Comments on: DPS don’t matter

By: gnomeaggedon

gnomeaggedon — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:25:44 +0000

You may vent…

I am developing a more healthy (for me) healing strategy.

Pull shit once – I try to save you.
Pull shit repeatedly – I concentrate on those more deserving.

I usually point out that relying on the spirit healer isn’t a very effective healing & dps strategy, assuming they can’t work that out themselves.

At the end of the day, it’s not my repair bill and most instances cam be 4 manned

By: thistlefizz

thistlefizz — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:07:59 +0000

A-freaking-men to this. If I may vent for a moment: One of the things I hate most while I’m tanking is when a dpser unloads everything they have before I have even thought about starting the pull. And then the mobs go straight for them. And then they die. And then they blame me. And then the spend the next 5 pulls complain about how I can’t hold aggro and that they can’t do their ‘phat deeps’ because I’m a bad tank. And then I tank-rage a little and the aneurysm growing behind my left eye gets a little bigger, while I wish them slow painful deaths.

Ok, I feel better now.

By: gnomeaggedon

gnomeaggedon — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:16:01 +0000

Reminds me of one might in Kara while taking Attuman down.

One of my mates says:
“I wonder if Gnomer can pull aggro” (the tanking was good and Attuman was at 10%).

Of course I tried and succeeded…

Then they mentioned it wasn’t a challenge, they just wanted to know if I could noob it up under optimum conditions.

Don’t challenge a Mage to pull aggro… We invest about 20 points in aggro generation!

By: gnomeaggedon

gnomeaggedon — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:12:00 +0000

It would have been a bucket including ice cubes, but we have a drought down under

By: gnomeaggedon

gnomeaggedon — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:11:03 +0000

Had a bit of that last night… I only lost the Mage once but it changed the fight from 20 seconds to 2 minutes.

He was forgiven tho. He was an awesome Mage that made one mistake and the Tank was working well with him

By: SlikRX/Balthazario

SlikRX/Balthazario — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:38:42 +0000

Well Said!

There are 2 players that can afford to be OP in a (5 man) group, and TRY to go all out:

The healer & the tank.

They can go hog wild and be as uber as they want.

If any of the DPS “outclasses” EITHER of those players, people end up dead. (usually the uber dude/ette)

We 4-manned H Gundrak last night. Most of us were in the “just sorta barely into raiding ” gear. We had a Disc priest(ess) that was better geared than any of the rest, and she died a fair number of times (and went for a ride on the Rhino’s horn a few times as well rofl)

BUT, she was aware WHY it happened, but just lost track of aggro a few times. No blame, just a shrug and a laugh.

(I also died to bad aggro management once, as well as slow reflexes/HP inattention as well on 2 other occasions *blush*)

By: Prelimar

Prelimar — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:56:10 +0000

i love it when you toss a cold glassful of reality into the face of the accepted mindset.

By: youyankityoutankit

youyankityoutankit — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:27:10 +0000

Thank you sir! How many times have I see a dps initiate the pull and blast all cds so they can DIE with over 5k dps!

So THEY can look uber and awesome.

They just look dead and dumb to me.