An attempt at a hopeful tanking blog, as written by a warrior tank who is just starting the path to Ulduar, with looks into the past, into the present, and plans for the future, as a place those who are walking the same path can go to learn from the experiences of someone who came before them, and can inspire them to get through those all important levels that are so tough to get through alone.
Raiding finally
Posted 08-02-2009 at 09:50 AM by Karisita
Okay so I grabbed me some gear, got myself pimped out, my regular group's MT decided he likes his mage better, and while his tank may have outgeared me (full T7.5) his wife's pally tank was significantly under me. Ergo, I became MT. I'm still not raid leading, but it's a start... and in a few weeks, I will be RL of my very own naxx 10. Sure I'll have to pug like 6 or 7 positions. Sure we may not clear Maexxna, but we'll use it to grow our guild. We'll keep the best out of them, and toss the rest back like we're fishing.
My GL has never done progression content before.
I'm afraid she won't be able to handle the wipes.
But I've already told her, that I'm the RL, reguardless of her position in the guild, I'm going to be the one making the final call on who makes it to Naxx. And if she can't handle the wipes, she will find herself out of the raids until we've got it on farm. She knows it. She also knows that while there may be other RL's out there, none of them are in her guild. Noone in our little guild is willing to put in the time and effort to know every single fight in every single raid, noone else is willing to take responsibility for when things go wrong. Noone else is willing to make the tough decisions like cutting the 900 dps hunter before we enter our second wing, or inviting the pally tank only to boot him when we find out he's got 539 def.
So the short of it is she's not gonna remove me just because I won't let her run. Besides, the guild trusts me. If she removes me from RL it won't really change anything. Our guildies would still run with me because they trust me as an RL. Hell in our current group I'm not even RL and everyone knows it. But they still ask me if they can come. And unfortunately, since our regular group is with another guild, and that guild is no longer pugging spots, and it's just our main DPS, Healer, and I that are in the group not of their guild now, I have to keep telling them no, the guild has filled up their naxx runs, which is why I'm going to be starting our own in a few weeks.
So the path to raiding is done, I'm there... and with 541 def and 65% avoidance, 25000 armor, and 27000 health, the worst hit rating you've ever seen, and a brand new slayer of the lifeless. (finally fixed that little snafu with selling the Hammer of Quiet Mourning)
Now begins the path to Raid Leader... and guild progression.
My GL has never done progression content before.
I'm afraid she won't be able to handle the wipes.
But I've already told her, that I'm the RL, reguardless of her position in the guild, I'm going to be the one making the final call on who makes it to Naxx. And if she can't handle the wipes, she will find herself out of the raids until we've got it on farm. She knows it. She also knows that while there may be other RL's out there, none of them are in her guild. Noone in our little guild is willing to put in the time and effort to know every single fight in every single raid, noone else is willing to take responsibility for when things go wrong. Noone else is willing to make the tough decisions like cutting the 900 dps hunter before we enter our second wing, or inviting the pally tank only to boot him when we find out he's got 539 def.
So the short of it is she's not gonna remove me just because I won't let her run. Besides, the guild trusts me. If she removes me from RL it won't really change anything. Our guildies would still run with me because they trust me as an RL. Hell in our current group I'm not even RL and everyone knows it. But they still ask me if they can come. And unfortunately, since our regular group is with another guild, and that guild is no longer pugging spots, and it's just our main DPS, Healer, and I that are in the group not of their guild now, I have to keep telling them no, the guild has filled up their naxx runs, which is why I'm going to be starting our own in a few weeks.
So the path to raiding is done, I'm there... and with 541 def and 65% avoidance, 25000 armor, and 27000 health, the worst hit rating you've ever seen, and a brand new slayer of the lifeless. (finally fixed that little snafu with selling the Hammer of Quiet Mourning)
Now begins the path to Raid Leader... and guild progression.
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