Kyralee is my paladin I rolled several months ago. My goal when I created her, was to make her a tank. I abandoned her for a while, because I got caught up in gearing my main toon Catianna. Over the past month, I have been focusing on my Pally again. I had a friend Pipesadin who helped me set up Kyra’s DPS Ret Spec, and I have been just soaring through the Outlands and Northrend. Meanwhile, with Cat, I have been saving up gold to get Kyra’s Duel Talent Spec, and I sent that over to Kyra last night.

As I sat there, I pondered what I really wanted to do. Did I really want to tank, or did I want to heal? I wanted to keep my dps spec, due to still needing to level to 80. I decided to spec Tank and DPS for the time. I grabbed a one-handed weapon and a shield, and tried to set up a rotation. Then a guild member Melvinh helped me initiate myself to tanking, the proper way. We queued up for Utgarde Keep and I walked into my first official tank instance.

So, I have been in this instance more than my fair share with Cat, I love this place! Walking in there as Kyra though, I looked at it completely different. I have seen this instance tanked by good tanks, and bad tanks, my fear was being a bad tank. Melvinh and I pugged the other three members of the party. I was very nervous as I entered the instance.  Looking at UK from a ranged perspective is a bit different than looking at it from a tank perspective.  Everything seems more menacing from that aspect.  I gingerly worked my way through the Keep, with a little help from Melvinh, and some great heals from our healer (this was her first time to heal an instance) we made it through to the last boss, and of course I had to get a killing blow from the boss at the last second before he died.  I did it though!  I tanked the instance with lots of help

Now, the question is…do I want to continue to be a tank?  I think I do, but only more tanking runs will help me get to that all important place of not being scared to tank, due to fear of being a bad tank.

Happy Gaming ya’ll!!