Terenas - Gearing up 5/28 and 5/30

[Kevin]

Well, I don't mind either healing or tanking a baron run. My main fear in tanking it is I'm not as familiar with the path we need to take, so it may slow us down some. My DPS when tanking is something lame around 75 dps. But again, that's probably higher than my DPS when healing. Any of the three combinations Conc listed are interesting, and part of me would find it fun to try each of them just to see what the difference is. But again, I mostly worry about being too slow on the pulling if I tank, as I'd be asking where to go next, etc. Unless we just have Marn pull, pet target is first FF, and I pick up the others as best I can. That might keep the speed up. Either way, I expect to be there tonight, my only real stipulation is I need to be done and logged off by about 10:15 server time, as I promised the bride I'd do some audio editing for one of her work projects.

Well honestly I see both Conc and Marn pulling. There will be times that I will simply have to drink and having Conc (or you) pull while I'm drinking makes sense. Regardless we can still have Conc or the pet tank first to die if he pulls (pet can go beat on stuff while I'm drinking, if I send it in after I start drinking)

And as you can see from my other post I too wouldn't mind trying all 3 combos to see how it goes. :) I think both shaman have the ghetto mana tide trinket they can plop to help keep mana levels up as well. Swap it in and out with other trinkets as we go along. Heck we might be able to have a mana spring (piddly 10 mana every 2 seconds but still) down all the time. Water totems are what, poison cleanse, disease cleanse, mana spring, healing stream, mana tide, fire resist and the ancient mana spring (trinket) totems? We don't need FR in there. We will need the poison and the disease ones every now and then, but with 2 shaman one can handle doing the cleanse totems and then the healing totem if we don't need it and the other can just keep the silly mana regenner up. Even if it means I'm drinking every 5 fights instead of every 4, that will help the speed. The down side is that it's 100 mana for everyone in the party at the cost of 205 mana for the shaman (assuming you are in range the whole time it is running).

But windfurry totem + grace of air + strength of earth + grounding or stoneskin or tremor will be fun to have up. :) Plenty of DPS adders, and utilities (bit of damage mitigation or a little bit of healing).

Are there any magic debuffs the mobs put up though? We have curse, poison, and disease removal, do we have magic debuffs to worry about since we can't wipe them?