Let me start this post by saying Angrybubble is an absolute beast tankadin. Sure, he overgears heroics (~5300 GS) and probably has little need to be burning through Halls of Lightning, but man is it a work of art to see him when he's rolling. Yesterday, I had the privilege of pewpewing some magic missiles while he tore through Loken's underlings like so much trash. Afterwards, I had some time to think about what exactly made this experience so enjoyable while I was queued up for another round of the russian roulette random dungeon matchmaker. Our H-HoL run only took about eighteen minutes. First, he knows what he is doing, but most importantly, he knows what everyone else should be doing. I was put off during the first few minutes of our time together by how fast he was moving. We were on top of the General Bjarngrim before I was out of combat for the first time. Since my mage is somewhat under-geared (~4500 GS right now), I was slightly uncomfortable with his combat pace. No drinking, little time for even evocate, by the time General died, I had only a single charge left on my mana gem. However, as the General dropped below 5% life and Angrybubble peeled off to go start beating on the next pack, a thought hit me: [b]this is freaking awesome[/b]. For the first time in a long time, outside of raiding, I was mana challenged and dps challenged and not just sleeping through a 5-man. The poor tree druid (3215 GS) was sitting at about 40% mana for most of the instance and seemed to be a in a similar state as I was, just rolling with the punches. After killing Volkan with one of his add packs on us simultaneously, Angrybubble charged off towards the hallway with all the statues in it. After one pull, he said "afk one sec", was gone about fifteen seconds, then came back and started running down the hallway again leaving only a "sorry about that" in his wake. I was so surprised, a PUG tank who actually values the group time enough to apologize. Not to mention how ridiculous it is that he is apologizing to us for wasting our time after clearing HoL at a pace that I have not seen since the early days of MC speed kills. From all angles, Angrybubble is the best random HC tank I have ever grouped with (myself included). He pulled just fast enough to not quite run me or the druid completely out of mana, knew when to take the mobs one pack at a time so the druid could keep us up, and knew when to pause for 5-10 seconds to let us get back above half full. At no point during the instance was I ever at 100% mana, but at no point was I ever at 0% mana either. It seemed like he had some kind of super knowledge about his gear, the incoming damage, and the overall group DPS that when he needed 9-11 mobs on him in order to take enough damage to keep his mana up, he could do it and when only 3 would be taxing for the healer, he did that too. .. all while staying #1 in DPS. So, kudos to you, Angrybubble of Lethon, you are truly a tanking superstar as far as I am concerned. What can we learn? - If the dps and healer are over half mana, just keep on trucking. - As a mana user, you should feel pressured to decide if it's time to drink or time to pew. - You will be amazed at how fast a dungeon can be pulled with a confident tank and a terribly under-geared healer. - GS isn't everything, just look at the tree druid who kept this beast of a tankadin up. - Don't be afraid to pile packs on top of bosses, especially easy ones like Volkan. - Know when to pull one pack at a time, know when it's okay to pull three of them.