Comments on: Anub’Arak, a fight where blocking actually gasp helps

By: Wrathy

Wrathy — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:33:31 +0000

The key is to have a passively Unhittable block set as The Renaissance Man stated. It is very difficult to obtain and requires quite a bit of novelty pieces to get you there. Also it does work just as well on pallys.

By: The Renaissance Man

The Renaissance Man — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:27:59 +0000

The issue isn’t that you don’t get the debuff applied, you still do, but the bug is when the debuff multiplier is applied. Normally with debuffs like this is that the damage is multiplied, then you block. For example, the boss swings for 2k, with ten stacks, it’s multiplied to 6k, and then you block for 2.4k, and take 3.6k. However, with this debuff, it’s multiplied after you block, so the burrower swings for 2k, you block for 1.8k, the damage is multiplied to 600, which you then take.

If you build a passively unhittable block set, you can tank as many mobs as you want, and take minimal damage.

By: Four whole seconds to spare « Achtung Panzercow

Four whole seconds to spare « Achtung Panzercow — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:33:12 +0000

[...] was then that our raid officers, looking through the logs, discovered what Spinks posted about over at Welcome to Spinksville yesterday: The Anub’arak fight is one of the only encounters [...]

By: spinks

spinks — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:39:33 +0000

I’m sure you’re right and probably sooner rather than later (they seem a bit snappier these days about fixing this sort of thing).

By: Wiqd

Wiqd — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:53:17 +0000

Eh, I’m sure it’ll be nerfed at some point. Remember back in Vanilla when Tanks with … 4(?) piece tier 2 could off tank Patchwerk and never get hit because of the way the parry bonus worked? Awesomesauce.

By: Longasc

Longasc — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:57:10 +0000

You are such a cunning tank! Awww, I would so like to ressurrect you and bring you back to the lush forests of Elwynn and a prosperous human life!

I always like it when people find out smart strategies for raid encounters. Though Blizzard goes a “not special gear, but the strategy” route nowadays, this exception is rather special indeed in this regard.

By: spinks

spinks — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:29:53 +0000

I suspect this was probably based on using rogues with FoK spam before that got fixed. It is discussed in the thread. I just thought it was amusing to see they used a blocking set really.

By: Kobeathris

Kobeathris — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:21:32 +0000

How on earth would you interrupt the shadow step thing that they are supposed to do in heroic? That would put it at like a 1 second cast time.

By: Tarsus

Tarsus — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:41:08 +0000

My general experience is that stacking debuff really sucks, and goes up particularly fast once you have two spawn. My recollection is that you still get the debuff even if you block.

By: Linedan

Linedan — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:25:53 +0000

Hmm. If I get burrower duty tonight (doubtful, since we have four tanks in rotation and I’m in the “loldps” slot this week) I’ll wear my 2400 SBV set instead of my full-on tank set and see what happens. We did sort of find out about this last week when we had a very well-geared DK tanking two burrowers on 25 normal and he died. A lot.

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