Well the doctor has been good enough to allow me the limited use of my right arm again, so after about six weeks of farting around I’m back to work starting Monday. The drawback is that I will be out of town, with a satellite internet feed, and limited WoW access.

So how did I spend the last of my free time? Well, The Rokk went out and got himself an orphan. Kind soul that he is, he went ahead and took a little Oracle squirt out for a stroll. The kid liked it so much, he wanted to stay. Cute.

I was listening to Octale and Hordak vs The World during the week, and Octale made what I felt was a good point regarding tanks. During my downtime, I’ve often seen groups looking for a Tank to run heroics, yet quite a few DK’s looking to DPS. I get the fact that many Death Knights are looking to build a tanking set. At least, that’s what the story is.

Rukgut got in a few Heroic groups, DPS’ed his face off. In that time, I came to the conclusion that tanking is a mindset, not a class. Some players are tanks, wanting the responsibility of keeping the group alive and so on, and some don’t. Rukgut was glad to simply sit back and pew pew. I don’t think Rokk is going to be that way. I want him as a tank. Maybe the time has come for him to start puttering around and just get in there and tank. Take a chance.

There’s another situation in-game that has come to my attention, but I’m not sure how I feel about it yet. I’ll have to investigate a little further, but it is certainly bringing certain thought processes to light.

I decided to experiment a little with my Prot Warrior. He with the cool name. What’s your name, big guy?

Me am Therokk.

See that? Damn clever I say. What do you like to do for fun, Therokk?

Me like watching dirty movies on TV.

An Orc after my own heart. But what ELSE do you like to do for fun?

… me am kill things?

YES YOU AM KILL THINGS! Wonderful!

The cranially challenged to to the snowy peaks of Alterac Valley, and at level 64 he was raking in about 40 Grand in XP per win. Each win took about fifteen minutes. He tried one final rush with a group that decided it’d be better to hang back and play Defense. How’d that work out Therokk?

Not so good.

No?

No, but me got achievement for Thousand Honorable Kills.

That’s wonderful. Good for you. He also made roughly twenty thousand in XP for that loss, which took 34 minutes. What lesson does that teach us?

Therokk smash?

What else?

Therokk win?

Yes. There’s going to be those mouth-breathers who think “LOL FARM LOL”. Blitz, win quick, start another one. In the time that Therokk had his loss, he could have fit two wins in there. What would you rather have? 20K or 40K XP? Honor farming can be done in the top bracket, where you actually get a boatload of it at a time. Can’t buy anything useful from AV from what I can see, but it’s something.