All about Wow and the things I put off doing.

My name is Candace, and I am an alt-oholic.
Before my run in with the terrible colon monster, I was leveling a Undead Rogue, Duckface with a friend from work. To make a long story short, I lost interest in the game in general for a couple months and decided to reroll a Priest when I finally got back into playing. Cue Kaywinnit. I thought I was clever with that name, but apparently there is more than one Kaywinnit across the game, more than 20 actually! (It's from the epic television show "Firefly", in case you're wondering.) Should I mention that I came back from my 3 month vacation into patch 4.0.1?
The great thing about leveling a healing class now-a-days is the ability to level through random dungeons versus questing. I've tried playing a Priest more than once, have never gotten past level 30-ish, but with being able to just heal and not have to specialize into dps'ing to quest, I've found it much more enjoyable. I love healing. I love being able to hang out in Orgrimmar waiting for the random queue to pop.
 However, I do not love the over abundance of players at these low levels that have little to no experience with their class. Granted it's a given, you're level 20, you're not expected to know everything about your class yet. But you are expected to not send your pet half way across the dungeon and aggro 3/4ths of the whole place. Or Soulstone yourself.

 And this guy just knew too much for his own good.

Tanks:
Paladins - I've found are either slow & stupid or Fast & mana consuming. I have yet, even at level 43, master the art of mana conservation. It works on both ends of the table: nothing irritates me more than a tank who pulls too slow, and nothing irritates me more than a tank who pulls too fast. It's the rare, once in a week random that moves as fluid as rain water from a gutter. I know they nerfed practically every class, but watching a Prot Paladin pull 5 non-elite mobs and drop to 50% hp in 2 seconds had me saying "WTF?".
Gear was ok, usually in Randoms you have full Heirloom or Blues. It's just too easy not to have the best gear now-adays. Which makes these gear choices hard to explain..'specially for a level 43 Mage.

So when the tank takes more damage than he/she should, due to bad gear, bad talent points, bad playing in general, I obviously have to use more mana to keep him/her alive, and that means that I have more downtime in between pulls. And it's the tanks that pause for more than 15 seconds in between each pull that irritate the ever-loving Moonberry Juice out of me.

Druids...suck. My feelings towards Bear tanks is the same as Paladin tanks. I haven't had one memorable Druid tank, from level 12-50, unless it was a bad memory. Nuff said.

Warriors - I am loving them. Although I tend to not use my PwS as much on them, I'm so afraid of one of them yelling "I NEED MAH RAGE!", they, believe it or not, have less downtime than Druids but pull less than Paladins. That can be a good thing.

A lot has changed with the game in the past month. Most of it was long over due, but the rest of it just seems to make the game too easy. More of that later, much later, as this is the second to the last day off work before my return to the hospital. Here's praying for a fast recovery, atleast fast enough to get me out of the hospital and home in my bed..near my computer ;)
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