Hiya,

I saw a [comment] at Flash of Moonfire you wrote saying:
“I now never get adds, because I have figured out how to get just 1 stack up on the boss, and he almost always dies before the stacks drop at all”
Can you elaborate?

I hate this fight and with the pug finder it makes me feel helpless when healing or dps’ing

When I received this email I had, funnily enough, just alt-tabbed out of game while the group I was running Heroic BRC with was taking a quick afk, having just completed this fight. And not only that, but we had just gotten the achievement to boot.

Personally, I think the continuous stacking method of tanking Karsh is the optimal way to do it, if only to remove the adds portion of the fight completely. This of course depends entirely on if your healer can handle it. I checked with my healer, a Holy Pally, first to make sure he was comfortable with the amount of damage I’d be taking from each stack of Karsh’s Superheated Quicksilver Armor buff.

At 15000 extra fire damage per melee hit once at 15 stacks, there was a lot of extra damage. Of course, Karsh was also taking a lot more extra damage, so the candle was being burnt at both ends.

Anyway, I made sure to put up Resistance Aura to start, and then carefully tanking him next to a pillar. When the time came to dip him in (either at the start of the fight or about 3-4 seconds before his stacks dropped off), I clipped the pillar with him and applied another stack. Don’t drag the boss straight through the pillar, or he’ll take about three stacks of his buff and splash a ton of damage onto the raid.

The trick is getting comfortable with the timing needed to quickly weave him through the pillar and knowing when a stack is applied, even though the effect seems to lag and not stick immediately to him.

It is very doable, just requires a little fancy footwork.

Also, having answered this question I now realize the letter was referring to a comment Anafielle posted at FoM. Anaaaaaaaa!!

Thanks to everyone out there that heeded the call to flaunt their best Shield of the Righteous crits from Festergut. I have below all the screenshots I received ordered from lowest to highest (for dramatic effect, natch). In two months don’t forget to look back and think of how great it was when ShoR didn’t have lowered AP scaling, and the sky was the limit of what we could achieve.

Gathorc of Eitrigg-US — 77,142

Palatinus — 79,991

Chuckf — 81,665

Cors of The Scryers-US — 83,578

Joachim of Moonguard-US — 89,474

Festenia — 95,600

Asur of Dark Iron-US — 96,754

Guisado — 100,337

Smashnheal of Grizzly Hills-US — 104,400

Siegfred — 106,222

Numee of Malygos-EU — 114,100 (!!!)

Thank you everyone who sent in their screenshots. Those are some incredible numbers!

Something I’ve never really done–post an email–but this was a really good question I received a little while ago, and I thought it be worth sharing (especially on such a slow news day!) for any other prospective tanks that might be lurking.

I have been reading your blog for awhile now and it pushed me into making my first tank, thank you by the way! I’ve played the last 4 years as a healer and dps, but I’m really starting to enjoy paladin tanking. I was hoping you could tell me how I know what mob to select if i see someone grabbed aggro. One target is easy enough, but what happens if you are all grouped up on 10 different things, and suddenly someone is taking damage, how do go about selecting the correct mob to start whacking/taunting. My char is only 43 at the moment, but i really want to start hammering in the correct concepts sooner rather than later. Are there certain mods I must have, i.e. if you saw someone without them you would laugh at them?

Respectfully,
The Eager Student

Hi TES,

Do you play with Name Plates turned on? If not, I definitely recommend doing that (it’s in the interface options). Then get two addons:

• Tidy Plates
• Tidy Plates: Threat Plates

With both installed and name plates on, the names above each mob’s head will turn green and small when you have control over them, and then red and large when you’re losing aggro. Easiest way to keep tabs on all the mobs for sure!

Happy tanking!

- Rhidach