Illidan Stormrage

[Atreidies]

Yep, what Fiorina said, save your Ironshields for p5 and personally I'd pop them right out of the 'stun' with the interlude between Illidan and Maiev so that you guarantee that you have it up when he enrages, and while it is rare from looking at WWS since then, he CAN hit for upwards of 14k on a warrior with Ironshields on, so just be aware of the possible damage inc. and save trinkets, Nightmare Seeds, etc. if you have to run a ways to make it to the trap.

[Splug]

Don't forget that it IS possible to tank him without trapping him if the trap is in a very poor location. You lose a bit of damage, but if the trap is in the middle of the raid... well, we had a draw soul pull him back to 45% during p5 on one of our failed attempts. That was pretty disheartening, and we ended up wiping out shortly after.

The warrior we had tanking him had blown shield wall on a shear, so he was tanking through the enrages with just trinkets/ironshields. Keep that option in mind when the time comes.

-Splug

[Atreidies]

Don't forget that it IS possible to tank him without trapping him if the trap is in a very poor location. You lose a bit of damage, but if the trap is in the middle of the raid... well, we had a draw soul pull him back to 45% during p5 on one of our failed attempts. That was pretty disheartening, and we ended up wiping out shortly after.

Yep, we dragged him to a trap snug against the wall 2 weeks ago, burned him to 1% on the 2nd enrage where he then turned to the raid, as there was no room/tank opposite him, and cast Draw Soul bringing him back to 12% and leaving him in a horrible position for the next p4 where we wiped horribly and QQ'ed.

[Mithos]

At Warglaive(below it) stop for a while, in many cases he will "bug" and you are not going to receive AoE damage. OMG HAX!!

What exactly do you mean by this?

[Gavel]

Means that you can get the flame hung up on the glaive, where he'll still melee you, but any blazes he does land in front of you and don't do any damage.

[Lore]

Tanked him on Thursday, whee. Couple notes:

- He does indeed hit like a girl until he enrages. I was actually having to mana pot >.>

- Draw Soul is somewhat predictable. He always alternates Flame Crash and Draw Soul, usually pretty close together. That means you've got something like 40 seconds to get him where you want him after a demon phase.

- Pocket Watch is amazing for enrages. He dual wields, which gives him a pretty high miss rate. Granted I'm a bit overgeared for the encounter now as I'm wearing 2 pieces of gear from him, but when I pop my pocket watch I end up having something like an 8% chance for him to actually land an attack. It's up for every enrage too.

[Splug]

Nice! Congrats Lore!

-Splug

[Worldie]

Gratz, pic or vid plis!

[Lore]

There's a video of it, but it'd from a holy pally's perspective, he died halfway through, and it's hosted on his personal webspace atm so I can't link it

[Morganim]

Grats to you lore

[Joanadark]

I've been pondering asking about tanking the big guy in an upcoming week, can you maybe take a glance at the progress of my gear and tell me your thoughts on how likely he'd be to absolutely destroy me?

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-shee ... a&n=Brekke

ack, armory hasnt updated for the past few days.

Current unbuffed stats:

16,647 HP
17947 Armor
612 Block Value
Miss- 11.60%
Dodge- 24.02%
Parry- 16.60% (52.22% combined avoidance)
Block- 26.06% (un-shearable with buffs)

[Aetherial]

That's pretty close to what I'm running at, and aside from healers falling asleep at transitions, I haven't had any trouble tanking him. Best attempt is 32% so far.... we probably would have gotten him down (since p5 isn't too much different) if people hadn't brainfarted and forgotten to kill the warlock tank's Demon >.<

One thing I've found is to think a little bit on when you pop Holy Shield... once you get comfortable with his pattern, you can delay hitting it here and there to ensure that you don't end up with the inevitable Shear going off at the same time as your HS cooldown. We can live through Shear (Nightmare Seed + Shadowmoon Insignia ftw), but with everything going on, giving the healers a little breathing room doesn't hurt.

He also likes to Shear right after a Flame Crash, while you're repositioning him. Fucker

That being said, it's nice to be able to sit back and watch porn during phase 2.

[Lansky]

I've been pondering asking about tanking the big guy in an upcoming week, can you maybe take a glance at the progress of my gear and tell me your thoughts on how likely he'd be to absolutely destroy me?

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-shee ... a&n=Brekke

ack, armory hasnt updated for the past few days.

Current unbuffed stats:

16,647 HP
17947 Armor
612 Block Value
Miss- 11.60%
Dodge- 24.02%
Parry- 16.60% (52.22% combined avoidance)
Block- 26.06% (un-shearable with buffs)

Gear is sufficient for tanking him. Avoidance is a bit lower than I'd run, but I always use more avoidance than most people so that's probably just my bias. Your main obstacle will be convincing your guild to let someone less geared than another available tank take a whack at him. Status Quo can be a powerful enemy sometimes.

[Neuron]

I've been pondering asking about tanking the big guy in an upcoming week, can you maybe take a glance at the progress of my gear and tell me your thoughts on how likely he'd be to absolutely destroy me?

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-shee ... a&n=Brekke

ack, armory hasnt updated for the past few days.

Current unbuffed stats:

16,647 HP
17947 Armor
612 Block Value
Miss- 11.60%
Dodge- 24.02%
Parry- 16.60% (52.22% combined avoidance)
Block- 26.06% (un-shearable with buffs)

Gear is sufficient for tanking him. Avoidance is a bit lower than I'd run, but I always use more avoidance than most people so that's probably just my bias. Your main obstacle will be convincing your guild to let someone less geared than another available tank take a whack at him. Status Quo can be a powerful enemy sometimes.

True that. It's my turn Lore!

[Lore]

Pfft shut up and heal me.

I actually favor avoidance a bit more than usual for Illidan, just because the closer I can get to 102.4% miss/dodge/parry while my trinket is up the easier the enrages get