Light’s Defender

So, voicechat is now available on all realms, huh? I tried it. It stinks. Ventrillo FTW!!

Since you get what you pay for and this is for all intents and purposes free, it doesn’t work all that great. For starters, there are no individual player settings, so you can’t adjust one player down and another up. And if you can hear people, you’re lucky if you can hear them clearly. Many sound like they’re in a tin can or underwater.

For me, I’ll trust Vent much more when grouping or raiding. For individual chat with friends, I guess it will do okay. Oh yeah, I tried it in the battlegrounds too. It hasn’t caught on there yet.

As a pretty traditional PvE Protection Paladin, I don’t often do PvP. This past weekend being an AV weekend, I thought I’d try some battleground action. I decided that I would be best suited as a healer, so I decked on some hybrid healing gear that gave me a little more health then my standard healing gear, and in return I gave up a little bit of mana. There were quite a few healers on, so I played more of a backup healing type role.

I ended up in one of those AV matches of old. You know the ones; those that used to never end? I was in there for a good 30 minutes or so and I joined well after the match had started. At one point, I decided to put on my Raid gear and go for a ride to see if I could find a group. While riding, I came upon a Horde warrior that saw me as an easy kill.

Now, I’m not very good at PvP. All that moving around is still a bit foreign to me, but I understand the purpose of it, so I have at it - a little Holy Shield, a little Seal and Judgment of Righteousness, and a Hammer of Justice here and there. I don’t know what this warrior’s health was, but I found myself ahead of him in the race of kill or be killed. He clearly saw it too, because he ran and got a traveling NPC and his two wolves to help. I managed to start running and walking away. That and a well-timed bubble and heal, and ended up with one NPC on me which I ended up taking down. As I was walking away, I noticed the warrior sitting down for a drink and a bite to eat, so I knew that I had to get my health up quickly.

As I was drinking and eating, he showed up again. With only 75% health, we go at it again. Holy Shield, Seal and Judgment of Righteousness again, and I found myself ahead of him once more. And yet again, he felt the need to and found an NPC to help him.

I didn’t survive this time. Four people beating on you is sort of tough; but I have to tell you, I felt good being able to keep up and survive as long as I did. I may try to PvP a little bit more often. I’ve thought about doing some arena matches. Maybe I should give that a shot soon…