Results tagged “druid” from Bitter Roots

Firstly, I apologise for the lack of posting recently.  I just started a new job and it's cut out a lot of the time I used to have.  I'm still playing and reading, though!

One quick piece of news: We changed <Stop Whining> to a more RPish and less controversial guild name.  We're now <Agents of Stromgarde> and I'll try and get the background story up and written soon.

In the meantime, here's a quick video I threw together about what it's like being a restoration druid.

So, I've been coming to realise something over the past few days.

 

I suck in PVP as a warrior.  Oh, I can get in there and whack some people and generally make myself a nuisence, but once I have a rogue or warrior jumping around me, I'm turning in place blindly like an odd, sword-weilding spinning top. 

 

See, I use a combination of the keyboard and the mouse to move.  I use the mouse to look around and the WASD keys to actually move.  So when I need to use abilities, I then sometimes press the numbers, but usually click.  Yup.  I'm a clicker.  There, I said it.

 

When healing, I use HealBot.  I find that it lets me easily keep the tank targeted, and throw HoTs up on the rest of the raid.  In PVP, it means that I can be running around like a loon, playing "ring around the LOS breakers" or "catch the druid" and still click to heal without stopping.  I can keep somebody busy for ages by throwing some HoTs on, shifting to travel form and going madkittydashcrazy.   Toss in a cyclone or roots in there and I'm golden.

 

Even on my hunter, I'm mostly in ranged.  I can kite, using the jump-shot (run, jump-spin, shoot, finish-spin, run), which I use the mouse to move for, but it's not my prefered tactics.

 

Then you come to my warrior.  I'm sure with practice I could get the technique of running circles and spamming my hits, but I'm intending just to PVP with her for my season 1 shield.  So she gets beaten easily by those people who can do that.

 

Looking at PVE, there just aren't many situations where, as a tank, you have to run around.  Maybe Curator, chasing the flares.  Other than that, it's generally pretty small movements.  Even as a healer or ranged DPS, most battles require standing in one spot.  PVP just has rules all of it's own.

 

So, I'll continue to heal in arenas and do it well enough, but I doubt I'll be going Mortal Strike spec'd and rocking with my warrior anytime soon.  And that's okay.  I enjoy tanking, and it's always good to know your own falldowns. 

 

 

Time to introduce my second 70, and currently my character that raids the most and has the best gear.

 

   

Name: Eledith Leafstalker

Age: Around 500.

 

Background:

 

Eledith is the younger sister of the huntress, Alyviel.  Born and raised while her sister was away, Ele was always told tales of her brave and daring older sibling, and often dreamed of being like her.  During the Third War, so many druids were losing their lives that Ele was taken into training as soon as she displayed an aptitude for the healing arts.  Under the watchful eye of her father, she swiftly developed her abilities.

 

Ele was an impulsive youngster and often found it difficult to be, as she saw it, held back by the stuffy elder druids.  Although her training was not yet complete, she left the safety of Moonglade and travelled to the Eastern Kingdoms with her sister.  It was there that the both of them joined an organisation known as the Shadow Walkers, and fought together against the Burning Legion.

 

Eledith joined the Cenarion Expedition against the wishes of her parents and sister, travelling to the Outland and battling against the Burning Legion.

 

The half-trained druid met and befriended a human warrior by the name of Maxinos.  When he appeared one day at a guild meeting with a patch over his eye, she was concerned.  On learning that Max had been severely beaten by his own brother, a dark magic user named Megawatt, Eledith transported him to Moonglade where she healed his wounds.

 

 

 

Maxinos has been beaten by his cruel brother for warning him away from Eledith and her sister.  On discovering that Eledith had healed Maxinos' wounds, Megawatt sought out the young druid, believing that her strong abilities in a field that he could never touch would be of some use to him.  Telling the impressionable Ele that by allowing Mega to oversee her training, she could better watch over Maxinos, Megawatt bound her soul to himself in a dark ritual.

 

 

 

Well-meaning but naive, the young druid never realised that this would put her into the warlock's service.  Both Aly and Max have suspicions that something has happened, but neither of them has had confirmation yet.

 

 Personality:

 

Before the ritual that bound her to Megawatt, Eledith was a happy-go-lucky, care-free sort, always running around and laughing.  Since travelling to the Outland and battling the demons beside the other druids of the order she has calmed down, and then the ritual dampened her previously effervescent personality, leaving her quieter and more focused.

 

OOC Background:

 

Eledith was my first character created, but my second 70.  For a long time I was the only active druid healer in the guild and so I went along to a lot of Karazhan raids.  Now that we're getting some more geared up, I'm getting the opportunity to play my other characters in there, but Ele remains my best-geared and most common raiding character.  

 

I adore being a restoration druid.  In fact, one of my favourite sources for restoration druid news and tips, Resto4Life was a big inspiration in starting my own blog.  Ele has one piece of Season 3 gear from the arena matches I've taken part in, both in 3- and 2- man groups.  She's hopefully going to get her second piece tomorrow.  She also has the Season 1 headpiece.  Her gloves and chestpiece are both Tier 4. 

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