A while back I mentioned my glee at tanking Prince Malchezaar for the first time but in the last few weeks I’ve trumped that personal best!

Since the patch went live there have been pugs aplenty going through Gruul and Magtheridon - now I usually wouldn’t touch 25-man raid pugs with a 10ft barge pole but I figured that post-patch it wouldn’t be too bad and there was a guildie heading along with them. Now, there were the usual mishaps and mess-ups which happen with pugs (loot was a nightmare) but I walked away with the biggest prize of all - I main-tanked Gruul and Maggy!

Again, I know, it’s not so amazing for all you BT / MH / SWP tanks but for my little baby druid this was above and beyond my dreams tanking wise.  When I joined the pug I was asked for stats and immediately placed as ‘main tank’.  Oh crap, thinks I, I’ve never tanked these, hell, I’ve only been to Gruul and Magtheridon maybe twice ever.

Oh well, I have a fair knowledge of the boss abilities even so - what the hell.  Lets do this!

On the tanky side of things since the patch, my tps has gone up by more than double.  I am specced into every bear talent I can get my grubby paws on and was using the same gear as I was pre-patch (which I might need to re-evaluate a bit as it was pretty heavy on defence which we no longer need…)

A lot of the excess armor on gear was turned into strength or stamina etc. but on the whole I’d say tanking is so much easier now it’s unbelievable.  Even with the big dps boosts everyone else got very few people came even close to me on threat - a nice change to pre-patch where my high defensive gear didn’t lend itself well to high tps.  Oh, also, rage for dodging with a dodge rate which was as high as 50% at times? OMNOMNOMNOM.

Now to go learn how to kitty-dps again! Bleargh.