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Cooling down on the cooldown

Posted 11-18-2009 at 08:45 AM by Aethelas

Yesterday was one of those nights I'll remember for a little while. In effect we spent a full night wiping on hard mode Northrend Beasts. I haven't been able to raid all that much over the course of the last two weeks due to being struck down with a monster flu, followed by my girl finally (!) being with me in the Netherlands again for just the weekend. The community has spent quite a bit of time on learning the encounter and getting adjusted to the shift of paradigm it takes to put some captured...
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Tank Check - Leothras the Blind

Posted 11-17-2009 at 05:36 PM by Scotch

One of the fights I considered to be a Level 3 tanking fight was Leothras the Blind in Serpentshrine Caverns back in BC. This encounter was difficult from the tanking perspective for various reasons.

To those unfamiliar with the fight, it starts with a 3 add trash pull (the adds could hit surprisingly hard) which following their deaths Leothras became active.
Leothras is a three phase fight. He starts out in humanoid form where he does a whirlwind which drops a strong bleed...
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What makes...

Posted 11-17-2009 at 01:18 AM by Aethelas

To be honest. This started out as a reply to 'what makes a good tank' thread on the forums. Perhaps my wall of text was just a little too personal. Or perhaps I just feel more at home writing stuff for my blog. Either way. I hope this helps someone, somewhere.

I think there's a lot of good tanks out there. Tanking has changed a bit, some recent experiences tanking in Aion just really show that blizzard succeeded in making tanking slightly easier and more fun than how it started out.
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Progress ... despite Italy

Posted 11-17-2009 at 01:14 AM by Shortypop

This week's raiding has been a bit up and down with university exams and RL issues for several raiders making our numbers once again tight. Our poor RL has had to deal with multiple late cancels, but despite raiding under strength we cleared normal TotC and TotGC up to Twins - 23/24manning HM beasts (without any holy pally) was a real ... beast, but it was done.

On Sunday night after clearing Jara and Champs (7 wipes in total) we were again met by Twins and spent a fairly happy hour...
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Difficult Fights to Tank

Posted 11-16-2009 at 05:41 PM by Scotch
Updated 11-16-2009 at 05:45 PM by Scotch

I read an artical recently on the most difficult fights to heal (I think Matticus wrote it) and got me to thinking what were the most difficult fights to tank that I have run across.

I've tanked most content since BC except for Sunwell. In Vanilla I was a hunter as I have previously mentioned, so I don't have the background to talk about tanking difficulty back then. But in the time I have tanked, I've run across 3 main types of tanking skill levels for bosses.

Level...
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