Sometimes it happens. You don’t mean it to, but it does. You feel truly sorry for the pain inflicted and the mayhem caused. But what can one do? You get “mind controlled” and BAM, you’ve gone bad! It’s not your fault either! Some mean, ill-mannered and villainous npc casts some sort of spell that takes all the control you have as a player away from your beloved toon and turns them against your fellow party members and companions! It happened to me the other night when a few of my guilds and friends went to old school Blackwing Lair.
We were trying to help Kateyes tame Chromaggus, but instead I was the one who got tamed! That big, meanie used his ability to control me, even though I was trying desperately to throw sand upon myself! Well, for all the times and instances I had no problem with sanding myself so to speak, this time the gigantious bossious woofious was able to mind control me and used me to take out my friends! Talk about rude! Then, to add insult to injury he wouldn’t let me get away after I was free from the mind control. I went running down the hallway, calling out over vent to “tame him tame him tame tame him”, yet poor Kateyes at that point after running back from the graveyard and entering the instance forgot to dismiss her pet. You can imagine what transpired next. I was yet again charmed yet again by Chromaggus. Sigh! (Actually, it was pretty humorous if I can say so, shhhh)
For those who might not be aware, when a player is unable to dispel the Bronze Brrood Affliction and thus are mind controlled, one actually transforms into a big, scary, sword spinning Drakanoid! Quite a sight to see I have to say! At one point I made my escape away from the gigantious bossious woofious, only to be once more changed back into a Drakaniod. Only this time, I kept moving back and forth attacking the wall! I guess Drakaniods are not the smartest smartest dragons in the dungeon!
After a few more attempts, Kateyes was able to successfully tame Chromaggus without me being mind controlled and wreaking havoc while running into walls twirling my sword deftly! I must say, that as a hunters pet, that big meanie make for a very cool pet indeed! I won’t tell you she named him. that is for another day!
This is kind of an odd side question: What is the maimxum DPS rotation? I’ve just been thinking about this as I level as Blood and am not in dire need of the healing from Death Striking. I was guessing it’s the same as the old Blood DPS rotation, using Death Runes for Heart Strike rather than Death Strike (and eyeballing it it seemed like 2x Heart Strikes > 1 Death Strike in terms of raw damage). I figured having this knowledge it may be situationally relevant when you aren’t in need of the healing while not actively tanking, although obviously it’s not exactly a big deal what your tank DPS is.