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Naturally, we have many variations on this theme. Not enough damage to the enemy? "Be more deadly!" Same person dies repeatedly? "Be Less Dead!" You get the idea. One of my favourites was during a WoW run, when I was healing and making fun of our tank, who was not near as geared as the rest of us. I was jovially pointing out that I was having to do an awful lot of work keeping someone wearing plate amour alive and they should be taking less damage, and one of our quick-witted family yelled into Vent, "Yeah, BE MORE ABSORBENT!".
While this was quite funny (maybe you had to be there. Or know all the words to the llama song. I dunno...), over several MMOs and many, many levels and alts in WoW, I have never been much of a tank player. I had a little earth tank in CoH, but he never got a lot of play. I tried a Chosen and a Black Orc in WAR, and they sort of lost my interest. In WoW, I have been healing tanks for a long time and trying to learn their mechanics. But lately I have realized that I didn't know their mechanics well enough to plan for tough encounters. So I revisited my DK, and leveled him Blood spec with another Guildie who had one too. He had been DPS, but I researched Blood tanking and switched him over, enabling me to learn more about tanking, aggro, etc.
OMFG, am I having a riot! I sympathize mightily with Dickie as I was sort of suffering this with my priest and my shaman, both characters I love to play. But every time I logged in it was the same thing. Enter DREADTUSK, the mighty (someday) Orc Death Knight Blood Tank!!! While others in the Guild decided to combat ennui with low level Alliance characters (TRAITOROUS HEATHENS) I have focused on playing my tank. IT is tons of fun, keeps me on my toes, and is so different from the other play styles. Unfortunately it requires the gear grind again, but I am enjoying the heck out of it. And now I'm allowed to pull randomly without getting grumbled at (yes, I also have Tomb the Mighty Mage Tank...). I am learning that it's not as easy as it looks to "Turn the damn dragon around
", and pulling something off the healer in a grand melee is a skill in and of itself (CRAP I grabbed the wrong one!). But it's fun, I'm learning, and aside from a couple of real douchebag healers (both wannabe Holy paladins, go figure) I have received great feedback and advice.
", and pulling something off the healer in a grand melee is a skill in and of itself (CRAP I grabbed the wrong one!). But it's fun, I'm learning, and aside from a couple of real douchebag healers (both wannabe Holy paladins, go figure) I have received great feedback and advice.So during this lull of waiting for expansions, new games, etc, I can now speak from experience and say "Try something new". I avoided tanking for 5 years, and now it's rekindled my spark in a period of gaming apathy. Love my priest-with-the-fabulous-hair and thinks-he's-a-tank-shammy-cow, but right now Dreadtusk makes me this happy. ==>
-Real Big Kitty
2 comments:
I've become interested in tanking in WAR, since my healer burnout is rather extreme right now. So I've gotten a Black Orc named Fancytoof (Iz da fanciest!) to 11. My goal is to try tanking Sacellum at 16 or 17.
He's fun but I keep having to look down at the cast bar to see where he is in the plan whenever I miss or hit the wrong key.
I really prefer the black Orc/swordmaster mehanic of tanking in WAR over other tanks in that game. I could not stand chosen with all the aura managemt stuff, but the Black Orc is a lot of fun.
I've been considering reasserting my efforts into my DK tank as well. He's geared already to tank, and since my pretty little Druid is almost 80, this might be a good time to give the DK another go.
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