A Sad Day

A Sad Day

I’ve been trying to decide what to do about my Blood Elf Retribution Paladin. I made it to level seventy at last, but as a Ret Pally no one wants to take me along on instance runs. The only way to obtain gear is to PvP for a set; which I hate. Then that will help me become geared to run the many instances for better gear, which will in turn allow me to run instances to get an actual set of Ret Armor with bonuses. Talk about a pain in the ass!

After a month of debating I finally came to a decision. It took being kicked out of an instance group for the third time this week for me not being Holy to take action. My Ret Pally left the guild. I am no longer going to play her. I’ll use her to farm and occasionally PvP on, but I will no longer work on quests and instance her for gear. There is no point in playing Ret until Blizzard decides to increase the damage I do to make me accepted in groups.

I really love playing Ret for some dumb reason. I’ve learned how to play it well and enjoy the dynamics even though I can’t do much damage since it takes me longer to kill creatures compared to other players. I would say I can play my Ret Pally just about as well as I did my old Warlock; which I was great at for those wondering. Now only if my Pally actually did some damage!

I have created a new Holy Paladin to level from the ground up. This was in response to so many fucking people in and out of my guild telling me to re-specialize and go Holy. Fuck them! I love my Ret Pally. I have spent too much time farming her gear and getting Trinket, Rings, and Necklaces to re-spec her and start with nothing. Besides I am a crappy healer. I’d rather start over with a clean slate and actually learn to heal rather than learning on the spot in dungeons.

I was really surprised by the Guild Master’s reaction. He wanted me to re-spec Holy and he’d teach my how to heal properly. Let’s face it; I already have taken up enough of his wife’s time trying to farm gear. I don’t need to take up his time which is even more valuable by having him teach me healing aspects. I’ll just take the fucking in the arse by starting over again. It’s not the first or last time I’ll get screwed over by this game.

So here we are again at level one. It sucks big time but I can at least play a character that people will want to play with. It was the choice of a Healadin or Tankadin. I ain’t no fucking tank, so I chose healer. Yes, I am actually going to level the hard way by spec’ing Holy from the start. It will be a bitch, but at least I’ll be wanted on runs and pick up good gear. Which means I’ll be running everything a million times to get plate as well as cloth healing gear. She is in the guild now and I don’t know if anyone actually knows who she is. Oh well, maybe one day Ret will get the boost it needs and I’ll go back to playing the spec I started with.

I also created a Tankadin, but I don’t know how much play she will get. I think the Tankadin has some rally cool features, but until I can get my new main up and running at seventy she will have to be put on the back burner.

So in conclusion, I have given up on my favorite Ret Pally in favor of playing a Healadin; who is actually wanted in instances and that I can gear easily. It was either start over, or to leave the game entirely. Which I almost did but couldn’t bring myself to do. Well I better get back to playing; I have several more months of playing this damn game the hard way ahead of me. Cheers mates!