"How can you be a protection warrior at level one?" I hear you all asking. It's a matter of heart. Of drive. Of the mentality of a protection warrior.
Leveling from 1-70 while protection specced was a pain, but it allowed me to practice my tanking skills on the way to 70. I tanked everything from VC to Gnomer to BRD, on up through all of the Burning Crusade instances as I leveled through them. And now I find myself the warrior tank in my small guild of friends who is the best geared, and is one of the go-to guys when we do our ZA attempts.
Being prot at heart has its advantages.
Leveling from 1-70 while protection specced was a pain, but it allowed me to practice my tanking skills on the way to 70. I tanked everything from VC to Gnomer to BRD, on up through all of the Burning Crusade instances as I leveled through them. And now I find myself the warrior tank in my small guild of friends who is the best geared, and is one of the go-to guys when we do our ZA attempts.
Being prot at heart has its advantages.
Gruul Down!
Posted 07-20-2008 at 01:56 PM by Thireas
High King Maulgar: 4 tries
Gruul: 4 tries
We had some trouble on the HKM pull (go figure, our first time in). But once we got it, we were solid. We're generally very good at burning stuff down, and that helped a lot. There were a few people who were undergeared, but the overgearedness of other people made up for it.
Our first Gruul pull, we got him to 20%. Second pull, not so much... somebody accidentally pulled. Third pull, around 20%. Fourth pull, we got him with most of the raid dead. It was great. Honestly, I was feeling a little rage starved at some points during the Gruul fight.
We rocked it hard.
Here are some pics: The first one, we didn't get the screen cap before the corpse faded, so we took a pic of the horns. I'll post loot and such later.
Pics:
Gruul: 4 tries
We had some trouble on the HKM pull (go figure, our first time in). But once we got it, we were solid. We're generally very good at burning stuff down, and that helped a lot. There were a few people who were undergeared, but the overgearedness of other people made up for it.
Our first Gruul pull, we got him to 20%. Second pull, not so much... somebody accidentally pulled. Third pull, around 20%. Fourth pull, we got him with most of the raid dead. It was great. Honestly, I was feeling a little rage starved at some points during the Gruul fight.
We rocked it hard.
Here are some pics: The first one, we didn't get the screen cap before the corpse faded, so we took a pic of the horns. I'll post loot and such later.
Pics:
Total Comments 7
Comments
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Grats. Welcome to 25 mans.Posted 07-20-2008 at 02:50 PM by Alent
- Nice work...its nice to see you succeed after all the build up. Well done.Posted 07-20-2008 at 04:17 PM by Squeegiemama
- Well done.Posted 07-21-2008 at 08:42 AM by Orenus
- Congrats!Posted 07-21-2008 at 11:39 AM by Thist
- Thanks for the kind words, all!
Alent, I don't think 25 man raiding will be a regular thing. I can see us getting together one or two more of them, but probably not more than one every couple months (so, maybe three before the expansion, if that many). Maybe we'll attempt Mags... I'd like to kill him, after him bitching and moaning throughout Hellfire Citadel.Posted 07-22-2008 at 10:19 AM by Thireas - Mag is easier than gruul.
Posted 07-22-2008 at 10:50 AM by Alent - So I've heard!Posted 07-22-2008 at 10:51 AM by Thireas
