Def Spec -- Should I, Really?

[Darian]

Does anyone find this a little ironic in the light of some subsequent responses ;)[right][snapback]69544[/snapback][/right]

Yeah, I'm feeling like a bad influence now. ;)

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

Well, it's annoying, but it's not quite as bad as all that. The question was really more intended to be "is he trying to get me to play the way he wants me to play, or is he really giving me sound advice?"

(And ignoring him would be... impolitic; we all know one another in RL.)

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.

Oh, not at all, actually. I'd never dream of running off to Stratholme tonight offering my services as main tank; in fact, I won't main tank anywhere unless either the entire group is going somewhere completely new and we all expect to have to learn the tricks or I already know the instance like the back of my hand. To me, any other course of action is sheer stupidity.

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

Haha! Nah, I'm perfectly okay with people raiding without me and not expecting me to drop everything and go with them. ;) I just want to be able to ask if I can go and get a positive and enthusiastic response, and I don't want situations where I am asked to go and then people are upset because I don't play my character the way they think it should be played. If I'm playing it badly, that's one thing; if I'm playing it properly and just not meeting their expectations of what my class should be, that's another.

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

Oh, the mechanism certainly is, and as long as you only do it twice it's not exactly pricey. I just don't want to go respec my character and then be sitting in the middle of Scholomance with a dozen people expecting me to be competent while I'm trying to figure out how I'm supposed to be playing him with a new talent tree... :o

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)

Our surviving group (60 priest, hunter, me) are running a set of alts together as well, so not an issue there. It's not that I'm bored, I'm just trying to determine whether the perception out there really is that just because my name sits above the word "warrior" that I'm expected to fill this ONE role.