Tepisor on January 27, 2008 under
It’s actually a short story I like to tell whenever I hear remarks like “Nice, you tank good!”.
As I already told you, this is my first WoW character. When I started playing I had no idea about what to do: what spec to chose, what gear to ware, in which talents should I invest talent points in, etc. So I looked at the talent tree and I had three options: Holy, Protection and Retribution.
I didn’t want to chose Holy because I didn’t want to heal. I wanted to do damage. Protection wasn’t appealing for me also because, again, I wanted to do damage! So I was left with Retribution.
I stayed Retribution from level 10 to about level 40ish. I can’t really remember when I switched Protection, but I can recall that I was doing a Maraudon run with me tanking and my first epic dropped. That’s the earliest thing I can remember of me being a tank.
Getting back on the subject, I was telling you about a little story that opened my eyes to Paladin tanking. I was around level 25 and together with Revlon we were searching for a group to Gnomeregan. Enough to say we didn’t have much luck, but right when we wanted to give up, a brave Draenei Paladin knight, Dracthelaen, came and boosted us through. Yes, he was Protection.
I just loved how he just rushed into the instance, gathered whole packs of mobs without the fear of dieing. And he just kept going and going and going. I was mesmerized to say the least. Of course, he was like 20 or 30 levels above the instance. But still, I got boosted before by a mage, warrior or even holly paladins and nothing compared to Protection Paladins.
So thank you Drac for opening my eyes to Paladin tanking.
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Hey Tepi!
Saw the link in your app, and I’ve looked a bit around. Everything looks good, and I’m glad I’ve had a positive influence on your wow experience.
Hope to see you on DS soon - will be just like the old days ^^
Untill then - take care
hi there,
i just read your little story. the same happened to me. i have as a first char a shaman draenei enhancement. i went into blackrock deep. sorry if i get some names wrong, cause i play on a german server. well, we had two paladins with us and we went at the end into this huge hall (sure you all know what i am talking about) and trying to get the torches. to cut a long story short, we were attacked by dozens of the little dwarves and we all soon died. only the two palas were still there (holy and prot) and after the mobs just came back all the time with no time to recover the holy died too. so here i am, sitting in front of the pc, and watch the prot paladin dying, but after maybe 15 minutes and a lot of more mobs coming his way. i was sooooo impressed and now am starting to build a bloodelf prot pala.
dabor