If you look to combine the priority of stamina and armor, and in addition try to increase your expertise to respectable levels so that you have the threat to not threat cap your dps and prevent a good percentage of parry hasting, you can create a fairly well rounded gear set. The gear set that I am leaning towards will put armor in the forefront of my mind, however at a certain point, the DR will become too steep and I will rather use stamina to bolster my survival and effective health. For me, armor has always been an attractive stat, and should not be discounted, however with the impending breaths that the boss pumps out, you want to consider stamina a great option as well. This lead to an evaluation of his gear, and a personal reflection on what I would wear to the party when I get a chance to walk in there and tank. He saw that there was some parry hasting leading to his demise, but overall he was not geared enough to take back to back hits. The discussion centered around his concern that he was getting gibbed by halion on phase 2 inside the portal. If you thought that was a long winded intro, I have apparently been away too long! Gearing for Hard Mode HalionĪ discussion has broken out on our class forums between myself and one of our best players (a shadowmourne wielding death knight who used to MT back when his guild was a top 100 progression guild in the TOTGC days). This brings me to the topic at hand that I wanted to discuss. In the end our other main spec tanks are doing their job well, and a few of our very talented players can sub in from a skill stand point but their gear is not up to snuff. We have had issues with single target threat, being able to execute the rotation in the shadow realm, lack of gear to handle hard mode 25 man hits, in ability to pick up the adds, and general sub par play by some. This is bolstered by a trial druid tank, and three dps capable of tanking (DK, Warrior, and Druid).Įach of these players has been asked to step up at one time or another on this fight, and each of them have had an issue with either wanting to tank or being an effective tank. We currently have a talented tanking roster of two protection paladins and a protection warrior. As tanks have come and gone, I have done my best to replace them. I have been the main tank of the guild for quite some time, and have been part of the tanking rotation for the entire expansion. I guess I have to explain all of the different tanks we field and when we use them to understand how this is such a broad based problem. I have been hearing that most of our stand in’s have been having issues with confidence when it comes to rotating the boss. This is intuitively the best time to use cool downs, health stones, trinkets, etc.īack to our tanks trouble though. From my perspective, the only difficult time a tank should face is when one of your tank healers gets the mark and has to run when trying to heal you. The laser beams of death are a simple mechanic which is only muddied by two factors: your tanks ability to rotate on a dime, and your raids ability to react quickly when they get the mark. It was interesting to hear that quite a few of our tanks, dps posing as tanks, and everyone in the raid in general had a hard time with the cutters. Over the few weeks our guild spent on Monday nights wiping in 10 man learning the fight, I got a good look at the fight from all aspects, and learned what gear to wear, how to use it, and when to use your cool downs. As for the inside, and the shadow realm, there are all sorts of fun things that you have to deal with. From my understanding, as I have never tanked outside in phase 3, it is a fairly trivial tank and spank job for one of the tanks, and add duty for the other. I have gotten to the point where I get my WoW fix only three days a week, the rest of the time, baring a huge guild scandal (which has been known to happen and require me to log on early in the morning to talk to our other Co-GM) I am away from the game and away from my ability to talk and think about it.Īs a result, we have had some new tanks working on halion hard mode, and more specifically being the shadow realm tank. My transition to a new (old) role in my company has hindered my attendance and my concentration when it comes to raiding, preparing for raids, blogging about raids, and everything else that had to do with my obsession with WoW. My job has been getting in the way of my ability to main tank all of our progression runs for the past few months.
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