I recently (today) just hit 70 and a friend had invited me to run Botanica a few times with him. The first time I had some overboard dps's (as lv. 69) and I had a hard time keeping the mobs on me. The second time (as level 70) I had a healer that said I was too squishy and proceeded to get pretty angry with me.
I am not ego crazy or anything, but throughout the prior 69 levels I always performed pretty well as a a tank, people seemed pretty happy with me most of the time. Then out of nowhere it was bam!, "you suck!". It was a pretty disheartening situation. My tanking style was pretty much the same thing as I had been doing for the last.. forever, but I kept being told I must have been doing something wrong.
My actual question is two-fold:
Is there something at the level 70 instances that I should be doing different than what I have done thus far? (I don't see this as being the likely solution, but there was an ex-feral druid in my first group that seemed to suggest that my "style" of tanking was off).
What I feel it is (from the second healer saying I was too squishy) is that my gear is not up to par. I did not have a chance to do many instances from 62-70 because my playtime was pretty sporadic, so I ended up questing/soloing the majority of it.
So with the idea of my gear being terrible I started researching some of the 62-68 instances for gear that I cold obtain to better my tanking abilities and I didn't see anything that stood out a lot over what I already have, so then I could hit up the higher instances and not suck. I didn't really see anything that was WAY better than what I have.
Also, I checked out the suggested tanking gears for tanking druids on the Druid 101 thread, and most of it seems to come from stuff that is more difficult than what I was attempting in Botanica. SO, after some long-winded explanations... can anyone give me some hints on gear/playstyles/etc. that might help me out?
And to give you an idea of what I have stat-wise (all un-buffed):
Armor: 9094
Health: 9544
Defense: 350
Dodge: 22%
Strength: 271
Agility: 266
Any tips would be appreciated, thank you.
edit: here is a link to my profile
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Emerald+Dream&n=Bjerkely
Edited, Nov 9th 2007 4:37pm by Sirmikey