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I think it's time I made a confession.

I don't think this is a hunter blog anymore.

I never expected to like another role/class as much. While I knew I really liked shamans, I didn't LOVE them like I did hunters, and I had very limited experience as a healer (I hated healing on both my pally and priest, and lost interest in them at 30 and 20 respectively). I figured I would be speccing elemental at end-game, and just leveled resto because I am stubborn — and had I leveled elemental and stayed with it, I think I would love huntering best, hands down, no holds barred.

But really, until I actually started playing Ideale, I'd never maintained interest in a class past level 25. Huntering dragged me into blogging, and honestly is what kept me interested in the game, period. Ideale was my first character to see the Plaguelands and Winterspring, the first to have a maxed-out profession, the first to see Outland, the first to fly, the first to do a daily and the first to 70, and she will be my first to Northrend and 80, too, no doubt about it.

Only the thing is, I have found I LOVE healing — on my shaman and increasingly on my druid, at least — just as much as huntering. Not more, but equally. (After all, I love solo play, and fun as it is, shooting helboars with lightning, dropping a magma totem, and then just healing myself until they die on their own takes FOREVER. I think hunters will still be my favorite class for sheer versatility, because playing a healer is not really much fun unless you're in a group.)

I can still safely say that I still dislike the other roles — okay, bear tanking can be fun, but I suck at it hardcore, and mages might be fun if I ever had the interest and patience to get one past 10, but other than that. And honestly, 90 percent of the appeal of bear form is jumping around my roommate's priesty while squealing, "I'm a bear! I'm a bear! Look at me! WHEE BEAR!" until she throws couch cushions at me. And again, I'd probably lose interest in my druid were I not playing with someone else, because not healing + not huntering = boring.

So I guess that this is a hunting and healing blog, then. Not like it hasn't been for ages. And hopefully, as the expansion wipes the slate clean and everyone else is back to learning along with me (we'll all be noobs! I won't be alone!), I'll actually be able to offer some original content for both roles.

And I do promise more cat-related content, including a list of all the cat mini-pets I collect, taming adventures, and stories about Cinnamon's odd emotes ("How about some crawling?" WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN!?), as well as occasional forays out of WoW, such as Sparrow's Great Mail Adventure and Klio's Guide to Scaring the Crap Out of her Owner, so it still remains as cat-centric as advertised.