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#1 Dec 04 2007 at 4:25 AM Rating: Decent
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Hello all.
First a quick description of myself before i post my question.
i'm Main Tank of the guild I'm in. We currently farm Kara (all bosses) and working on ZA (2 bosses down) and Gruuls (High King), we're a casual guild for the most part. I've been a tank for "well" over a year tanking full ZG, MC and AQ20 clears pre xpack. ( I also leveled to 70 as prot spec).
i feel i know the mechanics of my class and how to tank pretty well.

saying that,
I'm looking to improve my Threat Per Second.
I'm asking here for suggestions on anything really that will improve on that.
WOWarmory, at the moment, is down so I cant post my character but I will edit it in when it comes back up.

I hover anywhere from (according to Omen) 500 to 800 TPS and I feel as if I'm going all out. I rarely loose aggro, but I don't know if it's because I have an outstanding group behind me that knows how to control things or 500 - 800 tps is the acceptable average threat to do the job. I have been reading of tanks getting 1000 TPS and i'm jealous really.
pretty much what it boils down to for me, i dont want to be holding back my teams full DPS potential.

so... i'm just looking to start a discussion here really on improvements.
(as I said, I don't consider myself a n00b tank, I'm looking to build upon my current set of skills)

Thanks. :)
#2 Dec 08 2007 at 10:21 PM Rating: Decent
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I don't think what omens report is true tps. I am usually at around 1k avg gain according to Omen, if not higher and our Kara tank is able to stay ahead.
#3 Dec 08 2007 at 11:47 PM Rating: Decent
From my experience, the TPS that's listed in Omen is only for the last few seconds or so. The easiest thing I've found to do when it comes to threat is to ask my dps if they find themselves holding back so they don't pull aggro. Since you're not losing aggro to often, tell them they can open up a bit more if they feel comfortable doing so.

I had the same feeling when we started Kara a couple months back, and when I asked everyone, I was surprised that only one rogue felt that he was holding back. Everyone else felt that they had more than enough room to open up when they had the chance.

*bah, lack of sleep > my spelling*

Edited, Dec 8th 2007 11:48pm by Wulelendamuwi
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