The Angry Raider

I went to TK for the first time on Wicker last night. I missed the Void Reaver fight, as I was asked to sit out so a warlock could go, but I got to do the A’lar fight. Twice. Then we gave up and did Gruul.

A’la r is an interesting fight. You can read the strats and watch the videos, but nothing compares to the actual experience. Contrast that with Morogrim, who we downed before TK. That’s a relatively simple fight. The thing I didn’t like about A’lar was how our raid leader was practically having a stroke over everything that was going on.

But I got to tank the adds and that was cool.

Being a feral druid these days is kind of tough. We reach a sort of glass ceiling in 25 mans as tier loot is really the best upgrades for us, all the way through BT. There’s lots of DPS gear to compete with rogues on, but that stuff doesn’t impact us in the raids as much as it does the rogues (or hunters, or whatever).

So with all the badge gear and the best stuff from heroics, plus one or two of the crafted epics from SSC, we’re the best we can be. All the way to Illidan. Patch 2.4 aims to fix that for us a bit, so we’ll see.

In other Wicker news, I’ve been pvp’ing quite a bit to get the Gladiator’s Dragonhide Spaulders. I need pure tanking shoulders that are better than my Mantle of Shadowy Embrace. Anyway, three days of AV netted me the honor I needed, and I also got to preen a little.

While in AV, I saw my health at the highest it’s ever been, which was pretty cool.

This is a stark contrast with the smallest I’ve ever been. That’s my mage there in the lower left. Really lower left.