Sindy's Lair As you may or may not recall, I haven't played much lately, and while I want to learn to tank, my gear is still a tad iffy, and my skills & experience are green at best.
And so it was with more than a little shock when the Guild Leader whisped me asking what my tank gearscore was. (roughly 4825)
"Cool, would you mind off-tanking Sindy tomorrow night?"
*blink*
*blank stare*
Before I could type anything back I get
"We have a couple folks missing from our regular raid team, and we're short a tank. Wow-heroes says you're geared enough..."
So I accepted the invite and kind of dreaded coming home from work tonite. I bought a few flasks and a couple other accroutrement before heading to bed.
Today at work, I watched the "How to /Sindragosa" vid, and all the other Sindy vids I could find.
How did it go?
Well, the trash had me a bit scared, since multi-mobs are NOT my speciality, but as OT, I only needed to pick up stragglers.
After that, phases 1 & 2 went pretty well. (it also helped that Kattastrophe was sitting next to me giving me propmts)
Then phase 3 hit, and I mis-stepped and got ice tombed.
It didn't wipe us, but it sure didn't help.
After a couple more wipes, I started to get the hang of it, but was still having troubles watching my debuffs.
With all the buffs, debuffs & such, my debuff listing got shoved down below where my DBM warnings are. I couldn't tell when I was safe to taunt off the MT.
And (for whatever reason) there's no DBM button around my minimap.
I finally remembered to try "/dbm" and I was finally able to try draggin my stuff out of the way.
It took a couple fights (moving DBM bars is a pain) but I finally got it cleared and was able to actually handle the taunts correctly.
We did pretty well. Especially since a couple of us had never seen her before. One attempt we got her down to 65,800, but that was our best.
(I still hadn't moved my DBM bars in this screen cap...)Ah well, I still haven't beaten the Professor, or Dreamwalker, or even seen Blood Queen and a couple others, but it was interesting.
I'm getting better at the 969 (even though I have to watch my bars) and I'm managing my CDs and other stuff better.
N00b tank?
Yep!
Fail tank?
Not quite as much.
The one downside is that they are staying saved and not resetting, so I won't be having any chance to get any better tanking gear. I don't even have the good tank trinkets. (my fully raid buffed, and 30% ICC buffed) health is only 52k.
For a skilled tank and raid, that should be easy sauce, but we're still learning. (me in particular)
And I've been tentatively invited for Monday.
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