SirAthroOfGate wrote:
I went in with my Def. at 395 thanks to a quick ring purchase from the AH.
We could not, however, take down Attumen, even after 4 tries. It seemed like either I couldn't grab him fast enough before he took out a healer, or he killed me. Part of the problem was the healing after I grabbed him. We had one good healer that was working on the OT while she was hitting Midnight. I got the PuG healer, though, and he would let my health drop to almost 15-20% and hit me with a big heal. He kept saying that I was losing aggro, but I think he was creating too much healing aggro by constantly dropping those big heals. I don't think he always timed them well, either, because, well... I freakin' died! Of course, when I died, "There's no excuse for that, you need to hold aggro better!" Oh well. "Blame the tank."
attumen is a tank n spank. the only issue with him is the other tank picking him up before he runs through everyone and dps laying off of him so the tank can build threat.
if your defense was 395, then attumen was probably critting you left and right, and your healer was probably having a hell of a time keeping you up. even if the healer was really letting you drop down to 15-20%, at early kara levels buffed hp is frequently in the 14k range, which means your healer would have to heal roughly 11k health in one shot, which comes out to 5500 threat... which you should be able to build in ~7 seconds assuming an average 800 tps.
please clarify if you mean defense (the number you see next to defense in the window) or defense rating (what shows up on the tooltip when you mouse over defense).