it takes getting used to.. i went from human dps mage at wow start to horde belf pally uber tank supreme now. Though yeah its annoying in some fights where you have to kite the boss, like globby. Or, lol you snag something or back into a wall. Most trouble ive had so far is H UP on that damn dragon rider. We heh.. we start it then run back into the hallway and wait. Kill till we get enough harpoons then run back to the wall from the last boss and reset. Then i get all HoT up and run in with my bubble active pulling everything to the end. Then just hit my ground aoe and holy wrath when its up. Holds them all in the far end room till the boss drops down. Like i said .. having an endless mana pool helps.

I wouldn't trade my tank job for anything. My only other toon i really play anymore is my shadow priest. and that in itself is a sad joke. Vamp touch sw: pain mind blast gets my mana coming back and a mind flay .. mob is dead. Just very boring.

I've started getting into some endgame tanking with my death knight and I just switched from unholy to frost. I have never been so happy with making a switch change in the entire history of playing this game. Frost has by far the most fun mechanics I have played with in a long time. Huge frost strikes, free howling blasts, obliterate crits. Wow, it's unbelievably fun. I thought I'd be a dedicated unholy dk for sure, but I've certainly been proved wrong. I think my long term single target dps is probably a bit lower, but I wouldn't trade my snap aggro and group abilities for it for a second. Also, my DK's name is Frostbite, so it's somewhat more appropriate.

I think maybe getting death's bite helped, too! Mmmmmmmm....

I think I hit the crit cap.. 109.97% :) I still can't top dps on Loatheb :(
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The spore adds crit that's cheating :)

Guess what I got last night...

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Nice Hal, Congrats. I'm so far away from getting that achievement. LoL, You beat the Hunter on Damage...

holy crap! so many new things to learn. I dropped it in June 2008 and so much has changed. I also deleted my character and wanted to see if Blizzard would give it back to me. so I can start leveling at 70 instead of 55. for some reason on my account, the highest level I have is 26, but it still let me build a death knight. so that is cool. maybe my deleted toon was still "attached" to my account? who knows.

all I know is that DK's are fun to play, though I would like to see if they can get my Lock back.

fun times.

Ret pallies do huge dps

Oh ya and grats Hal I half way there :p being a casual raider sucks at times.

You can start a DK on any server you want now...I kinda hate it but at least I can play on a friends server as a horde DK, lvling from 1 is slow.

I am looking at some of these screen shots and an liking the layouts of the addons. who is using what addons for the actionbar setups? I am curious.

I'm using Bartender. It does pretty much anything you need it to.

I dinged 80 yesterday morning while questing in the Storm Peaks. 79-80 was a slog through the Fleshwerks in Icecrown and the questline around Brunnhildar Village in Storm Peaks. Gotta say the Drakkensryd quest had to be one of the coolest quests I've done.

Now I can take a break and focus on my cooking and fishing achievements.

Drakkensryd is WAY better as a melee class. I hated doing it on my hunter, but it was gloriously awesome on my deathknight.

you can shoot the mobs from your dragon and get them low enough to just harpoon over and melee once or twice...at least so says my hunter friend.

It wasn't that bad with the warlock. I can take a beating, but I didn't have to--I just feared them, dotted them up, and typically managed 1-2 shadow bolts before the fear either ran out due to damage or time. That was usually enough to kill them.

I find 70-77 to be a long grind once I get my epic flyer's back I lvl fast, Got my rogue to 77 last night so it will not be long till she is 77 and I can start back on my shaman which I parked because my rogue is my miner, Need to fund another epic flyer (number 4) I hate to go slow once you get the taste of fast you can't go back :P

So right now is stands:
lvl 80 Human Mage
lvl 80 Human Warrior
lvl 77 Human Rogue
lvl 73 Draenei Shaman
lvl 71 Draenei Death Knight

(ya I know I got to many toons, not much else to do when your laid off for the winter)

We've been working hard to get the Glory of the raider achievements done in normal and heroic modes. We got the Undying tonight in 10man naxx and 3 drake Sarth last Tuesday. I'm hoping we can pull it out before they remove the rewards. There's still a few tough achievements to get though so who knows.

nice mount Halx.

I finally got to 25 Naxx last night and did the 4 horsemen. I was actually about to start a BT run for the final 2 bosses, but got called in by some friends. It was a fun run. I forgot how much I like fighting the larger instances in larger groups. Wiped about 4 times total... but it was still a good run. Slowly gearing up into purples.

They taking the OS and maly ones out also?

We got are first blue drake from 10 man maly last week, are guild has no luck in mounts dropping, kaels never dropped in TK and we downed him a lot. We are still working hard on 3 drakes just got 2 drakes down, not bad for a casual guild.

Theyre not taking any ACHIEVEMENTS out; they're just taking the proto-drake mount AWARDS out from Glory of the Raider and Heroic: Glory of the Raider.

I think it'd be better if they left them in but made them 280 speed instead.

Oh I'm so far away from both of those :(

I haven't been playing my mage a lot, all I do is the cooking daily and raid.

I completely agree. These achievements are two of the hardest PVE achievements in the game and removing the rewards takes away any incentive to complete them. I definitely think they should put in new drakes, with the same model if necessary, at 280% speed to match the speed of the time-lost, blue, green or red protodrakes. Even after 3.1 they'll still be more rare than the other proto-drakes.

got my lvl 70 lock back. I had no clothes, no bags, no money!

wtc was taht about haha. time to grind..

I grinded my way to about 100g and then bought green lvl 70 gear. now time to quest in the new places.

wow. locks (even with crappy gear.) are still awesome.

Sounds like you got hacked.

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I've love to have one of these in game, but it looks like you can have one in real life too!

I hate, hate, hate tailoring but I confess that I recently thought about taking it up as a profession again, just to get a flying carpet.

Working my way up the gear charts... I'm finally up to 1365 and I hope to get up to 1400+ before the end of the weekend.

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I've considered picking up tailoring on this character just to have the flying carpet. Once I get closer to the 100 mounts achievement I might actually do it. I'm still about 30 mounts away at the moment though. :)

So we were on Kel'thazud this week and working on the Immortal Achievement for no deaths. About 60% he MCs and does the threat wipe. Our tank taunted as fast as he could but Kel got off a frost bolt that smacked me for 33k. I heard my threat meter warn me about threat and before I had time to Feign death I was a goner.. sigh.. At least I wasn't the only one that died, but being the first has pretty much made me a target for the jokes :)

The only thing that really sells as a tailor is the special cloth like Ebonweave.

I am the best geared Protection Paladin on Silvermoon :)

awesome! yeah i'm at 1407 today :) still have more gear to get! which toon is this one? halarkin i thougth was the druid

Nice, you are #96 overall on the server...
I'm #71.. :)

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Damned page hasn't updated with my new stuff.. :(

#173...ouch

still need a couple of things but are 25-man naxx and OS have not been dropping the mage T7 items

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I moved my druid to another server to raid way back in the original Naxx days. That was when Silvermoon only had one good guild, Ilterendi. I rolled a Pally of the same name because I was bored. And here I am.

Apparently it doesn't mean much to be the best geared bm hunter anymore these days, because....I still have a lot I need to pick up.

I guess the new hunter spec is survival I hate it, but I got other alts to have fun with :)

yeah i think i have to succumb and respec from MM. It's just not working for raids

Raiding tips for newbs
 

I think I need to start raiding soon, as I'm getting high up in levels, which means questing and smaller instances will be limited.

I've never done a raid.

Other than 5-man instances and questing, I've done a couple battlegrounds: Arathi Basin and Alterac Valley. But only once or twice each. It was confusing with all the people running around. There was no organization that I could see.

I think I'd like to start with one of the 10-person raids and see how it goes. I understand that pickup games are difficult to run with 25+ raids with the lack of organization.

Any help/tips, etc., in regard to finding raids, starting raids, or running them would be awesome.

I'm a level 73 holy priest, and it's my first character. I'm currently working on Northrend quests/instances.

I find that the 25 man raids like VoA after wintergrasp and 25 OS are pretty simple and easy for beginners. They are good primers to get you started and comfortable with many people. The 10 mans are simpler, but you have to be better because you have to pull your DPS/healing weight.

A friend that hates raiding was surprised that 10/25 man VOA was over in 20 minutes.

First of all, you should/can only raid when you've reached max level. Raiding lower level content is a waste of time because you'll out-level the gear you get in a day.

Second, raiding is part knowledge, part coordination. Whatever role you play, make sure you know how to play it. Then make sure you know what to do in each situation.

Third, make sure you have the time to raid. Nobody wants someone who will only raid once every few weeks. Nobody wants someone who doesn't spend any effort preparing for it. Its a team game, so you gotta uphold your end of the bargain

All good advice so far. Thanks.

What's a good raid schedule? Once a week okay? What's normal? What's acceptable?