So I splurged and got a Battered Hilt for my Paladin's Retribution set. Cost a bundle, 12k gold, but I figured it was worth it at the time, if just to have the sword and the experience in the end. And truth to tell, it was TOTALLY worth it. The quest line was great, with the usual WoWieness, like helping a Gnome Cloth Washer with his work, to the epic end at the Sunwell. What's even better though, is that's it's probably come close to doubling my DPS. I know, seems like an exaggeration, but it's what it feels like, and isn't too far from the truth. It's at least been a 60%-80% increase across the board. Of course the couple of upgrades I got about the same time probably helped things too... ^_^
A truly terrible Zul'Farrak PuG, followed by a truly awesome Zul'Farrak PuG both destroyed then rebuilt my faith in low-level instancing. I don't think I'll dual-box in instances again, but it certainly had it's moments. My Paladin/Shamen is 52/51 right now, just questing to finish up to 60, and I have plans to get my Hunter to about 30ish then grant levels to 60ish. Or I could just grant the current levels (after spreading the love to the characters I want) to get to about 30ish.
I think...
Unless I counted wrong...
Which is a possibility.
So I've been feeling drawn back to my old guild, who shouldn't know that I've been playing again. They've moved on to a much harder-core raiding mentality, with raids just about every night, and have lost the small-guild feel I liked about playing with the people I knew when we formed. That's what and where they were going from the beginning, I was just along because it was the people I enjoyed playing with, but at the end of my last time playing I wasn't so much as playing with them, as playing somewhere in the same group. It's a very subtle distinction, but the flavor and camaraderie that I had there just wasn't around anymore, and with the continued influx of new people it wasn't going to come back. Which is why I left and now find myself on a new server.
My Priest and Druid are kicking it Outlands style now. Random Dungeon Outlands Style!
It's been really interesting too, since as a Discipline Priest I have about a million different tools to use to shore up any group that comes up. But I've found almost the opposite to be true on my Druid. I've got a lot of different tools, several new kinds of cooldowns, but not a whole lot of breadth to my bread and butter healing tools. I know it's changes as I get closer to cap, it's just kinda weird right now.
I suppose that covers enough ramblings for now...
-LaFollet
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