Mr Thunder King

At this point I need to apologize to the Raiding community, the other night I let my six year old queue up for LFR.  Yes I am that guy.  

In my defense he actually did not do that bad.  I admonished him to "not stand in the poo" as Scott Johnson says on The Instance Podcast.  Amazingly he did well enough for his DPS numbers to actually show up on the chart, which was not bad since it was one of the first times he played an Enhancement Shaman.  He got all the way up until the Thunder King without dying.  

Eventually he walked out into the other room and said, "your shaman died for no reason."  I pointed out that the raid would likely rez him after the battle, excitedly he ran back to the PC to finish.  

 

For the next week he kept asking to listen to Letomi's Mr Thunder King while in the car: 

Sharm - All About My Base (World Of Warcraft Parody)

Listen to this while working through your garrison tasks.  

MC raiders

For all the Level 100's raiding Molten Core during the 10 Year Anniversary celebration:

You Tank It

The other night my oldest son successfully tanked his first dungeon at the age of nine years. He has a level 60 Blood DeathKnight equipped in quest greens and blues acquired in Outands. We discussed the basics of threat generation and agro management prior to him queuing up as a tank. At first he listened intently but soon I could tell he was itching to try it out.

During Wrath of the Liche King I tanked on my Prot Paladin. With the inclusion of the Dungeon Finder I ended up running tons of heroic dungeons on a weekly and often daily basis. When I am tanking I take my role very seriously, acting as the group’s shield protecting the party from damage as much as is possible.

My son takes a little different approach. His approach is summed up by this song’s refrain, “you pull it you tank it.” I watched him move through the dungeon, being more cautious than I had ever seen him, pulling mobs holding them while his party burned them down. Eventually a DPS ran ahead, and pulled some mobs. Where I would have collected the mob off of the DPS, at least the first time it happened in a dungeon run, my son just let the DPS handle it on its own.

Eventually he finished the dungeon and with a big grin on his face re-queued up to tank another dungeon.

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