Patient Priest, Introduction

The Patient Priest is my new project - levelling a priest through Pugs! (pick-up groups for those who don't know, which means doing dungeons with random strangers, with potentially terrible or wonderful results). I'm looking forward to meeting all sorts of new people and trying to create a organised and fun dungeon group with them - should be easy!

When Patch 3.3 hit, it brought with it the new Looking for Group system. I must admit, I wasn't that interested in it initially, as I always group with guildies. Also, I've had bad experiences in pugs, as I'm sure most people have, so I generally avoid them.

However, everyone seems to be very positive about he new system, and I've used it a few times to pick up an extra dps for the daily random dungeon when my guildies were all busy. I'm very impressed with it - waiting times are short and the ability to teleport to a dungeon is great. I really think Blizzard have addressed the problems that made people reluctant to run dungeons, especially the low level ones.

Anyway, I was looking for something a bit different to do, as I'd been heavily involved in setting up and leading the new 25 man raid group in my guild. I wanted a bit of a break from the pressure and organisation involved. I also felt like doing some levelling on an alt, as it's a long time since I've levelled any low level characters.

My main is a druid tank, and my first alt is a warlock, specced affliction, for arena and the occaisional dungeon. I've only healed a couple of times on my druid, and I liked it, possibly because it's nice to have a change. One of my alts is a priest, who I created as I didn't have a healing character, and a guildy recommended it as the most interesting healer to play. I've chosen a draenei, as I'd like to experience and explore the alliance quests and towns.

I first created this character a while ago, as I wanted a challenge, and I thought I'd see how far I could get a character without dying. I decided priest would be the most difficult to try this with. I managed to reach level 20 when I started on the escort quest at the end of the draenei starting area. The npc I was escorting decided to pull two groups at once, killing us both. I was not pleased.

Anyway, now that my undying-record is broken, I don't feel such a need to be so cautious with my priest, and I've decided to level her in dungeons as a healer. I'll be starting out as discipline, as this offers a bit more versatility (and I'm sure it'll be hard, but not as boring as levelling holy).

As my priest is the opposite faction to my guild, I'll be all alone, without my friends and guildies to help. I'll be levelling on my own, with only the new friends I make along the way to keep my company. I'm prepared for some difficult experiences with pugs, but I'm looking forward to a new challenge.