The Story Begins

After reading many blog's I have finally decided to start a blog about my experiences playing World of Warcraft as a Protection Paladin. My main inspiration for this is mainly from reading Galoheart's blog www.ardentdefender.blogspot.com.

I started playing my Paladin a very long time ago before Burning Crusade came out. It took me a long time to settle and level one character. After seeing my friend's level 40 Paladin I decided that was the class for me. I leveled from 1-70 with the Retribution spec as enjoyed playing dps but not taking much damage. This was back when Retribution couldn't hold it's own as a dps class. This lead to me becoming fed up with my Paladin as I was constantly overlooked for other dps classes. I cancelled my subscription for around 4-5months when I was bored one day and decided to reactivate it. I logged on and was amazed to see that I was still in my guild (The White Eagles) and some of my friends were still there. I explained why I had left and they suggested changing spec to either Holy or Protection. I decided on Protection spec as the guild was short on Paladin Tanks.

After searching the internet I found a rough guide of what items were recommended before going to Karazhan. Now this was very difficult for me because I had chosen quest rewards for my old Retribution spec whilst leveling to 70 so I had no tank gear. Lot's of sites recommended certain quest rewards which were completely unavailable to me. This meant that becoming uncrittable, the first goal for any Tank was extremely difficult. But after hard work and grinding Engineering for Tankatronic Goggles I was finally ready for Karazhan. I am currently raiding Kara weekly and saving up Badge of Justice for some new gear. This is the start of my story; you've joined at a good time things are just getting interesting.