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Tanked Slave Pens, dinged 68

petewood — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:03:08 +0000

On Sunday night, I tanked for the second time. I tanked slave pens so that I could finish up a quest that netted me 22k experience and some rep.

I’d like to get to honored with Sporeggar so that I can buy the best AoE grinding shield for pallys, the Petrified Lichen Guard! I only need to complete “Now that we’re still friends…” quest 5 more times before I can get the shield. That shield coupled with a Felsteel Shield Spike is a AoE paladin’s dream!

My pally dinged 68 on Monday morning, just before work. That means I got to equip The Oathkeeper I found on the auction house for 40g!

Today is the day of the much coveted 3.0.2 patch! Ret pallys got an insane amount of buffs this patch. We actually got a good crowd control spell in Repentance! Repentance is like a long range sap.

I’m very excited to play with the new spell and abilities. Ret paladins will now be *very* viable for dps spots in instance groups!

First tanking assignment

petewood — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:11:21 +0000

I tanked The Underbog last night. It was my first attempt at tanking and it was a lot of fun! There were 3 wipes for reasons that I felt were my own. Two wipes on a pull between bosses 2 and 3, just before the hunter boss.

I had to respec to prot last night so that I could tank. I also had to get a 1H sword and a shield. The sword (Blade of Retribution) was a quest reward (from Terokkarantula – which I solo’d as ret) and the shield (Outland Shield of the Beast) was the best one on the AH that I could find. I got a nice set of shoulders out of the run, Truth Bearer Shoulderguards.

I have about 175k experience until I ding 68 and then leveling to 70 will get easier…30% easier! Patch 3.0.2 comes out this Tuesday (10/14/08) and the experience required to level from 60-70 will be decreased by 30%. I’d like to be 68 by then, so that I can advantage of the exp decrease at a fresh level.

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Post tags: instance, prot, tank, terokkar forest, underbog, zangarmarsh

Paladin is almost 70!

petewood — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:25:59 +0000

I went to bed last night only 20k experience from 67 and I had to go to sleep in preparation for coming to work today. I got dressed and showered rather quickly for some reason and had some time to play before work.

I’m in Nagrand at the moment after I flew threw Zangarmarsh and Terokkar Forest. I barely finished the ring of blood quests in Nagrand. I was unlucky enough to be the only healing capable class in the party so once again, I healed as ret. We wiped 3 times on the first boss and finally got to the 3rd before one of the party members had to leave. The tank grew tired of my lackluster healing and called in a 70 lock buddy of his and a 64 holy priest. Despite the help, we wiped once more and then finally finished up the quests. I got the Honed Voidaxe as my reward. This will soon be replaced by The Oathkeeper that I can equip at level 68. Speaking of which, I need to start looking for it in the AH!

Speaking of the AH, I finally replace my paladin’s netherweave bags with some imbued netherweave bags! Ideally, I’d like to have some primal mooncloth bags, but they are ridiculously expensive (300 gold-ish each x 4 = lots o’ gold).

I had one quest to turn in and that gave me 5800 xp and a very easy quest to burn some buildings near the Horde city in Nagrand. So I ran over there and in the process of trying to burn the buildings and killing the mobs in the area, I actually dinged 67! Yay pally!

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