Gruuls lair - mage tankFollow

Well, just found out we are gona attempt gruuls lair tomorrow...
do any of ya mages out there have a good list of what gear I should look into and get? I doubt i can get it by tomorrow night, but atleast get some, and work on the rest after we fail miserably.

At MYTeddy's suggestion a few weeks back, this is what I did. Worked like a charm. Oh, and if you keep wiping when you first pull, don't fret. That seems to be normal.

It's a lot easier once you kill something.

funny you said that about wiping, cuz we just did =P
I didn't get the gear, we jus doing a sort of "go suicide test run" sorta thing hehe, Gona work on the gear over time though.

No. You shouldn't be blinking, that's a waste of a good chunk of mana.

Usually we have a pally run up, right as he pulls aggro, Hunter Misdirect thier respective targets. All you need to do is Spellsteal and then the Mage wil stand still. Just back up a bit (about 15-25yds from the Mage) then start casting whatever your primary spell is. Spellsteal accordingly. If thinks get tight, or you think you have the mana for it, pop your fire ward. Try to save all mana for spellsteal and your main cast though, and if your Spellsteal gets resisted, you need to hope your next one will land. Otherwise your healer/s may have a hard time as one fireball on ya will knock a good 8-10k.

One of the specific adds does a fireball that can do over 9k damage with a 3 or 4 second cast time.

He also has a buff that reduces all incoming fire damage by 75%. A mage can steal this buff and thus only take 2000-2500 damage each hit, which is a LOT easier to heal through.