Hell yes, you will. It’s still one of the top tanking enchants (it’s between that and Blood Draining, depending on the encounter and what class you’re playing). Which is sad in and of itself, but there you go.
Bird…we have another doper lurker willing to join us a couple of days ago and wanted to join our 10 man raid…Anshar. Could you please give him/her (I believe it’s a her since we had a brief chat on Vent) an invite for Monday night?
She’s in. We have 6 confirmed and 4 tentative (thanks to all for the changes in replies…makes it easier to see) I see a couple who haven’t responded so I hope we get a full group for tonight.
Saw my first action inside ICC this weekend with 4 other doggies. Fun stuff.
Yeah, that was a blast yesterday…managing the weekly on a Sunday and we held up quite well. I died once; probably stole aggro from Reins just long enough for one of those sentries to pummel me in one or two hits! I gotta do a better job of watching my threat even though I was kicking out some great dps.
On another note of my impending mental astigmatism, today is our 24th wedding anniversary…I’ve been a married man for more than half my life and so, to keep that streak alive, I will probably NOT be there tonight, so I will downgrade myself back to tentative for tonight’s raid. My wife and I did do stuff together this weekend, but I find it wise to still keep the actual date open for any “other” extracurricular stuff that could/may happen.
My apologies.
Personally, I swear by two addons for threat management: Omen and Tidy Plates (with the Threat Plates mod). Omen give you detailed information on the threat table of the mob you currently have targeted. TPTP gives you an at-a-glance rundown of your threat standing on every mob in range, by changing how their nameplates are displayed. Personally, I have nameplates set to change size and color by how much threat I have. When I’m DPSing, for example, a mob that’s aggro’d on me has a red plate, one that’s safely focused on someone else is green, and one where I’m creeping up on the threat leader is yellow.
An addon like TPTP is especially useful any time you’re dealing with an AOE situation, where you’re creating threat on multiple mobs. It doesn’t help you to have Omen up if the mob you’re about to peel off the tank isn’t the one you currently have targeted.
The ideal solution, of course, is to get her to play WoW, too. Then you could raid for your anniversary! 
Oh well, congrats! And have fun with your… “extracurriculars.” 
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Yeah, that was a blast yesterday…managing the weekly on a Sunday and we held up quite well. I died once; probably stole aggro from Reins just long enough for one of those sentries to pummel me in one or two hits! I gotta do a better job of watching my threat even though I was kicking out some great dps.
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Yeti I don’t think you stole aggro from me or my offtank, those sentries seem to bounce between both tanks. You probably stood a little too close to the front and took a cleave to the face.
It was pretty fun though. Marrowgar still refuses to drop me his tanking necklace.
The ones that trigger out of the traps before Marrowgar? Yeah, I’ve always seen them bounce between the tanks. Which is why it’s important to make sure the tanks stack on the same side and the rest of the raid stays behind, or they’re gonna get cleaved. (General rule of thumb, especially for anything big: assume that standing in front of it = taking more damage than anybody but a tank will survive.)
Same here, but substitue “tanking necklace” with “spell trinket.”
After farming it for months and month and months, my Druid friend finally got the Heroic version of Muradin’s Spyglass… on his other Druid. :smack:
So I’ve been using this (primarily for my tank) and loving it - but have a quick question.
Is there any way to set it to not go all “OMG… You lost threat!!1!!” mode if another tank has threat on the mob? I.e., put in one or two characters names (or even better use the “tank” setting in the raid config) that are considered “safe” to lose threat to?
I keep losing a mob, taunting off, mouse-over taunting only to realize I just taunted off another tank.
Alternatively I guess an add-on that would somehow display who had aggro on mouseover would work too…
AFAIK, there’s no such thing as an exception list. What I do is select the mob in question and see who it’s actually aggro’d on, or I glance up at my Grid and see who all has threat, then if it’s anybody besides another tank, start checking thru the mobs I don’t have to see which one(s) it is..
Try playing around with the TPTP Threat Widget. I just noticed the option a couple of days ago, and it appears to put some sort of bar at the top of the nameplate that also gives the name of who has aggro if it’s not you. I haven’t had the time to really mess around with it yet, though, so I disabled it.
Well, no raid again last night – only six people showed up. What happened to all those people who signed up on the first page of this thread? I have to admit it’s getting me kind of frustrated and tempted to follow the example of Reins/Jasz etc and join a guild that can pull together regular raids (but leave my alts in BDL). Don’t know if I’ll really do it though; I’ve been in our guild from the beginning and I don’t know if I could leave now {{hugs}}.
Anyway, thanks to they guys who ran me through regular PoS a couple of times to try to get the shield. It didn’t drop but guild runs are a lot more fun then PUGs.
I’m sorry Kene… meant to be there last night but Darland’s 10-man ICC was moved to late Monday night. No way I can run more than one raid on a week-night and stay married… normally it’s on Tue/Thu so Monday for the BDL run isn’t a problem. Although if your ultimate goal is ICC10 (which it probably should be, right?) then you can’t really count on me for that anyway.
The same thing kept happening before I moved Jagaya out of the BDL… just not enough people really interested in raiding. It sucks, but that’s the way it is. I ended up having to move Jag again (to a different server) just to find a 25-man raid at a time that worked for me.
It’s a tough thing, I think, balancing the loyalty to a guild that you’ve been in with your desire to do particular things in the game. I can’t imagine anyone would begrudge you moving a “main” to a raiding guild (at least, I hope nobody was mad at me or Reins for doing so…).
Eh, even with Darland and Reins we would have only been at 8. Now that I have another level 80 I would feel less bad if I moved Kene, since I’d still have Keyne in the BDL to do raids/heroics with (and he actually gets more playtime now than Kene does, since he’s trying to quest and gear up while Kene is essentially stuck).
The challenging thing will be finding a raiding guild willing to take someone with a limited raid schedule. But I’ll look on the boards and see if there is one that fits. There is one I have pugged with on Fridays that I like a lot and invited me a few months ago, I might start there. I can’t remember their name though. Cool Kids maybe?
Sorry man. I am seriously burnt on WoW right now. It’s been at least a couple weeks since I last logged in. I’m currently thinking hard about whether or not I want to even bother buying Cataclysm, though that would mean a lot of work I’ve put into the game would go up in smoke.
Hey no worries Boss, I’m not blaming anyone. BDL is a casual social/levelling guild and it’s really fun for that. No matter what I do I’ll keep my several alts in it, as well as any new toons (like my planned-for shammy). It’s just that I want to do something different with Kene that the guild is not built for, and whenever we get close we seem to fall back again.
There are a decent number of smaller guilds, but none seem to actively recruit (it’s more of a PuG, then invite kind of server). The only ones I can personally vouch far as far as having quality players are Legacy and Skethyl Berry Brewing Company. I have no idea what the Skethyl raid schedule looks like (or what openings they might have), but they are definitely good folks.
I do know that Legacy runs 2 10-mans (one in HM, one working on LK), with a third likely to start up again (it was just starting LK when it disbanded) - all run two nights a week. We run 25-man ICC on Wed and Sunday (working on BQL currently). I know there is a dramatic shortage of priests in the guild (I know this because I end up putting stacks of fort scrolls in the gbank and they’re always gone the next week).
I’m also pondering jumping ship, especially since I never end up running Rumpole in guild stuff anyway, but I really can only do one pre-scheduled night a week, so there’s probably not a guild on the server that would really want to take me.
I’m sorry I didn’t have the foresight to tell you guys sooner that my anniversary was yesterday. I did make the right call though in not logging on last night…I should be there next Monday.
Although the guild seems a little bit short at the moment, I think we’ll manage to get a solid 10 man line up within a couple of months if everyone keeps their toons in the guild. We’ve added a couple of new dopers to the guild (Dag Otto, another Lurker that has Anshar, and I’m thinking of possibly opening a second account so my son could play Sinjara after a transfer - depends on his grades though).
I really do enjoy you guys when we run, because we have other lives we lead and we can discuss alot of other stuff on this board whereas any other guild would just be a bunch of geeked up gamers who I have no other interaction with…it would be somewhat lacking for me to be anywhere else.
Don’t despair.
Should we consider a different day and time to raid if it means more people could make it or is Monday still the day of choice?