So, a few days ago a guildie made her return after a 4 or 5 month hiatus, and since the levelling guild we share is not one of vast changes over time, her old levelling buddies were still around and still had a handful of alts that she could party up with for the few hours per week she can play.
I'm one of her old levelling buddies, there are three of us in total, plus some friends we each picked up along the way who tag along at times.
So, the other night we took a look at all of our alt toons and discussed which were closest to one of hers that we could all party up with and spend some of her long-accumulated rest bonus.
In the end, the three of us went into Razorfen Kraul - me on my 33 Druid, and my two long-time guildmates and levelling partners who were on a 32 Rogue and 25 (healing) Priest.
"I guess you're the tank?"
My Druid has long been spec'd Resto, although at times I will go for a Resto/DPS mix in my stats, to go along with the two different gearsets I carry with me on this toon.
So, uh, I threw on my DPS gear and hopped into Bear form, and tanked my first instance, with friendly partymates who were supportive while I fumbled and follied and got the Priest killed.
So Many Fun Aspects To This Game...
I'm someone who likes to challenge myself and to learn and to improve, and World of Warcraft just keeps on entertaining me with the same content, from a different viewpoint.
Last night was about two things: Trying to recall what I've seen other good Druid tanks do, and Challenging the healer enough that she didn't have time to contribute DPS via wanding ;)
I grabbed a Marking addon via the WoWMatrix addon updater, and while it works okay for me, it's got some problems so I'll probably be looking for a replacement if I start to tank a little bit more. The one thing about the addon I did get is that it only shows up when I'm party leader, and most times it's the tank who's the leader, so it doesn't show up to bother me at all.
We didn't get a chance to complete the instance because our Healer friend (the one who just got back into the game) had a slightly unruly child not wanting to go to sleep, and we had to call it after a couple of bosses, not really wanting to turn to the LFG line to fill out the party at the late time of night it already was.
But in the time that we played I had a bit of practice with some of the key Druid tanking strategies, including slapping a Rejuvenate on myself before going to Bear form to gather up 3-4 mobs and beat them down, pulling with Fairie Fire and doing LOS pulls.
It was kinda neat, but I'm not really looking to make a job of it quite yet ;)