Where have all the tank spots gone?
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 Posted in Bosses, Burning Crusade, Dungeons, Wrath of the Lich King | 4 Comments »A warrior, a paladin, a druid and a death knight walked into Icecrown Citadel. "Hey," said Tirion Fordring as they entered the antechamber. "Is this some kind of joke?" I've recently had occasion to go through my old screen grabs, and one ...
A tale of two twonks
Monday, January 4th, 2010 Posted in Dungeons, Healing, Rants | 5 Comments »It's been nearly a month. Random dungeons are still the flavour of the month. And, for the most part, they're highly enjoyable. I've mostly stopped running random dungeons with Namthe now, except once daily to get my emblems of Frost. On ...
The World Has Changed (and not necessarily for the better)
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 Posted in Dungeons, Rants | 1 Comment »I've been spending a lot of time getting intimate with the new Dungeon finder tool recently, though not yet enough to get me a new pet. And, on the whole, unlike a lot of people it seems, my experiences have ...
She’s Back?
Friday, August 14th, 2009 Posted in Dungeons, General | No Comments »So Onyxia is to return. The entire WoW community appears to be split between those who are excited at the prospect of battling a foe they haven't been able to fight on even terms for so long, and those that ...
Bringing out the worst in people
Sunday, August 9th, 2009 Posted in Dungeons, Rants | 1 Comment »The patch has hit. There's lots to do and see, including the Amazing Bugtastic Ulduar and the new raid instance, which I've not yet seen, and the Trial of the Champion, which I've seen altogether rather too much of, in ...
Be careful what you wish for
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 Posted in Dungeons, Healing | 4 Comments »As has been the custom for a while now, I've beeen spending the occasional hour on my druid healing heroics, doing the odd 10-man Naxx and so on. I noticed something, though - once I got above about 1500 spell ...
Tunnel Vision
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 Posted in Dungeons, Healing | No Comments »One of the first things that I was good at, way back in my pre-warrior days, was learning not to stand in fire. Or poison clouds. Or any other sort of AoE effect that did Bad Things to my health. ...
Joining the Clique
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 Posted in Dungeons, General, Healing | 2 Comments »Despite its title, this isn't just a post about healing. Tanks, don't skip this one over... There comes a point in every character's leveling career whereby instance levelling begins to get ever-more difficult. Not because the instances are too hard (they ...
Pride comes before a fall
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 Posted in Dungeons | 1 Comment »In order to get some idea of how the upcoming bosses in 25-man Ulduar work, I've been running the 10-man version on Sunday afternoons. And our latest run was nothing short of specatularly successful - we ended up wiping on ...
Who trashed Ulduar?
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 Posted in Dungeons, Wrath of the Lich King | 4 Comments »Another week, another few bosses down. Farewell to Ignis the Furnace Master, Kologarn and Auriaya (though on 10-man only). But wait. What's going on with the trash? The first time we took a look at the trash in the Antechambe of ...
