alt to 80 since then.

I had a healer (Paladin) and two dps (Mage and Hunter(just ding 80 in two weeks ago)).

I am a traditional (and responsible one) instance runner,

that’s I’ll only go to a heroic instance/raid, if I

• Run the normal instance once (for heroic), and know what’s going on
• Read notes about the boss changes and his skills

And I also raid much, the same reason for Gevlon. I can’t stick with the “every week raiding” for 2-3 nights for 3-4 hour thingy. It’s just not my playing style. I’ll talk about my Healer career.

The Pug

My gears are from pug, and pug are disaster, always.

Under-gear tank, what-is-healer-mana-bar tank , and the I-am-in-a-hurry tank. Mindless DPS, Mr. I-like-stand-in-fire-or-anything-look-funny etc etc. (I guess everyone is familiar with them)

Well, to be honest, I wasn’t a good healer either. But it’s really hard to tell, if it’s the tank’s fault, the dps fault or my fault.

I got my gear to 1600sp (from reputation and drops) and then I started to raid Naxx with my guild.

The Raid

I started raid for Naxx-25 (Yes, not 10-man) since my guild is lack of healer (as it’s always be) willing to go. While there are more than 40 people of naxx-25 gear-ready people, They seldom join our raid. (That’s a little specious) We had to take 10-12 pug people to fill the remaining slot.

While I knew(thought) I am under-gear, I take 4-5 [item]Flask of the Frost Wyrm[/item] with me.

That raid was horrible. First day (Fri), 8pm-12am, Second day (Sat) 12pm-12am, Third (Sun) 12pm-1am. And yes, we take down Kel’Thuzad after 28 hour.

And I was one of the only 2 guild members left in there.

You'll know when it came to the end

The Burn Out

I run couple of time with them afterward, but not a full run, 28 hours of raiding exhausted me. But then raiding is so repeative for me.The only different is what gear drop, and what people we take with us. I do know every single boss in naxx will do, and what to do about them. And yes, there are many M&S who does not take flasks and not even have well-feed buff which piss me off.

I can’t said I excelled in healing, There are many things I can learn (and My reflex is not that  good either). (Side note:I am not a good “dancer” yet either) But raiding to me is no more fun.

And I hate farming for gears, and with M&S dragging you backward is much more painful.

What to do?

What I did

I didn’t raid with my healer anymore (That was two month ago) , I seldom login as well on the horde side (My healer is on the horde faction, while my other toons are on Alliance side). I leveled my NElf Hunter Alt to 80, and do the mindless dps afterward.

I may go back to my BElf Paladin and /gquit one day and start my raiding again, but with the poor quality of PUG and gear farming process, It’ll take a long time to recover.