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Went to Kara for the first time yesterday... we did much, much better than I expected, since it was the first time for 6 of us.

Downed Attumen, one-shotted Moroes and Maiden, and downed Romeo and Juliet.

I got Moroes' Lucky Pocket Watch (yay!) and Libram of Repentance, which made me officially uncrushable! =D

monday i finally got Camila to 70. just need 100g more to get my flying mount. should only take an hour when i get to get back on. already at around 1350 AP and 25% crit, so i should be comfortable going to some heroics soon :) enjoying my ret so far.

My prot pally being a reroll, I didn't think I would go so far with her.

In fact, due to the lack of tanks in my guild (a raiding guild with few tanks who are leaders and don't play their tank outside of 25-men raids), I'm really often asked to tank. This becomes crazy as I've finished more heroic/raid quests (like nightbane summoning in Kara) than I did with my main (healing priest).

The first time I tanked the prince in Kara, I wasn't prepared (lol) and not very well geared, seeing me as an off-tank at that time. when I realised that no other tank was in the raid, it was too late, my guildies pushing me to tank him (lol). Hard time but I did it!

After that I got all the stuff from heroics badges, the T4 pieces from Kara, the blacksmith boots (from SSC plans), so this character has become a really solid tank, finally aoe tanking shattered halls in heroic as I once did in normal. Even a good friend playing a feral druid asked me to switch to this palatank in heroic shattered halls (I tryed to negociate to bring there a dps reroll but finally he gave up tanking lol).

I enjoy aoe tanking a lot, but maybe the new popularity of palatanks is beginning to be a problem for me!!! As a reroll, this tank is not allowed in 25-men raids, so her stuff is now caped, or may be should I try to bring her in ZA.

Kara rushes become really jokes with this kind of tank, as 5-men instances, skipping all crowd control strategies, trying to pull the maximum mobs possible to get a little mana regen via heals! lol.

Playing a healer as main and a tank a secondary character, I believe I will never manage to stuff my dps rerolls. People who know me always ask for my palatank when I'm on another char!

After all those months of low popularity, this new situation is mad!!! And I see a lot more palatanks everywhere... What will become of us in nexts patches? Blizzard used to design weak palatanks, and now I see why: when the palatank becomes solid enough for a fight, he becomes the most valuable tank among all, I believe.

Edited, Jan 3rd 2008 7:42am by egraynn

I just got enough Badges for this:

http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=33522;source=live

With that chest and my +6 stats enchant and gems I am now just over 14k health unbuffed, woo hoo! Also bumped me up 40 spell damage (1 socket I used a Glowing Nightseye) putting me at 286.

Well, figured this was a good place to drop my first official post. It is as follows:

I have a 63 Holy pally and was getting bored grinding, so I decided to run a couple BGs for fun. So I went into AV, and was basically spamming FoL the entire time, and Holy Lights when it was necessary. Easily outhealed anyone on our team, but Horde had a priest who smoked me in healing, but that's beside the point.

Anyways, I ran headlong into a 67 Rogue and a 66 Warrior. I dismounted after stunning the rogue (figured he was my biggest threat, as he was dagger specced). Anyways to keep this from a play by play, I kept the rogue out of stealth via consecration, and killed the Warrior pretty easily. Bubbled and healed, and at that point 3 of my teammates came down and we pretty much sodomized the Rogue something dirty. I had a few fights like that where I held off 2-3 people just healing through damage and playing smart (or so I would think was playing smart). We won that BG rather decisively.

On a bad note, ran up on two Elemental Shammies, and they both hit me with LBs at the exact same time, with Elemental Mastery up...I think we all know how that turned out.

Over last two weeks finally got a healing helm in the heroic badge one Helm of the steadfast champion and finally saw the helm of penance drop 3 out of 3 times since in heroic steam vaults.

My guild has started old world raiding. After killing Onyxia with 8 people and molten core with 13. We think we might need mre then the 12 we had for razorgore fight in bwl. But for Vaelastrasz the Corrupt we definitely did not have enough people as we kept losing people to the burning adrenaline and lost too much dps/healing early in the fight.

Been a good time for yours truly recently.

Got my Pally to Outlands- culture shock/ welcome to the jungle- little 58 prot boy getting spaggered by a goddam pig. Since Lvld a few times, so every now and again go and prove my dominance over the porcine ones :)

Also got my epic trit-trot- what a pain in the a*se that was- nearly crapped a brick when i saw the cost of arcanite. Oh, and 3 instances...next time I'm choosing a class that can just buy a damn cat :)

Downside/ QQ is I'm a smidge jealous- my 2 house mates work less hours than I do, so the shammies at 70 n the priest is at 65- I'm currently languishing at 61, but 70 will happen when it happens- then all we need is to find a newish guild n start the raiding learning curve...cant wait :)

congratulations. long overdue i'm sure :)

and you're right... no 2k heal should pull aggro of you at all... i don't know the formula though sorry. might double check that you have RF up and your healer doesn't.... its the only thing i can think of.

I had the same issues tanking for some friends in Scarlet Monastery. Running through mobs wouldn't even aggro the mobs for me at 70. So I would get to the nearest group consecrate with righteous fury and let my mob magnets body pull the next group into the consecration field. Seemed to work fairly well once they stopped using their ranged damage to pull the mobs to me.

About running rushes for lowbies... Recently, I've been surprised by aggro problems I nerver saw before. Trying to aggro all mobs at one time, running and body pulling, I saw some mobs running after me who decided, without any reason, to change their target and attack my low level friend. We tried to understand what happened, he didn't deal any damage, didn't heal or any thing except following me at a good distance. No reflective damage, coming from buffs, capacities or talents... This for sure makes rushes slower than expected, and we didn't find any explanation, concluding it was a bug.

Yahoo! Dinged 70 last night!

After an exodus of a number of lvl 70's, the guild thought we might not have enough properly geared players to hit Kara. Well, the other night we had a full group and managed to down all but Nightbane...and I missed it! Came on too late and ended up doing BGs. Damn RL obligations!

My friend had that shield for a while as the only instance loot that he ever got (and I kept having to hear him whine about it for ever)

That's good though, glad you are having fun. Don't worry about the instance tank loot, once you hit 70 there's a whole smörgåsbord of instances to get gear in.

And for tanking accomplishments, you can have the whole keg of rum mate.


Don't know how much is in that keg though.

Which piece?

nice, I like the T6 helm... makes you look much less like a robot.

Ooh, big grats on that :)

I'm so jealous...

just started Kara last night on Muralimohan. it was mostly a pug group, so not the best. we didn't have a priest or lock and it was about 2am so we died a couple times on moroes after killing attumen and called it a a night. still though, first time in Kara, so kinda cool.

Got my T4 shoulders off Maulgar last night, woot.

Had a few posts in here recently, but it's been a pretty good start to this year for my Paladin. Went into Grull's Lair this week and finally got my Tier 4 Leggings, woot! That makes 3/5 now. Still waiting for my damn helm token to drop when I'm there on the right toon. Prince has dropped the Paladin token every time I've been there, with my Lock >.< Then I get the Lock token when my Paladin is there ...

Also had one of the most gut-wrenching fights of my life this week, and of all bosses, it was Prince. We had a couple bad abyssal drops, and our DPS being mostly melee, were hurting pretty bad. But, we sucked it up and just healed through the best we could. After phase 2 ended we started losing DPS till we were finally at around 10% with only myself, our main healer, and 2 caster DPS left (Mage and Elemental Shaman). At roughly 8% the 2 DPS went oom, so I started letting go with everything I had, even setting fly a few Hammers of Wrath where I could find an opening. Luckily my healer was a Paladin, so he had plenty of mana, and slowly I dwindled Prince's health down with the Mage wanding and the Shaman casting as often as mana regen would allow.

That was the longest 8% of a fight ever, and I blew everything I could, but we killed him! By god, if there was ever a time to have been recording a boss fight, that would have been it. Too bad I wasn't :(

Recently started playin my pally again. (Kuresta on BDF) Currently holy but i want to go prot sooooo bad, lol. just can't figure out how to get decent gear. Got my Ornamented Veng chest and broke 10k hp 10k mana 15k armor unbuffed. Trying to heal in kara and pick up tanking gear from there. Still waiting for a kara healing mace to drop, lol after uncountable attempts neither mace has dropped for me. so here I am healing TK and SSC with my Essence Focuser :( oh well anyone have any better ideas to get tank gear that heal stuff and ask to roll on those drops?

Edited, Jan 19th 2008 9:21pm by Kuresta

um, can't really help w/ the tank gear, but if you're exalted w/ sha'tar you can easily replace your essence focuser w/ the mace from sha'tar rep. might be more appropriate to your progression.... or the mace from heroic SL.

its coming along. i'm actually pretty close to ready to put it up for advice. its just been slow going because our trining schedule has been pretty intense.... hence the reason most of my posts are from my phone like this one... i'll put up what i have later today (might be our first short day :-D) and see what you guys think i might improve.

My guilds done quite a bit of raiding this week, We downed gruul with eaze, and then the group im in for kara cleared it in 1 night, and then we entered ZA and did 3 of the bosses, missed the last 2 and dragonhawk, and we are going to attempt mag tonight, and ive gotten quite a few of healing pieces in the past week, around 6.

Well the chest you can get from Mech is better than the chest from aldor. I would shop around a little, check out thels' guide and see where you can get the defense from other places. The trinket from SLabs is a good start.

Honestly, your best bet is to just get your reputation to revered before touching heroics with all the factions. Odds are you will get most of the regular gear you need and it should definitely put you on the right path.