[Based on true stories.]

1. You read the forums and WoW blogs during your 10 minute breaks.
2. You see every exclamation point as an opportunity to do a quest. (This could drive you slightly insane if you make a living copywriting. Or you’re a college student with lots of essays.)
3. You see every question mark as an opportunity to gain experience.
4. The first thing you do when you play Guild Wars is roll a smiting monk and scream, “Why Blizzard, why are they more efficient in this game!?”
5. Your only active MSN conversation is a heated argument about how male Dranei cannot possibly look intimidating because they look more like a bunch of ridiculous Hulk cartoons.
6. You choose a dinner option that takes 10 minutes less to prepare and eat because that’s 10 minutes more of WoW time.
7. You wonder if you can hook your DDR pad up to your gaming pad so you can exercise and kill Horde/Alliance at the same time. (Which would be revolutionary. Obviously.)
8. You search in a frantic for your BlizzCon t-shirt to wear after you sweated the crap out of your Yoshi shirt while playing on that DDR pad earlier. Unfortunately, you still haven’t figured out how to hook it up to your gaming pad.
9. You look at your pet frogs and think about pads and think about gaming and think about WoW. Holy crap.
10. When your Dungeons and Dragons group suggests moving your session to a day where all the players can make it–with one less hour of playing time–you adamantly fight for this option so you can get one more hour of WoW.
11. You think it’s amusing that Guild Wars asks you to take a break after 2 hours of playing instead of potentially healthy.
12. You pull out the WoW fishing pole while you’re sorting through your Magic: the Gathering cards.
13. You have the Burning Crusade opening theme on your iPod.
14. You have the Burning Crusade opening theme on a playlist called “Shower Time.”
15. You set up your G-chat or Facebook status to a quote from the forums.
16. Your email signature includes a banner of your character or a forum quote.
17. You want to know why you’re limited to six-month payment plans. Two years for $10/month sounds awesome, right?
18. You’re pissed they put the World of Warcraft discussions on the smaller stage at BlizzCon. You also want to know WTF they were thinking when 80% of BlizzCon crowds around that smaller stage.
19. You have a name reserved for a Worgen or Goblin.
20. You eat pizza while playing World of Warcraft at least once a week. You might even complain about how /pizza isn’t an option.
21. You love the achievement system.
22. You have World of Warcraft installed on the laptop you brought with you to Hawaii. You even put your Wrath of the Lich King discs in your suitcase in case you forgot to upgrade it since your last vacation.
23. You wait in slightly painful anticipation for your opportunity to jump into the Cataclysm beta.
24. You wait in even more painful anticipation for presales of the collector’s edition to Cataclysm because you’ll be damned if you don’t get the noncombat pet.
25. You drank one of those disgusting mana potions they were selling at Fry’s. Then you bought another one and dared someone else to drink it.
26. You have a World of Warcraft trading card game collection.
27. You bought a loot card on eBay.
28. You have a blog dedicated to World of Warcraft.
29. You’re reading this post.
30. You’ve bookmarked this blog. You sly devil, you.

Tiny Update: Johanah is still on Cenarius (with that slightly different spelling even) and I’ve switched primarily to Holy PvP, which I still need to write more about. In the interim, I am playing my resto druid and leveling holy paladin on Sen’jin. I apologize for the lack of updates! (I also partially blame DDR.)

I thought it was due time to add something to the smite priest community and given that our spec is mostly for the rofls, another humorous post seemed fitting. If you have more to add to this post, feel free to comment!

For anyone that is interested in armorying my toon, I’ve recently switched from Johannah of Kalecgos to Johanah of Cenarius. I’m in a hilarious guild of 50% gnomes called <Pirate>.

I’ve switched from the role of a Holy priest in ICC-10 to Discipline priest in ICC-25. I’ve also finally had the pleasure, in a rather short span, of seeing all the ICC bosses – heroic Putricide included. Crazy! I intend to continue looking into Holy and Smite specs, but my recent shift in guilds may put those on the wayside until the release of Cataclysm. Or, at the very least, it will put my practice of them on the wayside.

For all you Holy and PvP lovers though, I am keeping my alternate spec Holy PvP, and expect some Holy PvP videos from me in the near future. I’m just dealing with some touch-ups to my PvP gear. I tried Smite spec in PvP the other night, but my druid boyfriend quickly lamented about the lack of healers and I switched back to classic (and yet still not oft used) Holy PvP.

Do not expect Discipline PvP articles on this blog because, quite frankly, it’s not my playstyle – although feel free to discuss it as much as you’d like!

I’m looking forward to the potentiality of Serendipity-like benefits to Smite in Cataclysm and hope this drives my non-raid-healing spec into a Smite direction. I’ll be leveling a Worgen rogue with my boyfriend and his buddy in Cataclysm, and if I understand rogue PvP fun factor right, that will make me abandon priest PvP pretty much altogether. Anyone out there crazy enough to level priest twice just to have a priest Worgen (before race changes include Worgen, of course)?

Update: For kind readers and Kalecgos stalkers, we are currently guildless due to things not working out on a social level in Pirate. (I thought they talked way too little and were way too serious, then they picked a fight with one of the people that joined with me. I didn’t wait for strike three.)

I’m sure they’re a great guild and it just didn’t work out for us. We’re just too far into WotLK, which I’m not a huge fan of, and too close for Cataclysm, for me to waste any mental energy in it.

I’m in Vegas at the moment, but I’ll be doing an update soon on some of the predicted changes on see for Smite in Cataclysm due to its current alpha! (I’m pretty sure I’ll be getting into the beta and then this blog will primarily change to that focus versus WotLK, as an FYI.)

The priest preview for Cataclysm was posted today. I’m sure we’re all excited. I gobbled it up way earlier this morning, but just now got the time to actually blog about… Chakra for Smite!

So, the story. The first thing I did, of course, was comb around for smite benefits. A sad face struck me when I saw how they would be balancing the mastery system (it’s all healing fun for the Discipline and Holy trees), but then my shadow priest friend pointed out later the possibility of Smite being thrown into Chakra, the Serendipity-Replacement-on-Steroids.

Here’s Ghostcrawler’s quote:

The idea behind the Holy “cast three in a row” talent (it’s called “Chakra”) is that we’ve always positioned Holy as a versatile healer. This talent lets you shift into different modes. If you need to be a tank healer, cast three single target heals and your single-target healing is now better. Cast three area heals, and you can be a temporarily specialized group healer. We’re going to try to play this mechanic up with a cool UI to try to get that “I’m almost in the zone” feel. We’ll let it apply to as many types of spells as we can, perhaps even Smite for those times when nobody’s taking damage.

The way Chakra was described earlier in the post is an “improved healing state” that Holy priests will have access to. I imagine it’ll be deep into the tree to avoid Discipline priests getting access to it in addition to their already stellar bubbles. (Did I mention they’re finally doing the group bubble and — wait for it — LIFE GRIP!?)

The other thing I really liked about the changes – beyond the fact Smite has a chance, however small, of being as neat as it was in Burning Crusade once Cataclysm hits – is that they’re addressing Holy in PvP. Now, I already PvP Holy, so whatever they do will be a bolster in my stubborn land. Hurray for Discipline not being the only way to go!

To read more, check out the priest preview on the forums.