Joel’s Scattered Thoughts

WoW Gem Finder: World of Warcraft Socket Gems and Jewelcrafting Guide is a lovely search engine for gems. Now I need to save up the money to buy myself some shiny things.

EDIT: It looks as though that site is down. Try WoW-Gems instead.

Guide to Gearing a HEALadin for Karazhan gives a good overview of what’s needed gearwise. Now to get groups for some of those instances.

Between the drops I had picked up while tanking, the rep I had accumulated, my lovely wife’s collection of enchants, and spending roughly 1000 gold, I now have a Kara ready paladin. Basically Andromache needs to boost her +healing a bit. I could get her gloves and bracers enchanted to push me over the top, but they’re greens so I’d rather not do the enchants on those just yet.

I don’t know if I’ll actually end up healing Kara, but at least this way I’m ready to go. Now to get that Black Morass run…

Much as I’ve enjoyed AOE tanking on my paladin, I think I’m going to move her over to being a Healadin instead.

This does not make me a happy camper. I have run endgame as a healer before and I was enjoying doing something different. Paladin AOE tanking/grinding is a lot of fun and it’s different enough from my warrior’s tanking to keep things fresh for me. I have picked up a fair amount of experience as a paladin tank so I feel fairly confident in that role.

On the bright side, I did suspect this was coming. I rolled a paladin specifically so that I could switch to healing at endgame if needed. I have been keeping an eye out for good healing drops/rewards so I have a decent set of healer gear already. The tanks I’d be running with are very good at their role so our group won’t be losing a good tank for a noob paladin healer. (It kind of makes me wish I’d leveled a priest as one of my alts on this server as I would feel far more confident healing as a priest.)

Ah well, we’ll see what happens.

Oh yeah, the real downside would be that I’d be rolling against my dear wife for drops.

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No hurt heals by itself. So although we do not choose the ways we are hurt, we can choose the ways we will heal.

If I do play Flint again - something which may happen with Wrath of the Lich king, I’m going to try to do some DPS. Here is how A Dwarf Priest sums up Holy Priest DPS
“Open with Holy Fire. Then proceed to start smiting.” Keep smiting till you run out of mana or it dies.

Well I’m part of a raiding alliance again. Last night we took Attumen down and tonight we got Maiden down to 35%. I have to say that trash respawns are the worst part of raiding. I believe it was Tobold who said the problem with trash is that it doesn’t slow down the guilds who burn through content but it’s a huge barrier to guilds that are a little slower. I abhor having to kill the same mobs over and over again when learning a fight.

I’ve just switched web hosts (largely due to space limitation at my old host). Hopefully the transition was seamless for anyone out there reading this. If you see any problems, please let me know.