Of late, I’m enjoying playing World of Warcraft with my priest the most. I have a druid, and find I don’t enjoy healing with her very much. Maybe that’s because I know in the back of my mind that I could be fighting as a giant cat, so why am I standing around healing people? But as a priest, really, healing is my role.
My priest is on Dark Iron, and her name’s Raelle. I’m finding Dark Iron to be a way less friendly server than Llane, where I usually play. Maybe it’s the fact that it’s a PvP server, or maybe it’s that it’s the home to the war between Penny-Arcade and PvP/Ctrl+Alt+Del - the web comic war (which is why I made a character there one day when Llane was down). In any event, I’m at level 21 and I hadn’t really grouped with anyone at all for anything. Really. I’d encounter people doing simple “Kill 12 Foobobs” quests, and they’d show no interest in grouping up. So I’ve done a lot of soloing, which really is not as hard as I expected it would be as a priest with the cheesecloth armor we get. Of course, this is making it sound like I wasn’t having fun. Not true!
For one thing, I took up Tailoring as my profession. It’s great. I’m making gobs of money, it’s easy to level it up (I’m already at a higher level of Tailoring with my 21 Priest than I am at Blacksmithing with my 27 Paladin). There’s something very satisfying about it. I’ve been making shirts and selling them on the Auction House for a decent profit, and I was wondering, who buys these things? Come on, who cares if your shirt is green or red or blue? It doesn’t give you any benefits. Haha. Oh boy. But now I’m one of the crazy ones too, which I’ll explain in a moment.
Last night, I decided to log on and just check AH, post some new auctions, and log out. Well, there I am, running errands in Stormwind at 11:00 pm my time, and someone I don’t know sends me a message asking if I want to run through Deadmines with them. Um. I sorta needed to go to sleep at a reasonable hour? And who are these people? But I’d been wanting to run through it - I had quests to do there and I wanted to try to get some cool loot. But it takes a good chunk of time and I hadn’t been able to find that time. So I decided to try it out with these strangers. And it was great!
As a priest healer, I have way better spells at my disposal for being the wuss in the background who’s just supporting everyone. I have a cool spell for losing aggro (Fade), and a spell that makes guys run away from me (Psychic Scream) and a whole assortment of healing and shielding spells. It actually makes healing fun. And in Deadmines I got all these really good items - a ring, a wand and a cool new piece of chest armor. And despite my general comments on people on Dark Iron, everyone loves a priest in a dungeon. As soon as we finished our run one of my party members immediately asked if I wanted to go again. But it was 1:30 am, so no. Then, some other random stranger asked me if I wanted to go. People love the priests. But back to my newfound clothes interest. Here’s what I was wearing before - a lovely dress:
Then I get this new armor and immediately equip it, resulting in an uber-slut pirate girl look:
I guess the fact that I got the armor off of a pirate might have something to do with it. But come one, I can’t walk around like that! So fortunately, I have a stash of shirts and I try on a few.
And look, it even matches my belt and shoulderpads. You might go so far as to call it an ensemble. Indeed. So now you can see, I’ve joined the ranks of those weirdos who actually identify with their online avatars to the level that they want them to dress well! It can’t get much worse than this, can it?
4 Responses to “Tales From the Priesthood”
Nice to see you are still enjoying WoW
My account ran out while I was in TX and I am unsure if I am going to resub before the expansion. There is a podcast I listen called Taverncast that has a guild on Whisperwind called “The Pod People”. I am tempted to resub and play with them… large guild… friendly people… and mostly lower levels still.
We’ll see.
That’s funny. The clothing / fashion / profession options that you described are tempting me to get that game more than my friends’ “Come on, it’s cool! You know you want to!” arguments. The professions fascinate me.
I have to be strong though. I still play Guild Wars and I enjoy it. D&D Online is another temptation… I can’t be playing too many online games!
Yes, still enjoying it! I’m a … moderate addict.
I’m still playing maybe twice a week, though my main character is definitely languishing. I’ve played with her maybe once in the last two months. My three alts are seeing a lot more playtime.
As to the professions, tailoring is definitely the best for fashion statements. There are all these dresses and shirts you can make that are really for nothing other than looking pretty. The other professions are all a lot more about gameplay. But you can get things like tuxedo shirts and wedding dresses at high levels. It’s amusing.
And despite everything, I don’t know that I’d wish WoW on anyone!
I definitely play it at the expense of doing other things, like reading or sleeping. I used to read a lot more. Oh well, who needs those archaic books anyway! And sleep? What’s that good for?
You need an eyepatch, then you can roleplay a lesbian pirate with an invisible talking parrot and freak everyone out. Deadmines is good fun, one of my favorite instances. My main used to be a priest, all the stalker tells for my juicy mana and saccharine heals and the lack of an anon feature forced me into alt coma.