I’ve just discovered this amazing program for feral druids (tanks in particular), called Rawr! I got it off of Druid Wiki a few weeks ago, and have just fallen in love! It lets you load up your character from the armory and then play around with all different gear to see what armor/hp/dodge/etc you end up with. It also lets you completely customize the gems and enchants you have on the gear too. I’m constantly using it to maximize my armor and stamina while still checking to make sure I’m uncrittable.

The interface is super easy to use as well, so even noobs like me can figure it out hehe If you’re a feral druid tank and have not checked this thing out, give it a look!

I run Shadow Labyrinths over and over to get my guildmates keyed for Kara. I wanted the Shoulderpads of Assassination so I ran Setthek Halls about a million times. And now every other druid I know (not me though, cause I am endlessly poor) is trying to get their epic flying form, so we’re doing Setthek over again in Heroic mode.

And what have I gotten out of all these runs? Lots and lots of Spirit Shards that I have really no use for. I’m lucky on my server that the Alliance are pretty much always in charge of the world pvp objective in Terrokar Forest, so I can’t remember the last time I went into an instance in Auchindoun and DIDN’T receive Spirit Shards for my efforts. I just wish I could actually USE them….

The rewards you can buy with the shards are all pretty low quality, in fact only two purples are even offered, and they’re mostly pvp items. I put the image with the stats for the one ring that I could possibly use, the Band of the Exorcist. It’s got decent stats, but the resilience seems to be pretty wasted if you’re not a pvper. I know that the shards are obtained partially because of the world pvp objective, but could we not have some other rewards for us non-pvpers who still have loads of shards?? Please Blizzard! I’ll take anything!

But until then…. I will continue to look at my stack of shards just sitting in my bank … taking up precious space (and don’t get me started on how little bag/bank space I have, that’s a whole other post! lol)

Tonight I’m off to Kara, our raid team is calling down Nightbane for the first time, and hopefully tackling Illhoof again so I can get my preciousdps staff. So wish us luck!

<3 Hidaylia

I started this blog because over the past months (okay, really it’s been years!) World of Warcraft has become a pretty big part of my life. I know, i know, some people say I play the game far too much, but it makes me very happy, I love it, I’m pretty good at it, and I play with my boyfriend (who’s also my best friend) so we get to spend a lot of time together while in the game.

I have many rants to go on about the game, as well as many more praises to ramble on about. But mostly I just wanted to represent all the druid tanks out there! My character, Hidaylia, is a level 70 night elf druid, on the Feathermoon server. She is specced feral, with all tanking bonuses taken into consideration. Tanking is what I’ve come to love, and I do it as often as I can (right now in Karazhan, sometimes in Gruul’s Lair, and hopefully soon in Serpentshrine Cavern!)

Keep watching for more ramblings (as well as advice and info I’ve gathered around the web) on being a bear Tank Girl

<3 Hid