Now I have to ask myself, “do I like beating the tar out of things to piss them off more than keeping an entire group healthy that is taking a beating?”
Well, for one thing, I like the point of view a priest has more than tanking with something in my face, not being able to see the fight. I like that nearly all of my actions are done with 3 mouse buttons and an occassional Alt or Shift thrown in there for effect, and that I’m no longer going from target to target to say, “here I am, hit me.” I sit there and use the middle button for Renew, left button for a quick heal (Flash or Lesser), right button for a bubble, and use shift-click for a full-blown heal.
I turned off the UI’s group portraits, so now it’s just my healer’s UI that controls healing, damage, and buffs. I can target team members and their targets from there. I NEVER have to run around when things go bad to save someone.
I’m finding it super rewarding to keep everyone at full health, keep running along without a death, and get people’s total reliance on my skills to keep them alive for the next fight. If there is another healer in the group, I politely ask them to only do renews and I’ll take care of the rest unless I run out of mana.
I think healing may suit me even better than Gitr did. I just never thought of the possibility because priests wear CLOTH!! They can’t take anything. I guess if you count my bubble, I have almost 900 health, so it’s not as bad as it might seem, and after my level 22 shopping spree, I have around 1500 mana. I can’t wait to heal some more.
It will be interesting to see how many of my fellow bloggers are enjoying their new roles with the alts more than their main role. When we started, we made a rule that no one could pick the class of their main that they blog about. It’s kinda funny in the guild, though, because I still get called ‘Gitr.’ LOL. So how about it? Your main or your Sen’jin alt?
My main, by a mile and then some.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m LOVING my mage, much more than I thought I would in fact. I’m a lot more powerful than I thought I’d be, and I’m not dying anywhere near as often as I figured I would. Of course a lot of this is experience; unlike last time around, I know how to make money, I know which gear I need, I know how to clear quests efficiently.
Why Crys is a lot more fun, I think, is because even as low as L20 she was so much more versatile. Take, for example, Ashenvale. Last night Burns was running some quests in the same area and about the same level where Crys went to get her succubus. With Burns, there’s no real challenge; either I can take the mob or I can’t. Either I can outdamage the enemy or I’m forced to retreat. Crys had a lot more tricks up her sleeve; she could pound a Healthstone, orchestrate a strategic voidwalker sacrifice, a planned self-rez, etc… there were ways around problems while soloing other than “I have to find a way to outdamage the enemy”. Burns’s options are limited basically to whether or not to use Dampen Magic, which mob to Polymorph, and when to cut his losses and run away.
I don’t foresee this as a problem mainly because Burns will be playing in a team environment. It’s just hard to get over all those levels of being self-reliant, even when inside a group.
Ah, now I see the reasoning behind your Blogger guild forum question.
I see you’re using ClickHeal.
Yeah, I love that add-on.
I was using CastParty, but that was quirky. Then they “updated” it and removed the configuration front-end. You had to edit the files yourself. And I heal with Shamans, Priests, and Druids. I don’t need that.
ClickHeal is great. And I haven’t even really scratched the surface.