Ri
01-02-2005, 04:43 AM
<DIV>For the longest time, I'd been having problems tanking. I couldn't figure out for the life of me why I was having all these problems. I group with a cleric friend of mine (yea I know, not the best combo) and we'd do ok against solo mobs. Anything white ^^ or higher and I was toast though.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Last night, I grouped up with a 21 fury and noticed the agility buffs that she cast. Unbuffed I have 44 agility (21 Bruiser). After her buffs I had 77 and using staggering stance was able to bring it up to 87. The difference was like night and day.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In only a group of 4 (me, the fury, and 2 necros) we were soloing groups of whites ^^s and yellow ^^s, things that whould have just chewed me up and spit me out before. Towards the end of the night everyone was getting ready to leave we were making our way out of FG and her agility buffs died. I didn't notice, pulled a white ^ mob and was dead in 4 hits. Thinking it was just a fluke, was rezed, healed, rebuffed my buffs and wham, dead again. The only difference was that I was missing about 40 pts worth of agility.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I was under the impression that stats didn't matter all that much, but this to me proves that even a small amount can have a big influnce on whether we're a great tank or just mob fodder. I'm also going to see about switching out some of my +str items for +agl items (I've got just over 60 str unbuffed).</DIV>