Circelyn - Storytime

I entered the writing contest from Blizzard. Since I didn't win (or get honorable mention or anything special), I figured I would post the story here. It will be in parts since it would become a rather long post otherwise.

First part after the break! (BTW I am 100% sure that I didn't win because I live in the EU, and those tickets would've cost too much! otherwise, surely I would've had first price...maybe...uhm...yeah, believe in yourself! right?)

Speed, stam or more damage?

I'm playing with a little worgen warrior on the beta and I just completed the spirit binding. It's a quest...well...I won't spoil all the surprises. Suffice to know that at the end of it you can choose between 3 permanent buffs that will be up whenever you're in darkshore afterwards.

Increased movement speed by 10% (elk), Increased damage (cat), or increased health (bear). I cannot possibly imagine chosing anything but the speed increase since that's the only one that will benefit me at later levels.

But wouldn't it be an interesting choice to make for your character at creation stage? Imagine that you could chose between 10% movement speed increase, 1% more health, or 1% more damage...all the time.

Which one would you pick?

Yessss!!

Healers Unite

I call to all healers out there!

When you come into a pug group and you find someone ignoring the mustknows for Cataclysm.

So basically when others are being asses, completely disrespectful of the healer role (or even the tank). Leave. 

Let them know why and leave. Just let them deal with having to find a different healer and overthink their sins. We bring the light and everything that is holy, they should respect us lifegivers!

Let us get back a little power.

Don't just ramble at the back, scrambling to get your loot because the rest has moved on already. Just leave.

Time for us to become Diva's again. We deserve that respect. We have one of the harder roles in that group and if dps or tank goes dumb just let them deal with the consequences.

Don't torture yourself, and lets stop sacrificing ourselves! We are worthy as much of having fun during a run as the dps is, and if they decide to spoil it...well....leave.

(Of course when there's only one that is being a dick you can also kick.)

10 mustknows for Cataclysm

I just healed a dungeon on beta as disc (lvl 85, fully heroic gear). and it's hard. And yes, I ended up with a group of idiots that had a tank that pulled a boss while he was at half health, and where only one of the dps listened when I asked them to please eat up after pulls. 

They're now stuck having to find a different healer. And I'm gonna have to see if holy is equally painstalkingly tiringly hard as disc. 

And oh...yes, it might just become harder to find healers than tanks. I know that my queuing on the healers that I have on beta is instaqueue almost every time, and on the druid tank I've had to wait several times. (but hey, that might be my timezone).

Behind the cut 10 pieces of advice on how not to behave around your healer....or you might just have to wait in queue again to find another.