Picture this:

You're on the phone with your real estate agent and he's telling you that the bank has accepted your contracted offer and that you become the proud owner of a mortgage, property taxes and an HOA on April 6.....as a less than helpful man is handing you a 1K$ repair bill for your broken down overheated car. = buzzkill.
After sitting in a tow truck (because 1K is the last straw with this car and the reason I will never buy domestic ever ever ever ever and the reason...

Have you ever gazed out at a field of beasts and said to yourself "Everything in this field is going to die?"

I have said this on my Hunter many times. I say it at the outset of going on a farming run. The professions my Hunter has, as well as the pet mechanic, make him a very self-sufficient character. I prefer self-sufficient characters and profession choices over the money-maker professions choices. In a given field of beasts I get 4 things-

Meat for buff...

I've been running H Bot alot recently. I want the tank staff. Dont ask me why, I just do. I dont want to farm the rep for Earthwarden, and we're not going into SSC to kill trash for me, so ya, I want it. It gives me something to do before wrath, and 5 badges, even now, is useful in its acquisition.

I PuGed it yesterday with some folks who, needless to say, outgear me. My druid still has 4 blues in her tank set. We had an elemental shammy in the group. I would be hard pressed to remember...

I do this to myself, and I do it all the time. I care too much, I suppose.

For the last 6 weeks at least, I have been in unguilded limbo. I have had a few opportunities to run kara as a sub for my friends guild, but my time has mostly been spent running dailies for my epic flyer (not even close and very burnt out on that subject) running heroics and leveling my feral druid. However, I havent run a heroic in 2 weeks at least, and have been doing partial daily runs at the max. I'm burnt...

Sure, we all like Deadmines and Stockades. There are incredibly cool quest chains, with those 2 instances being the cherrys on the top of them.

But lets face it, tanking them means little to nothing.

I went with my Feral Tank knowing this. I had another target, an official "Now I actually am a tank" instance, that I set my sights for, and have been focused on tanking it since level 1. It is my favorite instance, so naturally, tanking the whole place is an accomplishment...