World of Warcraft

I played my human priest for a couple hours last night, and made level 23. I
teamed up a couple times to fight undead in Duskwood. Some interesting
things happened.

I teamed up with a dwarf priest 24. We talked a lot while doing our quests, and it turns out we both have hunter 60s (his is an elf), and we’re both currently playing a priest for a complete change of experience. We both played our hunters primarily solo, and are now playing our priests with a mind to join groups for instances.

At one point he said I need some twinkage. I thought he meant I wasn’t effective enough in our fights. But he said he inspected my gear, and I didn’t have as good as I could. I found that hilarious, because I’ve been working the Auction House (AH) very studiously, and I thought I had the best gear for my level (as offered in the AH).

After that team up, I met a pair of characters out killing the skeletons I needed for a quest, so I asked to join them. Oddly, though, when I whispered, it was directed to someone back in the town. I have no idea how that happened. But when he told me where he was, I apologized and explained that I thought I had clicked on someone right next to me out in the wild.

He said, “no problem,” and then asked me if I’d like a ring he just got — +7 INT. I said I sure could use it. He said he’d drop it in the mail for me, for free. I thanked him, and sure enough, about an hour later, the ring showed up in my mail.

I eventually did contact and join that pair killing skeletons. One was an elf rogue, the other a human priest. Their pattern of fighting was interesting — the rogue engaged the mob in melee, and the priest just stood back keeping a shield on him. The priest did nothing else unless we got in a bad spot with adds, and then she just ran away. I was hitting the mobs with spells, my wand, and keeping myself (and sometimes the other priest, when we were surrounded) shielded.

I don’t even think the priest ever cast a heal. I healed that priest more than once, myself. The rogue knew his business, and worked hard. The priest just stayed alive and made sure the rogue always had a shield up.

But we did well, and we had fun. My experience with pick-up groups (PUGs) has been quite good playing my priest. (My PUG experiences with my hunter were very limited, and none really bad.) I’m not seeing the terrible stuff that some people complain about.

Bullgrit
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