Half? There’s not really an objective way to claim that I’m half the way to anything. Zabery first dinged level 2 back on October 8th. From that perspective 75/80 sure is well beyond half! But I haven’t been to half of Northrend’s zones. And lord knows that the raiding game only begins at 80..
Still. 75/80 just feels like half. You know?
The questing and dungeon runs continue at full speed. I ran The Old Kingdom with a pug the other day. It was my first time and I dorked it up quite a few times. We cleared it in the end, but it didn’t feel particularly smooth. On reflection, here are basic pally tanking tricks that I should be paying more attention to.
- I need to make a macro which casts Hand of Protection on the target’s target when Righteous Defense is on cooldown.
- I need to use Hammer of Justice to interrupt casters a lot more often.
- I need a macro to pop Divine Shield and then immediately clear it to break fear. Manually clearing the buff by right-clicking on it is is just silly.
It’s the little things, right?
Anyway, the big seven five. That means Shield of Righteousness. It’s a big DPS and threat boost. I ran over to Grizzly Hills and picked up [Venture Co. Libram of Protection] to celebrate the occasion. Yeah, it’s goofy, but it’s better than nothing.
It also means that I can start practicing the 96969 rotation without having to twist seals. It’s almost certain that I’ll be doing a post about this in the future ;).