Last night was pretty interesting. I queued up on my pala to dps at level 46. We went got Orange Mara. I found myself in a group with four friends from the same server, two in the same guild and two in different guilds. I was the fifth, their third dps. So we started off pulling this fighting plants one by one, which kept my dps at around 100. That was fine. Mara is a little more difficult and the beginning was mainly single target pulls. Some two-target pulls (the patrolling Satyr chicks), and packs of slimes and worms. The slimes needed to be kited, and the worms die really quick. The plant mobs have this knockdown attack that stops all attacks for a few seconds. its basically a stun. The pala tank was randomly using Judgement of Wisdom and Light, so I got a bit fed up and just used Justice. There, no overriding judgements. lol
In any case, the instance was super short with the water elemental boss and the big plant boss. I'm not sure if we can venture into the rest of the instance since after the plant boss, we requeued and got Zul Farrak. Now this one's fun, and I can actually justify using judgement of justice. Not only are there no knockdowns, knockbacks, silences, etc (ok well there's some silences and some hexing going on), it is, for the most part, a stress-free instance and I was able to get my dps up past 300 dps at times. overall it was roughly 250dps, which was ahead of the tank at 200 and the warlock at 170. I'm loving my top position as dps, even though its still AoE dps. but im not looking down on AoE. its still awesome to look at. im still killing things and contributing to the group. on boss fights, im second, sometimes third. I don’t mind. I actually have no problems being second, or third on the dps charts so long as we get our job done.
And getting the job done is what I like to do. So oftentimes, I sacrifice dps (lol really? its not bleeding edge progressing my a longshot) for some "fun" and utility. who has fun anymore in instances? but fun I have. and fun I'll continue to get. see the warlock pulling aggro from DoTs+Rain of Fire? I use my Righteous Defense on the lock. same with the healer. since everyone basically defaults to their AoE attacks, when a clothie pulls aggro, they're gonna pull more than one mob. so i wait about two seconds for the tank to react. then I taunt them off the poor dps/heals on to me. better they attack me than the clothie… always.
So there, that's my itch… my itch to bi… er… switch. to switch to prot. or tank. or something. I almost made it a song! it would have been featured on yo gaba gaba! but yea. the itching doesn’t stop, and I find that it makes dps way more fun than just, well, dps. im going to turn my vuhdo oh and add a rightclick to taunt, and a scrollwheel up to purify, and a scrollwheel down to cleanse, and maybe a leftclick to FoL should I get a AoW proc in which I don’t need to Exo or FoL on myself. Usually in groups, I never need to FoL myself and exo is almost always on cooldown.
So there I go again, always wanting to do more than just dps. but I find that fun. can you blame me? and what's more fun thank saving the day by tanking some mobs? im sure the healer didn’t mind that I pulled all the mobs off of him. maybe it wasn’t that necessary to pull the mobs off of the warlock, since death to warlock meant the mobs go back to the tank automatically. but we're not all here for by-the-book playing. we're here for for-the-fun playing. I enjoy all the times where I am able to use purify on someone. im glad for the comments address to the healer, "nice dispells" and I interrupt any question as to who that comment was directed to by saying, "thanks!" its gonna be even more fun once I get my vuhdo working. think of it as a healbot+decursive+clique all in one. in any case, im a tank at heart, and if a healer is getting hit by some mobs and the tank isnt taunting them off, then its up to me, the tank-in-disguise, to peel those mobs off the healer and save the day.
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