I don't post here enough.  Lots of things have happened since my last update.  Guild wise we were the first Alliance guild to take down Illidan and we did it shortly after my last post.  Mother was (is) an easy fight as long as everyone moves the correct way.  The Illadari Council was a horrible fight that took forever to complete as the four mobs had shared HP and each did something different.  It is the "super bowl of not standing in crap" because there are so many AOR effects going off.  The Illidan fight was as it was a combination of everything that you fight to get to him.  It is an intense fight and I feel sorry for those that don't get to experience it.

 

After we farmed BT for a while we started on Sunwell.  It was then when the new expansion release date was announced and interest in raiding took a serious hit.  People quit showing up or started on different toons.  I hung around for a bit but got tired of not raiding so I decided to level my Blood Elf Priest, Volto, and get in some raiding with him.  Leveling him to 70 wasn't too hard and I did almost all of it solo.  He was a Shadow Priest, tailor and enchanter.  I bounced around in different guilds trying to find a raiding home.  The first guild I tried was a disappointment as even in my pre-kara gear I was out DPS-ing their DPS classes and they had no clue how to run an effective raid -- A Kara raid at that!  I left them and ended up with Kwazilla.  They were in SSC/TK and I had been getting bits and pieces of upgrades on Volto to keep me in the top 10 of DPS even though I was not in the best gear.  I kept playing Volto until a couple weeks before the expansion was released.

 

Also during that time I had surgery on my Achilles.  That and my son's football schedule took a lot of game time away from me.  I tried to get back in raiding with FN, but they had a set 25 that they were taking into the BT/MH so I was on the outside looking in.

 

When Wrath of the Litch King (new expansion) was released on Nov. 13th, I purchased it right away.  I decided that I would had Gab be my main and I would level him as Ret.  Retribution got a huge increase for the 3.0 patch (the patch prior to the expansion) so Blizzard decided to nerf them again.  It was a harsh nerf and ret pallies went from the very top to the very bottom in DPS yet again.  Even though a ret Pally brings many things to a raid, you will probably only see one Ret Pally in a raid.

 

My first impressions of Wrath are WOW!  The overall design and story is impressive.  Many of the quest lines really bring out the story of each faction and how the Lich King came into existence.  There is a line in the Dragonblight zone that is incredible.  After you do that you end up running through Undercity sacking the scourge with the King and Jana Proudmore that is a lot of fun.  The journey to 80 wasn't too bad.  I hit 80 in a week and stared doing more instances to get gear.  The storylines for the instances continues the coolness factor.  The Caverns of Time: Stratholme is one of the coolest I have seen in a long long time!

 

FN is raiding again.  We almost have Naxx25 cleared.  I have been able to raid for the past two nights and it feels good.  I need to do a lot of upgrades on my gear to prove my worth. But it is a lot of fun.  When I am not raiding I am Protection and tank many instances.  It provides the "change of pace" that I like and since we already have two really strong tanks I don't have to rely on one of them being out for me to get in.  I guess I am the 4th or 5th tank on the roster.

Supposedly when patch 3.1 comes out there will be the option to have two specs for one character.  If that is implemented that will be awesome as I can switch from Ret to Prot without having to respec.  I don't know what limitation they will have but it could be very cool.

Anyhow, that is the 10,000 foot view of what has been going on with my WoW for the last few months.  Probably by my next update we will have naxx25 cleared and working towards the next thing.