Comments on: Feelings of Tanking Inadequacy

By: Gigaflop

Gigaflop — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:18:26 +0000

Wow, that’s odd. Just last week, my Druid, Tiagra, on Zul’jin, tanked all the way up to “the Violet hold”… get this. At lvl 71. Yes, we beat the violet hold with a squad of 71′s (and I think one dinged 72 along the way). Mind you, that dragon at the end was nasty, and we almost wiped, but considering we were 71 and going against a lvl 77 dragon.. I was thinking that the game was completely broken. It turns out that our gear was just uber. I just took my other Char, Mianeh, with the same people (different characters/classes though) though UK and Nexus, and we wiped like crazy in Nexus on the little red lvl 72 dragon in there. So it does depend TONS on gear. My druid is pretty geared to the teeth, and the healer for that group Veneficusa, also geared to the teeth. The other group has a pally tank and a priest healer in blues/greens. MASSIVE MASSIVE difference. My druid tank has a decent amount of +hit for a tank, and I think that partially helped, since I happened to hit the mobs more than my friends who were missing up a storm since the mobs were so much higher level.

By: Joey

Joey — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:44:51 +0000

Well I’m a hunter and listened to you on BRK’s podcast last week so i thought I’d stop by…just a few things to help out in old kingdom. As Neil said for the first boss you can clear ALL the trash then pull the boss then run right back to the portal which stops the guardians coming. For the third boss there is an insanely helpful trick, engage her dps her hard. When she goes up into the air all your group has to immediately run down the waterfall…I know, first time i did this i was thinking…”say what???” but yea you run down the waterfall keeping to the left-ish side but still close to the middle…jump out at the end, run up the stairs after the second boss’ tunnel, the tank stands just in front of the doorway while dps and heals stand in the doorway or just behind. In the time the boss takes to get back to you the enrage will have worn off and its jsut a simple tank’n'spank from then on. Whenever she goes up into the air she will run back to the top, dont follow her and just wait for her to come back. With this strategy your not going to break any speed records but it really simplifies the fight and ensures less repair trips :)

Joey

By: Kupuka

Kupuka — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:36:12 +0000

AN is a pain in the big bear butt ass.
In order not to lose aggro i swipe and bersek mangle like a madman. Madtauren.

Once you pass the first 3 watchers is a piece of cake.

By: Tatko

Tatko — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:47:13 +0000

BTW, druid herbalists with epic flight form are very OP, I strongly suggest re-rolling herbalism if you need herbs or cash.

By: Tatko

Tatko — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:23:14 +0000

Two days ago I went on my 71 mage to The Nexus 5-man normal, because a guildie asked me to join in place of a warlock that ninja-dc’d. She kept talking about the 70 DPS warrior that was in group and, to be fair, he did twice the damage I did. But then I inspected him, and he was in fully enchanted full epic gear, mostly from Arena. My mage was mostly in Outland leveling blues and greens.

My point is that while some people may bitch about instances being too easy, it’s also easy to forget that some of the people are way, way overgeared for the normal instances in Northrend, especially the lower-end ones. I think those instances are properly balanced for leveling gear and the boss fights are not very easy.

By: Ends

Ends — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:04:16 +0000

When I ran Old Kingdom on my shadow priest, I found it invaluable on the Jedoga Shadowseeker fight to tab-target to select the sacrifice volunteer and mind-flay away to slow them down (no glyph). The purple line also drew everyone’s attention to the mob so we could burn them down fast. I realize you didn’t have a shadow priest in your group, but I highly recommend this technique when you run Old Kingdom on your shadow priest.

By: Dirz

Dirz — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 04:56:05 +0000

On heroic I did it the same as on normal- clear to where she is, making sure all party members are in the ring of bad guys, than avoid the aoe and kill the add that spawns- it doesn’t matter if he gets TO the circle, you just have to kill him before she sucks him dry and turns into a dmg-O-matic:)

By: Yahwei

Yahwei — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:01:19 +0000

Regarding the floaty boss. I have done this fight the “correct” way a total of 1 time. How we are currently doing it is to clear to the chick and AoE down the stupid little guys to start the boss fight.

The first time she does the floaty bit, everyone runs down the water and off the waterfall and straight back until you go up the stairs to the little dias. The boss will get the buff from the sacrifice and start to slowtail(as opposed ot hightailing) it back to you. The 200% buff will have worn off by the time she gets to you, or close enough that it doesn’t matter. The next time she needs to sac someone, she just runs back. Rinse and repeat. This works on Heroic as well.

By: Dirz

Dirz — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:50:52 +0000

…and I just realized I said ‘said’ instead of ‘sad’ I blame it on the manischewitz;)

By: Dirz

Dirz — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:45:57 +0000

While the bears are said because of mitigation issues, as a pally I get frustrated when the healers cant heal me through pulling an entire room. I wish they would make healing be easier, it seems like healers are bloody hard to find:(