10-16-2008, 02:58 PM
Post-3.0.2 raiding is a hell of a lot of fun, from what I've seen of it so far. Post here some of the ridiculous things you've seen or your general impressions.
First, as I said elsewhere, raid-wide buffing is a hell of a good thing. No more odd men out that are stuck in groups without synergy, including poor little me. As a tankadin I jumped from 1100 or so attack power pre-raid to over 2000 AP mid-fight. Also, raid wide blood pact, improved devotion aura..the list goes on.
Second of all, I HIGHLY recommend doing Gruul as a warmup to post-patch raiding. We killed him just as he started his 3rd growth, which for us was ridiculously fast.
Tankadin Perspective
I can really feel the buff from this patch. My threat, dps and mitigation were all considerably buffed. Throw in raid bosses dealing a bit less damage, and wow...
Here's an illustration of how different life is for tankadins post-3.0.2:
Rage Winterchill:
I have always tanked this guy. Pre-patch I would have to put on the Illidari Runeshield (elem shaman shield with no mitigation) and use the spell power boosting book from A'lar instead of my mitigation trinket in an attempt to take enough damage to support my mana use and to keep my threat high enough. Even then, and running over 600 spell power base and adding wizard oil and flask of blinding light threat would be an issue AND I would get low on mana even after mana potting as the fight wore on.
Post-patch, I tanked Rage last night. I was at full mana the whole fight, while hitting every ability I could even including Exorcism on every cooldown, generated double the threat (nearly) of our top DPS, who put out 2450 DPS, dealt almost 1000 DPS personally and barely took damage myself.
Heck, I even tanked Kaz'rogal just to try it, and his constant mana drains couldn't get my mana down far enough to blow the raid thanks to SA mana returns + BoS + replenishment + whatever.
I can't wait to tank some harder hitting bosses where I might actually use some of my other new tools, like being able to lay on hands every 20 minutes with no penalties, use Divine Protection every 4 minutes, etc.
First, as I said elsewhere, raid-wide buffing is a hell of a good thing. No more odd men out that are stuck in groups without synergy, including poor little me. As a tankadin I jumped from 1100 or so attack power pre-raid to over 2000 AP mid-fight. Also, raid wide blood pact, improved devotion aura..the list goes on.
Second of all, I HIGHLY recommend doing Gruul as a warmup to post-patch raiding. We killed him just as he started his 3rd growth, which for us was ridiculously fast.
Tankadin Perspective
I can really feel the buff from this patch. My threat, dps and mitigation were all considerably buffed. Throw in raid bosses dealing a bit less damage, and wow...
Here's an illustration of how different life is for tankadins post-3.0.2:
Rage Winterchill:
I have always tanked this guy. Pre-patch I would have to put on the Illidari Runeshield (elem shaman shield with no mitigation) and use the spell power boosting book from A'lar instead of my mitigation trinket in an attempt to take enough damage to support my mana use and to keep my threat high enough. Even then, and running over 600 spell power base and adding wizard oil and flask of blinding light threat would be an issue AND I would get low on mana even after mana potting as the fight wore on.
Post-patch, I tanked Rage last night. I was at full mana the whole fight, while hitting every ability I could even including Exorcism on every cooldown, generated double the threat (nearly) of our top DPS, who put out 2450 DPS, dealt almost 1000 DPS personally and barely took damage myself.
Heck, I even tanked Kaz'rogal just to try it, and his constant mana drains couldn't get my mana down far enough to blow the raid thanks to SA mana returns + BoS + replenishment + whatever.
I can't wait to tank some harder hitting bosses where I might actually use some of my other new tools, like being able to lay on hands every 20 minutes with no penalties, use Divine Protection every 4 minutes, etc.
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