Dual-spec is good

In my last post, I mentioned my AH Buisness. This is how I finance my alts, their epic flying mounts and all professions blizzard created. I hardly farm mats, I buy them. And when dual-spec hit the puplic realm, of course I bought it for my "main" charakters (priest, paladin and warrior). By now I have seven charakters with dual-spec and when I play the others, they will get it,too. So you could see: I am a BIG fan of dualspec.

Why? Because I am able to swap spec when needed and have all the glyphs ready. Here is a little story of it:
Friday I wanted to go Ulduar 10 with some old friends but a few guys decided to do other things and so all my planning has been futile. I logged onto my rogue and saw a Deathknight searching for one more DPS for Nexus. So I thought: It may not be Ulduar but my warrior could use the belt for his DPS- Set. Of course I got an invite (or I would not share the story) and got portet right after.

Great! We had a mage, a hunter and a disc priest for healing. The tanking DK had a lot of tempered saronite and was wielding the arena axe. *gulp* Somehow he sportet 30k HP but I guess his avoid was abmyssal. The mage was decent and the hunter was well equipt... well, at least for the end of TBC. *narf* He was wearing his "early-BT" raid epics, even when there are so much better crafted pieces around. The healer had medicore equip, no enchants but definitly knew his buisness.

We started the instance and slowly made our way down to the frozen boss. The mage aoe'd even single targets ("I have lag, I hardly could do anything beside aoe."), the tank was trying to get himself killed (but the healer prevented it) and the hunter did not a single misdirection but keept shooting the wrong (read: not tanked) target. At least he used his feign death quick. Myself was fiddeling with the buttons, pushing randoms skills and still topped the charts (afterwards I checked rawr and I was close to the calculated DPS so I guess I did something right). We killed the frozen boss after some time and procceded to the next boss.

And here drama begins:
The trash was taken down and the tank charged the boss. Everything went smooth until the first transition. Noone went after the blue lady and I ended up tanking her. It seemed as if they wanted the achievement but when I finally got the blue girl down I was the last one alive. We entered the instance and repeated the fight. In every single aspect ... including the wipe ... *sigh*
On the third try I asked for a killorder and suggested to kill blue first. The others agreed and 4 of us survived the transition. Too bad, our healer had died because the tank had switched to single target mode...
Try #4 ended when the tank died because the healer had bad luck getting interrupted and he did not use a single cooldown. And now I was pissed.

I declared to tank the boss myself. The DK asked "Do you have more life than me???" Well, I did not because I gem for thread but my avoid is better. Although I did not make a sharp remark (like: "No but I have a brain") the mage whispered me ("Not more life, but more skill" .. he was happy after the boss because finally he could bomb without aggro issues).
First try was a wipe because I blew all my cooldowns in the first transition and in the second transition the healer had bad luck again. Second try the lady went down but I was a bit nervous.

The rest of the instance I keept tanking. We flew from boss to boss and did not wipe once again. At the endboss I got a bit nervous because the priest did not dispell the roots but I survived the enrage easily because I blew all my cooldowns.
When we tried to get out of the instance the DK took a wrong exit and got smashed, luckily he was to far away to get us into combat.

I did not get the belt (and in the run next day I was unlucky, too) but without Dual-spec the run would have been over at the second boss. So: CHEER FOR DUALSPEC! :)

cheers

chaoskas