Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent.

[Titania40]

Not outside of PotD, probably my least favorite melee, so all I'm really familiar with is their AoE skills vs single target skills. Few classes I've played at length rely on or benefit from weaving in single target skills during large trash packs, thus my response - but hey, if Monk is one of the outliers that benefit from doing so, go for it!

Think it was more the comment of "spamming the same button over and over again is boring" that made me assume it was a case of rotating single target attacks through enemies on the list or focusing on one, rather than just hitting all of them with AoE.


Also yes, I feel like that was honestly one of the worst tanks I've had the displeasure to play with. And boy have I met a lot of crappy tanks. Only thing that would have made this one worse was if he actually had the same toxic primadonna attitude that those types at higher level have. >>

Unless you plan to just spam Arms of Destruction whenever it's off cooldown, you need to weave in single target attacks. Boot Shine Combo and Arms of Destruction put you in Raptor form, which is required to use True Strike or Twin Snakes. True Strike and Twin Snakes puts you in coeurl form, which is required to use Snap Shot, Demolish, or Rockbreaker. Using one of those three (or waiting too long) puts you back in your default form, thus limiting you to Boot Shine Combo or Arms of Destruction once more. You have 2 aoe, and one of them requires using a single target to be able to access.

Different attacks have different damage ratings. Snap Shot is stronger then Demolish or Rockbreaker, but Demolish applies an 18 second duration DoT and Rockbreaker is an aoe. True Strike hits harder then Twin Snakes, but Twin Snakes gives you a 10% damage buff for 15 seconds. And of course they all do bonus damage if you attack from a specific position. It wont be until level 45 that I can have an all aoe rotation setup, but even then weaving in single target attacks would boost my damage.

EDIT: Hell, if the dungeon syncs you below level 25 (I think) then you don't even have an aoe because Arms of Destruction was the level 25 class quest unlock..