When I first joined WoW over a year ago, I joined alliance and went with a Pally. After I hit 40 I told myself that I would never make a healer again, and decided to jump into DPS with a Rogue.
After a year of leveling him and other Alts I have become bored :( Yeah, we get new Race's but never new class's.
Don't dare tell me that Dark Knights are going to be a new class. Its a year till they come out and I already hate them. Why? Firstly I enjoy the whole leveling from 1-50. Yeah its sad, but you learn all about your class, and you can slowly see you skill with the toon improve.
Anyways, back to the story. So after making just about every class and loosing interest very quickly, I decided to make a priest. I had always liked the idea of a SPriest, but after asking people, they always replied "Its good at first, but you always get pushed into healing".
Well I decided anyway that I would. Why the hell not? Its either that or I pack up the game and move on...
So over a weekend me and 2 mates decided to roll Horde (ALways been Alliance) on Sylvana. Over the weekend we hit 20. Only from questing, no instancing.
Well last night I decided that I needed to run WC or DM or something to improve my gear. So I joined a group to run WC. It was Me, Hunter, Rogue, Warrior and Shammy. Straight away I knew that I would be healing.
In my old Server, Burning Blade, even Shadows Priests would be forced to heal. Even if there was a Pally. It was a sort of, If you dont want to heal, dont roll one kind of attitude. We even had one guy ask the Pally to heal so he could DPS, but recieved a blunt response.
Well we started the instance, me standing at the back healing the warrior when the Shaman /w me.
"Mate, If you want, I can heal and you can DPS. You can just support me if my mana's low".
Suprised I /w him back thanks, and proceeded to DPS the entire instance, now and again during large pulls (mainly due to the hunter) or boss's standing back after a few dots and healing. For the first time in AGES I actually reallyu enjoyed the instance.
After I went to AH, sold some extra stuff, and repaired. I then with in about 10 mins joined and was summoned into another group for DM. There was Warrior, Rogues, Mage Pally and Me. Before we started I got a "Mosho. Are you healer?"
Usually in my old server it wouldnt matter. But I answered "No. Im shadow".
"NP mate. Pally you heal kk?"
Pally: "Sure".
To some people this may be normal, but though the year or so I played WoW i had never seen this. People where actually respecting the fact that I had chosen Shadow as to DPS rather than heal. I said that I would also support heal when needed to. Again the instance ran smoothly.
2 Weeks ago I was ready to cancel my subs to WoW. Today, I sit at work itching to logg back on my account and level my SPriest. In a matter of a weekend I have found my love of WoW.
Sorry for such a long story, but thanks for reading.