New to higher level tanking and need a bit of help.Follow

Ok so I dinged 46 last night and was asked to tank ZF for a group. I told them I was fury but I would still give a stab at it. (No pun intended)


So I went in thinking, "I never had a problem tanking SM Cath at 40 so this should be a walk in the park" Boy was I wrong. I'd make a pull and no sooner than I laid a TClap down did 2 or 3 of the mobs just turn tail and run streight to our mage.

So I run there and slap a few sunders on as fast as I could followed with a TClap as I didn't want to waste challenging shout that quickly in the fight. (even switched to Zerker stance to pop my Blood rage and Zerker rage for extra rage generation then went right back to defensive stance) and as soon as I laid down another stack of sunders on all mobs. 2x on each the same 2 or 3 damned mobs would head streight back at the mage.

It was so frustrating I was tempted to respec back to Prot so I could continue to tank like I did Pre 40.

i'd recommend marking if ur having trouble with multiple mob pulls. get everyone to attack the same target, so u can focus on him as well, and ur Tclap shood hold the others since noone else is attacking them. also, were u using taunt wen ud lose aggro?

yeah I would pop taunt on 1 of the mobs and switch to the next to try to get aggro back. but it seemed like forever to get it off that guy and in the mean time the rogue was building alot of threat against the Main target.

If there going to the mage that is the mages fault but if there going to the healers that is your fault. Just occasionally put a sunder on one of the targets that your not killing and spam thunderclap, that should hold aggro.

As a tank, youll have to get used to the idea of "running" instances. What I mean is that usually we have to mark and pull.

Always use CC. Always. Why make it harder that it has to be? If anyone has a problem with it, theres always another tank, after 2 hours of searching that is. :)

Establish a kill order. Everyone in the party follows the kill order. (ex. skull, x, then sheep)Stay with that same order through the entire instance. If you have to do something different, like say sap. use a different mark.

If a person breaks the kill order,(other than the healer with heal ag) they get to tank the mob. Yeah, im pretty harsh on pugs, but dammit i hate chasing around in circles while they randomly pick targets and blast them with huge mage crits. Guildies get a bit more forgiveness about this, but still, if you cant follow the kill order, stay out of instances.

lastly, vent up. Using a voice program makes communication DURING a fight possible. I cant even imagine how many wipes have been averted simply because I could say what was happening rather than type it out while using both hands to tank. If they dont have a mic (12$, come on...) tell them to get on anyway so they can hear you.

Edited, Jan 18th 2008 12:33pm by freekyE