Def Spec -- Should I, Really?

[Brista]

Hi there.  I just arrived.  B)  Nice to see an intelligent forum to discuss WoW strategy

Does anyone find this a little ironic in the light of some subsequent responses ;)

If I may offer some comments with the caveat that they are to be taken firmly with a pinch of salt as I'm only just about to start playing

First to start with an oxymoron: if you need to ask whether you're being bullied then you don't need to ask whether you're being bullied. This Paladin sounds like a horrible piece of work. I suggest you put this person on ignore, they'll only aggravate you and diminish the fun you get from the game

The next thing I'd say is that more people will get to 60 as the game goes on and the atmosphere may well lighten up. At the moment you almost all power-gamers, you've out-levelled the more laid-back players

Now it seems to me that being a main tank is a big responsibility. You've not done much tanking in WoW because you say you became tired of the meat-shield role but now you're considering jumping right in at the deep end. You sound like you could do it competently but do you want to be in the position where
- (if you do it exceptionally well) no one will raid without you and people expect you to drop everything and commit for 6 hours every time you log in
- you have the usual tank concerns - people running around waking stuff up, people over-nuking, people wanting to pull etc. Hopefully on a level 60 raid there is a strong leader who knows the dungeon but I imagine that won't always be the case.

However respeccing is quite easy isn't it? I imagine it's affordable for you to respec and try it out then change back if it's not fun

It comes down to how bored you are with not raiding. If there's no one to play with or there's no content left except the raid instances or if soloing is boring then there may not be much left to do with your warrior except raid. You could try a bit harder to get into raids as Warrior dps or you could organise your own with someone else as main tank. If none of those appeal then alts are your remaining option but it may be much harder to get an alt to 60 if your friends don't also remake than it was to level in a group (although twinking and power-levelling offset that to some extent)