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I still need one of the high armor capes from my weaksauce green...Capacitus hasn't dropped thoriumweave in like 20 kills, that prick. And I'm pretty sure my next badge purchase will/should be Ring of Unyielding Force
If you have the Kara quest line tanking ring, I highly urge you to
not waste badges on
Ring of Unyielding Force!!!! Instead, save up for
Ring of the Stalwart Protector (60 Badges). The Kara quest line ring in conjunction with the 60 badge Stalwart ring, will give you a really strong ring combination, and you won't be wasting badges picking up one badge ring only to replace it later with another badge ring.
Other than that, get the badge tanking cloak,
Slikk's Cloak of Placation as priority IMO. It's the best overall feral tanking cloak in the game as far as mitigation goes and there's very few cloaks that you'd use in its place to tank with even if you wanted to aim for other stats instead of pure tanking stats.
Anyway, you're more than fine to tank the entire instance assumming you have a competant 10man group. I'm of the opinion that dpsers doing less than 450dps in most heroics or kara simply do not belong there.
***My own version of a, imo, similar guild situation as the OP; Feel free to skip! At one point my ISP sucked so bad that I had to leave a day guild for another (probably just over half a year ago) that was up much later hours of the night. In that guild there was all sorts of issues ranging from poor tanks to poor healers to poor dpsers. As a tank I think I was the only thing allowing the guild any serious progression. It was like no one cared to put any effort into their characters. They all only logged on for kara, pass or fail for the night and then log off.
I told another druid (the guild master) how to gear himself more appropriately but he would not BG for anything. He had such a strong dissaproval for PVP gear in PVE play to a point that I felt like I was debating with him on the topic more than I should have ever had to. There were so many complications and confusions in the guild on how to gear because on one hand you've got an anti PVP gear guild master that wants to try to tank on druid (but not willing to put in any BG effort at all) and just wants to do kara as dps (200dps; I could do that easily in just white damage) until he gets the gear to tank with, and on the other hand there's people who would /tell to me asking what I thought about different gear options for the varying classes and in a lot of cases some of the comparisons asked of me included S3 belt/bracers/feet and occasionally an arena s3 piece.
There was an obvious issue with the guild master and several other players in the guild, because of this 'guild master's version of the gear you should wear' VS 'this new comer Torzak's version of what you should wear'. And a lot of my suggestions would be in favor of some of the S3 pieces compared to the alternatives I was asked to compare against(The only exception I'd not favor pvp gear would largely be for paladin and warrior tanks). It got to a point that the guild master was always doing a /who on me and b1tch1ng at people in the guild who happened to be in the same instance as me like I was a bad influence or something. When more realistically they went to instances with me as opposed to other tanks in the guild because with me tanking we rarely wiped (and this was before I ever got my first piece of t4 or 5). It was just stupid lmao. I left the guild and shortly after so too did a few others(more or less, the people that did leave all went their own ways). A lot stuck around for far longer than I'd ever have expected, but eventually/recently some others finally left and found themselves in a Hyjal/BT guild (not the one I'm currently in) like a
week after leaving the guild.
My point of this whole ****** paragraph, sometimes guilds hold people back. Held back in terms of progression, held back in terms of friendships, self denying an in guild social life in fear of starting drama, etc etc. A guild from my own two eyes' perspective that wasn't able to reliably clear kara in any portion of the time I was in the guild or even months after I left it, spit out players (in game friends) that were hyjal/bt ready and easily accepted and used consistantly in raids within a whole whopping two weeks of leaving and joining another guild. Just that easily! From kara drama to hyjal/bt. One of the resto druids (someone I email/chat with even outside of the game) ended up with the hyjal tanking staff her first visit to Hyjal.
JeeBar continuously offers insight and help on these forums and often has questions of his own trying to learn how to best approach various situations. I'm seriously of the opinion that on your own, JeeBar, you're easily ready for the task of learning SSC/TK or maybe beyond assumming a guild offered you the chance at it. I'm in no way trying to suggest that your current guild has issues quite exactly the same as something I've before seen, but it should be no secret that guilds can hold players back. And being that it's your subscription fee and your free time, I strongly feel that you, or anyone, should be able to enjoy the game to their fullest potential without being held back.
***END Now let's see how much I fail at linking gear heh.
Edit: Guess I got the gear links right
Edited, Jul 5th 2008 12:04am by Torzak