Smite priest!

I haven't been updating in awhile. Like any miscreant, I has excuses.

1. Anyone who goes to work [full-time], goes to campus-based college classes, and tries to raid all at once is a moron. Throw in a book project and you got yourself one of those brain-dead twitchers in a psych ward in-the-making.
2. While Kourtnie the shaman is doing rather well, nothing eventful--other than conquering the 10-man ToC raid and coming to terms with the fact Chain Heal isn't as borked as it used to be--has surfaced worth discussion.
3. Kourtnie the shaman will soon be replaced by Johannah the smite priest, whereby Kourtnie the shaman will become an alt and smite priesting will be the large-in-part WoW blogging endeavor done from this humble Kalecgos player.

Wait, what? Did I just say smite priest?

Cue the clown music, but you could say I got irritated with the lack of resources available on Wrath of the Lich King smite priests (and all the arguments that it couldn't be done), so I've been investing quite a bit of effort into turning my old main back into my current main and testing smite spec at the endgame 10-man raid level. My guildies went through this phase in Burning Crusade before and I think are mostly amicable to my little experiment.

My Johannah the Smite Priest blog will be participating in National Blog Posting Month in November, so be sure to go visit and get a daily dose of lolsmite hilarity. In the meantime, you will probably not be hearing as much from Kourtnie the shaman (she's even being fostered in the middle of Johannah's subdomain--oh! the blasphemy!), but I will try to occasionally come back to Kourtnie's blog and let you know what's going on the shammy world.

Here's something that celebrates Kourtnie the shaman and Johannah the smite priest coming together: a Lightning Bolt vs Smite theorycrafting post conjured by the craftiness of Elowyn at Spank This Tank.

Boss fight!

Kourtnie the Shaman understands.

BlizzCon Schedule Includes Noms

The Cosmic Force that controls Kourtnie the Shaman has had gas all day, but thankfully, thoughts of BlizzCon have prevented any long term damage in the stomach (or worse places :o) like tissue ruptures or spontaneous combustion. Hurray for BlizzCon tickets super friend got Kourtnie the Shaman's Cosmic Force for the celebration of Cosmic creation! (That's a birthday. I know, the joke is bad. Not as bad as the structure of the previous sentence, though.)

Curious what the Cosmic Force will be doing this Friday and Saturday? Of course you are! Here's the itinerary and, because MMO Champion has brought so much inspiration, projected guesses for what will happen at BlizzCon 2009!

Friday, the I Has Swine Flu And Will Not Be in Work Day

1. Meet friend at undetermined time
2. Most likely nom nom nom
3. World of Warcraft Panel 12:30-1:30; prediction: worgen, yes!?
   
4. Diablo III Heroes and Monsters 2:00-3:00 pm; prediction: Cosmic Force wants a Christmas present.
   
5. Stand in line foreva for goodies one goodie, it be recession! prediction: it is bag.
   
6. Prolly another nom nom nom; prediction: it is soup and sammich.
   
7. World of Warcraft Classes, Items, and Professions 5:00-6:00; prediction: ZOMG, why are you making shammy change to engineering!?
   
8. Curse Blizzard for scheduling cinematics at the same time as precious classes, etc.
9. Contests for Costumes, Songs, and /Dances 6:00-9:30; prediction: cooler than mecha-turtle. Has camera.
   

Saturday, the I Has Raid at 7 pm Rofles Day

1. WoW Open Q&A (ZOMG I make my tauren a worgen, yea!?) 10:00-11:00 [effin am]; prediction: stands in line and giggles a lot.
   
2. WoW Game Systems 11:30-12:30; prediction: underwater combat is good.
   
3. OMG where's the nom
4. WoW Raids and Dungeons 1:00-2:00; prediction: we has update 27 dungeons from old world to level 81-85.
   
5. World of Warcraft Classes, Items, and Professions 2:30-3:30 (Is different...?)
6. WoW Live Raid [mebe] 4:00-5:00; prediction: is not as funny as it sounds.
   
7. Has 7 pm raid
   

The Cosmic Force makes a mental note to bring a coupon from Guild Master Other Cosmic Force (that fights for control over the universe, naturally) for free $100 or less goodie.

Will have lots of things to say about BlizzCon this weekend!

Shaman Finds Hit Cap in Trial of the Champion

RESTO SHAMMY NEEDS ELEMENTAL GEAR: THE PLAY

ACT ONE: RESTO SHAMMY IS NOT HIT CAPPED

Enter resto shammy and Fearless Guild Leader.

[Fearless Guild Leader That Seems to Think It's Okay For Warlocks and Priests to Get Non-Spirit Cloak Shammy Drooled Over Last Raid Says]: "We haz too many healers and you pew pew, yes?"

[Angry Shammy Says]: "But I still iz not hit capped."

Elemental shamans have had no problems getting the hit cap in the past if they were, well, elemental shamans. Tier gear did that without much effort. In fact, elemental shamans were known for complaining there was too much hit on their tier gear.

But resto shammy likes to turn rare tier tokens that are not jacked by warriors or hunters in for resto shammy gear. This leaves resto shammy as a sad, sad panda when it is time for resto shammy to pew pew lzr beams.

If ur not able to getz the pwnzor hit trinketz like this resto shammy, fear not!--Trial of the Champion has come to savez you! All it requirez is a ninja mask.

INTERLUDE

Kitteh is scary boss from Magister's Terrace:



Rawr.

ACT TWO: RESTO SHAMMY LOOKS AT HEROIC ToC GEAR

Enter resto shammy and n00bl3t guildy that probably took non-spirit caster gear from resto shammy or a holy pally at some point.

[Random Guildy]: "Ahh, it burns my eyez, she's wearing cloth/leather!"

[Angry Shammy Says]: "Remember that time you took that non-spirit cloak from meh? Now you stop loling at cloth/leather I wearz! You did this to meeeeee!"

Bootz means: Barkhide Treads, Eadric's Cache (leather style)
or Bootz means: Boots of the Crackling Flame, The Black Knight (cloth style)

Cloakz means: Kurisu's Indecision, Eadric's Cache (Shammy will pee on this when Random Guildy that gotz cloak already--cloak good for resto shammy's restoness!--touches it)

Handz means: Gloves of Dismal Fortune, Confessor's Cache or Eadric's Cache (ok, no hitz, but look at the crit and haste! /yoinks the leather)

Helm means: Gaze of the Unknown, The Black Knight

Legz means: You may take Leggings of the Bloodless Knight (The Black Knight) if ur being good mail wearer. If those don't drop though, or just wanna lol at the druidz, Leggings of the Snowy Bramble (Champion's Cache) is tasty. Neither haz mp5, so workz for hit capped elemental shammy or resto shammy. Yay!

Ringz means: Sinner's Confession, Confessor's Cache

Shoulderz means: Pauldrons of the Deafening Gail from Champion's Cache! Shammy has mail hitz item, what!? Leather cousin is Mantle of Gnarled Overgrowth (Eadric's Cache). Black Knight's Mantle of Inconsolable Fear is decent for hit capped elemental shammy (and even resto shammy!) if clothy takes clawz out of it.

Weaponz means: Spectal Kris from The Black Knight does not haz hit, but haz slot and pretty stats for hit capped elemental shammy! (And if elemental shammy is not hit capped after all the stuffz above, there is problemz.) And if resto shammy needz mp5 weapon, Mariel's Sorrow from Eadric's Cache is another wayz to go! Shammy recommends a Spectral Kris for both specz with lots of critness and uber spellpower enchant, though.

And when ur done, Girdle of the Dauntless Conquerer (The Black Knight) if you still needz resto shammy belt.

ACT THREE: RESTO SHAMMY LOOKS AT REGULAR ToC GEAR

Enter resto shammy.

[Sneaky Shammy Says]: "When no one's looking, I iz wear i200 itemz in desperation for hit rating."

Beltz means: Belt of the Churning, Eadric's Cache

Neck means: Brilliant Hailstone Amulet, Confessor's Cache (nom nom on Other Caster arm)

Wristz means: Bindings of the Wicked, Champion's Cache

And when ur done, Carapace of Grim Visions (Eadric's Cache or Confessor's Cache) if you still needz resto shammy chest.

ACT FOUR: FOND FAREWELL

This guide is only accenuated by ninja mask in 10 manz Trial, but Fearless Guild Leader might not letz you wearz the ninja mask, so take what you can get from ToC! Resto shammy shall have hit cap setz for the "we haz too many healers" pew pew lzr beams!

Dear Welfare Epic QQ'ers

I should have updated the moment 3.2 out, but I had to sun bathe in the experience before addressing my blog.

So, before I step onto my stage, shammy has four important notes:

1. Totem bar is win.
2. I will wear cloth that has no spirit and tons of hit on it regardless of if you scoff at me, thank-you-very-much. You should see the wonders of some the loot this new instance has to offer. Call my desperation an illness drawn from my guild only letting me get resto items in raids, and yet making me dps 50% of the time. (/raises fist to priests that whine I do more dps then they do.) PS - No, I will never take cloth from a clothie. But nobody wanted it! PPS - It was a helm.
3. I still had the lowest health in all my five mans. Well, fuck.
   
4. Did I mention totem bar is win?

Okay. Time to throw a match into a burning fire.

So, I hear a lot of people are already QQ'ing over "welfare epics." In fact, I watched one of my guildies argue with another guildie about how "welfare epics" was a coined term by "blue people" and how PvP items were called "free epics" and other irrelevant bedlam. People need to get over it. If you have this mentality that you "earned your purples" through your sweat, blood, and raiding labor, it's a sad, sad world.

I don't know about these whiney people, but when I go to a raid, it's to see the raid. Hell, I haven't seen my tier token drop in Ulduar once. (Probably did now that our other raid leader is running Ulduars during the weekdays while I'm at work, but that's a different tangent.) My sweat, blood, and raiding labor let me see the raids and then go to lunch with a RL friend that didn't, and talk about how cool they were. My sweat, blood, and raiding labor let me lol on vent as people did stupid shit purely for the sake of comedy. My sweat, blood, and raiding labor (getting the vibe yet?) let me pwnzor with my resto shaman because I fucking enjoy playing the game.

If you're in World of Warcraft strictly for the loot, may I suggest playing Final Fantasy Tactics for the PSP instead? You get two people and can farm for l33t items to your heart's content, and no freaking patches will ever come and rock your world.

I have no intentions of running nooblets through Naxxramas to bring them up to speed. Let the players that weren't lucky enough to be in uber guilds to begin with get the gear they need in five mans, on their own time, so they can apply for the uber guilds and enjoy the endgame content too. Shut up and let the game be more accessible. I mean, to me, that's all "welfare epics" are, accessibility. A ticket to getting more people into my endgame raids faster so I can get more lol's.