I’ve wanted a pally tank since Burning Crusade. I have a 73 pally. I’m getting my tank.
*sigh* One more time through Northrend, Jeeves. No, don’t take the scenic route! Let’s just get there already!
I can’t believe I’m doing this again…
I’ve wanted a pally tank since Burning Crusade. I have a 73 pally. I’m getting my tank.
*sigh* One more time through Northrend, Jeeves. No, don’t take the scenic route! Let’s just get there already!
I can’t believe I’m doing this again…
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
If you’re like me and have a ton of alts, you end up neglecting your secondary skills. “I’ll save it for 80″ is the usual motto. For me, it’s only when I decide to take a toon from “alt” to “main” status that I level up cooking, first aid, etc. And then it’s a hassle to get from 1-350.
Enter Pilgrim’s Bounty. This holiday has a quest chain that literally takes you from 1-350 cooking skill in an hour or two. It just requires running around 3 capital cities for a bit. If you’re Alliance, it’s kind of annoying to do this since you’re stuck taking boats and the Deeprun Tram. However, if you’re horde, it’s a cinch to just take the airship from city to city.
My suggestion is if you have any alt over the level of 50, take the time to do this quest. Heck, even if you don’t, do it anyway and get as high as you can. It’ll save you a lot of pain down the road and it only comes one a year.
We sure are
Tags: achievements, Altaholic, cooking, levelling, pilgrimsbounty
*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.
My little “hunter that could” hit 78 last night in Zul’Drak. To celebrate, I headed off to Valgarde and got myself a shiny new Sawed-off Hand Cannon. Might as well put some of that rep to use… though I have to admit that I wish I had grinded more of the 4 main factions. There really are some decent upgrades to be had once you hit 78, and I’m not eligible for any of them.
I’m really getting psyched about the idea of running some 80 content with her. I REALLY love the hunter class. They really get a bad rap, but if done right, it’s done of the most nuanced and toughest classes to play “correctly”. I’m still undecided on whether or not I’ll do Survival or Marks on my second spec… I’m assuming Survival, since I won’t have the Armor Pen. (not to mention how it was nerfed anyway) to get competitive DPS. Plus, having another toon with Replenishment doesn’t hurt either.
On another note, I’m finding the west side of Zul’Drak to be some of the buggiest quests in Northrend. I think they tried to do too much. I basically had to look up the “right way” to do the Drakuru quests in Wowhead because they were either obvious or bugged. It took me about an hour to get 5% of a level because of this.
In the end, I just skipped the rest of the quest chain and moved on to Argent Stand… and lo’ and behold, I got 5% more in about 5 minutes. I don’t think I’ll go back there, since this isn’t my achievement toon. It’s bad enough I don’t have the Zul’Drak quest achievement on Cila — no way I could do it twice.
