This weekend, when we weren’t raiding or trying to get caught up on NaNoWriMo (currently I’m about 3000 words behind. My heroine has been thrown into jail, still doesn’t have her memories all back, is considering defecting but doesn’t know where to defect to, and just found out she’s been pregnant for the last 90 years. I love space opera.) Reversion and I worked on our priest-and-warrior pair. They started out a short way into 74. We went and hit Grizzly Hills hard, did the whole Drakuru chain there, ran DTK, and then moved up into Zul’Drak and did the other side of the Drakuru chain. That’s the first time we’ve managed to do that whole chain in order and it was a lot of fun.
I’m leveling my priest as shadow/disc but honestly I haven’t even looked at the disc spec in weeks. I’m a little intimidated by the changes – and I’m adoring the shadow. I can dot things, fear them, Mind Flay, and still cast bubbles or even true heals? Be still my heart. With a prot warrior there to keep mobs off me, we’re practically unkillable. Seriously, I died once yesterday and that was when my scourge disguise failed and SOMEONE then blew up an abom on my head, knocking me back into a horde of zombies. Ahem.
Anyway they’re a good chunk into 75 now. I’d like them to hit 80 before Cataclysm. Another pair will give us versatility. I’ve been enjoying Druid heals more than I feared so I’m not as worried about having a different healer to use, but eh, I like leveling and our guild is so alt friendly I feel bad only having two max level characters right now. Also: my priest is going to be a gnome. Very very soon. I can’t wait. I’ll ditch my ugly elephant for a cute mechanostrider, the hooves for gnomish style, and my long ponytail for a pair of buns. Yay!
Oh, and a friendly reminder to other alt-o-holic types: Pilgrim’s Bounty is the best possible way to level your cooking to 300 or so. Fast, cheap, easy, and available next week. Do it! But then I’m partial to turkeys. So partial I just bought a chest freezer so that I can buy a half dozen turkeys and have them all year long. Like in July… want a turkey? You’re in luck, I’ve got one on hand! Yay! This week I can buy ‘em for 60 cents a pound rather than, oh, $2.40 like they usually are. That makes me very happy.
Ok so I’m easy to please 
lol. Sanbec has been sitting at 280 cooking since LAST Pilgrim’s Bounty, when he was the last alt on the list and just ran out of time before the holiday ended. I think he was also level 40-something then. (He was level 41 for like 2 years lmao) Several times over the course of the year I thought ‘I should really level this’ and then went ‘nah … I’ll just do it in November’
Speaking of San … I put on his shiny unused prot spec yesterday and did some BC dungeons to learn what the buttons and procs do. I whispered Reversion about it while you two were working on Zul’Drak. I think I was gushing abotu how much fun it is.
As far as the priest … shadow is fun, I cannot deny, BUT … I think once you spend some time on disc you will like it. The way Atonement and Evangelism/Archangel work together with smite … ’tis a thing of beauty. I can KILL and HEAL … AT THE SAME TIME!!!!111!!!!11!1 Plus, your gnomey will look so adorable with the little Archangel wings. /nod
I have every intention of getting the Disc spec back out. For one, at end game I’m a healer. DPS is ok but… there’s a reason my mage has no gear compared to my druid. An d it’s not because I don’t love her.
Looking forward to trying Smite spam healing. I’ll have to ask you how to actually do it! I can I still bubble spam?
Reversion loves his warrior, every time he plays on her he asks why his bear can’t have this, or that. His warrior is of course a gnome so once my priest has converted we can be the tiny cute duo of death.
Bears NEED something like shockwave… and an AOE fear… and multi-charges… and buff roars that generate rage.
Don’t want to make warriors and bears alike? How about an AOE spell lockout? Call it Deafening Roar. Or maybe a knockback. That would be a cool way to move casters around. It would be all “get over there” *swat*.
bah…. A bear can dream right?
I do so love my little invulnerable ankle destroyer. I cackle manically as I dash from target to target leaving them stunned and dying in my wake. Muwahahaha I pwn your shins.
Now a Worgen warrior… mmmm with engineering…..mmmmmm. 3 charges + intervene + two kinds of sprint. Great scott! Time dilation will make my leveling slow to a crawl. I but I could pull an entire instance before everyone finishes zoning in!
Entire instance before everyone finishes zoning in? Oy vey! And I thought healing Cruel was an exercise in non-stop flailing. I think I’m glad you have Analogue to heal you.
Hahaha, well, it works so much better when the person is right there and you can yell things like “what are you doing you’re going to die DO SOMETHING flailflailflail HEALargharghargh don’t ever do that again honey”.
The terrifying thing is, now I get utterly bored with instances where we only pull two or so groups at once. UK? Pull everything in the first hallway. Then pull everything in the second hallway. Then pull all the dragons at once. Yay! Happy tree heals.
Mmmm, turkey.
I second Trouts last, and just want to say for the record, i’m very glad i don’t have to heal