Heroic AN

It is my opinion, the very first boss area is the hardest in the whole instance, with one note.


If you do not have anyone in the group that is a shaman, druid or pally, I wouldn't do it, due to the poison. It hits hard, its nasty and its completely random. If there is a shaman in your group make sure he drops the totem, if a priest is healing you, and have a pally or druid doing dps, they have to understand the poison is there responsibility, if not, you will most likely fail.

However, the first stuff sucks, What I do is pull with FFF(feral faire fire), remember to kill the smaller guys first, the caster I would use FFF on, kill the small guys and try to position it so that you are facing towards your group, your butt near the caster for swipe. Swipe is essential here. If you are in lower gear, use EVERY cool down you can. The packs with the caster hit hard, and it can be no fun at all. During the first boss, critters run out everywhere, Swipe should grab them, if not, instruct your healer to move to you quickly drop your aoe taunt, swipe and pray. Remember the AOE taunt has a 15 yard radius, timing is impeccable.

Next boss is so easy, until someone says , hey can we get the achievement. Then begin to cry yourself to sleep in a pool of your own blood. Ok, its not that bad. Number 1, Sacrifice someone in the group, after you pull a few of mob groups and the boss comes out fighting the 20 mobs, have someone go down there and die. Just down the hill and die, not you or the healer.(hunter would be great at this). DO NOT FOLLOW. After this you are going to stand there, and be like well what now, as your standing there hopefully, you will see this web fly at you, and pull you towards the boss. If it is not you, you need to get in there and get the mobs off of whoever got webbed to the boss, very quickly, very very quickly. The healer will follow you, after you have been pulled. At this point you are tanking about 15 mobs more or less. Make sure to use your cool downs here as well, and with a little bit of luck and you freaking out, Everything should be ok(should, no promises, this is on the healer and your gear).

The last boss(poison cleansing for whoever can) of this area can be very competitive, as a tank in this instance, you have to step it up at least for this boss. You need to move every time the ground below you is shaking, if you get blasted up wrong time, can be very bad. The boss also does a move known as pound, for the most part you will dodge or be moving when its coming down. Note he ususally does this move right before he burrows under the ground. Due to druids health, don't worry about it so much if you take one or two, you can eat the damage its pretty big, like 20k or so, but with savage defense up and a little luck it wont be horrible. Main thing is to watch your healers back on the mobs, and don't get overwhelmed with the trash as it comes in, use your innervate during the breaks on the healer when its up if he needs it.

And that my friends is tanking AN, Every trick and tip I know.

Fuzz