More Blooding...

[Kevin]

Kind words aside, Hykim isn't all that and a bag of chips as a healer, at least not with me at her helm. The majority of raids she's been on have wound up with her doing not a whole lot of good.

Also, I'm not very psyched to do Onyxia. It doesn't seem to be the kind of thing I'd enjoy, and I long ago reconciled myself to not seeing much of the end game hardcore content. I'll get around to Onyxia someday, but I'd feel bad if anyone took time out from having fun to make it happen.
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Bah Hykim is a hell of a healer. I've had Hykim as my only healer and it was awesome. I often feel you are a better healer with Hykim than I am with Taranna.

To be honest part of the reason the reason I want Taranna blooded is because we right now need to do Onyxia with other guilds. Darian has more high end tanking exp and better gear than Gnolack, that puts him MT for stuff like this right there. The Basin has the same thing. Someday we will see the gnome tank her but right now I think I could be of much more use and have much more fun with Taranna in there than with Gnolack. :)

I also think 4 warriors is really all you need for the encounter and well it's not all that to just plink away with a gun and stand around waiting to get in and swing at her to do DPS with your low DPS protection spec. Help on the whelps rooms would be interesting but that is mostly mage land, and the challenge of being the back-up tank if the MT goes down while a fun roll to be in, is a very potential high stress low reward proposition. If the MT dies you have very little time to try and establish yourself at the top of the hate list, get her positioned and try and prevent too many others from dying. That is stressful. Odds of success at it are not high I don't think either so you are very likely looking at a wipe after all that stress. Now it would be awesome if you could step in and prevent the wipe, but well I think that is the less likely scenario. :) However it was fun on the run where Gnolack got his blood to do that, but as I've said before the success of that run had more to do with the amazing play of Tal on Sharanna than it did with Gnolack stepping up when Darian when down. I will argue with anyone that Sharanna wasn't the most important piece of prevent a total wipe and winning that encounter.

And back on track, I love playing with the Bun too and I would love to be with you when you get to see Onxyia for the first time too! I don't think it is ever a waste of my time or ruins my fun to help out any Lurker with a quest or for them to do a Pindle or Baal run (I mean targeted instance run) for an item. I rarely have a need to get anything out of it for myself to have a good time. The lack of getting help for Gnolack for Blightcaller after taking Taranna through it mainly so I could get her to 58 faster so I could help other Lurkers with another healer was an exception to that and one time where I was hoping I could hold up everyone else for a few minutes just for me. I should have hollered about it more or more loudly so I do take some of the blame for not getting it yesterday on me. But I'm still being petty and a little bitter about it. :)

And finally I want to be able to give Hykim a chance to play around as a druid more. If you have a Taranna along I would love to watch the Hykim have the freedom to go cat, caster, or bear as need be! That run in BRD with you and Aleri along was a blast because I got to watch a druid be a druid in an instance! I know that you would return the favor to Taranna too, but since she gets to do it all the time while just questing with Treesh I don't really need it, I want to help others have that experience and fun too.