Raid markings

I read some guide yesterday, cant remember about what, but
I came across a line that said:
"you dont have time to mark, so you must plan the kill order ahead of time"
Is it really that hard to mark? I binded F5-F12 for markings and it works wonders.

Second point about marks, why do dps always ignore them? When I use marks I use them for a reason. Kill the most dangerous ones first, or the most annoying ones, or the ones that die the fastest. Its hard to make a rule becouse it depends on the pull you are about to make.
But if I am to tank a group of 4 mobs, I usually only mark a skull and a X. My gear is good, so I can aoe tank every trash pull there is, in fact most tankers out there can do it. But I focus my first shield slam on the skull, and try to get revenge on the second mob and then I just thunder clap & cleave the rest.
It is kinda annoying to see some dps go all out on a unmarked mob, and its even more of a pain as tank becouse now you have 2-3 targets you have to focus your aggro generating skills on and that can be very stressful at times.
Anyone else having the same experience?

Keybindings:

When we were to kill gluth for the first few times, we had a mage kite around the adds

-or that was the idea anyways.

Several wipes later, we dedicated a priest to basicly spamheal the mage, becouse he was dieing all the time. After the raid I found out he was keyboard turning(!) and that doesnt work so well for kiting, in fact, keyboard turning is bad for pretty much ever class. Personally I use keybinds for everything, mainly becouse I'm kind of a nervous person when playing, and I usually missclick if I try clicking skills.

Here's a few tips you may find useful:

-bind a and d to be your strafe buttons instead, forcing you to use the mouse.

-start slowly when adding more keybinds, you need to crawl before you walk, walk before you run, it takes time to adjust.

-look at how your hand is positioned, and try to bind key which are close so you dont have to move your hand

here are some of the main keybinds I use:

q=devastate

e=shield slam

1=shockwave

2=revenge/heroic strike macro

3=charge

4=taunt

shift+1=battle stance (rarely used)

shift+2=defensive stance

shift+3=thunder clap/cleave macro (or berserker stance when not prot specced)

r=berserker rage

<=shield wall

alt+1=last stand

alt+2=healing thingy (dont remember the name)

alt+3=vigilance

z=heroic throw

shift+spacebar (this one I really like btw)=aoe taunt

(my ventrilo is on ctrl thus I cant use it for keybinds)

As you probably notice, most of these arent very locigal. Meaning you shouldnt follow it to the letter. Instead look at where your hand is when you play and try to put the closest letters and combinations to use. Shift, Ctrl and Alt are your friends :D 

Proffessions

As you can see from my armory link, if it works(?)

I am a enchanter &  miner.

Mining is just AWESOME. You fly around in northrend for an hour, you find some saronite, which you sell for 30g-isch/stack And most importantly you find a few nodes of titanium, smelt titansteel, sell that bar for 200g. Total gold earned=500g, thats before you account for the occational rare gems and all the eternals that drop.

Enchanting however, is WORTHLESS, less than that. To skill it up to 450 will be a nightmare, I am at 424 and have bought every worthwhile pattern you can buy and I cannot make money with it. Why? becouse everyone and their mother apparently thinks its a great idea to give away the enchanting for matts, some people even pay to enchant for others.  Okay, so how about selling enchanting with your own matts? Would work, I'm sure, just that I have no matts currently, and I would probably make more money by sticking the matts in the ah anyways.

Maybe its possible to make some money by selling the 40 stamina enchants, once I get my hands on the recipe. But the recipe is very expensive, and it will take weeks before it will have earned me back the money spent on the abyss crystals (about 800g). 

Hopefull blizzard will implement a rare drop recipe in ulduar, or possibly one which requires rep, or is othervise hard to get, so that us enchanters have a shot at actaully making some money.

First post

Hi,

I decided to join the milions of people blogging and setup my own blog :D

This will be a blog about world of warcraft, mostly from a warrior perspective, but nothing is impossible :P

I'll try to update as often as possible, hopefully you, whoever you, however you found this site will enjoy the content :D

-Nairi