09-01-2005, 09:11 PM
Couple things I've read posted elsewhere that worked well for me the last time I had Onyxia MT duty.
When the rest of the raid stops their DoTs - the MT should apply a rend. That way when she wipes, odds are her first tick of incoming damage will be from the MT. Small amount of damage, but being first on the list can be an advantage..
As she descends, but before she is actually attacking, chain spam slams with a slow 2H in defensive (drinking a rage pot beforehand if necessary). When she actually starts attacking (interrupting the chain slams), put the shield back on and go back to your usual hate building techniques. There are a couple reasons why chain slam is nice during the landing:
- Slam has slightly more reach than some other warrior skills so it hits her earlier in her descent.
- 100 rage dumped with chain slam gives you ~3500+ defensive stance damage (w/o crits) in about a 10 second span. If someone in the raid is out healing/damaging that sort of initial aggro generation, they're doing something wrong.
- 3500+ defensive stance damage should offset ~14k healing from any single subtlety priest.
Shadow res. buff the MT (towards the end of phase 2) but not the rest of the raid. Fear reducing aggro is a good thing if you're not the MT and you can figure out how to survive the lava spurts (fire res).
My last time tanking Onyxia I tried the rend&slam tricks, didn't try to stance dance for zerker rage, and intentionally didn't run backwards when fear was coming (I'm sure I got dispel/tremor totem help). Still got aggro under control in a reasonable timespan.
When the rest of the raid stops their DoTs - the MT should apply a rend. That way when she wipes, odds are her first tick of incoming damage will be from the MT. Small amount of damage, but being first on the list can be an advantage..
As she descends, but before she is actually attacking, chain spam slams with a slow 2H in defensive (drinking a rage pot beforehand if necessary). When she actually starts attacking (interrupting the chain slams), put the shield back on and go back to your usual hate building techniques. There are a couple reasons why chain slam is nice during the landing:
- Slam has slightly more reach than some other warrior skills so it hits her earlier in her descent.
- 100 rage dumped with chain slam gives you ~3500+ defensive stance damage (w/o crits) in about a 10 second span. If someone in the raid is out healing/damaging that sort of initial aggro generation, they're doing something wrong.
- 3500+ defensive stance damage should offset ~14k healing from any single subtlety priest.
Shadow res. buff the MT (towards the end of phase 2) but not the rest of the raid. Fear reducing aggro is a good thing if you're not the MT and you can figure out how to survive the lava spurts (fire res).
My last time tanking Onyxia I tried the rend&slam tricks, didn't try to stance dance for zerker rage, and intentionally didn't run backwards when fear was coming (I'm sure I got dispel/tremor totem help). Still got aggro under control in a reasonable timespan.