Life Grip lol!

Information about priests in Cataclysm was revealed recently and it seems like us priests are getting a friendly version of the Death Knight’s death grip. It’s called Leap of Faith, but everyone will call it life grip, it’s inevitable.

For those who don’t know, this spell allows you to pull friendly party or raid member from their position towards you. The range and cooldown is unknown, but I’ll bet it will be somewhere between 30 to 40 yards. Either way it’s going to be a hilarious spell and I can’t stop hating Blizzard enough if they decide to remove it before Cataclysm goes live.

This spell will not only be a source of great humor, but we will now finally have the ability to pull those retards away from the fire they aren’t supposed to stand in. As a priest, I’ve always felt like a babysitter in a good way and I take enjoyment in knowing I save my friends asses from time to time, but now I can do it much more directly then previously.

Myself and one of my priest friends also discussed many ways of using this spell to piss of raid leaders and such. For example, I jump off a cliff and in the air I use life grip on another raid member, pulling him/her down with me while my priest friend stands on the edge of the cliff and life grips me up again to his position, we are so going to get demoted for this, but it will be worth it.

But enough about life grip. After the eastern vacation from raiding, my guild cleared some more ICC hardmodes and I must say that buff is starting to get ridiculous. 10% increase in health, damage and healing/absorption has a huge impact on the encounters, and I still don’t understand why this buff is present in hardmodes. If it were up to me I would raid without it, but without a proper argument this isn’t happening, seeing as there’s no rewards whatsoever to raid without it.

We downed Rotface, Festergut, Blood Princes, Lana’Thel and Valithria and got Sindragosa to 35% in one night and I think Lich King will go down soon enough. Again I am confused about the varying difficulty in the bosses. We struggled like hell on Blood Princes, but we almost one-shotted Lana’Thel. Festergut and Rotface went down easily as well, but I’ve heard Putricide is a living nightmare, so I’m looking forward to that fight.

There is one thing in particular that is a great source of concern for me and that is burnout. It’s starting to kick in, even for me and I’m afraid I’ll be tired of ICC soon. I guess it’s inevitable when Blizzard only decides to release one instance per tier. Don’t get me wrong, both Ulduar and ICC have been great instances, but they’re still only the only content we had to raid for months (I won’t even mention the grand failure that ToTC was) and that wears you out, even with different difficulties to choose between.

I’m looking forward to this new raid that’s supposed to come out soon, and I hope Blizzard decides to pull a Sunwell and make it bloody hard, TBC style. With all the easy content and seeing now as ICC is being pugged on a regular basis, not to mention the increasing amount of Kingslayers appearing every day, I hope that this instance will be different.