09-04-2005, 02:44 PM
Yeah not an easy one to tank either. Rapid discussions on teamspeak as to who calls DPS. OK I call it since I'll know. Alright do I have him now? Will a crit take him? No lets go! And then an oh crap he's blinking right after I called, where is he! Is a tank up over there to bring him back? No Telsak died last time getting him back here. Run little gnome run! OK I got him, get him the hell away from the people who ran back so they don't die we needs them! Sunder sunder DPS! Crap I'm curse, is there a decurser near up and near? He's pulsing, drink the restoritive pot. #$%& my rend missed, is it still running? Actually you know I only ever see hunters mark, sunder, 2 curse of dooms and I don't remember what that is so I never know if rend is running. He blinked woot rend brought him back you rock people way to stop the damage! K Anadrol has him back here, crap taunt resisted, sunder sunder revenge sunder slam taunt sunder run Anadrol!
I tried to announce when I had him so that people could get back out as best as I could, it helped when you ran to the middle it was less stress of "if I don't move him now I could lose an entire party of people".
Yeah that is a fight where everyone has to be on the ball and has to be on the ball for a long time. The MT has to know if he should scramble and then risk having him AoE while you bring him back or know that someone will get him to you before you have to move. Not moving is prefered but the sooner I lock him down the safer it is for a healer to heal others in the raid and the more concentrated the damage becomes. But a mage or a priest dragging him back isn't going to survive the blasts if he throws them. Heck the warriors didn't always. And for gear I can't just load up on stam and arcane resistance because he does swing that big ole spear of his for 800-900 damage on someone with 7-8K armor (I don't know what my arcane set had) so I wanted enough +def to stop that crap from critting me too (I think I held 370 or so def in that fight).
90 arcane resistance is not enough. This isn't like Geddon where if you resist enough of the fire you can get out and take care of yourself. If you melee him and he pulses then curses you then pulses again you could be down 3000 HP. My 95 arcane resistance would stop about 15 to 25% with a few 50% resists in there but 2 out of 5 blasts were not resisted at all. So the poor rogues. Can't even grab him and evasion tank him back in, you just have to hope. My Hameya's Cloak is getting an enchant to up the arcane resist more though. :)
Anyway it was great work and a lot of fun for me. It was a new an interesting challenge.
Oh and the final thing I have to say about the coolness of the alliance. Thursday Gnolack is secondary tank and main DPS caller. Saturday day run Gnolack is tank #5 or 6 playing DPS monkey and thunderclap spamming only tanking if something goes wrong, though being the "follow me and we will destroy Garr's adds men!" guy was a ton of fun too. Saturday night Gnolack is the main tank the whole way through. I loved every one of those roles and I was glad to get a chance to play them all and let others be in the other tanking roles. Telsak and Shalandrax and Jane and Vanae and Mentat and all the others will get their chances too if they want them. I know this. If they only ever want to be 3rd or 4th in the list only tanking if need be or only backing up one of the other tanks then that is cool too. :) We had 3 different hunters pulling (we also had several warriors and rogues being monkeys and pulling though I do apologize again for the bad situation me being a monkey got us into there is a time and a place to be a monkey and that was not it, Anadrol charging the single respawn mob was, Quark pulling two mobs after there was an announced go for it was).
Oh well fun times. Hoping to see a few more people make it into these runs too. It's a good group of people that learn quick so we still don't slow down much even when we are explaining how things go to new people. Good times.
I tried to announce when I had him so that people could get back out as best as I could, it helped when you ran to the middle it was less stress of "if I don't move him now I could lose an entire party of people".
Yeah that is a fight where everyone has to be on the ball and has to be on the ball for a long time. The MT has to know if he should scramble and then risk having him AoE while you bring him back or know that someone will get him to you before you have to move. Not moving is prefered but the sooner I lock him down the safer it is for a healer to heal others in the raid and the more concentrated the damage becomes. But a mage or a priest dragging him back isn't going to survive the blasts if he throws them. Heck the warriors didn't always. And for gear I can't just load up on stam and arcane resistance because he does swing that big ole spear of his for 800-900 damage on someone with 7-8K armor (I don't know what my arcane set had) so I wanted enough +def to stop that crap from critting me too (I think I held 370 or so def in that fight).
90 arcane resistance is not enough. This isn't like Geddon where if you resist enough of the fire you can get out and take care of yourself. If you melee him and he pulses then curses you then pulses again you could be down 3000 HP. My 95 arcane resistance would stop about 15 to 25% with a few 50% resists in there but 2 out of 5 blasts were not resisted at all. So the poor rogues. Can't even grab him and evasion tank him back in, you just have to hope. My Hameya's Cloak is getting an enchant to up the arcane resist more though. :)
Anyway it was great work and a lot of fun for me. It was a new an interesting challenge.
Oh and the final thing I have to say about the coolness of the alliance. Thursday Gnolack is secondary tank and main DPS caller. Saturday day run Gnolack is tank #5 or 6 playing DPS monkey and thunderclap spamming only tanking if something goes wrong, though being the "follow me and we will destroy Garr's adds men!" guy was a ton of fun too. Saturday night Gnolack is the main tank the whole way through. I loved every one of those roles and I was glad to get a chance to play them all and let others be in the other tanking roles. Telsak and Shalandrax and Jane and Vanae and Mentat and all the others will get their chances too if they want them. I know this. If they only ever want to be 3rd or 4th in the list only tanking if need be or only backing up one of the other tanks then that is cool too. :) We had 3 different hunters pulling (we also had several warriors and rogues being monkeys and pulling though I do apologize again for the bad situation me being a monkey got us into there is a time and a place to be a monkey and that was not it, Anadrol charging the single respawn mob was, Quark pulling two mobs after there was an announced go for it was).
Oh well fun times. Hoping to see a few more people make it into these runs too. It's a good group of people that learn quick so we still don't slow down much even when we are explaining how things go to new people. Good times.
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It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.
It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.