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Phaelia My 15 Minutes of Fame

Published on August 26, 2008 by Phaelia
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I was recently honored to have been interviewed by Lisa Poisso of WoWInsider for the 15 Minutes of Fame column. In it, I answer questions about why I believe certain people gravitate toward the healing role, what I predict for the future of Druids in Wrath of the Lich King, and my motivation for creating Resto4Life. Here’s a snippet from the article:

Who’s the healing flavor of the month right now? Why? Do you think that will change in Wrath?
Though I don’t have any personal experience in Sunwell, my understanding is that there’s a lot of raid-wide "splash" damage going around. In this type of environment, smart targeting and AoE heals like Chain Heal and Circle of Healing really shine. With the addition of the 51-point Restoration talent Flourish and Paladins’ raid heal Beacon of Light, it’s pretty safe to say that we haven’t seen the end of this encounter dynamic.

You can read the whole interview (with pictures) over at WoWInsider. Thanks, Lisa!

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  • Gravatar Kestrel

    Great interview, Phae! You actually made me start looking forward to Wrath, and that’s a first! :)

    Kestrels last blog post..How Many Have YOU Read?

    11:33 am on 8/26/08
  • Gravatar Amradorn

    Grats Phae. Great interview.

    Amradorns last blog post..Wrath content patch

    11:35 am on 8/26/08
  • Gravatar Hokuto

    Great interview, specially liked your answer about healers being a minority.

    Also…

    “Elune help them if I ever get my hands on one [beta key]”

    We’re ready, let the flood commence!

    11:43 am on 8/26/08
  • Gravatar Graylo

    Grats Phae. Good interview

    Graylos last blog post..More Moonkin Blue Posts

    12:06 pm on 8/26/08
  • Gravatar Halfalthaia

    Congratulations on the highlight! I 100% agree with your “silent hero” title, we healers all have our jobs, and if we do them well in raids people tend not to notice unless something disastrous occurs (and we pick them up and out of that disaster with outstanding HoT-tossing, lifebloom-stacking, swiftmending skills). While we may look like the broccoli that you see at the bottom of the pile at the supermarket, shrivelled and dead next to the rotten green onion and assorted moldy cauliflower, we are an invaluable force of nature! Thank you for encouraging me to switch my druid over to resto to join my holy paladin and keep supplying us with wonderful Wrath updates!

    P.S. I find it hard to play my undead characters because their armor doesn’t show on their elbows or knees, I yearn for flesh over those areas but understand the reasons why it isn’t there.

    12:10 pm on 8/26/08
  • Gravatar megan

    Dear Phae,

    Grats on the interview, you handled yourself in a very concise and intelligent manner—basically you ignored all my advice.

    Love,
    A Groupie

    megans last blog post..New Rules, Part III

    12:17 pm on 8/26/08
  • Gravatar Horns

    Can’t think of any blogger who deserved more spotlight, not even BRK or BBB.

    Nice interview, grats

    6:08 pm on 8/26/08
  • Gravatar Natarumah

    Congratulations Phae, you deserved it.

    It’s always nice to see a blogger who puts so much time and feeling into her blog being set in the sunshine. :)

    Keep the heals coming!

    Natarumahs last blog post..Content patch ahoy!

    7:42 am on 8/27/08
  • Gravatar Nilianil

    Great to see you on there – they picked a good target this time :)

    While it may not seem like we’re much of a minority anymore, I think that’s partially because anyone who raids tends to eventually be in a position where there are a reasonable number of healers, tanks, and dps, so it all seems pretty normal. Aside from that, I’ve noticed that about half of our healers, while perfectly content healing, would rather be a different spec or a different class.

    As far as the type of people who play healers (and want to), I’d pretty much agree. People appreciate someone who is good at what they’re supposed to do, even if it’s not really said, especially when their role isn’t considered as ‘fun’ by most. I believe that’s a significant portion of it – whether it’s explicitly said or not, as a healer (or a tank for that matter), you become someone who is geniunely desired and appreciated by others. I think that’s part of what’s drawn me to healing. I can’t speak for others, but it makes sense to me :p

    Also, I see you played EQ, to which I can say bards and enchanters would fall into a similar boat with desirability due to being heavy support classes. Likewise, I’m drawn to those types of classes in games as well.

    12:21 pm on 8/27/08
  • Gravatar Phaelia

    @Everyone: Thank you very much for the kind words! It was really an honor to have been asked, and Lisa asked some great questions! All around a lot of fun!

    @Halfalthaia: It always makes me sad to hear someone say “we wiped because our healers couldn’t keep up.” And it’s natural instinct to want to say, “Well maybe if you tanked it faster, they wouldn’t have had so much trouble!” LOL … of course, I don’t say that. Over voice chat. ^_~

    And yeah, what’s up with undead? Is Blizzard seriously trying to tell us that Undead characters rip the spine, elbows, and knees out of all their l33t epic gear? I think not!

    @Megan: Ignoring your “advice” is often a wise decision. ;-)

    @Nilianil: You make a good point about raiding guilds naturally coming to a good balance of Healers, DPS, and Tanks. This is all going to get thrown out of whack in the expansion though, because instance groups have a different percentage composition than 25-man raids. I imagine we’ll see a shortage of non-DK tanks for those groups. =)

    In EverQuest 1, I played a Ranger, but I really regretted the choice after a couple of years. Unfortunately, rerolling in that game was too intensive, so I stuck with her. IN the end, though, it ended up being a good thing since the Nature-loving aspect of the class was one of the primary reasons I settled on Druid!

    1:24 pm on 8/27/08
  • Gravatar toque

    Hmm… Congrats and all, but 15 minutes of fame? you don’t need wow insider to make you famous in the wow community, Phaelia.

    1:26 pm on 8/28/08
  • Gravatar Phaelia

    @Toque: Awww .. thanks! It makes me happy that my “fame” encourages so many people visit and comment and share. :-)

    12:10 pm on 8/29/08

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David
Congratulations! Cute baby!

Tsuki
I’m so late that little Colin ain’t swimming on his mini-shirt anymore by now. And Mr. Phae and the classic “drooling daddy” face, priceless. Grats Phae and family!

Rayvis
First I want to say congratulations on your new baby boy, albeit a little late. As a Druid myself, formerly Resto even, I found this to be pretty awesome. I had my first child in October, also a boy. He just happens to have the exact same onesie that you’re little boy is wearing in the video. It’s my favorite outfit of his because I am my son’s superhero! As a side note, I hope you’re enjoying your new seed. They grow like weeds though and you start wondering...

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I certainly never looked that good when I sprouted my seedlings. Thanks for all the great advice on this site. Things have changed a lot over the years and 60 was the highest you could go when I last played before this year. I got back into the game again about 6 months ago after taking a 4 year break when I was pregnant with my daughter.
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Wow, a wife interested in MMO’s and Marvel?! Mr. Phae is one fortunate man. Regards
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@Terrorpaw: This information is vastly outdated. Notice that the article indicates patch 3.0.8 while the current version is 3.3. The amount of haste needed for resto druids to reach 1 second GCD has been shuffled considerably. I’ve been poking around on this site and I find it likely that much of the information here might be outdated.

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Not to distract from your information, but this is confuddling to me. Everyone on the druid forums just touts that with CF and GOTEM you should see 735 haste on your character sheet? Are they just dead wrong?

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This is actually really useful – thanks for this! Is it still current and user friendly? I somehow managed to get up to 740 Haste without trying, and even with scrapping all haste enchants and gems – I am still languishing on 723 :(
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Over a year and a half later this post is still worth it’s weight in gold! Hope you and your family are all well Phae. :) *hugs* .-= Softi´s last blog ..Dum di dum di dum =-.
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I’ve been using this addon since I started playing some over a year now. I can’t imagine wow without it since. To swap bags you can right click the one you wish to free up and select ‘filter’. Then drag all the stuff into another bag. Also you could just swap a bag from inventory to your bank still full of stuff.
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