Where are the bears at?

Posted on December 15th, 2009 by Cila

Did something happen to bear tanking in 3.3 that I missed?  Did they nerf something that made them so unusable that everyone changed their druids to something else?  I find this very unsettling.

I decided this week that I’m going to make Flouria’s second spec a bear tanking spec.  Originally, I had planned on leveling another toon to 80 (my DK is 73 currently, my paladin is 72), but I honestly am sick of it.  I’ve ran Northrend 4 times already, and I think I’m done with it.  It’s just not fun anymore.

So, I’ve decided to consolidate.  Flouria will be my Tank AND Healer (w/ Healer being the “main” spec) and Cila will be my DPS.

What’s great is that I decided to do this about 3 days ago, and I already have a full heroic tanking set.  The Dungeon Finder is a great way to get a new spec geared up quickly.  Since everyone is basically just greeding on the blue and purple ilevel 200 drops in there, you an need yourself a set pretty quickly.  I only spent emblems on an idol, everything else was AH or drops (mostly drops).

But, now I’m starting to realize that I might’ve made a mistake.  I’ve PUGged a whole lot in the past week.  What’s concerning is that I haven’t grouped with a single bear tank.  Not one.  These days, it’s mostly paladins with a smattering of warriors and DKs.

I hope I’m not making a mistake by tanking on a druid.  Of course, I’m not wasting too much time doing this, so if I find that I can’t survive as a tank anymore, then I’ll go back to leveling another toon.

I just hope I don’t have to.

Tags: druid, dungeonfinder, feral, flouria, groups, levelling, pug, tanking

Yup, one more 80

Posted on November 17th, 2009 by Cila

*sigh* Another one?

I swear, I’m taking a levelling break.  Even I’m bored with putting 80s in my toon collection box.  This actually happened a few days ago, but work has been busy and the baby hasn’t been sleeping, so time to do anything outside of those is minimal.

This one is a bit special for me.  This is my toon that I’ve totally levelled up on the Alliance site and in The Other Side guild.  I actually have a Horde druid who raided some T7 and now just sits dormant on another server.  I was tempted to faction transfer him over, but I was so close to 80 already (75 at the time faction transfers came out) that I didn’t bother.

What’s interesting is that I’m trying Boomkin as my alternate spec along with my Tree spec that I love so dearly.  Boomkin has an advantage over Feral for me for two reasons.

1. Less bag space wasted because you have a big gear overlap

2. Can actually do decent AOE damage on heroic trash.  It’s amazing how useless you can feel on 3 and 4 mob pulls.

I’ve only ran an instance or two so far, but I’m liking it.  I actually haven’t healed at all yet, even though I’m totally setup and gearing for it.  Until I feel my healing gear can compete, I’m PUGging as a DPS and rolling on the heal-y gear (of course, I’m asking first).  I figure a week or two of that, and I should be in good shape to heal heroics and T7 again.  I can’t wait.

Otherwise, I’m just running dailies for the time being.  I want to get at least honored with Hodir for the shoulder enchant and will probably stop doing it after that.  I just can’t be bothered grinding those dailies…  they’re pretty terrible.  I’m finding that I’m actually caring about this toon, as opposed to my hunter.  If it wasn’t for all the achievement points on Cila, I’d seriously consider making a change on mains.  I love the idea of being useful in 2 of the 3 main roles… something I don’t get on my warlock or my hunter.

Tags: ding!, druid, flouria, levelling