🚀 go-pugleaf

On 24 Mar 2011 10:04:33 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:59:50 -0700 (PDT), Ashen Shugar wrote:
>>  On Mar 24, 6:30=A0pm, Urbin <ur...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>  Though until you can charge in Defensive stance, you'd probably save
>>  this for pulls when you don't have rage left over from the previous
>>  fight.
>
>Actually, I was more thinking about situations where I am still running
>towards a group of mobs and while running I see a fireball fizz past me into
>the group I was heading for. It would be nice to be sure that I'm the first
>one to beat on the mobs.

Well, when *that* happens, I'd say run back the way and stand on the
healer to protect him, and let the silly mage do the tanking, if he
wants to pull ;-) That said, it's not what I'd do myself, I'm too keen
to not get called a bad tank so I'd be panicking trying to get aggro
on anything, but when I'm not actually being the tank I definitely
advocate the "teach them a lesson" way ;-)

>>  If you remember to just auto-attack for the last 4 or 5 seconds of the
>>  last mob, you should be able to build up a nice reserve of rage to get
>>  you to the next pull.
>
>Yes, I succesfully used this on my druid tank to make sure I had enough rage
>for the next pull and have tried using that strategy last night on my
>warrior.
>
>The problem is that without a rage-conserving charge I'd often need all of
>that rage (and more) to collect mobs prematurely pulled by the ranged dps.
>
>I guess I'll need another standard macro:
>
>"Hi, low level tanking is lacking some of the nice mechanisms available
>later. I would appreciate it if you'd let me pull and if you'd wait with
>your attacks until I've started beating on a group of mobs."
>
>We'll see how that works.

Sounds a good plan :-) I suspect you'll never see a bear tank below
lvl 36 for that very reason, since they have *no* aoe attack, at least
you get thunderclap but for some reason known only to Blizz, bears get
Swipe at 36 - may as well just not get bear form till 36 then, since
they clearly can't tank properly without a multi target attack!
/confused
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