Keepers of the Glade

Ok, with fire, we saw the need and use of the tank line, communication and effort that is needed. I will give as much information as possible in the tank channel on mobs or my thoughts on certain things, but I am not an officer or class lead, so my say is only a suggestion for those doing the deciding. The reason you make a tank line is to get everyone in the raid on the same track for the mob, the clerics know who to heal and when, the people in the raid know who to assist. As warriors it is best to let the knights tank the crap trash, sure we all want to get in there, but our job is to stand up to the big bosses, position them and have them on lock down. You control the mob that is solid on you. If that means you tell people where to go in raid say, you tell them. As a plate class, you are supposed to be att he side of the mob and balance, that means if the mob is going away from you, switch sides, if he is coming toward you, stay there, and get someoen else to switch sides. It is nto a perfect system, it takes practice, by the end of the fire minis we were really doing well, there is a slight learning curve int he content we are at now, by GoD there is no learning curve, only death.

Knights, you are responceable for tanking trash mobs, off tanking extra mobs and being rampage tanks. Pallys are the best at rampage tanks for self healing and even the DA hammer. SKs have amazing quick agro to get those mobs off the healers. ALL tanks, suprise, you are NOT DPS. The only minor exception might be a pally with all his undead AAs and then it is only on undead mobs. Your job as a tank is protection. If we are clearing trash and you are blindly wacking away on the MAs mob, then who is making sure the clerics and casters are safe.

MA for trash, you do not have to have agro to be MA, you jsut have to inform the raid what mob they are hitting. A pissing ocntest to try to gain agro does no one eny good and will get tempers riled up. Just attack, call ,kill and move on. Infact when I MA i dont wait for the mob to die, i stay aware of what is around and at 8-5% of the mob i am already on the next target and as soon as i see the exp message, i call attack on the new mob. speed and efficentcy on trash speeds up raids and when it gets down to it, the faster the better, becasue as we all know to much time is wasted in other areas, it should never be becasue tanks are slow.