Void Reaver

[Prepared]

Well, you don't want any other casters in melee range (other then aoe heals/chain heals) having them run in and JoL can be really bad if they get an orb at that moment, gameover for a lot of ppl.

Congratulations! A use for your token Retribution Paladin.

Don't have one? Neither do we. :\

[Teah]

Ditto no ret pally. My hate would prolly not be good enough without crusader up. While its a good idea, melee dieing because I tried to help out the healers is not a good thing.

[Tanks-PL]

I don't understand why you people say he doesn't crush or hit hard.

The first time I tanked him I got crushed for 7.3K, melee hit 4K, melee hit 4K, melee hit 4K and died as our healers had out of range issues.

Last week was much better as I activated HS right away, but when he does a melee hit he still hits me for 4K+. He did not seem to do back to back melee hits like he did last week though.

[Worldie]

Simply hitting for 3-4k and crushing for 7kish is "not hitting hard".

[PsiVen]

Yeah, you must have gotten quite unlucky with a parry streak or something. It's almost impossible for that to happen because he so often interrupts his melee attacks.

[DJSticky]

I don't understand why you people say he doesn't crush or hit hard.

The first time I tanked him I got crushed for 7.3K, melee hit 4K, melee hit 4K, melee hit 4K and died as our healers had out of range issues.

Last week was much better as I activated HS right away, but when he does a melee hit he still hits me for 4K+. He did not seem to do back to back melee hits like he did last week though.

In the grand scheme of things 4k auto attacks are not hard hits. When the auto attacks start comming for 8-9k then I'll lable it as "hitting pretty hard".

Not sure who said he can't crush because this is obviously wrong.

[Afraithe]

Our guild is actually gearing up a ret pala, if they are about to be buffed, we might as well get used to having one, ret pala buffs my threat quite a lot, as well as the dps of the raid.

[Teah]

I don't understand why you people say he doesn't crush or hit hard.

The first time I tanked him I got crushed for 7.3K, melee hit 4K, melee hit 4K, melee hit 4K and died as our healers had out of range issues.

Last week was much better as I activated HS right away, but when he does a melee hit he still hits me for 4K+. He did not seem to do back to back melee hits like he did last week though.

In the grand scheme of things 4k auto attacks are not hard hits. When the auto attacks start comming for 8-9k then I'll lable it as "hitting pretty hard".

Not sure who said he can't crush because this is obviously wrong.

I've never had him crush me that hard, worst crush I've seen from him was 5k damage or so. He usually hits me for 3.5k-4k.

[Joanadark]

Yeah it sounds like you got your own problem pretty much nailed down, your healers aren't topping you off.

It took quite a bit of me yelling in vent for heals before our healers started healing me like they heal any other tank.

I like how boss mods freak out that the boss is targeting a healing class and start screaming that you're taking orbs.

[Tanks-PL]

Yeah, you must have gotten quite unlucky with a parry streak or something. It's almost impossible for that to happen because he so often interrupts his melee attacks.

Probably, as I looked over the logs for all the other tanks and did not see a single back to back melee.

People were beginning to doubt my ability to tank. Of course, I also had zero heals during that period too, as our healers were not used to VR.

The only times I died on all the attempts last week was at the enrage (2% best attempt so far). We should get him this week as we went from 70% the first week to 2% the second week.

Now, if gruul will drop the Magus blade tomorrow I'd be set as that would put me close to 400SP.

[dern]

I am just so happy with our VR kill last night I had to post.

I had a Ret pally, but not in my party. The spell damage helped a lot. I put up wsdom, a healer put up light. Think he said he had to re-judge like 3 r 4 times.

I was wearing around 335 spell damage. I held him from start of fight at 1:59:49.09 to 2:04:55 . . . .it was awesome. He's still on Dernthor . . . still on Dern . . .still on Dern. . . damn Dern

I had a lot of luck on knockbacks. 4 missed, 3 parried, and 4 dodged.

I got him back at the end of the fight for another 30 seconeds.

Next time I'll get in our ret pally's group, my 2 prot warrior buddies are starting to hate that fight /lol Also, BS plans for belt dropped and I won them /yay me
This is definitely one of those fights that make me glad I'm a pally.

[Joanadark]

we had no less than THREE [Plans: Red Belt of Battle] drop clearing to him this week, bringing the number of our blacksmiths who can make it to four.

have yet to have Belt of the Guardian plans drops.... QQ

[DJSticky]

I don't understand why you people say he doesn't crush or hit hard.

The first time I tanked him I got crushed for 7.3K, melee hit 4K, melee hit 4K, melee hit 4K and died as our healers had out of range issues.

Last week was much better as I activated HS right away, but when he does a melee hit he still hits me for 4K+. He did not seem to do back to back melee hits like he did last week though.

In the grand scheme of things 4k auto attacks are not hard hits. When the auto attacks start comming for 8-9k then I'll lable it as "hitting pretty hard".

Not sure who said he can't crush because this is obviously wrong.

I've never had him crush me that hard, worst crush I've seen from him was 5k damage or so. He usually hits me for 3.5k-4k.

Lol no VR doesn't hit for 8-9k, I was saying I'd call THOSE hard hits, not VR 5k crushes.

[Anubisknight]

What HP do you guys run at and also what avoidance mitigation stats for VR? My guild has him on farm right now, but I was wondering if I could swap out some gear for more spell damage gear.

On another note, VR is a really fun fight for a paladin tank. Starting off with a MD + AW will allow you to hold aggro over 3-4 knockbacks at least. My personal best was tanking him till he was at 62%. After that, a knockback + an unlucky orb silence meant that I couldnt keep the TPS up and it was tank rotation as usual.

[DJSticky]

I usualy have about 17k buffed, 17ish dodge, 18ish parry and 20ish block.