Tanks, fear our newest enemy — the Voidwalker

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I’m sure you all saw the Void­walker tank­ing Ill­i­dan movie. If you haven’t, go check it. Now.

Fast for­ward to Sun­day evening and to a ZA run. We we’re try­ing to do as many timed events as we could (last attempt a cou­ple of months ago saw us make 3 chests) and I was the only tank. We we’re going very strong, killing the eagle boss within the first 5 minutes.

Bear boss was up and one of my guildies left his alt and logged on his Prot War­rior. Unfor­tu­nately, we lost a lot of time try­ing to sum­mon him (appar­ently our War­lock couldn’t sum­mon him inside the instance). It was finally decided that we should at least try one attempt for the chest and I should tank him on both phases and just hope for the best. I died after the sec­ond tran­si­tion to Troll form and it seemed every­thing was lost.

But alas, the War­lock pulled a trick off his sleave and his Void­walker tanked him for the rest of the fight. The boss was at around 80% when I died. The Void­walker tanked the rest. He some­how didn’t lose aggro to the trigger-happy arcane and fire mages nor did he die after sev­eral tran­si­tions.  The War­lock kept spam­ming Health Fun­nel and the heal­ers we’re quick enough to switch targets.

The Void­walker had 13k HP and 14k armor. That’s less than me. But he lasted longer and wis­tood sev­eral tran­si­tions, includ­ing some Bru­tal Swipes.

I don’t know if this is intended or if it’s a bug. Appar­ently, the only bug there was that the Void­walker was able to keep aggro, not that he lasted that long. Which, in my oppin­ion, is kinda cool. If I could com­pare this to any­thing, I would com­pare it to the Gorilla. Only for Warlocks.

But as many good things, this will prob­a­bly get nerfed in the future. Under­stand­able, since I don’t thing pets are intended to suc­ces­fully tank any raid boss encounter.

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