duvar wrote:
The problem I have is that on large pulls, there are so many mobs I can't tell what is hitting who. I typically freeze up trying to figure out what the hell I'm supposed to do.
this should never be the case. what instances and how large are the pulls you're talking about? in a 5man instance, you can tank up to 4 targets with tclap, and with the right cc you should be able to take on 7 mob pulls... rogue saps one target, mage sheeps one target, and hunter traps one target, then you kill skull/x/sap/third mark/fourth mark or trap (depending on hunter's skill) then sheep last (
always leave sheep for last! sheep is the most reliable cc and if the mage can't keep it on then they're not doing their job right).
after targets are cc'd, use your ranged wep to pull skull over, then
make sure there is NO dps until you hit your tclap, and even then dps should start ONLY on the main kill target. mobs will run right by your dps as long as they don't do anything (you're the only one on the threat table after all), but they WILL aggro to your healer if your healer starts healing you before you tclap (this is where more stam, defense and avoidance in general come in handy to give the healer a buffer to start the fight with). dps classes laying off of the dps til you tclap takes some patience on their part, but if your dps can't even do that i suggest you find someone else to fill their slot.
of course, this requires high, focused dps... if your group's dps can't kill the second target before sap comes off (assuming you pulled right after sap was applied), then you're in for a bit more trouble.
your dps classes also need to watch their threat, and they need to know that when they pull a target off of you, all that means is that they are not pacing their dps correctly (not that they're uber dps). case in point: i ran regular SL yesterday with a newly respec'd resto druid, a mage, a hunter and a feral dps druid. everyone was using KTM threat meter except for the mage (she claimed that she had a threat meter, but either omen or ktm would've worked and she was on neither), and she would regularly pull mobs off of me. she accused me of not tanking well enough. well, guess what the dps meter looked like? she came in a distant 3rd to the hunter and the dps druid.
one more thing: learn how to change marks on the fly, if say the hunter trapped a different target than was marked, sheep keeps breaking because you don't have enough space from the trap and another group of mobs to tclap etc.
Edited, Oct 9th 2007 8:49am by fromanthebarbarian