Where's the Cloth??? And Leather???

So my guild ran Nazz 10 last night  for a few of us that have alts that are Naxx ready.  We did Spider, Plague and Military and the ONLY cloth drop happened on the 4 Horsemen.  Gown of Blaumeux dropped which is nice for my Shadow set, but dang, not a single healing upgrade.  And I can't even wear it yet because I'm not hit capped and it lowers my hit from what I have now.  

And on my Bear, I haven't seen a single leather drop in Ulduar yet.  Dang it!

Anyway, I'm going to be tanking Ulduar tonight on my Bear and finishing up Naxx tomorrow night. So I'm hoping for some upgrades!!

Tanking stuffs

So I have been working with a couple of new tanks recently, mainly because I'm playing my priest in heroics but I have a few things I would like to mention.  

Make sure your party knows the kill order and that it takes a few seconds for a warrior or a druid to get AOE threat on all the targets.  And if you are the tank, make sure you move and really piss off the ranged casters or rangers (think Nexus).  There is nothing worse than having those guys shoot the crap out of your healers in the back cause you didn't grab them well enough.  

If a target starts running toward someone else, use your taunt button, that is what it is there for.  Don't rely on running after the target, if it gets to your clothie before you get to it, you might be down one clothie.

If a pull or two goes haywire and you struggle to get control of everyone, understand Sh!t happens and learn from it.  Don't throw in the towel on tanking just because of a bad pull or two.  Understand, WE HAVE ALL HAD THEM.  

I know some people don't understand that tanking is more than just running in there and grabbing aggro, but it is.  You have to learn the ins and outs of all the instances better than anyone else in the group.  You have to know what mobs to kill first, what mobs to CC, and where to stand and where to move if you have to move.   

Tanking is about being prepared ahead of time and putting in the time to learn stuff to do it right.  My friends say I make it look easy, well, that is because I do the research and put in the time so that I know what to expect.  Plus I have tanked every single heroic in both WotLK and BC as well as raids and nothing prepares you better than practice!!

Ramblins

So things on my druid are going pretty well these days.  I am pretty happy with the state of bear tanking and cat dps.  I have now specced feral/feral and love it.  My wife however feels that I should keep all this tree gear in case I ever need to heal.  I'm a BEARCAT not a tree, I keep telling her.  I have run quite a few heroics lately on my Disc Priest alt and love it.  I even have been doing some shadow which is different.

Things have been sort of slow on the raiding front, but that is to be expected this time of year.  Everyone wants to go on vacation, or at least spend more time outside.  I can't blame them, I do too!!  We are even taking my mother to Scarborough Faire this weekend as a belated Mother's Day gift.  And of course that is the day my guild chooses to go into Ulduar 25 for the first time.  We have all been on 10 man, but this is the first 25 man we are trying and I'm not going to be there.  /cry

Ah, well, real life and mothers first!  And Lord knows, if Mother ain't happy, ain't nobody happy!! 

The Siege of the Antechamber....

So this past week saw my 10 man group take down the first 4 bosses on Thursday night and then we took down Iron Council, Kologarn and Auriaya yesterday.

Can I just say wow, they nerfed the crap out of the first 4 bosses.  We one shot Ignis and XT and didn't really have much issue with people going down.  I was cat the whole night since my buddy Gurggy the Mighty Warrior was there to tank.  We downed the first 4 bosses in less than 2 hours and called it a night.  It was a lot of fun!  And I am still running top on damage and still helping with innervates and rezzes.  But Sunday I get to tank again!!

Now on Iron Council, at first we had me on the middle and small guys but I just couldn't get the little guy to move so we switched it up.  We had the DK tank (Eximius) on those two while I took Steelbreaker.  He was a lot of fun to tank.  Just remember to call out those Fusion Punches and keep an eye on the ground below him.  I will also mention that if you position your camera correctly, you can see is animation for the Fusion Punch and it is easier to call out so you aren't just watching his cast bar.  Steelbreaker will raise his arm above his head and it gets this bright white glowing spark and that is when he is casting the Fusion Punch.  

Once he was down, I grabbed Molgeim and tanked him.  Make sure someone is dispelling his Shield of Runes and that you move him forward just enough to get him out of the Rune of Power he puts on the ground but stay close enough your melee can stand in it.  Also, when you see the Rune of Death, run!  Don't pass go, don't collect 200 dollars, just get out of there!!  Those hurt if they somehow get combined with him standing on his Rune of Power and hitting you!!  I was made into a bear rug.  /shiver

Then we moved on and wiped out Brundir, and he is pretty easy as long as you run from his Overload and when he hovers in the air, stay away from him while he wanders around the room.  He was really easy to kill if you watched those things!

After this we went to fight Kologarn.  Now, let me pass on something we didn't know ahead of time.  YOU CAN RUN OFF THE EDGE OF THE PLATFORM.  So if you are tanking him, don't run too close and fall off!  ;)  I'm not the one who discovered this but I was laughing way too hard when he said it in vent.   Other than that this guy is a pansy.  His adds he calls are a joke and easy to take down all by my bear self.  Just keep an eye out for his evil eye (laser beams!)

Now we moved on to Auriaya, who really wasn't bad either.  We cleared some trash and got her set up and Eximius pulled for me and I tanked her.  We just kept moving her around the corners so that when her Sentry respawned Eximius could take care of it quickly.  It went quite smoothly.

We then moved onto Hodir but we really didn't have time to try more than like 3 times since some folks needed to get going.  But I think that was a pretty good week!