Comments on: Tanking 101: Respecing, Getting Started

By: Recommended Reading and New Comments | Cannot be Tamed

Recommended Reading and New Comments | Cannot be Tamed — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:43:56 +0000

[...] Looking for More gives some good advice about Tanking 101. [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:46:08 +0000

Thats what I usually try and do these days. I spot a caster in a group of mobs, I skull it and charge. All the melee come running in and if I have to step back so I can SW then followed up by a TC to get aggro.

I worked that out when I first run FoS. It worked well and has worked ever since.

By: ReversionLFM

ReversionLFM — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:43:15 +0000

Sunder armor glyphs with extra ‘tabbing’ or cleave glyph. Either can work. I am not enough of a min-maxer to know which is totally better but any knew warrior tank should get ONE of them certainly. Of course if you can get people to follow kill order then sunder armor glyph and heroic strike macroed to everthing is a much better combo. Not that people following kill order is likely.

What I do is key bind the 0123 on the number pad to Skull, X, etc. That makes hitting them fast and simple. Expecially the big ’0′ key. I can get a skull on anything any time while not slowing my rotation.

By: ReversionLFM

ReversionLFM — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:37:11 +0000

That is about the only way to do it until you get over 5k. The funny thing is I have gone for or 6 bosses with two 4.8 gs tanks on 10 man and last night one of our tanks on 25 had 4.6! He was soft as heck but we did down the first 4. Of course he was the 3rd tank, but still…

By: Owl-BEAR « Glyph of Thorns

Owl-BEAR « Glyph of Thorns — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 11:34:53 +0000

[...] Tanking 101 [...]

By: Zuka

Zuka — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:09:53 +0000

Here are few of my advices to new tanks that were not mentioned above. When you attack pack of mobs (2+) always attack casters 1st. Why? Coz casters wont move to you as melee when you put them into combat unless you run behind some wall (pillar) and they cant see you in straight line. Most new tanks just rush into something while healers pick aggro from casters (seen this all the time in FoS mostly). So just try to attack casters first even with 1 hit, and dont be scared to tell your dps to wait few sec until you hit every mob at least 1 time. I can also tell you that best place to practice multi mob tanking is probably open IC field between ICC and Shadow vault where you can find lots of 5+ pack of mobs that do little dmg. When you open on group of mobs always start with your ability that hits multiple targets (like TC/shock wave as war, bloodboil as DK or avenging shield/consecration as paladin)… Practice and you will be good as time goes by! GL!

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:20:58 +0000

I did pretty much what you suggested in running lots of normals (I also play a holy paly, a hunter and a rogue as my main characters… I also have 2 other level 80s as well) and got a bit of experience as a tank before I started doing heroics.

Once I started in on the heroics, I learnt a lot quite quickly and while we still died a bit, I was getting better.

I am now at the point where I can tank anything up to Ulduar (and I have main tanked an ICC25 rep run as well) and I am doing quite well. The problem I am finding is that there are a hell of a lot of elitist on EU-Anachronos and they wont take a tank into ICC10 unless they have a 5k+ GS.

I am thinking of just getting a bunch of like minded friends who dont care about gear score and giving it a bash running ICC10. If we wipe, then it is a learning experience.

By: Wolf

Wolf — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:56:42 +0000

Personally, I wouldn’t recommend that someone grab the sunder armor glyph first. Or maybe even at all.

As a starter warrior tank the only think you need to know for keeping threat on multiple mobs are a few things: cleave, tab-targeting, thunderclap, and shockwave.

And revenge, of course. Always revenge.

It’s probably a better idea to grab the cleave glyph to up your targets to three or the TC glyph so you can use it as often as you need to.

There’s also marking. Hardly anyone uses it anymore, but it’s quick and easy and it takes the stress off by a lot if you tell people to focus on a single mob

By: Jen

Jen — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:51:51 +0000

One of the reasons I don’t drive is because I never pay attention as a passenger, so if I ever ended up behind the wheel I’d be lost, lost, lost… just like I always am in Oculus. (With 4 level 80 alts, that’s a bit embarrassing to admit… but I just blame it on my female lack of direction.)

By: ReversionLFM

ReversionLFM — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:42:36 +0000

I am sort of targeting these posts to people like that. and for folks that just don’t know where to start. I figure there are already plenty things out there that already have a start.

It is really handy as a starting tank to have someone /w-ing you with ‘no, to the left’ and ‘don’t forget this boss drops agro randomly’. Stuff like that.

For Oculus… Someone’s best bet is to get in there and heals or DPS and then once everyone leaves spend a few minutes flying around and getting your bearings. In fact, once you know what things look like you could do that outside the instance because the area is the same.
It is simple to navigate in there if you think of it as a building with 4 floors and each floor has several platforms. The first one has one big horseshoe shaped ring and then a boss platform, the second level is a horseshoe shaped ring and then 3 platforms, the 3rd is a full ring and 3 platforms that are slightly higher and the last ‘floor’ is the end boss which also has 3 platforms around it.

It is a lot like driving somewhere. I never really know how to get some place until I have driven there myself, not as a passenger.