Okies...on the Enrage...
ALL PERSONS attacking the mob, it doesn't matter from which direction, should turn OFF attack as soon as the mob enrages. If you watch carefully, if there are pets in the group or raid, ALOT of times you will see pets smacked down BAD by the mobs when they do Enrage. MOST of the time, IF your MT is good enough, only the MT should turn off attack. The MT should still be taunting continually and it has been my experience that when I mob Big Vae is engaged with enrages, most of the time pets are the only ones that die.
HOWEVER comma, it is just plain GOOD sense to turn off attack EVERYTIME a mob enrages...there is NO feeling like being in tells or trying to watch what someone is saying in guild, not paying attention to the mob too much, at 100% health cus the Cleric just CH'd you and your back to your 8k buffed full health, when all of a sudden you glance up at your health bar and it is almost gone in the space of about 4 secs as the mob you were fighting Enraged and you missed turning off your attack.
Hope that answers any questions...if not, just lemme know and I can try to clarify anything.
And I agree with Dure that Root has NO place in a Raid unless for some unknown reason you have no chanters/bards to mez adds. Then by all means, ONE person should be designated at the start to Root any adds. But on the other hand, I have also found it VERY handy to just let the pet classes know in advance that if there is an add, then pets can offtank the add and all others assist the MT.
As for the MTt calling Assist...I have mixed feelings about this myself. At one time, I noticed that alot of Tanks would call for assist. I myself have NEVER done this and never will. I have grouped with enough of you on raids and in groups that I trust each and everyone of you to KNOW when you should attack. I know that once I engage a mob, all I need to do is to click a hotkey and call for an assist, but to me, IMHO, me calling for an assist is like saying "Okay...it is safe to attack now" and that feels to me like I am telling you how to play your character. ALL OF YOU know your characters better than I do. We have ALL fought in groups and in raids together and you KNOW what your spells will and will not do. I Don't. I trust in my casters' judgement to know when they should start casting their spells. If they get sloppy and are casting them too soon and dragging agro OFF me, so be it...if they get beat up some or alot and the Cleric has to keep healing them all the time instead of me, maybe they will learn.
When you boil it all down, we all learn things everyday. I always try and tell myself that if I don't learn something new everyday, then my day was a waste. When you are grouping with Guildies is the BEST time to try new things. Hey! If everyone dies, so what? Your with friends and you just learned it 'can't be done that way, so let's try it another'. How else are you going to find out what can or cannot be done?
Finally, whether your in a group or a raid, there is only ONE key to success...TEAMWORK. If everyone is working together, then almost ANYTHING can be overcome
Look at that night in the Hole for Wilywu's Epic. There were 11 of us on that Raid, when we got popped on BAD. People died, but the 5 that were left standing kept their heads aobut them, kept the Cleric alive and avoided a big time bad CR. Do what you FEEL is the right thing to do if things go bad. If it works, cool. If it didn't, chalk it up as a learning experience and try something different the next time.
I have probably rambled on enough, but there are just some things that I feel strongly about and have vented on a couple of them
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A few points about strategy I'd like to make. These are a matter of my own opinion and meant to open discussion btw; First, the general rule on raids should be No ROOT. These mobs aren't that difficult so it wasn't really an issue but the idea behind having an MT is there is ONLY one person to heal. If a mob gets rooted all the sudden you have to heal every melee there. Second, we encountered our first Enraging mobs. Now, I'm new to playing a melee myself so would like some feedback here but I think the idea is, when a mob enrages two things should happen; hopefully all melee but the MT is behind or to the sides of the mob, second that you turn attack off. The riposte damage you take during enrage is HUGE. Again, I could be wrong or missing some detail on this so someone please post on Enrage. Lastly, I think it's a good habit to get into of having the MT call for assist when he feels he has sufficient aggro and I think we did a great job there. Thanks to Sengin btw for fullfing the role of MT. Nice raid Drex, I'm looking forward to more of these DH hunts.
