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After several months, I'm back here... So many things happened since last post...
Stay tuned for the next updates :)

Wrath incoming and last updates

With the new patch a lot of changes has taken place in the tanking duties.
As far as i (sadly) could see, threat now it's no more a problem to build, and this will easier our work in building massive threat, giving us time to spend debuffing/buffing and making dps (yeah finally we can output some damage too!).

On boss encounters i noticed i'm on 80% of the encounter time on full rage bar, spamming SS, Rev, Dev, Dev and smashing infinite Heroic Strikes with no prob.
S&B it's a sweetie every war must not miss, free SS in the face of mobs it's awesome, and Vigilance it's a nice utility to build more threat, and it's a nice buff to minimize damage if u have 2 warriors tanking that buff each other.

I'm trying 5/3/53 spec atm, and it seems working good, but i'm planning to remove Puncture and Focused Rage points to test a more defensive build since rage seems not to be a problem to manage.

Loot update: i finally manage to get my Bulwark of Azzinoth, after more then a year dreaming on it, and some other nice tanking piece like The Brutalizer, Myrmidon's Treads and my 5th T6 item, Onslaught Shoulderguards.

Update

Added a piece to my threat set, the nice Gauntlets of Enforcement.
What the future holds is still uncertain, there's some trouble in the guild actually, so maybe this will be my last gear improvement for some time... we'll see...

Fury of the Sunwell

First attempts in Sunwell Plateau on Kalecgos for me, things went pretty cool, after some stupid wipes at trash pulls (damn scouts) managed to several attempts on the dragon boss, groups rotations went fixed very soon, but some healing problem made us going home with Kalec and Sathrovarr at 15% as best try.

Tanking achievements

From some day with my first Teron Gorefiend as MT, I finally can say I tanked all bosses in TBC (SWP excluded and drood bosses). I feel like I'm cursed on loots. Still didn't manage to take my T6 shoulders or other good pieces in BT. Let's see what the future has to bring...

For who has not yet seen it, that's the new Wrath of the Lich King cinematic Intro.

The Fall of the Betrayer

Last night got my first Illidan (one of my favourite characters) tanking + kill, after some tries. The slain was pretty intense, and was quite happy about not fxxking up too much :)
Loot of the day: Onslaught Chestguard
I'm starting becoming comfortable with new keybindings and, I must admit, they're the only way to follow. Noticed increased sustained TPS as soon as i started using them in a decent way. Let's see if I can bring out some more in the future.
And now, a little movie from WCIII about Illidan waking the nagas (funny note:in the movie if you hear the nagas screeches, you can clearly catch the "dying naga" WoW sound).

BT report

Cleared all remaining bosses in there till Illidan himself.
After a bad experience with the Flames of Azzinoth two weeks ago, I experienced my first Illidan tanking.
Things went pretty well, I managed to avoid all incoming Shear with no much problem, got only the first one and with a lucky combination of avoidance and healing managed to stay alive :)
By the way got only time for a couple of tries, and a Flame accident, and a Demon phase accident, made this encounter to be moved to next raid.

So my wildest wet dreams of about 1 year about tanking Illidan myself finally became reality, and the emotion was pretty intense. No loot to mention this time too. Bad luck keep breathing on my neck :)