Now, I know disc priests are awesome..

Sure, I'm on disc priest #2 now. Yes, I know that TOC25 is old content.

I got into a TOC25 Trade-PUG on Amharach today, and noticed there were a lot of priests. They were desperate for healers, though, so I guess they weren't being too picky. I've gotten into the habit, in pugs, of checking what specs the healers are - out of 7 priests to start with, one was shadow. Two were holy. Four (yes, four!) were discipline. Once on vent, while figuring out who we had, one of the priests mentioned that they'd like to switch to their warlock if we needed dps (we did). Hope against hope, could that be one of the disc priests? Oh no. That was one of the two holy priests.

We had one druid, one shaman, two paladins, and SIX priests by the time we started. Both paladins were holy, the shaman was elemental, and the druid was a boomkin. The latter two were absolutely awesome. I have no idea how to judge the poor lot of us priests and paladins.. I mean, we tried. We really did. We got through the first two with only minor mishaps if you ignore the fact that I think at least half of us were either oom or close to it midway through both bosses.

The icing on the cake was someone posting healing meters when we lost one of the paladins, and the RL (the other paladin) commenting that we definitely needed another healer since the leaving-paladin had been 3rd on the meters. Er.. no shit. You're running 4 disc priests, man, what do you expect?

I did manage to pick up Cord of the Tenebrous Mist off Icehowl, though - pretty big upgrade, even ungemmed, from the Uld-10 belt I've had for months.


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On a slightly brighter note, Blueknots is 80 now and in nearly full epics. I've successfully healed all the heroics on both priests now, including the new ones! Every once in a while I forget that I'm not as geared on blue and still need to keep an eye on my mana from time to time, or that I can't just switch to T8 for bubble-heavy gear. I'm getting up there in gear though - being able to chain-run heroics is quite the blessing.

My pet tank, however, has apparently managed to do more pugs than my priest.. late last night he was startled to discover the Perky Pug reward. I /facepalmed.. that's half the reason I'm being so diligent about pugging!



A year ago, Wrath had only recently hit, I switched Caze from tree to chicken due to internet problems (which I fixed over break, woohoo!!), Amharach was probably not even 70 yet. A lot of things have changed; some I regret, some I really don't. Overall, I'm fairly pleased with how things have been going.. and I'm really looking fowards to that pug pet!