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Hello again World of Warcraft fans. It's now time for the second installment of WoE. A few things have changed since my last writing. For one...a character change. In my last writing I said that I had three characters, a priest which is my main, plus a mage and warlock. I’m sad to say that I decided to scrap the warlock. Nothing against fans of this particular class, but after three attempts at trying to play one, I just don't like the play style. So long Kruunk, may you rest in peace. Or, rather, may you be reborn as a warrior, which is what happened. I fully stand by this decision, as warriors are much easier to level, and are still fun to play. Really, though, I did it for one reason, an experiment of sorts for this column. I wanted to see what type of character role has to deal with the most bullshit.
So here are the facts. Morteas my undead priest is now level 40, and currently he's holy spec. I've actually found this to be easier to level than shadow spec, at least so far. Tethias, my blood elf mage, is fire spec. Frost spec might be easier, but fire seems a lot more fun. He's level 21 now. Then there is the all new Kruunk, level 22 protection spec warrior, which is easier to level than you think. It's the shield; they just givealot of armor. Even though you don't do as much damage, it doesn't seem to matter.
Well anyway, there you have it, my character line up: A healer, a DPS, and a tank. So which type seems to get the biggest headaches? Well, right off the bat you're probably thinking “it's the healer, its gotta be the healer!” I'm gonna say not really, but maybe it's just that I've played healers in nearly every MMO ever. It's pretty simple really: you locate the tank, then you heal the tank. Occasionally you heal other people who get hit for whatever reason, or remove debuffs. Nothing really that hard. The only time it is hard is when you can't figure out who the tank is, because the tank(s) can't figure out who is the tank.
Like this one time I ran Shadowfang Keep. It was my priest, a warlock, and three paladins, all of which throughout the dungeon kept switching tanking duties on me. Which isn't so bad I guess...except not a one of them were actually speced to tank. One was healing spec, one was DPS spec, and the other I'm firmly convinced just picked the talents with the prettiest pictures. Seriously, I have no idea what this girl was thinking. She even sent me a message at one point in the argument asking me if I was spec'd to tank. Oh yeah let me, the priest, get right on that, I'm sure it will go swimmingly. Idiot. I spent the entire time making fun of the paladins with the warlock, the only other person in the group that had any idea what they were doing.
I don't really have much to say at this point for a tank. I've only run Wailing Caverns once with him, and it went like clockwork. I've never made it out of that dungeon in less than two and a half hours, but with the group I tanked for the other day, we were done in one hour, and it was amazing. We went on to do Shadowfang keep in less than a half hour afterward. Best group I've ever had.
By far the worst so far has been my mage. I tried four times to get through Wailing Caverns with him. I don't know what the problem was; every time it started off good, but just degraded soon after the first boss. I don't have enough time to go into it this week, but it will definitely be the subject of the next couple of articles I write. There is just something about Wailing Caverns. I know its a low level instance, but still, there is no excuse for how some people act while running it.
Well that about does it for this week. Thank you for reading, and listening to me ramble about stuff that doesn't really matter a whole lot. Still, it's fun to write about, so till next week, happy questing, raiding or whatever it is you do in this crazy world…of Warcraft.
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