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I love it. I simply cannot get enough of it. As I posted in the accomplishment thread the other day, my paladin dinged level 70 at approximate 2 am on April 26. I had about 5 pieces of gear waiting for him and when I dinged 70 I was already uncrittable with about 11.5k HP and over 60% passive avoidance.

Since then I have tanked everything I could get a group for. I even got dragged into a heroic Slave Pens by a desperate group and the run went fine without a single death.

The only problem I'm having is I'm simply addicted to tanking with my pally. I love the rush of having entire groups of mobs beating on me at one time with just some guy I don't know throwing heals on me to keep me alive.

I think what got me hooked was a Shattered Halls run the other day. We got to that point towards the end where there are the gladiators on the sides fighting and the groups of 5-6 mobs in the middle of the walkway. Well at one point we pulled one of the side groups and out hunter's pet pulled the next group of 6 mobs as well. I threw out a taunt on the hunter's pet and laid down and fresh consecrate and tanked all 9-11 mobs at once. I actually think our healer had a heart attack when he saw 11 mobs on me, but he managed to keep me alive and nobody died.

Maybe I have been blessed with better than average PUGs so far. Maybe pally tanking in 5-mans really is just easy-mode. I really can't say.

What I can say is, "I can't stop doing it!!!".

Edited, Apr 27th 2008 10:29pm by Bigdaddyjug

It really is, doesnt make it any less awesome though. :P

Tanking is addictive, I finally learned to tank recently and basically never do 5 mans as holy anymore (even though i'll have to spec back to holy to raid!)

tanking is alot of fun. i've been holy for months and months and months, finally wanted to mix it up, healed kara and collected a tanking set, now im prot in full epics and its awesome.

note on gnome tanking- our guild old MT was a gnome... seeing a gnome charge in at VR is probbaly the funniest thing i've ever seen in wow. i had a screenshot somewhere though i cant find it atm

I got into a very strange Shattered Halls group tonight.

They were almost to the 2nd boss (which I didn't care about I was only there for the trinket Bladefist drops) and the group was 2 shamans, 1 resto 1 ele, both in full PVP gear, a rogue in full PVP gear, and a prot warrior.

Well we all know prot pallies are kind of useless as DPS, and I don't have anywhere near a decent healing set yet to even try and offheal. The prot warrior didn't even have a 2nd weapon so he could go prot DW DPS.

Well no sooner than I ask "who's tanking" then all 3 members other than the warrior say "You are". It made me feel really good to have them want me to tank, even though they were past the part of the instance that pally tanks make trivial.

Sadly, the trinket didn't drop. I did get the Lightsworn Hammer for a healing weapon though!!!

I must whole-heartedly disagree with this blasphemy! I might have agreed, but Gnomes can't be Palys :P

It is funny to see a spec of flesh tanking a big bad boss, but Palys still > Gnomes. 'nuf said.

I dunno. Pallies are really the only class I enjoy tanking with, but male, female, whatever, not much can beat the hilarity of a Gnome tank. Most of the time you can't even see them in a crowd, all you can see is this big gaggle of monsters running around chasing... something.

There's just something inherently Loony-Toonish about it.

Typically that person is me. Screaming and bashing keys in a desperate race to keep you alive. I dont know if I should love or hate paladin tanks, on one hand great for survivability and quick runs. The other hand is me crying "why me" as its a none-stop rollercoaster till we either make it or die.

Lots of fun, yes?

*edit - sorry, may be mistaken for sarcasm, its not - it really can be fun.

Edited, May 1st 2008 11:52am by Skarlandra

WUAAAAAAAHHHHHH!I can't wait to be 70 <O><O>!Protection here i come.Cap jack.How can you tank as a ret pally.unless you respecc before.o.O I'm ret now but only level 29.I get 4 or 5 mobs on me and i'm in trouble lol fast death....= NO THANKS!