In the Beginning

I tried full Disc. Pain suppression, Reflective Shield, the whole glorious shebang. It seemed to work, too, for a little while. Getting PS off when stunlocked by rogues, or stunned by a warrior, was just too difficult.

Calling out Power Infusion on vent drove me nuts, mostly due to the fact I cast it, something happened (a well time fear by the opposing priest) nerfed its value.

See, I run with Dato, a warlock, who at the time was full Destro. He loved the Shadow Fury. I have to admit, the first (and only) time he was left alone against two melee and they were running at him only to be hit by his Shadow Fury and both died...well, it is still something we laugh about to this day. Shadow Fury FTW literally. We did OK, but stayed near a 1600 rating forever. If we went up, we shot back down.

So I started the great respeccing insanity. You have to understand, this was Season 1. No one knew what to do. Everyone was going full this, or full that. The 28/33/0 spec didn't even really exist yet, except to those few priests who really got it.

I admit, I slowly moved toward that build on my own until I read an article on World of Ming and took Blessed Resilience. Our score shot up, and at the end of season 1, with limited play time and much tweaking, we ended at 1740.

Not great, but most people we knew personally that did Arena were stumbling around 1400-1500. We were loving it.

Season 2 has brought it's own pain. I still maintain a variant of the 28/33 build that allows me to do the occasional instance and still grind solo content without respeccing every other day. It has limited certain things I can do - but it has potential.

See, this whole Arena thing started because Dato and I love PVP. We love sitting up on the Lumber Mill in AB and declaring it our property. Epic have been the battles up there, and we have often said it is the property of Kiss My Fist, our guild. We want to plant a banner there. Nothing is more joyous than Mind Controlling a feared Alliance member and tossing him off the edge once the fear ends. Especially if they die on impact. I saw a macro the other day from a priest that yelled out "Wingardium Leviosa" when he did it. I seriously lol'ed on that one.

So when Arena showed up, we thought we would show the world how great we were. Most days now, we ask each other if we really suck and can't admit it yet. Arena is tough on your ego. Some days it goes great and you avoid the Pally/Warrior Pally/Rogue Pally/Anything combos (Warrior/Druid and Warrior/Shammy suck just as bad). You have to be ready for the days where a newly formed team with mostly Merciless gear shows up and runs through the lower ranks like a meteor. It's been getting better the last couple of weeks, however. School is letting up and the wife is about to start teaching again, meaning Dato and I can practice more than a few games a week.

Plus, he finally went to the dark side and specced the evil Siphon Life/Soul Link spec.

Which I will blog about next week as I need to pay attention to my instructor right now. Oracle SQL Programming sucks as much as Warrior/Pally combos and is just as over powered.