Random Thoughts

I've had some recent thoughts on becoming a healer and I thought that I would share them. In my previous experience I've been a DPS'er - burning things down with extreme vengeance. I loved it. I love the thrill of the kill. My other toon is a hunter and he can flat out bring the heat. I love my priest for other reasons; he brings the heat but in different ways. He is a caster. He doesn't rely on weapons so much. With him I feel like I'm using much more skill then hiding behind a blazing cannon that wears mail.
I've just embraced the healer role. I've been level 80 for about a week and already have 6-7 epics. Mostly from items I can make through tailoring and AH purshases. I find myself with a new challenge. I'm challenged by the environment constantly with quests and rep grind and now raids. This is different. When I go into a raid or instance I'm trying to keep the group going. It's a different mindset. Instead of just worrying about me and my damage I now need to be concerned with the entire group. The healer and the tank are the lynch pins to the whole group. If the healer goes down the group dies. If the tank goes down the group dies. There is a much more stress but I love it - I feel alive! When you are taking on a boss it's like they look at me and say 'You're goin' down'; I look right back at them and say 'bring it'! I've added Healbot to my UI and I must say that it helps as far as keeping track of multiple targets and healing them quickly but I've yet to run an instance/raid with it just helping guildies with quests.