Fleetfoot earned her Defender title in our alt run last night. We were giving a trial to a tank candidate who didn’t have any T11 raid experience before last night. So we threw him in the deep end & made him tank Maloriak adds, Onyxia & then Nef adds in phase 3. You see the result: a kill! He made mistakes but that kill was no mean feat. I was a little sad I didn’t get to tank Nef myself, but I did at least have the non-trivial job of rounding up & kiting the Bone Warriors in phase 1. I did my best to climb that learning curve quickly. The trick is to have them die in a pile without letting them hit you much, which isn’t easy because they do not die all at once. I got closest to a neat pile on the pull that ended up in our kill. My notes on that task: Throw on a sword & shield and swap to Defensive stance. The Animated Bone Warriors spawn from purple swirlies on the ground. Watch for the first one then head over and wait for the meteor to hit & the warrior to spawn. The others will spawn from swirlies one by one moving counterclockwise around the edge of the circle from the first. There might be some gaps. Use Charge to close up gaps and heroic throw to pick up the last. Save heroic leap for later! I used Sunder on the first few to build some threat, then Thunderclap once I had a pile. You might be able to get away with popping shield block & cleaving a few times early. Then kite them back & forth across the hunter frost trap/other slow zones, using Intercept & Heroic Leap when you want to move to the opposite side of the pack. They do more damage as their lifespan ticks on, so be ready to pop shield wall once your mobility options are on cooldown. Project PUG Tank: no runs yesterday.

Fleetfoot earned her Defender title in our alt run last night. We were giving a trial to a tank candidate who didn’t have any T11 raid experience before last night. So we threw him in the deep end & made him tank Maloriak adds, Onyxia & then Nef adds in phase 3. You see the result: a kill! He made mistakes but that kill was no mean feat.

I was a little sad I didn’t get to tank Nef myself, but I did at least have the non-trivial job of rounding up & kiting the Bone Warriors in phase 1. I did my best to climb that learning curve quickly. The trick is to have them die in a pile without letting them hit you much, which isn’t easy because they do not die all at once. I got closest to a neat pile on the pull that ended up in our kill.

My notes on that task: Throw on a sword & shield and swap to Defensive stance. The Animated Bone Warriors spawn from purple swirlies on the ground. Watch for the first one then head over and wait for the meteor to hit & the warrior to spawn. The others will spawn from swirlies one by one moving counterclockwise around the edge of the circle from the first. There might be some gaps. Use Charge to close up gaps and heroic throw to pick up the last. Save heroic leap for later! I used Sunder on the first few to build some threat, then Thunderclap once I had a pile. You might be able to get away with popping shield block & cleaving a few times early. Then kite them back & forth across the hunter frost trap/other slow zones, using Intercept & Heroic Leap when you want to move to the opposite side of the pack. They do more damage as their lifespan ticks on, so be ready to pop shield wall once your mobility options are on cooldown.

Project PUG Tank: no runs yesterday.

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