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I won my first arena game (2v2) against a resto druid/MS warrior team.



The druid disconnected.

Grats on your win Belfadin. I wonder though, had it been the warrior that dc'd it may have been quite longer fight.

Maybe long enough that the warrior could have reconnected =O

Just wanted to add that tonight was my first total clear of Kara =)

Very fun.

T5 shoulders Wed night and last night: guild's 1st Kael'thas kill in which i received the T5 chest.

So! I know it's not much, but I got to level 50 last night! Go me! First time I've ever had a character at 50. I'm rather proud of myself! Now I just have 20 more to go!

...to bad my game time ran out this morning. :( Not sure when I'll be able to reactivate it, lol.

OH, quick edit, just because this quote:



made me do some thinking.

You know, in the real world, tanks are long range masters. Hell, at extremely short ranges (think, MELEE range), they're actually sitting ducks. You get in close, you can get inside their minimum range, and then all it takes is a couple of well-placed explosives and the tank is dead. All that armor does is protects them from ranged small-arms.

So, in all honestly, TANK is an inappropriate term. Things like 'Damage Sponge' or 'Meat Shield' are more appropriate. We need to change our terminology. Maybe 'Aggro Magnet.'

This being said, wouldn't a Mage in light or medium armor be more like a tank? Massive firepower at range, and a decent ability to soak some minor ranged damage, but up close it's squished? Or maybe something like a Hunter (WoW-wise)... they can wear leather armor and use bows or firearms... Aren't they more like tanks?

Edited, Jun 23rd 2008 10:27am by TheRogueX

In Lineage II (and a few times in WoW) we used to call the priests and mages who would constantly draw aggro 'Paper Tanks.' In L2 though, if one person died during an endgame raid, it didn't necessarily lead to a wipe like it can WoW. Hell, the larger raids in that game could sometimes consist of 100-200 players. And most of them would die at least once, maybe twice, with the raid still being successful. WoW raids, on the other hand, seem to be much much different. I've read about some of them where a single death can lead to the wipe of the entire raid group, if it's not mitigated just right.

It's not quite that bad on most fights, only on Archimonde will one death cause an auto wipe (and even then you can occasionally get away with it, depending on the class who dies).

As for me, i've hit the ground running in S4, won 8 lost 1, I know 9 is an odd number but we stopped to buy our S4 chests and never got going again, now i've ended up retri specced and my partner is prot, oh well :). It is astonishing the gap in abilities there is between lower and higher rated players, we've taken on both since the ratings got reset, and its strange fighting tooth and nail to beat a lock/priest combo, then beating another without breaking a sweat right after. We had a right laugh taking on a double feral druid team, they took a while to kill but they didnt even get one of us to half health!

On the raid front my guild has made huge progress, since my last whinge on how hard gurtogg was, I killed RoS and Sharaz, then missed the illidari council kill (on the first night after sharaz, which is a mighty good effort). We had a night of tries on Illidan and got to P3 (might even have been the start of P4, all hell had broke loose but I think I saw him in demon form before I died) the tanks seem to have got S2 right now so hopefully we'll get him down shortly. On a personal level I got my second piece of T6 and am enjoying the lovely 5% crit bonus in both PvP and PvE.

My biggest paladin achievement is the bubble kill, AoE Grinding in WPL horde pally shows up and starts doing the same, right before he pulls I hit him with Avenger's Shield, run up judge SoR stun him and take him down in a couple shots after that. Mana up pull about 8 mobs the guy rezzes and attacks me.

I quickly turn around judge SoR and get a nice crit from it, I'm reaching 10% health so I bubble ALL 8 mobs bounce to him and roflpwn his *** :P

Ding 70! And now i have no idea what to do next....

Pardon the "double post", but it's been a few days, so editing just didn't feel right :P Think of it as a *bump*.

Finally was in a Kara run with people who felt comfortable doing Moroes with no CC, and man did I feel overpowered. I know the Shadow Priest and Ret Paly were 2 of his adds, but I really didn't pay attention to the other 2. Went off without a hitch too!

Yea, Kara may not be the difficulty it was as a fresh 70, but it's still an accomplishment nonetheless :) When you do something that doesn't challenge you, find a way to make it a challenge I say :D

Don't forget the endless instance runs for gear upgrades, and a bit later, the endless heroic runs for badges. ;)

And if you go tank, all the whispers asking if you can come and tank so and so instance. On my server it seems everyone has heard about imba pallytanks in 5-mans.

Cheers :)

Last night we got all the way up to Vashj in SSC. all other bosses in SSC are downe. VR from TK down. Rage from Hyjal is down.

this sunday we plan on farming SSO trash. hopefully i get my Shivering Felspine!

So far, Leo the Blind is an amazingly fun fight, and my personal favorite. we tried a quick attempt on Vashj last night so everyone can see first hand what phase 2 looks like . . . that is going to be a damn crazy fight. . .

Should we be doing more TK before Vashj? or is full clear SSC the standard before TK?