The funny thing is, yes, I’m undergeared, but I’m better geared now than a lot of tanks were back when they cleared Naxx. Yet nobody would even think of letting me tank Naxx today….

I encourage you to tank your first heroics with as little gear as possible. You will thus expose yourself and the group to risk and, if your experience is similar to mine, you will encounter tow main player types.

Those who leave because it’s not easy mode.

Those who stay because of the challenge your inexperience, health pool, and threat level represents.

The second group is what gives me satisfaction of a job well done when my latest tank (got 4 80 tanks) starts tanking heroics.

Use CC if needed, you may find a crazy hunter who will chain trap a mob for the whole instance (a friend trapped a mob from the second pull until the last boss in H UK; fun stuff).