Tanking Guide (13 replies to this topic)

This thread is for comments about our Tanking Guide.

"Fallen off of platforms"

That was brilliant! Thanks a lot for a great guide!

Thanks for the guide! I feel better about taking on the tanking role now. I have been playing WoW for about 5 years and in that time I have played just about every class and spec--except tank. Hopefully I can be a good one with some practice.

Bud, on 16 October 2012 - 12:10 PM, said:

Thank you very much!

Ann, on 31 October 2012 - 11:57 PM, said:

You are welcome! I'm sure you can be a great tank. The most important things are confidence and perseverance! And also reading our guides a lot

Meeeeerci

Thanks a lot for that guide,
really helpful, maybe as useful as the war prot guide

Chrömie, on 05 November 2012 - 01:56 PM, said:

Thank you

Thank you for the great guide, I'm not a hardcore wow player so it takes me more time to really adapt to different classes and rotations. (Basically I was pushing evey available button on the bars LOL).

I was about to drop my Death Knight toon, though I wanted to give it one more chance using Blood Presence and taking a tank role, your guide was the only real read I could find on the net and has helped ever since; my DK now is my main character and the one I'm having the most fun with.

Between the tanking guide and class guides you're really have done a great job.

thanks again and keep it up with the great reads.

Edited by jpsika08, 05 November 2012 - 04:57 PM.

jpsika08, on 05 November 2012 - 04:56 PM, said:

Thank you very much for your post. I'm really glad that the guide(s) helped!

Thank you for a brilliant guide to the insight of what a good/great tank is. I personaly need to get over the shy attribute, but by learning the encounter i earn confidence. Its nice to hear its ok to screw up occassionaly and not get the BAN- HAMMER from chat or worse guildys. Thanks again mate

My pleasure

Excellent post.

I think that you should mention the high importance of +hit and +expertise, which was glossed over in your guide. A phenomenal tank is one who doesn't have to fight for threat with anyone except his partner tank. The thing is, +hit and +expertise make a night-and-day difference in the threat generation a tank can produce, as RNG will factor less, then not at all. Vengeance could give me 500% attack power, and it doesn't matter if I have 10 seconds of dodged and parried attacks, which I've had as a tank. If you have an extremely high DPS group, then even at the end of an encounter, a tank can be just barely above his top DPSers. Hit and expertise can absolutely help mitigate that.

Any time you have RNG, you will have spikes in your threat generation, which you also touched on in your post. Tanks WILL have more consistent DPS and threat generation when they get closer to +hit and +exp cap.

Additionally, perhaps it wouldn't hurt (since this is a general guide) to touch on avoidance?

Well written, excellent, excellent post!

Aderila, on 05 December 2012 - 06:15 PM, said:

Thank you very much for your kind words. The reason why I didn't put emphasis on this is because I tried to keep the guide a bit separate from the technical aspects of playing specific classes. This makes it so that someone won't read the tanking guide, see how good Expertise/Hit are, then go check his particular class' guide and see that they're not actually very high in the priority (like a Paladin build that advocates avoidance, or whatever else may happen with stat priorities in the future). It's also one fewer article than can go out of date with each stat shift

I will, however, make some more general points about Expertise and Hit, based on your post, since it's very useful! Thank you again.

awsome guide, i can now work at my failings and understanding of my roll. I always seem to be OT as i have in the past took it to heart with raid failings. listen to the tank follow his lead and we all will go a lot ferther

I've always played DPS. I've recently taken on tanking. The best thing about your guides is that it is useful at all levels; too often guides are not applicable to all levels. There is no way I would take my 90 Fury Warrior and switch to Protection without any prior tank experience. Having played both melee and ranged DPS in a number of settings gave me some insight into how tanking is done. Your Guide filled in many of the gaps and answered many of my questions.

Thank you, once again for a great guide.