First Piece of Bold
Rockstar tanked for another Steam Vaults run last night. The group was comprised of myself (70 protection Warrior), Arkalas (70 Mage) of Fury, Kromthefuzzy (70 holy Paladin) of Keepers of the Faith, and Briannori (70 Shaman) and Ambyrayne (70 Hunter) of Cera Calda.
I ran once before with Kromthefuzzy…my PUG journal states that he like the yell over Vent.
We cleared up to the first boss without any issues. A quick look at the gear of the group, it seemed like everyone had been through this instance (and the more difficult ones), so I figured everyone had the strategy down. I pulled Hydromancer Thespia, created some threat on both adds, slapped Thespia once or twice, and tanked the skull. I like to turn the bosses and mobs away from the group for good practice, and so I can keep an eye on what people are doing. When the Paladin and the Hunter died in a Lightning Cloud rather than move out of it, it was quite disappointing. I don’t enjoy wiping in normal level instances.
We killed Hydromancer Thespia on the second attempt, and she dropped the Incanter’s Gloves (needed on by Arkalas). I also noticed that Kromthefuzzy doesn’t fully heal the tank after the fight. I’m a relatively new tank and maybe I don’t know the etiquette…but every instance group I’ve tanked for previously, the healer heals the tank to full health after fights. I think it’s great, because then I’m ready to pickup any trash some fool accidentally aggros in the dungeon. Kromthefuzzy is not one of those healers.
Clearing to the second boss was easy. Along the way, one of the trash mobs (was it a Coilfang Sorceress?) dropped Design: Khorium Band of Frost. Rockstar got it, because he was the only jewelcrafter in the group. I believe that’s my first BOP jewelcrafting design.
The fight with Mekgineer Steamrigger was business as usual. Arkalas and the Hunter’s pet worked the adds, while I kept the boss in check. I noticed Kromthefuzzy getting into the fight and taking a few swings on the boss. Unusual for most holy Paladins, who are content to monitor the healing situation full time. Mekgineer Steamrigger dropped the Earth Mantle Handwraps (Kromthefuzzy won the shard).
We cleared to the final boss without losing anyone. The Shaman was really testing my ability to tank…he was during pretty intense damage before I could build a lot of threat. I ended up using my Taunt within the first few seconds of every trash pull just to keep the mobs off of him. I suppose I should have let him have a few to himself, to get the idea. Maybe next time. And maybe a bit worse, Kromthefuzzy and Briannori aren’t using a threat meter, or at least it wasn’t enabled. As far I’m concerned, that’s an indicator of a less-than-serious attitude about the game.
We were able to one-shot Warlord Kalithresh. Warlord Kalithresh dropped a Primal Nether (needed by Arkalas), the Sash of Serpentra (Ambyrayne won the shard), and the Gauntlets of the Bold (needed on by Rockstar). These Gauntlets represent my first piece of the Bold armor set. I’m looking forward to collecting the other pieces…the shoulders and the chest would make a huge difference in my tanking ability. Between the gloves and the jewelcraftig design, this was a great run for me.
I did not remember to get the damage metrics for this run.
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