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Warcraft Wednesday: Dual Specs

There is a lot of buzz in the Warcraft community about the long-promised dual specifications coming in patch 3.1.  Also coming in that patch is the raid dungeon Ulduar, fortress of the Titans.  Since I don’t do any raids, I’m only excited about Ulduar in respect to the lore involved – I mean, how could I not get excited to learn more about those Titans after the completely epic questlines in the Storm Peaks?

Dual specs are what interest me the most, however.  When I started playing I rolled a priest, but I was a shadow priest.  When we began to do battlegrounds, I got very frustrated with playing a DPS priest and respecced to holy and haven’t looked back.  It helps a lot when my brother are trying to do things with just the two of us.  But when I try to do things by myself, such as the Sons of Hodir dailies, I have a much harder time of things and it takes me much longer to do the quests.  Once I’m able to switch between specs at will I am going to pick up shadow as my second spec so that I can stop compromising.  I’m really looking forward to being able to cause some havoc on my own.

Speaking of the Storm Peaks, my brother and I finally finished what we’re able to accomplish by ourselves, and so we’re ready to move on to Icecrown.  It was pretty cool the way the quests ended, though the Thorim quests were much more interesting.  I’m anticipating some Lich King shenanigans in Icecrown to rival the Sons of Hodir stuff.