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An entire day spent tanking

My wife works in retail, which means that the Christmas season is a bleak, wintry hell of surly, desperate customers for her, people who come to her department (electronics and home appliances, basically) and ask her where the yarn is. As a result, she doesn't have a lot of time to play the game, and I'm forced to PuG without her, which is a special kind of torture for me as I enjoy having the DPS in the same room with me so I can yell at her when she pulls aggro.

I never said I was particularly smart.

Anyway, the other day was unusual in that my human warrior tanked Heroic Sethekk, Heroic Underbog (not swamp or vale or forest of logs, it's your old friend, Underbog), Heroic Mechanar (and no, of course the sword didn't drop, why would the sword drop?) and Heroic Ramparts, followed up by Shattered Halls, in it's vanilla variety. This was unusual because I didn't know anyone in any of the groups, and also, it was more unusual because it was essentially the same group all the way through all of these instances.



Also, I got not a single drop from any of them, but that's because it was Clothapalooza. Oy, so much cloth, so many caster weapons. You'd think plate would have to drop if you ran that many instances in one day: you would be wrong. Oh, so wrong.

I don't know why, but the whole thing cascaded out of control. The server was failrly empty as folks are going home to see their families, the daily was Sethekk, and the next thing I knew I was knee-deep in screaming orcs in Shattered Halls and half the day was gone and the druid who had been healing me all day made a comment about the sun setting outside his window. It wasn't a bad day, all told... made some badges, had as decent a time as I can ever have being a punching bag for juiced up mobs while people manage to pyroblast their own sheeps time and time again.

As the week rolls on and the servers empty out, what are you doing in Azeroth, if you're doing anything at all?