80 again

So I hit 80 just before the weekend. This is my second 80 character, neither have experienced any major end game content. I'm glad the grind is over with, but now a new grind is in place and that is the one for better gear and hopefully seeing more of the dungeons.

I was able to get my Artisan Flying skill this week as well. Mainly selling flask and my daily transmutes for the past 2 weeks. It feels good to be moving along at faster speeds once again. Now the herb farming and daily runs go by so much faster.

I had a guildie ask me to come and heal for the group he put together for Trials of the Champion. This didn't go good. First thing I didn't have a clue of what was going one being that this was my first run. Second my make shift healing gear has was saved quest greens that I had been gather since I hit Northrend. Maybe one or two blues. Third this was the second time ever to use the Resto spec (the first time wasn't just as horrible). Lastly, I have mainly solo'ed 95% from 1 to 80, my grouping skills are sorely out of shape. I quickly realized that I need to take some time to start spending some coin on what ever BoE epics that I can find on the auction house. So over the next few weeks I'll be spending my coin on pieces I can find and sockets needed.

I stuck it out till they finally got another healer that could do the job. That allowed me to go to the enhancement spec. I at least was able to function a little better in that role. Again due to lack of attention on my part on gearing my toon properly I wasn't able to bring any decent DPS.

Another thing I noticed was that I'm really not comfortable in a melee combat unless I'm tanking while grouping. When in a group I'd much rather be at a distance doing damage or healing. This lead me to rethink my enhancement spec and move it over to elemental. I'm thinking I'll enjoy this more and I'll be able to sit back to bring the rain. Whether be dps or healing.

So now I have two specs I need to learn, which there is plenty of info out there for me to peruse and soak up. But this has also made me realize how important it is to level as what you plan to play at the end game. I don't have any plans to level up another alt at the moment, but if I do I will think very hard about which spec I bring them up as. I've also decided that I need to do more dungeons on the way up. I'll definitely wait till 3.3 before doing so, maybe the new LFG system will make it easier to get those done.

I went ahead and picked up the pandaren pet. I wasn't going to do this at first, but seeing that half the proceeds went to the Make a Wish Foundation, I quickly changed my mind. I guess it helped me feel better about paying for some pixel. I'm not a pet freak that has to have everyone of them, but for the cool ones that I like, I don't have an issue paying for them. The little guy still cracks me up every time he does his kung fu routine even though I've seen several times.