Offspecs. (AND

So I'm 7-6 now in battlegrounds and happily in the level 15-29 bracket.  It's kind of shocking(to me) actually.  I started battlegrounds at level 7.  And 13 battlegrounds later I'm 50% of the way through level 15.  I think there might have been 1-2 quests done but I stopped questing shortly after getting hooked on healing.

Offspecs.

Okay so the choice of spell selection being what it is in Wildstar feel absolutely great.  I feel like I change change from a healer to dps on a whim.  Granted I don't have the gear for that kind of switching and I don't like dps anymore after being healer.

But when you are starting it is amazing to just swap in and out which spells you want to use and ---

---and my brilliant writing career is cut short by a 6 month old ;P.

Battleground healing and esper.

From what little I've read on the Forums and the occasional other blog I'm supposed to hate pvp healing I think.  And no one seems to love esper as much as the people at healslinger love slingers.

But I've absolutely loved even losing in Walatiki Temple.  

Thoughts in my usual(100% of first 2 posts) style:

1. Timed battlegrounds are priceless with kids.  Being able to clearly say "it won't be longer than 30 min" is aaaaamazing.
2. I feel like I'm able to constantly constantly cast and almost never run out unless we're doing too good and I don't die very often.  In WoW as a healer I always felt like I tapped semi-instantly.  I do run out though and when I do it is like I'm in a desert of focusless dust.  I wish there was a good way of recovering focus quickly.  There probably is and I just blindly missed it.  I'm avoiding too much of the theory crafting because last time I got all into that I found out I was doing fun wrong and it ruined the game(WoW) for me.  This time I'm sticking to the fun and doing my own theory workings.
3. Building up points and then dumping them into a huge AOE bloom of happy green gold happiness is what I live for.  I tried blasting as esper for exactly 1/2 of 1 battleground.  Then I respecced while at the dead place and never looked back.  
4. You don't get a feel for healing until you fail over and over again.  The first two games I couldn't figure out why bolster wasn't working.  I thought it worked like Reverie and yeah it doesn't.  Then I figured it out but ran into other problems:  Mind over body is amazing but extremely frustrating when you forget to let it complete the cast.  I can't describe how many times I cut it off early just to watch a mask carrier die as I uselessly spammed the first half of the cast time over and over and over.  Losing is a better teaching curve than when you just ride the coattails of an excellent flag carrier or dps team.
5. It's really important as a healer not to get spotted and holding up a GLOWING YELLOW HAMMER is a big "kill me I'm helping too much" sign.
6. The AOE damage from Blade dance isn't amazing but the two psi points are.  I use this all the time to key up Reverie.
7. I hyperbole a bit.   11 matches isn't a huge starting point but it feels like a lot.  Anyways.  Still loving the game.  

Loving healing in Battleground but will need to make something to go exploring and seeing vistas with.  Maybe a spellslinger or engineer.  I need to get my guns on.  Dunno, though....every moment out there is a moment I'm not rubbing green stuff all over Walatiki temple with my MIND.

Wildstar

So introduction:

Myself and the Pretty Cassian started playing Wildstar last weekend and seeing as when we played WoW we blogged about it at http://twoandahalforcs.blogspot.com/. After reading a few of the Wildstar blogs I wanted to continue that tradition and start a blog here.  I thought for a bit about just continuing the blog at 2.5 orcs but it just doesn't fit well.  Over there it's been over 2 years since we last played any mmo and the theme doesn't fit.

We now have 3 little ones running around our apartment and are approaching the game very cautiously.  No more school, now we're grown ups with a real job and we don't want to upset our life balance by getting enraptured with a game to a point where we can't think straight. So caution right?

Okay now that that has been said, let me channel my inner... "Hey eldest what is the name of the overactive pink pony?"  "Pinky Pie Party pony.  You can say Pinky Pie or Party Pony or the whole thing... if you are typing it anyways."

Ah yes.  My inner Pinky Pie.

OMGOSH OMGOSHOMGOSHOMGOSHOMGOSHOMGOSHOMGOSH!!!!

WILDSTAR IS SO AWESOME ITS THE AWESOMEST AND I WAS HEALING AND THEN RUNNING AND GUNS AND SPACE AND CHUA SO MUCH CHUA AND HAPPY SPACE THOUGHTS AND MORE CHUA AND GAAAAAAAH SO AWESOME.

*cough*

Sorry.  I'm trying to remember I'm a grown up.  

Organized thoughts only.

I hope.

1. Wildstar is Firefly mixed with Guardians of the Galaxy and done better.
2. Battleground healing and esper.
3. Offspecs.
4. On how the Dominion isn't really the bad guys.
5. Chua, goblins, gnomes, and the idea of engineering through mad science.
6. My initial thoughts on Soothe.

Okay those points.  Those are all posts for the future but I'm addressing #1 right now:

So if you haven't seen Guardians of the Galaxy shame on you.  But i'm not discussing plot so shouldn't have to worry much.

Starlord = Cassian Spellslinger

Gamora = Mechari Stalker

Drax = Draken Warrior

Rocket Racoon = Chua Engineer

Groot = Bio-Mechari Medic

THIS IS TRUTH INCARNATE.

Yeah.  So that's that.

Oh and I play a Cassian Esper.  Healing specced.  Leveling through battlegrounds, because pvp healing is awesome.  And I don't play much each night due to the kids so I'm the grand level of 14 but I like to write and blog and why not blog as I level slowly and carefully up(1-2 battelgrounds a night means something like a level every other night).

The Pretty Caspian was playing and engineer but found out she hates explorer and is starting over as an esper scientist or some such.

Well that's all for tonight.  We'll see how the posting schedule works out over the next few days.