I read an artical recently on the most difficult fights to heal (I think Matticus wrote it) and got me to thinking what were the most difficult fights to tank that I have run across.

I've tanked most content since BC except for Sunwell. In Vanilla I was a hunter as I have previously mentioned, so I don't have the background to talk about tanking difficulty back then. But in the time I have tanked, I've run across 3 main types of tanking skill levels for bosses.

Level...

So there's a fun topic over on the healing forums about pet peeves. One of the ones that come up frequently is the "dps asking for heals" peeve, and trust me, as a healer, that is a huge annoyance, and can actually be a negative impact to your raid!

Let me start with a little analogy. A raid is like taking a car drive where everyone brings one thing. The tank is like the driver that brings the car. They are in control of the fight. Their gear determines how well the fight...

As a player from Vanilla, I still have a certain reverance for Epics that many newer players may not feel. Epics are passed out now and everyone can be fully decked out in them (although not the best ones) with minimal effort. But back in the days of 40 man raiding, Epics were impressive. Epics made you inspect people around you in major cities to gawk at their powerful gear while you sat there in your green/blue mix.

Because of this reverance, I have very fond memorys of my first...

Let me preface this a bit first: I'm a 10-man strict raider. So I'll be looking at this in terms of gear available to me rather than all gear currently available in the game. So this will help any 10man cats or bears who don't get to build their cat set out of 25man ToGC heroic mode.

New Heroic Loot

Needle-Encrusted Scorpion - For those of us too unlucky to get a http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45931 or http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40256 this will be a new 2nd trinket....

So, I've not really been around tank spot the last few months. I've been trying to take a break from WoW and I thought the best way was to stay away from anything that reminded me of it or tempted me to play. I've been doing pretty good, before when I played it was because I felt I needed to now I play for a couple hours (usually the max) then turn it off and do something else.

The decision to quit really couldn't have come at a worse time, I had just server transferred and faction...