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A tank’s blog, mostly…

Just a quick heads-up to let you know what’s goin’ on over ‘ere:

Lhoyra

• My hunter will be reaching 50 soon and I’m eager to test the shiny new BigRedDraenei Talent. (if you get the reference)
• A Maraudon PuG turned out very profitable for me. I was able to pick up the Grovekeeper’s Drape, the Rockgrip Gauntlets and the Megashot Rifle.
• Concerning the rifle, I found out that spamming a Serpent Sting (Rank 1) on mobs tanked by my faithful pet will level you ranged skill from 1 to 240 in virtually no time at all. ;-P

Aylah

• I’m visiting the Old Man Barlo on a daily basis, but he still refuses to hand out one of those baby crocolisks. Poor me.

A lot of things are going on right now. Most of it is Real-Life related, but things are keeping me busy nonetheless. I have my own marriage upcoming this summer and things are getting pretty dense right now. A lot of stuff needs to be done, chosen and else taken care off. It will pass, but for now I’m pretty much tied down.

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Just a small personal progression rambling. Skip it if you don’t want to get involved.

Still reading? Fine!

<Ravenous> has recently grouped up with two other guilds to form a raiding alliance. Before this, we had some difficulties mustering enough people to raid Gruul’s Lair properly.

With the addition of new an nice people to kiss the floor together, we managed to get the raids rolling.

With much success, I have to add.

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Sorry for this little Alamo.

Monday evening, right after finishing heroic Magister’s Terrace (read the whole story here), we took no break. No, we did heroic Sethekk Halls. With me tanking on Aylah. I suppose you know what this is leading to.

The group was a bit overgeared for heroic Sethekk Halls. We rushed it a bit, so we had a wipe on the first boss. Other than that, we cleared the room before Ikiss quickly, I set up the moonstone, we summoned Anzu and dispatched him quickly.

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Yesterday evening saw me doing two heroic instances. I have to confess that I rarely do heroics. As a healer, I shun them for the increased stress they put upon you most of the time. I know that a well tuned group composition can reduce this by a wide margin, but usually I am content to clear Karazhan once a week and do some additional raiding.

However, my fiancee (from now on labeled "Mash") wanted the cute phoenix pet and that robe from Kael’Thas badly, so I found myself in a half-guild / half-pickup group quite fast. Note: No one assembles decent groups faster than Mash. Honestly… No one.

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