Leafshine: Lust for Flower

Idol of Avian Eh?

So, our little jaunt to Karazhan lead to me acquiring this little lovely:

Hurrah me!

Except...well...I'm deep resto. And deep resto means Tree of Life. And Tree of Life means no Healing Touch.

This seems like a very strange choice of Idol for an early Epic drop in Karazhan. It's clearly for healing druids, so why not provide something that benefits all healing druids, most of the time? Instead, this is going to end up as something I equip in very specific situations: encounters when putting out large dump heals quickly is the priority and HoTs are just not going to cut it - against certain heroic bosses, for example*.

It seems a shame that my first Epic Idol turns out to be an only-for-best performer.

*Not that I've yet set foot inside an Heroic But, y'know, it sounds about right.

Druid Tank: Does What It Says On The Tin

Something else I learned about from that WoW Insider post:

Druid Tank - an irregularly updated but always interesting Bear Tank Blog

Patch 2.3 = Happy Tree!

We've barely got patch 2.2 onto our grubby little servers, and already Blizzard are dropping the Big Hints about patch 2.3.

And it's happy happy dance dance do-the-twist-with-me time for Tree Druids, as this post about post-patch 2.3 druids on WoW Insider by Dan O'Halloran makes clear.

• +spell damage on +healing items! We can do the pewpew in our healing gear! Woo!
• Abolish Poison without dropping out of tree! Yeah!
• Combat res down to 20 minutes. So we get to bring our aggro-gathering clothies up more often. And spend yet more on reagents. Yay...?
• Intensity gets a mana-refreshing buff. Yay!

With a bit of luck we'll see the patch before Christmas...

Let the Movies Begin

Patch 2.2 went live on the European realms this morning, and with it came built in movie recording on the Mac:

expect more movies on this blog!

A Night at the Opera

A night out in Karazhan last night, and our first visit to the Opera as a guild.

We weren't terribly impressed with the performance given by the young lovers in question…

New Ferocious Feral: Ferocious Bite

I've just added a new blog to the Ferocious Ferals blogroll on the right: Ferocious Bite.

Mind you, she had a wee dilemma with the name of the blog, as she mentioned in her first post:

Welcome to my new blog. I struggled with what to call it....Ferocious Bite as our ability is called or Ferocious Nibble which is the term I like to use. The first time I said Ferocious Nibble, my husband thought I said Ferocious Nipple, so it's a bit of a joke with us and certainly conjures up some odd visual images. O.O

That an, uh, disturbing thought....

Druids: The Single Role Hybrids?

When I first ventured on my adventures in Teldrassil, I had a very different idea of what sort of druid I'd be. I thought I'd be the ultimate shape-shifter, swiftly blending from form to form, to fulfill whatever role the party needed at that moment. Need some heals? Here they come! Need some damage done? Rawr! Kitty cat Leaf! Need some tankage? Leafy Bear!

Now, two and a half years later, I spend all my time in groups lurking at the back, pretending to be a tree.

How did this happen?

Welcome to Leafshine: Lust for Flower

Hello, and welcome to my new World of Warcraft blog. I'm not sure why it's taken me so long to get around to doing this, given that I'm a blogoholic and a long-term WoW player, but it's here now, and we should all just be thankful for that, shouldn't we. Quite.

Anyway, the focus of this blog is going to be things druidic, especially the lady to the right, by the name of Leafshine. Leafy, as her guildmates affectionately know her, was born on the first day of the European release of the game. She's the spiritual child of Ermonsude, a Tauren Druid, whom I played during the beta. For the game's launch, my mates decided to go Alliance, and young Leafy entered the game. She started off on the EU Argent Dawn server, but transferred to Steamwheedle Cartel along with the rest of her guild.

Until her mid-20s she was balance specced, until it became painfully obvious that we only had one or two healers in the guild. A respec later, and Leafy has been resto all the way.

Now she's 70, working towards Heroics, starting to raid Karazhan and desperately trying to save up 5,000 gold to start her Epic Flight Form quest. Lots to do before we hit Northrend…

Hang on, there. Why are there entries before this one, if it's a new blog?

Good question. I've had two, short-lived shots at this blog before. I've imported the entries, just for completeness' sake. Hope that's not a problem, dear reader.