Hail in the Camp,

Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Bloodgarde, Paladin and Main Tank of the Late Knights of Quel’dorei (US). I have been challenged by several people of late to write a “guide to playing a paladin.” 30 some pages later, I give up. My idea of a paladin guide is somewhere in the 200-250 page range. There is just so much experience I have to share.

I was discussing this with a hunter friend of mine. She was telling me about the blog she recently started over at TheSpikedCollar.net. After a few days thought I decided that a blog may be the perfect way for me to put the information I have learned out there. So here I am. We will see what comes of this.

What are my qualifications you ask? I have played a Paladin for nearly 4 years. I leveled in original wow as a Tankadin back when Tankadins weren’t cool. I played both as a main tank, and main healer in Burning Crusade. During that time I started my own guild and began to grow it with intelligent and capable players. I successfully lead this guild into Karazhan toward the end of Burning Crusade.

In Wrath I once again find myself tanking, and at this point in time, am looking forward to duel specing as a healer. I will admit as of now, I have little experience with Ret. I will however be playing with the spec, and learning its ways so that I may speak with some knowledge about it here.

Also in WOW I have leveled a mage and am approaching 80 on him, a warrior (level 75), a hunter who is currently still level 70, and I have begun leveling a Druid.

I have a long gaming history that I won’t go into here. I the real world, I am a cartographer working in the oil and gas industry. Please read “I am a peon, I have no control over anything.”

So I look forward to writing my experience in this blog, and hope that indeed, someone finds it helpful. Look for my first real post soon.

May the Light be with You,
~Bloodgarde