TankSpot - Instancing

"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.

Instancing Related to raiding, heroics, Regular instances

The Chain and the Pain

Posted 01-14-2009 at 10:18 AM by Thireas (Protcore!)

I got my Chained Military Gorget before the start of invites for our guild's Naxx raid on Monday. The last four emblems I needed came from Heroic Utgarde Pinnacle, an instance that I had never run before, much less tanked - even on normal. For most of the fights, I had very little idea what was going on for the first few seconds, but it was fairly easy to catch on.

The first two bosses went smoothly, though for some reason I was unable to attack the first one for the first few seconds...

Thireas

It's all in the ears

Posted in Techniques, Instancing, Gear

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I'm Back

Posted 01-12-2009 at 02:45 PM by Thireas (Protcore!)

I'm back to my warrior. I'm back to tanking. And after a little gear, a slight change in spec, and an epiphany in terms of tanking trash, I'm good at it again.

The Gear
I got my Titansteel Shield Wall just as I hit 80. It was my only on-level epic for a while, and throughout the time when I was mostly just playing my shaman. Then I got my T7 Gloves from Obsidian Sanctuary (where I was a less-than-awesome off tank). After that, I blew a bunch of gold getting Tempered Titansteel Helm...

Thireas

It's all in the ears

Posted in Instancing, Gear

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Alas, Poor Macros...

Posted 01-02-2009 at 09:24 AM by Thireas (Protcore!)
Updated 01-02-2009 at 11:35 AM by Thireas

As we all know, nobody stance-dances anymore. It's gone out of style. Out of vogue. It's sooooo last year. While this makes life easier, it also reduces the number of macros that I use, which makes me a little sad, as I love macros.

There are two macros that I currently use, I'm going to be adding one more, and I should be adding two more at some point. That's a total of five, where I had much more than that pre-3.0.

The macros I still use from my previous post (linked...

Thireas

It's all in the ears

Posted in Instancing, Techniques, Interface

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ZA Cleared! ... twice

Posted 10-31-2008 at 08:55 PM by Thireas (Protcore!)
Updated 10-31-2008 at 09:01 PM by Thireas (Item links not working?)

Last night, I was in on my first-ever ZA clear. It was fairly easy, and we got three out of four chests, even with two wipes on eagle. It was my first time seeing Zul'jin, and it was a little crazy, especially the Dragonhawk phase. I get the feeling our DPS decided to ignore the threat wipe on that last phase change, as big ZJ was kind of just rampaging all over the place. We still downed him in one shot (just like all the other bosses, save for Eagle). I wasn't really surprised at how easy the...

Thireas

It's all in the ears

Posted in Instancing, Progression, Good Form

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Grats to the Mageroyal Syndicate

Posted 10-24-2008 at 08:30 AM by Thireas (Protcore!)

My guild cleared ZA last night, for the first time. I haven't had any word as to how long it took, or any loot that dropped, but we now have the screen shots in our ZA Mortuary thread on our forums.

Yeah, I was off having real-life fun at a concert. It kinda sucks that I wasn't there for the kills, but hey... I got to see one of my favorite bands for only $5.00

I can only hope that this doesn't kill all the enthusiasm for ZA, as I'd like another shot at Malacrass...

Thireas

It's all in the ears

Posted in Non-Tanking, Instancing, Progression

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