So it’s been a few days, I’ve been busy with getting my gear in order for the new ICC wing: The Plagueworks.  Kind of looking forward for a chance at more emblems and of course more tier tokens, the boss fights seem easy enough… kind of disappointing.   I’ve been checking my gear with other top end feral tanks, and it seems like I’m starting to be respectable gear wise!  My biggest upgrades would be a new weapon and a new belt.  Well as luck would have it, Professor Putricide will possibly have the belt drop I need, Astrylians Sutured Cinch.  Though it’s not a huge stamina upgrade, it does boost my armor and Attack Power, which I am starting to notice scales nicely for Icecown.   Wish you all luck tomorrow!

So… for the first time since I’ve began tanking I’ve came across a problem.  The problem is my gear has too much Expertise.  I used to struggle to reach the 26 for not having any dodged attacks.  I found myself last week facing 54 expertise.  So I took off primal precision, leaving me at 44.  I guess it’s a good thing, for when I get the rest of the t10 set I’ll have the expertise which is needed, but for now.. It’s annoying.  Anyways, if you’re curious about my armory http://armorylite.com/us/lothar/ipse/ there you go.

Well I was finally waved in by my guild to participate in a Anub kill on togc.  Not really a complicated fight other than the fact you have to stack the groups for self healing and what not. Most of the time we go in there with a protection warrior (Block gear of course) and a Death knight tank.  It was a one shot on Anub, but we wiped on the twin valkyr’s for some reason.   There’s always next week! As the wait for new content to fill our raid week closes down on new dungeon releases.  This bear will wait patiently.

With the holidays surrounding the raiding times, my guilds been on a relax schedule. Sure some guilds take time off, but my Guildmaster gave us Christmas Eve off (Slave Driver!). We came back to our raiding night with a 25m ToGC run (49 Attempts) and our 10m ICC runs.

I’d like to think blizzard for being so nice to put rocket packs on my bear ass. It tickles the itch that’s been burning down there for a long long time

It makes me laugh to say the least. Anyways I love my guilds strategy on the Gunship (I’ll start posting strats after the hardmodes are released and we down them!).

Well it was a short night, take care!

So I got my internet up and running about 10pm Eastern on Dec 26th.  Figured it was time to have some fun.  Me and Raij (Awesome Warrior tank on my server, check the forums!)  decided to do some random heroics with the lfg system, with a twist!  We went in there with dual tank spec’s and chain pulled pretty much any place we came across.  Here comes the story!

Queued up and the first place we got sent to was Heroic Azjol-Nerub, not really much of a chain pull paradise.  So I didn’t take any screen shots, we finished the place with about five minutes left on the dungeon cooldown timer, on to the next place!

Second queue gave me one of my favorite chain pull oriented dungeons, Heroic Halls of Lightning.  Raij was in dps gear with a tank spec and he also put vigilance on me (Sneaky SoB).

(the Bear saved the day)

Fast and easy clear of the instance, Raij was top damage dealer with me at a close second!

Figured there was enough time for another one, so we Queue, low and behold we get Heroic Forge of Souls, I put my dps gear on but keep the tanking spec and here we go!

But the group threw a wrench in our gears, the last boss… I guess we should have asked if people have done the place before we pulled.  One wipe, I went back to tank gear.

Finished the place with almost another wipe, the healer just wasn’t good .  Anyways, it is another fun way to do heroics for all you tanks out there.  Team work is key!

Twas the day after Christmas, and all through the house, not a byte was moving, not even a mouse….

Yep, I’ve been troubleshooting my internet troubles all day.  It’s quite annoying to say the least, anyways it seems to be back online for now.  While my net was down I read some other Blogs from druids across the lands, I came across a astonishing article over at wow.com talking about the “polite” way to suggest advice to people.

My take on it.

I’ve kicked a few members out of my groups from the new LFG system, 71 points into the blood talent tree, does not equal a death knight.  Sorry I am not there to carry you to get your gear, at least research your class and understand the basics.  I can understand poor gear (I don’t kick for that), but lack of care on a characters behalf will get no remorse from me.   Before the LFG tool came out PUG was a naughty word in my guild, but I puged Naxx and other random things all the time, because I feel that it is a great way to meet people and interact with the server community.    Most of my server would probably put me in the elitist category, I use abusive language towards people who are bad at what they’re trying to do.  I did a 10m Naxx a while ago, and had the holy paladin decide to stand on me during Kel’thuzad.  He got a screen full of yells / raid messages telling him how “cool” he was.

If people want to better themselves, then I help them, I don’t offer advice when it’s not wanted.

Anyways, the New Year approaches, Enjoy!

I’ve recruited some great help, Raij of Lothar is helping me set the forums up and we’re putting a webpage together to suit all the needs of the PvE community. I’d like to thank Ascent of Lothar as well for providing some graphical experience and making the banner for the blog. Basically we are off to a strong start, stay turned!

Oh, on another website related topic, check the forums out.. www.faildruid.com/forums

So, I grew tired of not having a specific feral reference to go to on the internet and discuss min/maxing or talent builds around druid tanking. So the website is born. It won’t only house a collection of my opinions on feral, but it will also be a place to gather information on the strategies me and my guild use, guides for random things, and more…. like watching me troll trade chat about how druids cannot tank and the what not.