Weekend (10 Apr) - "Tanks" For Nuttin'

Weekend (10 Apr) - "Tanks" For Nuttin'

Someone must have doctored the ale at the Inn during an all tanks party over the weekend, because both Sista and Java found themselves in dungeons with some of the flightiest (in more ways than one) tanks in recent memory.

In a Stratholme run Sista and her group lost their tank when he abruptly went offline five minutes into the run. We waited around for five minutes or so, then kicked him and got another. The second tank thought he could tank whole rooms full of mobs instead of a group or two, and Sista found herself spam healing the group to avoid wipes and not getting much DPS done. The over-wrought healer gave it a couple more pulls, but the tank couldn't be contained and the healer quit, leaving the group. The tank ignored the fact that there wasn't a healer and kept pulling. We wiped. Sista had had enough and left.

But that was nothing compared to the Zul'Farak run Java was in on Sunday. We had a good healer, and three bitchin DPSers (counting Java ;-) ). The other two DPS were a moonkin and a mage. We were lighting up the sky and the area around us with more pyrotechnics than the Washington DC 4th of July. It was crazy fun - but just a few minutes in the tank quit the group. No comment, complaint, kiss my foot, nothing.

Java took over tanking for awhile and we four manned it. It was a little slower without a fifth player, but we did fine and soon got us a new tank. We had him long enough to kill a boss, and then he abruptly left us as well. What the hell?

Java went back to tanking, and we then got a third tank. We blew up some more mobs, did a couple of bosses, and - yep, he left as well. We did the entire "stairs" event - every attack by the mobs and all three of the Bosses - with just the four of us.

We got our fourth tank. He stayed long enough to do one boss and then he, too, left. We finally finished the dungeon with our fifth tank of the night. The healer never let anyone die, the DPS did a fine job, everyone was happily doing their thing - except the tanks. I've never seen anything like it.

Java never finished the first Stratholme run he made during the weekend. We had one tank go offline part way in and never come back. The second tank was a bit slow moving, but we were making progress and no one was complaining. It's a long dungeon and we put a lot of effort into getting about 80% done. The tank then told us he had to leave, and poof! he was gone. We waited almost ten minutes and did not get another tank. The group didn't want to four man it. The healer was a little new and while he was fine keeping up the tank Java pretty much had to heal himself when there was a need. The healer then had to go as well, and that was the end of that.

The good news from all that mishmash was that both Sista and Java made level 50.