Last night i was tanking a bit and found myself looking for level 70 gear to tank with, as if i didnt already have the entire cobalt tanking set already. why not have a choice? maybe i do like a few more options to itemize my stats (yea i realize that BC plate gear is itemized for the pala and warrior tank and is not that much useful for the death knight that was introduced in Wrath). things like shield block and block rating ignored, there are some nice pieces for tanking. i am especially looking for anything to compliment my cobalt set which includes a cape, rings, trinkets and a neck piece. i dont understand why DK's do not get their actual tanking runeforge until level 72. it was a bit of torture tanking Utgarde keep and Nexus between level 70 and level 71. Even with the runeforge (Stoneskin gargoyle or Nerubian Carapace) tanking wasnt fun as i would get hit for a lot of damage often.
Anyway, so i queued for various dungeons, including Shattered Halls, The Botanica, The Black Morass, The Arcatraz and Shadow Labyrinth. I think i skipped over Steamvaults because it didnt have anything exciting for me.
In ay case, of those five instances, i was given The Arcatraz. things started off pretty easy at first. I'd deathgrip the first group on the left, then the group on the right. then i took the middle group along with the mutation. Easy enough. Then we got the big mutation thing and we took care of that easily. I dont understand how previous runs resulted in wipes at this point. but in previous runs, i was not the tank, or the healer. I was merely dpsing. this was several months ago on my paladin. in any case, we cleared pretty much everything without incident until the last room, where the healer decided to go afk. then we wiped and healer left. an insignificant dps left as well. This left us with top dps shadow priest and second top dps mage. The priest decided to switch to healing so we moved on to take out the trash mobs. In the last room, there are several difficult mob encounters, but they can be pulled separately. firstly, there's two groups of two satyrs immediately inside the room, with a patrolling infernal. you can aggro the inferal without aggroing the two groups of satyrs. and that's exactly what i did. the inferno is probably the funnest fight due to it casting meteor strike. simple watch the ground around you to monitor if you're being targeted for meteor strike. if you see red fire ripples around you, move. thats it. it gets tough when tanking because i really dont know who is being targetted.
The drill is simple. tank until he casts meteor. move to position 2. he casts meteor again, move back to position 1. the problem occurs when there's four people and two of them have pets. or in our case, one mage caster with a pet. sometimes they get targetted. what we did was set the mage's pet to stand at a certain spot. if he tanks the hit, then great! if the mage gets targetted, he moves to the priest. if the priest gets targetted, he moves to the mage. if the tank gets targetted, he moves somewhere. after dying several times to this (since there are two infernals in that room) we finally downed them. having just the tank and the healer made it easy (albiet long) to complete since meteor can only hit one of two people. plus, with PWS up, we both can withstand a meteor hit. however, it will usually leave us with about 10% health so a quick heal is needed after the meteor strike. i continued to use vampiric blood whenever i can (1 minute cd) and IBF in between (really not sure if meteor strike is physical or magic damage or both).
In any case, with that fun part out of the way.... we went in and one-shot the boss. many would remember this fight as being a fight with three semi-bosses and then one boss that sometimes mind controls and will make copies of himself (twice) during the fight. each copy needs to be killed. overall, it took several minutes with one mage dpsing. but we did, in the end, kill Skyriss. simple encounter.
So no real post with content today. im just telling a story of victory over nerfed content!
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