And from the grave, a blog arises.....

What is this? A new post? Why yes my friends, I have decided to make my triumphant return to the world of blogging. So why did I stop in the first place? I guess motivation can falter when you feel like you are just spilling your thoughts into the void of the Internet and they no one is reading them anyways. I think that is a challenge all beginning blogs have to struggle with. I finally decided I missed talking about WoW, and instead of filling my guild forums with my banter I will thrust it upon both of you readers! (Hi mom!)

So, what has been up with Syrinth in these past months of silence? Well, first of all Symbiosis is still going strong. We are working on Ulduar and have the first 9 bosses down so far. I truly think we are the best guild on our server for the amount of time we put in. The guild is made up of people that want to raid, but only want to spend a few hours at a time 3 days a week. The fact we are ahead of other guilds that spend twice the amount of time in there that we do says a lot.

Also, I am no longer a pure resto shaman. I have been cheating on my Chain Heal button with these funny icons that look like lightning bolts. Pewpew indeed! Once our guild was farming all of the pre-3.1 raids, we found healing was pretty easy and we lacked a solid raiding elemental shaman. I volunteered to make the switch, as we had another resto at the time. After I built my new set of gear, I was able to climb up to the top of the damage meters and am usually top 5 depending on the fight. I am now the best geared ele shaman on the server according to wow-heroes, which is amusing considering it was my second set of gear I built. I guess that mostly speaks that real good shaman on the alliance side are tougher to come by. I even had the uber guild on our server approach me about a recruit slot, but I enjoy the more laid back schedule and value my marriage. :)

Even though elemental is now my "main" spec I still end up healing far more than I thought. Thank god for the dual spec system. I believe I healed for every one of our progression kills in Ulduar except 1, and I healed when we were killing 3 drake. We no longer have the other resto attending raids, so there are several fights that chain heal is just too good. Kologarn is a good example of a ton of raid damage in a confined space that enables me to just slam chain heal and keep a lot of people up. I knew that Blizzard would end up going back to the heavy raid damage to make healers work for it, so resto shaman will once again be in high demand. I enjoy both, but feel like I make more of a difference when I can heal. The unfortunate thing is I am gearing for ele, but healing on progression and am not in the pool for the legendary hammer. Had I not made the switch, I would have been the default to get the hammer I am sure. But in the end, it is not that big of a deal to me.

Going forward in this blog I will be covering the shaman class from both resto and elemental perspectives. I will also be discussing raid strategy in general and plan on starting with my impressions on each boss in Ulduar.