Cloak of the Falling Stars  

 

Get a line of tanks (WARRIORS) with /disc defensive ready to go. Have a heal line of clerics, druids and shamans. Make sure your heal lines knows the order of tanks that will be taking over from each other. Make sure your healers KNOWS damn well to start healing even before the ...hell, any uber hard hitting mob...is even engaged.

Tank one starts the fight and keeps the agro till defensives goes down, before which he will be yelling that it is going down and for tank two to be ready to take over.....healers should also know when they need to switch target to start healing next in line for defensive tanks. I ahve done raids on AoW where some healers are complete healing the wrong damn tank while the tank that needs it gets murdered lol. Having a plan and making sure everyone knows it is key here. Anyway, I think my guild goes through 4 defensive warriors for Statue.

After having the healing power and the necessery number of defensive warriors for tanks....you need to have DPS. The more DPS the better. Make sure to shrink everyone. Make sure a lvl50 ogre SK doing 70DPS does not get in the way of a lvl65 Marauder rogue doing 170DPS. Shrink EVERY melee. Make sure everyone knows to back the hell away and stop attack everytime a new warrior in the tank line is taking over so he can actually build agro so the mob does not turn the #!@$ on you and hit half your damn melee force for 800 on up per hit.

Make sure all your melee's not in the main tank positions CONTROLS thier agro and not be some stupid *** lvl65 monk saying how agro is cool cause it shows he can outdamage the MT since MT can't keep agro from him. Like DUH, if you don't control agro, the tank can't keep it. If I never evaded on my rog, I would get agro all the damn time. I hate monks who never FD and stop attack and turns mobs on a raid force. We kick people of our raids that pull crap like that. It does not show how uber you are that you can get agro, it just shows you are an idiot. You turn the mob away from the tank on to your non tanking raid force and endangered your raid force. Personally, unless mob has AoE and or dmg shields, no one but the tank should ever need a heal.

Anyway....you got three factors to consider:

1: How many defensive tanks you have?

2: How much healing power you have?

3: How much DPS you have?

It must equal out to enough DPS to kill the mob before the healers go OOM. Enough defensive tanks to mitigate damage taken to even live long enough for healers to heal. The more DPS you have, the less healing you need, since mob will die faster....the less DPS you have....you get the idea

Edited, Tue Sep 2 05:51:35 2003