01-07-2009, 04:42 AM
Quote:This is why I don't use Cower. I don't want to bother with using a GCD on it. I also figure that if my cat/pet can out-threat a tank, it's a problem with the tank, and not my pet. And yes, that's in 5 mans up to 25's. Without my pet using Growl, of course.Last night I got into my first 25-person WotLK raid, Obsidian Sanctum. It was a PUG, but we had four people from our guild, including the warrior main tank. I ran with both Cower and Growl off. The run did not start off well for me: I was trying a new idea for my Steady Shot macro from something I saw mentioned on EJ. It worked pretty well except Steady Shot almost never seemed to proc. I should have known better. By about the middle of the raid everyone else was fighting and I was editing my macro. Nothing was wrong with the coding, the idea just didn't work.
On Sartharion my cat died early. I was too far away and lost the pet bar. (Memo: macro Heart of the Phoenix.) I stood there just plunking away, but finally towards the end of the fight, lamely ressed my pet.
Shadron went better. I had a working macro by that time and the kitty stayed alive. In fact the kitty out damaged the warrior. I hope the kitty did not pull aggro, although I did see parries in the log.
But I am convinced of the idea of raiding without Cower. And I got the Valorous gloves for my effort. Over all for the raid I was the top hunter out of three. On the Sartharion fight I was beaten only by a warlock, with a margin of about 100 damage out of a 167K for each of us.
I still don't know where to put the last talent point.
"I may be old, but I'm not dead."