I do keep some extra gear pieces with int and +healing on them for BGs, but basically I am a typical prot pally. Anyway, I just won an AB and topped the healing charts for Horde and it was great fun.

I enjoyed laughing at the Alliance as I healed up my teammates (mostly a 69 warrior although a few other hordies got tossed heals once or twice as well) and then realized I could keep laughing when the hunters and rogues eventually came after me. Pushing 9,000 health self buffed with all kinds of armor meant that even after their 69 rogue had me stunlocked for a good 15-20 seconds I was only down to about 5,000.

I have to figure out what to do with this toon when I hit 70. My 4 real life friends need me to tank, but I might respec holy for pvp. Then again if BGs as prot are this entertaining, why switch? I wonder how different things would be as holy (assuming I use the same pvp healing gear). Less health and better heals? No holy shield for rogues and warriors who don’t realize I’m wearing tank googles? Holy shock instead of avenger’s shield? I see where the extra healing would be needed in really competitive arena play, but for BGs?

I’ve been doing some more BGs on Gnometosser, and I think maybe I need a new class for pvp. Hunters do great damage – at level 53-54 I was often in the top 10 in damage in AV and the top 3 in AB.

The problem is that I’m also pretty high on the death list too. It seems like once a rogue reaches me I’m stunned then dead. Or if a lock DOTs me up I die (though often I kill the lock before I do).

I think I prefer a toon with more defense in pvp – Goldsong for example is nothing special on the damage charts (though even prot spec I’m alwys in the top 5 on heals except in AV) but he is pretty good at surviving – my hunter feels kind of like a wuss.

I also like healing, Horde often loses battlegrounds I’m in because there are no healers. And while I used to think Alliance were all hunters and rogues they do always seem to have healers, unlike Horde.

I was thinking about a dreamstate druid – Balance for a bit of damage, Boomkin for armor, resto for the heals obviously. This toon should be very useful in BGs and large scale world pvp like city raids (never done one but that is my WOW goal – to get into some city raids). The big drawback would be no real protection from stunlock except that hopefully when the stun wore off I’d still be alive thanks to Boomkin armor (assuming I didn’t get caught in caster form – then I’d die faster than my hunter).

I hate stun and fear more than anything else in WoW. So Orc shammy or Undead priest are other healing possibilities. There’s just something about Boomkin…

And if you’re wondering why I don’t try a rogue since they do ridiculous damage, have crazy control, and have ludicrous defensive skills it’s because I am a keyboard mover so melee pvp = I fail.