Shifting goals

Well hiya! I do still write here, it turns out. It’s insufferably meta to complain about why I haven’t posted, so we’ll leave it at “busy.” Luckily the other guy’s pretty verbose.

If you’ve had told me that in Cataclysm, I’d pretty much leave my mains (Akromah and Leota, remember them?) alone and focus on other alts, I’d have said you were crazy. I used to hate leveling. But Cataclysm with its new quests and retooled zones and crazy xp gains changed me completely.

But now…

My wee shaman Snerk is level 70 and hurling bolts of lightning (/shatner) through Northrend. I have been pugging dungeons with her as resto. Shaman healing – it seems pretty easy. Easy enough that I have time to DPS in between heals.

Malerenne the holy & shadow priest is 85 and pugging (as heals, yes, I’m insane) random regulars. I’m not confident enough in her mana pool yet to run heroics with strangers. I’m enjoying holy priesting, but it’s not natural to me yet. I panic, spam heals and run out of mana super fast. I keep my groups alive, but it’s sloppy. You can find her in Tol Barad doing dailies with Thaco.

Malerenne, level 85, looking creepy

Leota’s on hiatus, showing up occasionally to make cloth and do enchants. I became disgruntled with her because no matter what I did, I couldn’t get her DPS to a level that was acceptable to me. And I’ll be frank .. seeing Fizzlethorpe pull 16K-18K dps makes me jealous. I know he’s worked hard to get that awesome spec and gear. But I’m in a “I’ll never be that good on Leota even though I’ve had her for years” mood so I mothballed her. Ah, the dark side of being part of a gaming couple…

Akromah’s doing Firelands dailies with Fizzlethorpe and pugging the occasional random Cata heroic (NOT Zuls) when the healing Call to Arms pops. I haven’t had her in a raid in months and while I miss it, I’m okay with how I play her now. When raiding stopped being fun for me, I stopped raiding. I’m sure eventually I’ll get a bug to see these bosses everyone else blogs about.

And that’s the state of my WoW.

*How we do dailies deserves its own blog post.

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