Forclosure of a Dream?

Well last night we went to Gruul's Lair again. We made about a dozen attempts, but Maulgar refused to go down. Quite often, Ulu was killed within the first three seconds of the pull, which tends to spell a wipe since he's Main Tank.

I've hit something of a quandry with Ulushnar's tanking. Paladin tanks are something of a challenge. We have the lowest base health of any of the tanking classes and we need to stack the most avoidance to avoid crushing blows. Add to this our reactive threat model and it it puts us in a difficult position. We need to be hit in order to do damage, but with a lower base health, and less health in general thanks to the avoidance we need to stack in our equipment, we have less of a buffer to take damage.

Then there's the math. Lots of it, I spend more time than is strictly necessary going over my gear with a fine toothcomb making sure that it's optomised to give me the best avoidance, mitigation and health possible. As it stands, I've ground my ass off to get him the best possible gear pre-Kara, and whilst I had some initial luck with Kara tanking drops, that seems to have all-but dried up. Ulu's gear is good, but a Warrior in similar gear would probably outperform him as a raid boss tank.

Raid tanking's a bit too intensive sometimes. If you die, there's usually no-one else to pick up the slack, and it's a wipe. It's more pressure than i feel strictly comfortable with atm.