WTB [Healers]

Once again, our guild, Rogue Angels, is looking for Healers. Ever since I came back with The Burning Crusade, it's been a never ending problem...not just for our guild but for other guilds as well. The constant shortage, or, rather exodus, of healers is a serious problem that Blizzard needs to address.

I don't think there is one single issue that we can point at and say, "That's the problem, fix it!". I think it's a combination of things...and while I could make this post about those problems, this post needs to be a plee for healers! If you're looking for a good, casual raiding guild, please read on, if not, you can still read on, just be aware that it's an advertisment. ;)

Rogue Angels, Horde on Detheroc server, is looking for healers!

Rogue Angels is a casual raiding guild. We raid Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday from 8pm server time to 11pm. Currently, we've been running Kara (full clear) on Tuesday and Thursday and doing Gruul's on Sunday. We had been running two Kara groups each week until this week (lack of healers). Our goal is to discontinue Kara in November and run 25-mans. Raiding is not mandatory. We have a lot of people that prefer to quest, run instances, or PvP.

Rogue Angels is a mature group of gamers that have played together for many years (some of us 10+ years). We're serious about raiding without being 'hardcore'. We are looking for good people, mainly healers, that want to see end game raid content and are committed to 'sticking with it' and, most importantly, us.

If you would like to apply, please do so in the World of Warcraft forum. This main forum page is for our 'Gaming Community'. Rogue Angels has been together since 1999 (some of us longer) and, quite often, we have people playing in multiple games. Our official WoW guild forums is member only, and once accepted, you'll be given access.

For those of you not looking for a guild, please bump our recruiting threads here, here, and here. Baklor is our Guild Leader, and please, don't let his lack of grammar, punctuation, or paragraphs scare you away. He really is a great leader dispite his writing skills. ;p

Ferocious Nibble!

Welcome to my new blog. I struggled with what to call it....Ferocious Bite as our ability is called or Ferocious Nibble which is the term I like to use. The first time I said Ferocious Nibble, my husband thought I said Ferocious Nipple, so it's a bit of a joke with us and certainly conjures up some odd visual images. O.O

I have no preconceived intentions regarding this blog, so we'll just see where it takes us. It may take us to some informative aspects of Druidism, goofy things that I've done, rants, non-combat pets (of which I love), etc. But first, a wee bit about me, my play style, and playing experience.

My main WoW character is a Feral Druid and she is my only level 70 character. Her name is Mooire and is in the Rogue Angels guild on Detheroc. I began playing WoW as soon as the game came out and was dead set about playing a druid. I played for a bit over a year, then took a nice long break until the expansion came out. There were several reasons for the long break, but one of them was that I hated my druid. She was big and ugly and, OMG, a freakin' cow! She also died a lot (through no fault of mine, of course! ;p ) and I always had to heal (could there be anything more boring?). Honestly, I don't even remember how I was specced back then. I know she was resto and balance, but to what degree of each, I don't recall.

Then, The Burning Crusade came out and I started playing again. This time, however, I went Feral. During my long break, my husband had switched his main character from a Warrior to a Rogue and he assured me that playing feral and stealthing around in kitty form with him would be much better. Immediately, I saw the genious of this! If I'm in kitty form, I don't have to look at my big, ugly cow!!! Awesome! So, as soon as we installed our games and I got my little Netherwhelp pet out of the mail, I went to respec and began my new Druidic life as a sneaky kitty. I soon found out that I loved playing in cat form. I could sneak around mobs, catch them unawares, cower when I got agro and make them beat on my husband, and, best of all, I didn't have to heal! We played our sneaky twosome all the way from 60-70 and had a good time doing it. But, then came the horrid Druid nerf and, suddenly, all our really good druids re-rolled or quit and I was soon asked those three little words that incite terror in a little girl kitty's heart, "Will you tank?"

Tank?!?!

But, I'm kitty!!! If I tank, that means, I'm out in front...leading....first in.....making decisions.....coding the mobs with lucky charms......taking damage!!! But, I did it, because there was no one else to tank....the old Druids were gone, most of the warriors were Fury, I was it. Did they realize how low they were stooping to ask me to tank? I didn't even know the difference between Growl and Challenging Roar!!! So, I tanked with no clue as to what I was doing. I didn't know what my abilities were and just randomly clicked on the icons. To my amazement, no one seemed to notice I was a big dumb bear!! Or, perhaps they didn't want to run off one of the few playing tanks, I'll never know.

After that night, I studied those strange bear abilities, posted on our guild Druid forums asking questions from our prior tanking bears, began tanking on a regular basis, and soon found that I loved it!!!! I no longer had to worry about getting agro, being hurt, and hoping the healer noticed, that was what I was supposed to do! I no longer had to pay attention to the long, drawn out explanations of strategy except for the part of, "You get the boss and tank him over there." I no longer had to worry about my numbers on the damage meters being good enough. All I had to do was keep the mob(s)/boss on me and away from those squishy people. DONE!! Well, except for keeping them off of Soontir but, it's required that he die a lot. ;p

Anyway, after those early days of the initial glee of realizing the benefits and joys of tanking, I have grown in my tanking abilities and still love it!!! The only time I'm in another form is off-healing on Maiden or Nightbane or Kitty on Shade or Prince. But, most of the time, I'm tanking (unless I'm farming). Even though I've cleared Kara with my guild (usually the off tank, but I have main tanked a few times) and we've progressed onto Gruul's lair (downing the High King and getting Gruul to 20ish %), I consider myself a casual gamer. My gaming time is usually spent in PvE. I have done some PvP, battlegrounds, and even arenas, but I really suck at PvP. Perhaps if I practiced more I'd be better, but.....meh....

Well, that's my introductory post about me and my blog. You can decide if it was a Ferocious Bite or Nibble. ;)


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