Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Back to Raiding

I finally finished my Karazhan key and joined my guild for a Kara run last night.

About the keying processing, I really like Black Morass. It's an inventive and fun instance. It is not, however, an instance that you can really do with a random pick-up group. It's ideal for a group of five friends to just go and practice, to fine-tune their strategy until they are successful. But when you are doing Black Morass in a pickup group, people leave your group after one try, new people join, it's just a big pain.

Anyways, back to Kara. It was good being back in a raid. I've really missed hitting mobs, and was actually very tired of healbotting. I think my Holy spec is a little extreme though, and I'm switching to a Holy/Protection mixture.

I'm seriously considering a Retribution spec, but my warriors love Kings, and I haven't really been able to make a Retribution build that incorporates Kings and enough healing to satisfy me. Given that I'm often the only paladin in a 10-man, having Kings is a necessity. I may go Retribution when we start trying the 25-mans, though.

Karazhan itself is a pretty nice instance, so far. I haven't seen very much of it. We killed Attumen the Huntsmen, and then wiped a lot on Moroes. Good times. The instance itself is an interesting place, less like a dungeon, and more like an actual house (albeit a very big house).

5 comments:

  1. If you're the only paladin in the raid, why is bok a necessity? What class would rather have that than might/wis/salv?

    Warlocks, I guess. But unless you have a whole lot of warlocks, is it really worth gimping your spec?

    Tanks might like it if you're not healing, but if you're a paladin, you'll be healing. Don't kid yourself!

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    Eldre'Thalas

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  2. The tanks will have Kings.

    I won't be the only healer, so Kings seems like a much better choice than Light.

    Sure Light boosts my healing, but Kings helps out the druid and the priest.

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  3. Guess it makes sense. I'm used to being MH, and light is a big chunk of +heal. And in a 10-man, I guess you have to get used to being the only paladin :(

    Theory

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  4. Yeah, if it was a 5-man, and I'm main healing, Light goes on, no question.

    But when you're one of three healers, Kings becomes a better choice.

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  5. thats what i was thinking, salv is better than any other buff really

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