Comments on: Healing Valithria: a story of fail http://www.storiesofwow.com/healing-valithria-a-story-of-fail/ A tree and some alts Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:18:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Darkener http://www.storiesofwow.com/healing-valithria-a-story-of-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-5493 Darkener Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:55:12 +0000 http://www.storiesofwow.com/?p=258#comment-5493 I have never seen any good explanation of the dream state and green orbs. I know for a fact this is probably one of the most misunderstood mechanics of this encounter largely due to the poor level of information disseminated by healers who blog, many of whom have or haven't actually figured out how they work for themselves before blogging. I consider myself one of those healers who refuses to advise others how to get green clouds because I can't for the life of me understand how they work. I, like you, feel that I get stacks largely by blind luck or accident. Even more frustrating is that the RL and raid blabbemouths are typically tanks or dps who have no clue how the clouds work and will espouse all kinds of misinformation. I was actually told several times that a Priest has an "easy time" in the dream state because we can aoe "dps" the clouds to get them to explode. Misinformation and wipes later everyone hates our healers for clearly not knowing how to do this fight. Not exactly the "healer dream fight" if you ask me. The internet is full of mixtures of PTR and live strategies with most of it PTR. I can't understand why PTR strategies aren't deleted especially when they are confirmed to be wrong. At this point I don't believe anything I read. I have no clue what causes a green cloud to explode. I fly right through them and sometimes they explode instantly and sometimes not at all. I can fly right up to one and wait, and anywhere from 1-4 seconds later it will explode. There seems to be no reasoning. Yet I know for a fact that one of our healers knows exactly how the clouds work. It's just one of those things you have to learn and it can't be explained. After only 2 dream states she's at 20 stacks on her way to 35 and I'm lucky to have 7 or 8. I noticed the same pausing trick. Get close and just wait. Still, I feel like I'm not getting as many portals as I can. Even more frustrating on this fight than getting green cloud emerald dream stacks is after getting stacks on the second run through you drop back into the real world with only a handful of dps left. Or they are so pathetically overpowered that you can't heal Valithria at all you have to try and get the raid back to health. I I have never seen any good explanation of the dream state and green orbs. I know for a fact this is probably one of the most misunderstood mechanics of this encounter largely due to the poor level of information disseminated by healers who blog, many of whom have or haven’t actually figured out how they work for themselves before blogging. I consider myself one of those healers who refuses to advise others how to get green clouds because I can’t for the life of me understand how they work. I, like you, feel that I get stacks largely by blind luck or accident.

Even more frustrating is that the RL and raid blabbemouths are typically tanks or dps who have no clue how the clouds work and will espouse all kinds of misinformation. I was actually told several times that a Priest has an “easy time” in the dream state because we can aoe “dps” the clouds to get them to explode. Misinformation and wipes later everyone hates our healers for clearly not knowing how to do this fight. Not exactly the “healer dream fight” if you ask me.

The internet is full of mixtures of PTR and live strategies with most of it PTR. I can’t understand why PTR strategies aren’t deleted especially when they are confirmed to be wrong. At this point I don’t believe anything I read.

I have no clue what causes a green cloud to explode. I fly right through them and sometimes they explode instantly and sometimes not at all. I can fly right up to one and wait, and anywhere from 1-4 seconds later it will explode. There seems to be no reasoning.

Yet I know for a fact that one of our healers knows exactly how the clouds work. It’s just one of those things you have to learn and it can’t be explained. After only 2 dream states she’s at 20 stacks on her way to 35 and I’m lucky to have 7 or 8. I noticed the same pausing trick. Get close and just wait. Still, I feel like I’m not getting as many portals as I can.

Even more frustrating on this fight than getting green cloud emerald dream stacks is after getting stacks on the second run through you drop back into the real world with only a handful of dps left. Or they are so pathetically overpowered that you can’t heal Valithria at all you have to try and get the raid back to health.

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]]> By: Jen http://www.storiesofwow.com/healing-valithria-a-story-of-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-5229 Jen Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:49:51 +0000 http://www.storiesofwow.com/?p=258#comment-5229 I don't even want to think about the heroic version, but I figured out what I was doing wrong: you need to stand in the cloud for a bit in order to make it explode... I didn't know that :/ I don’t even want to think about the heroic version, but I figured out what I was doing wrong: you need to stand in the cloud for a bit in order to make it explode… I didn’t know that :/

]]> By: D http://www.storiesofwow.com/healing-valithria-a-story-of-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-5219 D Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:29:06 +0000 http://www.storiesofwow.com/?p=258#comment-5219 I feel your pain ... this fight on heroic is a nightmare (but it can be easy if you have a pally and a shaman healing who can stack the clouds) : / I feel your pain … this fight on heroic is a nightmare (but it can be easy if you have a pally and a shaman healing who can stack the clouds) : /

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