Adventures of a Dwarf Priest

Ok I definitely have been MIA I admitt it!  I certainly have NOT kept up with the site like I should have.  Lets just say that between work, my son, my other hobbies and actually playing WoW I haven’t taken the time to update the site.

I spent some time early early this morning updating wordpress, and all the plugins so the site is back up to date again.  I posted a new poll for your polling amusement.  I also promise to go back through my live and beta screenshot folder and do some back posting.

In the middle of all this, Inian and I both transfered over to Doomhammer where we have our mages.  Usually when I get crazy ideas Inian talks me down but he went along with me this time.  I think almost as soon as I did it I wished I hadn’t.  Of course at the time that was it, it was a forever decision so I tried not to dwell on it.  Now Blizzard changed the rules, you can go from PvE to PvP and I no longer have to live with my decision.  So sometime soon I’ll be pushing Laneer back to Deathwing.  I’ll still have my frost mage on Doomhammer of course.

Just a bit of an update on WOTLK impressions before I end this post.  I will tell you first of all NO one will regret purchasing this expansion.  There is so much content in it everyone will find something to enjoy.  There are tons of new quest and game mechanics that change the game forever.  There are new and beautiful game environments which graphics are breathtaking.  The gear upgrade is more gradual than BC, meaning I didn’t start to see things I wanted to replace until level 73-74 in my Badge and 10 man gear.  The leveling curve feels about perfect, not too fast not too slow.  The new vehicle system is awesome and they make use of it in a lot of quests.  My only disappointment in WOTLK is the lack of NEW spells.  We get new ranks of everything but we only got two new spells.

As far as Priests go, well that isn’t as exciting as the rest of the expansion.  I’m sure every class can feel this way but Priests seem to have go the least exciting changes.  Shadow Priests are sad because they took away utility for the sake of DPS, but then nerfed the DPS because it was too good. Holy Priests are sad because it is pretty much the same as Live.  The only good thing Holy had going for it was improved Holy Concentration which was nerfed into the ground and made to be based on crit.  Then of course you had the exciting talents such as 10% more healing to AOE heal spells.  Then you have Discipline, which I have been concentrating on.  The tree which never had a direction, now had a direction “Best single target healing”, though Holy is still winning in this aspect according to the masses.  There is a lot of fun in Disc, I plan to go with it for a change from what I’ve been doing for the last 4 years.  There are still a lot of bugs in our talents, and I don’t think the tree is as strong as it needs to be.  As far as disc goes feel free to read the post I’ve been trying to keep going in the beta forum.

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