Craigs Blog

Posted in my guild forum:

Whats craghewn up to?

Thought I’d write a post to explain some of my plans for craghewn the druid and explain some of my recent behaviour. This is partly cos i’m blatantly egocentric (you’re all interested in craghewn ;) ) and because I wonder sometimes what other people are up to and came to the conclusion that someone else may wonder about my behaviour and such.

Play time.

Firstly the times I play and how much I play is largely dictated by when my fiancee is working and how much stuff I have to do. We’re getting married in september so i get errands and such to do in the evening. Should probably now be chasing cake making people for an update for instance. Sammy works down the local pub and does evening shifts and day shifts and works bits of weekends. She usually does sunday night, thursday and friday nights, with other nights dotted in between. Hence you most often see me Thurs and Friday – Mondays when she’s working that night and almost never on a Sunday day time as we’re eating/getting ready for work etc.

In short then I get a few dedicated evenings where lots of WoW can happen, evenings where I can slot in BGs (45 min queues = errands done :) ) and times when I’m earning gf (soon to be wife) rep.

Objectives

Principally I’m interested in being a good healer for the raid which largely for me translates to high +heal, mana regen, high int, high stamina etc. Most of my activities are aimed at this.

Second is a toss up between grinding ability for rep rewards and tanking ability. The latter has gained more focus for me lately with the advent of druid tanks. So you’ll have seen me bid on some druid tanking gear. the grinding ability is for the inevitable grinds that come out with each patch ;). Also grinding 60-70 will be helped by er, cat/bear dps grinding gear so…

Present targets are largely from BG rep rewards in fact, sad but true. Particularly interested in the off-hands from AV, the +53 heal/+3 mana for instance appears high on my list and the +33 heal/dmg could prove handy for my occasional pvp moonfire spammage but less concerned about that.

I’m also interested in the ironbark staff and shoulders from AB and the trousers (both sets) from WSG. So you’ll see me grinding BGs here and there and using Queue times to do errands away from the keyboard – thank god for bgswitch ;).

I may go for the CC rep off-hand at some point (+18heal/+8mana) but got real tired of killing bugs for my mace and for earthstrike (grinding gear).

the other thing I fancied doing was getting to knight captain for the 4 set bonus on the pvp gear, the speed bonus (+15%) to animal forms inc. cheetah is awesome for wsg and would help the grind there methinks. Burning Crusade will likely bring some changes so I’m wondering if I’ll get the rep for AB and WSG in time :(

Anyhoo, hopefully I’ll get chance for some zg and I wouldn’t mind going back to aq20 for the buru and ossi fights sometime but to be honest the CC grind put me off silithus a little.

Future

Funny one this. Marriage may change things and perhaps sammy won’t be working at the pub forever, for now though quite happy raiding with this friendly easy-going yet hardcore quality guild I’ve come to love fighting with. looking forwards to the new challenges ahead.

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