Comments on: Leap of Faith

By: Derevka

Derevka — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:04:05 +0000

… what?
/looks innocently

By: Meia

Meia — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:30:07 +0000

“Read: Engineers using Rocket Boosts and a Parachute Cloak to make it from the BWD Elevator all the way to Atramedes’ room… YOINK get back here! ”

/doom

By: Freakhopper

Freakhopper — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:00:50 +0000

Soooo I should bind my leap of faith to my greater heal- play tag with the tank?
Using raid cooldowns AND giving the tank a kudos!!! Double the pleasure, double the fun….

By: Takiena

Takiena — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:40:04 +0000

My favorite usage so far of Life Grip was yanking a guildmate who’d moved a little too slowly for Rohash’s Wind Blast back up onto the platform before he went spinning off somewhere else.

It has its moments, but I actually try NOT to plan on using it because for some reason, whenever I do it never goes properly. Specifically on Atramedes. My guild doesn’t have assignments or anything for it, and when I try to grab someone being chased who’s about to be turned into barbecue they wind up running away from me. >.< The one time it did work I ran into the issue Cactuscat did, lol. *facedesk*

By: Bromide

Bromide — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:56:29 +0000

In addition to all other uses mentioned here. I found it handy for the last phase of Chimaeron. Can buy precious seconds.
I find in 5-mans it’s just starting to get socially abused now though lol I’ll grip people for the lolz, they log a priest alt to do another run, and it’s payback time for my alt. One of our maintanks has taken a particularly keen liking to gripping my alt in 5-mans on his priest. He’s started a war! Just wait until he’s tanking a raid boss…. /cackle

Also pulled off a great save on the trash approach to Valiona in BoT. Our warlock likes to harass the tanks by angling the fire elementals in such a way as to make them explode and catapult the tanks off into oblivion. Leap of Faith grabbed our tank in mid air and saved his ass. Ironically – it’s the same tank that’s gripping me in 5-mans now…….that’s gratitude for ya!

By: Monica

Monica — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 06:58:46 +0000

Dude seriously how can you NOT have a priest during the Atramedes fight? I’m always bubbling / life gripping the people that are targeted and saving lives all the time.

By: Bekki

Bekki — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:02:57 +0000

I am waiting for someone to come out with an epic lifegrip screenshot addon that will actually capture an image of your grip, for any desired use (e.g. bragging/gloating, evidence, etc).

I can’t really keep count anymore how many times I’ve been whispered “epic grip!!” by a different raid member witnessing — usually the tank or other healers notice the save, as it’s typically an unaware DPS.

The prime uses I’ve encountered for life grip have absolutely been the Poison Protocol on Omnitron…… we happen to have a bubbly dps that often stands still when fixated by an ooze, so I’ve even gone to the extent of macro’ing said persons name into their very own life grip button. (Sadly they still tend to run BACK into the ooze….. *facepalm*).

Wasted life grips like the one I just mentioned make me sad, and sometimes I wish we could pop some sort of prep to get the lifegrip back one more time really quickly! Then again, that would no doubt be overpowered.

Anyone else use lifegrip everytime on Halls of Origination first boss??? I always always always LG the tank back up after everyone’s done with the levers….and it never fails to get a pat on the back.

Atramedes makes me drool when I think of body and soul and lifegrip usage….. sadly I have yet to convince my raid how awesome the benefit of it is—they are still totally okay not even having a priest in the fight. It makes me /cry a little inside. Nevertheless, imo this is the fight to shine on as a priest. Kiting, dmg avoidance, shield sprints, the works……

So when is Blizzard going to change the tooltip to read “Life Grip” instead of Leap of Faith? Haha. I actually had someone ask me why I call it Life Grip, to which I really had no better answer than “that’s what it is, duh!”

Go Priests!

(p.s. my addon idea for screenshotting lifegrips would have provided me with an awesomely epic shot on the tolvir 1st boss, with the mines, where an inexperienced tank was standing directly in the line of fire of about 4+ mines….JUST as they went off he was flying toward me…envision a wall of yellow explosion and a big bear with wings coming my way. Sadly he proceeded to tell me he was already on his way out…..and I didn’t have a screenshot to prove otherwise.)

By: Anjelle

Anjelle — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:46:34 +0000

I love using it when our raid leader calls a wipe. We want to “wipe it up quick” so we can run back and get going again. But, of course, there is always some dps that refuses to die and keeps attempting to pad the meters. Ahhhh… so fun to yank them into the pools of ickiness!

By: Mystic

Mystic — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:55:09 +0000

It takes a priest with good presence of mind to use Life Grip in ‘oh crap’ type circumstances where its use wasn’t planned; to actually realise that someone is stood in something nasty, break from the normal healing pattern and use the spell. when I’ve seen it used, or used it, and the target wasn’t expecting it, the panic of “what the hell just happened” usually means they do something equally silly.

I’ve only ever seen its use planned on one occasion, when Commander Springvale in SFK could be tanked in the courtyard our PUG tank asked me to pull him down the coridoor to help with the pull. I find it pretty useful in fights like Erudax in GB or Asad in Vortex Pinnacle where not being in the right position is fatal. Where people are just standing in crap I tend not to use it as it interupts my healing ‘flow’ but more importantly if they’re not an experianced player they’ll just panic and run into something else…

best used to annoy guildies after a wipe IMO

By: Kach

Kach — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 19:43:03 +0000

Yeah same here, you’re not alone