Stacking Stamina

Tanking the Ruby Sanctum

My name is Cassieo, and I’ll be your tank today.

First off, I’d like to point out that this is not a typical WotLK raid.  It’s design goals are very much in the tune of what we’re going to be seeing in Cataclysm.  The biggest change is that you really need to plan out your pulls and use strategic positioning and crowd control to succeed.  Also, you won’t have your faction leader’s 25%+ buff to everything.  All of a sudden you’ll see lower health pools, lower healing, lower everything.  Be very aware of this change and advance with caution the first few times in here.  There are still a lot of “don’t stand in the fire” and “move away, and now back” sort of mechanics, but you can’t just faceroll through the trash any longer.

Read more »