Expansion and Plans of MIce and Trees

My name is Brierley and I am a slow leveler.

I wasn't 60 when burning crusade came out, but a lot of the raiders of our guild had been in kara almost 6 months before I even dinged 70.

Now, somehow, I have become healing raid leader and one of the few people in our guild whose primary toon is a healer.

I have to level my warlock concurrently however because she is the herbalist to my druid's alchemy.

I also want to have fun, which honestly means in a couple of months I expect to get de-officered(not that I care overly much) as the majority of the raiding group hits 80 way before i do.

There are people in my guild taking days off around the release of Wrath king, but I don't plan to. With all the errors that came up from the last big patch, I expect something similar to happen with the expansion.

I will be going to wal-mart at my lunch break to buy copies of Wrath on the release date, but that is about it. I will hopefully play that weekend but no other plans.

Anyways
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I have been given power time to be afraid

So ,
When the guild I had been in for 2 years broke up the guild I am now in Whoville started. When we started some people even asked me if I wanted to be an officer , but at the time I wasn't even sure if I would stay with the off shoot from my old guild or decide to take my druid and go Ronin for awhile.

One of the people who was an officer, she was healing raid leader and guild XO, had to leave the game for personal reasons. The guild has been holding her position open for her with the hopes that she would be able to come back, however recently it became clear that she would not return.

I am not sure why they decided to open up the position, but this weekend I was asked to fill it. Part of me wanted to say no; every time I end up officially taking a responsibility role in a hobby or game it sucks all the fun out of it for me. After consideration though I said yes because I realized that I have been doing the job anyways, and the position gives me the official sanctioning in case someone in the future questions why they should listen to me during raids.

I am also thinking that there is a good chance I won't have the role for long, because I have to be one of the slower levelers in the game. I have 2 70's after 2 1/2 years and one just dinged not that long ago.

Hmmmm, maybe that will be part of my evil plan to not have responsibility long. I will level at my usual pace and as the guild grows I will recruit good healers and see who hits 80 first and seems to want the mantle and happily give the title and worries of leadership once again

Healing Durn for fun

So last night I was flying around Nagrand opening the little areas on the map that had not been opened yet when I saw a plea for a healer for Durn. Now my guild hadn't planned on doing any group events until the weekend and I wanted tot test drive my heals a bit.

One thing I will say is I overhealed like crazy since I wanted to watch the ticks and figure out how my healing was doing. One problem I found out this morning though is that the tree of life form was giving some insane 300% healing to the group.

I was all set to come on this morning and talk about how my Wild Growth had done a group crit and had healed in one tick for 1500. I realize now though that under normal tree of life bonus it would have just ticked for @ 500 on each person. Not that this is bad, but when I saw the sea of +1500 heals and more I was in healer heaven :)

Looking at my healing

Well I did a little healing yesterday, the server stayed up long enough. I don't see a lot of change. I ended up with this spec


And so far I notice a difference in my Rejuv and Regrowth. I also need to remember to use my Wild Growth. I guess it was good that even with an add on I was never the greatest lifebloom roller, so for me I was more used to throwing a rejuv down on the tank anyways. I also had my trinket macros written for Rejuvenation so I used it more than my fellow resto druid. The other resto druid in the guild, who was a better healer than I was, I think will have more difficulty adjusting since she rocked the whole bloom roll thing.

The main change I have seen when playing by switching over to spellpower is now I kill things much faster. I was considering leveling Boomkin but now I may stay resto.

Getting on the new patch train

So finally got on last night for about a 1/2 hour before I got kicked again.
I quickly sent my druid off to Stormwind to train and to take a peak the the new Stormwind harbor.

I will say the harbor is very impressive. Those dwarf workmen kicked some serious butt to get all of that completed in the time they were given :). I wish we could fly over the harbor, if no where else, It was just that pretty.

I have re-specced 10/0/51 resto. Switched around to get the gift of earth mother since I read a few things that sounded interesting about that talent. I will re-spec again once the leveling process starts up but I wanted to play with resto for a bit first.

The achievement thing really excites me. I know there are people who are already using it as a way to compare "size". I have 1500 achievement points while you only have 800. And others who are disappointed you can't trade the points for gear or gifts. I am just glad to have something I can do solo that is kind of silly and fun. I already collected pets, though I discovered I only had 22 :( LOL well an excuse to go buying now :). I also have opened a couple of maps just because.

My only complaint is I hope over time maybe they allow you to turn off the achievement announcements. I don't want to annoy my guildies too much and it can be a little annoying in the cities when everything kept proccing. (Though I also realize it will slow down once we have all memorized the stuff from our bank.)

Anyways looking forward to the game at the moment. Hoping the patch keeps me enthralled enough to want to play this winter.