Infraction for tekkel: u

• Fogbug · 11/08/07, 12:47 PM

Post: EJ Forum Community - Zul'aman testing
User: tekkel
Infraction: u
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

Please don't abbreviate the word "you" when posting here.

Original Post:

Well my guild tested ZA with mostly kara and arena gear. I was tanking as a prot pally with a feral druid next to me. Bought 2 items from the new badge rewards and otherwise I was running mostly heroic/kara gear and the tier4 pieces from gruuls. Next to that I had a ring and trinket from ssc/tk but that was it. Most of the people in the run were like that. 80% kara gear 20% 25 men gear.

The bear went easy for us. 1 shot np if u know the tactic. We went on to the eagle and made it through the gauntlet the first time without a mage or warlock. Me picking up the front 2 mobs + eagles and a feral druid picking the mobs up in the back. Didn't even get hit hard enough to regen the mana I needed to keep tanking so they don't hit too hard. This part of the instance will be a problem if u rely heavily on mana using dps.

The boss itself took a few tries to sort the tactic and he went down fairly easy. We then moved on to the lynx boss. Tbh the trash to this place takes a bit too long. Alot of trash to clear compared to the bear and eagle. Maybe we can skip some but I think it took at least 30 minutes.
The boss itself posed some problems for us in the fact that he hits fairly decent and then does the saber lash style attack. We used 2 tanks in front of him. The druid could actually tank him better due to higher health buffer. I got 1 shotted 3 times by the saber lash for 10k when my health wasn't topped off before it would hit. Running around 16k hp buffed wasn't enough or my healers were slacking too much.
We managed to get a decent amount of phase changes but seemed to lose people to the totems+shocks. 3% was our best try and with some better tactic and positioning he would go down.

Tbh the saberlash attack is a bit too heavy hitting. If u wouldn't have a priest and warlock with u the health buffer on an average geared kara tank might be too small to take those hits with only 2 people in front of him. Having more take the hit makes u need to watch another semi tank to top off after every saber lash. The fact that u can evade the saber lash makes it reasonable that it's meant to be taken by 2 tanks only. Maybe a little less damage on the lash or a longer cooldown on that ability would make this fight a bit better for kara equipped tanks.