I’m beginning to embrace this new tanking lifestyle. I’m becoming more confident in Grim’s abilities, and am even experimenting with things I’d never dare do with my hunter, Malanior.

Such was the case tonight.

I’ve been doing a lot of reading these past few days, trying to grasp the ins and outs of tanking.  The mindset is so different from DPSing, and especially Hunter DPSing, where your goal is to misdirect, fire like crazy, rinse, repeat.

Most of the group quests in Grizzly Hills, I had been doing with the aid of guildmates.  We even managed a trip into Zul’Drak for the acquisition of the De-Raged Waraxe. But when the time came for Ursoc, the Bear God, no one was available…so after reading the quest description and other peoples attempts, I decided to solo it.

With the NPC as my healer, the fight took several minutes, and I never dipped below 50% life. I used frost presence, kept tossing my threat generating abilities to ensure that Ursoc remained focused on me, and I never saw him attack the NPC or my ghoul.

This pretty well dinged Grim to 76, though I did need to run into Zul’Drak and do a handful of quests there.  One of the ones I did complete (with the aid of a 78 warlock guildmate) was Wanted: Ragemane’s Flipper. I’d gotten him down to about 40% or so by myself, but needed that extra DPS (not to mention the handy healthstone!) to pull it off the second time, and we triumphed with about 50% of Grim’s life remaining.

As for tomorrow (or rather, later today as I post this), it still remains to be seen whether Grim will return to Zul’Drak or head instead to Sholazar. I know there’s a plethora of saronite odes in Sholazar, and since saronite is the only thing that’ll level up his mining and blacksmithing,that probably would be the way to go.

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