An Introduction

Recently, a discipline priest tired of green-bar whackamole looked across servers to her old warrior alt, a dusty Forsaken sitting just below the level cap in Karazhan epics and a shoddy Riot Shield. Thinking of faction transfers and tanking fun, the discipline priest did transfer that warrior alt over to Moonglade-EU, where she began her Ravasaur dailies and the grinding of Horde tournament pets in preparation for the big faction swap. The warrior alt reached 80 through dailies and the discipline priest did rub her hands together in anticipation of faction transfer's release onto the EU realms.

The release has come. The warrior remains Forsaken.

Horde-side has endeared itself to me. Moonglade is a low population server at the best of times, but with a 2:1 faction ratio in favour of the Alliance, the Horde really have it small. What you do in PuGs has lasting repercussions. This means people are far less inclined to be asshats, making it a remarkably cushy place to make all the mistakes one does when first learning. That said, I've still run into a few classist, gearist idiots: the sort that left me well alone when I was first doing heroics as my priest but are suddenly far more vicious when my health isn't a comfortable 30k.

The result of all this, anyway, is a desire to write about my experiences getting into tanking post-3.2. The warrior blogosphere is already blessed with Tankingtips.com and Tank Like a Girl, but both of those are written from the perspective of a veteran warrior. I hope to provide a different viewpoint on it all, complete with adequate confusion where necessary. ;)