My name is Bård. I am 32 years old Norwegian dude who work as an IT-technician at a "Level 2" for a medical company. I enjoy long walks, and pizza. And I drink rougly 360 cans of PepsiMax 'a month.

I have a very calm personality, and have the patience of a sloth...as in the animal.

I like anime, Sci-fi-movies, Action-movies, and hentai! WOOT U EXPECT?!...i am 32 and single...lol!

 

Up to 2004 I played Unreal Tournament, and at the peak i participated in the EU Campionship in a clan. We were Okayish, but nothing to go brag about.

I put my real life behind me when i discovered World Of Warcraft in 2004. I started playing it at launch. Spent first 6 months trying to make money of ah...leveled a druid, "Bufé" to level 46. Emeriss was the server.

Then I deleted him and took a break. 6 months later I was back. This game sucks you in and never let go.
At this point i started an alliance druid "Bufé", when a friend i met on horde side said he was going to swap over
and go ally. We leveled pretty much together to level 60, and with some more peeps we formed a guild named PRIME.

With this guild we started doing some Molten Core, and also cleared Zul Gurub. Then i emo-quit in the heat of the moment for some stupid reason i can't recall.

My career continued when I applied and was accepted to a guild called Deliverance. 5 min after invite, they stacked me with an onyxia cloak, and dragged me to kill Neffy and then did a full clear of Molten Core. Can you say BOOSTED?. Needless to say ..i felt quite boosted.

I was trying so hard to keep up, but i was still young, and had much to learn yet. I stayed in Deliverance for..i dunno how long..1.5 years?
Atleast felt like that. With Deliverance I cleared almost all of level 60 content. We tried Naxx, but we were not good enough for that.

We managed to kill the eye of Cthun in AQ40 before we were hit by the TBC expansion. At which point my learning curve had made me into one of their two best resto druids. Cleared everything up to and including SSC with them.

At that moment, i struggled with getting gold. I had no time to farm. Was raiding all the time. I was determined i would never buy gold, so to be able to grind faster, and get epic flying mount, I asked them for permission to get 2 weeks off raiding so i could easier keep up with progression. I was at that time so low i was borrowing gold to pay for REPAIRS!...LOL!..

They granted the two weeks.

But after 1 week..they nagged me to come heal on Vasjh. Due to various reasons, I was not able to come, and did not want to, so i said no. Thinking my standing in the guild after such a long time was good enough for them to understand. The Druid CL, my best friend in that guild went totally fritz at me. He said alot of things he would never be able to regret, and thus, i felt that I could never continue in that guild any longer. This was on Lightning's Blade EU.

One other thing I brought with me from Deliverance was a change of healing interface. My CL there introduced me to GRID+CLIQUE. At first i hated it, being used to HEALBOT. Then Healbot broke in a patch, and i had no choice. I started with GRID & CLIQUE.

Needless to say, once i got used to it, I never looked back! :)

My UI have gone through many changes. But currently it looks like this:

Resto Druid

Warrior tank

 

The result of many hours of work to get acustomed to grid you find here:

http://www.bufe.no/tutorials (yes u can click the image too! xD)

After Deliverance, I was kind of depressed, so i took a couple of months off. I played some horde after I restored my level 46 horde druid. Played with some friends on Emeriss..total social stuff. Was fun, but i missed raiding.

I then started a wild tour of jumping servers. Can't remember all the guilds i was in, but i was trying so hard to find "HOME". Of the ones i remember was EVOLVED. A guild on Bronze Dragonflight. This was the first "PRO" guild I joined. 6 days raiding, 19:00-01:00. I loved every moment. Amongst the best parts here was that I was there when they did Realm first kill on Illidan. (I wont say anything about me hurling down a bottle of white whine to celebrate, only having to cancel my raid participation in Mount Hyjal right after...won't mention that at all...xD)

I also cleared Mount Hyjal and Tempest Keep with them. Really hated that instance. With passion!..lol...it was so.......PINK!

Eternal Gathering Kil'Jaeden, Sunwell Plateu View: Bufe, Resto Druid	Evolved Reliquary Of Souls, The Black Temple View: Bufe, Resto Druid	Evolved Illidan Stormrage, The Black Temple View: Bufe, Resto Druid

Evolved disbanded when Sunwell had been out for 5 weeks. They were unable to kill first boss.

Fate had other plans for me though! - . At this point i worked with a, now, close real life friend of mine. I "reqruited" him to WoW, and he has hated me for it ever since. XD He wanted me to come and play Horde, as he had his things going on on Emeriss.

Since i had nothing going on at that point, I just started slowly leveling my horde druid to level 70 on emeriss. I then after a while, got tired of being slack and social again, and made an application on the Blizzard forums.

At this point I transfered to few other realms, trying my luck without coming "home".
That is, until I got a chance to join http://www.eternal-gathering.com/

This was, hands down, total respec, the most professional guild I have played in.
And I learned a lot from them.

One of the most important things I learned there was to be openminded to various healing styles, and learning how to adapt in healing styles based on the fight you were in, or the phases you were in. This is where i for the first time learned that critisism can really improve your character, if you are approached in a decent manner, and where evaluation of your abilities are measured up to what's expected. It might sound harsh, but it made me a better player in more ways than one.

With them, I cleared Sunwell, before nerfs. That was.... Beyond comprehension cool.

They also made me apprechiate what I have come to love the most...NERD SCREAMS!!!!
(to me nerd screams sounds a bit like this image looks below...:P)

Unfortunately, there was a new expansion around the corner. Wrath Of The Lich king.
EG was the type of guild that turbo-leveled to 80 in 5-days, and on the 5th day they were in Naxxramas. Within 10 days, they had cleared all 10-man content. (if i am not remembering wrong.)

Problem for me was leveling. I had some real life issues, which resulted in me not being able to level as fast as them because of my work and such. I could not do like them, take a week off work, just to level. A lot of them did.

Then they started spamming me that i had to get to 80 because they needed me, and I knew, I would not be able to level to 80 for atleast another 3-4 weeks. (thats how bad work was then). Feeling falling behind, I told them I would like to take a break from the guild, to get
some peace and quiet, and rather just re-apply later if they needed resto druids. My ally druid stopped at level 78 at that point.

If it had not been for real life issues here, I would probably have been there still. It was a very nice guild to be in with proper ways to work out the quirks. They could be strict, but in a good way.

A friend at work introduced me to the world of Multiboxing. So I spent about a month or two leveling a 5-man druid boxing team to level 68. :) Just for phun!!. Multiboxing brings your gaming awareness to a totally different level. Those who do not understand how challenging it is to play tank, dps and healer all at the same time would claim it to be cheating. Where as Blizzard themselves say: "By all means!"
And even endorse having multiple accounts with their RAF system.

My friend on Emeriss then contacted me and asked me to come onto horde, again. He had formed a guild with some friends, and asked me if I wanted to join. He had at that point moved to Khadgar, and left the guild on Emeriss behind. I don't really know why i changed over to horde again, I guess I felt it could be a fresh start, being able to work with a newly founded guild some. But anyway, horde i went, again.

Healing my way to various instances in Wrath of the Lich King with Nocturne. I remember the first raid with that guild. I came there, dressed in blues, and yelled for innervates as I burned my mana and kicked the epic geared people's asses on the healing meters. I went from trial to member in 3 days I think. Needless to say, they did not think a blue-geared druid could perform like that I was told behind the curtains.

The guild was pretty ok, but after a while, they started having problems getting new and decent members to push their progress. So they started doing joint raids with another guild. After a lot of commotion and disagreements, a lot of the people left, including me. Not over loot or anything, just simply because things just turned way too emo because progress was stagnating, and we had some shitty deals with another guild called Split Personality on that server who joined only to boost their offspec gear.

For a few weeks, I spent my time leveling a warrior from level 1 to level 80. Read up on all things about Warrior tanking, as I really enjoyed the idea of having a zillion various abilities to hold agro or control agro. It was so different compared to my druid healing. I LOVED IT!.

I had a few mentors along the way, amongst them a friend named JALO. Thanks for the patience Jalo!..:D Could not have gotten to where i was if I had not asked stupid questions like "What is devastate?!" :D....I remember that first run where we went to an heroic. and I could practically hear Jalo breathing down the mic ready to take over..XD

The other mentor, who i might say was my driving spirit was a tank named Karlhungus on Khadgar(the guy in the picture above saying he would violate my butt). I could see him take on ANYTHING and he just would not die. I really admired him for his skills. The fact that he had not played warrior tanking for more than like a year made me think there could be hope for me as well. Sadly, Karlhungus has now stopped playing more or less.. :'(

It took me about 120 instances to start getting my tanking right. Doing a little improvement every day. So today, about 3 months after...i manage pretty well. So..that brings me to my Warrior alt tank, which i have specced for multi-mob-tanking.

Still got alot to learn about boss-tanking and stuff. The hardest I have tanked must have been Icecrown Citadel, getting "Storming the Citadel" on my warrior. (10-man N)

But that was also very fun.

I love my warrior. :D Sulmar, Khadgar is his name.

Anyway...After that, Jalo told me there was a new guild founding, called Rísen. This guild, was supposed to be founded by the core of one of the previously most respected/best guilds on the server, which had disbanded very recently.

I said ..nah...don't want to. A week later I made an application. Was accepted, and 3 days later i was Member status. 5 more days after that, I was Core Member status. Guess they loved my healing. LOL. I finally found it fun to raid again.

But...where there is glory and fame, there is also pitfalls. The biggest Pitfall for Rísen was their officers, or rather most of them. I have never in my life, been in a guild, where the officers and raid leaders had so bad attitude and overal competence on how to successfully lead a guild. (think almost up at the level of Dives/Wipe Club!, but silent behind curtains.) After a while, their druid CL stepped down, and I was asked to fill in his role. As I saw a need to get things sorted amongst the druids, I happily accepted the responsebility.

My first plan was to gather all the druids, including alts and such, just for a meeting in Moonglade. Although many wanted to come, not everyone could. But, we still raised about 20-30 eyebrows of druids coming through the portal area in Moonglade.

The second i joined officers chat, I was baffled by how rude and unkind the officers were in there, towards people in the guild, behind their backs. It just made me sick to the stomack. About 3 days after i was promoted to CL, I almost left the guild after a raid, and seeing how their officers where talking in officers chat during the raid.

I kept it going, but things did not improve. After having had a long conversation with some friends, I took a day to think it over, and then gquit from the guild. Raids Wipe, Raids learn from wipes. Rísen Wiped. Alot. And officers QQ'ed on how terrible their fellow guildies were, and straight out calling them SHIT, but never doing a damn thing to try and fix the problems.

I could not stand being in such a guild, where people were straight out treated like shit, and the officers and raid leaders going emo during the raids, to the point where they did not want to even talk on vent, or raid lead.

That leaves me without a guild, and Rísen was disbanded shortly after when several more members took their leave. The whole guildbank was snagged by the emo officers, and now all the emo officers have formed a new guild and live emo-ly ever after.

It should be said, that we cleared ICC 11/12 in 10-mans and 10/12 in 25-mans. Despite the shit attitude of the leadership.

I never got to do much in Ulduar. Did up to Mimmiron with Nocturne, but never got past there with them. One of the other guilds on the server needed first kill on Mimmiron, so i helped them get that. Their healers were pretty shit. I tipped the scale (no bragging intended, just a fact.).

Anyway..that sums up my Raiding experience.

Now, a bit info about my main, his gear, spec and glyph choices.

I spec 14/0/57 for Resto.

Some druids might wonder why i don't have:

Empowered Touch - Rank 2/2
Your Healing Touch spell gains an additional 40% and your Nourish spell gains an additional 20% of your bonus healing effects.

The reason I have chosen this to max, is pretty simple. I believe firmly that being a resto druid one of the major
tasks is to help save the tanks if they take a big blow. Healing Touched maxed, makes it possible for me to
combine it to use it as a powerful Nature's Swiftness + Healing Touch combo. Followed up by an already ticking swiftmend of a rejuv.

A lot of druids don't go for this talent, because they want benefit from other talents, mentioned below.

Subtlety - Rank 3/3
Reduces the threat generated by your restoration spells by 30% and reduces the chance your helpful spells,
Moonfire, and Insect Swarm will be dispelled by 30%.

In Wrath they changed the way threat works from tanks, and thus, less chance for a resto druid to overagro with healing caused a lot of druids to only go 2/3 in this talent. I have on several occations seen that if something goes bad, and i need to pull in that extra gear to increase my healing, my healing agro can go through the roof. In these cases, having 3/3, especially on TRASH, where people usually wipe the most in ICC, makes it possible for me to dish out the ammount of healing I am capable of, with minimal risk of making the job harder for the tanks.

Living Seed - Rank 3/3
When you critically heal your target with Swiftmend, Regrowth, Nourish or Healing Touch spell you have a 100% chance to plant a Living Seed on the target for 30% of the amount healed. The Living Seed will bloom when the target is next attacked. Lasts 15 sec.

Revitalize - Rank 3/3
Your Rejuvenation and Wild Growth spells have a 15% chance to restore 8 Energy, 4 Rage, 1% Mana or 16 Runic Power per tick.

At first glance, both of these seem like they are Godly, and some might say they are. I have watched Recounts and estimates during my entire time in Nocturne and Rísen, and fellow resto druids, and I can tell you this:

With the randomness that these procs from Revitalize helps, it's impossible to say if it will benefit a raid on a large scale. Sure it makes it marginal better for warriors, rogues and feral druids, but the benefit for the mana users is minimal. Based on the damage in Wrath, on the encounters, I have found it better to use these talents elsewhere.

Because ICC brought with it a new change, HASTE for druids, LIVING SEED has become less beneficial since it is dependant on CRIT rating to be good. Our primary focus at current end-game raiding should be in closing the gap between the ticks on our Rejuvenation, without suffering on the spellpower. Maximum haste also makes it fast for us to hot an entire raid to keep the damage at bay.

This again leads us to have minimal with CRIT. And on an average fight, with the ammount of Swiftmends, Regrowths, Nourish and such that crits, I have seen recount only count in about 60.000 - 98.000 healing done over a 6 minute fight from Living Seed. Considering i can heal for 2.500.000-3.500.000 million in a fight, this number is peanuts.

I'd rather be a resto druid who can control my spells, instead of hoping that XXX will proc and give some marginal benefits.

That said, I do not believe in procs, nor do I put my fate in them to the degree that I rely on them. This be trinket procs, Ring procs or talent procsc.

I am a straight out burst healer, who heal very agressive, and can pull out the big numbers, without wishing for XXX to proc.

That said. I have read up on the "BIS" druid mace TRAUMA. And the majority of the users of it, agree with me. It's not as good as it's acclaimed to be. Even Blizzard have stated that the estimated healing is max 1.8% to 8% of total heals done. Which, if you close your rejuv gap is peanuts in comparison to what HASTE can give you. The T10 is still very crit based over haste too. Or as they say, the set is "Balanced" with both haste and crit. To gain the most from Glyph Of Rapid Rejuvenation, for me, T10 is not worth it. This is the kind of gear I go for. That said, I had a friend that did a calculation of the druid T10, and doing the numbers the total benefit of the 2-set bonus of it is around 1% of total healing done. This at the cost of tonns of haste, and spell power if you gem for haste.

Thus..since i believe he is right, I am not going for T10, I am going for the "HASTE SET" without setbonus, which you can see on my armory profile.

The benefit of this "set" is that it has more spellpower, which I believe is the best stat a resto druid can get, and in addition it has haste on all set pieces, and it also has enough spirit so you do not need to gem with spirit. This goes for the Normal and Heroic versions of the gear.

This again leads me onto the stats I choose. The bigger hots the better. Gemming for haste with say 12SP/10 haste, to get a set bonus of 4 spirit or 5 spell power, say in an item where you could have had 3x 23SP instead is just silly.

So what gems do I use?, and where?

The only occation I would use a 12SP/10spirit gem, is if the set bonus is 9 SP and only 1 gem. Like the T9 helm. Using these gems for anything else is a nerf in all aspects compared to 12SP/10 intellect. Intellect boost your mana pool, and increase your mana regeneration by making spirit regen faster. In almost all cases, going 12SP/12int will give the most.

That said, I never use 12SP/10 int unless the set bonus is 7 or 9SP. This because it nerfs my spell power. In some very few items, where there is a good set bonus, like 5-9SP, and a yellow socket, I might use a 20 Intellect gem, even though it nerfs my spell power a bit, I benefit greatly from the regen I get, and the mana pool boost. Other than that, I just go 23SP in all sockets as long as I have my "25 SP/+2% Intellect" Meta gem. This Meta gem scales with gear. No other resto druid meta gem gives you spell power, and scales with your gear in the same way. In addition to boost your manapool on every gear piece you get, it also boost your overal mana regeneration, since it makes the regen from Intel/spirit scale as well. The scale here beats the "21int /chance to restore mana" meta gem hands down.

The glyphs I use are the following:

Glyph of Rapid Rejuvenation (Major Glyph)
Your haste now reduces the time between the periodic healing ticks of your Rejuvenation spell.

This glyph is the reason why Haste now is beneficial to resto druids. What it does is to let the time between the healing ticks be reduced, based on how much haste you got. The soft haste cap, to hit 1 sec global cooldown, which is our "max casting time" with hots is around 840 spell haste. One small snag with this glyph is that it actually reduce the ammount in time the spell is up, paralell with how fast it ticks between the periodic heals. So to combat this, I have spec for the extra duration on Rejuv/LB in the balance tree.

Glyph of Swiftmend (Major Glyph)
Your Swiftmend ability no longer consumes a Rejuvenation or Regrowth effect from the target.

This is, community wide, probably considered to be the best druid glyphs ever. First of all it does not consume the rejuv you swiftmend, and second of all, it does not consume the rejuvs you swiftmend that was not cast by you! Meaning, swiftmending a rejuv for another druid, does not impact his HPS or total healed. In fact, it makes you work togeter like a team. This is considered the 1 mandatory glyph any resto druids should have when doing endgame raiding.

Glyph of Wild Growth (Major Glyph)
Wild Growth can affect 1 additional target.

One more target gets a tick starting at 1100+ healing from me. Extremly powerful in fights with alot of damage. To best benefit a raid, resto druids should have montioring features up so they do not WG the same targets unless it's not absolutely necessary. Using it on different targets helps raids recover alot faster. Teamwork! ^^

Other glyphs I have seen end game resto druids, and why i have not chosen these instead:

Glyph of Healing Touch (Major Glyph)
- Low level Nourish Glyph - also known as Mr.Sucky. Due to it's silly effects it should never be used in endgame raiding as it impacts a druids ability to NS+HT to save tanks or other people.

Glyph of Innervate (Major Glyph)
- Very powerful glyph, but should not be used in endgame raiding since druids at that level should be able to manage their mana so they can cope with 1 mana pot, and 2 innervates in a 6min fight.

Glyph of Lifebloom (Major Glyph)
- Marginal benefit, Lifebloom drains mana like a working girl. Bad for low gear, no real boost for good geared.

Glyph of Nourish (Major Glyph)
- Good glyph for the gear range that base itself on CRIT, like Tier 7-9. Does insane heals though. But not enough based on the marignal use Nourish has in Wrath endgame raiding.

Glyph of Rejuvenation (Major Glyph)
- One of the best low-level-gear glyphs there is. Utterly rubbish in anything over Naxx level. Extremly bad on Anub-rekan as this will cause rejuv to overheal with that gear level. Especially if T9 set bonus crits.

Glyph of Regrowth (Major Glyph)
- Good Glyph, a bit underestimated, but does not justify the "cut of heals" you have to do. Using regrowths remove alot of the focus you need to have on rejuvenation and wild growth. And Nourish for emergencies. Not really a valuable glyph in endgame raiding.

Next up, is professions.

I have 450 Inscription and 450 enchanting. (on the main resto druid maxed JC on the warrior.)

Reason i got Inscription is because shoulder armors are usually one of the gear pieces with the smallest ammoount of spell power given on base gear. The enchant is very good to combat this. So i basicly rolled for the enchant. But...i also ofc know everything there is to know in Inscription.

When i wanted to choose my other main profession, i was looking at what pieces the "buff" would replace a part of another "buff" or enchant. Thus, rings don't have a natural "buff" so, putting the extra spell power on the rings felt naturally for me. My enchanting is maxed, and I know all "Dream Shard-Recipees".

Besides. Both these professions grant me enough gold to keep ma head above the water.

Other than that, I enchant the following:

Mace: 63SP
Bracers: 30SP
Gloves: 28SP
Chest: 10 stats
Boots: Tuskar's Vitality
Belt: Extra socket+23SP (might use a different gem, if i need meta gem working, but rarely.)
Head: 30SP/10MP5
Cloak: 23 Haste = "+heal" from rejuvs and faster casts. Currently the best for resto druids.
Leggs: 50SP/20Stam (I believe that the 4mp5 not casting i get is less than 20 Stam health bonus i get if i got spirit one.)

I know a lot of guilds goes for acheivements. I don't believe in anything but a good hard resistful encounter. Acheivements?...cba...just gimme something to heal. :P

As I sit this, my thoughts drift to the fact that when i walked home today, it was starting to rain. If it Thunders, my net goes KABOOF!...Good thing i have a Mobile Broadband to go in between if that happens Other than that, my line is pretty ok. There are some hickups once in a while with the central i am connected too, but in those cases i just use my Mobile Broadband until it comes back up. It's rare that it falls out during raiding times. I have a 2.3MBIT SHDSL connection.

As you might see from the above videos, my system is pretty ok in framerate, and can fraps up to 1920x1200 without much problems. Although, the graphics in ICC are pretty sick, and laggy.

Although the fix I found to just change your REFRESH rate ingame to unlock FPS is pretty nais. :P

For some people, the UI might cause lag. I never see this as an issue. I use about 153 addons, and never really have a problem with them except after patches. :)

For healing and raiding I use

- GRID + CLIQUE (see my tutorial site at http://www.bufe.no/tutorials)
- Recount
- HotCandy
- ElkBuffBars to monitor debuffs and buffs.
- Pitbull as unit frames
- IceHud
- Omen
- Bartender+ButtonFacade
- Kgpanels
- Ora2 for MT monitoring and Rebirth CD's.
- DBM Bossmods.

And a few more for other functions.

If you are really bitchy to me on Ventrillo, I might tell you that Marving Gaye is shit, and show you how it's REALLY done. Sounds good? Now Marvin Gaye AINT BAD!, but I am better! RAWR!



I see you ask for people to tell you their goals in the game. Personaly, i have no goals. Only goal i have...well.doh...maybe i have one...is to hear nerdscreams. That is hands down the best thing about WoW. Gives me Chills of joy every time. =D

I raid quietly, and listen on ventrillo for commands. If the raid is quiet, I monitor my DBM for the selected few things i need to keep an eye on. Most of the things going on I keep track of with my "side vision" outside my focus line. I usually never really miss stuff like goo on floor if I know it's coming. (I watch timers, and get ready to move.) I also follow transitions, and try to be proactive in both movement and healing based on the raid fights.

Although, if a guild uses "heads up" on Ventrillo, I do cherish that for the fights where the healing can be intense.

I am a believer in that "RAID = WIPE = LEARN = WIPE AGAIN = KILL", which means you can't raid, without wipe'ing. The more wipes, the more people learn or should learn and improve on a fight. - Until they get it right. I have therefore learned not to get upset when we wipe, as I see it as a natural part of raiding. What I can get annoyed with are people doing the same mistakes 20 times in a row, seemingly not learning anything.

As I mentioned in the beginning, I have a 8-4 or 9-5 job. This means i can attend pretty much any raids. Only limitation i have are Mondays. I cant raid mondays since I am in a program to loose weight, and on mondays I go to the AFF-meetings. IRL, I am 189cm tall, and weight over 170 kilos. The goal is to get to 130kilos. So after work, i take about an hour walk, but I am ready in time for your raid start times. Sometimes work might drag out late, if it does, I try to let ya'll know on the forum.

At the end here, I can just say that I am by heart a slow learner. In real life. But when I have a genuine interest of something, I am a fast and easy learner. When i prepare for a fight, I always prefer to learn it by "doing it", just to see and get a taste of what will be going on. After that I sit down and maybe read tactics of the abilities of a boss, and plan on how i might have to relate to that healing wise. Based on the dynamic parts of the encounter. I would then go and watch some videos of the encounter, preferably some high definition ones, and try see if I can spot the abilities i just
read up on. I will also prefer to watch the healing addons, to see how much damage the raid as a whole on the various phases would take. When I then go for the boss myself, for real this time, I can feel well prepared, and have faith in myself.

Anyway. You have now had my Wall of Text..

Lets have a bit more Marvin Gaye....ohhhhhhhh!!!!! :)