Originally Posted by savernon
Their tanking strategy sounds like the pulling strategy from a PuG HKM once. They had a paladin run in, get aggro on everything, run back towards the mage tank and bubble in the process. We had adequate misdirects, so after a couple attempts of that and the mage tank going splat, a bunch of us jetted out of there.
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I remember when I tried to do a Gruul's Lair pug on the 2.2 PTR (the T6 premades one). I figure I'll go on vent and see what the fools were saying, and hear this kid spend the better part of 5 minutes describing how "This hunter's BEASTMASTERY! WHAT A NOOB! You can't use a PET in a raid! IT'LL JUST DIE! NOOB! Kick him from the raid! BM hunters can't do dps!" and so on.
Now, if it had been just one person saying stupid shit like that, I wouldn't have really noticed it. Except that at least 10-15 people agreed.
As far as the bubble pulls, I remember my guild Pre-BC doing that on nearly every multi-mob boss pull pre-BC: Lucifron, Geheness, Sulfuron Harbinger, Majordomo Executus, Golemagg....It was a moderately solid strategy that actually made adds quite easy to pick up with minimal risk. But when you have misdirection ...?
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Originally Posted by Thessaly
I feel so much better that it's not just my guild that this happens to. Every week, different person. It makes me weep.
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Archimonde is still worse. You only get like 4 or so chance per Gorefiend pull for someone to fail. Archimonde is 3-4 chances per minute.
Actually the thing that bothers me most about Archimonde is the whole 'dps doesn't matter just stay alive' part. I have honestly seen a warlock 100+ yards away from fire running in a small circle for 20 seconds to get ready for a fear. It strikes me that, if you're not even going to *TRY* to damage the boss...WHY ARE YOU THERE?! This is made worse by the fact that when said warlock or priest or whatever *does* get chased by fire, they (a) die or (b) kite it into the raid.