Best in Slot Holy Gear Pre Cataclysm Raiding.

This will be my last post for a few days as I make my way to 85 and start the heroic grind! Here's a list of all the gear you can obtain via Justice Points, Heroics, and Reps. Keep in mind you can also gather gear through tailoring and archeology! If I've missed anything that should be here just leave a comment!

                           Justice/Heroic Gear

                                    
Head: [Mask of Snow]  - 2200 JP 
Neck: [Amulet of Tender Breath] - Vortex Pinnacle Altairus 
Shoulder: [Mantle of Loss] - SFK - Lord Godfrey 
Back:[ Solar Wind Cloak] - Halls of Origination - Rajh 
Robe: [Anraphet's Regalia]- Halls of Origination - Anraphet 
Wrist: [Baron Ashbury's Cuffs - SFK - Baron Ashbury 
Hands: [Dolomite Adorned Gloves]Stonecore Corborus or[Gloves of Purification]- 1650 JP
Waist: [Belt of the Falling Rain]- 1650 JP 
Legs: [Leggings of Charity] - 2200 JP 
Boots: [Hekatic Slippers]- Halls of Origination - Rajh
Ring #1: [Veneficial Band]- Lost City of the Tol'vir - Augh
Ring #2: [Kibble]  - Blackrock Caverns - Beauty
Trinkets: [Tears of Blood] -Stonecore High Priestess Azil or [Witching Hourglass] - Blackrock Caverns Ascendant Lord Obsidius or [Corrupted Egg Shell] Grim Batol  Erudax
Main-Hand: [Scepter of Power]-Halls of Origination Setesh
Off-Hand: [Prohet's Scepter]- Stonecore High Priestess Azil
Wand: [Wand of Untainted Power]- Grim Batol  Forgemaster Throngus

Stave: [Soul Releaser]- Halls of Origination Earthrager Ptah


        Reputation Gear/Crafted/Archeology Gear          

Waist: [Cord of the Raven Queen]- Hyjal Guardians of Hyjal Exalted
Main-Hand: [Shimmering Morningstar] Tol Barad Hellscream's Reach Revered
Trinket: [Mandala of Stirring Patterns] Tol Barad Hellscream's Reach Exalted
Trinket: [Tyrand'es Favorite Doll] (Archeology)
Staff [Staff of Ammunae]  (Archeology)
Waist:[Belt of the Depths] (Tailoring)






                           Enchants/Gems

Enchants:
Head: [Arcanum of Hyjal] Guardians of Hyjal Revered
Shoulder: [Greater Inscription of the Charged Lodestone]  Therazane Exalted
Weapon: [Enchant Weapon: Heartsong] or[Enchant Weapon: Power Torrent]
Boots: [Enchant Boots: Haste] or[Enchant Boots: Lavawalker]
Legs: [Powerful Ghostly Spellthread]Tailoring
Bracer: [Enchant Bracer: Exceptional Spirit
Chest: [Enchant Chest: Exceptional Spirit] or[Enchant Chest: Peerless Stats
Cloak: [Enchant Cloak: Greater Intellect]
Gloves: [Enchant Gloves: Haste]or[Enchant Gloves: Greater Mastery
Off hand: [Enchant Offhand: Intellect] You read that right! We can enchant offhands now! ^_^
Ring: [Enchant Ring: Intellect]
Gems
META:[http://www.wowhead.com/item=52296] Ember Shadowspirit Diamond
RED: [http://www.wowhead.com/item=52207] Brilliant Inferno Ruby
BLUE:[http://www.wowhead.com/spell=73341] Sparkling Ocean Sapphire
YELLOW:[http://www.wowhead.com/spell=73348] Quick Amberjewel
PURPLE:[http://www.wowhead.com/item=52236] Purified Demonseye
ORANGE:[http://www.wowhead.com/spell=73369] Reckless Ember Topaz
GREEN:[http://www.wowhead.com/item=52250] Zen Dream Emerald
 

5 Reasons Why Wrath of the Lich King Didn't Suck (That bad)

Cataclysm will be out in just 7 days. The Lich King is dead. The world has shattered and people everywhere are looking to die in a fire. While standing around in New Orgrimmar I got to thinking.. Why don't people ever look at the positive things Wrath has to offer? Good question. Here are my reasons why Wrath wasn't bad. 



5. Paving the Way for Phasing.
 Unless you've been living under a rock the past week then you've been doing the revamped old world quests. Phasing was a new thing with Wrath and it was awesome.  You actually felt like you had an impact on the game world. I don't know about you but I like the idea of having me killing those 20 murlocs matter. 

4. Algalon
 If you've never gotten a chance to even wipe to this boss you are missing out. The over all encounter is challenging, fun and unique. Algalon has some of the best dialogue in the game. I'm a titan lore fan so he was pretty much a win for me.  You had to defeat a number of bosses on hardmode to access him which was pretty neat as well.


3.  Barber Shop/Duel Spec/Deathknights.
 I'm a girl so the barber shop was pretty much a huge win for me. I change my priest's hairstyle to suite his outfits for Roleplaying and for when he shadow/holy. I've spent far too much in the barbershop. 
3a. Duel Spec was a HUGE thing for wrath. I know being a healer myself I loved not having to shell out 50g every time I wanted to do dailies, pvp or quest. 
3b. Deathknights.... Love them, Hate Them, Kill Them they are here to stay.  I don't exactly like Deathknights but they are our first hero class and they make pretty good tanks. I hope to see more hero classes in the future. 

She should probably look into making her feet smaller too. I mean really have you see how fucking huge female belf feet are?!

 2. The Looking for Group System
 This is one of the best things Blizzard has done since cross server battlegrounds and the item preview window. I've had nightmare experiences with the LFG system and I've had amazing ones.  No matter how you look at it there is no denying that its a grand thing. This was a pretty fun way to level alt before The Shattering. Sadly however they just nerfed the over all experience gains from using the LFG from levels 1-60 which is a good and bad thing. 




1. Hardmodes/Ulduar
 I kept these two together because they go hand in hand. Ulduar hardmodes were by far the best. I loved the fact you had to trigger something or kill a boss in a different way to do them. I'm not a huge fan of the way they changed hardmodes in ToC and ICC. They weren't fun and were generally uninteresting. 
1a. Ulduar was the best thing Wrath had to offer. It was full of interesting bosses, a crazy old god and loads of titian lore.  The overall look of the instance was excellent as well!

 
 
I just got finished raiding ICC for the last time a few hours ago. Even though I've been staring at those walls for 11 and 1/2 months and I can honestly say that a small part of me will miss it. I hope it becomes a fun place to go back to at say level 90 or higher. Goodbye Wrath of the Lich King. You won't be missed much.

7 LittleThings People Tell You About Healing (That aren't true)

I've been healing since 2005 and I've always heard the same common lies about healers. There are things that are pure opinion and the rest is just pure false information. Well I've decided to clear the air about it all. Here we go!

You have died

7. Healing is just whack-a-mole!
  I find this statement funny because I see some 8 year old whacking his keyboard with a giant mallet. There is a lot more to healing than just watching life bars. You have to watch dispells, pay attention to your mana use, know when to drop healing cooldowns, and you have to keep that mage over there alive who thinks fire is a buff. 

6. Healers are super easy to play.
  Ha! This statement has been true and false in the past. I however like to think it takes intermediate skills to play a healer well enough to raid. When you are a raid healer you have to watch basically everything that's going on as well as watch life bars. You also have to be prepared for someone to aggro an extra trash pull or pull aggro in a heroic. These thing can be hard on someone who hasn't been healing long. I feel that it takes a good while to fall into the the pattern of doing them, then you are on your way to being an awesome raid healer.


5. Healers don't have to learn fights. 
  This couldn't be further from the truth. We have to learn fights the same way DPS and tanks do. We just learn them in a slightly different way. We have to know where the large spiky raid damage will come from. We have to know if there are things to dispell that are good or bad. You have to know if there will be things dps will stand in and when a good spot to battle res someone would be. We have to learn just as much as DPS do and in some cases even more. (Dreamwalker)




4.Triage isn't fun. 
  Some of you have been hearing this term over and over the past few months. I've always referred to it when it comes to WoW. Lets define what Triage is before we go further into this topic. Triage:a process of determining the priority of patients' treatments based on the severity of their condition. Now lets put that in wow terms. Triage: a process on weather or not you've pissed your healer off today.  I personally love triage. It allows me to take my support role even further and pick who gets to live. Did that Mage in your guild throw down a port to Stonard instead of Orgimmar? Well he's dead! Have to choose between that guy everyone hates and the top dpser? Guess who died! Honestly though I like the fact that we can turn the tides of battle with one choice.

Yes I like the Y U NO guy. Deal with it B-)

3. Healing is boring!
 It was in some aspects in Wrath and Vanilla WoW, but it can also be loads of fun. I like having to make choices when I heal.  Is it boring when no one in your group takes large amounts of damage?  Yes  Is it boring when you can pull an entire heroic with all the bosses at once and AoE them down? (Lol H UK) No, I think that's fun. Can it be fun when the everyone is taking damage? Yes and No  Yes, because I have many aoe healing tools and I've been doing it for years. No, because I'm new to healing and feel overwhelmed. From my point of view healing is fun because of the people I play with. I have fun when I join the RDF (random dungeon finder) because you never know what type of players you will come across. If you find yourself bored with healing no matter what you do then healing isn't for you or you need to try a different healing class!

2. My gems don't matter so long as I just press my buttons.

 Call me an ass. Call me a nerd rager. Call me an Elitist but please please please stop with this. Gems MATTER!  Gemming correctly in many peoples eyes is just another aspect of playing the game.  Minmaxing your gems and spec can greatly increase your healing output. I've had hour long discussions about this. Sure, You can press your healing spells and so long as everyone lives what the point right? The point is if you don't know your class/spec inside and out you aren't playing to your max potential.What does that mean exactly? Well, if the 24 other people in your raid are gemmed, enchanted, glyphed and specced to minmax output then you are being CARRIED. I've seen people with Legendarys who aren't specced, gemmed or enchanted properly. This makes me sad. 

1. It's always your fault.
 No, its rarely the healers fault. The tank and dps are almost always the people to blame for the wipe. Tanks often never pay attention to mana bars and never check the healers gear. Dps classes like to pull aggro or walk into extra mobs. My favorite thing a dps or tank says when they die "No heals?!" They never notice that you are either oom or already dead due to lack of aggro gen or the hunter feign deathing adds to you. I will admit to being distracted and letting people die. I've even tabbed out mid fight to chat on aim. I've done some stupid shit but I always take the blame for it. Tanks and DPS rarely take the blame for doing stupid things. Just remember its not always your fault no matter what people say. 


Now that I have that out of the way. I just wanted to add that I bought a bag of skittles from a vending machine and I was so ready to taste the rainbow. There was only one problem. ALL OF THE SKITTLES WERE ORANGE AND GREEN! Last time I checked the rainbow had more than two colors. I want my 50 cents back.

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! Time for me to slip into a food coma in a few hours. While I was taking the screenshot above someones turkey pet photobombed me. I'm thankful for my ingame friends. I love you guys so much! I'm thankful blizzard decided to release the shattering before thanksgiving. The non nerdy things I'm thankful for are my family, friends and where my life is right now. I'm very happy with everything (except this damn coughing!) in my life right now. I'm thankful that my significant other loves video games as much as I do and fully understands what I mean when I say "Omg WE just WIPED to BQL Srsly" I'm thankful for you guys out there reading this. I love to write and you guys make it possible!

Sick Rage

So, I've been sick now for 2 full weeks. All I do is Cough,  COUGH, COUGH, COUGH!!  Have you ever been so sick that you threw up from non-stop coughing? Yeah.. That's me right now. It's strange really. I feel fine otherwise. Have you ever been so sick that it makes you mad? I'm so sick of being SICK! I'm sure it doesn't help that I smoke either. This is probably a sign that I should give it up. Sadly however I would probably bladestorm someone IRL if I quit smoking. I've tried every home remedy I can think of so I need your help! 

 

Repost : The reason I play male toons.

You might be wondering why I'm reposting this. Well a recent thread over at MMO-Champ reminded me about it.  Lucky for me in my current guild there are some AWESOME females. I love you guys!  Enjoy. (Oh and no not all my toons are Blood Elves. I tend to favor Undead/Trolls. Honsue is just my main currently)

Hi, I'm Fabulous

I get this question a lot. "Why do you play male toons you're a girl?" "Do you have penis eveny?" "Why are you out of the kitchen?" and so on. The reason behind me playing male toons is simple. I'd rather be judged on my skill first than my tits. I'm usually the quiet one on vent just doing my job and listening. Sadly however I tend to open my mouth and that's where the trouble starts. It goes from "Wow Honsue you are a great healer" to "Wow Honsue your voice is hot now make me sandwhich" if your female then you know exactly what I mean and if you are male then chances are you are 99% guilty of doing the same thing. I'm not a crazy feminist or anything but female gamers get a bad rap when it comes to MMO's and WoW in general. Have you ever had that one female in your guild that was either the guild leaders wife or an officers girlfriend? This person is generally terrible at the game.They always find their way into main raiding slots or even hardmode attempts. They always die to standing in fire, or some variation. They always have very bad dps and have no idea how to spec/gem. The worse part of it all is no one tries to help them. No one tells them nicely that they need to fix their spec, gems, enchants and rotations. When you do decided to say something to the person they get offended. Don't get me wrong here this person isn't always female its sometimes male but rarely.

Don't I look stylish?

Females also get a bad rap in WoW for being e-skanks. Whats an e-skank you might ask. Well these are the females who make statements like "Oh ouch my boobs hurt or "I just like got out of the shower and I'm all wet" attention whores 100%.  These females generally aren't terrible at the game but they aren't good either. If you play Horde they are  generally female bloodelves. If you are Alliance then female gnomes or nightelves.  E-skanks always try to befriend the guild leader or officers and get what they want from the guild and move on. They rage quit over loot or for not getting a raid spot. I've come across all types of females in my wow career. The worst one was the married woman who was an e-skank and her husband played along with it. She sent the guild leader nude pictures for raid spot and gold. The word got out about her naked pictures and she ended up changing her name. She is still at it though. I'll never understand why females are this way. If someone comes to you to help you make your toon better listen or take the 5 -10 mins out of the day it takes to read up on your class. There is no need to whore yourself out over a video game to get raid spots or loot. If you are knowledgeable about your class and an overall reliable raider you'll always get a raid invite.

Goodbye Old Friend

The Shattering of Azeroth happens tomorrow. I am both excited and sad about this. I have so many good memories of adventuring across her vast zones. I'm excited to make many new memories. Goodbye old friend.