Tank like a girl

I am getting closer to getting my Northrend Heroic Dungeonmaster achievement. Two left to go, but I am not looking forward to either: Ahn’kahet and Oculus. I have heard horrible stories from one of the better tanks I know about Ahn’kahet, and yet gaze in envy at his shiny bracers he got there first try. Oculus was my least favorite instance in Northrend, I didn’t enjoy any of the bosses, and I am not looking forward to the Eregos fight whatsoever. Though I possibly hated Mage-Lord Urom more, in a heavy melee DPS group.

I am happy I got Halls of Lightning done, and actually didn’t think it was so bad. I had some booboos because of my G13, but it got a lot smoother further in. Of course we had the obligatory Loken wipes, because our healer just couldn’t run out, but eventually she managed and we got the achievement for killing him in under 2 minutes. Our ret pally does insane, nutso damage, and she’s inspired me to level my own.

On Sunday, we had our second Sartharion raid, which was a bit rocky, with one wipe on the big guy, but the second attempt was pretty awesome, people moved, and as I was on OT healing duty on my shaman, I was bored to tears. So far I actually prefer healing heroics, in raids I don’t get this feeling of urgency. My favorite moment was actually when we tried to kill one of the roaming pats awfully close to Shadron, someone facepulled him and when the portal went up, one of the other healers and a DPS hopped into the portal, though the tanks were awfully busy tanking the pat + Shadron as well. They died inside the portal and from that point on I was OT and raid healer, huzzah! I actually had something to do, yay. See, this never happens with tanking, but healing can get boring when there’s little to do.

After Sartharion, we hit H CoS as one of our warriors would like to have the shield from there. We decided to try for the drake run, which I have never successfully done before, and bam, we did it, with 2 minutes to spare. I was so stoked! I didn’t win the drake, but that’s fine, I’d rather have it on Kadomi anyway.

Saturday we’ll start Naxx. I am excited. I have done a lot of prep work, much reading, lots of videos, and I think we have a good shot at making good progress quickly. It looks like I’ll have to heal on the first day, but the second scheduled day I will get to tank, which makes me just giddy. It’s going to rock. I definitely want to have spider wing cleared on Saturday, maybe we can clear Plague as well. Wish me luck!

I keep mentioning achievements here and there. Who else thinks they’re like crack? I mean, there is no point to the score, it’s not as if I can buy anything with my 3.5k points, and still, I want more. I am currently working on the coins fishing achievement in Dalaran. Nutso!

I managed to complete the Lunar Festival achievements and got my Elder title, and got tons of rep out of the whole deal, bringing my kodo closer to reality. As I leveled to 60 in vanilla WoW, my horde rep is pitifully low. Thank you, Lunar Festival!

Then I started Valentine’s achievements, and before I knew what was going on, I tried to get my title. Like a ton of people out there, I didn’t actually make it because I only got the candy bag once. If I should really be so nuts and try for the drake, it should be easy next year. And thus Blizzard binds us, like slaves. One game to rule them all.

Oh, I am working on the Chef title as well, but can’t get Stormchops as reward, it’s driving me mad. That’s just about the only thing keeping me from completing it. Madness, I say, madness.