I like to pride myself on my stupid luck sometimes, and last night was another sterling example of lady lucky shining her gilded, drooling countenance upon me. We were on Chimaeron and had a bit of a rough start. At least five people dead going in phase 2, terrible timing putting a massacre right near the start of phase 2, and down a healer for most of the fight to boot. I was pretty confident we were going to wipe but we continued on nonetheless. Phase 2 begins and I immediately tell the other tank, Ronada, I’m bubbling and high-tail my cowardly behind out of there.
Positioned on the other side of the room, Chimmy soon makes quick work out of poor Ronada and heads right for me. My first instinct is to start popping cooldowns like it’s going out of style. The next minute turns into something of a blur as I somehow continued to live. After nearly a minute I finally keel over, Chimaeron at somewhere around 5% health. We finish him off as people are questioning how the hell I just did what I did.
Honestly, I had no clue outside of suspecting a healthy dose of fortune. Hitting up the logs this morning I checked out the 51 seconds I spent tanking Chimaeron in phase 2 and saw the following:
So basically, I parried an attack. Ate the second, dropping me down to 1 hp. Parried the next attack. Full absorbed the two attacks (a double strike) after that. Next attack missed. Followed by another absorb, then two more dodges. In that time span I got healed enough to put me over 10k hp and thus able to eat another hit. And so I did, knocking me back to 1 hp. Then I parried the next attack, but couldn’t avoid the one after that. At only 119 hp I bit the dust.
I think this qualifies for now as my most impressive avoidance streak.
Now THAT is awesome.
Pardon my lack of understanding of the ways of the prot pally, but how did you fully absorb 190k?
If I had to guess, I’d say Guardian of the Ancient Kings plus disc bubbles.
GS or AD, probably.
Those are the only absorb effects that big that I can think of.
Nah, Rhi’s hair took the full brunt of it. It was so out of place when this fight was over.
Rida, what combatlog addon do you use to get it nicely formatted like that.
That’s just a screenshot of a parse from World of Logs, nothing in game, sorry.
…Damn… I’m jealous. I had to dps that for the first time last night.
ya we had a druid tank that tanked him in ph2 for quite awhile, got 6 lucky dodges and healers kept him back at 10k then got another dodge n survival instincts… it was a wtf did that just happen moment but congrats rhi.
Same thing happened to us the other day. We had a kitty shift to bear once the tanks bit it, and had a massive streak of dodges. I do love mah kittys.