Tank like a girl

That’s what it feels like, as I continue leveling. I am not bored of leveling yet, but I am getting fidgety. People running heroics left and right and I have yet to run more instances, which are the heart of the game for me. Kadomi is now 77, and I really did not know how much I missed flying until I had it again. In celebration, I explored the zones I haven’t touched on Kadomi, which gained me the Northrend and World Explorer achievement. Just so you know, Brann Bronzebeard, your tabard sucks. It’s ugly, my guild tabard > dwarf tabards. I also found my new home and favorite zone ever, Sholazar Basin. Why? Saronite nodes whereever you fly! I had bought all saronite so far, but yesterday I flew around like mad to get enough saronite for two Saronite Bulwarks and a Saronite Protector for guildies and me. Hooray!

I am still questing in the Grizzly Hills at the moment. After the epicness of Dragonblight, Grizzly Hills was a let-down. Pretty zone, but I get to kill worgs and deer for their meat? Very exciting. *yawn* Thankfully, the quest quality improved, and I did enjoy the Drakuru quests, all the old buddies from Zul’Aman, including Harrison Jones, and the Titan storyline. However, I wish that the Dun Argol quests didn’t require you to ride back to the freaking place six times in a row. Another thing I really loved was the worgens. Can’t wait to do that final quest of the chain. Thumbs up, Blizzard, bringing back old villains is awesome.

I finally managed to run Ahn’kahet, which I found very enjoyable, both as tank and as resto shaman (who is 74.5 atm, another reason I am leveling so slowly). The visuals are quite stunning, the boss encounters are all pretty fun, good stuff. I did enjoy it more with the group of my shaman, as we were of the right level for the instance, in the group I tanked for, we were all way too high-level for the place, me being the lowest at 76. This week I really need to push harder to see more instances, I definitely want to get Drak’tharon Keep and Violet Hold done.

I finally completed my gear spreadsheets, both for Kadomi and Garande (the shaman I keep talking about). I think I have my ultimate shopping list for pre-Naxx and pre-heroics, which I am going to share with all of you tomorrow. It didn’t seem very tough to accomplish.

Speaking of gear, I have started making the pieces of Tempered Saronite that are better than my old tanking gear, and with heavy heart I have replaced a lot of badge gear already. Aside from those pieces, nothing much has changed. I love my new Saronite Bulwark that I just crafted. I replaced the Zul’jin axe with Crimson Cranium Crusher from the Amphitheater of Anguish chain in Zul’Drak. Gosh, this thing is huge. It’s so ugly. It’s stats are so awesome. Mwah. This will have to serve as my tanking weapon until I get Crescent of Brooding Fury.