Tank Hard!

As I write this I am listening on vent to my guild doing Felmyst.  For the MT we use a druid.  Felmyst doesn’t have the same you-die-now bursts like Brutallus but he doesn’t mess around on tank damage either.  He is only on the ground and hitting the tank in phase 1.  In phase 2 he flies up in the air the fun really starts.  He targets a random person with a green beam that the person has to kite for a couple seconds and it leaves a green trail.  The trail will do a boatload of damage to anyone who stands in it but it also spawns a whole bunch of skeletons.  Think Nightbane on crack.  He does two green beams and each one spawns about 10 skeletons that hit for 800-1000 on plate.  It is basically a pally tank wet dream.  But for the last two nights we have been doing it our pally tank couldn’t be online for the first hour of raid so we had me and two druids trying to pick up all the skellies.  It wasn’t too bad once we got the hang of it but the learning curve was steep.  So the moral of the story is that it took three non pally tanks to do the job of a single pally tank.  Our pally eventually logged on tonight so me and the other druid got subbed out and we should get a kill tonight.

Edit: Got her.

“Wow, my shield is broken, I wonder when that happened”

- Our pally tank right after the boss died.

See that title there?  Yeah, its got two meanings.  I am tricksy like that. 

I stopped raiding a while back because I was going to join the Air Force (although I have more recently decided to do Navy instead).  It turns out that the application process for an officer takes a looooong time which leaves me able to raid.  I knew it would look awfully shady to my old guild if I stopped raiding while we were farming BT/Hyjal ad naseum and all of a sudden now that Sunwell was out I could raid again.  I also wasn’t crazy about the atmosphere in the guild, it felt stagnant and even if my coming back to raiding didn’t look shady, I would not have wanted to raid there anyway.  So I started looking elsewhere.  Which brought me to new and exciting place #1, a server called Moonrunner.

The last thing I wanted to do was go backward in progression so I made sure to hook up with progression raiding guild which brings me to new and exciting place #2, Sunwell Plateau (yes, I had to google ‘plateau’ to spell it correctly).

A screenshot of the fun that Sunwell brings -

For anybody keeping score at home, that is 52k damage in 2 seconds.  Needless to say, I died.  And here’s the rub: thats not a totally freak occurence, either me or the other tank took ridiculous bursts like that a couple times.  But at the end of the day he died (second kill for the guild, first for me) and I got me a new neck piece - http://wowhead.com/?item=34178