Tanks - Would you hate an Ice Warden DPS in a dungeon?

Troodon80

Varana wrote: »

I wouldn't bother to keep Major Maim up all the time, to be honest.
Minor Maim has a few sources that allow for a good uptime - Talons (if on DK) and Heroic Slash are the main ones. That's worth paying attention to.
Major Maim should be an option for very specific attacks. If you know that the boss has a particularly high-damage heavy attack and see that spinning up - then go for it. Or if a boss is about to do a mechanic that hits many group members really hard (Warrior's Starfall in HRC, for instance) - that's a useful moment for this debuff.
Trying to keep it up all the time is way overkill, though.

If you're a tank using Clench over Inner Fire/Beast, then it's probably because your group wants you to run Minor Brittle rather than Major Maim specifially, or you're simply looking more towards supporting your random PUG dungeon more than simply taunting and blocking, in which case keeping Brittle up is more important than the Maim, but Major Maim will occur naturally and constantly as a result.

xXSilverDragonXx

I play an ice warden dps/healer as well as ice warden tank, and there is no reason to hate a dps ice warden as long as they don't use clench. That is a taunt. But with an ice staff, and ice warden gives some protective element to the team if they use blockade. Nice little tutu shields for everyone.

Bitter_Apple21

@Varana

Thanks. That is what I was wondering.



I currently have talons slotted on front, so I can trigger that on bosses.

Your point on Major for specific attacks is interesting. Picked up from you, @Oreyn_Bearclaw and others a ways back, that I should work my way up to vet DLCs as some good training. One of the ones I have done is Icereach on vet.

I learned thru that one that there are simply some bosses that I cannot stand toe to toe against. That first boss when enraged is I guess one of them. I wonder if Major and Minor maim on him just before his enraged swing, with Magma would work.

Thanks again.

Bitter_Apple21

@Troodon80

Thanks. It was not so much a group thing - only recently joined guild to run trials - it was more of a testing of ideas from the point of view of a tank doing as much debuffing as I can on the boss/bosses. Basically your point about PUGs was close to the mark.

I do run Rage. Learning to use that to taunt/hold aggro on distance stationary bosses, to pull focus off DPSs, and to pull in adds, that chain will not work on.

Thanks again.