Usually, we raided on last Sunday night for ICC 10 and I was one of healers for my 10man. Due to our great pally MIA (Big, thank you for your effort to pull up raid weeks by weeks.), an open tank spot was offering guilde to have some fun in ICC 10. However, no tanks took or even asked about the 10man ICC. After frustrating for 10 mins, 2 trees (Myth and I) were offering us to switch as tank in ICC 10. My gear seemed to be solid than Myth. So, I wore my tanking set and prepare to tank.
For your reference, I had limited experience on tanking. I had never completed an entire raid instance as a tank. I had tanked once in Naxx 10 with friends up to 4 horsemen. Other than that, I was, occasionally, as an off tank for Pugs like VOA, OS and weekly raid. Normally, I practiced my tank skill in heroic dungeons. Thanks to the over geared tanking set (5.6k GS with 59k hp full buffed), I had no difficult to tank in any heroic dungeons. I got complained once that my threat level was not generating fast enough to match my gear level (thank you an unknown pally with unleash damage before I pulled) . After I had a long study on my rotation with my new tanking gear, my threat generation was getting better now.
At Lord Marrowgar, we wiped twice (I admitted I was a noob). The main reason should be me because it had no idea how the hell the mechanism worked on this boss. After a detail explaining from ST, I stacked with him and we one shot killed all bosses in lower sphere. We headed to upper sphere and got one wipe on Rotface (I was healing on this boss with Marvic kiting Oozes) and got one shot Festergut (ST the solid tank, I was just watching ST to complete the boss). It was cool with weekly 10man quest bonus after killing both Rotface and Festergut. We headed to Professor Putricide. I was on PP and ST on sucking green pool duty. It was not fun to pull the boss around (sometime I pull too far from healers or I was too close to bombs sigh). We were lucky that we pushed to phase 3 on first attempt, however, wiped on 2%. As a noob tank, I did my best to reposition PP at the center of the room in order to gain space on ooze kiting / dps. We did couple wipes on PP afterward. But we still managed to get PP down at the end. We headed to rescue the dragon; however, we failed and called around 2:30am EST.
This was my actually first time tanking in ICC. I admitted that I committed a lot of mistakes in the raid like draw too much aggo, being retarded and dancing while boss was going on rampaging. Well, it was fun to be a tank. However, I would rather wear my healing suit for raid. I didn’t know why and how. But healing is more interesting than tanking, imo. Hehe.
