I just saw an intresting video on AoE prot warrior farming and, was curious as to how this was possible.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PiBYmOGflJU
Thanks in Advance and sorry if this has been discussed before.
Edited, Dec 29th 2007 4:01am by LostxPanda
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He had the sporeggar shield and thunderfury (a blue rep reward and an orange sword from vanilla). Thunderfury affected up to 5 targets, the shield affected them all, however probably didn't do much. In essence, he wasn't really "AoE Grinding" so much as he was holding a lot of mobs on him while burning them down in groups using cleave and TClap (maybe WW in there too, wasn't watching too closely). The extra mobs DID help rage gen, but he really wasn't doing much to all of the mobs at once. Honestly, 4-5 targets would have been much better for him to pull, since he can still get the benefits of thunderfury and the full effect of WW/TC, and he could just quickly bandage then move on to the next (if he can handle 40 at a time, cool, but it's not that much more effective to go for extra mobs).
On the other hand, a paladin, who is continually dealing several types of reflective damage, plus consecrate (and considering that holy shield will affect all the mobs at different times, rather than the same mobs over and over like tclap/cleave/WW) would benefit a lot more from having more mobs on him. A mage, another common AoE grinder, would also benefit from having more, as can be seen in the faxmonkey 93-mob-pull. But overall a warrior AoE grinding isn't that great of an idea IMO. This guy is most likely very well geared, I doubt most warriors would be able to repeatedly handle 10+ mobs at a time in solo grinding, and if they could 4 would be the ideal number IMO, since you can't really do much to more than that.
On the other hand, a paladin, who is continually dealing several types of reflective damage, plus consecrate (and considering that holy shield will affect all the mobs at different times, rather than the same mobs over and over like tclap/cleave/WW) would benefit a lot more from having more mobs on him. A mage, another common AoE grinder, would also benefit from having more, as can be seen in the faxmonkey 93-mob-pull. But overall a warrior AoE grinding isn't that great of an idea IMO. This guy is most likely very well geared, I doubt most warriors would be able to repeatedly handle 10+ mobs at a time in solo grinding, and if they could 4 would be the ideal number IMO, since you can't really do much to more than that.
/agree with Skribs
On a sidenote if you WANT to try it, you could replace the Sporeggar shield (with a Shield Spike of course) by the Force Reactive Disk (Engineering needed) with a Shield Spike. The Disk deals damage to ALL surrounding mobs (no limit) at each block you make, thus dealing immense damage. It needs repairs very often though, since on each block there is a 50%(?) chance that your durability goes -1.
(( On a sidenote: I once tested the Force Reactive Disk on my 65 prot paladin in SM cathedral, pulling the inside of the Cathedral at once. Without that Disk my dps (sustained for about 52 secs) was something like 4600, while with the Disk my dps (sustained for about 35 secs) was something like 7800. The Disk added a lot there. I needed to repair my Disk every two runs though, with about 5-10 durability left. ))
On a sidenote if you WANT to try it, you could replace the Sporeggar shield (with a Shield Spike of course) by the Force Reactive Disk (Engineering needed) with a Shield Spike. The Disk deals damage to ALL surrounding mobs (no limit) at each block you make, thus dealing immense damage. It needs repairs very often though, since on each block there is a 50%(?) chance that your durability goes -1.
(( On a sidenote: I once tested the Force Reactive Disk on my 65 prot paladin in SM cathedral, pulling the inside of the Cathedral at once. Without that Disk my dps (sustained for about 52 secs) was something like 4600, while with the Disk my dps (sustained for about 35 secs) was something like 7800. The Disk added a lot there. I needed to repair my Disk every two runs though, with about 5-10 durability left. ))
Thats sick...I've tried to something similar to that in my early tanking days. Sometimes I'd grab more than I could handle, but then there were times where it was quite efficient. Give it a try and see what happens. =)
I also think that weapons with procs such as that, or The Hand of Antu'sul are NOT good weapons for tanking. While yes, it is extra DPS and AoE DPS, you lose the ability to control when AoEs go off.
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skribs wrote:
He had the sporeggar shield and thunderfury (a blue rep reward and an orange sword from vanilla).
He had the shield, but no thunderfury. He was using kings defender.
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