There isn't any content in BC that I don't swagger in to these days with at least a base level of confidence. I tank KZ in my PVP gear for fun, feel good about ZA, Gruul, Mags, TK, SSC, Hyjal - and feel my gear is appropriate for more - and I feel my knowledge of "when to do what" from a general tanking sense is very good. When to build threat faster, when to avoid more, when to strap on EH gear etc.

So anyway, me, our guild's founder and the current GM decided on a lark...

thugthedum

Wrath is on the cusp of release, and the majority of WoW's players are sitting around a table, discussing how crappy their gear is going to be come the expansion. Greens better than purples, blah blah. I'm in the beta, and I can prove them wrong, but that's a discussion for another day.

The strange thing is, I'm gearing up for Kara.

"Why?" they might ask. "There are only 7 weeks left, and you can't even play on weekdays!"

Because I...

nERVEcenter

Back in the day, long before Wow, I had a Nintendo GameCube and for it, I had Madden 04. And I had alot of fun with it. I didn't have anything above dial up so MMO's were not an option and besides, I had no free time with the amount of work I had back then.

Anyhow, I did the usual...I took a crappy team, moved them to my home town, customized the uniform, traded what players I could for draft picks and signed myself(from the creat a player option) as a free agent to play QB. And...

Horacio

In a search to find a subject that will still be on topic after Wrath hits, I thought about personalities. When you read tanking sites and get to know tanks, there's some things that are quite common. I'll try to give some characteristics many of us share, but this is by no means a list of things you need to be a tank, or a quest to find the ideal tank. It's merely a summary of things I noticed.

Dedication
Most of us tanks are very dedicated to what they do. We put a lot of effort...

Dranchor

I've ran with Raid Leaders of a variety of different flavours. It's most common to see the Main Tank as the Raid Leader b/c it's the natural progression from marking targets in 5 mans. It's also very common b/c a tank is forced to understand trash pulls a lot better than basically any other class or at the very least is forced to understand them in a way that affects the whole group whereas other classes that's not necessarily the case. More to the point, a tank can gain an innate gut instinct for...

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