Just main tanked and 4x dps for a 25 man vault

5 boxed 10 man vault tonight and then 5 boxed 25 man - getting better at it. On 25 man my shamans were #1,2,5,6 on DPS - would have been 1,2,3,4 except I'm still trying to figure out best placement. First I tried wedging them into a wall but they ended up being too far away to be casting half the time. When I leave them on the stairs they get knocked back too far to fire. What I ended up doing (and had I done this at the beginning I would have been 1-4 on DPS) was just having them stay about 15 yards back from my tank - if I moved, I would have them /follow then stop immediately to get closer but not too close. Also if one of them got turned around somehow I could hit /follow and then back up slightly to realign. All in all it went well, so far in all 3 runs I've 5 boxed everyone has been very receptive to me MTing plus 4 DPS - probably helps that I'm overgeared and I put out more DPS than most other people (Also my DK tank was #11 on the DPS list out of 25 people 21 of which were DPS :P

just got my pve group to level 80 not long ago and MT + 3 dps 10 man VoA followed by OT + 3 dps 25 man VoA. All in craftable epics. i've run VoA many times on my shamans at 4 dps but this was the first time tanking it. OT was harder since i didn't really have any idea when i was suppose to taunt the boss... so i just randomly taunted him lol. It worked out actually.

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Originally Posted by 'Zal',index.php?page=Thread&postID=186610#post1866 10

just got my pve group to level 80 not long ago and MT + 3 dps 10 man VoA followed by OT + 3 dps 25 man VoA. All in craftable epics. i've run VoA many times on my shamans at 4 dps but this was the first time tanking it. OT was harder since i didn't really have any idea when i was suppose to taunt the boss... so i just randomly taunted him lol. It worked out actually.

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Yeah LOL I get a huge warning when I'm being grabbed or whatever but when the other tank is being grabbed I get nothing. So, when I MT normally I guess you're supposed to wait for the OT to get grabbed before you retaunt after getting grabbed, but I just would immediately retaunt after "recovering" from being thrown and kept aggro through maybe 98% of the fight - worked out just fine - OT only picked up boss when I was in the air.

There's a pattern actually, its something like:

rock shards
jump
rock shards
5-15 seconds later, lunge and grab


So as an OT you can simply wait 5 seconds after the 2nd rock shards, taunt, and then YOU will be grabbed. I've actually run 3 different instances at once many times, where 2 have my shamans DPSing and one has my pally tanking, if you follow the above pattern you barely have to pay attention as an OT since you only tank for about 3-10 seconds every minute.

Did the MT and OT rotation again this week on both 25 man and 10 man. It's pretty cake. There's actually enough lag time between the "lunge" message and the actual pickup of the MT that it's not very challenging at all.... I also rolled later in the week with my guild run doing 4 dps toons. Made 10/10 last week. At 8/10 right now and hope to hit the other 2 tonight.