Single tanking a 3 tank fight.
Thursday night is our first 25m Ulduar night of the raid week (3 days Ulduar, 1 day naxx)... and this past thursday we were down a tank, having a DPSer go offspec for bosses
all is fine until XT.
he forgot to switch specs/gear to tank the pummelers...
no biggie, the 2nd tank will just pick up all of em, we do XT the cheating way anyways, so only 2 piles will spawn adds...
2nd tank gets a lightbomb while running away from the healers... and dies.
I'm alone with my UA build, which the guild has named 'Super Spec'. After that night, I don't think theres any arguing it.
I'm glyphed and speced to reduce Shield Wall CD's to 2 mins, which happens to be the exact amount of time between tantrums.
So I managed to tank all the pummelers and the boss for the last 3 minutes of the encounter.
Now, I have to do it every week!
Stressful
all is fine until XT.
he forgot to switch specs/gear to tank the pummelers...
no biggie, the 2nd tank will just pick up all of em, we do XT the cheating way anyways, so only 2 piles will spawn adds...
2nd tank gets a lightbomb while running away from the healers... and dies.
I'm alone with my UA build, which the guild has named 'Super Spec'. After that night, I don't think theres any arguing it.
I'm glyphed and speced to reduce Shield Wall CD's to 2 mins, which happens to be the exact amount of time between tantrums.
So I managed to tank all the pummelers and the boss for the last 3 minutes of the encounter.
Now, I have to do it every week!
Stressful
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XT is actually best done with just using 1 tank in the end. We use some MD's if we get adds. More dps or more healers = win and for hard mode it's required.
Gratz on the kill though
Posted 06-22-2009 at 04:00 AM by Roarc 
- Yeah, before we started trying for heartbreaker, I distinctly remember my paladin co-tank got locked out of the encounter. This was also before we learned about the pile-proximity so we tanked him at the stairs. By the end of it, I had approx 6 pummelers on me, AND the boss wailing away. It was intense, and afterwards I was a twitching mass.
I actually took the time to go downstairs, rustle through boxes for an old microphone, plugged it in, set it up. All to just say 2 words...
Never. Again.Posted 06-22-2009 at 08:04 AM by Conreeaght - I've tanked the pummelers in my block/blockvalue set and got a boss extra for 2 minutes once. I'd say you'd be better of in that case... Either way! grats on saving the day!
Also - 3 tanks normally? Deconstructor, running it with one tank at least, would in my book warrant a more traditional protection specc. With so much incomming damage you want to be able to thunderclap/improved demo stuff too.Posted 06-22-2009 at 08:05 AM by Aethelas - Yeah, we normally run 3 tanks, even 4 sometimes depending on who decides to show up to the raid.
It was intense tho, not going into it expecting that... and just kinda pickin' it up on the fly.Posted 06-22-2009 at 12:53 PM by Kaad -
2 tanks is understandable... but 3 and 4? what do they even do?Posted 06-23-2009 at 03:16 AM by Dreg - Not a whole lot.
Not everyone has dual specs yet...
but fights like Ignis and Auriya we do it, having 4 makes it generally go smoother.Posted 06-27-2009 at 02:12 AM by Kaad
