Trial of the Crusader
I’ve been doing the new 5 man, a lot. Even the normal version drops decent loot, and heck my druid really wants the shiny new tanking trinket. Oh, yes.. you heard me right. Tanking trinket. Since the nerfbat hit Death Knights, and Warriors still MIA, I’ve been asked to tank. The irony is, quite simply, now that everyone wants me to, I don’t want to anymore. I’m not too sure why not .. I can’t quite pin down when I stopped wanting to do it, or why.
Something funny happened in fact, before the patch I wasn’t used to tanking, I never had to. My first time taking my druid in the new instance though, I was with my usual group but all on their alts. Only this time around, my druid was the only tank. Sure sure.. I’ll tank, no problem. After waiting for everyone to be ready we entered the instance, and I hopped on a horsie to begin the jousting. As usual, we went through the motions no sweat. After a few times in there it gets easier – you learn tricks like jumping onto a new mount before you’re dismounted – yes you can do that. So, practiced and ready we charged ahead. Then phase 2 began, and we were all blindsided as the mobs plowed through the group. We regularly chat on Ventrilo, and it wasn’t until the group was nearly dead that I heard someone call out “Go bearform! Bearform!!”
/duck
/facepalm
I couldn’t believe it. In the hurry to start up the event, I’d forgotten I was the tank. Really, it’s so confusing when the two voices you’re used to being the tanks are playing clothie classes. I sat there, helpless as the mobs rushed me. I didn’t even have time to switch form. I couldn’t have tanked in cat spec and without a healer even if I had wanted to.
Well we didn’t have time to finish before the raid so we reformed into a 10 man, and everyone unanimously agreed we wanted to see the new raid too.
/duck
/facepalm
The new 10 man, NORMAL version, is tweaked for a geared T8 team. We’re a T7.5 and Ulduar 10 team. Heck it’s close. If not for the addon issues we were having in addition to the difficulty level, we might have seen the first boss! So, we left many deaths later, all full of the sad humiliation of defeat. Complete and total failure. Something I can honestly say the raid is not used to. /sadface
The Undying
Spore Loser (10 player)
Three Car Garage (10 player)
Once Bitten, Twice Shy (25 player)
Boned (25 player)
The Frozen Throne (10 player)
Make Quick Werk Of Him (10 player)
The Plagueworks (10 player)
I'm on a Boat (10 player)
Well looking this over, I can reflect back now and I realize that our raid team was confused for their first time in there, so less than being undergeared, we just simply weren’t doing things right. Since then this guy has become quite the pushover to us, Lord Jeraxus too.