Wizards with knives

Bad Company 2 is a game which can only really be reviewed over a period of time.

Oh yeh.

PENULTIMATELY

LASTLY

I'm fucking famous!

Bad Company 2 is a game which can only really be reviewed over a period of time.

Oh yeh.

PENULTIMATELY

LASTLY

I'm fucking famous!

What do you mean "not Spiderman 3 funny"? That's akin to insulting Angry Beavers, because, as I have said many times before, it rips off an episode of said cartoon. (I can't find the episode, so just trust me on that.)

" What do you mean "not Spiderman 3 funny"? That's akin to insulting Angry Beavers, because, as I have said many times before, it rips off an episode of said cartoon. (I can't find the episode, so just trust me on that.) "

What kind of rotation and setup are you using as a priest? As a fellow Holy Priest, I could easily throw some "Tips and hints" your way, as it were.

" What kind of rotation and setup are you using as a priest? As a fellow Holy Priest, I could easily throw some "Tips and hints" your way, as it were. "

" @Fallen189 said:

" What kind of rotation and setup are you using as a priest? As a fellow Holy Priest, I could easily throw some "Tips and hints" your way, as it were. "

Well, at the time I was drunk specced.  I have no idea what "rotation" means. I can heal fine most of the time, I healed my way to 80. It was my first time in a raid (ever) and nobody explained to me what I should be doing. Also my gear was kinda shit. I use Healbot, which apparently is bad but I have no problems with it. It's the fastest way of reacting to status changes. "

I did read the tactics, but it's hard to read the tactics for an entire raid and remember it all in a live fire environment. 
 
I know how to heal. I know what I should be doing. I just have problems actually doing it.

If you are in a good guild I think they will help you with healing in raids and heroics if they ignored those 9 people who wasted time spamming.

" @Sweep: Back when I played WoW, I always liked the idea of being a healer, but I knew I couldn't pull it off. It was too much just to manage my DPS & CC as a warlock, let alone worry about every other dude in the raid. I don't know how they do it. "

Sunny used Splash!
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But nothing happened!

" @Sweep said:

" @Fallen189 said:

" What kind of rotation and setup are you using as a priest? As a fellow Holy Priest, I could easily throw some "Tips and hints" your way, as it were. "

Well, at the time I was drunk specced.  I have no idea what "rotation" means. I can heal fine most of the time, I healed my way to 80. It was my first time in a raid (ever) and nobody explained to me what I should be doing. Also my gear was kinda shit. I use Healbot, which apparently is bad but I have no problems with it. It's the fastest way of reacting to status changes. "

Ouch. I guess I'd recommend reading up on what a holy priest should actually do, plenty of websites for that kind of thing. Also before going into a raid, read up on tactics. Yeah it's a pain in the ass, but necessary to avoid events like you described above. People generally aren't very patient when it comes to explaining tactics in PuGs. That's what guilds are for. "

How did you watch Kick-Ass, I though tit didnt come out for another few weeks. Did you have to sell your your soul or do you have a time machine, because those are the only options I can think off.

VoA is so last year.

Point in the direction of the wizards with knives.

Astras Said:

"@Sweep:  Go back to wow... get better gear, update your UI with decursive etc.. learn your class. Come back when you have properly played an MMORPG with a valid point."

A tip for the server browser in BFBC2 , don't wait for them to load click "cancel" after about 5 seconds, the servers will still show up in like 1-2 seconds.

" A tip for the server browser in BFBC2 , don't wait for them to load click "cancel" after about 5 seconds, the servers will still show up in like 1-2 seconds. "

" @DanielJW: Here is why you shouldn't play wow anymore: 
 

Astras Said:

"@Sweep:  Go back to wow... get better gear, update your UI with decursive etc.. learn your class. Come back when you have properly played an MMORPG with a valid point."

How about you come back with a valid penis.   "

I sorta just started playing WoW as well last month or so, also playing a priest. I got picked up by a raiding guild randomly, I accepted for a laugh since I was only in my 70's at the time, but turns out they're a good bunch of guys. I've been leaning toward holy spec and gear since, and I have the say the difference between healing well and poorly in a raid situation depends wholly on your gear. The usual healing tactics work the same (renew, flash heal, remove magic/disease, circle of healing spam in high AoE situations), it's just you need to do them about 9001 times more and 9001 times longer  than in a 5man, and if you have bad gear for the encounter you're just not gonna do enough healing or have enough mana to keep up, sadly.
 
I sorta loathed doing it at first cos of the epeen aura it exudes, but the mod 'GearScore Lite' it a good way to check if you're geared enough for certain encounters. If your gearscore isn't getting close to 5000, most endgame raids seem to be out of your reach. You can reach close to 5000 by doing random 5 man heroics and buying a tier 9 set, and if you're not getting decent drops through lack of luck, you can convert the triumph tokens into lower-end tokens and buy some decent epics to fill in the spots you're missing. If you're in a guild, organise some Ice Crown Citadel 5man farming runs with some people. The gear in there is of tier 9 quality and can fill the gaps unavailable from tokenspam.
 
Not to sound like a stalker or anything, but I also tried Champions with a few friends recently. It reminds me a lot of City of Heroes (not surprisingly) which I sorta had a soft spot for back in the day. Game has a bit of heart and I wanna like it, but I can't say my time with it thus far has been stellar due to the new update sorta screwing a lot of things up connection-and-interface-wise. The powers are also all over the place... Some are insanely powerful while others are borderline useless in comparison. Skill resets cost so much that picking the right powers is paramount, but so many of them are terrible and hard to gauge that it becomes really annoying to have to hump the powerhouse for a couple of hours just to find something halfway decent that may or may not actually be good out in the field.

I think part of the problem is that you're using healbot. Not to sound mean but it doesn't sound like you know how to play your class, you know how to click a health bar and let an addon do the rest for you. As for the raid bit, Im not a big raider but I would recommend trying to find a casual raiding guild so you can ease your way into different encounters.

great blog, this was one of my favourites to read in a while.

" I think part of the problem is that you're using healbot. Not to sound mean but it doesn't sound like you know how to play your class, you know how to click a health bar and let an addon do the rest for you. As for the raid bit, Im not a big raider but I would recommend trying to find a casual raiding guild so you can ease your way into different encounters. "

"The usual healing tactics work the same (renew, flash heal, remove magic/disease, circle of healing spam in high AoE situations), it's just you need to do them about 9001 times more and 9001 times longer  than in a 5man, and if you have bad gear for the encounter you're just not gonna do enough healing or have enough mana to keep up, sadly.  I sorta loathed doing it at first cos of the epeen aura it exudes, but the mod 'GearScore Lite' it a good way to check if you're geared enough for certain encounters. If your gearscore isn't getting close to 5000, most endgame raids seem to be out of your reach. You can reach close to 5000 by doing random 5 man heroics and buying a tier 9 set, and if you're not getting decent drops through lack of luck, you can convert the triumph tokens into lower-end tokens and buy some decent epics to fill in the spots you're missing. If you're in a guild, organise some Ice Crown Citadel 5man farming runs with some people. The gear in there is of tier 9 quality and can fill the gaps unavailable from tokenspam."

I would recommend VuhDO, its another healing addon but its a cross between Healbot and Grid. It has a similar style to grid, but you can still bind keys and mouse buttons to automatically cast a spell on a player's health bar. If a player takes a lot of damage in one hit their health bar will flash, to let you know, and you can have icons in the health bars to let you know whether or not you have a Healing over Time Spell on them or some other spell.
 
For instance, I have my left mouse button set to "Target" that way I just click on someone's health bar and cast a spell like normal, but at the same time I have my Mouse Scroll Up set to a cure poison, and my Mouse Scroll Down set to a remove curse spell. It's a nice little inbetween, but the only downside is it will take some configuring. (There are some tutorials on how to set it up here:  http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=VuhDo+Tutorial&search_type=&aq=f )
 
For some guides on different healing methods you can also check out the Priest forums on the official WoW website, and the priest forums on the MMO-Champion website among other places.
 
Like I said I'm not a big raider so I may not give out the best advice, and you may not want to do this stuff because you're just not -that- into the game, which is perfectly. If you are interested though, I think these have the potential to help you out a bit.

" Point in the direction of the wizards with knives. "

Healing was too much pressure, I swapped to my DK. Now I miss my priest...

This is why you play a Rogue. When things go to shit and everyone around you starts dying, you just use vanish and slink away leaving everyone to die.
 
I do this on a regular basis while in randoms.