That Was Surprising...

Well my Death Knight finally hit 80 over the weekend, and with a little bit of pre-crafting of gear was Defense Capped for Heroics within 2 seconds of hitting 80. Her unbuffed health was already about 20k before equiping the two iLevel 245 epics I had lined up (the chest and wrists from Trial of the Crusade), so I was expecting horror and complaining upon entering my first heroic afterwards, with much need to defend my poor little tank against the accusations of my fellow group mates...

Unfortunately, or fortunately I suppose, that didn't happen.

At all.

I've done several heroics since, gotten about half a dozen or so epics now, ranging from iLevel 200 stuff from the last boss to iLevel 245 and iLevel 232 pieces from badge vendors and it's actually been a much more enjoyable experience than a lot of the tanking I've been doing on my Paladin lately. Crazy talk considering all the stories about how "Death Knight tanks are kicked all the time" and "New tanks are hounded until they leave the instance" that are floating around the WoW related forums. But then I really shouldn't expect much from what someone says on a WoW forum, or rather remember that it's still a one-in-a-million kind of thing that's going on in these stories. My DK's spec is a hybrid between a straight Frost Dual Wield tanking spec with some extra things thrown in to make Heroics easier since that's pretty much as "far" as I'll be taking her, and so far it's been pretty decent. I really need a high end one-hand to up my threat for high-geared DPS, but even then I'm decently holding against anyone who gives me half a second to gain some agro on the mobs.

My Paladin's been able to pick up another two pieces of Teir 10, netting me the 4 piece bonus. Now the only piece left is the legs, which I may just be able to pick up from a Vault of Archavon run if I ever even see the pants drop in there, otherwise it'll be a short 95 more Emblems of Frost to "finish" my Paladin's Retribution set until 85. I'm still getting in the odd raid time here and there, but I still don't have the time or incling to do much more than the Weekly and maybe one or two short raids in a week.

Other characters are mostly chilling doing what they've been doing, the Auction House schemes are still scheming, making money at a respectable pace, and generally my activities in game are "stable".

-LaFollet