I know I still owe a tanking article, but I, like very other blogger out there, have to say a few things about the new patch…
The new LFG system? Love and hate it. If you’re a tank or healer, you’ll get queued lightning quick. DPS take longer—in some cases a lot longer. However, I do love the idea of actually getting Anake into stuff, and now that’s a much more likely possibility. I’ve also discovered that there is a whole new herd of noobs out there. I don’t know what it is about this patch, but some tanks and healers seem to have taken leave of their senses. I’ve seen pallies with 22k health trying to tank heroic Forge of Souls! I’ve seen healers in quest blues and greens, who had to have just gotten their letter from Rhonin, trying to heal the new instances on heroic. The nice thing about instancing across battlegroups is a wider range of people to work with. However, all their noobs are now our noobs, and vice versa. I want my old noobs back. I understood them, and could whisper them with help and hints on strategies, and could see them when they needed help getting back to an instance. I can’t make new friends in instances anymore. Instancing has become very impersonal, and that saddens me.
The new instances? Forge of Souls is more like what we’re used to. We’ve tank n’ spanked our way through heroic on that one, no worries. Crowd control is back, baby, and in a big way in Pit of Saron. Overall I like the new 5-mans, except for Halls of Reflection. Those waves are murder for pretty much anyone but a pally. Blizz is still hitting the pally love really hard, but hey, it’s a bunch of undead, so it’s right up their alley. But I AM glad to see mages sheeping and priests shackling again. I missed the artistry of crowd control from BC.
Any raiding? With ToC reg on farm in 10 and 25, and heroic modes too nasty for us, Band of Misfits hit Icecrown Citadel this weekend. We’re 4/4 on 10-man, and 1/4 on 25. I got a cool tanking ring, but due to a bug with the airship, I don’t have it yet. A ticket was sent in, which should be answered soon®. I like the new raid. Most of the fights are stationary, so I could really get going with my kitty DPS. It’s SO exciting to be in a raid that isn’t even fully unlocked yet, and to have cleared the whole thing!
What else is going on? Thanks to Pilgrim’s Bounty, Rov is now a 450 cook! He’s also rocking the cool kid’s pole from Kalu’aking off with the holiday’s rep buff. Seriously, that holiday could not have come along at a more opportune time for him. Next, I plan grind up my Hodir rep, send Rov a ton of money, and start handing out the shoulder chants. To me, that’s how you stay interested in WoW: have little goals to accomplish, like leveling fishing or farming for a mount. If you have a goal, you’ll stay interested outside of the raids as well as in them.
Once I put a little more polish on it, the CC article will be up. Until then, get in there and have fun!
