Since we had already done our progression Kill for the week – now the Armory updates – we had one attempt at Lich King Hardmode, just to see, and then killed him normal before calling the raid early. My Arena team decided we would try to fit some more games while we could.
While the rest of the guild was trying to organise 25’s and 10’s for VOA ( because on BR you need to grab that opportunity – or it’s gone for the week) I was getting my Wrathful Healing Chest, enchanting/gemming, and respecing Disc.
I do not think I have ever spec’d disc before. I had to learn all my penance ranks, fill in the holes in my spell bars – shove extra things like Pain suppression, Power Infusion, and Penance – check my VuhDu keybindings so I didn’t have to change anything, got Major Glyphs I wanted off the AH and then I went into a BG on my own to test out my new healing spec , of course I got Strand of the Ancients where everyone is so spread out that healing is real pain. Arena peeps had come out of VOA by that stage so we did the BG daily, and we got AB and I got extra practise.
We got a few more games in, by a few like 20 more, and got all our ratings up to 1400 – which I believe means I can buy a belt.
I’m having some issues with the concept of being allowed to use all these new cooldowns like PI and Pain suppression on myself. The only time I deliberately use GS on myself in holy form is healing Saurfang and I get a mark ( especially now its back to it’s unglyphed cool down of 3 min)
I don’t think I am doing particularly badly. This is my first attempt in arena, in the PVP spec as heals while geared, and talented right, and I guess this means I am trying to take it seriously.
My fear of abandonment comes from being deserted in my BC arena teams. (Kidding) but through circumstances including, changing guilds, people leaving the game,them getting bored, ect ect I’ve never had a decent shot at arena before. Oh 5v5 in BC – I left because I was sick of dying the 1st every single fight.
I used to think it was just an insane pvp friend grinding arena for hours to get a better rating, but no, gone are the days of just doing 10 games a week, with maybe a few extras to try and improve your win/loss ratio. Our total games are 49 with a 45% win rate for me. Ew That doesn’t sound impressive.
Guys.. you might need a more experienced healer – I wont be offended.
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I’m keen to Arena but Frostmourne, being the elitist wanker server that it is (I love you though) people are asking for ratings…
That and I would have to respec – again. Sigh.
I enjoy Arena play. It really does test your skill with your toon, and your ability to strategise on the fly. I look at Arena as also a form of training for raids – can you make the split second decision that will save the wipe by doing something no one else would think of?