03-22-2007, 02:42 PM
Quote:I agree on Black Morass. I have found myself zoning out in there tanking a rift lord, where I'm just spamming Devastate after initial "lock down". The 2nd and 3rd bosses keep me on my toes (have to shed debuff/help healer keep me upright), but otherwise the place is a snooze. The only thing that keeps me awake in Black Morass for rift lords is a couple of our rogues, who can pull aggro off of me really late in the fight if I don't stay in full threat mode 90% of the time. Devastate snoozing and getting a rogue nearly munched is a bad way to wake up.
However, that's part of what Bolty talked about. Not every instance is tank-centric anymore. There *are* instances that are snoozefests for tanks now, which is different from the old world. DPS has to be 'with it' in BM to succeed. From what you all are saying, as long as the tank isn't stupid, he'll be fine (for once), which is a far cry from other instances. Even the end fight of Ramparts requires a good tank to know when to grab the dragon and hold onto it. It speaks to the sad state of PuG tanking in that I've seen a total of only *5* tanks actually hold the dragon right. 1 pally, 2 druids, and 2 warriors. One of those warriors was me. Pretty sad, really. One run on my mage I had to go get my warrior and tank the fight myself so my guildie could get the quest completed (which my mage already had done). I just shake my head and realize why you don't see people pugging some places.
--Mav