Hmmm...

So, instead of spending more time with my newly minted Level 80 Shaman instead I goosed up my (only?) L72 priest spending another 7k gold buying her Flying, Epic Flyiing, Cold Weather Flying, a mount, and Dual Spec. To make up for this rather large loss of gold, I've started selling off some old mats and materials that will hopefully make the transition easier.

It took me a while to get things settled. But I got my priest a good holy spec and started doing some cleanup...I had completed several quests that I had not turned yet in for example and I did some inventory management. My priest is a Jewelcrafter/Tailor so I'm probably just going to stick with that for now. Both are in the 430 range and it'd be a waste right now to drop either of them when for the most part both should be fine.

So, then I went out and did a little questing, finishing up some old quests in Borean. It's a much better experience doing those quests with an epic flyer...big shock everything went faster and more smoothly. Tried leveling a bit as pure holy...bad bad bad move...so I queued myself up for the random normal dungeon and started completing some of the outstanding quests in borean just for the hell of it.

It didn't take long (maybe 10 minutes) for me to get a group. And there I had my first bad experience. I pop in, they are ahead clearing. Obviously they'd lost their healer. Highest level character is 77, the rest 73, so I figure it'll go well. It's the nexus, so not that bad. So I switch to holy and run to them. About the time I get into range, I see typed 'I'm pulling them all' followed by the DK pulling 3/4th of the mobs around the first boss intentionally with me at 1k mana. Big shock, he dies and we wipe. Then 3 seconds later the group disbands. lol. At least it was over fast enough.

So I re-queue and complete another quest and then get another run. This one goes a lot better, though most of the characters are only 70. I struggled a -little- bit with healing here though no one died until the end where the mage blew his wad in the first few seconds of the fight and got 1 shotted (I'm not taking responsibility for that one lol).

Priest heailng is certainly a bit more varied. But with more options comes a bit more problems with knowing what to cast and when. (which was the point, so it's not a complaint). But my mana pool was being severely constrained and my heals just seemed fairly low compared to the damage being delt at points. Circle of healing is nice, but seemed to grab almost 20% of my mana bar in one cast...ouch.

Still, just that short run netted me about 6 bars of XP in about 30 minutes. And while it was a little more harrowing that the shaman, I had fun with it. And as a plan, leveling through the LFG tool seems very, very viable; with using quests only for having something to do during downtime and for getting rep.

I probably won't be in game tonight...I have other plans (which may or may not get canceled). And Wednesday is probably Avatar night...so I may not be back in the game till Thursday.