I can do what?

In my last post, I lamented that, although my newly-shadow priest is killing things quickly, she has no AoE.  But ho, what is this?  She dinged 75 last night, and one of her new skills is an AoE: mind sear.  I went to bed straight-away after training and haven't gotten to play with it, but, ooh, it feels like Christmas.  :)

Coming up for air

Finals over: check.

Holiday parties: completed.

Traveling to visit relatives: done.

Processing shock over my boss's new facial hair: in progress.

In the meantime, I've had fun leveling up my warlock.  Got her flying (to facilitate the herb-collecting), and there's much glee in dropping out of the sky to pick a flower while a Hordie is on foot to the same node.  The adder's tongue is mine, foul blood elf!  And oh, look, you aggro'd how many frenzyheart 'puppy men' to get here?

Our healer is where?

Having gotten fairly thoroughly burned out on playing a healer the last many months before Wrath came out, I've been doing a good job ignoring my holy priest.  Compared to my warlock, doing quests with the priest were agonizingly slow; I found myself preferring to do chores around my house, rather than level my priest (good for local cleanliness, not so good for my guild).  Then came the awkward news: one of our main healers was in jail.  As in real jail, not some euphemism for when your mom won't let you play WoW.  Probation violation, 90 days AFK. (Moral of the story: "court-ordered _________" means the court gets cranky if you don't do ________.)  A healthy reminder that being in a guild of grown-ups, life happens, and it can be fairly interesting. Humorous note: even if the guy didn't show up for his court-ordered , he was conscientious enough to let the guild master know he'd not be able to make the Naxx run.

So now, half the folks in our guild are hurrying to level up their neglected healing toon. The other half are cranky because there's not enough 80s on to run heroics (because everyone else is busy on lower level healing classes).

Trying to level my holy priest, I was following the advice I found that said "holy is pretty good for leveling, you just need to crank up the crits."  So I swapped around gear, got my crits up, and yeah, things died okay, but I was playing like a mage, having to drink after every fight, and no 'conjure water' spell to be found.  Like I said, I was preferring housework over playing my priest. Time for something new!

Holy no more

A quick respec, a juggling of gear, and my deliciously shadowy priest was trailing iridescent gas clouds over Northrend.  Which doesn't sound as fun as it's been.  My word!  Things die!  and so quickly!  /gleeful_happy_dance    She can't do shit for AoE, but seriously, my lev 72 shadow priest is killing things more quickly than my lev 78 affliction warlock.  (Maybe this is to be expected, given the quest-grade gear and build of the 'lock...  but I'm just blown away by how much easier it feels).