An Ex-Gnome Tank's World

Archive for December, 2008

Happy Winter Veil!

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »

The dreaded Real Life has struck, so I haven't been playing for the last week or so. In any case, a very happy festive season to everyone who's read and commented over the past year. Normal service will be resumed ...

Say, what?

Monday, December 15th, 2008 Posted in General | 4 Comments »

"I don't want the tank to mark. I'd rather we kept some chaos, keep things interesting." Er, what? The above was what greeted me as I joined a pug for Heroic Nexus yesterday. It wasn't even the healer that said that ...

Burning Crusade all over again

Monday, December 15th, 2008 Posted in Class Discussion, General, Wrath of the Lich King | 1 Comment »

One of the biggest problems I had early on in The Burning Crusade was getting hold of a decent tanking weapon. The Sun Eater never dropped for me, despite countless runs into the Mechanar. King's Defender took almost as long ...

Easy to get, hard to keep.

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 Posted in Class Discussion, Wrath of the Lich King | 2 Comments »

Apparently a problem that was apparent in The Burning Crusade was that tanking gear was too easy to get hold of - people were able to hit the then-magic number of 490 defense without having nearly enough stats to run ...

Loken!

Sunday, December 7th, 2008 Posted in Bosses, Wrath of the Lich King | 8 Comments »

I've been having a lot of fun running heroics recently. Everything has seemed to be achievable, and even if we haven't downed a boss the first time, the subsequent times hve always been an improvement. Until yesterday, when I ran Halls ...