Phil is a Holy/Shadow Priest. I’m not too fond of the Shadow part; I only specced into it so he could DPS (and thus level). It’s not that I don’t want old man to DPS— though I GREATLY prefer healing since that’s his day job— but… does he have to do it with shadow? That just doesn’t suit him at all.

Yeah, priests can DPS with holy… they get, what, 3 Holy spells that do damage? Smite, Holy Fire and Holy Nova. Weaksauce! And before anyone trots out “lol paladins,” I’m aware of that but they’re melee. I want more DPS spells for Holy Priests! Caster damage! Gimme! :( Besides, Paladins don’t exactly get much more in terms of Holy DPS magic, either— Exorcism, Holy Wrath and Holy Shock… oh, and Consecration, I guess.

What I would like to see is Blizzard try and pull something similar to Feral Combat druids (since they can be either tanky bears or DPS kitties). Surely there would be a way to jam some more DPS oriented-options into the Holy tree for Priests, right? And, of course, adding new spells to be learned for them. How awesome would it be, if they could get a Holy-looking version of Arcane Missiles, thus a Holy DPS Priest could have a single-target rotation (not unlike, say, an Arcane Mage’s 3x Blast + Missiles + Barrage)? Or pull some Grand Theft Everything as Blizzard loves to do, and lift either Judgment or Grand Cross from the more recent Tales games (Abyss and Symphonia come to mind… I like the version in Abyss more) for some real AoE action. Take THAT, Paladins, with your Holy Kaboom— I mean Holy Wrath!

Of course, I can’t say that Undead Priests would be too happy about the Light crawling further up their asses… but that’s why there’s a Shadow spec. I want more shiny on my priest (especially with these icky t10 Priest armor pieces that don’t look awesome at all… I’m a priest, not a wannabe-Warlock!). Why should Paladins have all the fun there? :P

Speaking of Paladins…

I GOT YOU, WHITE CHOCOBO!

…ahem…

Dude. Swift White Hawkstrider. Also something I blame my brother for, since he got one first on his shammy (who will be SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE NO MORE once I footstomp that Lich King) and thus set off CHOCOBO FEVER. Hawkstriders are so freaking awesome and I hate how they’re Horde-only… except for this one. And then, of course, Chocobo Fever spread to Boss, so now we’re farming Heroic MGT until we get it on everyone who wants one. (Leslie was just the first. Yoshi wants one too! And maybe Phil…)

You can solo MGT on Heroic… if you’re a class that can heal itself. Paladins tend to have a greater success rate on that front (usually as Prot… but if you’re Ret, just switch on Concentration Aura). In addition to this badass mount, there’s also the Phoenix hatchling pet, and, my second-favorite, the Orb of the Sin’dorei, which will let you turn into a Blood Elf for a few minutes. And I gotta say, Leslie doesn’t look bad at all that way. ;D

Leslie is also to be the final recipient of my ICC craftables… at least, among my characters. There are, of course, guildies who need stuff, but for my set, I just need to make Leslie’s DPS pants. Getting stupidly lucky in VoA25 took care of her healer pants— er, skirt— so I just need to pile up the 8 saronites needed for the DPS pants.