Words of Replicant Jesus

Tanking Tier 5 content is not much different from tanking Tier 4 content; bosses hit a little harder, and strategies are a little more complex but not so much that it takes too much thinking to complete the encounter. I got my first taste with The Lurker Below just before Christmas, followed by Void Reaver, more recently downing High Astromancer Solarion, and currently working on Hydross the Unstable this week. Progress is coming fast and furious now and I even picked up Tier 5 shoulders, Crystalforge Shoulderguards not really an upgrade to what I have but they give me some versatility with my gear.

Now a days it seems rare when I wear my full mitigation tank setup, and I am usually running around on trash wearing either my Damage set, where threat is a priority or my Block set for AoE trash pulls or for bosses where add control is doubly important.

In some ways I am not a selfish player at least not as I was in my protection paladin youth; I guess I have matured to the point that I recognize that I don’t have to tank everything to justify my raid spot. As a raid leader and guild officer I know that I have to look at each encounter from a more objective view and take my various pieces of the raid and apply them in the best way that will win, if that means I need to grab the adds on an encounter and let my other tanks do the so-called heavy lifting then I make it happen.

At this stage of the game anyone that thinks a protection paladin is useless is probably a mouth breathing idiot spouting nonsense they saw on the boards and have very little if any theory craft to back up their words.

Perspective it seems is a wonderful thing.