Nerd things
I don't know how many of you will be able to help me with my nerd issues, but...
At Christmas I received a gift card to ye olde Best Buy, and have been debating for weeks about what Wii game I should purchase. I just can't decide. Then I realized today that instead of buying a Wii game, I could buy a totally awesome gaming mouse. I'm still debating with myself about it, but really? I have a feeling it'll be the mouse (despite the fact that it will take awhile to get used to).
In World of Warcraft related news, I have another inner debate brewing, this one not so easily solved. I've been playing my priest a lot, partly because the expansion came out and there were all kinds of new things to do, but also because I finally belong to a guild again! I forgot how much fun it is to do quests in a big group, or dungeons, and not have people be total douchebags--everyone in my guild is so lovely! [not that the guild I belong to on my druid isn't, but I'm sort of partial to my priest]
Anyway, the guild is casual (meaning no crazy raid schedules and the like), so when guild stuff happens its usually just because a bunch of people happen to be online at once and someone will say, "Hey, why don't we run dungeons?" or whatever. This is great, but has led to the one problem I have with the guild: too many healers. No matter what they run, they always seem to have enough healers, but not enough dps (damage, pew pew!)--which is odd and not the way things used to be.
I have always been a healer in dungeons. Even before my priest, my druid was a healer. It was something I slipped into, and found that I liked. And I wasn't half bad at it either. So, dps is completely foreign territory to me. I attempted one or two dungeons the last expansion as dps, and sucked at it and didn't like it very much (probably because I wasn't very good at it). There are cooldowns to keep track of, numbers, numbers, numbers, trying not to die, keeping dots up...I get overwhelmed. I'd much rather play whack-a-mole and put down shiny circles of life.
So its with a sort of trepidation that I've been considering switching over to the damage side of things, so that I can participate in guild stuff. But my heart really isn't in it--I love to heal. I want to heal. They just made fancy changes to my healing spec and I want to play with them.
Now, WoW does let you choose TWO specs--so, technically I could be heal-y part of the time, and damage the other. Unfortunately, these require different kinds of gear, so I'd have to somehow scrape up additional pieces (which, if I switch, I have to do anyway because all my gear has been for healing). Pain in the rear.
So do I switch over, and spend my time gathering gear? Or stay holy and hope for the best (while gathering what damage gear I can, just in case?) Ugh.
At Christmas I received a gift card to ye olde Best Buy, and have been debating for weeks about what Wii game I should purchase. I just can't decide. Then I realized today that instead of buying a Wii game, I could buy a totally awesome gaming mouse. I'm still debating with myself about it, but really? I have a feeling it'll be the mouse (despite the fact that it will take awhile to get used to).
In World of Warcraft related news, I have another inner debate brewing, this one not so easily solved. I've been playing my priest a lot, partly because the expansion came out and there were all kinds of new things to do, but also because I finally belong to a guild again! I forgot how much fun it is to do quests in a big group, or dungeons, and not have people be total douchebags--everyone in my guild is so lovely! [not that the guild I belong to on my druid isn't, but I'm sort of partial to my priest]
Anyway, the guild is casual (meaning no crazy raid schedules and the like), so when guild stuff happens its usually just because a bunch of people happen to be online at once and someone will say, "Hey, why don't we run dungeons?" or whatever. This is great, but has led to the one problem I have with the guild: too many healers. No matter what they run, they always seem to have enough healers, but not enough dps (damage, pew pew!)--which is odd and not the way things used to be.
I have always been a healer in dungeons. Even before my priest, my druid was a healer. It was something I slipped into, and found that I liked. And I wasn't half bad at it either. So, dps is completely foreign territory to me. I attempted one or two dungeons the last expansion as dps, and sucked at it and didn't like it very much (probably because I wasn't very good at it). There are cooldowns to keep track of, numbers, numbers, numbers, trying not to die, keeping dots up...I get overwhelmed. I'd much rather play whack-a-mole and put down shiny circles of life.
So its with a sort of trepidation that I've been considering switching over to the damage side of things, so that I can participate in guild stuff. But my heart really isn't in it--I love to heal. I want to heal. They just made fancy changes to my healing spec and I want to play with them.
Now, WoW does let you choose TWO specs--so, technically I could be heal-y part of the time, and damage the other. Unfortunately, these require different kinds of gear, so I'd have to somehow scrape up additional pieces (which, if I switch, I have to do anyway because all my gear has been for healing). Pain in the rear.
So do I switch over, and spend my time gathering gear? Or stay holy and hope for the best (while gathering what damage gear I can, just in case?) Ugh.