WotLK 3.1 comes

It is upon us.

Wrath of the Lich King 3.1 Ulduar is fast approaching! With the massive changes to gameplay, nerfs and buffs all around, more and more people are in LFG farming Emblems for their dual spec!

My BE paladin has been holy since TBC came out. Levelling as ret, then raiding full time as Holy. The pains of healing heroics before the Bacon, before DP, before AoE glyph is still fresh. The helplessness you feel when u have to choose who to heal and who dies.

People always say paladin's are the easiest healing class to play. Just mash FoL, HL and ur done. Nuh uh! Think heroic HoL, UP, CoS, AN. Most of the current Heroic dungeons have AoE damage now. You have to be quick on deciding who gets healed first, who to BoP and who to leave behind as skeletons.

On raiding, 99% you're on main tank heals. That means, if the tank dies, it's your fault and you wipe the whole raid. It doesn't matter if your main tank is OP, undergeared, or just a plain noob. It stilll is your fault.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love healing. Nothing is ever the same. The only thing constant other than keeping the tank alive is u have to heal ret pallies, or they kill themselves haha! But sometimes I wish I could stop staring at the little boxes on your left and see the game more.

For 3 weeks now, I have been looking at my ret and prot gear trying to decide which of the two I'd have more fun with. I even asked my guildmates and my honey ( he plays a feral tank ) which spec they see me best.

One said, " But, you're a good healer..."
Subtly means, "Noooo, don't re-spec at all!!!" >.<

My BF says to go ret for questing, and I go "Why? We're 80!"
Imo, he thinks I suck at tanking, which at the moment, I do :(

Now I can just stay ret for an easy-peasy no brainer secondary spec, but nooo, I HAVE to go Prot just to prove him and myself wrong!!!

Being the only healadin who regularly goes to raids on my guild, I know I won't make much use of the prot dual spec in raiding when 3.1 comes out. Unless there's suddenly has a surplus of healers in my guild who regularly comes to raid! We have tons of healers, yes. But no one comes to raids!!!

Why? Beats me!

So, while the devs are still busy tweaking and nerfing the socks out of us, I WILL build my prot set and my BF WILL heal for me!

Now if only I can get the Red Sword of Courage to drop from H UP without people ignoring/kicking me from LFG for being a noob tank

/cry