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Just did Drak. Was the low man at level 74. I tanked. Was awesome.

Tanking is so much fun in wrath. I mean the boss fights are way more engaging. The pulls are AoE easy now pre-heroic but I can all ready see how many will be a PITA on heroic.

The flowers in Nexus will suck on heroic, I dread them all ready.


Anyway just wanted to say that I love the boss fights so far in Wrath. They are way more interesting. Good job Blizz.

The instances I have run are all very well-designed (UK, Nexus, AN, VH) but I still think they're too easy. The only wipe we've had is on end boss in Nexus and that's because dps didn't know they were supposed to move. That's a bit silly given that none of us knew the instance when we went in. I keep remembering Ikiss from Sethekk. Even on normal at 69 it's stressful fighting him because he's so damn tough, even if everyone in the group knows the fight. I have yet to encounter a LK boss that fits in that category, and by perusing the raid threads here and talking to higher lvl guildies it doesn't sound like there's one out there.

As usual I shouldn't open my yap, this time because I've only run Nexus so far, but I found that one run but a bit less challenging than I'd like. The fights were as interesting as Azeroth and TBC dungeons, but it just went a little too smoothly considering we didn't know the dungeon. I'm sure things'll get more difficult and eventually I'll cwy like a widdow baby fow my mama, but man I hope that comes sooner than later.

Because, on a related topic, I'm getting fed up with the simplicity of questing/leveling in Northrend. I swear to god my 4-year-old's Lego Star Wars game is more intellectually challenging, no lie. It requires you to actually use your brain to solve problems, and utilize the special abilities and strengths of various types of characters.

Northrend questing so far has pretty much been click, kill, loot -- except for the few cool new quests where you get a special mount with new abilities. Thems I like.

As far as regular quests, maybe I'm just superawesome ninjacat with whipped cream and leet sauce drizzled on top of me, but so far they're too goddamn easy. The way I remember it, questing back on Azeroth and Outland required some level of cranial activity to avoid or deal with scary multi-mob pulls and exceptional situations. Hell, tackling the campfires of gnolls in Westfall was harder than anything I've had to do in Northrend so far. The gnoll camps in Wetlands come to mind too...maybe I just have an innate fear of gnolls and it's always been this easy. :(

Hell, last night I got 20k experience for...no lie...taking an earth-shaking dump.

/QQoff