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So, it seems I'm going to be mage tanking IC tonight, and I'm not sure how much stamina I'm gonna need. I know hit capped is important, so I'm gonna be ready to go there, but I think in my good stam gear, I just barely break 13k buffed. Enough? More?

Edit: I reread my guild's chosen strat, and 15k it is...hrm...

Edited, Aug 11th 2008 8:59am by Poldaran

You don't need a MD as a mage tank.

Be hit capped, I wear about 12k hp + a nightmare seed for the pull (that's an easy extra 2k hp on you for the pull).


I just run in with a BoP on me spamming spellsteal, the moment that I get it I fireblast and cast some scorches to get enough threat, two of the other tanks tend to get misdirects.


For interrupts we have found it works amazingly well for an elemental shaman (if you have one) to be in charge of interrupts (because of the 6 second cooldown) with a mage in reserve just incase. What we do is have a /whisper macro to go back and forth between us to let us know when we cast it, when our CD is up or CD is down, 1-shot them every time (since the 2nd downing) barring bad RNG stuff. I normally did interrupts as the mage while tanking as well. just make sure you don't attack the priest... her stuff hits hard.

Do a search for Krosh Firehand (high king mulgar fight) or High Nethermancer Zerevor (Illidari council fight)


I believe are the only two people that you tank.

Edited, Aug 11th 2008 2:21pm by Anobix

Intentionally, anyway. Lately, I seem to end up tanking Drek and Galv in AV, even when I'm trying to behave myself. Apparently, mobs take it personally if you crit for 7k+ when they are at 75%. Who knew?

The problem with the imp thing is that all our warlocks have had RL creep up on them at the same time. So now, we're running warlock-free. Which means that, even despite the change to CoE...Poldaran no longer has CoE.

I ate a couple of full bolts at first, but now that I've gotten the pull down, I think I'm good. I believe I'm gonna drop the couple of old Krosh-tanking greens I've been using in exchange for my better, more +hit capable gear. This'll mean I can get by with only 1-2 points in Arcane Focus, which'll mean that I can not have to respec every week for this one fight.

I have to be honest, this fight is much easier from a mage-tank perspective than the Maulgar fight was. The buff lasts so long and is recast so often that I don't have those nice, panicked moments where I know I'm gonna take a big bolt. I actually found myself kinda bored, so I'm gonna try to convince them to keep the priestess in range so I can CS something.

I'm generally right at 12k health, sometimes even a bit less. Depends on your healers.

Oh, and make sure the mage has the buff up to steal. It does drop off occasionally while setting up. Running in and tanking without it hurts >.<

I was for the most part. But I was desperately trying to hit 15k thinking I needed it, so I was using two of my old greens in addition to everything else. Won't be bothering with them next time.

Well..really good info here about the pull.

and to think of it.i came here just to make a post about it :P
nice thinking poldaran ;)
and thanx guys for it.gonna try it now.

I was using a Crimson Serpent and a Commander's Badge with no worries at all about threat, so I'd imagine you'd be fine with those.