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The Tempest-Forge Destroyer in Heroic Mechanar can hit pretty damn hard. Most of their power comes from their Charged Hands move though which significantly increases their damage and attack speed.
How to Tank them
1. Only use Heroic Strike to Hold Aggro, litereally never trigger the global cooldown.
2. When the Charged Hand starts, Shield Bash it.
3. Do a Shield Slam, Put up Demo Shout, and Thunderclap then start back at #1.
This technique can be used against any mob that has a faster spellcast that you absolutely don’t want to miss.
June 22nd, 2007 at 10:04 am
I REALLY wish I had read this before last night. We were doing Fathom-Lord Karathress, and it was my first time on the priest add. Besides holding aggro until it was time to kill my add, I was supposed to interrupt its heals. However, as quick as I was at hitting shield bash, I couldn’t ever get it off. The cast itself was less than a second, and then global cooldowns made it damn right impossible. I asked my GM, who is also a tank, and we discussed it until he came up with a solution: just spam heroic strike for aggro to free up the global cooldown for shield bash. I felt silly for asking when I’m sure it was an obvious solution.
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June 22nd, 2007 at 10:36 am
One thing to note on a semi-related front is that I was in The Eye yesterday and I can’t recall the mobs, but (big shock) they were robots and they had a rather devastating ability that you could spell reflect.
Spell Reflect is NOT on the Global Cooldown.
So don’t worry about triggering the global cooldown when you can Spell Reflect something, but DO WORRY about not have 25 rage to do it. LOL
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July 24th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
On the robots if I know there are a few stuns in the party I just set up a stun rotation and tank as normal. You can usually stun em for the entire duration of a flubbed fist even if you don’t interrupt it.
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September 8th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Or, you can get a mage that is ready to counterspell or a rogue that is ready to kick. Heroic Strike alone is not enough to hold aggro over a decently gear/skilled dps class, or a poorly geared shaman (chuckle). In the event that your interrupters miss the interrupt, spell reflect negates the extra damage long enough for your healer to keep you alive.
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January 4th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
I do this a lot, and one thing I’ve tended to notice is that there aren’t many mobs where this is a good tactic that recast quicker than your Shield Bash cooldown. I do this on: These robots, Mag’s channelers, Caribdis (Karathress’ priestess add) & Julienne. The only one of those that has a cooldown shorter than your Shield Bash are the channelers, and that’s only after they’ve gotten about 3 buffs.
What this means is that I’ll use the SB cooldown as my “go-time.” After a Bash, it’s SS>Revenge>refresh debuffs, etc. until I see the SB cooldown is about up. Then it’s back into Heroic Strike holding mode.
Great blog BTW. Love it.
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Goodmann reply on June 10, 2008 9:23 pm:
Yes this is just the same tactic i use on those robots, with only one change to it if i have a rogue, or any other interrupt i try and buy some aggro build time and ask em to interrupt the first charge, so i can build threat and rage in peace.
Watching the SB CD is a very good indicator on when to stop using your global CD.
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June 10th, 2008 at 9:12 am
Used this tactic on Julienne and it worked like a charm. ty ty.
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