Tanking for Eradar Twins
Anonymous — Thu, 04/17/2008 - 00:48
Last weeks attempts at the Eradar Twins resulted in catastrophic failure. We have made some adjustments this week and I have been given the dubious task of being the fire tank.
I have some experience tanking but, I think most of my experience was with pet talents. That will not work here due to zero pet survivability.
I took a look at talent calculators and some different mixes with destruction. I actually tried a handfull of set ups, but I thought this might be most effective. But, I would really appreciate some feedback.
Pre warning, This part could get boring for some.
Assuming that I'm going to be spamming Searing Pain.
I went with Cataclysm, Bane, Devestation, ISP & Intensity, Ruin.
I skipped Reach which is my first question. Reach also lowers threat by 10%. How much of a concern is that? I haven't had a chance to Tank yet so I don' know if distance will be a problem. I don't think it will be, but what are your opinions on the lowered threat/distance? Also if it is a problem all I would need to do is transfer points from ISB to destructive reach.
From there I used Improved SB (4/5) as a filler to get to lower talents, Emberstorm, Nether Protection. After this I went to pet Talents, nothing fancy just Pet Sacrifice. The left-over 7 points went into anything that I thought would help add to aggro or survivability. So I went with Backlash, Soul Leech, and 1 more in ISB.
I skipped any talents (Shadow and Flame) that didn't help Searing Pai, Fire dmg, or survivability.
Please feel free to add any advice, comments, questions, or concerns you may have.
Watch the last resort kill
Agoney — Thu, 04/17/2008 - 08:43Watch the last resort kill video. It's epic.
if nether protection proc's
Keisjaa — Thu, 04/17/2008 - 07:08if nether protection proc's you WILL lose aggro, it's one of the talents lock tanks HAVE to skip(sounds too good to be true & it is)
I'd honestly lose the pts in cataclysm, the mana reduction is likely not worth it, put those into shadow & flame(so your DPS is still viable on trash & such, unless you have a better place for the 5pts) take the 3pts form nether prot & take reach & shadowburn(good for a quick aggro gain if you need
Thanks that is very helpful.
Cloak (not verified) — Thu, 04/17/2008 - 02:35Thanks that is very helpful. I haven't tanked in a while and I wasn't sure how much aggro Searing added. I think the other lock just didn't have enough hit%, so we would blow past his aggro.
I haven't tried Nether Protection for tanking, will I lose aggro if I use it?
From what I know of nether
Epatrick — Thu, 04/17/2008 - 02:25From what I know of nether protection the few times I've specc'd it, the proc works exactly like a pally bubble, which is muy muy bad, you're immune for a set duration, so the mob will switch targets. Also the extra reach + the clicking off of salv should be enough for any tank spamming a +200% threat button.