Brutally Honest

Song of the Post: Arch Enemy – Revolution Begins

So yes, I have started this blog and I already screwed up.

I broke one of the rules when starting a blog that I need to have a subject for my blog.  Whether it be about a specific class, RPing, PvP, or whatever.  My blog?  Its just about WoW in general, my thoughts about WoW and the stuff I am doing in game I suppose.

When I was considering making a blog, I did not want to pigeon hole myself into a specific class.  I mean I love my druid, don’t get me wrong, but there are plenty of druid specific blogs out there that I do not need to do that.  I do have a new 70 hunter that I have been playing mostly as of late, however it is an alt and, again, plenty of great hunter blogs out there.

So besides my thoughts and opinions on classes and WoW in general, the thing I thought of that I could bring to the table is my passion for music.  If I am not on Vent, I have my music blaring through my headphones.  PvPing while the heavy riffs of In Flames, Pantera, Megadeth or Iron Maiden are blasting in my ears gets me pumped!  Of course I listen to some other genres, but metal is what flows through my blood.  So I thought, why not combined WoW and music?  Hence the name of my blog.

Will this mean i will be making music that is WoW themed?  Possibly.  I play the guitar so anything is possible.  Could be parodies, could be original music, who knows?  At this point, I am having fun writing this blog and I am just going to go with the flow.  Hopefully I can get access to a free photo editing program so I can put some pictures up and a logo.

Character Sheet:

• Loupe is just sitting around Shat, doing nothing really.  He really wants to tank something, but alas, the guild is still on a raiding hiatus.  He wants to break some faces!!
• Lorkey purchased his S3 Axe last night!  So far he has the S2 shoulders and crossbow.  Hopefully he will be able to get the Guardian’s belt at some point this weekend
• Lorccan has been getting a lot of attention lately due to the Refer-A-Friend program.  He hit 32 last night along with his wifey mage Squirtie.  Now that he is starting to go deeper in the shadow tree, it is getting a lot of fun!  The leveling rate is going super fast and he hopes to be 60 soon so he can melt faces in the Outlands.  Brutal.
• And good ol’ Wrathbringer, hasn’t been logged into in a long time ::cries::.  R.I.P bud!

Just remember, The Duncan will awake you from a thousand deaths!  Seriously.

I am not a writer

Song of the Post:  Trivium – Iron Maiden (just recently heard this cover, it is killer!)

So then, why am I writing a blog?

I should probably start with how I found out about blogging about Warcraft in the first place.  You see, I had been playing my horde mage for 2 years, raiding the 40 mans and some of the 10/25 man content during that time and I was burnt out.  I needed a break from the insanity!  So some of my close friends started playing Warcraft on a different server so I figured I would make the jump and start fresh (even though they rolled Alliance, but thats OK I forgive them.)  I decided on a Druid to originally be a healer based on the group make up we had.  Once our characters got into the outlands, we merged with another guild who had very smiliar goals as us:  To have enough people to run just 5 man/10 man content and be a casual group.  It was and still has been a perfect fit, but we had no tanks due to one of my friends who rolled a warrior quit the game.  They had some healers so we were set in that department.  So I decided to switch to feral and learn about tanking.

But I had no clue what I was doing!  What I went through during my “lrn2droodtank” process:

“Gee, look at this Growl button, I think that is good for something”

 “So Swipe doesn’t equal perma aggro on everything??”

“And Swipe breaks CC?  Really?”

“I can’t just run in the middle of all of those mobs and survive?  I thought I was a tank!?”

“Lacerate?  I actually get to use that?”

“Defense?”

And my personal favorite as well as my guildmates:

“Dammit guys, I am sorry I know why we wiped 3 times on the first pull.  I had my kitty gear on “

Good times, good times.

So I figured it was time to do some research.  The first thing that I can accross was a gear guide that had a very strange, but true to druid tanking name for a blog.  That, if you guessed it, is The Big Bear Butt. I was very impress with how he had everything laid out, so I checked out some other articles he had in regards to “face tanking” and I found them to be very helpful and helped me become a better tank.  So much, in fact that about a couple of weeks later, I was able to off tank in Kara with no problems at all.

Anyways I would consider BBB a gateway drug that led me to other fantastic blogs to read (Just check my Blogroll.)  It was then I was introduced to a new podcast The Twisted Nether Blogcast.  It is a fantastic podcast that talks about the Warcraft blogging community that I had no idea exsisted.  Breana and Fimlys do a great job and have good chemistry with each other.  They also bring to the table something different from the other WoW podcasts.  I really like hearing about all the other bloggers and their stories.

So between how helpful and good of a community the blogsphere can be, I wanted to be involved.  Hopefully I can bring something different to the table and share my experiences from my perspective.

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