Originally Posted by Cathela
On the subject of Brutallus:
Has anyone tried using [Ancient Aqir Artifact] as a second clicky trinket (along with Moroes) for handling stomps? It would certainly be better than a Nightmare Seed as a clickable effect, and I believe since the 2500 armor is a magic buff it wouldn't be affected by the Stomp armor reduction. But is it worth losing the stam and the dodge proc from [Commendation of Kael'thas]? |
Just killed this guy for the first time with me tanking last night - 7 1/2 hours of getting wtfpwn'd later... I swear there are times where Brutallus decides that he doesn't want the current tank to live, and just annihilates them.
For a long portion of that fight I was using the
[Commendation of Kael'thas], figuring that the stamina and awesomesauce proc were worth it. Then I noticed that I was _never_ dying during a non-stomp time, and switched to my
[Shadowmoon Insignia], as being able to control the timing of the procs is crucial to surviving stomps ( Yay stoneform ).
I don't have the Artifact, but I do believe that stacking avoidance is really key for this fight, and the guaranteed avoidance is actually worth more than the stamina here. I swear getting insta-gibbed 4 minutes in while having done everything you could to stay alive is really, really, really frustrating. Especially when you kill him right before the reset so we get to do it all again next week. The only consolation was that our warrior MT was getting gibbed nearly as often, if not more so, than I was, so couldn't blame it on a pally. Druids are clearly the best choice for this fight though.