Ahn’kahet: The Old Kingdom

Before you start, be sure to pick up the extra daily quest outside the instance near the meeting stone. When you enter the instance, the first mobs you come across are the Ahn’kahar Watchers, they’re a carbon copy of the Ahn’kahar Slashers, who have three abilities: cleave, Enrage, and Triple Slash. Triple Slash seems to have an infinite range, which under normal circumstances doesn’t matter, but hey, now you know. Upon death the Watchers will drop a Ahn’kahar Watcher's Corpse, which if you were paying attention, is needed for the quest. The Deep Crawler’s have two abilities: Glutinous Poison, which causes all abilities to cost 25% more, and Fatal Sting which is a dot that they will cast when they get low on health.

Utgarde Keep

Immediately in front of you when you enter the instance will be the first pull, which is two Dragonflayer Ironhelms, nothing spectacular, they do have Second Wind though. Beyond that you’ll see 7 mobs, a mix of Dragonflayer Metalworkers and Dragonflayer Weaponsmiths, there will be two metalworkers at each anvil, and the 3 weaponsmiths will walk around, crossing between the two anvils, and going back behind the anvils to the weapon racks, pulling these can be a bit tricky depending on where they’re standing, don’t be ashamed to take your time. The Weaponsmiths can stun and disarm, and the Metalworkers have an enrage.

I just hit or am about to hit 80: Now what?

First things first: the magic number to hit as far as defense is 540 or 535, note that there are combinations of Resilience and Defense that can add up to the required crit reduction, you’re looking for a total of 4.39% or 4.35% crit reduction, depending on if you’re doing heroics or raids. Before you step foot into PuG heroics you’ll want to get a few normal instances under your belt.

Blogging, the start

Hey, everyone. Welcome to my first blog, which is all about the tanking aspect of World of Warcraft. For now I'll be using Blogspot to host my blogging entries, but I think I'll eventually switch over to Wordpress or some other blogging software. Maybe then, I'll have some time to think of a more creative name for my blogging site—but we'll worry about that later. :) Anyways, I'll be releasing some entries in the near future, which is going to be less about theorycrafting and numbers and more about playing style, guild relations, the emotional points of tanking—maybe a few numbers and whatever once in a while. I'll also focus more on heroics and Naxxramas than the end-game content. Lastly, I'll try to keep this mostly about the beginning phases of tanking, which is a very rough time because, speaking from experience, you're constantly being told you don't have enough of XYZ stat to tank. In case you're wondering, I have an Alliance warrior—Vivilros on Lightning's Blade—which isn't necessarily the best geared, in the best guild, or doing the best content, but I enjoy her all the same. Anyway, enough talking, and let the tanking discussion begin!