I'd hit a plateau in gearing up my tree, and I'd pretty much shelved her except when a guild group needed a healer. But I've had a pretty decent feral set gathering dust in the bank, and felt it would be a shame to get to Wrath without ever having tried it out. So on a whim at 3:30 this morning, I respecced.
Since I leveled Balance and have been Resto since hitting 70, I have zero idea what I'm doing. I copied the spec from my favorite tanking buddy, and I've been reading the stickies to try to figure out which skills to use for what. My cat bar thus far has consisted of two buttons: prowl and dash. But I found a couple suggested skill cycles, and I wrote out a few macros. I bought some new bracers (I still hadn't upgraded from Leesa'oh's Wristbands) and a handful of cheap gems to get myself decent.
I figured a nice place to try this new style out would be Legion Hold. The mobs are a couple levels below me, there aren't any linked groups, you can see the elite pats coming a mile away, and I still need Aldor rep. I set up a sequence where I'd sneak up behind the demon, pounce -> mangle -> rake -> claw (if needed) -> ferocious bite.
They melted.
I've never seen stuff die so fast. I didn't even get my finishing move in sometimes, even if I skipped claw. I'm a complete newbie in cast-off gear and cheap gems. What is it like when you're actually good at this? You just look at the mob and it keels over?
Edit: rake, not rend
Edited, Sep 12th 2008 9:30am by Laecy