Casting Resurrection on Blog!!

So Blogging? I haven't blogged since the end of Wrath. And I tell myself that every time I hit a large milestone that I'm gong to start blogging again. So here's attempt number... 3?

Meet Ashe. Resident of Team Heals over at Eff the Ineffable. She didn't start over there though, once, she was a lowly alt over on Hydraxis, rolled because trying to raid (or even dungeon) with 3 core ranged DPS (and that's about it at the time) was not going to happen!

When the cataclysm hit, her guild went through a lot of changes, and then it was decided to transfer over to another guild.. Then another.. Until Finally, she found a home with her old guild mates Takk, Sen and Mara over at EtI. So she packed up all of her things, brought over some heirlooms with her just in case, and she was sucked up through the Internets (Probably the 4th or 5th dimension) and landed on US-Azuremyst.

Now, Ashe is not only a healer, but a face melting shadow priest when she is needed, which is what she was called on to do tonight! Our Blackwing Descent cleanup was tonight, and through Atramedies, she was happily melting as many faces of as many bad guys as she could.

Then, one of our healers stepped out so that a DPS could come in and get achievement from Chimaeron, so if we gain a DPS,and lose a healer, Ashe is the one who gets to switch, being raid ready in both her heal and shadow specs.

So Chimaeron went by smoothly, Ashe healed the Double Attack tank, (And was sad because that fight is not good for smite-healing). We went to Nef, and then it got messy.

The first attempt, There was only a Tank with Ashe at her pillar. Now Lol-smiting can do some dps.. but only around 4k usually. Needless to say that attempt didn't go well. Then a few more wipes happened for silly reasons here or there (also for caster dps with instants, don't cast as you're falling into the pit with Ony to get your dots or whatever up on her asap. You get aggro pretty quickly, and Ashe even got hollered at for doing this in previous guilds, Whoops!)

Then, I don't know how we did it, but the Effers managed to break Vent. Then we broke BWD. Not like we won, but Nefarian actually forgot that he was supposed to attack the target with the most threat. Orv had tons of threat, and all of the healers faces kept getting nommed on, Nef wouldn't move from the middle, and he just decided he was going to do whatever he felt like instead of paying attention to things like Threat. Whoops.

Good job Eff the Ineffable, we broke Nefarian.

Internet Dragons, we are killing (Or healing) them.

So this past week I got to go on my priest Asherrylie, to heal Lower Spire + Dragons. Now, Memento Mori also had Aioka, a Disc priest (with whom Ash's gear is pretty close) and Mord, who is a crazy good Holy Pally. Mord has single healed most of Lower Spire before, So it's safe to say that two lesser geared priests are not going to be the bane of Memento Mori's existence. He actually Solo Healed Saurfang that night, asking Aioka and I to go Shadow (Which wouldn't have made much of a difference anyways, Our DPS is probably 5.5k and 4.8k respectively) But we managed to down Deathbringer Saurfang before any marks went out.

Now, you're thinking that if we healed Dreamwalker successfully, (Which we did) that it probably looked like this:
Priests on Raid and Pally on Dragon.

Let me tell you that it was completely the opposite. Mord healed the raid (I know, a paladin, raid healing? I told you that Mord is a crazy good paladin), and Aioka and I Healed Dreamwalker up while gathering green bubbles of awesomeness. So we won that fight, huzzah, huzzah.

Then we go to Sindragosa.

I might point out that Memento is still lacking 10 solid Raid members... so we had to PUG out 2 (or was it 3) spots.

Only one of our raid members has ever seen this fight, let alone killed her successfully. And it's actually not our Raid Leader. So (hopefully) all of us have been studying the Tankspot videos throughout the week so that we know how to DPS Sindy in the face (or rather... the side).

Things went fairly well actually. Sure there were a few points in time when we killed Ice Blocks faster than we should have in the first phase, and took a lot of damage, and it really sucks when you get pulled in because you have to turn your camera all funny and what not, but we always got her to the last phase (the point when you're only supposed to have one ice block out at a time), but at that point, we don't really know what we're doing.  More specifically, we are standing where we're not supposed to be, and a lot of people get blocked, which is really bad for the raid. We wipe 2 or 3 times at this particular point, and after it being past our bedtimes, we decide it's enough  for the night.

Next week, we should spend some more time on Sindy, as well as roll face in the plague wing, and hope that the Blood wing goes down faster than it did the week before (to be fair, it was our first night in there, and we did successfully down it, but we wiped quite a few time, and if we want to smash Sindy's face some more, we'll need to be a little quicker).

Arthas, We're coming for you!