Yes, you read that right, a Hunter pet has main tanked Sapphiron. My apologies to the other feats in the queue. You guys have always impressed me every time you pushed the envelope, whether it be main tanking bosses, or soloing dungeons. Congratulations are in order.
Who: Durante of Hydraxis (80)
Pet: Bubbles (80 Gorilla)
Group: Snuggles Raid
Details: Bubbles the gorilla tanked Sapphiron 25 tonight with the aid of my guild Snuggles. The raid had five healers: two holy priests, one discipline priest, one holy pally and one resto shaman. I used a 48/0/23 build to give Bubbles as much HP as possible and getting Hunter vs. Wild, theory being that the extra threat from the AP from that much stamina would help with threat more than the last few points in BM. With full raid buffs Bubbles was over 37k HP.
Threat was pretty restrictive for most of the fight, but Bubbles averaged 2.5k tps or so for the fight, and between being able to stay in during air phases and rotating MD’s threat wasn’t a big issue by the end of the fight.
Its absolutely critical that a pet tank be completely capped off at all times. Our first attemped ended when Bubbles took a 27k crit while at half health. Hypothetically back to back hits without a heal in between could be fatal.
A great thanks for Snuggles for letting me try this, for hanging in for a third attempt, and the best healers around.
Very impressive!
By: Gravity on March 13, 2009
at 12:13 pm
Enough to bring tears to a HunterTonk’s eyes. I posted this video and blogspot to my guild’s forum, with the title: ‘Why Kura Wants A Tanking Spec/Suit’.
Who knows? Maybe it’ll convince them to let me try it once. Maybe. Just maybe. Maybe.
…. probably not, but a guy can dream!
By: Kurasu on March 13, 2009
at 1:03 pm
No “of Stamina” gear. I figured the small amount of extra stamina you’d get vs. gladiator gear wouldn’t be worth the huge lost of AP for threat. I’m no longer in my tanking spec but I’ve been logging out in my tanking gear so people can take a look.
A few of my pieces aren’t quite optimized for tanking in terms of gems and enchants since the pvp gear is also used for arenas.
By: Durante on March 13, 2009
at 1:15 pm
I tagged you in my blog!
By: Guntitan on March 13, 2009
at 6:23 pm
Ihlos, your threaded thing works weird. No indication on what’s a reply to what.
And is it just me, or has the comments a weird reverse order in here except for the replies between you and me?
By: nordhbane on March 14, 2009
at 2:52 am
Impressive indeed… i see the theory behind the hunter vs wild… but what tallents in paticular at the high end in bm did you go for ? (currently working on a similar build and pleased to see it working ^^)
as i see it its going to be ferocious inspiration vs kindred spirits…
any feedback would be greatly apreciated ^^
By: rhonins on March 15, 2009
at 4:59 am
Here is the build I used. http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=cVbh0xgRwzhekhZe00i0bI Note the two points in Survival Tactics are basically wasted, there’s really nothing useful you can do with them so feel free to put them wherever.
When choosing talents, my general rule of thumb is increase survivability first, then increase my own threat per second the most per talent point.
By: Durante on March 15, 2009
at 10:24 am
Congratz on this durante.
I am thinking the 48/0/23 spec is the best tanking spec right now but haven’t really finished forming my opinion on how the new talent will affect this.
darn i missed looking at your gear set up. Oh well.
By: Zwicky on March 16, 2009
at 6:33 am
I put it back on, hopefully the armory updates soon.
By: Durante on March 16, 2009
at 7:49 am
Ive turned off the threading comments, as it was messing up the order of comments. I think its a little buggy, as it is a new feature. If they post something about this feature being fixed ill consider putting it back up.
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at 10:32 am
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at 11:01 pm
*blink*
This, my friends, is awesome.
By: Rilgon Arcsinh on April 15, 2009
at 11:46 pm
Nicely done! Very cool!
You need to dump the M&S blizzard-standers, though…
By: Lance on April 24, 2009
at 9:51 am
Hey guys, I just wanted to call your attention to a new feature that has become available to me. Comments can now be threaded up to 10 levels. To take advantage of this, click the ‘reply’ link in the lower left corner of this comment, instead of ‘leaving a response’ in the box below.
By: ihlos on March 13, 2009
at 9:06 am
You should also add “Last comments” on the side to make it easier to see if there’s new replies, especially to old blogposts. =)
Durante, I covered this myself at http://nordhbane.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/bubbles-owns-sapphiron/
Really well done. It would be nice to see what gear you used for it. Any mail “…of stamina”, or just epics with lots of stamina on them?
By: nordhbane on March 13, 2009
at 10:18 am
he had, at least earlier today, all his stam set on his armory
By: ihlos on March 13, 2009
at 12:58 pm