so, I thought I'd share why as destro the RoS fight is easymode.  having a felhunter out to eat the runeshield gimps my dmg...a lot, therefore no aggro worries. in phase 1 I spend ten seconds of dps watching the rogues tanking in case they get low and need a SS.  phase 3 I'm so badly geared compared to the rest of the casters that I could probably dps without salv and still not worry about aggro.  don't know what I'm going to do about my gear/dmg, I almost feel like I'm holding the raid back.

So I tanked a trash run of BT last night for hearts...It was fun and I discovered the place on pudo (hadn't actually ever been there) but again, as soon as the aoe saw me consecrate they started aoeing. how do these silly clothies live with regular tanks?

As you all (those reading this) know, I have a very large dislike for actually talking on vent. Last night we wiped in the last %s (one time at a painful 1%) on Zul'Jin after some rather odd behavior with threat on omen (jas getting aggro after being dead for half the final phase was very very weird).

My question : can a raid leader "lead" while not using their mic? I would like to believe so, but last night that confidence was rocked when nuit stepped out and i was left in de facto charge of Lava Crab for the last two bosses. My instructions and warnings were unheeded or lost, and small catfights broke out after the second wipe. Would this have been avoided if I had actually used my microphone and steered things in a more positive/controlled direction? I don't know. I find it very hard to use my push to talk button while actively using both hands to tank, and I've never ever ever been a fan of leaving my mic open or on sound activate, as somehow or other you'd all get blasted with very un-epatricklike venting of swear words.

My ideal raid is one in which vent is quiet, controlled, and only used for actual necessary commands (the cores on vashj, the tank positions for RoS) ( I don't view bloodboils as being vent necessary, because honestly, if you can't count to three and know which group you're in, fail)

Vent to me has become a cluttered mess of jumbled unfocused stories, random chatter and a smattering of necessary commands/informative suggestions. the cleanest kill I've ever seen was weds teron, where vent was actually SILENT. that's right, nobody talked, we all focused and 24 man'd a BT raid boss. If vent and our raid attitude were like that every night, I feel like we'd be a lot more progressed, but where does the line between excelling at this game by being focused and having fun shooting the shit with your e-friends on vent get drawn? Can you do both? no idea.

So I made a little blood elf on an oceanic server...and i find even leveling it to 20 is very difficult, as I'd rather just /dance her than actually take the time to find quests, kill mobs and turn in items.  Sometimes I wonder how the hell anybody levels a female character with an attractive body type/dance.

Also, I bg'd at 18 and got ripped apart...I thought horde were supposed to be GOOD at pvp or something, maybe we just rolled pvp alliance on the wrong battle group lol. 

Very frustrated by my deaths on the last two archimonde attempts, feared too far from healers while doomfire was ticking after spawning on top of me.  I've become much more bitter in private chat channels of late as well, which bothers me intensely, it's natural to vent, but damn, I've been venting a ton lately.

I've been thinking about it, and my whole WoW tanking strategy comes down to this :

Crowd Control is for Pussies.

 
Motivational

That is all.