One of my friends has leveled a DK tank and he wanted to take it on a test drive. So we rousted together some people and hit the heroic daily, which was Utgarde Keep. I took Kikidas, because Ingvar drops a ring. It's better than the rings I have. So I went.
When I joined the group, I got a swell of heart-ache and longing remembrance, as Agurtzane said, "Nooo! I wanted JUST ONE CHANCE to hold aggro!"
Of course, it would have helped if he had been in frost presence instead of unholy! (Remind me to tell you guys about the hunter in our Ulduar-10 that had on Pack during the Deconstructor.)
So after a few wipes (well, I kept dying, so as far as I'm concerned... wipe) where I kept going, "I don't know WHY I'm pulling aggro! I'm waiting!" I finally notice that the tank is not in frost. I gleefully point it out, gloating that it wasn't my warlocky badness that was causing me to pull aggro. I, dare I say, was innocent.
We go on through the instance, la-de-da, kill the boss, la-de-da, no ring, poop, and we try to get him the tanking trinket out of regular HoL. Kikidas doesn't need anything out of regular HoL (not that any of my 80's do), so I decide to take Kvasira just to make it a nice quick run.
Heehee. I need to run regular instances more often! I was almost hitting 4k DPS on everything. *glee* I know it means nothing... but it still made me squeal in delight and fuzzy warmth.
So fuzzy. So warm. Like curling up with a kitten of epic DPS proportions.
And once Frost presence was on, Agurtzane kept threat really well... except for when I opened with Divine Storm...
C'mon people, I need the BIG NUMBERS! Aggro be damned. (It isn't like every tank doesn't have to get massive amounts of AoE threat right away with ANY ret paladin that they run with. I was just training the new tank appropriately.)
On a side note... I'm still having issues figuring out a good single or duo-target trash rotation. For quick deaths, rain of fire seems to do better than SoC? But other than that, is it SB, SB, DL?
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Heh, we once took out Netherspite with my hunter's Pack up. I still get razzed over that.
ReplyDeleteSoC's cast time and less opportunity to crit seems to play a part in it's relative ineffectivness. RoF has multiple opportunities to crit, one per tick per target, and sometimes they pop like angry popcorn kernals.
Um, if you're aff... nothing will save you on trash. I throw down a corr, H, bolt if I can. Usually trash dies took quick in the last 25% to get me even one drain life tick, so it's not really worth it IMO.
ReplyDeleteOr if you get really bored... SHADOWFLAME :-)
Haunt is probably worthless for damage on trash but I do like the heal from it so I can life tap with impunity and do stupid things.