Resto 2.0

I've been a shaman at level 80 for about 6 months. Spent the first couple of weeks as Enhancement / Elemental. Ran around swinging madly at things trying to lava lash everything I could reach. ULD/ Naxx raids and 5 mans before the new LFG group finding system. Pretty frustrating for a new level 80. Decided shaman endgame wasn't my cup of tea.

I swtiched to level my DK some and digest this problem while I was grinding levels. Dam that DK was fun to play. Hell, I liked it so much, I was playing her to the exclusion of all my other toons. For some people, it may not seem much. I have alot of toons. Like an 80 Hunter, 80 Priest, 80 Mage, 80 Warrior, 80 Shaman, 80 DK, 80 Warlock, 72 Paladin, 38 Druid, and a noobie Lv18 Orc Shaman to play on the Horde side.

Yea. I have alts disease. I don't change my primary character easily, but I've also played this game since release date. So I know the basics of pretty much every class and then some. I've now stopped trying to KILL myself getting every Weekly raid quest done on all seven raid level toons. Nowadays I hit up maybe 2 or 3 weeklys and VoA 25/10 on two characters. I only hit ICC 10/25 with my top two or three characters. No sense in keeping a half dozen characters in the endgame. Too much work grinding badges for characters I rarely use. Too expensive gemming Epic gems and Enchants.

Gearscore breakdown: They're always changing. My top toon is just bestial. Can't lie. My bottom toon is still using Relic gear. The most fun ones are the ones that have 10,000 others competing for the same raid spots. I still manage to play what I want to.

Dk 3185 Dps / 2800 Tank
Hunter 2965 Marks
Sham 2885 Resto / 2830 Ele ( Like 2600 Friday )
Priest 2400 Shadow / 2000 Holy
Warrior 2200 Arms / 2200 Prot
Mage 2100 Fire
Warlock 1970 Destro

Are my characters reduced to a stupid 4 digit number? Hardly. They're ALL me. I just see them as either needing gear or NOT needing anything. Still it gives a nice baseline to separate the 80s that are looking for 1 item from Endgame and those 80s that would take anything 232 that dropped.

My shaman, is somewhere between. Last weekend, I had enough combined gear to strike back into ICC 10 and raid endgame again. I hooked up with an old friend that was Raidleader for a pickup team I ran my DK with. She was a fantastic tank and a solid raider. We had a great time. For this run, she needed a healer, and so I go ... back into the fray.