AC clears SSC

Vashj went down. Took us several tries but as long as we go to phase 3 with everyone alive then it was easy. When everyone is clicking and working together raiding can be so much fun. I guess we will be working on TK next at least that way we can clear it and focus more on Mt Hyjal.

About Shattered Sun Pendant of Resolve

I have been using Shattered Sun Pendant of Resolve alot lately. Since I don't have enough badge to get the brooch, I went for this in the meantime. Even if I know that the brooch is better since I am exalted with Aldor. The Pendant gives me 100 dodge rating.

Anyway, I used the pendant in our last TK run the whole time. As an off tank, I am usually tasked to tank the 2nd Crystalcore Devastator or stay back to take the charge from a Phoenix-Hawk Hatchling in Alar's room. The interesting thing about the pendant is that it procs even when your shooting your gun, isn't that great? Well, you have to be careful because it generates alot of threat, enough to pull everything around you.

Here is what happened:

MT shoots at a Phoenix-Hawk Hatchling to bring it down the ramp in Alar's room. I stay back a bit to take a charge. I used my gun just to make sure that the bird knows I am there in the back of the room and I want him to charge me. Pendant procs, I pull aggro.

2 Crystalcore Devastator on the way to Void Reaver's room. MT shoots at one Devastator, I go in and shoot mine to get initial aggro. Pendant procs, 2 devastator goes after me.

Just something interesting I would like to share.

5/6 SSC Clear ...

Wednesday night and it is time again for another SSC run. It was more sloppy than our usual run but we still manage to clear 5 of 6 bosses in 1 night. I guess it is safe to say we have at least 5 bosses on farm. We just need to kill Vashj and honestly, I won't mind if we start skipping some of the bosses and go straight for her. We would be able to dedicate another day to a different instance (Mt. Hyjal).

Some thoughts about the SSC run ...

Overall 21.3 % damage mitigation and 59.2 % avoidance. It is down from last week but I went for high BV gear this week sacrificing some armor. Threat increased with Shield Slam averaging around 666 from 636 and going as high as 1838. Blocking as high as 1000 damage if auto blocker is up.

On Hydross: I am thinking of switching out some resist gear in favor of some threat gear. Our dps is scaling like crazy and I am having a hard time keeping up and generating threat.

Lurker: Trash leading to this fish is just getting repetitive. So much trash mob to clear. Fish itself is easy. I am trying to stay 2nd on the threat list to keep the fish off our melee guys but it is hard to do so when you are not main tanking.

Leo: I get to dps! I am slowly but surely building my dps set. I think I have a respectable dps armor but I lack the weapons. I am dual wielding my mallet and sun eater. I did around 500 dps with some ungemmed and some unenchanted gear with non-dps weapon so I think I did ok. I want to do more but I am afraid I won't be able to unless I get better main and off hand weapons.

FLK: I am on priest add duty. I hate the fact that she seems to be casting more ice block than usual. When I am ice blocked, I can't do anything so I am at her mercy. Nothing special. This fight is easy.

Tidewalker: I was on murloc duty covering north side. Our pally tank died. I tried my hardest gathering every murloc with the other tanks. We recover. I also tried keeping sunder armor and thunder clap on Tidewalker since we had a druid main tanking.

5% Vashj

Our best try last night was getting Vashj down to 5%. We were very melee heavy last night and I can feel an impending Vashj kill on our next go around. We have been clearing 5/6 bosses in SSC in one night, usually one shotting everything and hopefully Wednesday will be the same. Unfortunately, I don't know if I will be available this Sunday, when they finally take her down.

Thank you for all the comments on my previous post. I have been busy with work and haven't had the chance to make frequent posts but hopefully I can in the next couple of days. I haven't really played my warrior except for guild raid days. I been spending my time gearing up my shadow priest and spending some time healing on my holy paladin which is keeping everything interesting. Good to take time off tanking and enjoying the other facets of the game that I haven't really enjoyed.

Attached below is a screenshot of a WWS report taken last Wednesday. It is an overall report of our 5 boss clear.

Now, I am not a WWS expert and I hate looking at numbers but the main stat I am looking at is the missed % and the mitigated %. Based on the numbers, I am avoiding 61.5% of physical hits and at the same time mitigating 22.3%. Are this good numbers based on my level of progression? I guess I am trying to establish a baseline and would love to see different wws reports of other protection warriors with my same level of progression granted that I am not MTing.

I am also trying to optimize and match gears to be a more efficient tank. I can get my block value as high as 750 and I want to see how this would affect my tanking. I will probably try it this Wednesday.