Dead Men Walking

Forum Archive 2023 => Classy Questions => World of Warcraft - Dead Men Raiding => dMw Gaming => Gaming Archive => Tanking => Topic started by: Twyst on August 23, 2011, 11:12:15 PM

Title: Grounded Plasma Shield
Post by: Twyst on August 23, 2011, 11:12:15 PM
So the 3 tanks in RGT are also engineers. 2 of which use Grounded Plasma Shield on their belt.
Engineer belt tinkers have a chance of going wrong.

Backfires include
* Plasma Misfire / Painful Shock (taunts everything)
* Magnetized! (basically a stun)
* Reverse Shield (100% chance for things to critically strike you)

So the question is .... how often do you use it and how often does it backfire wiping the raid?

I use the nitro boost simple because I can AMS the debuff away, so the only side effect is that I get no boost.
I don't know, and neither does wowhead, if I can AMS away any of the above debuffs mainly because you always get the shield even if it backfires.
Title: Grounded Plasma Shield
Post by: Whitey on August 24, 2011, 03:37:09 PM
I use the shield a lot and have never noticed a backfire.
Title: Grounded Plasma Shield
Post by: Twyst on August 24, 2011, 04:18:59 PM
I went over all the raid logs this month. Use use it on average 4 times a night and have had 1 backfire, plasma misfire which is an aoe taunt. In FL with our solo tank bosses this is hardly critical. Hal hardly uses his (but to be fair he doesn't raid as much) and didn't have a backfire.

I'll change to it and see how we go!
Title: Grounded Plasma Shield
Post by: Michelanio on August 24, 2011, 09:35:33 PM
I try to use it more and more but since my memory is as it is I normaly forget :P
Title: Grounded Plasma Shield
Post by: Slush on August 25, 2011, 06:49:12 AM
Atleast you would remember to hit the gong on Atramades at 1%, mate.
Lol, Puja... You reminded us of this so many times its totally stuck! :-)

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