Ovinia puts down roots in the Nexus

Ovinia is now 72 and shaking her leaves like nobody's business! While it will take some time for me to put down roots into the resto tree, I'm happy to have branched out this way! Healing as a tree is fun beyond beleaf!

Okay, okay, I'll stop, really.

It's a very different experience from healing as a disc priest (SO MANY BUTTONS OMG) or a resto shammy (everyone stand together in a pile! now chain heal! chain heal like nobody's business!). I haven't actually specced my paladin holy in LK, so I can't speak to that, although I can't help but think it is also very different from tree-healing. ^_^ It's a combination of constantly being on the edge of your seat and getting to relax and think "wow, my HoTs will just keep everyone alive with no problem!" the whole time. I think I was more intent on Grid than I've been in ages, though hopefully I didn't stand in much.

I also got a nice new belt and a quest-reward cloak out of the deal, which was great, too. And I got to flip Grand Magus Telestra the bird, because HAHAHA OVITREE COULD HEAL THROUGH THAT. (Being flung all over the place just isn't a shaman's favorite fight mechanic ever…)

Now that I've inflicted myself on friends (thanks, guys!), I'm tempted to wander through more random dungeons, trying my hand at this tree-healing business. I wish Ovinia had more of an RP backstory, but she is more or less a blank slate. I have a vague idea that her favorite shapeshift form is actually her aquatic form, because she loves the water, and that when not adventuring, she actually lives on (or owns?) a boat near Darkshore (and has been a part of a few different boats' crews over the last several decades), but I have no further ideas yet. Kaldorei RP has a lot of potential, but it's just never been as close to my heart as, er, certain other races. Still, it's time to get over the ancient dwarvish fear of trees, I think! It'll be fun seeing what tree-healing is like in a little more detail. (It may also make me a little less trigger-happy in my raids, so I can stop sniping so many heals out from under our excellent druid healers. Ahem.)

General
+ New quest log: IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME.
+ Sell value: Ibid.
+ iLvl and info on the tooltip: Ibid ibid!
+ Class colors in /say, /channel, /etc.: Woohoo!
+ Heirloom chestpiece: Okay, so I didn't really want my druid to run around in Dreadmist, but for 10% bonus XP, she'll do it. (My other toons that still need a-levelin' are a priest, a warlock, and a mage.)

Teuthida
+ Totem bar sets are kind of nice…
- but they don't eliminate the need for a totem mod. I still need a visible timer for totems with a cooldown (mana tide, etc.), and sometimes I don't have the fifteen hundred mana it would take to switch to my set-with-tremor-totem, etc.
+ Fortunately, TotemTimers still works.
- Unfortunately, the totem bar isn't actually built into Bartender4 yet (I'm not sure I'm ready for an alpha version), so I have resorted to building a bar and putting it up between my character bar and my TotemTimers.

Ovinia
+ Epic riding for 45g!
+ Flight form for 3g60!
+ No, really, FLIGHT FORM AT L60 OMG OMG.