Ok, so now after a long thought process after the release of 3.2, I’ve finally come to a conclusion. I don’t so much mind that Blizzard revamped the Emblem system to make older content more appealing to “geared” players, however I feel the addition of the daily heroic (and soon to be weekly raid) quests are bad for the game.

I don’t want to feel that I must run old content to get current tier gear. I think the addition of EoTriumph’s to the weekly raid heroic was a mistake, and should have just been two extra conquests. If you run one ToC lockout, you get 15 Emblems of Triumph. Doing the daily heroic each day, net’s you 14 EoTs each week.

I think its perfectly reasonable to offer “free access” to the previous tier of gear, having heroic emblems be Conquest and ToC dropping Triumph.

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not being elitist. ToC isn’t hard and its pugged several times a day on my realm (I usually pug it 2-3 times a week on my alts), but I don’t feel that a players gear progression should be held to how many heroics he runs each week.

*rant over*

PS – Trying to get up the material for my Tank Grid/UI post, but having started a new job, I’m a little inundated with work right now.

To continue my last post, I have been pugging a lot.

Having moved my paladin back to my old home server, his friends list isn’t the largest, and the guild is still small. I fond myself pugging, for multiple reasons. First is obvious, just trying to get the group going, but secondly a good instance run is a great way to impress people and hopefully get some new recruits.

Up until now, I have been pretty east going about who I pug with. I’ve got a few exceptions, that I’ll probably cover in a post immediately following this one. Generally I just slap a group together and hit some instance, but after reading a few threads on maintankadin I have been thinking about changing my game plan.

In a recent run there was an arms warrior that was rolling against me on tank gear. Now I know it’s just blue loot, nothing to get that upset about, however I would have rolled on the dps plate that dropped, however I had a retribution guild mate of mine in the group, and I didn’t want to piss on his chances. During my reading tonight, one line caught my eye, “if you want to roll on tank gear, go tank for your own group”. That just makes so much sense to me. I’m here trying to gear up my main set for progression and you’re stealing my upgrades so you can never use them.

So, in conclusion, I think I’ll probably keep my groups open, however I’m probably going to be much more of an asshole when inviting other plate classes.

Personally, I’ve been taking my time leveling my paladin. I didn’t pick Wrath up for a few days after launch, and have been working my way across my 3 70’s as well as my upcoming (63 atm) shadow priest, and my Deathknight (currently 61).

I’ve only knocked out a few quest hubs in Howling Fjord so far, but I’m liking the layout and style I’ve seen so far. I worked my way through the Utgarde Keep quest line as fast as possible and ran it. I have been ret since I headed up here and tanked UK just fine. Although my TPS was horrible due to Divine Storm and Crusader Strike being nerfed to physical damage (was holy).

Now that I’ve gotten the feel for the Deathknight class, I can return my focus back to my paladin, and hopefully ding 80 in the near future.