tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305372753022597815.post8053518371613035232..comments2023-05-06T01:46:51.326-07:00Comments on Bright Cape Gamer: What a recruit should doSkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10723733406348223879noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305372753022597815.post-44293700498761010962011-04-23T00:24:30.820-07:002011-04-23T00:24:30.820-07:00It may be different on 25 than on 10, but when we ...It may be different on 25 than on 10, but when we were first working on the fight I went over all the incoming damage and while the whelps attack slower they hit for 1/6th of a drake and not 1/8th of a drake. (5k for whelps, 30k for drakes) It worked out that each of the released 'mobs' did about the same amount of damage to the tank. <br /><br />We also used a DK tank on the adds for what it's worth.Ziggynyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07518980519046202646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305372753022597815.post-70251143830352774302011-04-22T14:16:09.919-07:002011-04-22T14:16:09.919-07:00The whelps aren't susceptible to stuns. It wou...The whelps aren't susceptible to stuns. It would be awesome if they were, but probably even more unfair to DK and druid tanks than add tanking already is this tier. :)<br /><br />They do, however, have a slower attack speed than the drakes. There are 8 whelps and while each of them does hit about 1/8th as hard as a drake (drake average hit against my warrior's armor is ~64k, whelp average hit is ~8k), they have an attack speed somewhere in the neighborhood of 2.2s post-debuff, compared to the 1.8s drake attack speed.<br /><br />That's why the two-drake tank takes more damage.<br /><br />There's probably also a 'spikiness' issue as well - it takes two unblocked attacks from drakes for a two-drake tank to take 120k damage (and a huge dip in health) in less than a second. It takes 9 unblocked attacks for that same amount of damage in that same window to happen to a drake+whelp tank.<br /><br />The whelps deal less damage overall *and* it's less spikey, by virtue of being in smaller packets.<br /><br />My point on Wednesday's raid, although I didn't have time to get into it then, was not that block was better against small attacks - obviously it's not. It was that if you had used a druid tank against whelps, that might explain why you think they deal similar damage to a drake (since the whelps basically represent Savage Defense's worst-case-scenario for this tier of content.) I think it's pretty clear from comparing their average damage and attack speed to a drake's that they simply don't (assuming a blocking tank).Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11315306030222952020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305372753022597815.post-26634357166713825822011-04-22T14:00:31.414-07:002011-04-22T14:00:31.414-07:00The whelps might be susceptible to stuns as well. ...The whelps might be susceptible to stuns as well. Shockwave is pretty powerful and has a relatively low cooldown.sirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01460051027344432734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305372753022597815.post-75466928864181548892011-04-21T18:36:25.710-07:002011-04-21T18:36:25.710-07:00I think you're being hasty here... you haven&#...I think you're being hasty here... you haven't explored reasons why the two drake tank takes more damage. Could it not be that because the damage is slower, it gets mitigated more by offheals not overhealing?lebkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15801643178826625203noreply@blogger.com