Echoes of Doom

It’s been a few weeks since the release of 3.0.2 and tons of fun things have ensued! Zombies! Guardian Spirits! Improved water elementals! Tanks are better, DPS is higher and Kara has been reduced to sub-heroic difficulty. Some of us may pity Curator now that he is able to be killed before his first evo and others wish that ZA was this easy pre-patch so we could have a slew of Bears running around. Regardless of your sympathy level for once semi-difficult raid bosses (yes, back when only the good guilds could trudge their way to Prince…wait, was that ever so?) many of us are happy to report the death of Illidan, Archimonde, Kael’thas, Vashj, and, occasionally Kil’jaeden- foes that were at one time a true accomplishment.

November 13 I will happily announce to my guild the switching of my main. The past few months as we have slowly started to overtake t6 dungeons (I know, I know, we’re a touch behind) I have found myself in a priestly holy roll rather than a magey frost one, and I love it. I love having the control of who lives and who dies, I love having to actually pay attention to the entire raid. Healing is awesome- it does not require patience, hardcore spell rotation...hey...Frostbolt is pretty hardcore…or any form of competition. I do still find myself a touch giddy when I am effectively outhealing people who vastly outgear me, call it the DPSer in me, but in the long run it doesn’t matter. As long as my targets stay alive I have succeeded. When they almost die I find myself doing absolutely everything I can to keep them alive, and when they go down I feel disappointed in myself and try to figure out what I could have done to prevent that. It has been a long, slow learning process but I believe I’ve mastered most parts of the priest healing capability.

I decided to start this blog because I want to remember my experiences and views on future objectives. To level, gear, and play my priest I read up on a lot of blogs and articles written by various players and I appreciated those people oh so much for taking the time to write them. I do not claim to be the best priest, by any means, or the best healer, or the best at anything. In fact, I can only say I am remotely mediocre at my job. But, if I can help someone the way others have helped me, then I will be a touch happier.

Thank you for stumbling upon this blog and taking the time to read my first post. I plan on updating it every Thursday from here on. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions please, feel free to post them or email me at pyatachokpriest@gmail.com.

Many hugs