So....the past two weeks I've MT'd and led raids into TK. They are pretty much PuGs and represent a real mixed bag of gear, experience and ability levels. We have some solid tanking, a few strong healers and a handful of strong casters. Otherwise, its pretty brutal at times.

WTF am I doing? Well....a friend of mine decided she wanted to see TK before BC and being the social butterfly she is, she made a post on the forums of my old guild in the public section, putting feelers out....

Horacio

I've been kind of bored with WoW lately. I wasn't leveling my shaman, and I wasn't doing anything with my warrior except for raiding once a week (at most... ZA didn't go off last week). I've even become bored with Brewfest already. Then two things happened.

First, I respecced my shaman. I went Resto, and started healing instances. So easy, and yet so fun. As long as the tank is the only one taking damage, all I have to do is throw the occasional Healing Wave and keep Earth Shield...

Thireas

So after a couple weeks on the PTR I've:

• Collected Supremus' shoulders, Shadowmoon Insignia, Naj'entus bracers and FLK's neckpiece.
• Downed Lady Vashj
• Nearly killed Kael'thas with terrible pug(yay for 3 ret pallies running in together to melee Capernian).
• Cleared BT to Illidari Council where I MT'd Gathios until around 30% when my healers conked out and I dropped. I didn't miss one damn spell reflect!

Why is this special to me? Because they are all things I would not be able...

Hamburglar

Saturday was one of the most draining days in recent memory.

I had to get up early for an errand that was tiring... would rather not go into that.

Returning home from that, i got shanghai'd to tank a regular terrace that was an exercise in futility. I kicked recount over to healing done and the paladin's overall healing was 73% flash of light. No surprise, I ran up a huge repair bill as they kept letting me die. I've never seen delrissa wipes in normal mode before...

Alent

Just a very rough post to show that the gear is indeed out there to achieve 540 defense pre-Naxx.


1 Def skill @80 = 4.918498039 Def rating

Rating required for 540 Def (140 skill) = 689



77 Ley-Guardian's Legguards

76 Breastplate of the Solemn Council

71 Daunting Handguards

65 Seal of the Pantheon

61 Ground Tremor Helm

58 Sabatons of Draconic Vigor
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Armstrong