Tanking - A Tauren's Perspective (literally)Follow

Taurens looks freaking sweet in tank gear.

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Size matters; you've tanked as a bear so you know how irritating it can be. But the +5% health is so amazing I'd say it's worth the pain to go cow.

Yeah, right there is my concern. Azjol'Nerub is a pain even with a normal-sized character. It's one wrong move and you don't see anything at all. That place seems to be an extreme though. I just don't want to be blind in places that seem normal right now, if that makes any sense.

Doesn't help that for the first 20 levels I'll be seeing nothing but the Great Plains *shudders*

Off topic, but I have an overabundance of Stone Keeper's Shards. I've been thinking about getting the -leather- shoulders for the 10% extra xp. Any reason not to have maximum armor in a single slot while leveling? Probably not, eh? My reasoning of course being that this will be my last plate class on that realm, I won't get to wear plate before level 40, and leather of course being handy if I ever decide to roll a hunter, rogue, or druid on that server.

I thought you were going alliance -> horde? You can't share gear across that boundry.

Guess I wasn't clear enough then. I have several Alliance 70's on one realm - including a human warrior. I took a WoW break last summer after getting fed up with things. I got back into playing about a month before the WotLK release. It turned out that I had just missed a free migration thingie which would have solved most of my "issues" with that overpopulated realm.

Rather than paying for a transfer though I just re-rolled on another realm, and went with Horde to make things appear even more different. I leveled up a Belf priest there, and when Wrath came out I added an Orc DK to it. Both of them are 80s now.

Now I'm working on the baby warrior, which will eventually result in having two plate-wearing melee classes there. That's why I said I'm not going to create another plate class on that server. Rogue or druid are much more likely, maybe even a hunter or shammy since I always thought of shammies being rather cool to play, but I just couldn't stand looking at those tentacled, horse-legged Draenei dudes.

As you can see, a pair of leather shoulders bought for a Tauren warrior would benefit just about everything I might roll on that realm in the future, with the exception of Mage and Warlock. I'll never play a lock, tough, and I think it's more likely that I'll end up with another druid rather than a mage.

My Alliance toons are very much retired. I logged in and played a bit with the 3.0.2 talents (which is why I was blown away by the way Prot has changed), but with the exception of my druid there (75 now) I'm not playing on that realm anymore. Just waiting for the next migration offer. But even if I could get those toons moved elsewhere, there will never be a new Alliance character, simply because I already have everything I would ever play from that faction.