Change is a good thing, right?

Now for your daily dose of blogging by me, your friendly host, Lance.

Today I'm going to try and get a little more into the real life, video game crossover and maybe reinforce how game worlds seem to start blurring with the real world, except for the fact that we don't have orcs(LOTR is fictional too), trolls(except on forums), tauren(cow people), gnomes(no...short people are NOT gnomes), or elves of any sort(once again LOTR is fictional).

Anyways. So change is a good thing, as long as it's change for good or change that in the long run will be beneficial.
It's been a few weeks since i've blogged so I'm going to try and catch everyone up on as much as possible. As I have said before I'm enhancement thanks for asking might be a little outdated at this point. True I do still have all my gear from being enhancement but I've done the almost unthinkable, I've re-specialized to being a healer. Now I know what you are thinking, "NO! It can't be! You were my last hope because in the long run I realize that being enhancement was completely doable in the long run even though everyone expect you to be a healer." By no means does thi mean you will have to be a healer too. I made the decision after much deliberation and because I had half considered doing this a long time ago because I kept getting healing gear, mostly from quests that wouldn't give me any other reward that would benefit me as enhancement. I got about one thing for every slot in my inventory that was +healing gear in some fashion or another.

Now let me give you a little background on the situation. My dear friend and guild mate had been have teasing half hoping that I would go resto. In fact on one of our runs through KARA off of the 2 bosses that we had killed there were 2 Healing pieces that I was the only one in the group that could use, if i ever decided to go resto. The third boss in the place has a pretty good chance to drop a lot of healing gear and i had gotten a piece off of them before but I said that if healing gear that I could use dropped off the 3rd boss I would go resto. Now I decided to say this because we did need a couple more healers as we often had to pick up a random healer on our server to fill in the spot and as DPS we had 10 DPS in our guild that wanted to go to Kara that night but we could only take 5. So I figured I could solve 2 problems that we were having in having a steady run towards progressing as a guild.

So i respecced to resto. I had to get a few more heling pieces to be full of healing gear and some of that filled out quite nicely from the run of Kara the next week with me making off like a bandit and getting 3 pieces that really helped me out. We also made it to the last boss and got him to 5% of his health after a few tries. We tried a couple more times(for a total of 6) but didn't do nearly as well the next couple of times. But overall I'm just excited that we got him that close to being beaten. You can see some of our guild info and progression here. We were going to try him again the next night but not enough people showed up so we decided to go ahead and wait a week till we got a chance to down him.

Anyways, so I'm glad to be helping out in places I can by modifying how I work sometimes. It's something I try and do in real life as well. Changing a little bit here and there to try and help others out even though it's not something that always comes to my mind. Being able to step back occasionally and ask, is what I'm doing helping out everyone else, or should I change something to make it better and easier for them? It's somethign that a lot of us decide not to do in games or real life. Often we get comfortable with the way things are (especially if you have a decent job you like, you have enough money to save and live comfortably on, and everything else is just honkey-dorey), and forget that we can still improve who we are. We get so used to setting goals and achieving them that when we get older we often get to a point where we accept what our life is like without thinking I can still be better. Or more importantly taht we can start to give back to the community now since we are in a place where we don't have to worry so much about ourselves.

So whether in game or out, remember that sometimes a little change can be good.