Nothing busts my balls more than an ignorant player. What I mean by this is best demonstrated by an example. I usually lead pug VoA every week, both 10 and 25. Before pulling Emalon, I ask, "so, who hasn't done this before?" In most cases, nobody says anything. I proceed to briefly explain the fight, set up who is tanking what, and divide up healing as best I can. Then I do a readycheck and give the OT the go-ahead to pull. RARELY does Emalon die on the first attempt (It may have...

Hello all,

My name is Dennis (aka. Vincint, aka. Zeus, aka. Kalahad) and I have been playing World of Warcraft off and on since the second day of the game. I have been reading Tankspot for quite some time but decided to start a blog here to talk about the game that I so enjoy. A little bit of background first:

I started playing MMOs back in the EQ days when I was very young (12). I never was really into hardcore playing but loved the immersive aspects of the game. After...

I'm in a bit of a bind, and I'm not sure how to resolve it. I think setting the scene is important, so I'll do that first.

My guild's quite new. We formed up at the beginning of May and have done ~3weeks of Ulduar making significant progress each week. Most recently, we got Hodir to 50% and I expect that we'll 2-3 shot him this week.

My raiders are solid. We're mostly two groups of RL friends plus some extras to fill the gaps. Everyone gets along pretty well [except...

I've been musing about the whole area for a while, and admittedly have mostly been complaining about how things are. So it's time to put out some of the ideas I've been coming up with, and my justifications behind them.

1/ Change Shield Slam.

I like Shield Slam, I really do. But it doesn't feel quite...right. I mean being smashed in the face with a shield is awesome, but wouldn't it knock over an opponant?

Hense my idea is to give it Revenge's stun proc....

A lot's changed since I last Blogged.

I left my old guild to start a new one with a RL friend.
Gone from 1/14 to 7/14 [with a goodly amount of work done on Hodir] in 3 weeks.
Finally got recruitment [as of yesterday] to a point where we're going to be able to run Ulduar without PuGs.
Got a fair few upgrades over all my slots. Notably http://www.wowhead.com/?item=46174 and http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45112 today.

I'm feeling good about everything...