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07-20-2010, 04:11 PM
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Every Tuesday, Shifting Perspectives (http://www.wow.com/category/shifting-perspectives/) explores issues affecting feral/restoration druids and those who group with them.
For a long time, I've been kicking an article around on the art of the 5-man pull. Knowing how and when to pull is arguably the foundation of a smooth dungeon run, and it's certainly among the first skills that any tank needs to develop. While a not-insignificant portion of one's ability to pull cleanly only arrives courtesy of experience with a wide variety of players, there are a few rules that approach universal status. Moreover, I expect them to be equally useful when I hit the new Cataclysm dungeons and have to figure out how to tank for a group safely in a new environment with new mobs.
The more I wrote on pulling, the more I realized that the subject can be divided into two very distinct categories: what happens before you pull, and what happens while you're pulling. This week's column addresses the former. Everything I am about to tell you in this column is something that you, as an experienced tank, will eventually do in the space of a second without even realizing you're doing it.Continue reading Shifting Perspectives: Pulling 101: Assessing the group (http://www.wow.com/2010/07/20/shifting-perspectives-pulling-101-assessing-the-group/)
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Shifting Perspectives: Pulling 101: Assessing the group (http://www.wow.com/2010/07/20/shifting-perspectives-pulling-101-assessing-the-group/) originally appeared on WoW.com (http://www.wow.com) on Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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Every Tuesday, Shifting Perspectives (http://www.wow.com/category/shifting-perspectives/) explores issues affecting feral/restoration druids and those who group with them.
For a long time, I've been kicking an article around on the art of the 5-man pull. Knowing how and when to pull is arguably the foundation of a smooth dungeon run, and it's certainly among the first skills that any tank needs to develop. While a not-insignificant portion of one's ability to pull cleanly only arrives courtesy of experience with a wide variety of players, there are a few rules that approach universal status. Moreover, I expect them to be equally useful when I hit the new Cataclysm dungeons and have to figure out how to tank for a group safely in a new environment with new mobs.
The more I wrote on pulling, the more I realized that the subject can be divided into two very distinct categories: what happens before you pull, and what happens while you're pulling. This week's column addresses the former. Everything I am about to tell you in this column is something that you, as an experienced tank, will eventually do in the space of a second without even realizing you're doing it.Continue reading Shifting Perspectives: Pulling 101: Assessing the group (http://www.wow.com/2010/07/20/shifting-perspectives-pulling-101-assessing-the-group/)
Filed under: Druid (http://www.wow.com/category/druid/), (Druid) Shifting Perspectives (http://www.wow.com/category/shifting-perspectives/)
Shifting Perspectives: Pulling 101: Assessing the group (http://www.wow.com/2010/07/20/shifting-perspectives-pulling-101-assessing-the-group/) originally appeared on WoW.com (http://www.wow.com) on Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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