Week 8 - Priest Appreciation!

My favourite!

Since the EU release of Classic WoW, this has been my favourite class. It was edged out slightly by the Druid in beta, but by the time release came around, the Priest was my firm favourite. I've always been a healer at heart and no other class gives you more than one healing specialisation to choose from. I am guaranteed that each expansion I will find a healing spec that I like with two options to choose from. Over the years, my preferences slip from one to the other dependant on changes made to the class, but I always find a way to enjoy healing with a priest.

Swan in her Holy Transmog set with "L'il Swan" the Sunborne Val'kyr. Note the subtle stick for dealing with unruly raiders.

My main character, Swanhild, had very little to do really. I worked on her fishing for a while, trying to finish the reputations with Margoss and the Fisher Friends, but I didn't get as much WoW time this week as I had family visiting. I did complete the rep grind with Margoss and all but two of the Fisher Friends though. I still have to earn the drowned mana to buy the items from Margoss but the hard work is done there.

Swanhild in her Disc transmog  set with Erik the Singing Sunflower (always my favourite pet)

I love the transmog sets I have for this character. They were carefully designed to look like they were wearing as much metal as possible as it almost feels wrong having a Dwarf in just cloth, even if she is a Priest. I do like the way they turned out though and I love this specific set of shoulder armour with its subtle wings.  I am currently trying to decide whether to allow this character to race change to a Dark Iron Dwarf in BfA. She has always been hugely sympathetic of Moira's storyline and it would fit...but I'm not sure I can bring myself to change the appearance of the character I play the most often. Besides, there will already be several others in my character list that I will switch over. More thinking required.

The Holy version of the Priest class mount

So aside from doing some fishing on Swanhild, what did I do with the rest of the time I had for Priest week? Enter Phoxxie the Goblin! While I do already have 110 Goblin Priest I don't really like the server she is on, and I figured it wouldn't take long to use the 100 boost I had sitting about and level a new one on a different server. I had started this a week or two ago but had only taken her to 105 so far, so I pushed the last 5 levels to finish her off. I still have to finish her class hall stuff and get some gear on her as I mostly levelled through invasions but that's one more at 110 at least.

Phoxxie with Erik the Lurky Murloc

See you all next week for Rogue appreciation (or a little more like Rogue tolerance in my case).

Alt Apreciation: Week 7, Priest

I waited a couple of extra days to make this post as I wanted to get a picture of my Priest before and after the patch. Priest has been my main played class since the game was released.

  Most of that time I have played her as a healer although necessity has forced me into Shadow for raiding at some points due to the makeup of the raid team I was part of at the time.

For Mists of Pandaria, I have remained Discipline although I am anticipating that I will be sporting a dual healer spec for Warlords of Draenor. This could prove a challenge for me as I don't think I've played Holy properly since sometime at the beginning of Wrath of the Lich King and much has changed since then.

I love the new character graphics changes. I had worried that I wouldn't like the default face that my main character would convert to and would have to change it at the barber shop, but as it turned out, I quite like it! The reason that Priests are my favourite class are the focus on healing. While other classes can heal and (depending on class balance at the time) can often do it better than a Priest, no class matches it for sheer diversity of heal spells through the two healing specs. I've enjoyed Discipline in particular since it was overhauled to focus more on mitigation than heals as I like the idea of stopping people from being hurt in the first place.

As this is my main class, I was already at max level so I decided to focus on getting the challenge modes to gold before the patch actually arrived. I really don't like the look of the transmogrification armour award that it gives to Priests. It's truly ugly so I won't include a picture of me posing in it!