Protip: while using frontal cone AOE effects, such as Shockwave, beware mobs that are neutral but attackable.
PS. Adorevali dinged 70, slapped a cobalt armor set on. . .12.6k hp 10.4k armor. Time for UK? Maybe not so fast. . .
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Not so much, at least with the warrior. I made a few more toons to help out the guild. Pally tank with inscription, Enh shammy with Herb and skinning, and i even managed to xfer my old 70 hunter so i’m working on gearing up some lowbie leather/mail wearers with some stuff. I’m hoping to have a new post in tomorrow or the next day. I promise i didn’t forget about the blog!
Thats how i feel right now on my warrior project. Last time i did this was pre 4.0 and on a heavy pop server and it was so much easier. Glyphs were cheap(yeah I know back then you had to buy new ones to swap them out), I was only 44, “rotation” for tps was cake.
I know a lot of higher and more experience warriors are gonna laugh at me but this is what this blog is about. ME in MY experience leveling as prot and how it seems.
I honestly feel like I’m treading water with ankle weights on. Damage is so high at 51 I can hardly hold aggro, I have to scrape all my gold together to get upgrades from the overpriced AH on Dentarg, I’m a guild officer so I’m policing guild chat in our lowbie guild (oh that is a whole different post) while I’m trying to AOE tank BRD/ST runs with my minimal AOE skills due to the overpriced AH. . .
yes this is a whine post. . .
finally at 51 I was able to buy 2 more glyphs, so now I have Glyph of Cleaving, Glyph of Revenge, Glyph of Sunder Armor. Those were all I could afford, so now I waste more GCD’s on sunders on trash mobs just to try to hold aggro.
You wouldn’t believe how many groups I get kicked from because the ret pally just keeps pulling mobs off me, the healer switches to him, I get aggro back, healer can’t swap and I die. It just feels like the world is coming down on me and its all I can do to keep breathing. I know I’m taking this a little too personal but my goal was to go 15-80 doing LFD no matter what. I need some advice, I need some inspiration, I need SOMETHING, because the something I have right now just plain isn’t cutting it.
I thought I read up on warrior, I thought I knew what i was getting into. I was wrong. Maybe I’ll just start doing quests and take a breather from LFD. It breaks the rules I set down for myself but right now it’s either; break the rules, or stop tanking.
/end piss fit
I’ve taken a slight break from doing LFD. I know I know, i was supposed to only do LFD on this warrior project but it gets really boring mashing 2, shift2, 4, 3, OMG STOP PULLING!
lol. after getting past 40 I’m having better experiences with LFD but the same 5 mans over and over, ugh. I’ve decided to skill up my fishing/cooking and do some quests since I’m having an Achi point competition with a guildy. Oh and did i mention? I got promoted to OFFICER of my guild 
I’m stoked.
at 46 and 8/8 on plate. it was hard since Dentarg has a crap AH but between drops and random AH buys i have all plate.
oh and on the Achi point competition, i’m at 610 @ 46 and the pally is at 480 @ 65. He tries to make fun of me for being only 46 and i remind him a 46 has more points then he does. . .Like i said, its all friendly
So i was running SM GY and boom; something happens with the healer, I’m not sure, and i go down. Ret pally steps up AOEs and grabs all the mobs who had yest to go down which was about 4. Good job, now can i get a res?
Exact quote from the Ret pally, “Nah we don’t need him lets just keep pulling”
What? You’re not even gonna kick me? Just let me sit here on the floor?
How did the game get to this point? People forgetting simple common courtesy and becoming Jackwagons. I choose Jackwagons because i could use far more colorful language but then I’d be stooping to their level. Even in my randoms that i don’t get left on the floor i have mages pulling and tanking with their pets. I ask at the beginning of every run “Please let me get a thunderclap off before going nuts” no one listens. No one cares. Low levels are so easy now you can just coast through them with your eyes closed.
Losing motivation and I’m only at 36 on my warrior.
if i get gnomer one more time. . . .dunno what i’ll do
making me hate this hardcore
Adorevali @ 12
a few hours later. . . .
Adorevali @ 21
a few hours, a few beers, and more than i can count LFD runs. . .OMG let me get a Thunderclap off before you nuke/cut a mob in this grp
meh, you have done a random lowbie 5man, no need to hear me complain.
Issues:
1. after getting sunder and shield bash. . .keybinds, effed. no idea what to do, well i have some, still testing
2. Blood and Thunder is less awesome then i had expected
3. I was a dummy and messed up my own spec plan, need to respec. . .already /sigh
4. OMG I NEED MOAR AOE. people in randoms seem to think they can do a better job tanking than i can. . .one DM run a hunter “tanked” the whole run (please take growl off)
5. OMFG. . .wait that is now Thunderclap, not Rend. . .ah and this button is set to sunder. . .sorry my bad
6. I need a McDonalds drivethru window in my room. Crucial moments were wasted on my Mcnugget/DBLcheeseburger run (only run i did all night that didn’t gain xp)
So to conclude; I got a few sweet blues, i got the pumpkin head helm, i relearned a class i thought i knew, my keybindings are fubar, and clothies think they can tank.
all in all it was a good night
edit- Thanks to Kadomi @ tank like a girl. . .i’ve gotten more views in one day then i had before combined!
i rolled a new warrior on a trial account waiting for my main to get activated and i have to say nothing has changed too much from what i remember 1-20, good news.
at low levels Blood and Thunder is pretty nice for pulling groups and taking them down even while using a 2h in def stance. this i think was the main goal of the devs in giving prot warriors this talent. i’m not saying you should be 2h doing this but i found my survivability was fine so i forgot my shield. yes i lost shield slam but with Strike, thunderclap, and one point in Blood and thunder i was able to run through 2-3 groups easily.
this is a new perspective that i believe (to the best of my web knowledge) no one has explored yet. i might be restarting my warrior project LFD project from scratch, to help new warriors understand what the new changes mean to leveling a whole new toon on this spec. i got my warrior to 12. i have yet to see how this all pans out into low 5 mans. i hope to hit 15 and LFD sometime, well today since i couldn’t sleep and its 6am.
starting all over with only limited resources like a new player might has given me a new perspective. one warrior in my lowbie guild was actualy asking me for advice and he was 25. right now i’m too sleep deprived to even say who’s posts helped me give him advice. He was running a simple 131, 1111, spec. i explained the mechanic of B&T and had him laying down rends like it was his job.
well it is his job. shush, sleep, i need it.
back to my main point, i’m thinking of starting over, why not? all the other blogs talk about 80 spec and tanking but what about the guys trying to get into the prot tank game at 15-20? i owe it to them to apply my knowledge from higher levels pre 4.0 to lower levels post 4.0. we’ll see how this goes. sleeeeeeeep.
Well since my account was hacked I lost everything on Astaella and Fiocha but i was lucky enough to get gear added to Fiocha and some gold to start off my gear buying on Astaella. I should be unlocked in a few days and starting to get familiarized with the new system. At first all the changes to prot warriors made my head swim and had me worried, but, since I’m still a lowbie i think I’ll have plenty of time to experiment and figure stuff out.
Now ret paladining. . .I’m gonna have my work cut out for me.
I was getting really bored being at home all day with my bum hip and nothing to do (cleaning the house for the 5th time that week was almost happening) so i decided to DL the 10 day free trial of WoW and muck about to kill some time. Surprise surprise, i got the itch back and decided to upgrade since my last 2 accounts were hacked and dead to me. I tried a few times to get them back but the blizz people i talked to just couldn’t seem to help. So i get on the phone and get my place in line. About an hour later i get my call back and its my turn to talk to someone, YAY! well i got to talking with Brad and he decided to check on my old accounts. Turns out he CAN help me! Oh Fiocha, i don’t need to restart you. And Astaella my LFD only prot warrior project, i missed you so! So in conclusion i have both my old accounts back, authenticators on the way, and something to blog about again! Azgalor and LFD tool here i come.
Oh no, i don’t have any addons. . .$%&#!!!!
