Overly Positive

A little bit of a delay here just to get something to eat and drink, and here I am with update 2 of my 24-hour WAR marathon for Children’s Cancer Research for the Extra Life program.

With my guildies signing offline, I was left on my own for the most part. As a result, I am only rank 10. It’s safe to say that with a lot of people now rerollign alts, that actual communication is starting to happen in scenarios, something that just didn’t before due to a lot of reasons. The recent healing renown change, however, has left people short on healers. I can count at least 3 scenarios where I was the only healer, and we aren’t built for sustained healing.

I’m noticing as I level the amount of potential DPS that a Disciple can put out. It’s not a small amount, and if I managed to dump my points accordingly, it actually could be pretty formidable. But this is the classic pitfall of the hybrid healer – doing the role they aren’t at the expense of the role that they are. Disciples put out the DPS they do so they can generate the healing needed for friends. 

It’s a bit appalling, to say the least, to see some of the healers that just don’t bother healing anyone but themselves. It doesn’t take that much to target your tank or that melee in troule and start using abilities that benefit them. Thankfully, even with being a healer that is always the first target, my generosity has paid off, as there are a ton of tanks and melee classes willing to protect the person that keeps them up and running.

After 8 hours of this, I am actually not quite bored yet. Part of this, aside from the charity benefit, is to see how good and tough of a game WAr is – can it be beaten up, played til it’s dog-eared, and still be fun? That remains to be seen. Tiers1 and 2 of the game seem to be, for many people, the most fun they’ve had. Whether or not I can actually get to tier 3 in one day remains to be seen – but I do know that right now, WAR isn’t boring – even though this is clearly not the first time I have leveled a character through all of this.

Back at 9:00pm!