When I do get picked up by a group, I ask “am I healing or hurting?”. When they tell me that I’m healing, I tell them that I’m a noob healer. Then I notice that everybody usually targets me. My assumption is that it’s to inspect me.

Some dude said “LOL, liar, nice gear noob”. That’s when I have to tell them “my healing gear is epic, my healing skill is not”  – I’m going to macro that cuz I’m tired of typing it. I let them know that I’ve never solo healed before and that I’ve only healed 10 and 25man raids where I always have someone to somewhat cover my ass.

Now, having said all of that, HEALING IS FUN SHIT, despite what some people think!

Perhaps it’s because I’m new to healing and am only used to tanking or dps’ing, but it is very fun to me! In the first heroic VH I did, there were only two deaths (sorry random mage, I blew my Holy Shock since I momentarily forgot which mouse button it was keyed to; here, have a Sacred Sheild – woops, I’ll rez/buff you in a few seconds) and no wipes. I healed another VH later (after the reset an hour later). Then I healed heroic UK, despite my not-knowing how long I couldn’t heal after the last boss does his silencing thing. In case you’re wondering, I got silenced, so I didn’t wait long enough.

In other news, I finally got my ring enchants, 2x19sp for my holy gear and 2x32ap for my ret gear! My enchanting is at 405 now. I don’t plan on advancing it further than that, but it might happen eventually. My unbuffed spell power is over 2k in my holy gear. My self-buffed ap is just under 4200 in my ret gear.

My glyph selection is very weak at the moment, for both of my specs. The scribes must be making a TON of money right now – good for them. It’s amazing that some people will buy a glyph for 300-400gold.

I (re-)started fishing too! I’m up to about 200 so far. The new fishing dailys are pretty cool. I really like that I can start to level my cooking with the new fish that I’m getting. Being able to fish from outside of VH is very cool stuff. I find that if I can fish while I’m in LFG, I don’t get so bothered at how long it takes to get a group for <insert random heroic name here>.

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Post tags: enchanting, glyphs, Healing, heroics, holy

First aid is pretty easy and self explanatory, for the most part. Cooking and fishing on the other hand, are not.  Cooking is somewhat straightforward but can be difficult finding the recipes that you need to continue leveling. Fishing is boring and takes forever to level. The folks at wowhead have provided a very nice guide for leveling these skills in their blog post, Skills to Pay the Bills: Fishing.

There are some very nice cooking recipes out there, especially for the fish that you loot while fishing. My goal is to level my first aid, fishing and cooking skills to 450. My first aid is well on it’s way but my cooking and fishing skills are still very lacking. Right now, my first aid is around 400 whereas my cooking is at 116 and my fishing is at 55. Cooking is made much easier if you level fishing at the same time and that is what I plan on doing.

Before WotLk was released, my primary professions were skinning and mining. A few days before wrath was released, I kept mining, dumped skinning and picked up jewelcrafting, mostly for the trinkets and gems that only jewelcrafters can use.

The other link that I wanted to provide is one that I use while leveling, to try and determine if I should go back to Orgrimmar to train after I ding a new level. It is the Spell List, by class:

• Death Knight
• Druid
• Hunter
• Mage
• Paladin
• Priest
• Rogue
• Shaman
• Warlock
• Warrior

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Post tags: class spells, cooking, first aid, fishing, level, professions, spell list, spells, train