Saturday, July 5, 2008

Vanilla Tanking

Ding! So me and the wife hit 16 and decided we're good enough to try out Ragefire Chasm. Now keep in mind I am an Alliance reroll, so am totally clueless about this lowbie instance, but I suspected it to be a breeze. Five minutes later using the LFG function and we have a few group ready to kick some major butt cheeks (never had a group form so quick, I love this server!). This will be a piece of p!ss I tell myself, how hard can it be. Then I realize I've not got my abilities macro'd to stances, and thats just the start of it. Doh!

Granted I am low level on his toon, so should have expected some bumps in the road, but after playing a 70 for so long, you forget how easy you actually have it. Body pulls for the whole run cause I have no arrows (just a silly bow for the + to 1 stat), charge doesn't generate enough rage to effectively use to then Thunderclap then jump to Defensive stance, so I just trot in like a sad little Tauren with my low 1h Axe skill, and finally the worst of it all, I'm sitting there for a clear 15 seconds, before I've built enough rage to sunder or Tclap. I mean seriously, I'm there doing my few swings, leveling my Axe skill hoping to dear god the Hunter's pet's growl is off, and wishing I had intervene to chase the loose mobs.

Ok it wasn't as bad as I'm making it out to be, yeah all I have said is true, but the run went smooth with no deaths, just a rude awakening to me of how fun this will be once again. Oh and who ever designed the pulls with 3 out of the 5 mobs to spam knockdown every 5 seconds... /rude

To quote Illidan "You are not prepared" and I wasn't. Time to get my macro's off Dakeyras...

- Ragnovar

Thursday, July 3, 2008

New Beginnings


After some new changes within my guild, and the lacking activity on Tortheldrin, my wife and I, after a bit of discussion, have decided to move on from our realm and guild to reroll to a new server. Leaving our numerous characters, alts and friends behind, we look to the future as we try out the other side of WoW as members of the Horde, as well as on a server with more than 40 people on at one time...

While I no longer will be playing Dakeyras, I will continue the blog following my steps as Ragnovar my Tauren Warrior (always wanted a Tauren tank! ... that and a raptor) and his gradual progression to 70, leveling as Protection spec along with my wife's new Paladin. I plan to continue following the tanking scene and my favorite blogs, and offer my 2 pence on various topics as well as recounting past adventures on my my first love, Dakeyras.

For those of you who are interested, we are moving to Spinebreaker, so if you find your self on that server, send me a shout on Ragnovar.

- Ragnovar