Yes, I have been away for a long time, but let’s face it, very few people cared.
I have been working hard at getting my life back together in various way. I’m exercising more, learning Korean big time, reading books, taking more photographs again (I’m planning posts on that) and playing less World of Warcraft.
Having said that, I am still playing quite a bit of said game. See, I am in a small raiding guild and I am on the raiding team. Sure, it is extremely geeky and many people even think sad, but is it really any different from the guy who play some sport every day? My sport just happens to be online, where I do interact with my team members, all be in through the means of a virtual world. We talk. We joke. We have fun together.
I’m sure I mentioned before that I play a Priest. Priest have two ways of healing, Discipline and Holy. Throughout the Firelands Raid I was healing as a Discipline Priest, a change from healing as a Holy Priest while leveling. I did most of my raiding in the first raiding tier as a Shadow Priest. Shadow Priests do not heal, they kill. I started out raiding as a healer though, but changed when I showed my ability to do damage. For Firelands we were in need of a healer and I had done it before, so there I was, saving lives again. It was fun because it was although the healing was still new in a sense, I was a veteran raider now. Then came Dragon Soul, the last raid of this expansion.
The way this latest raid has worked out recently is that we usually only need two healers in stead of three, and I was asked if I would be willing to go back to killing again. Since changing to Discipline I have fallen in love with healing again, but I figured that I already have a lot of gear and will be able to step right back up for the fights where we need three healers, or on the days when one of the other healers can not make it. My numbers have show that I’m well up for it. In fact, since my “personal fight” to get my healing numbers not just competitive, but good enough to to post the best healing number on our team, I was a little surprised that they asked me and not another healer.
Us three healer came together in Ventrillo, a voice chat program we use while playing, and it basically came down to this. Each player can create two Specs for their class. Most healers use the second one for damage, because outside of raids you often need that. Our Druid has no damage spec created. The other healer has a damage spec, but like me she prefers to heal. Apparently the general feeling (them two and the raid leader) was that once geared up I would be the better damage dealer among us. I suppose this was largely based on my previous experience.
I just like playing for the most part, so despite having a favourite play style, I will do what the team needs or I will get out. If the team does not get it done then I don’t it done either, So here I am, still trying to gear up. Unfortunately most of my gear that I need now comes from things I need to kill, and you only get it once said stuff dies, then it is about luck to see if they give you what you need. This catching up thing is going to take some time. Did I mention we have another Shadow Priest who will be fighting for the same gear I am looking for?
That is it for this post. More on the gear appropriation in tomorrow’s post. After that I am thinking want to make posts that shows that weeks photos for my Photo a Day project. More on that another time.
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