BobPally

As you can see from my username I have a paladin to worry about now (Bobpally, as you can see I'm real creative with the names here). I rolled a blood knight. Mostly because I'm not an alliance player. I only have one other toon and he's a blood elf mage. Currently Bobpally is level 19 and counting sitting in Ghostlands. He's a blacksmith/miner. I like the idea of being able to gather the things I need to make my own gear, and since my main is a mage I can send whatever gear I can make that I'll actually use to him for good enchants.

I actually rolled a pally because my guild doesn't have a single tank in it (we're a leveling guild atm), and I thought a paladin would be a fun class to try to learn to tank with (thank you Honorshammer for your incredible blog on tankadins, if you're reading this I owe your blog a great deal for the insight into the world of pallys). Also, paladins are the closest thing to caster classes that wear plate armor. Since I'm used to using spells already, I'm hoping the transistion from caster to melee/caster will be smooth. I've already "tanked" my first instance with RFC (Rage Fire Chasm for those keeping score) though I guess that doesn't really count. It was fun, but I never really struggled with keeping aggro and we never wiped. I'll be heading for SFK (Shadow Fang Keep) pretty soon to give my tanking skills a little test there in a couple of levels. I didn't think playing a paladin would be as much fun as it is, but I'm having a blast and I'm only level 19. I've decided to go against the grain with my paladin and level as prot after the first ten talent points go into ret. The reason is, I want to be able to tank any instance at any given time. I need as much practice as possible as I level. It's hard enough to convince people that paladins are viable tanks, but should I convince people to let me tank the group and I screw it up, I've just put them off of paladin tanks premanently. I can't take that chance, as I really want this to work. So the leveling will be a little slow, but it will come none the less. It also helps that I've convinced a friend and fellow guild mate to level a priest with me so I'll have a healer with me as I level. That might make things go a little quicker to get group quest(s) done and find players for instances. As I do different instances and quests with my two characters I'll update here at bobnation. Hopefully you'll enjoy reading as I learn to manage my Bobs and learn new things about each class and the rolls they take on in the game. Until next time, thanks for reading...