Hello everyone, long time reader, first time poster here. I felt like I needed some help for my raid group since I have been spoting some issues with our raid group.
Yesterday night, while we had a good group progress with downing 2 bosses in a row we have been having trouble with, namely Horridon 10N and Council 10N. While I am aware we are not entirely composed of strong players, I have spotted an issue thanks to logging our raid for the first time
There has been an issue where our paladin tank would take huge damage spikes and this has been partly an ongoing issue, we had him dying at random times to stuff. I recall him dying to Empress p2 (When adds spawn), and this has been happening in Horridon when he is tanking Jalak and he would suddenly die from 65%+ (Melee + Bestial cry). Yesterday, we swtiched tanking roles and have our Guardian druid tanking Jalak which magically solved our problems. I believe our paladin tank is overally a good player. Here are my questions:
Q1) The issue is that the paladin takes enormous damage from Jalak's melee. According to the logs, his average damage taken from melee is over 400k+ while I guardian tank took about the half of it. Is this normal?
A similar issue we encountered last week, on Council (This wasnt logged), where he would take Frost King Malakk to help our Guardian (who is tanking both Sul and Malakk) to avoid getting stunned. He would take Malakk and take again absurd amounts of damage. We solved this issue by having our Guardian tank getting stunned. He was still easier to heal than our pala tank.
Q2) Then I started questioning and found out that our Guardian tank has almost the double amount of armor than our paladin tank, 107k armor vs 57k armor. This roughly translates to 40% less damage taken, which partly explains the problem. Is this amount of armor difference normal? If yes, how is it possible that paladins are considered the best survival tank considered nowadays? I honestly cannot comprehend this.
Q3) Our range dps (2x hunter + Mage) is kind of having low dps on Council 10N, random tips on how they can improve is appreciated. Is this expected since they are target swapping most of the time? For instance, I realized our mage was using frost bomb, would nether tempest be better for this fight?
Q4) I would appreciate some tips, how can I perform better. I realize I am not using Ironbark as much as I should and am trying to improve on it.
Miscellaneous information:
Raid composition:
Tanks:
Uff - Paladin Tank
Ukemi - Druid Tank
Healers:
Hayvanadamn - Resto druid
Pugno - Disc priest
Aweli - Disc priest
DPS:
Têquila - Frost DK
Silentshade - Assasination Rogue
Embalmic - Surv hunter
Shêytan - Surv hunter
Frostcore - Frost mage
Log:
22.04.2013 - www worldoflogs.com/reports/goecs1ss8zmyv9xc/
Armories:
Hayvanadamn - www eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/twisting-nether/Hayvanadamn/simple
Our guild - www eu.battle.net/wow/en/guild/twisting-nether/Anguista/roster
P.S: If anyone can get the links operating, I would be grateful.