Healer at Heart A healer's thoughts on MMO's.

PTS anyone?

My first bout of playing this afternoon got my Slayer Sans to rank 7.  Definitely seems a fun class to play.  The first few abilities fit well with the levels.  It was a crack up to see 10 Slayers running around a PQ trying to kill the big boss before we died.  With no heals it made things interesting.  I did see one Runepriest and one Engineer questing.  I didn't get a chance to test Sans out in any RvR, but that was purely my choice.  I wanted to level quickly and with very limited healing RvR didn't seem the way to go.

I didn't get much of a chance to test Salvaging or Talisman making but I did notice that Salvaging at least seems to have benefited from the changes.  I did receive a level 25 gold dust from something.  Ridiculous since my Talisman making was only at level 1.  I still had to purchase fragments in order to level that.  I admit I didn't try very hard to level that profession but so far I haven't seen an improvement.

There was a little bit of oRvR happening in the Greenskin/Dwarf PQ Krom Komar Gap.  I died plenty of times but it was fun testing the Slayer might against the Choppa.  A larger group started forming and we were just starting to push them back when I crashed to desktop.  No fun.

After that I took a break and when I came back I happened to glance at the forums and noticed that Mythic had put up a level 18 template.  I was all over that.  Heart was born.  Ugly, but I didn't have much of a choice in the matter.  Played a good half level before quitting for the night.  When I was playing Sans, I noticed that I could easily take 2 mobs at once and with a little work 3.  At level 18 there was no way I'd be able to take down 3 unless I got lucky.

All in all, this class should definitely be a blast to play and I'm glad they're trying to improve the professions.  I'm not sure how much more I'll play on the PTS as I'd like to spend time leveling either my Shaman (who hit rank 16.5 today) or my Archmage.  But we'll see.