So I can, so I can, get higher damage with Shadow Weave.

Apologies to Corey Hart there.  So, from Druid to Engineering Priest now, and while I wear my Shadowform in the day as well, the point is, I -have- it now.

It’s been a bit of a slog, getting the motivation to get to level 40 just so Marathel could get the form that lets him do more damage, take less damage, and hopefully make him easier to level. I finally dinged on a SM:Lib Pick up Group that had me pegged into being the Healer. Not a job I usually relish, especially when a second Paladin joined and decided to draw aggro all guns and Righteous Fury blazing. I was doing DPS (And some pretty sweet DPS at that, the one thing I miss about Shadowform is no Holy Fire, that awesome looking, low mana cost spell that sets my heart ablaze.) until the Discipline priest went AFK, and subsiquently got kicked for it.

Ding, I get Shadowform. At last. Of course, I can’t even try it out yet, because you can’t really -heal- in it, and I doubt Vampiric Embrace would have kept the MT (That’s Main Tank, for the uninitiated/addicted)  alive. And I didn’t even get any loot from the instance. I know it’s not supposed to be about loot, but the Random Number Generator hated me and loved the MT.

There was the slight moment of dread when facing Arcanist Doan during his Detonation cast, where despite telling people to get back beforehand, and after,  the Suck-a-din decided to hammer away ineffectually at Doan’s magic shield, and had a fair amount of health blasted away.

The group persuaded me to run Armoury afterwards, and it was much the same. Little to no loot,  some rather hairy pulls (If you can define pull as ‘lets run forwards and aggro an entire corridor’, Mr Suck-a-Din.) And once again, despite a warning not to, Suck-a-Din decides to hammer away ineffectually at Herod during his Whirlwind attack (Which makes him Immune as well.) The Main Tank got Ravager, a weapon that I desperately would love to have a Fury Warrior with Titan’s Grip and two of them just to see what it’s like, and Holy Nova decimated the Acolytes along with a few explosives.

Still, after that a quick try of Shadowform showed promise, and today I picked up a Glyph of Shadow (Spell crits increase spell power by 10%  Spirit) which goes nicely along side my Glyph of Shadow Word: Pain.

Engineering wise, Marathel just got Gnomish Engineering specialized, and I’ll be looking to go hunting for some recipes with him now for cool tricks. In Character, Marathel is a mage with passable talent, so of course, to excell he decided to go to a rarely taken area of academics and make a name for himself there. With his oblivious, eccentric and somewhat off-logic personality, Gnomish Engineering provides just the kind of trinkets he needs. Must get a Rogue to get me a Cloaking Device schematic.

PS. Gnomish Pocket Knives make things easy.

I need to make some more bombs soon, and collect way more Mithril if I’m to have hopes of leveling Engineering. Had to buy some of the Mithril Tubes off the Auction House just to complete the quest to get Gnomish Engineer.

Ah well. Till next time!

For the Sunwell, and Science!

Edit: PVP!

I took Marathel into Arathi Basin on Friday at level 38. And my word, he actually held his own! Power Word: Shield was a lifesaver, Shadow Word: Pain on everything, and I even took down a few warlocks, paladins, priests, mages and hunters on my lonesome with thanks to Fear and my shadow powers. And Mind Flay, of course. A nice few AB marks of honour now, might drop by to get more once I’m at 49ish.

Oh. Destroying someone with an exploding sheep? Priceless.

Sending someone running to their deaths off the cliff at Lumbermill via Mind Control? Lovely.

Leaping off said cliff to find that you ran out of Light Feathers for Levitate? A definate case of ‘Look before you leap, nub.’