.... and back again.

Times have turned around, and come full circle again. It's clearly not Phil who sucks at alts, because he doesn't have to keep going through this rigamarole. Just a little while ago, I was online with a tank who wanted to run heroics. So rather than DPS with Radish, I decided to see what Mariwocket could do now that they made haste good for affliction. There have also been a number of changes to Demonology that make it a lot easier, and destruction is still all about blowing people up, even though the new conflagrate is a letdown.

That was a mistake. Or it wasn't a mistake, depends on how you look at things. I was blowing stuff up left and right, didn't have to worry about aggro, with the 130% threat ceiling and an active aggro drop skill, and don't even get me started on AoE. Of course Mariwocket already has some decent gear to start with - the problem with leveling a brand-new toon is that if you can't get a gear slot filled with badges, you end up with an AH blue in that position instead. But Mari has been through Naxx and Ulduar and even a bit of ToC and Onyxia. So she's got some decent stuff already, which is very nice.

But the thing was, it was a BLAST. I remember how much fun it was to DPS again. Especially in the longer fights where you have to watch cooldowns, keep an eye out for ground effects, and stuff. I was able to pretty significantly out-DPS a Warlock in much better gear than mine (ICC-10 mainly) - skill matters. Of course she could have been phoning it in, since it's just a heroic, but it's nice to see how well skill can modulate your character's performance. Plus, DPSing is a lot more relaxed than tanking or healing. Most tanks could probably three-man most heroics, especially Paladins and Druids. So as long as I'm there and doing something, we're probably good.

The only problem I have is the queue time. Queuing as a DPS takes about 20 minutes or so. Of course, I could always run dailies or farm, but ironically Radish is a better farmer, as he can mine and has more quests unfinished. Oh well.

We'll see how it goes. Maybe there will be a spate of new warlock theorycrafting posts here coming up. Those are always fun.