A stack of run reports, mostly unferth, though the UK one will be interesting as it’s the successful 4-man run.
20090528_2345.OK
20090529_1214.Naxx
20090529_1943.OS
20090529_2035.OS
20090531_1707.CoS
20090601_1921.OS
20090601_2204.UK
20090602_1955.OS
Ok I admit it, melee dps isn’t something which sits that well with me. So Unferth got around 1,300 gold spent on him and a pile of mats out of various banks and he’s now geared enough to tank heroics (certainly well enough to start building up drop gear to switch out the resto stuff).
So… as a guild we’re not short on healing capacity or nutters willing to stand front and center.
The rekitting of Valara made the difference, just that little bit extra DPS and our old mate up at the top of the Keep bit the dust to four of us. As ever the axe is a pain in the arse, and just cannot be healed through with our current setup (and I think it would take the likes of the nutter Shammie mentioned in my previous post to achieve it).
Wolf’s next target? More health, more avoidance, more block, more armour.
Well that got a little intense. Back into main tanking from the diversion into being a leather wearing healer type.
I get a random invite from a Shammie I’ve been pugging with in the past, this is the same nutter who on the last Gun’drak boss told me not to bother moving, he’d just heal through the damage. He’s pulling together an OS8 attempt, he’s going to solo heal it….
Ok, trash goes down, other trash goes down. Boss#1 goes down.. not too bad.
Wipe on trash (manage to get two packs at once), and then pull Boss#2 while dealing with trash… splat.
Get back to Boss#2, for some reason we’re going past to attack from the other side, someone face pulls so I’m frantically pulling the boss while regaining mana and buffing as fast as I can (thank eris for pally power and key bindings). Boss dies.
Boss#3 goes down without too much trouble.
Sarth… I’ve been in OS three times, once OT and twice healing. So this is my first attempt to MT this monster. Apparently I was tanking in a really weird position (head at the front left corner of the island). For the waves from the right I didn’t have to move, and a simple strafe for the left side waves, and a nice clear view across the entire island and keeping Sarth’s backside to the raid. So I’m not sure why it was weird but he went down without a problems.
That’s one more achievement for the pile.
2009/05/23 @ 22:31 : HoL (teamtincan)
2009/05/25 @ 11:25 : OK (pug)
The following should be a hint to any good tank that he should not be pulling trash and bosses
Then complaining after we wipe of
Will lead the healer to decide this is going to be a fail pug and leave.
I was pondering, as I do from time to time, on the comments from the DK tanks and why I do what I do and where I learnt it. The answer is simple enough, Wolf levelled 70-80 as a pure tank, so pulling packs of 10+ and grinding them down while relying on kaylad to get the heals in on time (hence her level of practice in healing when we piled into the first 5-man instances) is just second nature.
So unferth will be available this weekend, when we’re not kicking some instance butt, to pop out to the likes of the trolls in the hills, the undead and others in Icecrown and to the healing while the tanks get some practice in pulling, holding, turning and generally toying with the mobs and getting used to being the center of attention where all the bad guys want to come and express their love for you with whatever sharp / blunt / spiked implement came to their hands / tentacles / claws.
and all the bosses die (eventually).
So I decide to scare the hell out of the DK tanks and take in unferth rather than ‘wolf. In general the bosses were easier heals than the trash (this is not unusual). The general whacked me on the first pass because I was too close to the action when he whirlwinded.
Telestra is an interesting one to deal with because of the ongoing motion and the risks during the split phase of picking up one of her adds.
The dragon… yeah… dps was fine, no problems. We simply were a bit light on health on the tank and me not able to get the heals out fast enough to balance that. More haste or (as we proved) more health tipped the balance into mashing her big ugly face into the ground.