No news on the restoration of my primary WOW account. My son offered to give me his Paladin since I’d recently, thank goodness, had transferred by Warlock to his account. Thank the stars for small favors that my Warlock was no longer on the account and that I’d yet to accept his offer of his Paladin. I’m undecided about accepting either of his offers to help out, but I did log on to my secondary account and played one of my unmolested toons.
On my secondary account I had a level 33 Paladin of my own and another hunter at level 54. I wanted to see the 2.0 changes and figured I might as well revisit my Paladin to evaluate whether or not I’d consider playing his if my accounts aren’t restored.
Running around as a level 33 takes me back to what I felt were some of the best areas in the game. I completed a few quests and did solo mob grinding to regain my comfort with the Pally skills. In no time I was level 36 since she’s been rested for months. When I got bored killing I decided to give WSG a whirl. Her armor is decent – some blues, nice weapon but no enchants. Before queuing up I had my son get on the Warlock and put +50 mana on my chest piece, +7 damage on my 2H and +stamina on anything else.
Running around WSG was fun except for teams not knowing WTF to do in there and no matter how much you tell them, they just do WTF-ever and we lose. I lucked into 3 PUGs out of 10, with two other Paladins, and we pwned face 3 to 0 each time. As for the others, they were painful until I decided screw it, if no one wants to play as a team and I’m only going to get 1 mark out of this situation, I might as well run around aimlessly killing like everyone else. That was at least fun.
Playing a Paladin is certainly a world of difference from my priest. I’m not the first or second target and can take out 2 players, and I know very little about playing the class well. Even when six people beat me into the ground, I had to laugh that it took that many and so long to do it. And it provides quite the distraction when they have to put 3+ people on me. First thing that took getting used to was not to back up or run. As a caster, you get used to backing up or trying to flee with you there are 2+ mobs or people attacking you. With the Paladin, you just stand your ground and fight. Once I realized that, oh man, what a rush. Stun one, keep on fighting, use a Stunning seal to fight and you end up stunning the second, judge while stunned and it’s instant death. When things get dicey, bubble and heal or bubble and land the killing blow.
In WSG I didn’t do much healing. I tried if someone was right near me but I was mostly doing DPS. I carried the flag a few times. If someone got the flag then I escorted and healed them. However, midfield there’s just too much chaos for me to heal others. When I was out questing it was different. I hooked up with a couple of people to do a few quests in Arathi Highlands, and in those groups I tanked, DPS’d and healed. It was easier to do than I thought it would be – stop killing to throw heals. I even ended up healing the druid who didn’t have enough sense to drop form and heal himself.
At this level nothing much changed as a result of the last patch. I saw lots of new animations. It's nice that they are sprucing up some of the combat details. I like many of them while others were over the top. I also noticed the auto-loot and auto-create features which are nice and now mean that’s two less mods I’ll be downloading. I didn’t bother with LFG tool since I wanted to regain my comfort with the class without feeling responsible for the success or failure of some instance run. It all came back rather quickly, and I guess is an option. Still – I want my priest. Why I don’t know since they're wet noodles now if you're not shadow. Probably because she’s mine.
Along with a handful of buffs and fistful of nerfs, patch 2.0.3 also unleashed demons from the other side of the Dark Portal. The mayhem and lag that ensued as players descended on the area is just a taste of what’s to come.
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