For a change

Hello and Welcome to my first Protection based post!
but i am not going to be talking about how protection paladins are functioning now in 3.2, i am going to talk about my DS (Dual spec) protection experience.
i think i've mentioned in the first posts that i've been a protection paladin after i gave up my Troll protection warrior, my love Old Almaster.
back when protection paladins were the ultimate AOE tanks.
i am not going to get deep in that, i just wanted to show you something i saw last night while i was in 10 man Ulduar.
Now my last guild raid was like 2 months ago, and after that i didnt get myself into any raids but TOC Heroic 10 man, and that was just to see whats in there.
i was bored last night, and saw a late night guild LF1M Healer for Ulduar 10 man, so i said WTH, i will go, i miss raiding.

So we ran a smooth Ulduar, we killed the keepers then called it a day since it was 7 am server time when we are done, and people had to sleep/go to work.

we got Heartbreaker for 10 man, i tried to get this achievement before 3.2 and it was kinda easy, but we didnt get it when we did tried it, so i am proud to say that i got it now.



i also got T8 protection pants, and after i gemmed it and enchanted it, i noticed something...




my gear is weird, way too weird.

if you noticed, i still use my T6 helm, i enchanted it and gemmed it with WOTLK enchants and gems.


i also have T7.5 shoulders

and a T8 pants

so lets see, T6, 7.5 and 8, what else is weird?

well lets see, i still use my trinket from Hydross, SSC

and the other trinket is from H-AN

i have a rare tanking axe and shield from naxx 25, back when i was leading naxx and no one needed them, i scooped them in-case i wanted to go prot again.


and have nothing to fear, i have a tanking chest from 10 man naxx

all i need now is something from OS, and i will have a single piece from every instance in WOTLK, and 2 pieces of gear from TBC.
my hp is kinda good, with buffs i can hit 33k HP which is kinda good


and my stats aren't bad either,


now i know how people Like ensidia and top raiding guilds were able to do raiding while they were in T6, you only need to socket them with WOTLK gems, and enchant them properly, and you can get an almost T7 quality items.

Holy paladin, and out!

Heroics all day long, is that all what you do?

I liked the post from A touch of arcane blog, sadly, i disagree with most of what he said.

so i am going to post this:

I hate WotLK heroic dungeons, and I liked TBC ones. They're difficulty level is bad, and you can master all the fights in heroic dungeons as soon as you lvl 80, i remember being in 1 T6 left on me when i got champion of the frozen wastes (with only 10 man Malygos down).
In BC Heroics, it was hard to master an instance unless you have been working hard on your gear, enchanting and socketing the gear properly, and picking up items with the stats that you need, not only because the item has crit and its plate you should need it, look at the other stats too.
I had the chance to run BC Heroics with 3 Characters, one of them was my dear Troll warrior, the second was my Shaman, Shamanezem,the third was my lock Elmaster, and the forth was this paladin, and on each character i had some strong points and weak points in those instances, healing in a pally is different than healing in a shaman thats for sure, but the instances overall were hard, when you kill a boss, you'd feel the joy of killing it, i had champion of the naruu for the warrior, the lock and the shaman, i have to say that there were a lot of tears to get this done for the three characters, but i had it done anyways, it took me like 3 months of just doing heroics.
i had to wait a day or 2 just to make a group go to heroic shattred halls, and it would fall apart before 2nd or 3rd boss, that place was hell, but for me, the harder the instance is, the better.

the following is the things i agree with Dreaming (the owner of that blog) so i will be keeping it the same with no changes.

Ok, so I love heroics. But I don't like the badge change of patch 3.2 ... why? It has sent everyone (and their 3 years old sister) into heroics again! So why would I be upset of it?
The reason is simple: we nearly don't raid anymore. People don't see any interest into going in a raid to wipe a few times (at least) during the night and down at most 5 bosses (if we're lucky as it's harder and harder to get people to play, even more good people) for 10 badges and a chance to get one epic. During that same time they could run at least 5 heroics, with no wipe, no repair bill, no flasks to buy, two times the number of badges and 3 triumph ones through quests.
I'm sad, I hate it, but I can understand them ... raiding has just lost most of its gearing interest, at least until players will have all got their 2 pieces of T9 and all they can get with emblems of conquest.
If you add the fact that doing an heroic in T7.25 full gear is just way too easy and boring ... I'm not really enjoying the game these days :(
It's rerolling time, again.
time to lvl my DK, and my shaman!

Hello :)

Hello,

This post I'll try to make it an Introduction.

My real name is Hadi, i live in Kuwait city, Kuwait, i play World of Warcraft since release,
I used to be known as Almaster, a protection Troll warrior on the horde side (the one and only protection troll warrior on the server) from Vanilla days of Wow, back in the days when BRD was hard, UBRS was ran by guilds only.
I raided everything back at the pre-TBC, ZG, AQ20, MC, BWL, AQ40, and 3 wings of old Naxx.
Then TBC-came out, i lvled as a protection warrior, had fun, Raided Kara (is sewiuz buzznizz), Gruuls, Mags, SSC and TK (back when no one was able to down Vashj and Kael, we killed Kael as the 4th guild on the server), MH and a couple of bosses in BT, before my guild which was named DC disbanded due to Officers getting RL issues.
I had 2 alts, Elmaster (BE Warlock) and Zemaster (orc hunter) '' yeah i know i am bad with picking Char names''
Then, i had to go on a vacation and i was out of money, which made me sell my account ( i still regret it) and i took an account of a dear Romanian friend and i played his Shaman (Shamanizim) through the rest of BT.
I stopped playing shortly after, for about 2 months, when another dear friend gave me his Paladin, his name was AJ, and the char name was Zyclonejr, i renamed it to Almaster, and here i am.
I joined Lux Legis, as i had been trolling their forums at the time i was playing horde, i didnt think that I'd join them in the allays side, i was with them the first time they downed Illidan, i was happy, so i continued playing.

WOTLK ame out, lvled as a shockadin from 70-80, went to Naxx again, cleared it on 25 man before 10 man (lol), OS 10 and 25 man with 1 drake up.

With Ulduar coming out, i slacked a little, had some serious problems with the company i work in, resigned from my work, and started looking for a new one, and i got one, the problem is, at this moment, the work time doesn't let me raid much unless its my day off, so i am back at casual raiding, 1 day a week.

i'll ry to keep posting stuff here, for holy paladins, ret paladins (its my 2nd spec, dual spec FTW!) and for healers in General in Ulduar, heroics, raids, etc..