TankSpot - Techniques

"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.

Techniques Discussion on techniques related to instancing

Sixty-Seven

Posted 09-03-2008 at 03:10 PM by Thireas (Protcore!)

I checked my WWS for last week's ZA run, and let's just say it wasn't pretty. My rotation was WAY off, and the number in the title of this post was a particularly bad number. I really can't even say what it represents, it's so embarrassing. I'll just let you guess.

Yes, this is a terrible post. No, I don't care.

Thireas

It's all in the ears

Posted in Instancing, Techniques, Good Form

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I'm a Terrible Tank

Posted 08-11-2008 at 03:10 PM by Thireas (Protcore!)
Updated 08-14-2008 at 01:05 PM by Thireas

... because I haven't been tanking. Altaholism has taken hold, and I've been playing my Shaman, Iaria almost exclusively. In fact, the only times I've logged into Thireas in the past week were to do dailies (starting the fund for Iaria's epic mount), and to farm Scarlet Monastery for [item]Scarlet Chestpiece[/item].

Otherwise, I've been leveling the shammy and doing battlegrounds to get some nice mail gear. And the WSG epic leather bracers, because they're better than the mail ones....

Thireas

It's all in the ears

Posted in Techniques, Instancing, Gear

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What I Learned from BFFB

Posted 07-22-2008 at 10:07 AM by Thireas (Protcore!)
Updated 07-22-2008 at 10:49 AM by Thireas

First off, a definition. BFFB stands for Blood Furnace First Boss, but it's also something of an interesting experiment in instancing style, and part of Qadash's gearing up process. It started of as this particular ret pally asking people if they wanted to do Blood Furnace. But who really wants to do Blood Furnace? The event before the second boss is terrible, and nobody really wants to do it if they don't have to. All he needed, though, was the [item]Libram of Avengement[/item] from the first boss....

Thireas

It's all in the ears

Posted in Instancing, Techniques

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The Pace Makes the Raid

Posted 06-30-2008 at 10:06 PM by Thireas (Protcore!)
Updated 07-07-2008 at 05:46 PM by Thireas

Tonight, the Mageroyal Syndicate did some Karazhan, and we rocked it all the way to Shade of Aran. Not bad for about 2.5 hours.

Attumen - one shot
Moroes - one shot
Maiden - one shot
Romulo and Julianne - one shot
Curator - one shot
Illhoof - one shot
Shade of Aran - one shot

Now, having two warrior tanks, instead of our usual combination of warrior and pally, made the AoE groups a pain. Mostly for the warlocks, Darzen and Jurus. And the mage, Zoonzonzil. They died a few...

Thireas

It's all in the ears

Posted in Instancing, Techniques

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Balls to the Wall: No CC, no boundaries

Posted 06-29-2008 at 04:58 AM by Thireas (Protcore!)
Updated 07-07-2008 at 05:47 PM by Thireas

Last night was the best one-third of heroic Blood Furnace that I've ever run. Why only one third? Because our guild's only ret pally, and a good RL friend of mine, needed a new libram, and the best one he can get drops off of the first boss in BF - but on heroic only. The group was as follows:

Me - the prot warrior
Qadash - everybody's favorite ret pally
Zigystardust - Shaman extraordinaire (currently enhancement)
Maevie - Doctorate in 1337 healz
Tryni - Stone-cold sexy enhancement

...

Thireas

It's all in the ears

Posted in Instancing, Techniques

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