Question for fellow tanks in vMHK without healer

spoqster

Do you also have trouble staying alive tanking the behemoths?

Ran vMHK for the first time yesterday and I ran into this issue. This is probably the biggest survivability issue I’ve ever had. I block and out-heal the roar, dodge its ground smash, but every now and again a 40k bleed gets me that I can’t out-heal.

Do you guys have the same issue or am I missing a mechanic, some way to avoid the bleed?

Tsukiino

If they don't have a healer, that thing is probably dead in less than 10 seconds, so they don't have to deal with the breath/bleed

ccfeeling

We run semi healer everytime , sorc pet I mean .

Just make sure 3 DD burn down 1 side add , tank could stay alive with one add even no healing .

Left4Daud

The point of running with 3 dps is to avoid having to deal with extended pressure from adds like that.

Since you are running without healing support, the bleed killing you in this scenario is a byproduct of your dps not putting out sufficient numbers to bypass this adds damage checks.

In short, run with a healer, or run with 3 dps that are capable of downing these adds before the DOT downs you.

GlorphNoldorin

I dont run with a healer, I dont have any trouble with the behemoths, although they can get me low health. I spec for mag recovery and spam igneous/gdb a few times and its enough.

spoqster

Left4Daud wrote: »

The point of running with 3 dps is to avoid having to deal with extended pressure from adds like that.

Since you are running without healing support, the bleed killing you in this scenario is a byproduct of your dps not putting out sufficient numbers to bypass this adds damage checks.

In short, run with a healer, or run with 3 dps that are capable of downing these adds before the DOT downs you.

So you're essentially saying it's not my fault. That's good to hear. :-)

I'm only wondering because I heard someone say that the bleed only comes from one attack, a sideways sweep. If that were true I could potentially dodge that attack, but I don't know if it's actually true.