Bobpally's World

I have really been neglecting my blog and alot of other things. Bobpally is now kinda my main guy. He's 80, has seen the inside of Naxx (a couple of fights from clearing it) and has quite a few nice little pieces of gear. His rep is on the way to exalted with a few factions and he's looking like the pally I always hoped he would be. Bobmage however isn't quite the mage he wants to be yet. He will be, but there's still alot or work to be done. He's 77 on his way to 78. With the new fire abilities it's become fun to kill stuff with him, just not as much fun as tanking with Bobpally. After I clear Naxx I'll make a nice long writeup on it, but for now I'll just leave you with this.....

Why can't I blog?

Ladies and Gentlemen of the not so popular wowbob blog. I'm pretty sure no one reads this blog, but if for some reason you do, please attempt to respond at some point to something I post. This will let me know what you'd like to read here in wowbob world. Today we'll be talking about several different things.....So let's get started.....

Bobpally is now level 74 and counting. I'm a little slow with his leveling, but with good reason. I'll give all of you new to Northrend some good advice: Borean Tundra has 150 quests, do them all before moving on, and run The Nexus at least once to get those quests done as well. If you do all of this you'll be almost 74 before you ever leave the first leveling area in Northrend. The next questing zone will put you where I am now, which is Dragon's Blight. I really like this area as it's fun, and has cool stuff to look at. Being that I spent so much time leveling in Borean Tundra the quests in DB are somewhat easy. I'm leveling Bobpally as protection spec. Why you ask? Because it's alot of fun, plus I like to tank the instances as I level up to run them. Bobpally does have a conundrum before him. Perhaps my one blog reader can help me out...

I don't know that this is that much of an issue right now, but eventually I want to run the endgame content and in my current guild (which I'm the second highest ranking member) we have only three members. I can do one of two things. 1. I can wait until I'm level 80, recruit other level 80s and basically play GM to a guild that really isn't mine. 2. I can find another guild now (I constantly get offers from people I run with) and level with them to eventually run the end game stuff. What I really want is to be raid leader to tank and run the raids. This would afford me the control that I like to use to keep down the drama. I'm very stringent when I run my dungeons as leader. I don't take crap and certainly don't give it. So each of my options has high points and low points.

If I am to recruit at level 80 to get other raiders, I'd have to provide a vent server more than likely and I'd also have to baby sit constantly. The best thing about recruiting is I'd get to control everything from start to finish. I would get to setup raid times, raid nights, and the players that were going. I'd also get to run the raids and make sure everything was fair to everyone that played. It would be my rules for my runs on my time. I like that idea quite a bit.

If I were to join another guild and be a tank for that guild, I'd have to adhear to someone else's rules and time constraints. This is not how I like to do things but it does have it's advantages.
I wouldn't have to provide a vent server, I wouldn't have to put up with any of the crying that fellow guildies did in the runs, or after the runs. I wouldn't have to take the time to setup raids and make sure people signed up for them. I wouldn't have to listen to anyone's problems about anything period.

So the big question becomes, what should I choose? If you are the lone person reading my blog, please respond and let me know what you think.....

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...