The Egotistical Priest
An irreverent and opinionated discussion of the many classes
in the World of Warcraft gaming universe.
My Mistress…
by Zasp
I hate to admit it but I’ve been cheating on my Rogue… Yep. Cheating.
I know, I know, “but Zasp aren’t Rogues your favorite?”.
Well If this keeps up it’s going to be hard to make that claim. Maybe I’m spoiled by playing with the rest of the Ego team, but I’d like to hope there’s other players out there that would just make our jaws drop in awe at how awesome they are. A couple have come close, but unless I haven’t been part of the conversation, no one’s made us go “ooooh!”.
I’m sure very few tanks have ever been yelled at (by the healer no less!) for not pulling enough mobs in an instance. I know I never did when I played a healer, it meant I got to slack off a bit. Take it easy. Well with Ego at the healing helm, if she’s not healing she’s yelling “More mobs!”.
My little Prot Paladin, Nyisa, is starting to grow on me more and more. And I’m starting to look forward to playing the Paladin more than the Rogue. Not a good sign. It usually means the old main goes completely back burner, save to make money to support the new main. I haven’t reached that point yet but to be completely honest its damn near close.
The scary part? She is only level 55.
That’s 15 levels of things I’ve still yet to experience as a tank. I look forward to the day where I’m level 70 and we are seeing just how quick we can do an instance, with as much chain pulling as Ego can handle. While I would love to get into the position where I could someday raid on Nyisa, I sadly do not see that happening. Starting over this late in the game isn’t going to be an easy task, when it comes to finding a home that happens to need a tank. Or even create a home where people could come to raid, as I am far too selective in who I’d want to run with.
Don’t get me wrong, I do loves me some 5 mans and I look forward to seeing them from the final perspective the game has to offer.
Every time I throw my Avenger’s Shield, I giggle. Every time it misses and looks like its flying clear across the room, I panic just a little, because I fear the next four pulls are coming instead of the two or three I wanted.
My eyes still need training in noticing when someone has pulled aggro in melee range. With a caster it’s a bit more noticeable of course, as the mob will peel off and what not.
As it stands, I’m pretty much learning this game all over again. Being at the 3 years and 6 months mark, its breathing new life into it. While maybe I didn’t need it. It’s got me re-hooked and that I enjoy logging in after all this time is a rather impressive fact, I’d like to think.
So as my Paladin starts to hit outland instances expect to see some posts of me “oohing and awing” of how much fun I’m having. Maybe even some theorycrafting, maybe it be waxing over how to generate even more threat for my DPS. Because I know how much it sucks to be limited by the tank when you shouldn’t be.
P.S - Blizzard please fix the low level plate on female toons, I don’t look like I should be tanking anything in my current gear. See the example screenshot below:
May 28th, 2008
@Zasp
I can’t believe you’re swapping your main after I went to all that trouble for your avatar and sidebar image.
*sniff* Rogues. They got no gratitude, I tells ya.
*winks* In truth, I’m super-happy you’re enjoying the pally so much. I’m liking my little not-a-druid healer too!
May 28th, 2008
Yeah it happens. Currently I’m at least more focused on working on my druid alt then I am my hunter. Though I wouldn’t say it’s to the point where I enjoy playing one more then the other. It’s more of a I can’t help level leatherworking with my hunter because he isn’t a skinner.
I’m not sure I see what your problem is with tanking in that gear. I mean just because your belly is exposed doesn’t mean your opponents will try to hit there. If it really bothers you get a tabard and make it seem like you have more full covering.
May 28th, 2008
Yeah, Nyisa’s hooves do looks a little exposed …
May 28th, 2008
@Sonvar
Short of attaining more gear for Zasp, which I honestly could care less about, as purples don’t make the game for me theres not much left on him to do, short of attempting to experience more of Black Temple(Never made it past Akama in my old guild/server) and Sunwell. Both of which I don’t count on happening, as I’m only a silly Rogue. But it is nice for all your characters kind of fuse together like that when it helps both of your toons out instead of just one, at least I think.
Ya but a certain Elemental Shaman “forbids” me wearing a tabard, and I still don’t care that I look more of some kind of dancer then a tank. I guess thats what I get for thinking Female Draeneis have better animations then the males do. Oh how I wait for level 70 tanking gear.
@Ratshag
That they do… That they do…
May 28th, 2008
You’re not alone. I’ve all but abandoned my long-suffering rogue in favour of the warrior I started about the same time I made my rogue. Fury warriors are not so much DPS machines as they are lawnmowers, mowing down everything in their path. I just dinged 70 last night. Then I saw what T7 was going to look like for rogues and that sealed it. I’m a warrior now, a full-on tank with all that entails.
You’re right about the female draenei looking better, though…
May 28th, 2008
Zanikke is my latest 70, female draenei paladin tank. I love her so much. We ran heroic ramparts in 25min yesterday, and she’s MTed a 3hr Karathon already. All this with <10d at 70. Badge gear really helps and as a tank I basically snap my fingers for heroics.
I like that paladins have a viable tank/threat tradeoff to make. If you’re low on threat, just start stacking +dmg consumables. The scaling is so powerful food+oil make a big difference, and they’re cheap as chips.
I also like being able to eat crisps and tank. That’s just not possible with a warrior.
And well, female draenei is the best model ingame imho. Sexy hooves, cute little handlebars and a tail to sashay!
I rerolled warlock from mage fairly recently. She’s great, she just killed Archi and we’re going to Gertie soon. It’s funny though, in a way she’s so totally imba it’s less fun. And Zan has really brought the fun back to tanking for me. I used to say that warriors were better at patching up bad pulls, but in 5man at least, I can’t agree any more.
May 28th, 2008
I reach that conclusion with all my toons. They all get to the point where I say… I think you are done for a while. I have a 70 lock that I love… but he feels done. Could he get better gear… sure… Do I care right now… nope. My paladin is even worse… he is rocking the 70 pvp blue… do I care… nope… I bring him out to have fun and tank the low stuff for friends lol.
I think I would forbid the use of a tabard as well… it would um….. umm… just get int he way
May 29th, 2008
Porphyrria would have been around… the 30s perhaps, when the dreaded chain mail bikini dropped. At the same time as the chain mail thong. They were pretty big upgrades, but I just couldn’t stomach wearing them (same thing as never wearing those damn cowboy hot-pants my druid got.)
In the end, I reached a compromise by wearing a guild tabard. Sometimes, I take the tabard off to look at what I’m wearing underneath. The tabard goes back on pretty damn fast…
(It’s odd; I don’t RP at all, but I just know Por wouldn’t be impressed if I took away her precious tabard…)
May 29th, 2008
Have fun tanking.
I have switched mains shortly before the burning crusade. Abandoning my restoration druid and starting a holy priest. But a few months into BC, I started leveling my druid to 70 and specced feral for it. It has been a very fun experience to tank for the first time.
Right now I’m bent on leveling all possible classes to 70. I don’t think I will make it till WotLK hits us, but it’s very entertaining and refreshing to switch perspectives. ^^
May 29th, 2008
Tanking is an absolute thrill, though I haven’t gotten far in it myself. And even though I rolled a rogue myself to learn the class, I dropped it in favor of other alts. So tank on, friend, tank on!
I’d like to point out that I’m a healer that usually asks for MOAR MOBS when in groups. Sometimes I find myself bored out of my mind when healing instances and I enjoy the more frenetic pace and the challenge that comes when an UT-OH! occurs and we get two or even three packs all of a sudden.
Concerning the gear for females? When I rolled my priestess I thought that I was immune to the Heavy Metal chick outfits that many of my burlier cohorts were wearing — barring a few Princess Leia-esque outfits and Black Mageweave. And, having seen a fellow (male) priest run around with the Robes of Heavenly purpose, I wasn’t prepared for what I saw when I finally snagged my own pair a few months back. I remember looking at her and asking on Vent, “Woah, where the hell did those come from?”
May 29th, 2008
I’ve got a 70 priest and a 70 hunter, and after playing both healing and dps I decided I’d roll a new toon that can tank. Thus my warrior was born. He’s only lvl 44 and spec’d Fury for leveling reasons, but the play style is so far different from either casting dps or hunter ranged dps. I actually get a huge kick out of it because I can run up to two or three mobs my level and destroy them all no problem. That’s something I could never do on my priest while questing, and while I could do it on my hunter, it came close sometimes. I’m really looking forward to tanking, which I plan to start when I hit Outlands. The old Azerothian dungeons are just too long.
June 1st, 2008
I’ve been there myself, finding new joy of the game playing/leveling another toon…but somehow I always come back to my main, it has too much history behind it
As a sidenote: your pala’s hot
June 6th, 2008
I rediscovered my prot pally around the time I got my first burnout on my lock. 20-some levels later, at 54, she’s the most fun I’ve had on WoW… possibly ever. And having an alt in a group role you’re not used to playing in can make you see instances and raids in a whole new way… I’ve kept my healadin a few levels above my protadin at all times so that while I am sitting back and healing I have time to make observations on how the mobs act and how to properly pull them. I didn’t have that sort of time on my warlock, as I was too busy dotting anything that moved. But while my healadin is the alt where I notice mob quirks, the tankadin is the alt where I apply my knowledge of those quirks, and learn still more things mostly related to group dynamics…. especially how big a pull a certain group can handle without the healer going oom or the mage suddenly thinking he can offtank or that AE spamming elites is a good idea.
As for your little protadin, I would suggest pugging at least occasionally, especially if, as you said, you want to eventually try to play endgame. The element of never knowing what you’re going to get in your group that you have in your average pug is, I’ve found, what helps prepare me for expecting the unexpected in raids more than anything else I could possibly do. Also, if you’re running with, say, a rogue, resto druid, warlock and mage every single time, how are you ever going to get a ballpark estimate down for how long you can ignore that hunter’s trap for your first time in Kara, or how much threat you have to generate to overcome the hate a shackled mob has for the priest?
Just my two cents.