Respec Out Of Noobness
I realized my Warrior spec was highly inoptimal yesterday. I always got Arms and Fury trees mixed up, and I ended up putting points in BOTH (about 7 in both), plus having 17 in Protection. Sooo... I respec'd. Now I'm something like 0/13/15, specializing properly in one-handed weapons, dual wielding. I didn't even get to test it out before I was...
Invited To Maraudon
Some of the folks on my Friends list started out as guildmates but have moved on to raiding guilds and have done WAY more content than I will probably ever see.
A husband and wife couple decided to take a breather from their nightly raids of 70s dungeons for parts of the Kharazan key, hopped on their sub-60 alts, asked me if I wanted to go to Maraudon with them, and then filled out the party with more of their raiding partners.
Our team consisted of:
45 Mage
45 Warrior
57 Warrior
55 Shaman
69 Priest
The 57 warrior lead the party, and while he didn't seem to know what direction he was supposed to be going, he sure lead us well through to the Princess.
The Shaman was resto and did a GREAT job at healing, and the Priest was high enough level that she resisted a lot of the poison attacks from the mobs and could tank some of the basilisks with us. I tried to be a good little tank and peel aggro off of her whenever I could, but at 45 it was tough at times.
The healing in general was awesome - here I was, a little 45 fury/prot spec warrior, offtanking the "smallest" mob in the group, and I was still up against 47-48 elites. I died two times in the whole dungeon despite this obvious handicap!
I saw a lot of "cleansing" effects going on while we were fighting - basilisks that silence and require the mage to dispel magic, oozes that poison and require the Priest to cleanse... and... can Shaman cleanse anything? I'm sure if he can, he had to in that dungeon. Lots of paying attention to just keeping the DoTs off of the crew, nevermind making any kind of DPS themselves in some spots. This dungeon will be more interesting to me when I get my Mage and Priest up there and have to play support. I still have so much learning to do when it comes to cleansing of debuffs!
I was a lucky girl in this party, or Maraudon is set up to deck out Warrior tanks! I'm not even high enough level to wear any of the boss-drops that I won, but I still won three! I've got a lot of grinding to do...
Grovekeeper\'s Drape
Binds when picked up
BackCloth
37 Armor
+12 Stamina
+10 Nature Resistance
Requires Level 47
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Helm of the Mountain
Binds when picked up
HeadPlate
683 Armor
+10 Nature Resistance
Requires Level 48
Equip: Increases defense rating by 10.
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Elemental Rockridge Leggings
Binds when picked up
LegsPlate
496 Armor
+18 Stamina
+20 Strength
+10 Nature Resistance
Requires Level 49
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What kinds of things are nature-related attacks that I could be resisting with this gear? I guess I need to do some research.
Ding... 46!
Once I turned in the three quests we had finished inside Maraudon, I was less than 2000 experience away from level 46, so I went out into the lands of Tanaris and killed random mobs near the town until I dinged. Then I headed to Orgrimmar and trained up my level 46 skills. I got an improved version of Sunder Armor, plus the next rank of Charge as well as some other things I can't remember.
And while I needed to end my playing there for the night, I'm still sitting with over 50% rest bonus in place, so maybe I can grind my way to 47 and be able to wear that cloak!