Youre already geared for Naxx
undergeared DPS and no one bats an eye
healer or tank undergeared and everyone loses their mind
see also: dps can’t cc gogogo
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I hit 80 tonight on my holy paladin and immediately jumped into a heroic with my leveling gear. It was easy!
Granted the tank may have been a bit more geared, but it was pretty easy. Didn’t have to drink a single time.
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No, you can do them in greens.
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As a prot warrior I had to hit the defense cap of 540 before I even stepped foot into a heroic as the tank. Sounds like dps have it significantly easier
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Weird Asmon was running heroics as the main tank and he’s not defense capped. I guess you are just a lesser player than him.
Defense cap is not required.
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You don’t, they’re easier than TBC normals…
Thanks everyone, I had a heroic world tour and I found them quite easy compared to the likes of H Blood Furnace in TBC
most regular packs are easy even for naked tank
and most mobs that can actually kill tank - can’t be cc’d
We’re in this state of the game already, cc in pve is dead beyond interrupts and rare special mechanics in raids
People still need heroics?
Old outdated content.
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No. Heroics in TBC phase 1 were brutal AF. The trash mobs could hit a fully Kara/Gruul/Mag geared tank harder than most 25-man raid bosses.
Now you can do heroics and as long as you pay attention somewhat and “don’t stand in the poop” you will be fine
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Tanks for heroics should have as close as they can to 535 defense. That makes them uncrittable.
Other than that it should be relatively easy unless a lot of people werent going for hit or hit/expertise and not doing mechanics. There arent many mechanics, and they arent hard.
Yeah I still remember back in TBC phase 1, the pally tank in my heroic blood furnace group got 2 shot by the felguard. It was damn brutal. Heroics in wrath on the other hand is really quite easy
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Blood furnace was 200% BS… the Orcs from the second boss room hit every 0.5 seconds for 1-2k damage each, couldn’t be slowed, stunned, MCd, or Sheeped if they enraged (randomly) and every door added more to each pack… making your BIS geared Tank take 4 times his total HP in damage in 1 second even with maximum mitigation if they ever got close to him… the only time I ever did it in phase 1 was with 4 warriors that alternated shield wall for each door and a paladin healer (me) keeping salv on everyone, and still having to spam max rank Holy light into a Shield wall warrior while rotating buffs accordingly as they rotated to the shield wall tank.
Idk if it was bugged early on… but there was only a hand full of groups on the server that could get past that room in phase 1. We tried frost mage strat, hunter kite strat…. Nothing slowed them. Then randomly one day we go back a month later and VERY specific slows somehow work on them. Primarily Improved Blizzard and Frost Trap slow and I’m pretty sure nothing else worked ever after that.
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In reality, probably not. Wrath dungeons and heroics have always been very easy. It certainly helps though to be at least partially geared in some of the regular dungeon stuff.
If you know what stats you need and were focusing on collecting them from the quest rewards while leveling up you shouldn’t have any issue just walking straight into them soon as you ding.
Depends on your definition of “geared”. You could probably do them in end-game level 70 gear, but if you want to make it super easy just have full level 78+ Wrath blues which can be acquired quite easily for normal mode dungeons, crafting and quests.
The second boss gauntlet event was unforgiving and good luck to the groups without any CC. I believe they can be polymorphed and there were alot of demand for mages to run heroic BF and shattered halls. So far the current wrath content ain’t nothing compared to those 2 heroic dungeons which are quite well known for countless wipes and rage disbands lol
You forgot the repeated stuns so the tank can’t do anything while DPS is AOEing and mobs going all over the place. Threat was a great mechanic, too bad they pretty much got rid of it in wotlk
The tank and healer will likely need a little but if gear, but thats easily obtainabke from questing.
If you are lvl 70 and get boosted through dungeons it probably wont work unless they are killing bosses and letting you get gear.
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