A Trip Down Memory Lane..

Greetings adventurers and explorers alike! This post will cover two incredible Raids. Us PVE players have always gravitated around raiding content and what makes it worth all the hours of progression and the strive for gear and downing bosses for the good of our guilds. It was so hard for me to choose these top two, but in my mind they are the few that are most thought out and enjoyable throughout my entire seven years raiding experience. 

Without question, Karazhan was my most memorable experience in terms of proper progression raiding. Even though I did touch on Vanilla raiding in MC and two bosses in Naxx, This for me was my real chance to strive for top end raiding. With over ten bosses to face, some of which were on an RNG type system where you had the chance to go against 1 of 4 bosses (I.E Opera Event) it was one of the most complex and incredibly thought out places to delve into. Its geometric structure was unlike anything I have seen before.. I mean c'mon, A haunted castle, also known as Medivh's Tower who was the last former protector of Tirisfal. With spirits reawakened and Medivh himself still cascading down the haunted halls, you generally felt the epic scale of the place. Ley lines from each magical sector all pointed under Karazhan, from the mages in dalaran to the high priests of Stormwind..  and to me, still holds the title of the most epic Raid to date.

My second top raid would have to be without doubt one of the most awesome raids the dev team worked on after the burning crusade. With a wobbly start to re opening Naxx, Blizzard blew every PVE player out the water with this one. Ulduar, With 13 bosses and 1 extra to go up against, this place was incredible. From Titans to huge gnomish like constructions, old gods and the odd dragon, It was one of those places where everyone had something they loved here. The size of the halls, different sections like the huge conservatory and halls made out of ice, It was beyond the scope of any of our imaginations and to this day is still farmed for the mounts and just to feel the nostalgia of the mighty Ulduar. With the helping hand of Brann Bronzebeard who believed this place to be an old Titan city, we few mortals who dared to enter had one hell of a story to tell the rest of the guild and hold Ulduar close to one of the great raiding memories of all time.

So, these are my top two raids, what was yours?  

Vaylen, Ragnaros EU.

Fighting Through The Downfall (normal)

Hello everyone! One of todays posts will be my little view and guide to healing Blackfuse and the paragons! I have finally caught up with progression on my slightly under geared shaman and now on 13/14 Normal kills and instead of going over bosses as I have explained before hand, (flex mode), I thought I would go over two of the three bosses of the last wing.. Why not Include Garrosh? I am raiding that beast a full duration tonight, lets hope for a kill! GO TEAM EQ! Let's dive in too see what I have learnt over the course of these encounters. 

Siegecrafter Blackfuse - In my opinion, this is one of the most crazy encounters in terms of healing output, There is so much to look out for and you need so much personal awareness to deal with most of the mechanics, this will cause a lot of random spiky raid damage going out. First thing to be aware of is the saw blades, they hit for around 200k, which is a fair amount of damage out right, so group them together and move accordingly. This is a great time to blanket some riptides and drop your healing stream totem and just push out some chain heals. You then have to deal with the bombs that explode periodically and eventually cover the room, they have a huge initial damage and you will also receive fall damage too, so what I did when things got a little though was maybe save a Healing tide during these moments (if group is somewhat close together) This can be rather hard due to the next thing to be aware of. You will be fixated by bombs that will chase you at some speed, these can be slowed so use frost shock to help out, and Earth-bind/capacitor totem in the middle of the room. You will also have to deal with a considerable amount of Off tank damage as well when picking up some of the adds do be aware of that. This encounter really does display how well shamans have come along during this expansion and we're able to help out a hell of alot in this encounter, I for one, Love it.

Healing output through out the Blackfuse encounter.

This is just an indication of the healing power we can produce. Im currently in like 524 gear while the monk was considerably higher. Push your spread healing and watch the numbers fly. 

Paragons of the Klaxxi - Another great fight for shamans. With the fact that the tanks won't really need to move that much, You can keep a really strong coverage of healing rains back to back. Also make use of chain heal here as a lot of the time, the group will remain some what stacked together unless of course you have to spread from the connected beams. But with mechanics like stacking to eat an Aim and such there really not as much to do or watch out for unlike the previous encounter. Use healing stream totem on cooldown and your larger cooldowns efficiently. There is a ton of mechanics to this fight to be aware of as other rolls like tank and DPS, I went in to this encounter only knowing what I had to do as a healer and we one shot it. So just focus on what you need to do and reap the rewards. It's very predictable unlike Blackfuse so you can sort of save cooldowns for specific moments in the encounter.

Below shows a Restoration Shaman POV on this encounter and what to expect.