Pre-expansion expectations

The players that have been with WoW for more than 2 years knows that there usually is an pre-expansion event, such as earthquakes before Cataclysm and zombie invasion before Wrath of the Lich King.

Knowing this and looking forward to the next expansion coming out in just a couple of weeks I started to wonder where it had gone, so I google'd and voila! This time there is no real event, it is a scenario that you have to queue for. Just like random dungeon finder. The effort put in to that Blizzard!

I must say I am extremely disappointed, I was expecting some sort of event, possibly not as big as before Wrath, but something atleast, not having to queue up for something that will then be available in level 90 aswell!

A world event is suppose to be a one time thing, never to come again, this will always be there and there is nothing special about it.

I specifically remember the pre-Wrath event, the gear, which was back then amazing with cool undead set bonuses and funky looks. Having got a level 70 rogue, that is still sitting there in gear from that event and weapons from Karazhan makes me nostalgic and hoping that Blizzard will do something special for this expansion, because as I see it now, they do less and less to keep their customers happy and expect us to be happy with whatever they decide to give us.

Unfortunately this seems to be the case, more and more young players come on to the scene and everything being new and shiny they don't know how the game used to be, what the game's soul was like before someone baby-fied it. I had my little brother play the game several years ago, he got his own little blood elf paladin and ran around killing wyrms and ghosts, never dying and not needing my help apart from with the english words. He was 8 back then. If he could do it at 8 in the Wrath expansion I have no doubt that a 7 year old, easily impressed, can handle Cataclysm and most probably MoP.

What to do about it? Only ones that can fix this is Blizzard, and we all know they are not going to limit their customerbase by making it a little bit more like BC, with keys and attunements. We all miss it, but we just have to accept the fact that we will never get it back.

Tanking issues

We all need them, we don't particularly like them, but we can't survive without them, yes I am of course talking about tanks.

With the latest patch different tanks have had different boost and nerfs, but now it seems the druid tanks are having some issues. Wanting to check just how bad this is I decided to gear up my druid's tanking gear and give it a go. Having said this I have never tanked with a druid before, but with all the other classes so the only new thing to me was the whole spell and bear thing.

I must say, after doing a lot of reading and speccing and gemming and lining my spells up and decided to go for a Cataclysm normal dungeon to start me up nice and easy. Turns out, aggro is a bitch! I might add that my group consisted of a warlock, death knight and a feral druid with a priest healer, all of them geared for raiding, I had some issues with the warlock and death knight and occasionally druid. So basically all of them!

I have not got the best gear in the world, it is not all ilvl 397 as it could be, but it will get there eventually, i.e. later this week to see if that makes a massive difference or if the druids are just losing the ability to tank. I will try and get some heroics to tank with a few friends that can keep the dps up and challenge me.

I have also got this druid geared up perfectly in healing gear to get healing the DS 10 raids, I must say the mana regen is the worst for druids, but hopefully that will be sorted with even better gear and weekly runs of DS 10 mixed with some heroic bosses.

But this is a post about tanking, so what do you think about the tanking after the patch? Have you experienced that well-geared tanks are losing aggro or are you a tank that just are having issues? Let me know!