This is the story of an achievement.
Recipe for maxing out your unarmed skill as a healer:
- Put on your mana regeneration gear
- Unequip your weapon
- Find mob that will hit you for less damage than you can heal indefinitely
- Wail on mob with fists
My chosen victim was a Tundra Wolf from Borean Tundra. He had over 6k health, and with the impressive DPS my gear was offering me (reduced further by the fact I was going to miss a lot to start with), I was sure that would be more than enough to get me from my meagre 70 unarmed skill all the way to 400.
My heal of choice was Power Word: Shield. The shield could absorb more damage in its 30 second duration than the wolf was capable of inflicting on me, my Glyph of Power Word: Shield would mop up anything I missed, and I'd have the mana back within a couple of seconds of casting.
By the time my skill was up to 385 (a gain of 315 points), I had the wolf down to 80% health. That's when things started slowing down and the skill points became fewer and farther between. It became a challenge to max my unarmed skill before this wolf died, man verses uncaring random number generator. However, the wolf had at least 20% of its health left when I hit 399. "Great!", I thought. "One point to go, should be done any second now!"
Yeah right.
Down went the wolf's health, slowly and steadily. I imagined the '6' key on my keyboard, bound to PW:S, wearing down to a nub from overuse. I started wondering if there was some dastardly if statement deep in the World of Warcraft codebase that refused to maximise your weapon skill on the same mob that granted you the penultimate point. Then, when all hope was lost...
Fuck yeah.
I feel sorry for the wolf, who with my impressive overall 3dps had to endure being punched non-stop for around 38 minutes before I finally put it out of its misery. In that time, 38 Power Word: Shields were cast, along with 7 Renews to mop up the damage I took while I was making breakfast or doing laundry.
And people say this game is just pointless grinding!
I've decided to take a break for a while and review when I get back from Japan.
The Casual Raid Organiser - 29.03.2010 through 05.04.2010 will have to be re-evaluated as I'll be on hiatus until at least the 5th of April.
This is not related to my late bail of the run tonight. That was something that I felt needed my attention.
To assist me with this; I've had my authenticator hidden by a third party until I return.
I've placed my filthy lucre, which amounts to 3,000 gold; in to the guild bank. Do with it what you will, as acquiring gold became all to easy in the last two weeks.
After finding the biggest challenge of the weekly quest to be working out who wasn't tanking or healing, we decided not to go on with Ulduar because with a couple of late withdrawals we didn't quite have the roster to pull it off. Instead we ended up in Trial of the Crusader, but I suspect our hearts weren't in it. Maybe not the most fun raid monday of all time, but we downed some bosses, got some emblems, and gave some of the newer players chances to grab level 232 gear.
This week's raid quest is as yet unannounced. Also, as discussed on the night, this might be the right time to move raid nights to Thursdays. I shall leave the details up to Moonburn.
 | Next run TBD! Watch this space |