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01-15-2010, 04:03 PM
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The Care and Feeding of Warriors is WoW.com's weekly column for all things angry and clanky. Matthew Rossi writes it, when he's not busy being angry and clanky.
Lately I get plenty of tanking action in raids, to the point where I honestly don't want to do it in PuG's. When musing about it the other day I realized that I'm too used to hard modes and progression when tanking: I demand perfection of myself to such a degree that I get tense and stressed over the smallest error in execution. This is possibly admirable (when not taken too far) in a raid setting on a new boss where strategies are being tested and modified constantly and everything's on the razor's edge between being able to pass the checks inherent to the content.
It's not when you're PuGging Halls of Lightning for a couple of extra Emblems of Frost.
In fact, what can help you get past Rotface (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=36627) is downright madness causing when heading down to Loken (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=28923). At this point, Loken holds no surprises, and neither does the trash. Being a tanking perfectionist just leads you to tend towards freaking the heck out over stupid crap bored people do, and that's turning the game from fun to a drag for yourself. (It probably does for them, too, but they can look out for themselves.) Lately, I've taken to running the random daily and any 10 mans I PuG on my own as DPS, just to get a break from my own self-imposed desire to try for flawless execution. (I'm not saying I ever accomplish that, by the way, just that I want to.)
And I have to say: fury got good again when I wasn't looking.Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Destroyer (http://www.wow.com/2010/01/15/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-destroyer/)
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The Care and Feeding of Warriors is WoW.com's weekly column for all things angry and clanky. Matthew Rossi writes it, when he's not busy being angry and clanky.
Lately I get plenty of tanking action in raids, to the point where I honestly don't want to do it in PuG's. When musing about it the other day I realized that I'm too used to hard modes and progression when tanking: I demand perfection of myself to such a degree that I get tense and stressed over the smallest error in execution. This is possibly admirable (when not taken too far) in a raid setting on a new boss where strategies are being tested and modified constantly and everything's on the razor's edge between being able to pass the checks inherent to the content.
It's not when you're PuGging Halls of Lightning for a couple of extra Emblems of Frost.
In fact, what can help you get past Rotface (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=36627) is downright madness causing when heading down to Loken (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=28923). At this point, Loken holds no surprises, and neither does the trash. Being a tanking perfectionist just leads you to tend towards freaking the heck out over stupid crap bored people do, and that's turning the game from fun to a drag for yourself. (It probably does for them, too, but they can look out for themselves.) Lately, I've taken to running the random daily and any 10 mans I PuG on my own as DPS, just to get a break from my own self-imposed desire to try for flawless execution. (I'm not saying I ever accomplish that, by the way, just that I want to.)
And I have to say: fury got good again when I wasn't looking.Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Destroyer (http://www.wow.com/2010/01/15/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-destroyer/)
Filed under: Warrior (http://www.wow.com/category/warrior/), Instances (http://www.wow.com/category/instances/), Raiding (http://www.wow.com/category/raiding/), (Warrior) The Care and Feeding of Warriors (http://www.wow.com/category/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors/)
The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Destroyer (http://www.wow.com/2010/01/15/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-destroyer/) originally appeared on WoW (http://www.wow.com) on Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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