Quote Originally Posted by 'Gaffy',index.php?page=Thread&postID=162949#post16 2949
First off I think it could work, I have a solo BM hunter and so far I haven't found a 3-man quest that my gorilla can't tank with just mend pet for heals. Haven't got my shammy leveled yet but once I do I'll be finding out how well he does against 5 man quests with a healer.
At 80 with mostly crappy gear my pet is sitting at about 16k health, 55ish% physical damage reduction, plus the talents that reduce magic damage and aoe damage. And that is unbuffed also.
So just guessing I would say in heroics, trash: good offtank with mild healing plus mend pet. Bosses: sacrificial lamb when needed. But better to lose a pet than the tank.
That's exactly what I meant.

Not just Sacrificial with Last stand and as a Turtle it really could take some of the DMG from the tank. And the Roar of course, if you have a healer with a HoT (or More) / Group heals it would be cool, just to take the 30% less dmg @ the tank (this dmg cannot be critting only if the tank isn't crit immune, because it's just taking dmg from your tank and not a direct hit by the boss) .

Ok, Roar holds 12 sec by a 30 sec cd with 2 Hunters or just on 1 Button with Bone shield or something.


Btw, thanks for the stats, that was what I needed, could you give me an armory link? Crappy could mean to some just blue stuff, for the others its green