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el dps show all posts showing posts with label dps show all posts wednesday april 21 2010 the hardest part of dps i ve done hall of reflections three times now and the last time was the first one i didn t die on part of this is the benefit of experience you can read about an instance all you want online but until you actually do it you won t internalize the details the first time hor came up in my early morning runs i was completely unprepared hell i didn t know i had the gear capable of it until the picture popped up and i dropped almost as soon as possible it wasn t the proudest moment in my wow career bugging out of an encounter due to dread but i knew i wasn t ready i spent the next lunch hour reading up on hor online and when it came up in the queue again i told myself i m going to try oh crap said one dps said another the healer was unimpressed it s not a big deal said the priest you ll live through it of course he could say that he had a 5900 gs filled to the brim with icc gear the first trash mob i wipe everyone else is busy staying alive so i figure that the trip is a short one so i release and fly back to the instance when i get there i realize i d forgotten one of the things i d read online don t release and run back the doors remain closed luckily after the first boss the doors flew open and i came back inside the rest of the instance i didn t die but it was a very near thing i m used to making an impact of some sort but about half of the time i was healing myself to keep up with the load the priest was handling i felt very out of place kind of like the last time i tried my hand at healing an instance that brings me to another part of surviving as a melee dps understand tanking doesn t seem so hard right you let the tank acquire threat wait a couple of seconds for the tank to get a good lock and then go behind and start supporting the tank if the tank directs you to a different target you go to the different target if you see something bad getting ready to happen like the tank standing way too close to the cliff in pit of saron that a simple knockback would turn the tank into a skydiver you call out to let the tank know well the second hor run gave me a different insight on tanking the first two times the pug tries we wipe on the trash it was getting very frustrating particularly so since i wasn t able to really get going before i watched in surprise as i pulled threat from something other than the tank s and my focus time to reevaluate things the third trash attempt i waited and watched those first ten seconds of the trash pull were the hardest ten of my pugging career as i itched to close the gap and start taking the pressure off the tank but as i watched i saw something i hadn t before the speed of the trash closing in on the tank was incredibly slow completely unlike the trash in any other instance the first one or two undead get there at the same time but the last two or three are up to four or five seconds behind it was those latter two that were giving me trouble therefore i had to wait more than twice as long as i usually do before closing and starting combat sure enough that did the trick i didn t die and i contributed significant dps to the cause this last time i ran hor with souldat as the tank i put my knowledge to use and waited having run with him since the beginning i knew soul could handle the hits for a while that wasn t a hell of a lot of comfort as i sat and waited like a bump on a log for that last straggler to zero in on him however i knew my job was to a keep myself upright so i could b lay the smackdown on these undead you can t do part b if you re a smudge on the floor and if you ve got a warrior tank instead of a dk or pally you need to give him her that extra time to lock down the trash or the instance will turn into a threat fest each pull is different and you can t assume that what works one time will work in another when in doubt err on the side of caution posted by redbeard at 9 29 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