{"id":245,"date":"2010-07-20T16:58:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T23:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/?p=245"},"modified":"2010-07-20T21:32:58","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T04:32:58","slug":"shifting-perspectives-pulling-101-assessing-the-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/shifting-perspectives-pulling-101-assessing-the-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Shifting Perspectives: Pulling 101: Assessing the group"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Every Tuesday, Shifting Perspectives<\/a> explores issues affecting feral\/restoration druids and those who group with them.<\/em> <\/p>\n

For a long time, I’ve been kicking an article around on the art of the 5-man pull. Knowing how and when to pull is arguably the foundation of a smooth dungeon run, and it’s certainly among the first skills that any tank needs to develop. While a not-insignificant portion of one’s ability to pull cleanly only arrives courtesy of experience with a wide variety of players, there are a few rules that approach universal status. Moreover, I expect them to be equally useful when I hit the new Cataclysm<\/em> dungeons and have to figure out how to tank for a group safely in a new environment with new mobs.<\/p>\n

The more I wrote on pulling, the more I realized that the subject can be divided into two very distinct categories: what happens before<\/em> you pull, and what happens while<\/em> you’re pulling. This week’s column addresses the former. Everything I am about to tell you in this column is something that you, as an experienced tank, will eventually do in the space of a second without even realizing you’re doing it.<\/p>\n

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Every Tuesday, Shifting Perspectives explores issues affecting feral\/restoration druids and those who group with them. For a long time, I’ve been kicking an article around on the art of the 5-man pull. Knowing how and when to pull is arguably the foundation of a smooth dungeon run, and it’s certainly among the first skills that any tank needs to develop. While a not-insignificant portion of one’s ability to pull cleanly only arrives courtesy … Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[178,179,176,177,175],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}