I am working on finishing out my healing set. I am working on a list of gear from the raid zones and badges to give me an idea of what to look for. I had to add a second wishlist to my Pally’s page so I have a place to gather all my information.

I wish I could just go to a single website and it ranked all of the items. I like how Maintankadin does it for the Prot Pally gear. So for now I am just listing them all and I will try to figure out which is better as timer progresses.

In other news, nothing really exciting is going on. After work today we are going to go see Iron Man. I can’t wait and I need to call Guineoch to see if he would like to meet us there.

Hyoukami went into Gruul’s Lair on Monday. I learned alot more about the fight from the melee side of things.

I didn’t actually tank anything but got to mess around as off healer and 2-hand sword swinger. I got my [Justicar Shoulderguards] from High King Mulgar. I will have to redo my banner to include the new shoulders and I need to put Hyoukami back into her actual gear.

If I do get all of the T4 gear I will never ever show the helm. I think the helm is not the best looking helm in the game. Matter of fact I will probably never wear it and keep with my [Tankatronic Goggles].

This post stemmed from a conversation I was having with a fellow mage in guild chat today. I was inquiring which set of stats was more beneficial for raids.

I was thinking Set 2, but I wanted to see what other mages and raiders thought. Yeah I know, Set 1 would be more damage, .23% more spell hit and every frostbolt/frost spell heals me. Well I came to the fact I will carry my other shoulders with me to swap out quickly until I get my [Gloves of the Aldor], then I can have both set bonus’.

Set 1: 802 bonus damage, 12.43% spell hit, 17.43% spell crit and 2% of spell damage returned as heals
Set 2: 783 bonus damage, 12.20% spell hit, 18.50% spell crit and immune to spell cast(Frostbolt and Fireball) interruption
Difference: 19 bonus damage, < .25% spell hit, over 1% spell crit and the set bonus

So anyway the other mage was telling me that frost mages can’t do as much DPS as fire and arcane and that I should respec and respec my tailoring too. Um yeah right, pony up the money, mats for my spellfire set + respec and you got yourself a deal.

He was saying our top 2 mages in the guild, by which he meant his damage meter, are fire and arcane. Well the arcane mage left the guild. I told him to use WWS as a guide and not a damage meter. He didn’t know what WWS was nor what it did. Even though after every raid our faithful priest puts our WWS in the forums.

I was getting so angry at seeing these people swear by damage meters. You can be proud of your insane DPS and Woot Woot that you are #1 in heroics. When it comes to raiding there is more to understand then just DPS. I love the military term ‘situational awareness‘. It really applies here, I have even stopped mobs dead in their tracks before they reached our healers. If all your are thinking about is being at the top of the DPS list then you aren’t aware that some mob is beating the crap out of your healers. /fail

I even had Recount bug on me and show a full resist from my fireball as a hit.

So I was doing some reading and found a good post from BigBearButtBlogger on this very subject. I don’t mind peopel being all proud of themselves but when someone says, “so-and-so is the top mage in the guild, look at his spec and gear.” Then I pull a WWS and he is in the top ten but there are 2 other mages above him maybe he’s not all that super-duper and you should stop using your know-all-see-all damage meter.

I hope this guy gets a clue and fingures out DPS isn’t what makes the mage. It’s riding that fine line between too much threat and the right amount of DPS.