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I did two runs already on Scarlet Monastery. On the first one, a Dps heavy group (2 hunters, Resto druid, pally tank. and me) did ok, but we only went to Library and Graveyard.
Plan was, we would clear those two (easier) wing of the monastery, get a feel for the group and then, move on to armory and Cathedral if we had time and if the group has holding well in the instance.
After the Library run, we had a drop from one of the hunters (had to leave), went to summoning stone and started scouting LFG for a replacement, but in about an half-hour there was nothing to be found! Everyone was either just getting ready to “park” the character on Inn’s across Azeroth or doing other Runs (PvP, Gnomereggan, ….)
With a bit of discontent on my part (I was really excited) we call it quits for the day, and moved on. I still went to finish some quests in Arathi Highlands, got some Raptor meat and Raptor Eggs and then also logged out!
The next day, I went to Stormwind (seasonal herbs), to get some consumables ready (anticipating a possible run trough Sm again) made some Healing potions, some Mana potions, got Agility and protection Elixirs, roasted the raptor meat and made some omelets from the Eggs. I was as ready as possible, logged to LFG and went out questing!
A couple minutes into questing I get into a group with 2 priests (one shadow and one holy) a retribution Paladin and a rogue. They asked If I could tank Sm Library for them.
/p [Dranzig]: Sure, it won’t be a problem!
All set, buffed and with a full stomach we all blaze trough Library, and even Doan, wasn’t a problem. Everyone did their thing, a couple of panic moments, with some body pull’s, but nothing a quick (almost always cooled) taunt couldn’t handle.
I focused on multi-mob tanking as best I could, trying to get enough starting threat on the Skull Mob, then switching targets to Cross, apply one sunder and cleave it. Trick here is get both cross (main cleave hit) and Skull (collateral damage/second hit) and then switch back to skull and keep pounding. Positioning is everything!
A problem young tanks may encounter on Library, is the frequent encounters with caster mobs (healers or fire mages), even more since, they are almost always “linked” to groups of mobs and the safe pull, can turn into a wipe, even for the most prepared. (I’ll post little how-to soon)
We did very well on Library and decided to go to Armory. At this point we lost the Rogue (oh, man, it’s yesterday all over again!). we grabbed a hunter, summoned, and went into the Armory. Without the rogue (for sap) we had bigger pulls (hunter couldn’t trap very well, and with mutual accord, we decided that either we would lose dps, and mind control one mob, or I would try to hold all mobs). Nothing to serious happened, most groups where a breeze, with the healer mobs marked as Skull, and a Shield Bash or Chastise always ready for the interrupt.
Funny enough, both priests were really paying attention, and on dual healers they would wait for the Bash before the Chastise, and if bash was on cooldown (used recently) they would immediately chastise. Go priests!!!
Finally we got to Herod, I charged him and started to get a good threat base while everyone got positioned (for the summoned mobs at the Kill), paladin stayed at melee with me while the hunter and priests stood at the stairs – half way down-. when the mobs spawned, everyone came to center, and the paladin consecrated, the hunter did multi-shot and freezing trap (amazing) and a priest holy nova them to nothing!
we check loot, and voilá, I had a treat waiting for me in the form of a berserker Helm (wanted list, yay!!!).
Now it was already a bit late and we decided we wouldn’t tackle on cathedral, but we arranged to meet again the next day to try it out! let’s see if we can get more phat loot, from Mograine and Whitemane (squichie friends).
here’s a little “rub my ego” screenshoot!
Ego rubbing
