Burn Baby Burn!

Finally tried the Pyromancer, a WoW Fire Mage equivalent, and really enjoy the AoE spell "Fire Storm". These shots really don't do it justice.

RIFT Beta 6

Finally got the invite tonight and downloading 169.2mb of patch data. Going to take some time in the forums, do a little research. Came across a fun Soul Selection Flowchart while reading a good summary of the Chloromancer....



Arieste
Chloro is a main healer with massive tank healing capabilities, decent group healing capabilities and good raid healing capabilities. Our weakness is healing multiple tanks simultaneously.

The limitation the Cab speaks of about our heals being on cooldown comes from misunderstanding the class. The direct (instacast) heals are meant to be our emergency heals, not primary means of healing.

The choloromancer's primary means of healing is through the combination of lifegiving veil - which converts all our damage spells to heals - and Synthesis which vastly increases our heals on the tank. The main heals of the class are the spells Vile Spores which can be chaincast with no cooldown and nature's touch which can be rotated with 1 cast of Vile Spores in between. My highest heal with Nature's Touch was a 1200 pt heal at level 26, which is pretty massive.

At later levels we also gain some extremely powerful abilities such as an instacast complete heal, which i believe is the only one in the game. Additionally, since our heals are based on damage spells, they benefit from Spell Power stat that increases them, this makes us unique among healers as there is no such stat for cleric (or any direct) heals.

One of the major concerns for the future is whether our damage spell will begin to get resisted, making it more dangerous to heal at high level. At this point no one that knows can talk about it. Up through level 27 this was not an issue.

Chloromancer's main synergies come from one of four other souls:

Warlock: Mana regen and increases to magnitude of spells (this soul makes our heals bigger).
Archon: Mana regen, wards, casting speed increase, buffs, debuffs (this soul gives us additional tools for keeping the group up and increases overall cast speed)
Dominator: Mainly CC and some debuffs (better for pvp i'm told, but great at0pt 3rd soul for pve)
Stormcaller: This soul gives us groupwide power regen, otherwise this isn't really a great choice.
Necromancer: Extra HoT and an additional free-target heal.

For soloing, using an Elementalist or Necromancer is also extremely useful for the pet.

Contrary to what Mucro said, i think that healing ourselves is weaker for a chloro than any other healing class as the ability that creates our most powerful heals - synthesis - cannot be used on self, making our biggest heals not castable on self.

Erie!

Found on DaveOshry's feed.

Flap Flap!

Flying over Stormwind on an Ironbound Proto-Drake... oh hell yeah.

It is Upon Us

Cata goes live in a few moments and everyone is ready to be a dick. Currently the Flight Trainer in SW is completely mobbed. MMO-Champion had the following advice: "Also, an useful reminder. Binding your "interact with target" key and using it after doing /target "NPC Name" is your only chance to quest." I didn't understand it at first. Now I do.

Decided to Tabard up to Northrend and hide. Figure should get a few dailies to turn in initially.

Shinies

New Loading Screen!

How To Find Cataclysm Instance Entrances

Been meaning to make my own copy of this Wowhead blog entry for a while. Just in case something bad happens…

Blackrock Caverns


Grim Batol


Halls of Origination


The Stonecore


Lost City of the Tol'vir


The Vortex Pinnacle


Throne of the Tides

This Was Completely Unexpected

NO WAY! The patch is taking longer than initially expected? WHAT? *smirk*

Shattered

OH NOES! Sindragosa is gone! There's a big flaming birdie sitting on a castle. We prolly should kill it…

Out in It

Aenara decided to finish up Dinner Impossible. Needed Strand, Eye, and AV. Lost them all, of course, but it wasn't too bad. Was actually top damage in Strand, tied for second on kills. Sort of surprising yet maybe not. Moonkin are incredibly versatile and rather annoying to face.


Look at that. Horde had the rest of the damage. *sigh* Rated BGs are going to be wonderful. So tired of the slack-ass Alliance fools in our battlegroup. At least we still own Wintergrasp. *snicker*

Aenara the Seeker

Despite completing Tricks and Treats of Azeroth last year Aenara was getting credit towards 3000 Quests Completed when pocketing treats from the various Candy Buckets. For the final quest she returned to her initial questing area of Dolanaar where Innkeeper Keldamyr bore witness to that final quest.

Now for The Loremaster. Currently have 613/700 in Loremaster of Kalimdor and 526/700 in Loremaster of Eastern Kingdoms so it's not too far away!

Soldiers Arise, Stand and Fight!

Finally! Faerune's Loot-Filled Pumpkin contained The Horseman's Horrific Helm! She now has all the horseman accessories to annoy friends and randoms with.

Good Point

Source: Fun Hunter

Give Me a Numer

wtfismygs.com is really a site!!! *rofl* It's actually pretty compact and has nice mouse-overs for raid achievements. Wow-Heroes still wins with tracking both specs and gear details.

Out on the West Coast

Been fun watching the 3v3 tournaments at BlizCcon 2010. Some really amazing matches. It makes me understand the allure of televised sports… watching others do what I cannot from the comfort of my home. *snicker*

Wonder if Blizzard notices/cares about the caster dominance and Druids being the preferred healer. There was one PMR team that made it to the third round yet the pressure matches were all ranged casters. Personally I favor LSD since I love the burst and utility of 3.x Elemental Shaman. Yet DML has also been amazing. Watching the second match of the Top Bracker (*aAa*/LSD) versus Lower Bracket (Complexity.Red/DML). Co.Red actually lost to *aAa* in the upper bracket, 0-3. See if they come back for the $75k.

On a completely shallow note I love how all the competitors are pasty white boys and Asians. Hate to be the creepy old guy, but there are a few really cute ones. Have to say my top three are:

1. Jenõ "Lopaay" Tanos (LightZ CaMerA ActioN/Fra?)
2. Fabio "Jamesbond" Nardelli (*aAa*/Ita)
3. Romain "Hrk" Neveu (*aAa*/Fra)

Long, Strange #4

Finally! Picked up the only item Aenara needed for more than a year from the Inn Keeper in Westguard Keep… the damn Hallowed Helm for Sinister Calling. Picked up Hallowed Be Thy Name and What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been.

Was down in Howling Fjord to finish up I've Toured the Fjord. Working on The Summit of Storm Peaks while watching 3v3 PvP at BlizzCon. Got Into the Basin done late last night so only Icecrown: The Final Goal remains for Loremaster of Northrend.

If Only They Were All This Fat

This pumpkin wasn't simply loot-filled, it was about to explode!!

Wha Happen?

More stealth nerfs inc!!*cowers in fear*

Two More Done

Somehow found the patience to grind out some more kills today, so Aenara finished up Oh My, Kurenai… which was also the last reputation needed to finish up The Diplomat. It did take some time yet it was sort of amusing running around camps of Burning Crusade mobs, dropping a single Insect Swarm on each, then circling back to collect loot. Which reminds me… I really need to see if Loot Filter is running again. It makes culling the loot trash so much more tolerable.

The mobs in The Steamvault didn't fare much better. Still spread IS around yet the new super-damaging Thorns made quick work of any melee mobs. The turn-ins were the most tedious part of finishing up Cenarion Expedition. Seems somehow right in an role play sense to have the druid astride a Cenarion War Hippogryph. Still have 72 Coilfang Armaments left over for the next toon that wants the rep. *rolls eyes*

This brings me up to 27/30 Exalted Reputations, 18/25 Tabards, and 77/100 Mountain o' Mounts. Thinking of targeting The Argent Dawn along with Deathcharger's Reins next while getting Hero of the Zandalar Tribe finished up.

Drop Rates or What

Trade Chat babble has mentioned that the drop rate on reins has increased. Naturally I took this with a grain of salt, yet Scheme's loot-filled pumpkin had The Horseman's Reins along with a Flimsy Male Undead Mask. Whoa! Would sure be nice to get the mount on one of the toons I'm doing Mountain o' Mounts on…