My guild is hitting the new raid instance TotC 10 man. I ran it once with my guild mates on my healer. What I found is that in this instance there is very little room for mistakes. Everything has to be precise. You've go to move out of the fire right away. You've got to jump on the tank spamming really big heals when the first beast boss is below 20%.

I found the cobolts to be very annoying and yet an interesting twist. Those little buggers not only through around the fire bombs, but they also jump on you and can spell lock you for a while - BAD for a healer. It's an interesting dynamic that DPS has to go now and knock them off you. Now if they through a fire bomb on you while other dps is knocking them down, you've tons of AOE damage for the raid.

I don't know, I think I would rather run Ulduar on 10 man or even 25 man then to do this TotC raid on 10 man. I think I miss trash :(, and Nax ( and Kara, but don't tell anyone about this one).

Just an update on some of the resent acomplishments for Moralight, my main character a Healadin.

I've finally aquired the flying mount from the CoS timed run :D.

In Ulduar 10 with my guild I've gotten up to Hodir twice, killing him once so far, although we skipped Ignis the Furnace Master and The Assembly of Iron. I think the thinking behind my guild leaders is to get as further down as possible.

In Ulduar 25 we killed first boss with two towers up.

Pics coming soon (as soon as I get home)

I've decided to give up on tanking being my off spec. It seems that tanking is something you have to constantly do or you lose your skill. My recent tanking adventures with my paladin were disastrous. I would forget to put up the buff to increase my agro, mess up buttons etc... With more DPS being better and better geared, it's harder to keep agro.

I've been lately only playing with my paladin. Trying to heal and DPS as my pally, i found that it was much more enjoyable to heal then to DPS. It could be due to the fact that is so much easier to get healing gear (especially spell plate which noone wants) then to build a dps set. My dps in heroics and Nax on the bosses has been in 1000s range, compare that to the 3500 minimum on my lock, that just did not fly.

So after some thoght I've instead decided to give tanking a try as my "secondary spec". I still want to heal and that was my primary reason to level my pally. But since i got a bit of tanking gear accumulated from here and there, and there is always a shortage of tank or healer I'll be the perfect utility toon.

I've also used the renaming character service to rename Elirias to Moralight. I found that just like my paladin's name - Elirias was WoW generated, there are tons and tons of other paladins with names that start with El or AL. I found especially in pug raids it can be a nightmare try to figure our who's who when they refer to you in vent.

Finally, I am enjoying playing with pally's in general. I created a new pally toon a female draenei on my alliance server Terrokar, and I am really enjoying just running around and doing quests with the pally. I have to say it is clear to see why pally's are some of the most popular chars out there. They are tough to kill, easy to dps with, easy to level, and have three different specs they can bring to raid.

I just realized how long it has been since I've posted here. Last post I see talks about trying to use a holy spec to quest and heal. Well I'm happy to report that I've quested and healed my self to level 80 before 3.1 came out on my pally. The holy spec was a lot of fun to heal in instances, and also not back questing either. I would not recommend it now since with dueal specking you can have retributions, and blow mobs away when you quest. But if money is tight, you can definetelly quest as holly in Nothred especially when you run some instances and get some nice spell plate which noone will want anyways.

Elirias, my paladin is 80 now, and I'm healing level 80 instances as well as trying to heal heroics. While on Moramor, i've finally killed Saph and KT in Nax 25 this weekend, which was awesome!

I wonder when my guildies will start venturing into Ulduar, I hope soon :)