Pugged Blood Furnace today
I was on Goldsong – dinged 65 before the last boss. Then we had a 61 priest healing, a 64 elemental shammy, a 61 fire mage, and a 61 fury warrior. We got through with no wipes although I think everyone died at some point besides me.
I found it far more difficult to keep aggro here then I did in Ramparts. Even with salvation the fire mage pulled aggro several times and needed a few blessings of protection from me. One time he ice blocked. A couple times he died.
Also making things difficult was the pace – the other 4 guys were going too fast for me. The warrior would mark and then pull unless I was real fast. A couple times he pulled while I was drinking. It didn’t matter too much on the trash but still it made things tougher. On the bosses we went nice and slow.
One of the toughest parts was before the second boss where you get 5 or so waves of 3 each. We decided to do zero crowd control to be efficient and I didn’t know which direction the next group would come from. Plus I should have been further from the rest of the group then I was.
During that stretch they told me to use consecration earlier. One thing I need to do better is keep consecration and holy shield up while still judging as often as possible. When I feel rushed like I did with those waves I forget to press buttons sometimes… Of course they could have just held off on the dps slightly longer…
I also had trouble on that boss with aggro because he ran into everyone else first (the other guys were closer to him when he came out of his little room). Plus he was kind of floating so I got several “you are facing the wrong way” messages.
Nothing dropped for me, a couple of mail items and a healing trinket did. I wanted the healing trinket for my healing set but the mage said he needed it for his main set – it had like 20 spell damage…
Tags: blood furnace, Goldsong, pugs, tanking