Just Another Tank

Welcome one and all!

I’ll direct you to the ‘About’ page if you wish to know a bit more about me, otherwise stick around here and we’ll tell tales by the campfire!

Well, here’s some of my WoW history (copied from an e-mail I wrote a while back, updated since then!)

I started playing WoW back in September / October of 2007, a couple of close friends played and pestered me to join them.  I rolled a Human Rogue (Shajona) and slowly levelled him to 70, the day I hit 70 my guild took me into Kara and the raiding bug hit me.  We raided twice weekly through Kara eventually moving onto Gruul and Maggy around mid-summer of 2008.  After we’d decided we had them on farm status we hit SSC and it pretty much beat us down, so we hit TK instead.  Downing Loot-Reaver and Solarian but not really progressing any further on the other bosses.  We attempted them, but the proved to be a bit too tricky for the majority of players we had.

We waited for the 3.0 patch nerf to hit and went and cleared through the content we’d previously been unable to take, I don’t believe we downed any final bosses but we just wanted to see what the fights we’d attempted were like.  After we did those we gave BT a try as lots of our members wanted to see that place before WotLK hit.

When WotLK came about I started levelling my rogue, at level 73 I got a little bored and decided to see what all the fuss with Death-Knights was about, well the Rogue hasn’t really got a look-in since that day!  I played the DK (Schnoobins) as DPS but always kept a set of tanking gear available if needed.

In May / April (I forget when exactly) months ago I quit my old guild (DeMons), of which I was a founding member, officer, webmaster and I lived with the 2 GL’s who set it up.  The reasons for leaving I shan’t go into here.

The 2 ex-GL’s and another Senior Officer (also a founding member) left as well, we formed a new guild to play casually, and just have fun.  As such my main-role and main-spec was now for tanking and I build up a half-decent set of gear for it too.

Whilst in this small casual guild, one of the paladin healers (who is one of the single best players I’ve played with) left to join a very high-ranked (#2 at the time) guild on the server.  He informed me they were looking for a new tank, I applied, not holding much hope and after a couple of interviews with the Guild, Raid and Class leaders, I read the words: “I’d like to give you a try as a trial tank, you up for it?” to Which I replied: “Yeah!  That sounds awesome!” but in my mind?  “Oh shit… this is going to be intense.”

That night?  First raid with the guild, clearing up an Ulduar-25 run they’d started earlier in the week, the 2 bosses left?  General Vezax and Yogg-Saron.  I’d never even downed XT-002 on 25-man and not seen past Auri..Auryi… that cat woman on 10-man! *gulp*

So, raiding with them went well.  As well as it could go for a few weeks until 90% of the raiders upped and left.  Some server transferring, others joining other guilds.  For various reasons out of anyone’s control, the guild fell apart.

Now I’m back with the Guild I was with when I started this game (I was a level 5 founding member of it!) and it’s fun, they’re up to Yogg-Saron on 10-man and just last night I was tanking with them in ToC-10 normal dowining The Beasts and Lord Jaraxxus.

So that’s that, a big ol’ wall of text but it gives some background.  I shan’t write much more as you must be rubbing your eyes from starting at the computer screen.

So for now…
/hugs /love and all things purple-shiny
-Brunty