a little surprised

This last week I've found that, in a sense, I've come to the end of World of Warcraft.

I know, it seems crazy, but it really is the truth. Don't get me wrong, there's still lots to DO, it's just that the story for me has basically ended (for now).

I've hit the point in Icecrown where all I have are group quests (and it's damn near impossible to put a group together) and I've completed every other quest I can find in Northrend. Yes, there are dailies and achievements (I actually started working on the Loremaster achievement over the last few days) but I have to admit that I was really enjoying the story in Wrath and I'm sad to see it come to an end.

What do you think: happy to have questing over with or sad like me?

falling behind

My blogging time (and my oh-so-precious wow time) have been impacted by happenings IRL this last week, so I'll try to catch up this weekend.

I picked a Titansteel Shield Wall off the auction house this week (which may not be a big deal to the more hardcore out there, but it's a big deal to your old pal Casual Paladin Guy) which in my mind pushed me to into viability for tanking heroics past Heroic Utgarde Keep.

Luckily I was able to run Heroic Violet Hold with some guildies this week and Bolstered Legplates dropped for me (w00t!) so I was able to upgrade from the Argent Crusade rep legs. A pretty sweet run overall.

I have to admit that while I have no problem pugging regular instances, I'm scared to death to tank any heroic pugs. It's partly not knowing which are the harder ones (there doesn't seem to be any consensus on the interweb) but I'm also afraid of being terrible! Then I read on the forums or comments on other blogs that some people hit 80 and stroll right into heroics... wtf? Am I being too cautious?