Analogies, yeah!

So many new players/tanks seem to have trouble understanding the tooltip for Taunt, that it's not effective if the mob is already attacking you.

Then I thought of it like healing: taunting when you already have aggro is like healing a person who's already at full health. They can't get any healthier!

You could even say it's like attacking a target that's already dead - it's not going to get any more dead!

I love warriors. And tanking. I love warrior tanking!

I was having a hard time deciding what I wanted to play into Cataclysm initially. However, I've been having a blast playing my warriors... yep, all three of them!

I love the versatility and capability that protection warriors have, and the fast, heavy hits that fury warriors land. I've never gotten into arms spec, though.

I could never understand when I read that some people have multiples of the same class... but I've been playing across a few servers recently, and I've wanted to play a warrior on every one of them! So it doesn't seem so strange now.

I'm still considering my priest or druid as well. Recently though I've been feeling a lack of flavour in my priest. If Blizz can make them a little more interesting in the expansion, I may stick with Kloude.

I've been enjoying healing on my druid as an alternative, and from the class previews a couple weeks ago, looks like they'll be more fun than ever. (I for one am in favour of resto druids losing tree form as a constant spell.) And Ilmarion has got to be the most attractive night elf male on his server.

Oh gosh, I've hijacked my own post. Warriors! They're fun.

Two Awesome Things!

Yesterday, as most of you will know, Blizzard released a new in-game pet to their online store. Normally I'm not one to jump at buying their pets; however... I love XT-002! He's such a cool boss idea, and when my boyfriend mentioned they'd finally released it, it didn't take me long to get into the queue. :)

But that's only awesome-thing-1. No, awesome-thing-2 is not the new mount (though it is very pretty, I did not buy it).

It's my new tanking shield!
It doesn't look all that magnificent, but I've been running regular Halls of Reflection FOREVER to get the Splintered Door of the Citadel (replacing the Royal Crest of Lordaeron).

I've been in tons of groups where healers and dps left the group after the shield didn't drop, because that's all they were there for. It's all I was there for, but I never had the intention of leaving the whole group behind because the RNG wasn't going my way.

I even saw it drop once, but the dps warrior outrolled me for it because he "tanks for his guild". That was frustrating.

And today seemed like any other day. Another group with a potential shield-rolling participant. However, on the 6th pull, the death knight randomly drops out mid-fight, then the healer followed suit. I thought it strange since everything was going well. It lead to a wipe on the 7th, and after waiting in the replacement queue for a few minutes, the remaining dps left too.

But one of my friends had just joined the group to come heal, and then my boyfriend said he'd bring his super-dps pally. I thought, this is great! Lots of potential competition is being eliminated. We waited around for a bit, but the queue still wasn't bringing us any new party members.

So I thought, well... we could probably 3-man this. The guys were up for trying, and I was excited at the challenge. We got through pretty easily, and, you guessed it... my shield dropped! :D It was the best HoR ever.

Knockbacks + tanking = BAD

I hate Typhoon.

Glyph of Typhoon should be a requirement for PvE Boomkins.

That is all.