Alteriffic – Back to Healing

Well after an 18 month break from WoW (total cold turkey, I even sold my account to a friend so I wouldn’t be tempted to return) I have now been back in the World of Warcraft for a couple of months.

I started playing WoW back in the US Beta, and played on the US Servers until the game was released in Europe. My main started off as an Orc Shaman on the US Retail (PvP server, lvl 60), then moved to a Troll Rogue on a PvP server on an EU PvP server with some RL friends. This lasted until around lvl 54 when most of my guild left for Alliance PvE (damn carebears) and I followed them. Fancying a total change of class, I rolled a Dorf Priest as my new main, with a Dorf Rogue as my twinked out alt (mainly after getting a Krol Blade drop and I couldn’t bear to part with it, having coveted the weapon all the time I was playing my Rogue). After a time some of us rolled Horde on the same server as we preferred the Horde atmosphere, and soon I had (along with the 60 priest and 53 rogue) an UD Lock at level 58.

It was around this time that I was becoming bored with my priest. He was simply a heal bot in MC, was geared well enough to solo heal most pug’s through any instances without paying much attention and I generally only logged him on to raid or help out guildies with random instance runs. I couldn’t do jack solo, and as the main healer for my guild, going shadow wasn’t really an option. I loved the UD ‘lock, and he was fast becoming my main toon, I loved him in BG’s (having played most of them with the same group of people as we all levelled up), and questing with him was great fun.

I then decided to shelve WoW, as my wife was 6 months pregnant and I wanted to be able to devote time to her and our new addition, rather than spending 4 or 5 hours every couple of nights immersed in WoW. I can’t stress how happy I am that I took this enforced break from WoW, at that point I was raiding 3 times a week, and the other nights I would probably log on for a few quests or BG’s. There’s no doubt in my mind that I done the right thing, juggling a new born baby and WoW just wouldn’t have worked for me.

15 months later I found myself with more time on my hands as our son was now sleeping through the night with no problems and there was no midnight feeds to contend with. I decided after some consideration to purchase WoW and TBC and start playing again. Luckily enough purchasing WoW coincided with a new project at work which ‘allowed’ me to play WoW while at work (as I was babysitting a new team which to be honest really didn’t need my assistance). This gave me the chance to level up my new Orc Warlock to 70 in no time at all.

Having been 70 for a little while now, and not having any alt’s that I was interested in, I decided the time was right to start getting my sneak on once again and rolled an new rogue, App . . . . . . .