Riddle me this: Who do you Vigilance?

Posted by WandaKirts on 06 28th, 2009

Categories: Tanking & Cooldown Rotation Tips | no responses

Vigilance has to be the ability I have grown the most to love of those given to us in Wrath of the Lich King. It was so looked down upon at the onset of the expansion, so shunned and yet, it’s turned out to be one of the most multi-functional abilities in our arsenal. There’s a Disney movie in there somewhere albeit probably one that’ll go straight to DVD, but a Disney movie nonetheless.

Riddle Me This

Most of the time, it’s fairly obvious that a DPSer should be Vigilanced or that a Tank should be either for the Threat reduction or for the Damage reduction. Occasionally though, it’s not quite so straight forward which is where things get interesting.

Setting the Stage

You’re doing Gothik the Harvester with 24 of your buddies and you’ve been thrown on the Undead side. You’re stuck with that annoying, blue barred Paladin chap in your guild who’s threat is questionable at best. Your DPS team is a mixed bunch of Warlocks, Mages and Hunters (sorry, no Boomkins or any other non-pure ranged DPSers) along with a few healers that have shown themselves to be quite capable throughout your journey in Naxx25.

The Live side team chatters amongst each other for entirely too long considering we all know they’ve got the easy side and eventually decides they’ve argued enough to be considered prepared. Your crew stacks up in the corner as you and Captain Drink-a-lot position yourselves as far away from the ranged crew as possible. The Raid Leader calls for the pull and…

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Wait!

Who do you Vigilance?

Good luck guys and gals. Give it some thought and once you’ve decided upon an answer feel free to leave a comment justifying your reasoning below.

My Answer: (In white text, highlight it to see it)

A Pet. You want to be able to Taunt stray mobs as much as possible in this wave-style encounter. You can’t Vigilance the Paladin since he needs all the threat he can get which leaves a Warlock or a Hunter’s pet as the natural choice.

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