Thanks for the post Patrick.
We’ve already discussed this after last week’s raid and came to a similar conclusion that sticking with the druid for all fights where a monk doesn’t offer large helpings of cheese (Argus basically, unless they change it before we get there which is entirely possible) is the most sensible option.
Swapping has/is being considered, but the bottom line is that it’s not necessary as long as tanks use their CDs at the right time and either call for, or are automatically given an external at key times.
Most of our earlier wipes did indeed feature tanking issues with the monk, however this did get sorted only for the next 4 or 5 to be screwed up by people dying to avoidable damage.
So, it’s a little unfair to focus solely on tanking issues as a reason for failing to kill Hounds quickly again until the 13th try when in reality most of those also featured 5-6 players dead to avoidable damage as well.
We could have both tanks not die and not make any mistakes and yet if people still insist on dying on a fight where death is almost a deliberate choice then we still won’t get it down before the overlap kills us all.
I’ll leave any comments on builds to Rag and Epu.