Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Gone feral.


That would be a pun, if only I were a druid. For a week there my guild wasn't raiding, or at least not at times that I could join in. So for one glorious week I set myself up as an Enhancement shaman and fooled around. What did I accomplish?

With patch 2.2 came sweet epic gem designs. They were all reputation rewards with various factions, so I spent a lot of time grinding rep. That task would've been impossible as a resto shaman. Now the Consortium reveres me, and I've got some frikkin' sweet new gems.

I also DPSed some instances. The highlight of this pursuit was killing the adds in Black Morass by myself. I had always believed that you needed a mage or warlock, someone with area of effect attacks, to clear those critters. Turns out that it's not that hard at all, and it was pretty exciting to be able to do that.

Rumor has it that the Season 1 Arena gear will be made available for regular PvP points at some time in the future, so I did as many battlegrounds as I could fit in. Many a mage felt the kiss of my Hammer of the Naaru.

Now, alas, the dream has died. We're raiding again, and we need a healer more than we need another DPSer. Back to Restoration for me, and who knows when I'll get a chance to cut loose like that again? /cry