05-23-2006, 06:22 PM
Quote:I'm starting to really really HATE damage meters. I don't mind it if people are playing their role, but when it turns into a Aggro Monkey score card it becomes a danger to the raid as a whole. Instead of waiting that extra 0.5 seconds to let the tank get a better lock, they shoot early hoping not to crit. Bad bad behavior with 40 people where the odds of a early crit are high. Thankfully most of the Keepers and Lurkers will hold their fire until we get a good lock (the reason I believe we won in the end).
As far as decursing goes, I've seen this fight before in green/blues and this time I was ready for it. I swapped my epics for lots of mana and mp5. I looked more like a priest then a mage. I gave up almost 150 +dmg for 50 mp5 with 40% larger mana pool with +spirt gear to refill. The video I took of the fight shows me clearing almost 6:1 curses over ALL the other mages combined. I believe we as a group can do better. I'm very happy that we killed Luci with 30 people in a very very controlled fashion after such a rocky start not locking down the guards.
If we wait for a good sunder count at the start, get our positioning better and get the mages to cross party decurse effectively (or stop worrying about their position in damage meters!!!), this fight will be a cake walk.
On to Magi without the dwarf's fear ward.
Aggro control, like everything else, is something people have to learn. We still have some trouble with it on our 2nd raidlock runs. people not waiting for the tank to get a couple sunders in, etc. It's part of the learning process. May need to have the RL step on some necks and not have *anyone* start DPS on that fight till it's called, until people get smart about it and that's no longer needed.
(Yes, I hate damage meters for that reason, too. As far as Conc, hey, dropping totems *is* a shaman's job, regardless of spec, and topping him off is something I took on myself, as I know very well how fast a tank can die in there in just blues, and a dead tank holds no aggro and does no damage.)
--Mav