A few weeks ago I decided I wanted to try my hand at tanking.
Low level Pally tanking to be exact.
So I rolled myself a baby Pally and threw her some heirlooms.
Thus began my adventures in tanking my way to 80.
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So far the biggest thing I can say for it is the difference in the players from level 80 heroic groups boils down to this.
Heroic pug = “OMFG GOGOGOGO!!11!!! NEED MOAR BADGES FASTER!!!!1!!”
Low level pug = “OMFG That was FUN! Want to stay grouped and run another?”
Now it might just be my well documented horrid luck with pug heroics, but I am having an absolute blast running the low level stuff.
Five instances so far and not a single problem. All the folks I have run with have been decent and polite. Truly a joy to run with. So much so that Dechion the patient has not run a single out of guild heroic since the day I rolled my little Pally.
The most fun though had to have been a Stockades run from a few days ago. I zone in and look at my party frames to see what buffs to put up and what do my wondering eyes behold?
Paladins.
One Holy, one Prot, and three Ret.
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Much joking ensued as we buffed up. One of the others passed out vent info as we were getting ready to roll .
By roll, I mean steamroll.
We were pulling two rooms plus the pats in the hallway on purpose just to see how far we could take it.
The chatter on vent was a welcome change from the “silent pug” that I usually see in heroics. Much laughter and joking about was had. In short I had a blast.
We went on to run two back to back stockades runs, I think all of us leveled during one or the other. Not a wipe was had, in fact not a single death.
The only thing bad I have to say about the whole experience is I cannot add cross server folks to a friends list.
Based on my luck with most pugs thats saying something.
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