Jason Tinling
6/23/2011 3:15:00 PM
On Jun 23, 7:52 am, Orion Ryder <orionry...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> My pally tried tanking the Crucible Carnage last week. Granted I am
> not that experienced as a pally tank and the first few bosses are
> easily manageable even for a lesser experieneced tank but that WOrgen
> boss and all his adds...
>
> Well what a hole new different ball game it is now.
>
> A battle like this years ago I would have just consecrated once the
> adds appears and I would lay it down in an area where it would be sure
> to aggro them. Easy as cake (2010 reference)
>
> But Consecrate now has a 36 second CD. Using Avenger's Shield and
> Judgements and Hammers, well I just couldn't contain those adds fast
> enough as they were coming out and damn there are only three of them
> each time they appear and if a melee stayed on the boss as I was
> tyring to contain the adds the melee would be dead shortly and even
> though the melee was a plate wearere. Geesh. The boss hits hard.
>
> Well i guess it is back to the drawing board with pally tanking. Maybe
> I'll experiment in some regular Cata dungeons just to make sure I get
> a good rotation down for these things.
>
> Wait a second. Not all fights are as crazy as the CoC worgen.
>
> Bah! Perhaps my pally is going to be doing a hell of a lot more
> healing than he is tanking.
>
> OH! OH! OH!
>
> Orion
Consecrate is useful for enough aggro to grab adds and hit them with
other abilities (Hammer of the Righteous, Holy Wrath, Avenger's
Shield) before they waltz off after the healer. It's a mana hog, and
the only time I ever cast it on my tankadin is when I know adds are
due to show up in a fight.
And yeah, the worgen in CoC is by far the hardest hitting boss of the
set, unless you have bad interrupters on the final boss.