Back to Basics.

I've been Shadow off-specced on Emgalla since I left raiding. I spent a good amount of Gs on gems and enchants, but I decided against it. There is no way in hell I can understand SP DPS (I've tried it, I've read forums and listened to guildies... let's just say it's just not meant to be!).

Now, I've been wanting to try something else besides my Holy "Body and Soul" spec. But I thought I couldn't really have enough of a feel on how to heal since I don't raid and raids vs. 5/10-mans are just COMPLETELY different matters.

Since I started helping out with the guild a week ago, I thought it was the best time to be dual-specced holy (not to mention I hate Disc and I KNOW I am going to be forced to do it because our main Disc Priest is going to be on vacation!). Pre-emptive heals FTW!

Anyways, a week ago I went back to my old spec from god knows how long (can't believe I remembered how it was!) and last night, I realized that I used renew a LOT... enough that I need to be renew-centric specced for Spec#2.

So I looked at one of the top healing holy priests in World of Logs who relied on renew (Don't get me wrong POM and COH is my main heals, but I wanted a stronger HOT-spec). I don't know how exactly I came across the character name (nor do I remember it!) but I followed this spec. I am glad to report that I like this spec A LOT. HUUUGE improvement in the charts, but seriously, I think that was the least of my worries.

We one-shotted Heroic Festergut, (which gave us hell the night before!)... and much to everyone's disappointment, we wiped a few times on regular Putricide. Lag was the major issue for everyone. To me, it was just another raid group where people just didn't give a rat's ass.

We didn't do well on Heroic Blood Prince Council so the officers/RL decided we just did everything as on regular.

(insert the QQs of the two priests crying here)

Council and Blood Queen regular was a breeze. And so was Veristrasza. We barely killed Sindragossa after about 3 tries (one was my fault, which I was strongly apologizing in raid for). As for Lich King, we got him close to dead in three tries, but the last attempt went well THEN nosedived so close to end of raid time that we called it.

Cheers.. to yet another week without an Arthas Kill... /WRISTS

So, I 'splurged' (well I didn't really spend a copper since I already have all the mats for this) but I finally caved and made
Sandals of Consecration for Emgalla. I am not at ~6007 GS.