Posts Tagged ‘playing the sacrificial paladin’
2010 -
06.15
Tags: oh dear more search engine bait, playing the sacrificial paladin, please don't unzip me, Raiding, ulduar
Posted in Raiding for fun (profit be damned), Things I'm learning | 2 Comments »
- All that stuff about “the floor being the most dangerous boss in WoW” is totally true. Stupid floor.
- “Sacrificial paladin” is not a joke. They really will send you to facepull instakill mobs with just a teensy little bubble keeping the big bad cats from unzipping more than your coat. The meanies.
- Remember that the sacrificial paladin role is varied. Some mobs aggro on sight. Others don’t, and sending the whole crowd sprinting towards the rest of the raid while you stand there dumbly wondering what’s going on is not going to endear you to anyone.*cough*
- If you’ve zoomed in nice and tight to take pictures of something, remember to zoom out for the following boss fight. *All* the way out. Especially if the following bossfight is Mimiron.
Bloody mines.
- Not-at-all-related-to-Mimiron-honest, if the boss you’re fighting has a attack along the lines of “makes like a whirling dervish for 3 seconds before pausing for three seconds then NUKING EVERYTHING DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF IT WITH THE FORCE OF A THOUSAND SUNS”, then it’s probably a reasonable idea to spend the bulk of your time watching the boss (rather than your cooldowns and cast bars) so you can y’know, *move*. Even if it costs you a couple of hundred DPS. Because when you’re a greasy stain on the paving, your damage output is ZERO. /doh
- Good tanks and healers are dangerous the worst people to spend time with as a damage-dealing character. It’s all too easy to forget about threat, and targeting, and positioning, and … stuff. Setting recount to show damage taken or looking at World of Logs parses of the same data is a good way of checking whether you lived because of what you did, or *in spite* of what you did.
- “If you [catch fire/contract the plague/grow tentacles/<insert boss debuff here>], make sure to [hug the tank/run to the right/get away from the raid]” is a simple instruction. It’s very simple. If I catch fire, run to the right. Ok, no bother. Me on fire => run to right. Fire == move right. Got it.
“OMG OMG I’m on fire there are numbers pouring out of my head heals heals heals oh god what am I supposed to do am I oh hells I can hear voices on vent but they’re so far away and the fire is still burning are they talking to me maybe if I run in circles around this spot it will go out ow ow ow oh wait I was supposed to run to the…” /wipe.
Perhaps I should stick “L” and “R” post-its to the side of my monitor.
- Frostweave net. I bet you’ve never used one. If you’re not a tailor, you might not have even heard of them. Just so you know, frostweave nets ROCK.