15 Minutes of Fame: Solo healing Naxx 10, Part 2
You're a keybind caster, right?I have everything bar mana potions keybound, and that's only because I'm too cheap to risk accidentally drinking one without needing it. I don't like clicking; it's horribly ineffective. As for my healing methods, I'm old school and like to target people before I heal them, meaning I don't use any mods that allow me to click heal. I target people on my grid, then heal them.
I could have sworn I saw Clique on the list of mods you posted in the Bliz forums.
You did. I use Clique for click-dispelling and click-cleansing on my Grid. I was running out of hotkeys, so that seemed like the best option.
Do you move with the mouse?
I move with both my keyboard and my mouse, actually. I almost always use autorun when I move, which I activate on my mouse. I also always hold down the right mouse button (strafe) when I move. Then I just use the A and D to strafe.
Did you wear any special gear? We notice you seem to favor +healing and Spirit-based regen. Do you normally play around with the FSR (Five-Second Rule) a lot? Did you find that being the only caster put a lot more emphasis on mp5 and regen inside the FSR?
I always wear a very balanced set of gear for raiding; this was no exception. I always try to stay above 1000 Spirit and Intellect, 20%+ Crit and 10% Haste – unbuffed, of course.
For this particular run, I did use two Spirit trinkets instead of Spellpower trinkets, though, as I figured I'd need all the mana I could get. I always play around with the FSR when I heal. With a bit of luck, I can regen more than half of my mana pool by chaining Clearcasts, Inner Focus and Spirit trinkets. However, that wasn't really possible during this run for obvious reasons. I was more or less chain-casting non-stop. My Majestic Dragon Figurine really came in handy there.
What consumables did you use during this run?
I used the same consumables as I always use on raids: a Flask of Distilled Wisdom and either Crit or Spirit food, depending on the fight.
Did you have Replenishment available?
I did. We had both a Shadow Priest and a Survival Hunter.
Did you ever run out of mana?
Never, not even close. I used my Shadowfiend three times, all of which were precautionary just in case something would hit the fan. The only time I used a mana potion was on Sapphiron, and I didn't use my Shadowfiend there. So it's pretty safe to say that mana was never an issue.
Let's talk about your background. How old are you and what do you do outside the game?
I am 22 years old. I work independently as a tutor while searching for an internship to finish my education.
What country are you located in?
I live in Denmark; always have been. English is hardly my first language.

I have been healing as a Priest almost as long as I have played WoW. I started in vanilla and continued until about 7-8 months before Wrathshipped. I had too many real-life commitments at that time, so I had to stop playing WoW for a while. When I finally came back, I decided it was time to try something different, so I rolled a Druid. On said Druid, I got to both heal and tank almost all the content in TBC, and when Wrath came, I made him the main tank of my guild. So I guess my healing experience isn't as diversified as one might think, as the Druid was always tanking.
So Prrancer is a new character?
Prancer was the name of my first priest; unfortunately, I gave that account to a friend when I stopped playing. So when I finally decided to roll a new Priest, about three months into Wrath, I made it look identical to my old Priest in every way, including the name -- well, as close as I could get, anyway.
I leveled him up quickly using the Refer-a-Friend program and healed Naxx 10 in full greens the day after I hit 80, which was early February. It was an interesting run, to say the least. My fellow Shaman healer wasn't very good at keeping himself alive, so I often had to solo heal the last 50-60% of bosses. We managed, though, and that's the night I fell in love with Priests all over again. He has been my main ever since.
Your guild sounds relatively new, as well.
I formed the guild when patch 3.0 hit. My friends had all been wanting me to make my own raiding guild for a very long time so that we could all play together again. Basically what it boiled down to was that no one was expected to have a high raid attendance, as most of our members have a lot to deal with in real life. We were completely casual in that aspect. We still are somewhat casual, at least outside of raids.
As soon as we are in a raid though, I demand top performance from everyone with zero slacking of any kind. Discipline in raids is a keystone of the guild and always will be. To this day, we have never had any problems killing anything we have faced in very few attempts, but we're still having problems getting enough people to fill our heroic raids. Jaedenar is not the best server to be a recruiting Horde guild on.
We didn't clear Naxx until 1/19/09, as we never had enough to people to form a full raid back then. This priest, on the other hand, didn't set foot in Naxx until about three weeks ago, as I made (this character) after Wrath had launched. We were off to a late start, so we have yet to try and take on three drakes on either difficulty. Everything else is more or less on farm, though.
What's next for you in WoW?
Well, my guild is going to start working on 3 Drakes on both difficulties. Myself, I am going to start working on solo healing more challenging things: Malygos, Sartharion + 1 drake and most importantly, an Undying run.
From the sound of it, it'll be a piece of cake. We'll look for an update from you when you check those accomplishments off your list. Best of luck!






Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Viper007Bond Mar 17th 2009 9:13AM
Cool, I guess.
Although since he doesn't have Undying, it seems silly to me to waste a whole week (or more) on doing this instead of putting in an Undying attempt.
nbcaffeine Mar 17th 2009 9:16AM
I guess if there is no title or points associated with it, something can't be an achievement and shouldn't be tried then eh?
Viper007Bond Mar 17th 2009 9:27AM
Seeing as how you can do this any time you wish and the Plauged Proto-drake is being removed in 3.1, yes I consider Undying more important. :)
bundee Mar 17th 2009 11:49AM
Maybe he doesn't care for the mount?
Angry Joe Mar 17th 2009 12:06PM
Maybe his guildies do?
hold up Mar 17th 2009 3:42PM
The Undying title isn't about one person's skill, its about the entire raid's skill. Which is why it's a silly achievement. It doesn't measure personal skill, it measures a raid's skill. There have been plenty of raid weeks where I don't die but there is some silly person standing in something that bites it and then your screwed.
The point is, there are people that still run with 3 healers because they say its hard, this proves its not as hard as people think.
Although I do think he got lucky on Kel. If he was the only healer and took an Ice Tomb it might have been game over. Although maybe he had something to prevent that.
jay Mar 17th 2009 9:24AM
Crazy healer!
All good though... quite the game achievement, even if its not what you get an in-game one for.
Bossy Mar 17th 2009 9:24AM
Could anyone tell me how many Retri paladins were in that Raid?
The non intentional over healing of Retri paladins beats healing priests in most of our boss fights. In the last 25 Raid run we had 3 Retri palas healing in 3rd, 5th and 6th pace.
And they don't even do active healing just keeping everyone around them topped all of the time.
I know I couldn't solo it with a Holy paladin though ,but give me 6 Retris and it's a breeze.
Fedya Mar 17th 2009 9:41AM
There's a link to wwstats at the beginning. You'll see that there was one retribution paladin, but he didn't judge light so he didn't heal.
Prrancer has done 83% of the healing in the entire raid with shammy as second (9% of the healing) and shadow priest (7%). the rest of the raid was under 5% of healing.
Mike Mar 17th 2009 9:25AM
Good thing he didn't get frostblocked on Kel'Thuzad.
Punjab Mar 17th 2009 10:14AM
Hahaha, true.
Heh Mar 17th 2009 9:27AM
Too bad prancer is one of the biggest retards on jaedenar, his skill is only trumphed by his massive ego and abrasive attiude towards other people.
Dightkuz Mar 17th 2009 9:30AM
And too bad that there is always two sides to every story.
Heh Mar 17th 2009 9:40AM
Well Dightkuz, just look at the article, its all "I" and "My", like his raid didnt do anything he just had 9 other dummies with him that he could order around obviously...
Rosa Mar 18th 2009 8:01PM
I think you have a point aboutthis guy he does seem very up himslef ,there was 2 points in the article that makes me think so. One was when he says he always runs with +1000 sprit and int and crit and whatnot "unbuffed of course" just to say unbuffed would have been enough but adding in the of course bit seems unnessary and ego buffing. Other was when he said about how he 2man healed naxx 1 day after hitting 80 in full greens and the shammy healer was dead most of the time so he was the man right from the start solo healing bosses in greens, that comment is very bigheaded imo, healing naxx in greens, good for you, but gloating at how the other healer sucked and you were better than him with ur greens is not on really. I justthink some people need to be a bit more humble in the face of others. And I know I'm probably going to get flamed for this post, but meh
Well that's my 2c goodjob I suppose on the run and peace out
Celton Mar 17th 2009 9:34AM
This actually seems pretty easy, especially if you have a whole group of Naxx-25 geared players who obviously know what they're doing on every fight. Some of the really good tanks hardly take any damage anyway and a good dps team (especially with 7 dps) can kill bosses very quickly. Even tanks do quite a lot of dps nowadays.
That's not to say that Naxx itself is very easy, its just very easy if you overgear it, which is true for anything.
Eisengel Mar 17th 2009 7:28PM
Yeah.. I hear you there. I saw some of the pictures and was thinking 'hrm... isn't the 10-man T7 a different color?', then I looked at his armory. If he could heal 10-man Naxx while he and the raid is fully in 10-man Naxx gear or lower, then I think some props are due. I mean, I can solo a lot of Hellfire Ramparts on my Spriest... but that doesn't mean I'm some uber player... just that I completely overpower the instance.
lollos Mar 17th 2009 9:38AM
Im sorry but this isn't impress me in any way. First of, Prancer is one of the biggest tards and crybabies in Jaedenar as someone mentioned.
But anyway, almost ANYONE with a brain and some knowledge about he's class could do this. This is nothing special tbh. But quess this is "cool" then. Grats for "achievement".
Maybe Prancer should start working with some real challlenges (they're rly easy though) like Twilight Zone & Immortal instead... kinda pathetic crap...
Fedya Mar 17th 2009 9:43AM
How do you do Gothic with just one healer?
Guybrush Mar 17th 2009 9:53AM
You have everyone stand in living side, about half way into the fight the central gate opens and the undead start to leak through.