Comments on: Off-Tanking Naxx

By: WilderLOURDES21

WilderLOURDES21 — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:29:50 +0000

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By: shingosun

shingosun — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:41:55 +0000

It’s me again. I translated your another article about 10 TOC. BTW, the video was amazing, too.
Now you have more funs in china, Would please E-mail a recent photo to me:shingosun@sohu.com.cn ?
I am making a pet tanking Q&A. There will be more hunter know pet tanks and you. Hopefully hunter tanks will become more.

By: Arthemystia

Arthemystia — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:57:50 +0000

Ha, I’m glad to hear that you were able to download the videos. I doubt tanking will be deliberately nerfed by Blizzard, only because there’s very, very few hunter tanks out there. There would need to be a lot of us before they’d notice us. But I’ll visit the page at some point and check it out. And thanks for the well wishes, and continued good luck with your tanking!

By: shingosun

shingosun — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:28:09 +0000

Good news here.My friend has downloud your vedios from youtube and add them to my traslation.You can visit this page to find it :
http://wow.178.com/201003/63756236187.html
A lot of of watchers joke about this will make BLZ nerf our tank ability, which means what you have done is really impressive.
Go! Hero of pet tanks!

By: shingosun

shingosun — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 05:31:27 +0000

Thanks for replying me. I could feel another pet tank‘s heartbeat on the other side of our earth.
Actually, our 3.13 TBC is a worse condition for pet tank because the pets do not have resistent, although we have similar talent and almost the best gears(we have farmed SW an BT so many times, think about that).
But we can also be group tank in certain fights like phase 2 of Illidan Stormrage and Grand Warlock Alythess, because our pets are so good in area damage mitigation.
It seems that you and I are so similar in many ways, just because we are both pet tanks. I love making fun of my MT too, I am happy when I can replace his job and sad when I want to but I can’t.
I am so proud of being a tank and I am honoured to know you.Will you be intersted in my pet tank experience in sunwell?If you are,I will cry using my poor English to describe it to you.

By: Arthemystia

Arthemystia — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:16:19 +0000

Interesting question. Sorry to disappoint, but the current youtube videos are about all I’m going to be able to do. Due to hard drive space, I’ve actually deleted most of them, meaning that I couldn’t upload them anywhere else even if I had the means to do so.

The good news, however, is that the videos aren’t needed. They’re fun to watch, but won’t teach you anything that isn’t already contained in the guides.

The other thing in your post that caught my attention was the lvl 70 comment. Obviously these guides are intended for level 80, but many of the same strategies can no doubt be used at any level.

By: shingosun

shingosun — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:22:32 +0000

Hello! I am a hunter player from china.In china only TBC 3.13 can be played and our levels are limited by 70.But I am doing my best in pet tanking.I love it and so are your articles.Here is the question: I have tramslated your article into chinese to let my friends know that what pet tank really can do, but we can not see your videos in this article.Do you have skype or something like that?My E-Mail is shingosun@sohu.com.cn
My Engish is not good, but I will do my best. Good luck!

By: Arthemystia

Arthemystia — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:09:27 +0000

Cool! Sounds like you did a good job thinking on the fly to save a wipe. The back does indeed need tanked, but they thankfully don’t do the kind of damage that would warrant a full-on tank spec, either from a hunter or other classes (it helps though). With a couple heal pieces, I’ve even heard of hunters solo-tanking the back without a healer. It might be possible with some t5, for example, though I don’t have the gear to be able to test that theory.

Thanks for the story, though. I haven’t gotten my tanking to the Horsemen yet, but I hope to eventually.

By: Oyless

Oyless — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:58:27 +0000

Arth, not sure if you ever got the chance to try out the Horseman but I’ve had an interesting time tanking the back before. It started off with a druid tank (who was a DPSer at the time) and myself in the back with a Holy Priest. I was on Lady Blowme and he was on the other guy (never remember his name), anyway, for some unknown reason the Druid died. The rest of the raid was going well. The leader saw the Druid die and immediatly said to wipe it, I jumped in vent and said “No, keep going, i’ll tank both.” I was sweating, I didn’t know what I was saying but sent my pet to what’s his face. After I got to 2 stacks from Blowme I started to run to the other guy, JS Blowme once before sending my pet to her. Used DS on the guy and commenced getting his attention. Every 2 stacks I did this until the raid got to me. My pet finally died from Blowme and the MT got to my target. I switched on Cheetah and got off a DS before she could AOE the raid. We were able to one shot the Horseman. Needless to say I was exstatic. I’m sure there is a better way of doing that but for not knowing that a Hunter can be an OT in Naxx and for just starting to tank out of the blue to keep the raid going….IT WAS AWESOME!!!

By: Arthemystia

Arthemystia — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:24:02 +0000

Heh. Yeah. A MT being 3rd in dps on a successful 10M might actually be a more rare achievement than tanking it. I think I managed 3rd overall for the night as well, but didn’t save the meter. An added benefit of our class is our dps even in our tanking build. I don’t want to overstate our usefulness, but it may have actually saved us some time on bosses to have a hunter as a tank instead of a “normal” class, especially since the group didn’t have epic dps.