WoWness
Well, my four Allies are between levels 73 and 75 now. My druid appears to be kicking ass as feral. She has almost 3000 attack power and something like 33% crit. I almost wish I'd taken the talent to increase Ferocious Bite's damage, but eh. Given the PvP changes I guess I won't be PvPing with her, so that frees up a lot of points from PvP-related talents. I mean, there's no real point if all I'm going to get out of it is a blue "starter" set. PvP isn't really balanced enough for me to enjoy it anymore. I guess it's fun as a healer or if you're the FotM class/spec, but that's about it.
I'm determined to play as feral DPS. However, the tanking requests I get are annoying. I don't think people realize that bears can't really tank very well without the proper talents or gear, of which I have neither. I did Utgarde Keep tonight and, you know, I can't really complain about bad groups on a hybrid because that's the only time I really have fun. I mean, otherwise I'm always worried about whether or not my DPS is up to scale with the other classes and I never get to save the day. Well, this group was bad. The tank died on literally every single boss fight. I wasn't watching the healer very closely, but even when I started tanking I was very concerned about heals myself as I came extremely close to dying several times. It was a paladin, so I realize healing multiple targets is rough for them. Regardless, I ended up having to tank the last 1/4 of every boss fight. Ingvar was actually the best (and the worst). I cast Tranquility after the first phase to heal everyone back to full (whole party was at 50%) and let the healer conserve mana, then threw an Innervate on the healer, then went back to DPS until it was my time to tank. :P I love having that kind of utility in a group. Love it and, like I said, it's rare unless you have bad groups. You cannot tell me that group would have downed that boss with a pure DPS class instead of me. Would not have happened.
Meanwhile, my shaman is doing really well with elemental DPS. It's hard for me to believe that at 80 it doesn't measure up because she kicks so much ass right now. My priest is having all sorts of mana issues. I never did get to the point of obtaining a full set of T6, the spirit on which I'm sure would have made a world of difference. Mana regen is extremely harsh right now and the downtime I'm experiencing is making playing her not fun at all when she used to be one of my favorite. Unless it improves I'm seriously considering respeccing to heal. I just loathe downtime with a passion, it's why I quit mage and haven't played one since. Plus, I already had to deal with the stress of a sub par DPS class with no CC trying to make it work with her in BC and I have no desire to keep fighting that battle. I'd rather push my feral DPS druid to acceptance than my shadow priest.
The only character I feel I suck at playing is my hunter, who I haven't felt skilled with since BC. I do okay with her, I guess, but I don't feel like I play her well. I really don't know what the optimal shot rotations are and I think I probably should have made different choices in her gear, especially in terms of crit.
I haven't really been playing my Horde characters yet. I think I should probably respec my warlock into Haunt instead of Soul Link. At the time I wasn't sure how much more PvPing I wanted to do with her and despite everyone gushing all over Haunt I wasn't prepared to give up Soul Link knowing how I'd suffered before in PvP as Affliction with no damage reducer. I still don't know how to spec my tauren druid. I really want to try Balance on her since I haven't played Balance in literally years. Every time I think about speccing her resto again I just think how stressful it is to heal, and boring, and I'm not sure I want to do it. I love the fact that getting groups is easy, but that's about the only bonus to PvE healing. I'll probably get to working on my Hordelings when my Allies are 80, although, it may be a bit sooner than that if Jason starts playing his mage.
I guess that's about it really. Alts are low on my priority list at the moment not to mention the fact that I'm so sick to death of Outland. I was going to go back and finish the quests there so I'd have more to do at 80 for gold, but after having spent a couple of days just trying to complete Nagrand with it's "kill 100 of everything" quests and getting little to no experience for it I'm just not sure I want to be bothered. The time investment per reward sucks too much. Plus, it seems like there are enough daily quests at 80 so far that gold really shouldn't be a problem (even though I'm eying that 20k mammoth). I would like to have a DK at some point. It's funny too because I've done Borean Tundra and Howling Fjord four times now and I'm not sick of either zone. Dragonblight is a different story. >_>
I'm determined to play as feral DPS. However, the tanking requests I get are annoying. I don't think people realize that bears can't really tank very well without the proper talents or gear, of which I have neither. I did Utgarde Keep tonight and, you know, I can't really complain about bad groups on a hybrid because that's the only time I really have fun. I mean, otherwise I'm always worried about whether or not my DPS is up to scale with the other classes and I never get to save the day. Well, this group was bad. The tank died on literally every single boss fight. I wasn't watching the healer very closely, but even when I started tanking I was very concerned about heals myself as I came extremely close to dying several times. It was a paladin, so I realize healing multiple targets is rough for them. Regardless, I ended up having to tank the last 1/4 of every boss fight. Ingvar was actually the best (and the worst). I cast Tranquility after the first phase to heal everyone back to full (whole party was at 50%) and let the healer conserve mana, then threw an Innervate on the healer, then went back to DPS until it was my time to tank. :P I love having that kind of utility in a group. Love it and, like I said, it's rare unless you have bad groups. You cannot tell me that group would have downed that boss with a pure DPS class instead of me. Would not have happened.
Meanwhile, my shaman is doing really well with elemental DPS. It's hard for me to believe that at 80 it doesn't measure up because she kicks so much ass right now. My priest is having all sorts of mana issues. I never did get to the point of obtaining a full set of T6, the spirit on which I'm sure would have made a world of difference. Mana regen is extremely harsh right now and the downtime I'm experiencing is making playing her not fun at all when she used to be one of my favorite. Unless it improves I'm seriously considering respeccing to heal. I just loathe downtime with a passion, it's why I quit mage and haven't played one since. Plus, I already had to deal with the stress of a sub par DPS class with no CC trying to make it work with her in BC and I have no desire to keep fighting that battle. I'd rather push my feral DPS druid to acceptance than my shadow priest.
The only character I feel I suck at playing is my hunter, who I haven't felt skilled with since BC. I do okay with her, I guess, but I don't feel like I play her well. I really don't know what the optimal shot rotations are and I think I probably should have made different choices in her gear, especially in terms of crit.
I haven't really been playing my Horde characters yet. I think I should probably respec my warlock into Haunt instead of Soul Link. At the time I wasn't sure how much more PvPing I wanted to do with her and despite everyone gushing all over Haunt I wasn't prepared to give up Soul Link knowing how I'd suffered before in PvP as Affliction with no damage reducer. I still don't know how to spec my tauren druid. I really want to try Balance on her since I haven't played Balance in literally years. Every time I think about speccing her resto again I just think how stressful it is to heal, and boring, and I'm not sure I want to do it. I love the fact that getting groups is easy, but that's about the only bonus to PvE healing. I'll probably get to working on my Hordelings when my Allies are 80, although, it may be a bit sooner than that if Jason starts playing his mage.
I guess that's about it really. Alts are low on my priority list at the moment not to mention the fact that I'm so sick to death of Outland. I was going to go back and finish the quests there so I'd have more to do at 80 for gold, but after having spent a couple of days just trying to complete Nagrand with it's "kill 100 of everything" quests and getting little to no experience for it I'm just not sure I want to be bothered. The time investment per reward sucks too much. Plus, it seems like there are enough daily quests at 80 so far that gold really shouldn't be a problem (even though I'm eying that 20k mammoth). I would like to have a DK at some point. It's funny too because I've done Borean Tundra and Howling Fjord four times now and I'm not sick of either zone. Dragonblight is a different story. >_>