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.

I can’t leave well enough alone. I was going to let Dinah charge to maximum rested EXP before I trot her out for levelling, but I had this ridiculous compulsion to crank up her Engineering and Jewelcrafting… which are REDONKULOUSLY expensive to level. :| Not only that, it’s also soooo time-consuming when you factor in having to log other alts to pass materials and such around. Ah…

And what do I have? A crapload of Elemental Fires. This is where I go all Beavis and Butthead and… yeah. (I’m trying to imagine a Night Elf chick doing the whole “Fire! Fire! Fire!” chant… I can’t. XD)

Welp, she’s at 300 on both and therefore sitting pretty until I ding 50 and can unlock the Outland recipes… that will actually be somewhat useful to me and other guildies around that level.

As for my 80s, I’ve been lazy in raiding this week, mostly so I could pile up monies and make ICC shoes for guildies. There is talk of trying to, at long last, put together something resembling an ICC guild run— yes, Shattered Knights, which has issues filling 5-mans, doing ICC 10 guild runs! Hah! (Well, guild runs as in “still half-PuG but at least the other half will be us!”) Leslie did, however, get a new hat… which of course you can’t see because I turn off helmets for everyone but Dinah, but that’s pretty much it… Hm. Maybe this week will be more productive on that end.

Haven’t done much raiding this week— Yoshi and Leslie at ICC 25, and Phil at ICC 10 and VoA25. Hell, I haven’t even done the weeklies on any of ‘em yet. I was nodding off and was just cycling through to pass materials around when, while on Rei, I find a broadcast for a midnight ICC 10 that had ranged DPS slots open. Against my better judgement, I threw in Rei since I hadn’t done any daily random dungeons at all that week and she could use the Frost cookies.

This PuG is… surprisingly kind of awesome. And I get stupidly lucky on loot. Case in point: the bow seen above. Njorndar Bone Bow, YES! I’d been getting by on that tired old Felglacier Bolter for months (and without raiding, would have been stuck with that thing until Cataclysm) and I’ll admit I had quite a bit of bow envy watching other hunters. And since I was the only hunter in this group, the master looter handed it right over. :D

Oh, Rei got Plague-Soaked Leather Leggings, too… and only because nobody else wanted ‘em (the rogue had something better). HURR DURR LEATHER ON A HUNTER, right? Obvious hit in armor aside (though it’s not like I’m meant to take damage anyway), it is still a functional upgrade over my t9 pants until I either make the ICC mail pants or I otherwise get the t10 hunter pants.

The bow is the true highlight, though. I was wondering if that thing would ever drop while doing ICC 10 as Rei… it’s dropped for everyone BUT her. :P She always looked much more badass using a longbow than a freaking crossbow, after all.