Mirror of Truth<\/a>. So we queued up again; me as a tank\/healer, him as a DPS, obviously.<\/p>\nWe got The Nexus and I breathed a sigh of relief, although I was tanking. I know the instance, I know the boss fights, I know how trash works. I had about 29k health, fully buffed (mark, kings, no fort) and off we went.<\/p>\n
I swear to God, I thought the DPS warrior was actively taunting off of me. Until I checked his gearscore. 5300 or thereabouts. Mine, as comparison, is about 2800. Still, I was doing okay on single targets. The issue would arise when the warrior’s whirlwind would simply out-threat my swipe.<\/p>\n
So we’ve done the mini boss, the caster boss and Anomolous and we’re at trash towards the rock boss, when the warrior says, apropos of nothing:<\/p>\n
“UR A DAMN GOOD TANK 4 GS OF 2.8K”<\/p>\n
The holy paladin said:<\/p>\n
“lol i agree” “amazing”<\/p>\n
I didn’t say anything. Were they being sincere? Or were they being sarcastic dicks? You never know with these people.<\/p>\n
So at the end of the run, I say:<\/p>\n
“Thanks very much for the group, everyone. Apologies for not holding aggro too well on multiple mobs. :)”<\/p>\n
The pally comes back with:<\/p>\n
“ur amazing”<\/p>\n
And the DK said “psh did great”<\/p>\n
The warrior had already left the group by the time the pally had said anything.<\/p>\n
So I don’t know. Maybe the warrior was being a sarcastic ass, but it seems like the pally thought I did great for my gear and the DK seemed to not mind too much.<\/p>\n
If any of them were at all sincere, I really hope that what they take away from the run is not that I am awesome, but rather, GearScore does not make a player. GearScore shows a player’s potential maximum output and nothing else. Like, nothing I could possibly do could help my Swipe out-threat the warrior. At all. But that’s a gear issue. As it was, I was relatively good with single target threat and I didn’t let things beat on the pally and I was super-quick to growl at things or even use Challenging Roar. I like to think that I pushed at the limits of my gear.<\/p>\n
I think it really helped that I’ve tanked the instance on regular and tanked it on both regular and heroic on my pally. Damn me if I didn’t miss Righteous Defense something fierce, though. :P<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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