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"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.
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Missed Naxx

Posted 01-16-2009 at 12:14 PM by Thireas (Protcore!)

I showed up for Naxx, ready and rearin' to go. However, we had four tanks online looking to go in. So, we do our traditional /roll for a spot, and no luck for me.

But wait, we might have enough people online for a second raid! And it would be me and Garthin tanking side-by-side! Score! (He's the best-geared tank in the guild, one of our current raid leaders, and a friend of mine).

So, we put together a second group, and realize that we have exactly four people for that...
It's all in the ears
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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...
It's all in the ears
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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...
It's all in the ears
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Magtheridon Down

Posted 09-21-2008 at 02:51 PM by Thireas (Protcore!)

It took us three real tries. One of our PuGgers accidentally aggro'd before we were ready, so that was a fake try. The first real try, we got him down to 2% and I got crushed for 7.6k. It sucks, but it happens, I guess. I was spamming Shield Block as hard as I could, but I guess he slipped one through.

The second try, I picked up Mag when he released, and got no active healing. I had Earth Shield up, as well as a stack of Lifebloom, but that wasn't enough to take the 9k cleave....
It's all in the ears
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Magtheridion

Posted 09-15-2008 at 07:50 AM by Thireas (Protcore!)

So, apparently, there is less than a week left until the Mageroyal Syndicate takes on Magtheridion. It's kind of hard to tell, because there has been significantly less fanfare involved as compared to our Gruul run. Nobody's really talking about Mags, and there are only 10 or so signed up for the raid. Which, honestly, makes me wonder if it will go off.

Anyway, in preparation, I will likely be going about things in approximately the same manner as I did for Gruuls. Instead of an unstable...
It's all in the ears
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