Warning for Neddie: General Idiocy

Kaubel · 12/04/08, 7:33 PM

Post: DK Tanking Discussion
User: Neddie
Infraction: General Idiocy
Points: 0

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

http://elitistjerks.com/f15/a34-forum_rules/, #2 (quote-splitting).

Original Post:

Originally Posted by phixx

You need to make use of your cool downs here, and keep Bone shield up

Hard to do as blood. (read again, I was asked to off-tank him when specced for blood dps)

Originally Posted by phixx

Your other two tanks should be higher than you on Omen, but you need to make sure you are doing enough hate to stay third.

Naxx-25, so it's health-based, not threat based, right?

Originally Posted by phixx

DS to help out your healers as well

Death strike doesn't help much when I'm being hit for 25k.

I did Naxx again last night but we weren't able to get patch down. This time I was specced as a frost tank spec and had slightly better gear. On one attempt I survived for about 3 minutes before getting one-shot. My #1 priority was to reduce damage and avoid getting hit. I even dropped a consecration (off to the side) right before the pull and opened with a blood strike to make sure that blade barrier was up immediately. If I had a second avoidance trinket I might have survived a bit longer, but the problem was really RNG. IBF helps when you do take a hit, but a dodge trinket, unbreakable armor and lichborne just reduce the odds of getting hit. When it's patchwerk doing the hitting one hit might be all it takes. IIRC I had about 62% mitigation from armor, 31k health and 55% avoidance before cooldowns (not sure of the avoidance). I wasn't the only undergeared one, fortunately. When that plan wasn't working I respecced to a DPS build and a DPS warrior went prot, and we had basically the same problems, the warriors weren't getting hit as hard thanks to their shields and being able to gem more for stam, but they got hit a lot more often so healers ran OOM faster.

(BTW, this is all based off the (definitely sub-par) tank gear I currently have. I hit 80 about a week ago so I'm still in the process of getting geared up. I haven't had the luxury of gemming and enchanting for much of anything other than defense. If I can get to the point where I can comfortably survive a hit, and the odds of back-to-back hits are fairly low, I'll be pretty comfortable off-tanking patch.)