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A tank’s blog, mostly…

Hi there. Not much has happened since yesterday. So, I’m writing this post just to let you know that…

What?

What do you mean… "No posts for almost seven Weeks!"… This can’t be. I wrote an awful lot of posts about the expansion release, the leveling, the oh-so-crowded starting zones, my new death knight, my druid becoming my main (again)…

The Database must have crashed! This is an outrageous setback! A slap in the face! I will have to contact my hosting service immediately!

No… really… it’s not my fault! I did really wrote all that stuff… or… rather… wanted to… kind of…

*cough*

*nervous-grin*

Aaaaanyway… Let’s move on, shall we?!

The road ahead. It will no longer be the path of a healer, but that of a tank. I really enjoy healing, I always did, but playing Rhil as a big furry meatshield has opened my eyes to the tanking perspective once and for all. And I really love it!

The upcoming posts will be focusing on my way from a freshly dinged level 80 Feral Druid in quest items of blue and green quality towards being the maintank of Naxxramas raiding guild.

Mash and me just recently abandoned the idea of creating out own little 10-person raiding guild and joined a larger, but not too large, guild on our server. We have our eyes set on the raiding content. Non-heroic at first, maybe more later. We shall see…

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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*Druid warning*

Introduction

Last Friday, while staying up longer than I should, I was tabbing through the LFG Tool in search for something that may help in my druid advancement. Finding groups that let a feral tank is not hard on our server, so I’m pretty fast group-bound if I want to.

So, at 21:30, i stumbled upon a few people who wanted to continue their Kara ID. They already had Attumen and Moroes down, and I got a whisper a few seconds after entering the tool.

I was asked to offtank, and was invited quickly since I did not scream and run away immediately.

The raid had only 4 people at that moment, but it grew over the next half hour or so. After inviting a MS warrior, they seemed to realize that they were running out of tank slots, and asked me if I could maintank the show. I’m not relunctant to take important positions, but I’m not overly confident in my feral gear. I surely paid attention to all those nice bear-tank guides and blogs out there, but I’m only socketing green gems at the moment, due to lack of gold. I cringed a bit, but said yes eventually.

We started to head over to the ol’ tower as soon as we had 9 people in the group. I had mixed feeling about our healers. The first holy paladin seemed just right, sitting at mostly blues and a few epics and one or two greens. The second paladin was retribution specced, but was willing to heal and decked out in Karazhan healing gear. So we were looking for a holy priest to fill the 10th slot.

Around 20 minutes later we invited a very well-geared healing shaman, because there was no single holy priest in sight.

Okay… no shackles… we are starting at the opera… Skeletal Ushers… ugh…

“Well, we’ll survive it” I thought, and we started to zone in and buff up.

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