New places, new faces, new shiny maces

PREFACE: As a certain mildly grumpy witch might say, “I aten’t dead”. I’ve just been struggling to find the time to write, and also deliberately holding my tongue on some of the things I wanted to write about just in case they didn’t work out. Alas may end up regretting her gentle prodding in my… Continue reading New places, new faces, new shiny maces

On dungeon finder leveling

I’ve leveled my mage, Centrella, from the 30s through to 80 principally using the dungeon finder (although I’ve quested in the downtime between groups). Some entirely unsurprising observations below: Aggro management seems to be quite tricky for lower-level tanks. Even accounting for people who are still learning to tank, and that when I started doing… Continue reading On dungeon finder leveling

Life interrupts

Just a quick advance warning. I’m heading off to beautiful Lisbon (yay!) to work on a conference (boo, hiss) for the next couple of weeks so there’ll be none of the usual insightful (ha!) content you all (HA!) come here for (HA*coughsplutter*!). Just to keep the cobwebs off, I’ve taken a quick trawl through my… Continue reading Life interrupts

Nice tanks

Sorry, that title was just a ruse to lure you in.  They were actually awful. Originally, it was supposed to be a run where two of us (both DPSers) with recently-dinged 80s could scrape up some loot. Another guildie, a shadow priest who does fairly hefty DPS, was coming along, which was handy – he’d… Continue reading Nice tanks