Oh Lawdy, Loot Debates

Last night there was a debate in the local OOC channel regarding loot in random dungeons, and I am mighty proud to admit that I started it (tongue planted firmly in cheek).

I decided to run a quick random on Dawngarde, my holy paladin, who has no back-up spec but, at her level, still has enough tools to DPS with few issues. I queued as DPS and as a Healer. Lo and behold, I was dropped into ST with a pair of druids, shaman and a hunter. Once the tank realized that one of the Troll bosses (necessary for access to the Prophet) had been forgotten, he dropped, quickly followed by the shaman.

The remaining Resto (or Balance? I don’t know, he was healing and doing very well at it) asked me to tank – but I don’t carry a shield. So he took over tanking while we waited for a proper tank and another DPS or healer.

To re-iterate: My level 49 Paladin on Thorium Brotherhood does not have a secondary spec. I have other more important things to put cash toward, and in the leveling game I am not the only one occasionally DPSing in a healing spec before Outland. Frankly, at that point, I don’t care what your spec is as long as you do your job and you aren’t stupid.

Once I dig up the screenshot of what happened next I’ll post it and name names (especially the druid, because he was awesome and I want more people to acknowledge his awesome), but anywho.

As we ran around destroying shit, another holy pally and a prot warrior zoned in. We finished off that last Troll, dropped down to the next level and ran to finish the Prophet’s room. The warrior was trigger-happy and I occasionally had to stop and toss a Holy Light (with delicious glyphed AoE healing action), but otherwise I happily exorcised/holy shocked/judged/consecrated along. The Prophet wound up getting pulled before all of the trash was finished, the other holy pally died to ghosts, so I healed through what little trash was left (protip: Run from ghosties) and the boss fight. With the boss down, a caster chest dropped, which I rolled on and the other holy pally did not. I rezzed her and we moved on to the next set of bosses.

Fast-forward to the Shade of Eranikus. We were both DPSing through him and tossing the occasional heal, and when he died he dropped a caster shield. I, the Prot warrior and the other holy pally rolled need – and I won.

The other holy pally proceeded to bitch me out and call me a cocksucker for winning her loot, twice, then dropped as the druid and I explained that I’m a healer, too, and in just as much need of those items as she was.

What would she have said if a caster shaman had won the roll, or if the Prot warrior (why she was rolling on a caster shield I’m not sure, but hey, whatever) had won it? I bet they’d be cocksuckers, too.

Nobody ‘owns’ the drops in a dungeon. Just because one is healing does not mean they get all the caster drops, nor does the tank get every piece of plate with stamina on it. Yes, it’s nice when people automatically pass on a piece that can be considered an upgrade for the healer or the tank, but this isn’t always going to happen. DPS need loot, too.

My philosophy is this: If losing a roll on a piece of equipment in WoW is worth nerdraging over for you, it’s time to step away from the computer and visit the outside world. I do not care if the item went to somebody that only heals with their guild or only does DPS once in a pink moon, or if a ninja took it for the vendor value – it’s not worth busting a vein over pixels and the attitudes of people you may never see again.

Chances are, that item will drop again. Chances are, you may see that drop or get something better with emblems.

I have lost a healing upgrade to one of the people that was arguing against those of us who occasionally roll for off-spec loot (and, guess what? I tend to ask first – I’m rarely told ‘no’). That same person has frequently rolled on off-spec loot (why the fuck would that person argue against the concept? I don’t know, head up arse syndrome I guess). I may have said “Aw, darn”, but not once did I ever go off on them for daring to take my loot.

Frankly, that attitude is far more disgusting than any attitude that I cop.

Whether we like it or not, the very nature of dual specs and random dungeons have made how we roll for loot a little different – and really, it’s more the dual spec thing than anything else. Many of us have two specs that we’re trying to gear in our daily dungeon runs, so naturally we’re going to roll on shit that will benefit us. That’s the idea.

How do I handle loot? If I’m running on a tank or healer that has a DPS spec, and a DPS item drops for my DPS spec, I wait to see if anyone rolls need. If someone does roll need, I tend to let it go – unless the group is full of jerks, then I don’t let it go. Hey, I’m not gonna be nice to dickheads, okay? The same goes for running on DPS that have tank or healer specs. If nobody rolls need, I state my intentions – “I’m rolling on this for my off-spec” – and I roll for it.

Last night, I was playing a character whose only spec was one that benefits from spellcaster stats. Should I have passed? No. I have just as much right to roll on those items – which are upgrades – as anybody else that can benefit from them.

And, as far as I’m concerned, so do you. As I say in randoms, “If it’s an upgrade and can benefit you, roll for it. I don’t care!” We should be happy when our fellow WoW players win something shiny and helpful.

The real dicks aren’t those who roll for upgrades against others, but instead are those who get pissed off about losing a roll. That’s it.

Tool of the Day: Koonaki, The Strong, Silent Type

Ladies and gentlemen (and not-so-gentle-men), today, Matojo lets you all hear her tell you who’s the fucking tool. Put your hands together, put your headphones on, and pardon the sound quality of the first ever Troll Bouquet Tool of the Day Voice Post.

Matojo vs. The Healer That Tried to Kill Her

The Value of Education, or: Why It Sometimes Pays Not to Be An Asshole

I have noticed a disturbing trend in the WoW community. Am I slow on the uptake? Maybe. Is this going to sound utterly hilarious coming from me? Well, yeah.

We live and instance in a gogogo culture where anybody that isn’t at the top of their game is left in the dust and so is anybody that does things differently than what Elitist Jerks imposes upon the population (WoW.com’s Jerkerati, anyone?) – experimentation is frowned upon and honest-to-Djehuty (The Scribe seems appropriate here) newbies and clueless types are promptly chewed up and spit out.

WoW players eat their own. All gamers do.

It’s not always the right thing to do.

The Asshole Mentality

With the relative anonymity of the new LFG tool, everyone is pretty much encouraged to be an asshole. Groups that would otherwise consider themselves to be a bastion of helpfulness are reduced to packs of snarling dogs when faced with things that don’t quite match their idea of how a dungeon should go.

Often, it’s justified. Just as often, however, it is not.

Myth: At 80, Everyone Will Know the Ins and Outs of Their Class

The majority of the Asshole Mentality stems from the above idea. Yes, most 80s should know their class. Most 80s should understand what gear they need and how to spec, but the fact is, not all of them do. Not every 80 had the support of a guild, group, or knowledgeable friend behind them. Not every 80 was able to understand what they were finding on Google, not every 80 is skilled at separating the grain from the chaff when it comes to dissecting what is good, current information and what isn’t. You hear about clueless DPS and healers all the time, and nobody seems to try to say, “Dude, you want some pointers?” When there’s a failure, people are more willing to jump up and say “You fucking suck, you noob, L2Play!” instead of “I think I know how we can handle this better.” Tanks are automatically screwed unless their HP is at 30,000 or higher (why do you think I wear both Brewfest stamina trinkets on my Death Knight?) and are often subject to the highest, most rage-inducing scrutiny. Guess what, folks? I can tank Heroic UK just fine at 25k-28k HP Unbuffed.

The community has this immediate need to jump somebody that doesn’t meet expectations and a lack of interest in at least offering to help somebody improve.

And we wonder why it’s so hard to find new tanks, good DPS and healers that know what they’re doing?

Fact: Nobody Appreciates Abuse

You know that saying about attracting flies with honey (or is it distracting evil piles of vomit with Fly Honey)? For the most part, it’s true.

I have heard all sides of this. I have heard, “Why bother trying to help when I just get yelled at?” “Nobody likes being told how to play.” “It’s not my job to teach people how to play their class.” “I don’t know everything about the game.”

Fine. That’s fine.

But that doesn’t mean you have to be an asshole if somebody, who is obviously new or completely clueless, doesn’t perform as expected.

I have been in parties at all level ranges where, when an individual was attacked for their performance, pretty much 100% of the time the person lashed out right back at whoever gave them hell. I have been the person that wasn’t performing well and, as soon as I said, “Gimme a break, I haven’t played this toon in forever” or “Well, that’s why I’m running heroics – to get emblems and gear so I won’t suck”, I was left alone. In groups where it was some poor sod against the rest of the group, as soon as I – usually the tank or healer – piped up with, “Dude, it’s okay, we all have to start somewhere. Why don’t you try x, y, z instead?” or “Here’s why what happened Is Not Cool but we will deal because these things happened” … things cooled down.

Being level-headed and not an asshole gets shit done.

The attitude of “it’s not my job to teach” is just as bad as the general assholery. If everyone adopted that frame of mind, can you imagine how shitty the gaming experience would be? I’d still be a fail!hunter. I’d still… well, I’d fail at this game in general because no amount of research makes up for hands-on learning. Something that I was taught as early as High School is that different people have different styles of learning. Some can adapt from reading websites and guides like WoW.com, Elitist Windbags/Jerks and various blogs. Some need to watch videos and see it in action. Others need to be coached in-game. Requiring a different learning style does not make somebody flawed or inferior, it just means that they process information differently.

And that’s okay.

Besides, it does not take much time out of your run to suggest a different approach to a boss, a different set of skills to use, or for a party member to check out a certain blog that’s been suggested to you by a friend or an online community. So, it’s not like you have to write up a lesson plan and teach these people their class from the ground up.

Matojo’s Point

It’s okay to be an asshole in a case of genuine asshattery or stupidity that isn’t caused by somebody being unfamiliar with how things work (such as mages that pull, tanks that refuse to allow drink breaks, etc), but when dealing with somebody that’s brand new or just utterly clueless who most likely needs a helping hand – not cool. If the Newbie turns out to be an asshat in disguise, by all means, fire the cannons.

Remember: People can hit 80 and start into heroics without having any bloody idea of how to play. How else would we have level 80 Mages doing 400DPS, even in quest greens?

Tool of the Day: BratTank

In the mornings, I listen to Q107 with John Derringer and the gang and am usually in tears somewhere between Oshawa and Ajax from laughing so hard. This morning, John announced that he was no longer going to do the “Tool of the Day” because his heart just wasn’t in it – as he got older, he had less to be angry about.

Since I’m still young and full of rage, I figured, why not do it myself for a WoW-centric audience? So, Mr. Derringer, I salute you – thanks for the morning laughs and the inspiration.

And everybody who reads Troll Bouquet knows that I have way, way more than enough material to fuel the fire, right? If you don’t, well, damn, pay attention.

Last night was my first time healing as Taashti, Disc Priest of the Sexy Tail, and I did a damned good job of it if I do say so m’self (yaaay bubbles!). In one of the final pulls of Mana Tombs, the tank did not pull back and folk kept getting feared into other groups, so it was a wipe. Up to this point the tank had been whining incessantly about his bad luck with greed rolls, then was capslocking over getting feared and finally, as I was running back, he wanted to be rezzed.

“Well,” said I, as I waggled my ghostly – yet ample – spacegoat butt in the vague direction of the instance, “since I’m dead and running, you better run yer arse back, too.” This was complete with the razzy-face and everything!

In true Melodrama Queen form, the tank flipped, stating that if I wasn’t going to rez him he would leave, and oh wouldn’t that be just tragic? Losing him, wouldn’t it be such a horrible, horrible thing? We would be so devestated, and would have to wait forever for a new tank! The horrors!

Well, that kicked in my Fite Response (which has been enhanced by irritated spine and hip joints and tight back muscles), and I responded in the affirmative: If I run, you run, and by the time I actually find the freaking instance you’ll be inside and alive anyway. He dropped group, the remaining two DPS reiterated that the tank was a brat, I found the instance entrance and we re-queued. A new tank and DPS were found less than five minutes later, I rezzed the poor, lost Warlock (Note To Pugs: “I can’t find my way back in!” guarantees a rez when the healer can get to you. “Rez me”, however, does not) and we finished off the instance with a much more intelligent tank.

You, BratTank-Whose-Name-I-Don’t-Remember, are the first Tool of the Day for Troll Bouquet.

A Tip For Those Who Share A Battle Group With An RP Server

Sunday night, I decided to help a guildie with learning this whole healing thing by tanking Drak’tharon Keep. I was on Matojo, Wyat was DPSing as Pierse and Najat was the level 80 Disc priest that was healing my little blue ass.

I love being healed by Discipline Priests and Resto Shamans because, assuming their gear is at least okay, I can keep pulling and they rarely run low on mana – yay!

Well, some poor bastard from Jubei’thos – Smite, I think it was – decided to start whining about RP realms and how they should have their own battle group. Hey, I agree – most RPers do – but for completely different reasons. After I told her that she should really watch herself since 3/5 of her groupmates are from the same RP server, she promptly sealed her fate with more whining along the lines of, “Oh God why”, and I initiated vote to kick.

Frankly, my dears, if you’re going to be like that you don’t deserve to run with me and I don’t want to dent my 18k health pool (22k buffed, which… I can’t imagine what it’ll be at 80 if I keep up with his gear, enchants and gemming) for you, so get out.

“But Mat!” You cry, “That was so mean! You should have given that person a chance!”

Eff that, man.

I deal with a small amount of shit for my server, and that amount is enough to make me very protective and defensive when it comes to TB. I often hear the following, in no particular order, from various sources (including LJ):

• “RPers are scrubs.”
• “RP on TB is dead.” (FUCK YOOOU)
• “You’re on a RP realm? Fail.”
• At this point I’ve run out of examples because the cold meds are starting to stomp on my head.

So, naturally, I’m not gonna put up with that shit when I can help it.

Remember, folks: Roleplayer does not automatically equal “shitty player”. You go ahead and keep up pulling stupid shit, though – I enjoy biting back, and I bite just as hard as any other player.

How to Make a Cranky Matojo – Healer Edition

WoW_Ladies got me off on a little tangent, of course, so I figured I’d expand here.

I can be a pretty cranky healer (some days, I even reach Angry Healer level). For some of my friends, that’s the appeal of having me along – if people are being idiots I’ll say so and I occasionally pay enough attention to be able to give pointers on what to do (whether or not people actually listen to me, I don’t know). When I’m not running into pats. Or getting lost. Or jumping around. Or dancing. Or spacing out. Or being chewed on by the cat (“NO SIMON NO NOT WHILE I’M HEALING AUGH MY FEETS – theregoesmymouse”). For the most part, I’m pretty chill.

But there are ways to wind up on my shit list, oh yes, and some of them are fairly common for most healers.

1. Don’t run back after a wipe, just wait for me to rez you. That is, after all, what my mana is for, right? You might as well save your mana and food for soloing! I’ll just take my time getting to you. First, I’ll have to drink – gotta have full mana to rez the lazy bastard! – and then play with the cat. Oh, and feed the cat. And rescue the dude that got lost on his way back. And and and…
2. Don’t eat or drink. My mana, after all, is endless and there’s no way in hell that I pay the same amount of in-game currency for my stacks of water and food as you. Besides, it’s not like you have anything better to do while waiting for me to get my health and mana back, nope. Standing around with your thumb up your ass is a much better use of your time.
3. “Rez plz. Rez plz. Can I get a rez?” OH! How silly of me, I didn’t notice that your health bar was empty and that you were lying on the floor THANKS FOR REMINDING ME. I NEVER WOULD HAVE KNOWN TO REZ YOU IF YOU DIDN’T ASK. YOU KNOW, IF MY HEAD WASN’T STUCK BETWEEN MY SHOULDERS I WOULD FORGET THAT TOO, LULZ AND SO FORTH.
4. Treat other party members – especially those who have my guild tag above their heads (<Harbingers of War> and <The Refuge>, respectively) – like shit. Bonus points if it’s the tank and his name is Wyat/Sorchia/Shaliandra or Rikua or Violeta/Cyael or Douzer and his disguises.
5. Please tell me how to do my job, because I obviously haven’t been healing for ages and don’t know my head from my ass.
6. Trigger events if you’re not the tank. Go ahead, do it. I hear the floor is nice this time of year.

So, dear other party members, if you’re a decent human being with only a small stupid streak, I’ll be decent right back!

What do other players have to do to wind up on your shitlist, readers?

Ranting on a FailKnight

Good morning, audience!

This weekend, I had the pleasure of schooling a fellow Death Knight in the art of not sucking. Sort of. It was more a matter of me foaming at the mouth and him saying “I’ll change, I’ll change”. Whether or not he’ll listen to me is a topic for another post.

In a conversation on how well Death Knights manage the damage they take, I pointed out that I am not too difficult to heal – in fact, I’m apparently so easy that my friend Wyat, on his slightly lowly geared but nonetheless awesome shaman, was letting me take damage because he was bored. This Knight, who I shall name Mo, told the channel that a healer once told him that he was harder to heal than her Death Knight friend.

“Then you have a gear issue,” I said as I pulled up Armory.

I found:

• A distinct lack of enchants.
• Two pure parry gems.
• This spec.
• Dual wielding – without DW talents!

“No, nevermind,” I added. “You have more issues than just gear.”

If one intends to tank, please, for the love of kittens (and to save yourself from being brutally torn asunder by serious or semi-serious DK tanks like myself) – take the first-tier tanking talents. They are: Blade Barrier, Toughness and Anticipation. In the course of making use of your skill priority, Blade Barrier will activate (whenever your Blood Runes are on cooldown), which gives your healer some time to recover. Toughness adds to the reduction in squishy by adding more armour to what you already have. Anticipation gives you more dodge – everybody likes dodge!

Parry gems are problematic because parry suffers more from diminishing returns than dodge does (the curve for DR on Dodge is 88%, 47% for Parry). I would suggest Regal Twilight Opal/Regal Dreadstone for the stamina (Enduring Forest Emerald/Enduring Eye of Zul if one needs to hit the defense cap but doesn’t need enough to warrant a pure Defense gem, I’m using Stalwart gems in my red slots until I figure out how to re-arrange my gemming now that I’m at the Defense cap). Those who raid will be gemming for stamina regardless of socket bonuses – remember, raids are not my focus.

Regarding dual wielding: Unless you have the proper fucking talents, don’t do it. A lot of people go on about how dual wield tanking is so not something that should be done and omg! Dual wield tanks suck – those people are about a patch behind. Dual wield tanking is viable with the proper set of talents and stats, end of story. There, I said it. Don’t believe me? Read Chill of the Grave. You also might want to check out TankSpot’s Death Knight Tank Guide.

Next – enchant your gear. ILevel 200 blues? Enchant them. Greens? Get thee to the Auction House, and if you don’t have any money, what the hell? Check the categories. I’m not going over making money in this article. Buy yourself some entry-level crafted tanking gear (Tempered Saronite, Tempred Titansteel, Titanium Rings and Necklaces), then enchant.

TL;DR – ATTENTION FAILKNIGHTS: Get yourself a proper tank spec. Look! Two examples and three templates. Enchant your gear. Hit Defense cap, then start upping your Stamina while getting the Hit and Expertise soft caps with some Strength, Dodge and Parry on the side. Don’t dual wield if you’re not using the proper Frost talents.

Remember: If you find that you’re squishier than you’d like – check your spec, then your stats, gear, gems and enchants and finally, your rotation/priority system. There is always a way to fix it, and it is not the class. We are spiky, not squishy.

Introducing Kajah and the Alliance Update

Over the weekend, my Moon Guard Death Knight, Relimna, reached 300 herbalism to go with her 300 mining, dinged 60, and then I race-changed her into a Dwarf. I was really stuck on what to name her, though, so I went with Kajah.

In my head-canon, the real Kajah is a Victorian Werewolf sort. She’s extremely eccentric, aloof and an X-Men fan character (though she can and does stand alone – she insists on it). Sometimes I think of her as a werehyena, because hyenas are awesome, though for simplicity’s sake a werewolf works as well.

No, Dwarf Kajah will not be a Worgen in the guise of a Dwarf or some other such nonsense. She’s a run-of-the-mill, undead Dwarven woman with a penchant for taking hits to the face. She is an Unholy Tank with a Ghoul companion that she has named Mortimer and who may or may not have been her now-deceased husband in life. This Kajah will be as eccentric and detached as the real one – I hope – though she is most certainly dead. I cannot tell you if she’s rotting or not because I’m not going to take off her armour/clothing and check, and neither is anyone else – but beneath the scents of cigar smoke, cheap mead and crushed Felweed, there is indeed something foul.

The MG crew got a little monetary boost with the sales of Kajah’s ore – Mithril is crazy expensive over there – and some of her herbs. Tristynne has given up trying to sell glyphs/ink and sells her pigments instead, I’m guessing people buy those to level with, I’m not sure why. Taashti went Disc, but I haven’t actually attempted healing with her yet (NO PRAYER OF MENDING, OMG, HOW WILL I SURVIVE).

Did I mention that the queue on Moon Guard for a level 60 tank was … about 20 minutes? No lie. This was also kinda late at night, though, so maybe it’ll be better at another point.

I haven’t been on MG much lately as I’ve been working on Masamba and Delplas, so my time has been eaten up by all of that. I am hoping to finish pushing Daniil to 10 so I can get Garios to 15, then Daniil to 15, then attempt the LFG project with those two.

Bear Butts and Flailing Trees

Most people know that I have a tree druid, Ipolani, hanging around. She’s my Scribe and my main source of money (when I’m not lazy and  actually mill herbs) and may eventually become a Panzerkin. Whether or not this will happen I really don’t know, it depends on how crazy I feel.

I also have a bear, see. A wee level twenty-one bear named Delplas.

Last week, Del was level 11, Balance and wearing cloth gear, Wrathing her way along. She had been stagnant for several months until it hit me that I really wanted to try the low-level LFG. I thought, hey, I bet it’ll be fast and easy to heal through LFG in the low levels! … Then I found that it was very slow-going, the wait was atrocious, so I bought her some leather Stamina/Agility gear, slapped some Stamina/Agility enchants on it, and hopped into LFG.

My first run as a bear tank was Ragefire Chasm. My DPS would try to pull, so I’d growl it off them and bash away until the next mob, rinse, repeat. Sometimes there would be a few mobs and I’d get to panic and Demoralizing Roar a bit while maul-tabbing through. It was a success, though. The healer remarked that he hardly had to heal me, nobody complained, we didn’t wipe!

It got easier at 16 with Swipe, then even easier at 18 with Feral Faerie Fire.

The only difficult run I’ve had so far was a Wailing Caverns where everybody else was level 20, I was level 17, and I gave up tanking to try to heal with my piddly mana pool, then tried to DPS as a bear. Then the healer had to go raid. Then it was just me, the hunter and warrior. Then I said “screw this” and said I had to go, too, and bailed.

Oh, right, and there was the Deadmines run with the AoE-happy mage, running around and Arcane Explodeying every time. Yeah, no. Protip, LFGers – low-level instances are not AoE-fests. It’s harder for most classes (except warriors, I believe, and Paladins past level 20) to hold AoE aggro at low levels. For the love of Anpu please, please, please just stick to single-target DPS. This beardrood will thank you. Also, don’t choose the middle of a multi-mob pull to tell your tank that on-hit procs don’t work with druid forms so the weapon she’s using is totes wrong for a bear and by the way weapon DPS doesn’t apply to bear form even though you haven’t played a feral druid since level 70 which this bear cub assumes means “the end of BC” and oh well maybe things have changed – did you miss the occasional shadow bolt coming off my paws? Come on now. Don’t discuss mechanics mid-pull. I can’t tank and type at the same time.

Overall, I’m pretty happy with the lowbie LFG and I’ve been told I’m a good bear tank. I’m really looking forward to heading the rest of the way with Delplas.

As for tree healing, well, I’ll cover that adventure in another post.

Leveling Project: Using LFG to Skip Tired Content

I love leveling.

I like seeing the flash as my character hits another level, I love watching the XP bar fill up, I love earning shiny new pieces of gear and I really enjoy challenging myself.

LFG, even with all the fail it sometimes digs up, is the perfect opportunity for this.

To put it plainly, I’m tired of the same quests, the same zones, blah blah blah I’ve been through it all a zillion times.

So, what am I doing? I’m taking a handful of my characters and trying to level them primarily through pick-up groups. This is where I’ll outline what characters are doing what, and where, if there’s a strategy, and I’ll update the progress in later entries.

Thorium Brotherhood LFG Project

Masamba: Starting at level 58, Masamba has been using LFG to level into Northrend. As of this posting he’s level 65 and has given me a lot of experience with healing as a restoration Shaman. I’m hoping to hit 70 on him this week (lolol yeah right). I figure that he will skip most Outland and Northrend questing because queues for healers in the 60+ range are ridiculously short – so it’ll be straight to 80 via LFG, including heroic gearing when he maxes out, with some questing between now and then to give my brain a break (and have fun with his Elemental off-spec).

Ipolani: Starting at level 70 with a fresh, revamped Resto spec, shiny newish gear and her re-geared, re-specced Death Knight partner Shaliandra, this gal will (most likely) level via LFG in Northrend dungeons. I’m finding instancing with Shali to be fun, we have a ton of control and groups are easy to come by.  There will be questing, a’course, but I’m hoping that we’ll level with LFG for the most part.

Valesha: A level 71 healadin with some smatterings of Kara gear, she’ll most likely be pairing up with Sorchia, a protadin who’s specced for threat generation. It sounds like Sorchia (played by Shaliandra’s player) may want to do the majority of her leveling via LFG, so I’m looking forward to seeing how a pair of Paladins work together.

Delplas: Bear tank all the way. Delplas will be dragging her fat bear arse through LFG until the 40s, then running through 30s-40s quests and healing until Outland, where she’ll pick up the tanking mantle again. This is my attempt at getting a bear tank.

Krensythe: Another low-level healadin. Queue times for lowbie healers on TB are kinda sad, so he will probably be Ret with a set of caster gear until later on in life.

Mystery Warrior: A Tauren or Undead warrior tank. How far will he go? No idea, I just know I want to give a plateTauren or Forsaken a chance… sometime.

Ashkena (Alliance): I may attempt to bear tank on this girl, just because she may otherwise never see past level 20.

Moon Guard LFG Project

Taashti: At level 63, this gal will be switching to Discipline the next time I log into her and will be spending most of her time in LFG to heal random groups.

Relimna: Once she hits 60 and switches to a dwarf, I’ll be trying out Unholy as a tanking spec and doing my damnedest to skip most of Outland. Mostly, I want to see a dwarf tank in action.

Daniil: This adorable little Draenei warrior will become a tank at 15 and I will have to not be distracted by his adorable tentacledness. I’m starting to adore Draenei fellas.

Garios: Yet another druid, he’ll become a healer and test the waters of Moon Guard’s lowbie population. As terrifying as male Night Elves are, I kinda like this fella’s character.

Tell me about your plans for LFG. Do you intend to use it as a leveling tool, or is it purely to gear your level 80 characters? Don’t forget to vote in my poll!