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There you are thinking, “Man, I hope Plec doesn’t start running his mouth about his Paladin” and then BAM, you get another post about my Paladin. It’s a little move I like to call the Ulduar Uppercut (that read like a joke my dad would make if he played WoW…moving on).

Much like any soon to be level 80, I have begun to map out all of the instances and raids I’m going to run in order to get my character ready for ICC. One thought kept popping up after each piece of gear I crafted or purchased off of the AH; was gearing this toon going to be enough to prepare me for ICC? The short answer I came to find, was no.

You see, I look at raiding like I look at mathematics; both are systems that build on lessons that you’ve learned earlier in that same subject. Think about it, many raid encounters are actually described by referring to older raid encounters. How many times have you heard your raid leader say, “This fight is like Onxyia meets…”.

And therein lies the problem. I have a tremendous amount of raiding experience as a DPS class. I can identify raid mechanics and devise a solution that fits whatever situation I’m facing (usually its DPS more/less, get out/into fire). As a healer, I can still identify the same mechanics but the solution is going to be much different. Even though I’m doing my due diligence by getting gear together for my Paladin, I really should be running as many raids as I can conceivably get into to develop another bank of healing raid knowledge.

Which brings me to another problem. Where am I going to find the time to raid on my Paladin like I raid on my Warlock? Shared lock outs may have had me miffed at first but as I face a situation where I could conceivably have too much raiding in my schedule and a shared lock out is looking pretty sweet.