09-08-2005, 09:02 AM
Quark,Sep 7 2005, 04:35 PM Wrote:Activated Abilities may not always be ready, but they save lives when they are. I know on Ramala, there are tons of times where Evasion or Preparation was the difference between a group wiping and a group killing a boss. Skan had a few encounters with me where Arcane Power prevented a wipe just by pure DPS - tank goes down with boss at little life, Arcane Power provides the burst needed to finish the encounter.
Sure, you're not better all the time. But you're better when it matters most.
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Well, in those cases it would tend to be the conjunction of two activated abilities, since you'd be Evasion-tanking (or Prep-double-Evasion tanking) the boss while I wound up Arcane Powered Fireballs until I got aggro. Once I got aggro, I immediately popped off PoM-Pyro, Fireblast and CoC. But it's true that it saved wipes in both those situations.
One other one in my experience was in a 5-man Scholo where Flyn was our priest. He lagged into Lord Alexei's room and body pulled two guards while getting eaten. Tal, Darian, Cat and myself had to take two guards without a great deal of healing, and I saved Tal from death (and saved our res) by Arcane Powering and burning down the last guard when he and Darian were both at slivers of health. Of course, we got wtfpwned by Alexei once we ressed up, but at least we survived to get there :P