Tank like a girl

First post of 2009, and it took me 6 days into the year to get to it. I’ve been blogging since June now and based on my stats I have come up with 118 posts, 864 comments, 3,394 spam and 74,592 views since I installed WP_Stats in August. I found a sudden burst of new visitors in October, thanks to a link on the front page of Tankspot, run by the most awesome Ciderhelm. If you haven’t checked out Project Marmot yet, you’re missing an awesome thing, especially casual raiders just getting their foot in the door. Thanks to all my visitors and regular commenters, you keep me going. 256 subscribers according to Feedburner, oh my!

That said, there’s room for tons more improvement. Here are my blogging resolutions for 2009:

• Consistently post twice a week, Monday and Thursday in the best case
• Keep Addon corner going, UI tweaking is a favorite pastime of mine
• As per request, write a ‘How to DPS as prot warrior when you are not the tank of the group’ review
• Write more about tanking by tanking more often again in-game
• As content gets added, provide more gear lists (and not just because the WoW masses love them)
• Get into raiding again and share all the triumphs and failures

As today is Tuesday, I am already failing one of my resolutions, but so be it. I will be back this week with one of those ever so super-popular gear postings, top 3 in all slots from heroics and emblem gear. Consider it part 2 of my 3-part gear series for WotLK. The last post will cover raid drops.

I hope to start raiding in the first week of February, as a birthday present to myself? Maybe. I actually have no clue if I’ll be tanking or healing. I have recently started heroics, but only as healer (zomg, golden chains of healing are incredible, aren’t they?). Hopefully Kadomi will get some spotlight time soon, because I know I still got it. I just do. And it’d be a shame to waste it on soloing 3-man quests in Icecrown, and grinding Sons of Hodir and Oracles rep to Revered. Wish me luck for my Mysterious Egg!

I managed to convince someone from my guild that blogging is awesome (and it is), so please welcome Yasura and her ‘heals, smites and prayers‘ blog to the fold! As the name suggests, she’s a priest, and really the pocket-healer priest that’s saved my butt the most. She’s most awesome, and I am looking forward to all her healer stories. Hopefully she won’t gripe about squishy tank too much.

While I am tossing out links, I would also like to mention new awesome tanking blogs on the scene:

• Yakra’s Mirror Shield
• Durnic’s ORLY Factor
• Talldar’s Warriortanking
• Albinobeard’s Defensive Stance

Protection warriors, the world is our oyster!

I’ll try to post links to new warrior blogs I see popping up, especially if they have a tanking angle.

Today I have two new ones:

• Jatheak’s WoW Blog - he’s starting with the premise of rolling a new warrior and guide the warrior to 70, which is always a commendable endeavor. We are prot warriors, we must be legion.
• Big and Beautiful - Arudar’s blog about warrior tanks. Started with a very interesting article about our ‘Oh Shit’ skills, so thumbs up from me.

I just did a major system upgrade of my computer, which required a re-format and all the good stuff. So for the time being I am re-installing a lot of my software. I should be back to posting stuff by the weekend.

I never got around to setting up my blogroll page yet, so for the time being, consider this big honking list of blogs a wonderful resource if you enjoy reading WoW blogs. I made it there too, woot!

Tim Howgego, the author of El’s Extreme Anglin Guide has created an interactive map of WoW communities. I think it’s really neat, so here’s a link. Very interesting article.

I must be a teeny rock in the sea of the Blogosphere, hee.

While this continues to be a work in progress, it’s time for a first introductory posting. Why do I join the ranks of WoW bloggers, when I have a platform in LiveJournal already? Predominantly, I wanted to stop spamming my LJ as I have a bunch of friends there who couldn’t care less about WoW. Furthermore, I wanted to post more. I had the urge to be creative, using my own blog platform, and to post more about things near and dear to my heart.

So what can you expect to see here? Mostly, all things warrior. On my to-do list I have theorycraft postings for prot warriors, gear lists, a leveling guide, fun stuff. A little bit about my alts. Whatever the heck I feel like posting.

I appreciate comments, I do. Feel free to participate in this new adventure of mine.