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About the Blog

Uncrittable was supposed to be a tanking blog which focuses on core concepts of tanking, rather than on any particular flavor thereof. I’ve often failed at this mission, writing primarily from a warrior perspective. This is mostly because I’m lazy. Still, I try.

About the Author

Button is the guild leader and warrior main tank for Knights With Your Mum, a no-name Horde guild on US-Fail’thas. She rambles her opinions here not because they’re worth reading, but because she is opinionated, likes writing, and doesn’t have much better to do in this economy. You can be pretty sure she’s full of crap on any subject except warriors, and you can be pretty sure any accidentally-valid opinions she holds on any subject are unintentional parrottings of the people in the community who originally broke that ground, and actually know what they’re doing.

You can reach me at uncrittable at gmail dot com .

Ferrets of the Round

The Ferrets of the Round are those of Button’s friends, raid members and guildies who attend the guild IRC and often have something interesting to say. Pretty much all of these people fit on my list of “favorite people ever.” They’re commonly interested in lore, theorycraft, and making raiding fun.

All of the Ferrets either have blog-posting privileges on Uncrittable, or would if they had WordPress accounts.

Don’t ask me about the name “Ferrets of the Round”; that was Blanket’s idea.

Arb

Arb is a resto/balance druid who enjoys HoTs and takes pride in being being flexible and efficient. He specializes in tank healing as a resto druid, probably because so few resto druids do. He has his own blog, Don’t Drop Form, which he updates once every other blue moon.

Blanket

Navy veteran, MMO addict, career healer. Blanket was once a progression healer for a top 5 guild on Wildhammer, and is now in semi-retirement on easy-going, low-progression Kael’thas. He knows Holy like the back of his hand, and tends to intuit ahead of the curve on theorycraft for the spec. Though he’s normally holy/disc, he has briefly replaced his disc spec with shadow in preparation for Cataclysm leveling.

Blanket has a knack for identifying uncomfortable truths which serves him well in /2.

Erin

Not her real name. Erin is our other holy/disc priest, and the other half of our All Priests, All the Time healing core. Since we lost our healadin Erin has been raiding as disc, though before that her main spec was holy. Unlike most of the Ferrets she’s not particularly vocal about her opinions; but once you pry them out of her, she’s usually spot on.

Karo

Karo is our resident newbie. He’s at the point where he has ingested a lot of research and can play and gear his toon fairly well, but has not yet begun to theorycraft for himself. We pick on him a bit, but he’s good natured and takes it well.

Uth

Uth’s done his share of raiding, in every role, though he prefers bursty DPS. He therefore has a lot of insight on the game in general, from multiple perspectives. Unfortunately for him, he is also Button’s boyfriend, so all of his opinions are wrong by default.

Uth is the official raid leader for the KWYM progression 10-man raid, but he tends to get bored of it a month or two into any given content and leave most of it to Button after that.