The Angry Raider

Seems like forever ago that Alamo posted his “SUM DURIDS R BARE” schtick on the official WoW forums. He didn’t talk like that in game, but had to after that post came out. It was sort of like how Paul Reubens had to become Pee Wee Herman. But I digress.

Wicker has made significant progress toward 25-man raid OTing capability. I completely replaced his Heavy Clefthoof stuff with badge reward gear and some boots I already had in my bank. Specifically, he’s now sporting Forestwalker Kilt from heroic Mana Tombs, Vestments of Hibernation for 75 hard-earned badges, and Zierhut’s Lost Treads, a random BoP trash mob drop in Karazhan.

Now I have my eye set on Waistguard of the Great Beast (60 badges), Footwraps of Wild Encroachment (60 badges), and Ring of Unyielding Force (25 badges) in the short term. One hundred and forty five badges doesn’t seem too bad, right? Sigh.

But what is my biggest and most exciting upgrade? I finally got my Stag-Helm of Malorne. I had to get a GM to mail it to me because Karazhan crashed during looting, but that’s a story for another day. Now that that the loot linkfest is over, let’s get down to business.

I’ve been spending quite a bit of time researching bear tanking, trying to figure out how I can improve my tanking skills. It’s one of those things where everyone loves my tanking and begs me to tank for them, yet I find all kinds of little things I feel I need to improve, things that are transparent to them until the improvement is made. Know what I mean? For example, I respecced and picked up Intensity so I can get 10 rage from Enrage instantly. That will make OTing the big spell shade pulls in Karazhan a little easier for me. Enrage is sort of an “oh shit!” button, so I want that extra rage there when I need it.

I’m looking forward to doing more tanking in Zul’Aman, Gruul’s, and beyond. My current guild is sort of stuck in Karazhan at the moment. We don’t have enough people for the 25 mans. Such is the situation on my server.