Cataclysm Changes on the way

If you have a pulse in WoW right now , you have heard all the buzz about the changes coming about in the next release , Cataclysm. These changes are a hot topic on many forums and WoW is using a daily Blue post to release and discuss these changes.

Additionally the next WoW Patch 3.3.3 has some pre-Cataclysm world events in it similar to the world events that happened for WotLK. Remember going to the Eastern Plaguelands and finding those stones and fighting the horde of undead?? For me that was a fun event and a time to really enjoy the power of the now OP prot pally. I remember a mage from my guild and myself finding one ofthe stones and just laying waste to the NPC enmasse. Good times.

I would encourge you to head over to WoW.com and check out the patch notes and get up on all the upcoming changes in the next release.

As my schedule has changed and I am no longer able to maintain the required attendance for a raid spot , I have started to raid on my other toons and ended up moving my warrior (prot / fury dps) to another guild so that I can still raid. This guild is a smaller guild focusing on 10man content. I can honestly say it has been a blast. I have been dps as fury and it is pretty fun. I still end up tanking on the warrior and last nite I was tasked with the job of kiting the Big Ooze on Rotface. Now I had done this on my pally on 25's before so I was familiar with the task, but on the warrior I was worried about keeping threat on the Big Ooze cause I lacked the ranged tools of a pally.

So we put in about 9 attempts at Rotface last nite , each one getting better and better as I refined the method for kiting the Big Ooze. We got him down to about 8% on our best attempt before we ended up calling the raid. Overall this is the guilds 15th shot on the boss so 8% is not too bad at all.

It got me to thinking about what can I do to make this strat work and showed my that sometimes we are too quick to pigeonhole classes into roles and not think outside the box. I had to put Vigilance on the tank healer so they would not pull with healing aggro. I used my throwing weapon on the Big Ooze , I would use Heroic Throw when not on CD. I would try to Thunderclap at max range and of course I would use my Taunt to keep aggro. After a couple of try's we added a misdirect macro from a hunter to help keep aggro as well. Definately feel that we got him the next time we go in based on our progress this week.

Hopefully my schedule with change so that I can get back into the 25's but for now , I am content to step into the 10's on all of my toons and gather those hard to get Frost badges.