Heroic Trash

[Hachoo]

I've watched a lot of videos of Heroic dungeons being cleared, virtually all of them do not show anything about clearing trash. I know that the boss fight is what most folks are interested in, but I'm interested in getting trashed cleared efficiently too.

I'm runing a DK + 4 shaman, and I'm wondering how people handle pulls when they get 3 or more elite heroic trash mobs. Two mob pulls aren't really a problem. Three mob pulls seem like I'm healing quite a bit, and in some cases my DK tank will die. The obvious solution to that is to get good at using Hex and keeping one mob CC'd, or at least I think that's the obvious solution. The other possibility I suppose is that a DK tank with better gear might be able to handle 3 heroic trash mobs without that much difficulty?

Any help or thoughts would be appreciated, thank you.

I've never had to use Hex before (I run DK + 4 ele shaman). The bottom line is, the better gear your tank has, the easier instances will be. You're better off spending everything you can just overgearing your tank before working on your shamans at all. However, if you're interested in a video that shows some trash, my Heroic Culling of Stratholme Timed run video shows the entire 25 minute run. Its in the movie forum under "This thread is a collection of my videos" - however, my web host is down right now so they probably won't be accessible again until tomorrow.

Aside from that, As a DK your cooldowns are almost available every single pull, so going into a tough pull just make sure to use bone shield first, and then use icebound fortitude shortly after pulling. At this point for me, if I use Bone shield + IBF on my DK, I can actually take down a pack of 4 heroic mobs without even healing my tank at all.