I am going to start another series of posts and talk about Karazhan in depth. It is basically to share my experiences, insights and hopefully some tips in taking down bosses. So before you head over to Deadwind Pass for your first raid, lets go over some basic preparations you will need to make...
- 490 Defense - make sure you have at least 490 defense. I am sure by now every wannabe tanks know this by now. I don't want to explain and talk about it again. There are a bunch of website forums that explains the reason behind it.
- 12K HP - the trash mobs and bosses hits hard. You will need some hp to take the hit and 12K is enough to get you started.
- Armor - if you get 490 defense and around 12k HP, your armor should be high enough. I cannot remember how much armor I had when I went into kara. 11k-12k armor should be enough.
- Consumables - Health Potions / Rage Potions are on top of my list. I always make sure I have enough of them. Bring around 10 health potions and about 5 rage potions. As an off-tank you will want rage potions to help you out on some fights since you will be looking competing with the MT for threat and without the boss/mob hitting you, there will be good chance that you won't have enough rage to keep up.
- Gear - if you have 490 defense and around 12k HP, chances are you know what your doing and have been grabbing the right gear for the MT/OT kara role. If not, I have started posts about gear that you would want pre-kara (check the links on the right). I know its not complete but it is a start.
- Avoidance - I know tanks that like to stack high stamina gear. Basically putting +12 stamina gems on almost all gem slot but I think thats not a requirement. What I liked doing was making sure my parry/dodge and block totals to at least 25%. This ensures dodge/parry or at least a block everytime I have Shield Block up.
First up on the list is Attumen the Huntsman & Midnight. It is the 1st boss and he is optional. He is easy and should be no problem. Look for it on the next post.
7 comments:
Good idea Brig...should be an interesting read, especially once you get past my progression. :)
Very helpful checklist, Brigin. Thanks for taking the time to put it up. Although I don't expect to much if any of Kara (me and me guildies is way too casual) it's still very useful to have targets and benchmarks.
I's just a simple orc, though, so I gets confusticated sometimes and I gots to ask you about one thing. With the avoidance, is what you mean parry + dodge + block must be at least 25% ? Or is you saying parry + block at 25%, and dodge + black also at 25% ? Much thanks.
@Ratshag - basically parry + dodge + block = 25%. This way when you have shield block up (75% chance of blocking)you will either dodge, parry or block the attack. 25% + 75% = 100%
Thanks Brig, should be very useful for me! I finally got back into kara after an extended absence. In the limited amount of time we had we downed attumen and moroes which was a good job for a lot of people never having been there before. Once we got everyone used to the idea of the trash timers it went well. I made it to maiden during my previous few times but I think this group I am with has a lot of good potential.
Looking foward to your guides.
Got it. Thanks.
Not be be nit-picky but you actually need 102.4 avoidance to get be avoidnace capped against a LVL 73 boss.
a common mistake most tanks do is they always forget a 10% flat miss rate to be caculated for avoidance. with 25% dodge/parry/block u would have 35% avoidance. 25% avoidance with 12k hp and 12k armor is not enough for anything after moroes. u should be aiming at 50% avoidance (including miss rate)with ofc 490 def rating
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