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Last edited by TheGrinnz; 07-18-2012 at 05:21 PM.
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Please tell me about how you can tank ituziel, laethys or maelforge by just sitting there and ignoring mechanics. Face it, a tank mistake can easily wipe a raid, a bard mistake means almost nothing. If a tank misses a cooldown because he's too busy tracking tenacity, he's dead. If the bard has to spend 1 extra gcd to apply resonance, what happens? Nothing.
Tenacity doesn't have to stay up at all (not even for 1 second) if you apply motifs properly. Cast tenacity after bravery and focus and there is no issue whatsoever.
If bravery and focus are up when tenacity is cast (which is always, if cast in the correct order), then Resonance is applied for 30 seconds even if the tank overwrites tenacity instantly.
Sorry but I don't really know how I can spell it out any clearer. It seems like you're asking the tank to do more work so you can slack and cast motifs in the wrong order or let motifs drop.
Tenacity doesn't have to stay up at all (not even for 1 second) if you apply motifs properly. Cast tenacity after bravery and focus and there is no issue whatsoever.
There is a huge problem with this: the sounds dictate the order the motifs should be cast. Listen to the motif sounds. There is one and only one order in which the sounds go together. The order should be grandeur, regeneration, tenacity, focus and last bravery. If you do it in any other order, the sounds are way off. Of course, this might simply be what we call crazy or insane barding.
omg you can name 3 fights out of DOZENS that differ from the normal formula where the only job for the tank is to engage and stand still while mashing the same buttons over and over. clerics dealing with dynamic damage in the raid, dps having to react to adds and ground mechanics, and support correctly keeping targets locked down for 5+ minutes is a lot more difficult than having to back peddle every now and then.
mechanics are going to dictate that you will never always be able to have bravery and focus up 100% of the time. i'm sorry. you're still wrong.
i'm pretty sure that right now, neither one of us knows what you're talking about.
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Last edited by Alyn; 07-19-2012 at 08:37 AM. Reason: Removed reference to deleted content
hmm
yea
well
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im just the archon but i see whats going down and i think if our tank needs to use that skill then he better use it and he does and we win
Have you been to ID? Not trying to come across as an elitist, but seriously, there is 1 fight in ID where the tank just gets to stand in one spot, and mash buttons, and it's not even for the entire fight. And that would be last phase Warboss. Oh, easy mode Maklamos could be considered doing nothing too, I guess, cause tank swapping requires nothing but mashing of buttons.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but letting motif's drop off, at any time, is laughable. If you can't keep Resonance up 100% of the time, you're doing it wrong.
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i've downed warboss. honestly, the off tanks have a much harder time in this encounter for the entire fight than the main tank (and all they have to do is smash aoes at the right time). start to finish, the main tank does nothing but tank 3 different mobs where they stand. sometimes he might have to grab an add. dpsing warboss is much harder than main tanking it.
and the same sentiment comes out in this iteration of atrophinius where the raid has a much harder time than the tank. the tank has to pull the boss, stand still, and when he's done charging back and forth a few times, hit taunt. the rest of the raid has to worry about dowsing the ghosts, avoiding drunkards and raging battlemaster, killing casks, while not standing near each other.
sorry to burst your bubble, but tanking is not hard.
Last edited by Sculduggery; 07-19-2012 at 08:49 AM.
No one commented or answered my other question. I said that I was under the influence that if you only cast Bravery, Focus, Tenacity, and even Grandeur pre pull you wont pull aggro? I thought it was Regeneration that got you killed?
If you let motifs drop, that's your mistake and your problem to fix, not the tanks. Also, if you cast motifs in the right order then even if they drop there is no issue. The order is bravery -> focus -> tenacity. Notice how both bravery & focus will be up before tenacity, thus instantly proccing resonance when tenacity is cast.
A dropped motif is bad, but happens (maybe). A dropped resonance is ****ty play and should never happen. Unless you die.
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