One of the guildies wanted to get an alt through Ramparts, so we assembled a PUG and went on our merry way.
Or rather, wanted to go. Doomhammer EU was afflicted by massive bouts of lag yesterday, and apparently (though this might have been all-European) Brewfest had been restarted in error on the server previously.
In fact, it was so bad that I took over 20 mins to hearth to Shatt from whatever I had been doing before, and one of our party members declared the whole venture useless and left. So we 4-manned the whole thing just because we could: level 60 rogue, 61 mage, and 70 full elemental shaman (and I mean full, 55/6/0) healing yours truly.
It was quite amusing to 4-man the place. Last time I was tanking there was on my way to level 70, and it was some work. This time around, I was way overgeared and had to swap some mitigation pieces for pure stamina instead (note to self: consider getting some int heavy rings instead of your avoidance rings) just to actually conserve a semblance of mana.
The rogue and the mage took some time to grasp the goodness that is AoE tanking, they kept sapping and sheeping around after I told them not to bother (the mage had marks, and kept it up very bravely). Funnily enough, the shaman died to Omor about halfway without it having any impact on the outcome.
Very fun run, the two low level people both got something out of the run they could use. I re-learned the meaning of a shallow mana pool. Too much mitigation = thirst unending.
All that through bouts of massive looting lag. Still, I expect I’ll eventually tank the place as heroics, and tanking requires paying attention to the pulls, something I did not do while healing heroics. A refresher certainly never hurts.
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