Attendance is part of what needs to be expected, a consistent united core will always perform better if you have always the same players, but people should be present and have skills.

Only those who can be present and have skill should be granted spots on the core.

The cacth is skill can only be measured by our own ...

Drao

I would like to apologize/warn you in advance: This blog is inflammatory and will probably offend somebody. If you are easily offended, feel entitled to tank, hate that (insert class here) is getting buffed, you may wish to not read this blog.

Question: Why is there a shortage of tanks in wow?

Answer: There are no tank classes.

All the tanks are built to do damage while wearing gear that will get them killed if they taunt, or built to heal while wearing...

Alent

Yes, you definitely ought to PuG, certainly as a newer tank. There's nothing more challenging in tanking than participating in and even moreso leading a PuG.

First of all, the people in a PuG are usually not overgearing a specific encounter, nor have they been playing together for a longer time. They don't know each other. They can't anticipate on each other's moves. These are things that should not occur in guild runs and raids. In short, Pick up Groups are likely to be far worse than...

Dranchor

I’ll post this as a blog entry, since it definitely does not follow the spirit of the WotLK: What Is Fun? post. Instead, I’m going to suggest that tanking is not, in fact, fun. You’re probably wondering about my sanity at this point, since I am actually the MT of a raiding guild and all of that. I can see where you’re coming from, but bear with me a moment while I explain why I don't find tanking fun.

The very fact that you can break down tanking to an opimisation problem pushes...

Satrina

Okay, so not so much "crazy"... except that I grinded the entire thing in one day, one sitting.

My Blood Elf paladin hit 39 today, and suddenly I remembered that both WSG and AB have plate rewards available at 40 -- and as I was 39, I was just the right level for grinding it out!

Well, I did. 41 AB marks and 22 WSG marks later, my Blood Elf now is the proud owner of [item]20209[/item], [item]20206[/item], and [item]19581[/item].

And I'm still...

Norrath