Ah well. My world of warcraft retirement lasted until today. I came back in to help out some guildmates carry out some murder, death, mayhem and destruction.
My job ? Take all the hits so they don’t have to … Did ok too, ended up as the top damage taker, which was good, because I was the lowest level there. Lower level means you don’t do as much damage, which makes it harder to persuade the mobs to hit you. Trick is to do a little bit of damage to everything, so it goes for you instead of the fella who’s trying to heal you.
The downside is that you don’t tend to do very much damage. It’s a selfless task, you need to go kamikaze because of the way the damage rules work. If a mob hits for 1000 damage, that damage gets reduced by armour. Bashara has lots of armour, giving around 55% reduction. That means that the 1000 hit only does 450 damage. With Iceangel, she only has 10% reduction, making that 1000 hit do 900 damage. If you also factor in the damage that can be taken, Bash can take 9 of those hits, whereas Ice will be dead after 3. So the aim is to get all of the hits going in against the tank, with the warrior class being specialised to have lots of tricks to persuade mobs to hit them.
It was pretty food fun too. Being the damage leader means I was doing my job properly, which was confirmed by no one dying over the whole time we were in there. Pretty decent achievement, although we were maybe a little overpowered for it. It’ll be tougher on Friday – will be tanking for a group in a harder instance.
Mostly avoided paying attention to everything outside the job at hand and I wasn’t in the capital city too much. The capital is where the morons tend to congregate.
On to Stargate … and then to Battlestar Galactica so I can see what happens before reading all about it on the work forums tomorrow.